Favourite Hand creams for winter crackles

I use hand creams every day in this cold weather. It is evident for me to use organic types, out of the following 3 reason:

- I don't want to induce anything else chemical into my body on top of everything else we experience daily The following hand creams 

- these ARE just so much better than any non organic/non natural ones I've tried ! (Such as Elisabeth Arden and others) my organic favies do their job so much better

-most importantly: every time when I use one of those 3 besties I find myself feeling like I am indulging in  a luxury and can't stop smelling my hands as those creams smell so amazing! It's truly a little daily indulgence, you'll thank yourself! They're just yummy

Here my recent favourites 

Weleda Pomergranate ca 8£

Aww I LOVE the smell of this one!!

Dr Hauschka ca 12£

Fantastic hand lotion, sinks into the skin very quickly

Neil's Yard bee lovely Hand Cream ca 10£

Yummy smell as well, sinks in very quickly

They all vary in texture but are not oily and go in the skin quickly. You'd have to try yourself which one you like best. They also all smell fantastic. It depends on your preference really.

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21 Things you schuld know about Essential oils

This is a post of the crunchy Betty blog.

This is such a good informative post that I've copied and past it here for you. Thanks crunchy Betty for the content!

      

Lord help me, people. I’ve spent the last two days trying to write a concise, easy guide to essential oils and their safety, and it ended up being just an enormous dump of information that no would want to ingest in a single blog post.

Therefore, you’re getting the quickest, easiest 21 facts you need to keep in mind. These things include safety measures, essential oil facts, therapeutic uses, and more. You’ll like this better. I promise.

However, at the end of this post, I am going to give extensive references to those of you who would like to learn more about the fascinating world of essential oils, as well as a list of my top 7 recommended essential oils for any household to have.

21 Things You Should Know About Essential Oils

• Essential oils are not really oils. They do not contain the fatty acids that constitute what we would consider an actual oil. Valerie Gennari Cooksley, author of Aromatherapy: Soothing Remedies to Restore, Rejuvenate and Heal defines essential oils as “highly concentrated plant constituents possessing potent medicinal and cosmetic qualities.” However, I think Stephanie Tourles nailed it in Organic Body Care recipes when she said, “I consider essential oils the life force or the soul of the plant.”
• Most essential oils are high in antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties: This makes them an excellent addition to your homemade cleaning preparations. Oils that are best for cleaning are: Lemon, grapefruit, eucalyptus, peppermint, tea tree, lavender, and rosemary.
• Essential oils are miniscule in molecular size, which means they are absorbed well by the skin – making them perfect ingredients in personal care items intended to heal, soften, and nourish. However, they do not accumulate in the body over time – they simply offer up their healing properties and then pass on through.
• Scientific studies have shown that rosemary essential oil helps your brain perform.Specifically, smelling rosemary essential oil helps memory recall and performance on tests. Interestingly, this study also showed that groups that inhaled either rosemary or lavender essential oil felt much more relaxed than those who inhaled no odor at all.
• Fragrance oils and essential oils are NOT the same thing. As a rule of thumb, if you see the word “fragrance” or “fragrance oil” or even “perfume” on anything, you can assume this is synthetic and NOT natural. (Even if it says natural fragrance.)
• Essential oils are wholly natural and cannot be patented; which means that you’ll never see an essential oil in a pharmaceutical drug. As such, you can expect that the vast majority of mainstream healthcare practitioners will never recommend essential oils as therapeutic alternatives to drugs. More importantly, because essential oils cannot be patented, drug companies will not waste money studying them. This limits our scientific knowledge of essential oils GREATLY, and the majority of what we know about them are things that have been passed down through thousands of years of personal use and experimentation.
• Enormous amounts of plants are needed to produce essential oil. In fact, on the extreme end, it takes 4000 pounds of Bulgarian roses to produce 1 pound of essential oil. Other plants like lavender only take 100 pounds of plant material to produce a pound of essential oil. Still, can you imagine how concentrated essential oils must be, in light of how many plants are used to produce them?

This is only 1/3rd of the article, please read the rest here.

http://www.crunchybetty.com/21-things-you-should-know-about-essential-oils

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