It's the perfect winter body butter! It smells of cocoa, orange, cloves, and cinnamon. Mmm, lovely!
Cocoa Butter's Benefits to Skin
Antioxidants: Cocoa butter is high in antioxidants, which help fight off free radicals. Free radicals cause skin stressors and signs of aging.
Stretch Mark Reducer: Cocoa butter is widely noted to help reduce stretch marks. Many women claimed regular use of cocoa butter was what kept their stretch marks away.
Deep Hydration: Cocoa butter is high in fatty acids and hydrates the skin deeply.
Sensitive Skin Healer: Again, no guarantees, but cocoa butter has been noted to help skin irritations such as eczema and dermatitis.
Shea butter is extracted from the nuts of the Shea tree (Butyrospermum parkii), which grows in the savannah of Western Africa. The English name Shea comes from its Bambara name "sii", which means sacred.
What makes Shea butter an extraordinary skin care product and a fantastic body healer is its richness in precious constituents, which include unsaturated fats with a large proportion of "unsaponifiables" components, essential fatty acids, phytosterols, vitamin E and D, provitamin A, and allantoin. All these are natural and make Shea butter a superfood for your skin, but that is not all it can do for you because it is:
Wrinkles, fine lines, and scars repairing
Antioxidant
Deeply moisturizing
Stimulating for superficial microcirculation
Skin strengthening
Skin protecting
Skin regenerating
Stimulating collagen production (makes the skin firmer, more supple, and younger)
Vanilla oil (macerate) is a good source of essential oils, vitamins, and minerals, especially B vitamins. It can help improve skin tone and encourage wound healing.
A favourite oil used in Aromatherapy is Orange essential oil. It has a fresh, sweet, citrus smell and is a valuable treatment oil for many ailments. The oil is extracted from the fruit of the Orange plant (Citrus sinensis) by cold-pressing, and it is best to only use organic, cold-pressed oils to avoid chemical toxicity.
Orange essential oil is shown to promote the production of collagen and increase blood flow to the skin. It is helpful for soothing dry, irritated. skin
Vanilla Essential Oil's health benefits are due to its properties as an antioxidant, tranquilizer, and relaxing substance.
Clove is an evergreen tree that produces a flower bud with numerous medicinal properties. It is often referred to as clove bud. The clove bud has a shaft and a head, hence its Latin name clavus, meaning nail. Clove was extensively used in ancient Indian and Chinese civilizations and spread to other parts of the world, including Europe, during the seventh and eight centuries. Even now, clove is used in several Indian and Chinese dishes.
Clove is rich in minerals such as calcium, hydrochloric acid, iron, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium, as well as vitamins A and C.
Clove oil is often recommended for skin care. Because of its rejuvenating and stimulating properties, you will find clove oil in many products to lessen the effects of aging, like wrinkles and sagging skin, and for facial rejuvenation for the eyes. These properties can increase blood flow to unhealthy skin and make it look young again!
Cinnamon is a wonderful spice with a wonderful aroma and is used extensively in cooking. It has antibacterial properties, declogs pores, and helps dry out acne. The most important property of cinnamon is that it brings blood and oxygen to the surface of the skin, aiding in blood circulation.
Polawax, also known as Emulsifying Wax NF, is a nonionic self-emulsifying blend for professional quality lotions, creams, and other emulsions.
Polawax raises no health concerns because:
It is not on any of GoodGuide’s lists of toxic chemicals which cause suspected or recognized health effects.
It has not been detected in human tissue or urine.
How to use:
Apply the body butter to your entire body, concentrating mainly on dry areas like your feet, your fingers, and anywhere else that is personally dry for you. Body butter's No. 1 use is moisturizing. It will restore moisture to your skin and help replenish a healthy look.
Find areas on your body that are wrinkled. These are usually the face, chin, neck, and hands. Body butter can help reduce early signs of wrinkling and strengthen and make skin more resistant to stretching.
Use body butter after you get out of the shower or the pool. It is also good when you come in from the cold. Water soaking into the skin will dry it out and crack it, but body butter will help keep the skin moisturized and lock the water and bad moisture out. This gives your skin a clean and shiny look all day.