Heals dry hands - Nurses perspective

As a nurse I wash my hands several hundred times a day it seems. Even with the hospitals using moisturizing soaps my skin gets very dry. I bought this little jug and take it to work with me. It is amazing how well it can moisturize my VERY dry hands. In the winter I get cracks on the outside of my palms without fail every year. I take this cream and let it sit on the crack for as long as I can. By the next day or so the crack has healed enough to be more manageable.



Several patients have this cream prescribed to them by their doctors its so good.



I highly recommend this cream to everyone that suffers from dry cracked skin!



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My favorite cleaner!

I highly recommend Dr. Bronner's Unscented. I started using it in a spray bottle with baking soda and water because it does not trigger my migraines and when I realized how well it cleaned I started using it to clean pretty much everything in my home.



The scents and chemicals in mainstream cleaners were causing such severe migraines that I could not clean my house. Newer `green' cleaners from Clorox and the like did not help either because of the fragrances. I learned about Dr. Bronner's and gave it a try. The scented versions are too strong for me so I stick with the unscented. Most of my friends like the unscented too because they can add whatever essential oils they need (or are in the mood for) to clean.



Information on the internet for green cleaning is all over the place and there is a lot of bad advice out there. I recommend getting a book on green cleaning that will bring all of the information together - check one out from your library or purchase one if you've got a little extra money. For a basic over view of green cleaning I recommend Jill Potvin Schoff's Green Up Your Cleanup (The Green House). For a comprehensive book with a lot of depth try Renee Loux's Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home. (I have written reviews on both books.)



The only things I do not use this soap for are washing my hair and doing the dishes. I have really oily hair and the castile soap leaves it very stringy and with a lot of oil in it. I've got several friends who use it as shampoo and they do not have the same problem that I do. I also do not use it for dishes because it is more cost effective for me to get Seventh Generation dish products from Amazon's Subscribe & Save program. As a side note Dr. Bronner's works great with oxygen bleach (like OxyClean) for laundry but I use Seventh Generation laundry soap and oxygen bleach instead because it is more cost effective per load.



Yes the writing on the bottle is kooky but nothing says you have to read it. This castile soap works better then any other castile soap I've tried. I do not normally spend money with companies that speak in terms of religion but given the safeness and effectiveness of the product combined with their IMO certified fair trade practices to purchase organic ingredients I don't care WHAT the label says.



The product contains: water saponified organic coconut & olive oils organic glycerin organic hemp oil organic jojoba oil citric acid and Vitamin E.

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Strengths and weaknesses

I was looking for a safe effective sunsreen for my trip to Southeast Asia this summer. Here are what I think are the strengths and weaknesses for this product

Strengths:

1 Many non-chemical sunscreens actually fail to live up to their SPF but I do think it successfully protected my skin in the worst UV environment. (But I also used hats and such)

2 It is relatively safe for my skin. It didn't make my skin break out.



Weaknesses:

1 THE greasiest sunscreen I ever experienced. It's ok when you're out hiking or at the beach but when I went out to see friends they often commented on how much I was "sweating." When I really did sweat it made the cream turn white and visible (dotty on my face).

2 As it's noted on Skin Deep Cosmetic safety database it's not perfectly safe. While I didn't have any breakouts my face (not my body) got itchy wearing this. But I was able to get around it by putting on a moisturizer before applying this.

3 It's pretty tough to wash off. Though it's not waterproof after I washed my body I could still smell it and see it on my skin (showing up white especially in wrinkly area).



Despite the problems I think I might use it again next summer (at least on my body) because I haven't been able to find a better safe high SPF sunscreen. Other ones don't make my face shiny but make my face look all white.

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Best Sunscreen Ever!

I love this sunscreen. It is not greasy or smelly or full of crap that no one needs all over the largest organ of their bodies (their skin). I love it especially for my 11 month old daughter. It works wonderfully and I can feel secure knowing that her skin is not absorbiing a bunch of chemicals.



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Protects Mild Scent Mostly Natural

I picked a tube of this up for $10.99 at our local market after reading on cosmeticdatabase that it's one of the safest and most natural sunscreens on the market. It rated a 0 which is the safest rating.



It comes out of the tube thick and a little gritty as others have mentioned but I had no problem getting it to properly absorb into my skin. It takes an additional five or ten seconds to rub it in thoroughly which smooths out of the consistency and dramatically reduces the "white face" effect. I'm not sure what the big deal is with taking a few extra seconds to rub it in; other reviewers sound like they're in a mighty hurry to rush out into the sun :)



I'm giving this 4 stars instead of 5 because I've only been using it for awhile. So far I like it a lot. The scent is mild (way more mild than most sunblocks I've used) and isn't medicinal at all on me it doesn't leave me with a white/pale face and so far it seems to provide excellent coverage. It does contain trace amounts of dimethicone which is explained on the Badger web site; this single additive is widely used and is considered safe. Overall this is probably one of the very best and safest sunblocks on the market.



Highly recommended especially for those looking to reduce the number of industrial chemicals they're applying to their skin.

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