Natural Skin and Body Care

Although I sell natural bath and body products, I am not reluctant to tell you that they are not the end all and be-all to clear, clean skin. As I wrote before, the products did help my daughter’s skin, but I also altered her diet and ensured that she was receiving clean, green food and the vitamins she needed to heal from the inside out.

That being said, if you are suffering from a skin ailment such as chronically dry skin and/or eczema, please read on for some tips on how your food selection can affect your skin condition. It is essential to create a clean body environment that your skin can mirror on the outside.

The skin is the largest organ in/on your body and often reflects what is going on inside your body. Many of us do not take the time to create healthy foods to eat, claiming that we are too busy or too tired to eat healthy. However, it is a fact of life that we make time for things that are important to us. For example, I take the time to work on a bit of crocheting every day. Even if I’m tired (and I do get tired!) it’s important to me to have at least 10 -15 min of ‘quiet time’ working on my afghan. The same thing goes for eating a more healthy diet and drinking more water. Certainly, that fast food hamburger is quick and temporarily satisfying, but it gives your body little to no nutrient with which to fight disease and replenish itself. On the other hand, natural foods and lots of water will serve to flush the toxins out of your liver, kidneys and intestines, which will in turn be reflected in your skin.

If you are truly pressed for time, you might want to try one of the “super food” drinks that are so readily available at health food and vitamin stores. They may also help you get the nutrient you need on the go. I remember watching a snipped from Kimora Lee Simmons “Life in the Fab Lane” when she took her two girls to some place where they were able to take liquid “vitamin shots”. From the look on the faces, it doesn’t seem like they tasted very good, but hopefully they helped.

As you are working on cleaning the inside of the body, be sure to take care of the outside. My natural bath and body products are especially designed to give you a natural spa experience with no preservatives and little incidence of chemicals. I use both manmade and 100% natural fragrances in my formulations. Shea butter, cocoa butter and other oils high in essential fatty acids, which are important to the skin, are artfully blended to create a skin cream that is both luxurious to apply and nourishing to the skin. Please browse or blog store or visit sheaproducts.info to see our selection.

In my brief experience with my dd, age 3, it seems that the best that we can do with eczema, short of prescription medication, is to keep it under control. So, you may ask, what can I do to alleviate the dry and itchy skin of eczema? During her worst outbreaks, I know that I have to apply some sort of emollient to my daughter’s skin at least twice daily and once before she goes to sleep at night. Even then, I place a jar of Eva’s Shea Buttah Whip on her nightstand so if her skin bothers her during the night, she can apply it herself. Before I developed my formulas I used quite a few things from my kitchen. It’s all oil, isn’t it?

Please understand that I am no way giving medical advice and you should always consult with a medical professional.

Believe it or not, there are some kitchen cabinet remedies that you can use with your children or for yourself. Crisco (or any solid vegetable oil) is comprised mainly of hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils. Try applying a bit to a patch of dry skin – although it may not be the most attractive looking moisturizer, it does work in a pinch. You might also try canola or olive oil. Try applying it after a bath or shower – a quick and easy alternative to after bath oil, which may contain chemicals or fragrances that might cause your or your child’s skin to react.  Better safe than sorry and I do prefer the hydrogenated cottonseed/soybean oil combination to the petroleum jelly route.

Of course, you can always visit us at www.sheaproducts.info for dry skin needs.  Our products are created to soothe the skin as well s teh sprit – our fragrances are especially selected with our clients in mind.  However, if you are sensitive to fragrances, our products are available in unscented.

Chemicals are everywhere, especially in skin care, which is very strange.  Even when you are shopping for natural skin care products on the shelf of your favorite store, the ingredients on the label extend far beyond they should.   At first, the list looks great:  water, cocoa butter, shea butter, green tea extract, etc, then the ingredients become poly syllabic and nearly unpronounceable.   Why is it, you may ask, these so called natural skin care products contain so many chemicals at the end of the ingredients list when they start out with such promise?

The problem with many store-bought natural skin care products is that  they must have a preservative in order to have a long shelf life.  Many of the skin nutritive oils found in natural skin care products are unstable and may become rancid quickly due to the fact that they are so helpful to the skin.  Mass market retailers can only stock products that they know will most likely be stable for a while to avoid the problem of customers purchasing spoiled product.

So where does that leave you? You want to buy natural products – who would deliberately purchase something that could be potentially harmful to your skin, your health or the environment?  But the store really can’t carry truly natural products because of the shelf life issue.

As a person who cares about her family’s skin and well being, I truly understand how you feel.  When my daughter had severe eczema, I looked at a lot of natural skin products on the shelf, but like you, I noticed that there were still a lot of chemicals in these products, and one product even had lye as one of the ingredients (which stung my daughter’s sensitive legs.  I threw the bottle away immediately.)  You can’t get truly natural skin care products in stores.  So I decided to make my own.

Sheaproducts.info is your natural skin care products source.  I personally mix each order and I use no chemical preservatives.    You can be assured that when your order is placed, that is when you order is made.  No need for preservatives in these natural skin care products!  In addition, our whips and shea butter bars do not contain any water, virtually eliminating the need for a preservative.

Worried about scents?  I use both synthetic and 100% natural scents which are phthalate free.  Even when I scent your shea whip with synthetic scents, the final product is still 96% natural. Order yourself a 2 oz jar right now so you can try this unique mix of shea and cocoa butter and other great oils for your skin.  And you can be assured that you are using true natural skin products!