Ingredients (more descriptions to come)
Calendula - One of the most effective topical oils. Gentle, cooling, and soothing. Calendula oil is a successful treatment for dry and damaged skin, skin inflammations, rashes, diaper irritations, and other skin problems. Makes a wonderful baby's oil and is exceptional for those with sensitive skin. Calendula oil also has antiseptic, anti fungal, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial properties, making it a great option for treating skin infections.
Cocoa Butter - Pressed from seeds of the Cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Helps reduce cutaneous dryness and improves skin elasticity. A significant source of antioxidants, especially vitamin E.
Coconut Oil - This highly nutritious oil is rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals, supporting the tissue’s healing and repairing properties. It helps protect the skin from harmful free radicals that promote premature ageing. Coconut oil is a natural moisturizer that softens the skin, helps relieve dryness and flaking, and prevents wrinkles, sagging skin, and age spots.
Dead Sea Salt - The waters from the Dead Sea are unique.They contain 27% of various salts as compared to 3% in normal sea water. Magnesium is important for combating stress and fluid retention slowing skin aging, and calming the nervous system. Calcium is effective at preventing water retention, increasing circulation and strengthening bones and nails. Potassium energizes the body, helps to balance skin moisture. Bromides act to ease muscle stiffness. Sodium is important for the lymphatic fluid balance. Bathing in high quality sea salt can replenish the minerals which are critical to our skin metabolism.
Epsom Salts - Epsom salt is not actually salt but a naturally occurring pure mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate. Long known as a natural remedy for a number of ailments, Epsom salt has numerous health benefits.
Studies have shown that magnesium and sulfate are both readily absorbed through the skin, making Epsom salt baths an easy and ideal way to enjoy the amazing health benefits. Magnesium plays a number of roles in the body including regulating the activity of over 325 enzymes, reducing inflammation, helping muscle and nerve function and helping to prevent artery hardening. Sulfates help improve the absorption of nutrients, flush toxins and help ease migraine headaches.
Essential Oils - Essential Oils are highly concentrated, volatile, aromatic essences of plants. The true, undiluted essences extracted directly from a variety of flowers, fruits, leaves, barks, roots, herbs and spices.
Honey - Honey is extremely nourishing and moisturizing to the skin, rejuvenating it and leading to the elimination of fine wrinkles. Honey is acidic, and the acids prevent the growth of bacteria, allowing honey to act as a natural preservative.
Jojoba Oil - Jojoba oil is considered a ‘natural moisturizing factor’. Just like the lipids that are naturally found in your skin, it helps fight surface roughness, flaking, and fine lines. Due to the unique molecular structure, not only will it mix readily with the skin’s natural oils, but studies have shown that it can even inhibit the growth of certain types of bacteria associated with acne. Jojoba oil, along with the natural oils produced by the skin, is extremely helpful in the healing process.
Milk - Powdered milk has been used in skincare for centuries for its soothing and moisturizing effect. It helps relieve dryness and is a natural emollient rich in vitamins and minerals.
Rose Hips - Rosehip seed oil penetrates the skin’s upper layers very quickly, making it an excellent natural moisturizer. It supports the keratin migration cycle that is responsible for the natural regeneration of skin cells, increasing the amount of renewed cells in the epidermis. These cells produce more collagen and elastin which make the skin look smoother, firmer and suppler. In addition to its healing of sensitive, allergic, sun damaged, hyper-pigmented, aging, or problem skin, rosehip seed oil also provides immediate relief for dry skin and eczema. The positive action in helping to regenerate damaged skin tissues was originally attributed to its high content of essential unsaturated fatty acids, names oleic, linoleic and linolenic. Extensive studies have shown positive effects on scars and stretch marks. It is an excellent source of topical trans-retinoic acid (vitamin A) in a natural form.
Sesame Seed Oil - Highly nutritious and rich in vitamins A, B and E as well as iron, calcium, magnesium, copper, silicic acid and phosphorous, sesame seed oil's chemical structure allows it to penetrate the skin easily, nourishing and detoxifying even the deepest tissue layers. Its warming effects enhance circulation. Its relaxing properties ease pain and muscle spasm. It is a useful natural protector against UV rays. Its antioxidants are reputed to slow the ageing process and increase longevity. Research shows that sesame oil is a potent antioxidant. It will neutralize oxygen radicals in the tissues beneath the skin, absorbing quickly and penetrating through the tissues to the very marrow of the bone. It enters into the blood stream through the capillaries and circulates. Regular oiling of the skin restores moisture, keeping it soft, flexible and young looking.
Shea Butter - Our Shea Butter from Burkina Faso is 100% natural, organic and Fair Trade Certified. The shea nuts are hand gathered by groups of women in villages in Burkina Faso and are sold at a fair price to the butter producers. To produce a product to organic and export quality standards, the butter is transported by cart to the processing plant where it is purified, filtered and stored in hygienic metal drums. This premium Organic Shea Butter is of superior quality with its clean fresh scent and wonderful yellow color and grainy texture. Shea Butter is known for its moisturizing and emollient properties. Rich in vitamins and fatty acids, it penetrates deeply into the epidermis and leaves a smooth, satiny finish.
