2/02/2009

Mercola Healthy Skin; Organic Natural Body Butter

I've been looking for a extra-thick and creamy moisturizer, that was also up to my ingredient standard. It was my Grandma Jenny that introduced me to this stuff. She's an avid Dr. Mercola fan.

Often body butters seem excessively greasy, but I was very pleased with the way this one adsorbed into the skin.
It comes in three scents, Lavender, Sweet Orange, and Unscented. Sweet Orange was the scent I chose, and I have only one small complaint, and that is that the slightly nutty/coconut smell of the oils clashes a bit with the orange scent. I think I might try the unscented next.

It contains 8 simple ingredients, and all written in plain english.
  • Organic shea butter
  • Organic cocoa butter
  • Organic coconut oil
  • Organic jojoba oil
  • Organic murumuru butter
  • Organic rice bran extract
  • Organic palm oil
  • Organic aloe vera

  • Does wonders for my poor abused knuckles.

    Anyway, it can be found here at Mercola.com.

    GSE Liquid Concentrate, use to treat Ringworm

    Well, in the last week of December 09, I discovered that I was developing a ringworm infection. And in the first few weeks it went from bad to worse.
    This is not the first time that I've beem inflicted with it, and each time it seems to hang around for an unbearably long time. Now in the past I've tried the fungal ointment, aswell as tea tree oil, both did not have very quick results, if any.
    But this time, after I'd already suffered with it for a few weeks, at the recomandation of a family friend, I started using GSE Liquid Concentrate (Grapefruit Seed Extract) on it. The first time I made the mistake of using the full strength, which made my skin burn, and even caused a bit of swelling. So, after reading what the label had to say, I tired a diluted solution. And since then, the ringworm has gone from spreading to fading. I have no idea if this will work for everyone or anyone, but I figure, if nothing else seems to work, give it a try.