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Tag: natural body lotion

Everyday Shea lotion

Shea butter is one of my favorite moisturizers, and I like how my skin feels after applying Everyday Shea Moisturizing Body Lotion for daily moisturizing after bathing.

Everyday Shea pours a bit thinner than you might expect if you’ve played around with shea butter before, but once you get used to that you might find that you like the way it spreads. As with all shea butter products, it absorbs best when you slather it on freshly-bathed, still-moist skin.everyday shea moisturizing body lotion

The healing and moisturizing properties of shea butter have been extolled for aeons in Africa where it is used for everything from healing sprains to hair and skin care, a cooking oil, and even as a decongestant.

Everyday Shae uses pure, unrefined shea butter that has not been treated with chemical agents to be refined, bleached, and deodorized. It’s free of parabens and synthetic fragrances and is not tested on animals. Everyday Shea is also a Fair Trade company created to help support cooperatives that empower women in Togo, West Africa.

While Everyday Shea does not appear in the Environmental Working Groups’ “Skin Deep” database that rates cosmetics for safety, the primary ingredient of shea butter warrants a hazard factor of 0 (yes, that’s a zero) for toxicity and adverse effects. It looks like shea butter is in fact one of the safest moisturizers available to hydrate your skin.

Everyday Shea Moisturizing Body Lotion comes in three scents: unscented, lavender (made with pure French lavender essential oil), and vanilla (scented with pure, natural vanilla extract from Madagascar’s Malagasy vanilla beans). I’m partial to the vanilla (always!), but like to mix it with some of the lavender, too.

Note: Unless otherwise noted, my reviews are always unbiased and uncompensated.

All-natural body lotion: a whip from Amber Bath

I’ve mentioned before how I try to avoid putting petroleum products on my body, so I’m always on the lookout for great natural body products. Yesterday, I found something spectacular at the farmer’s market: Elizabeth White’s Amber Bath Lavender Lush whipped body lotion.

This stuff is heavenly. Seriously. After only two applications it has healed the peeling skin on my fingertips and makes my skin feel, well, like butta.

I live in a seriously dry climate where air moisture levels are usually well below 10%, particularly in the summer. Ever since the years-long avalanche of diaper changes/hand washes hit our house, my fingertips in particular have been prone to peeling from dryness. Today they look almost normal for the first time in more than 5 years. But I consider this side effect to be an extra bonus, with the main benefit being how hydrated my skin looks and feels on the rest of my body.

This whipped version of her popular Lemon Aid Body Butta should be slathered on as soon as you turn off the water, before you reach for a towel. It merges with the water and draws it into your skin, so that by the time you’ve covered your entire body there’s almost no need to use a towel anymore. Talk about younger-looking skin!

Amber Bath productsLike me, Elizabeth White was obsessed with finding products with no stinky perfume or fragrance oils.  Amber Bath products only use true essential oils.  No synthetic colorants or fragrances are added- no mineral oil or alcohol either.

And no petroleum products to clog my pores and further enrich the oil and gas industry. I think they get enough of my money at the pump, don’t you?

Find Elizabeth at her Amber Bath tent at the Cherry Creek farmer’s market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and at the Bomar farmer’s market on Sundays, or get her through the Amber Bath website. Please tell her I sent you!