It’s only mid-November, but I’m already feeling like my skin has been through months of winter. It’s feeling drier, as if it just can’t get enough moisture to keep it happy. My skin, seems to me, to look duller, in tone, and in texture. Have I mentioned yet that I am a bar soap junkie? While living in Florida, Hubs and I had a skin care store. We made our own organic soaps, lotions, bath bombs, etc. We had a fantastic skin care line which heavily utilized raw, organic shea butter. We believe that raw shea butter is the most healing, moisturizing, and soothing ingredient you can use in your skin care regimen. We use it daily and make sure to never run out. You can find raw shea butter fairly easily now; even Walmart.com has it for just under $6.00.
Every so often I scour my soap drawer, and count to make sure that I’m not running out of our hand made soap any time soon. I am not particular about many things, but I need to have organic bar soap for my face. When we get low on soap, we try to make another batch ASAP, because we hate to have to buy it. I have no idea how this happened, that it slid right past us, and (gasp) I’m down to my last bar. This does happen on occasion and when it does, I head back to my other favorite soap maker: Shea Moisture. There are plenty of great bars of Shea Moisture soap and I have tried many, but I had yet to try the detox bar.
It’s a shea butter bar infused with African Water Mint and Ginger. Knowing that both mint and ginger have a rejuvenating affect on skin, and deliver an instant pick me up to lifeless-looking skin, I decided it was, currently, the one for me. Wow, was I ever right. This bar is frothy, and cooling to the skin. It rinses away completely and leaves skin feeling softer, smoother, and brighter. It has a very clean, minty fragrance, that instantly lifts your mood.
The best part is that it unclogs pores, and perks skin up, leaving it feeling and looking, awake and refreshed. I am going to be keeping this bar around throughout winter, to combat dull skin, and winter blues.
After cleansing with this bar, be sure to slather on a thin layer of raw shea butter, to keep your skin healthy, full of moisture and free of nasty chemicals.
If you try this amazing bar of soap, or raw shea butter, let us know what you think in the comments.
