Natural Skin Solutions
Happy New Year! Hope everyone is starting the New Year of with a bang. The weather has been pretty mild on our skin and I have been doing a lot of research on foods such as the cucumber to see why it has been seen as a wonderful addition to our skincare regimen.
I am sure you remember seeing television shows growing up where the rich would always seem to have two cucumber slices on their eyes when they went to the spa. As a child I always thought ‘Rich people sure do some strange stuff to be different’. Well, as I got older I learned that the cucumbers were helping with dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. I thought, ‘Hey now that is pretty cool! Your food can help you feel better from the inside and from the outside in.
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Another South American native I want to tell you about is Babassu Oil. This is another oil I have fallen in love with. It has so many of the same characteristics as 
Now this is a butter that has rapidly become one of my favorite butters to work with. The butter grows in the Amazon Rain Forest of South America. It is the cousin of the Cacao, from which chocolate is made. It has many of the composites of Cocoa Butter yet it is creamier and smoother in texture and rich 
I know shea butter has been given a wonderful review of how much it benefits the skin. Mango butter is a close second, but is still not as notable. Mango butter is extracted from the shelled fruit kernel of the mango tree, which is a tropical evergreen. Vitamin C enriched and high in antioxidants, this butter is highly emollient, softening and soothing to the skin.
I want to talk to you about some of the observations I have made within some of the natural and not so natural communities. There seems to be little information passed on outside of Shea Butter, Olive and Jojoba Oil and some of the other common oils we have come to know. It got me thinking; why not be that one to introduce you to some of the more ‘exotic’ butters and oils that get little play or rotation in the these different circles.
I have tried a number of lotions and actually have truly fallen in love with them. Unfortunately, I am not disciplined enough to order them as routinely as I should. That puts me in a bind. I have to rush to the store and purchase an alternative 'safe' lotion.
. Realizing that honey is a natural humectant and that calendula is a healing herb, I knew this had to be a good thing. I flipped over the bottle to check out the ingredients and while I did have a few questions, I did see in bold: "This product contains no animal ingredients, no parabens or artificial colors and was not tested on animals."
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