Battling dry winter skin? Yeah, us too. While diet, exercise and drinking lots of water keeps you healthy, sometimes that’s not enough to keep our skin in perfect condition during the winter months. If your skin needs a little extra help staying soft and supple this time of year, here are 5 all natural products that will help you combat that dry winter skin without harsh chemicals!
1. Balm Me Up
I always end up with little, random dry patches of skin in the winter. Is it eczema? I don’t know, all I know is that it’s annoying! One place I continually have an issue with is the ring finger on my right hand. I get a little bumpy, dry patch there (most likely from washing my hands too much or excessive use of hand sanitizer). It usually takes a couple days of tlc to get it to clear up but I notice the fastest results with Balm Me Up from Balanced Guru.
This super nourishing balm provides deep moisturization to dry winter skin. This smooth and buttery body balm is enriched with a clever mixture of naturally moisturizing Cocoa and Shea butters along with a delightfully invigorating blend of essential oils that will wake up your senses as well as leave your skin soft and supple with out that greasy or tacky feeling you get from other body balms.
This is absolutely one of my must-haves that I will never go without from now on!
Price: $12-45
Buy It: www.balancedguru.com
2. Soothe Me Slowly
THis is one of my new favorites products right here. It’s sitting on my bathroom counter, next to my toothbrush and I find myself using it daily. I just love it!
Sooth Me Slowly naturally hydrates skin with an essential mix of Baobab, Jojoba and Avocado oils that will leave your skin super soft and smooth while sesame and Argan oils balance your skin so that it only feels moisturized, NOT oily. Lavender, Orange and Geranium essential oils work together to create a delicious and heavenly scent that lingers throughout the day in the most pleasant way. I’m addicted to this stuff.
Price: $8-30
Buy It: www.balancedguru.com
3. Ginger Sorbet Body Milk
After spending 6 hours shoveling your way out of Blizzard Juno of 2015, warm up with a nice, hot shower followed by Farmhouse Fresh’s Ginger Sorbet Body Milk. This amazingly luxurious body milk’s 90.5%-natural, vegan formula contains all-natural fragrance from real ginger and grapefruit extracts. It’s so yummy smelling, you’ll want to eat it.
This body milk glides on to providing your skin with a variety of antioxidants and vitamin-rich moisturizers that include rice bran, jojoba, sweet almond, avocado and sesame oils.
Price: $28
Buy It: www.farmhousefreshgoods.com and Amazon.com
4. J?SÖN® Organic Coconut Oil
Nothing better for dry skin than good old fashioned coconut oil! We use this stuff on EVERYTHING. Seriously! We cook with it, do oil pulling, make deodorant with it, use it as lip balm, use it on dry skin from head to toe and we even put it in our hair. Maybe it wouldn’t make good toilet paper and perhaps it won’t do my laundry, but it surely does darn near everything else.
J?SÖN® virgin, organic Coconut Oil is a perfect, all-purpose moisturizer for every inch of you and your family. Rich in nourishing Vitamin E and antioxidant polyphenols, this soothing oil melts with your body temperature and quickly soaks in to deliver unparalleled moisture for both skin, nails and hair.
Coconut oil easily nourishes extremely dry, chapped skin in addition to being super useful in other ways like taming frizz and fly-aways, minimizing hair breakage and split ends, soothing your dry, chapped lips, softening up those nail cuticles and more!
Price: $10.99
Buy It: www.jason-personalcare.com and www.vitacost.com
5. SeabuckWonders’ Sea Buckthorn Berry Oil
There are a multitude of products to help combat individual winter afflictions like dry skin, hair, nails and cold-and-flu symptoms, but did you know there is one product that can help you avoid them all? Say hello to the Himalayan-harvested “miracle berry” sea buckthorn!
SeabuckWonders’ Sea Buckthorn Berry Oil gives you the beauty benefits you want with the added bonus of immune boosting support. Sea Buckthorn isn’t called a super-fruit for nothing! Add a few drops of Berry Oil into a smoothie, juice or warm water.
With RARE Omega-7 and 190 biologically active nutrients, including fatty acids (Omega 3, 6, 9), vitamins, amino acids, folic acids, and minerals, the sea buckthorn berry oil packs a powerful punch of nutrients that your body can really use!
Sea buckthorn berry also has benefits for cardiovascular support, gastrointestinal balance, cellular support for dry conditions, inflammatory response, urogenital tract health, aid in healing wounds and burns, and more.
SeabuckWonders Sea Buckthorn Berry Oil is vegan, Non-GMO Project Verified, USDA Organic and Leaping Bunny Certified.
Price: $15.97 (0.45 oz)
Buy It: Local retailers like Whole Foods and online at www.seabuckwonders.com
