Natural Bodycare
Q.1. What is the difference between a natural soap and a commercial soap?
A.1. Natural soap is made from natural ingredients such as real plant essences, pure vegetable oils and natural colourants. Commercial, synthetic soaps are produced from detergents, fillers, petrochemicals, synthetic dyes and fragrances.
Q.2. Why should I use natural products when they are more expensive than commercial products?
A.2. Our skin absorbs 60% of what we apply to our skin. Long term, regular use of chemicals in the products we use, will have damaging effects. Certain conditions like Eczema, Dermatitis etc can be made worse by use of products containing chemical irritants. Pure, natural essential oils are more expensive but have a beneficial effect on our healthcare.
Q.3. What is organic?
A.3. On the whole, organic beauty products contain fewer chemicals and are far less toxic than most conventional products. Petro-chemicals or GM ingredients are not allowed in the manufacturing process. Also, they do not contain parabens, aluminium or zirconium - all of which have been linked to breast cancer.
Q.4. How effective are these natural and organic personal care products containing essential oils?
A.4. Essential oils are derived from therapeutic plants. The molecular structure of essential oils is close to that of the fluid and oils of our skin. They are readily absorbed and penetrated to the deepest layers of the skin. Essential oils have the capasity to produce the elimination of dead cells, regenerate new ones and to prevent growth of harmful bacteria.
Q.5. What are essential oils ?
A.5. Essential oils are volatile plant extracts, derived from plants, herbs, shrubs and trees, from the flowers , leaves, stems, branches, fruit, seeds, and roots. The most common method of extraction is by steam distillation, however this is not the only method.
Q.6 What is the difference between Essential oils and Essence oils and fragrance oils?
A.6 Essence oils and fragrance oils contain synthetic chemicals. These can cause irritation to the skin. Essential oils are 100% plant extracts.
Q.7 Why is there such a difference in the prices of essential oils?
A.7. For Rose oil, it takes about 1000 kilos of Rose petals to make 1 kilo of essential oil. Weather conditions, soil conditions and disease can reduce the size crops available, it is then when there is an increased demand for a limited product that the price increases.
Other plants yield better quantities of oil and are not affected as much by adverse weather conditions.
Q.8 What is Body butter?
A.8 Body butter is like Lotion minus the water and the preservatives.. Most lotions are 70 to 90% water. Body butter is made up of straight oils and butters in a concerntrated form. Unlike lotion, body butter will not wash right off.
Q.9 What is Body Polish?
Body Polish is a blend of organic oils, Crystalline Sea Salt, Essential Oils, Vitamin E Oil, and lecithin.The perfect moisturizer is natures own fresh emollient oils, vitamin E oil, and pure botanical essential oils and fresh water. The perfect exfoliator is sea salt, with its crystalline shape, and healing properties. The entire process of Polishing enables the skin to be moisturized more deeply and cleanly than any topical moisturizer could ever achieve.
