Welcome!
Welcome! If you’re reading this, it means you made it to my new blog for sheaproducts.info, a website owned and operated by neosoul.essentials, llc. The first thing I’d like to do is to welcome you to my business blog (which is finally hooked up to my selling site) and to give you a little insight into how I got started in the natural bath and body business.
I’ve always taken a holistic approach to life, even before it was cool to be “green”. I hated taking excess medications and never kept a whole bunch of remedies, i.e. antacid tablets, Alka-Seltzer, cough medicine and the like. I felt that these things only treated the symptoms, not the underlying causes of the problem. It also helped that my mother was a nurse with a firm belief in “riding it out” and was aware of the many side effects of medications that doctors sometimes prescribed so freely.
When I had my own children, I realized how doctors, either because they received perks from the drug companies, or they were trying to alleviate a parent’s worry, would prescribe medications for babies and toddlers that (to me) seemed too strong. However, I was a smart enough parent to use the doctor’s knowledge, my knowledge and my intuition to create a solution that worked for me and my children.
My daughter developed bleeding eczema when she was about 10 months old. Although she was my second child and had been through the alarms and “scares’ as a new parent with my first born, this was something totally new for me. Thinking it was because she was introduced to cow’s milk too soon, I immediately took her off the cow’s milk and began giving her soy milk. That didn’t work because she reacted badly to the soy milk. Next was rice milk with coconut oil and finally, goat’s milk. Her eczema stopped bleeding, but was still raw and irritated.
As she grew older and the eczema began appearing in cycles, I approached her doctor on how to control the itching. I was told to use Vaseline and/or hydrocortisone cream. I didn’t have such a problem with Vaseline, besides the fact that it didn’t really help heal, but was dead set against the hydrocortisone cream because I’d read it thins the skin. So, I began intensive research about other oils and/or butters that would protect and heal irritated skin. That’s when I discovered shea butter! And, you know, it was all good from there. I created balms that were a mixture of shea butter, cocoa butter, and different oils that really helped my daughter’s skin heal so well that at three, she only has the slight scarring of eczema on her legs.
So, that’s how I got started! I’ve enjoyed my natural product journey and look forward to creating more products for your use.
Currently I am offering whipped shea butter, which contains unrefined shea butter and organic soybean oil, as well as my signature megamix whip, which is a great combination of shea butter, hemp seed oil, organic virgin coconut oil and organic soybean oil Both products are simply wonderful for the skin.
