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Organic Citrus Body Butter
Ingredients – Organic Unrefined Shea Butter, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Palm Oil, Distilled Water, Beeswax, Organic Orange Peel Oil, and Organic Lime Peel Oil
$15.00
It is not very often when you come across a product where the list of ingredients is so short. This is especially the case when buying lotions at the local supermarket or drugstores or even health food stores. Well, Sowing Seeds offers a body lotion that consists of ALL NATURAL ingredients. Not only will we make this claim, but you can read the ingredients and see for your self. There are many products that make the claims of organic or all natural or pure, but this is not typically the case upon inspection of the ingredients. Let us go through and inspect each ingredient and see the benefits it adds to this product.
The first ingredient on the list is Organic Unrefined Shea Butter. Many products claim to have this plant based ingredient, but usually it is not the primary ingredient. At Sowing Seeds, we place organic unrefined shea butter as the first ingredient because of these benefits:
- Helps heal scars, burns, and stretch marks.
- Prevents ashy skin, chapping, and skin rashes.
- An ideal hair dressing that protects the scalp from sores and rashes and prevents dandruff.
- Helps prevent weak hair from breaking, fading, or thinning out.
- Fortifies cuticles and nails.
- Helps bruises to heal.
- Helps drain toxins from sore muscles: perfect for sports participants.
- Helps prevent skin irritation for babies
- Use after shaving to prevent irritation and restore skins natural luster.
- Ideal for dry skin, dermatitis, eczema, sunburn and athletes foot.
- Rejuvenates skin pores and adds elasticity to skin.
- Firms up aging skin and helps clear wrinkles.
- Massage shea butter into areas affected by arthritis, join pains, or other muscular ache.
- Naturally contains vitamins A and E.
Furthermore, Unrefined shea butter contains an abundance of healing ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, proteins and a unique fatty acid profile, and is a superior active moisturizer. Unlike petroleum based moisturizers, shea butter actually restores the skin’s natural elasticity. Shea butter enables your skin to absorb moisture from the air, and as a result, it becomes softer and stays moisturized for longer. In addition, shea butter has natural sunscreen properties and anti-inflammatory agents. Because of its amazing properties, shea butter is an excellent ingredient for soaps, lotions and creams. Shea butter is most effective when applied to the skin in its pure state. Regular users of pure, unrefined shea butter notice softer, smoother, healthier skin. Shea butter has also been shown to help with skin conditions and ailments such as extreme dryness, psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, skin allergies, fungal infections, blemishes, wrinkles, stretch marks, scars, scrapes, and more. Praise the Lord for this wonderful butter from this African nut.
The next ingredient on our list to examine is the wonderful oil from the tropical nut of the coconut palm (cocos nucifera). When the Lord recreates this earth as it was when Adam and Eve reigned, I imagine that the coconut is going to be one of the staples of our diet. This nut is powerpacked with vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that our body needs both externally and internally. The unique fatty acids found in coconut are not typically found in many other foods so to get this into our diet we must either eat coconut or one of the few other foods that contain these fatty acids. Let us talk about the wonderful external properties of the oil of coconut.
The ideal lotion is one that is made from oil that not only softens the skin, but protects it against damage, promotes healing and gives it a more youthful, healthy appearance. Coconut oil helps to fit that description. Pure coconut oil is the best natural ingredient for skin lotion available. It prevents destructive free-radical formation and provides protection against them. It can help to keep the skin from developing liver spots, and other blemishes caused by aging and over exposure to sunlight. It helps to keep connective tissues strong and supple so that the skin doesn’t sag and wrinkle. In some cases it might even restore damaged or diseased skin. The oil is absorbed into the skin and into the cell structure of the connective tissues, limiting the damage excessive sun exposure can cause. Coconut oil will not only bring temporary relief to the skin, but it will aid in healing and repairing. It will have lasting benefits, unlike most lotions. It can help bring back a youthful appearance. The coconut oil will aid in removing the outer layer of dead skin cells, making the skin smoother. The skin will become more evenly textured with a healthy “shine”. While doing this the coconut oil will penetrate into the deeper layers of the skin and strengthen the underlying tissues. Furthermore, coconut oil also has wonderful external uses as an anti-oxidant skin moisturizer that quickly absorbs into the skin. It helps protect from sun exposure and has been proven effective for a host of skin problems including eczema, psoriasis, acne, dry skin, aging skin, cradle cap and other yeast/fungal infections. It is also an excellent hair and scalp conditioner.
The next ingredient in which we will discuss is organic palm oil. One of the basic claims of most lotion producing companies is the presence of certain vitamins and antioxidants within their lotion. In many instances, the way these vitamins and antioxidants are added to the cream involves synthetic processing. At Sowing Seeds we do not undergo synthetic processing to get vitamins and antioxidants into our products. We use natural sources of these vitamins and antioxidants. This is where Organic Palm Oil comes into play. Organic Palm Oil is known to naturally have vitamin A and vitamin E along with the class of compounds called carotenes. Furthermore, there are plenty of phytonutrients provided by Organic Palm Oil that have not been documented in traditional literature. These compounds add healing, sun protecting, and anti aging properties to our lotion.
The final ingredients we will comment on are the beeswax, distilled water, and essential oils. Beeswax is has been traditionally known for its healing properties, for example in the application of wounds. The reason this has been used for this use is the antibacterial properties of beeswax, but also the aiding in healing. The distilled water is added to the lotion to distinguish it from a salve and make the product more of a lotion type consistency. When I first started making lotions, they were too concentrated for people and I kept being asked to make the product more like the majority of commercial products in the stores. Well, it is sometimes difficult to do this because the commercial products are made from unnatural materials which give it an unnatural feel, texture, appearance, smell that can not at all times be mimicked by using natural substances. In order to meet some of the requests of my customers, I added herbal waters to my products. With the addition of herbal waters comes a shorter shelf life. I made the switch to distilled water in order to increase the shelf life to basically not having one (lasting eternally). So the distilled water is there to make the product more like a lotion and less like a salve. Amen. From here the essential oils are added. Organic Lime Peel Oil and Organic Orange Peel Oil are chosen for these benefits: Acne, arthritis, boils, brittle nails, cellulitis, corns, cuts, infections, greasy skin, herpes, insect bites, mouth ulcers, poor circulation, rheumatism, throat infections, varicose veins, warts, dull and oily skin conditions, tension and stress.
NOTE – Once you start to read about herbs and their health benefiting properties, it is truly amazing how wide a range of diseases and disorders and conditions each particular herb remedies. These plants are truly amazing and a gift from our Lord for the benefit of our bodies (His temple). Amen
I hope you enjoy and have found this beneficial.