Winter Weather and Your Skin.

Winter weather, as we all know, takes a huge toll on your skin.  While the summer sun and water and weather can also be damaging; winter temperatures seem to have an extremely harsh affect.  It also seems to be easier to ignore dry, scratchy or damaged skin because it is covered with long sleeves, pants, and winter clothing.  This time of year is the perfect time to start healing, repairing, and renew your skin before the warm spring and summer days hit and shorts, tank tops, and flip flops become common.

I wanted to spend a little time talking about some of the products we have that can help repair, heal, and soften your skin before bikini season.  As well as introduce the newest product to our line, our Soothing Salted Soap Bars.

To truly begin the healing process, your skin will require products that encourage natural cell regeneration.  The first step is to get rid of the old, dead, or dying cells that are still hanging around.  To do this without rubbing yourself raw, try our Just for Heels & Elbows Exfoliating Soap.  By incorporating a slice of loofah into the soap, it becomes a gentle cleanser, helping to rid your skin of those nasty old cells and rejuvenate your skin by allowing the fresh, new, health cells to be exposed.  The natural coconut oils and palm oils in our detergent free glycerin soap add the additional softness necessary to help nourish those new cells, making them strong and beautiful.

Or, to detoxify and cleanse your skin, we recommend our new Sonoman Sea Salt based Soothing Salted Soap Bar. 

 

Sea salt contains skin nourishing minerals such as magnesium, zinc, calcium, potassium and iodine.  Some of the many benefits include:

- relaxes skin muscles
- cleanses and detoxifies face and body
- sea salts draw toxins out of the body, which will naturally lead to feeling refreshed
- grainy and therefore makes for a great scrub
- increases blood circulation

Sea salts also help Rheumatologic Conditions, sea salts can be effective in balneotherapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, and Osteoarthritis. The minerals are absorbed stimulating blood circulation.

Common Skin Ailments, research has demonstrated that skin disorders such as acne and psoriasis. One study concluded that the high concentration of magnesium in sea salt was instrumental in improving skin hydration and reducing inflammation.
Allergies, the high concentration of bromide and magnesium in the sea salt can relieve allergic reactions by cleansing and detoxifying.
Skin Aging, further research into sea salt benefits has shown a 40% reduction in the depth of wrinkling.

And don't forget the healing properties of our Old Fashioned Milk Bath and our Lavishing Bath Salts.

Finally, don't forget the importance of nourishing your skin daily.  Choose from our Lotions, all including Vitamin E, Allotin and Sunflower Oil, know for their healing and protecting properties.  Choose from our Facial lotion with added horsetail butter, great for fine lines by adding collagen and elasticity to your delicate facial skin, Silky Smooth Body Lotion with added mineral oil, or our Rich & Creamy Body Lotion with added palm butter blend for hyper moisturizing ability or our Satin Body Lotion, nourishing with being oily.

Replenish, refine, heal, rejuvenate, protect!