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Feel Comfy in Your Skin
Elemi Skin
By Tonie Minsal
Elemi Skin
(pronounced ee-lay-me) in Yoruba means "of life, with life,
having life." How fitting, then, that they should make
products for use during pregnancy.
Elemi Skin is owned by a real sweet chick
named Rashida. Customer service here is tops. That’s a big
deal to me, as I really like personal service and attention.
The coolest product Rashida sent to try was the Soothing Belly
Butter ($15.95 for a 4oz. jar), this product rocks! It
contains a host of natural soothers like avocado oil and aloe vera, shea and cocoa butters, and essential oils of lavender,
neroli, tangerine and geranium.
I don’t know if it’s the aloe vera or what, but this product actually feels cool and
watery when you put it on. It really did soothe my skin. Rashida has a way with blending oils; she creates a
moisturizing blend that’s not too greasy. Plus it smells nice
and light.
Pregnant babes know that there are times when you
just want to feel comfy in your skin, and when that time hits
you, this is the product to use. Elemi also scores extra
points for putting this and several other products in glass
jars, because, as we all know, plastic is evil! (P.S.- this
product works great as an apres’ waxing soother too!)
Elemi Skin also makes a Stretch Mark Oil ($16.95 for a 4oz.
bottle) that contains camellia oil, which I understand is high
in linoleic acid. It also contains avocado oil, neroli,
mandarin and tangerine essential oils.
I love the way so many
of these pregnancy products contain neroli! Lucky me, huh?
Again, Rashida shows her expertise at blending oils- this
is a winner. Smells great, great texture, not greasy.
The Shea Belly Balm ($10.95 for a 4oz. tin) is a product for
girls who don’t like any fragrance when they’re pregnant. I
personally love a lot of good fragrance in my products.
The
batch of belly balm that I got was just the tiniest bit
grainy, which may have to do with the way the butters were
heated in the making of the product.
The graininess did go
away as I massaged the butter in, but I must say, I prefer the
Soothing Belly Butter to the Belly Balm.
This product is worth
a try if you can’t stand any scent when you’re avec bebe’
though, because the end result is okay.
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