Skin Benefits
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List of Ingredients
Almond Oil - Good for most skin types, especially dry. Rich in proteins and vitamins: A, B1, B2, B6 and E. Provides extra conditioning. Aids: eczema, relieves itching and moisturizing to the skin. Excellent for cosmetics and scrubs as this oil sinks into your skin.
Arrowroot powder - Found in the tropics - A great alternative for Talcum Powder
Aloe Vera Oil - Heals the skin. Is good for dry, chapped, burn or sunburn skin.
Apricot Kernel Oil - Nourishes dry skin. Great moisturizer and especially good for sensitive and mature skin. Rich in minerals and contains vitamin A. Good carrier oil for massage and essential oils used at 100%. Can use as a natural hot oil treatment for hair.
Avocado Oil - Super moisturizer. Treats damaged, dry, mature skin. Provides skin healing. Contains lecithin, fatty acids and proteins. Vitamins A,B1, B2, D, E.
Bentonite Clay - Bentonite clay is a combination of montmorillonite and volcanic ash. A highly absorbent clay that removes toxins and oils from the skin. Highly beneficial for oily/acne skin conditions.
Calendula - Beautiful herb that's great for skin. Skin healer.
Canola Oil - Good for all skin types. Contains vitamins and minerals. Has some of the same health benefits as olive oil. Will make soap a nice white color and has a long shelf life.
Carrot Oil - Great for mature skin and aids with dry/itchy skin. Provides relief for: Eczema, psoriasis, and burns. Vitamins B.C, D and E and EFA's (essential fatty acids). Rich in beta carotene and minerals.
Castor Oil - Good for dry skin. From the castor bean, this oil is soothing to the skin and provides lather for soaps. Aids with warts and dry, cracked skin.
Chamomile Flowers (German) - Helps irritated skin or inflamed skin and stress relief. Good for all skin types.
Citric Acid - Makes a great bar of soap with good PH values and is an antioxidant.
Citrus Fruits, Oranges, Grapefruit, Lemons - Vitamin C. Natural skin defoliator. Lemons are antibacterial. the scent of oranges relaxes, calms, and soothes the nerves.
Cocoa Butter - A wonderful moisturizer that aids with stretch marks and dry skin.
Coconut Oil - Coconut oil is high in Lauric Acid which provides good lathering, great cleansing qualities and makes a hard bar of soap. When used in cooking, can aid in reducing wrinkles and aid in preventing some cancers. *See health benefits of Coconut Oil at www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com. In soap, will aid in fluffy lather.
Cornstarch - Silky skin and treats rashes.
Cucumbers - Vitamin A, C and Calcium. Tones skin and cleans out clogged pores. Great for oily skin, astringent properties.
Emu Oil - Emu Oil is moisture rich creamy, white oil that does not clog skin pores. This oil absorbs into skin and relieves muscle pain (takes about 15-20 minutes). It is considered to be one of the finest ingredients for skin care products. Emu oil can reduce the signs of aging as it aids with the prevention of wrinkles by deeply penetrating into the skin and promoting cellular regeneration. This luxury oil has many wonderful healing benefits for the skin and body including: Soothing painful joints and muscles, aids with skin healing, scars, burns and eases skin irritations such as poison ivy, insect bites and eczema
Grapeseed Oil - All skin types but ideal for oily skin. This light oil does not aggravate acne! Contains: vitamins, minerals and protein.
Hazelnut Oil - Oily-Acne-Combination skin - provides wonderful moisturizing qualities . Readily absorbable by the skin. Contains vitamins, minerals, proteins, oleic and linoleic acid. Astringent, tones and tightens skin.
Hempseed Oil - Hempseed oil is highly beneficial to skin as it aids in reducing the signs of wrinkles. Hempseed oil keeps skin youthful, highly moiturize and has many nutritional values. Contains EFA's (essential fatty acids). It replenishes lost oils in the skin and has the ability to enter directly into the lipid layer of dry skin cells and replace missing oils due to sun damage, poor diet or aging skin. Low shelf life.
Honey - Moisturizer, deep cleans clogged pores. Natural skin healer - great for skin infections. Emollient, humectants, soothing, antiseptic and bacteriostatic.
Jojoba Oil - All skin types/Oily skin. Controls acne and heals inflamed, dry skin. Aids skin disorders such as dermatitis, psoriasis and Eczema. Jojoba is similar to sperm whale oil. This liquid wax contains myristic acid which is good for arthritis and rheumatism.
Kukui Nut Oil - Good for all skin types.
Lanolin - Easily absorbed by the skin. Produces a silky feel. Lanolin is not suited for people that have sensitive skin or have allergies.
Lavender - Good for treating oily skin, acne as well as dry and itchy skin. Calms and relaxes.
Lemongrass - Good for oily skin. Antiseptic, aids with blemishes and cleanses skin.
Macadamia Nut Oil - Mature Skin - Improves skin structure and miniaturization by strengthening the skin lipid barrier. It has emollient, regenerative and skin conditioning properties. Great for dry skin!
Mango Butter - An ideal moisturizer for all skin types. Mango butter has softening, soothing, moisturizing and protective properties for the skin. It restores flexibility and reduces degeneration of skin cells. High in Stearic Acid and is sold to naturally aid in preventing skin aging and provide UV ray protection.
Marshmallow Root - Soothes muscles, natural skin healer and naturally softens skin.
Meadowfoam Seed Oil - An oil that is stable, non-greasy and rapidly absorbs into the skin. Great for cosmetics and soaps as it adds shine and is highly moisturizing. Anti-aging oil that is good for sensitive skin. Products made with Meadowfoam seed is said to have a soft, smooth, silky feel.
Mint and Peppermint - Good for oily skin. Peppermint is antiseptic cleanser and relieves sunburns.
Olive Oil - All skin types including oily, acne, sensitive and mature skin. Promotes skin to naturally exfoliate. Great moisturizer. Vitamins A, E, D and K. Produces a mild and high quality soap. Heals skin - aids with bruises & sprains.
Sunflower Oil - this has a softening and moisturizing effect on the skin. Beneficial for bruises, low shelf life unless high oleoic.
Palm Kernel Oil - Similar chemical structure as coconut oil.....high in Lauric acid. This oil produces a fine quality, highly lathering and hard bar of soap.
Palm Oil - Natural source of viamin E and plays a protective role in cellular aging. Also rich in vitamin A and beta-carotene. Extracted from the fruit of the palm tree. Palm oil produces a hard bar of soap.
Red Clover Herb - Aids with skin ailments: Psoriasis, eczema, acne and this herb is gentle enought for children.
Rose Otto - One of the finest essential oils that's wonderful for sensitive skin. It is also good for mature and dry skin and aids with light acne. The scent of this rose is rich, sweet and spicy floral. Essential benefits are uplifting and romantic. Rose Otto hydrosols (water), can be used to make soaps, lotions and creams. Add the hydrosol at trace and subtract the water portion from lye/water content.
Seaweed (kelp) - Full of minerals. Normal-Oily skin. Cleanse skin while removing toxins and oils.
Shea Butter - Shea butter is from the kernels of the Shea Nut tree and has been used for centuries for its ability to heal, sooth and moiturize the skin. Medical treatments include: skin burns, small wounds and muscle aches. Studies have shown that Shea butter naturally provides UV skin protection, prevents and treats SKIN AGING! (F. Renard, "Le Beurre di Karite" These 1990).
Soybean Oil - Leaves skin feeling soft and smooth. Vitamin E and natural deodorizer. Soap color = Great white color.
Stearic Acid - Makes a hard bar of soap Good for creams and lotions.
Australian Tea Tree Essential Oil - Australian tea tree oil is the finer oil because it is regulated where as other tea tree oils are not. Great for oily skin and removal of warts. It's an antiseptic, antiviral, antifungal and it also serves as a great deodorant.
Vitamin E - Used as an antioxidant.
Witch Hazel - Good for oily skin, mild astringent....good for cuts and bug bites.
Wheat Germ - An emollient and antioxidant that is very gentle to the skin.
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