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- Slick Down with Essential
Oils
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- If straight up crème is too boring, perhaps massage
oil is more appealing. Use melted cocoa butter, or jojoba, almond massage oil, or wheat
germ oil as carrier oils for a few drops of essential oil.
Lavender essential oil has a particularly rich history
with expectant and new mothers. In the 1600s midwives crushed and heated lavender flowers
for women who had back pain during pregnancy. The flowers were also an important part of
the birthing experience, and were said to raise the spirits of the new mother, baby, and
their attending midwife.
Other popular essential oils include rose, tangerine, or
citrus oils. Safe and effective for pregnant and nursing moms when used in tiny amounts
diluted in carrier oils, these essential oils can turn cocoa butter or other ordinary
unscented massage oil into something special. They also change the redundant daily
moisturizing ritual into an olfactory extravaganza.
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- Pamper Your Skin
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- Pregnant and nursing women should always stick to the
tried and true when it comes to skin care, and if you're trying to protect your skin from
stretch marks, it's essential to cleanse the belly area with a mild natural soap—stay
away from soaps with additives and synthetic perfumes.
To minimize the intensity of stretch marks, after
cleansing, apply nontoxic natural products with ingredients such as calendula to reduce
dryness. Another soothing herb is aloe vera. Aloe gel applied daily to the
belly will minimize dryness and help maintain skin elasticity.
Other external dermal ointments that tone and
nourish the skin might include avocado oil or the antioxidant vitamin E.
Because components of essential and other oils can
be absorbed through the skin, it is possible for them to affect a growing fetus. As a
precaution, make sure that the products you use to discourage stretch marks are safe for
baby before putting them on your skin.
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- A Gentle Touch
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- One of the most shared and habitual acts of pregnancy
is the belly rub. Women seem to do it as universally as the gentle rocking most new
mothers undertake when a newborn is in their arms.
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Product Recommendations |
- Health & Beauty
- Skin Renew Treatment
- Lotion
- 4 oz.
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- This facial Renew Cream works deep into the
skin to fight skin problems and skin damage. The skin nutrients in this moisturizing cream
loosens the uppermost dead, scar, and problem tissues on the skin, exposing new, smooth,
clean, and healthy looking complexion underneath. Contains: Cocoa Butter, Jojoba Oil,
Vitamin E and Essential Oils
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- Health & Beauty
- Skin Renew Lotion
- 8 oz.
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Skin Renew & Repair cream will work on the body. This rich in
skin nutriment and super moisturizers Replenish/ Repair/Renew/ Protects the skin. This AHA
product removes dry, crack, rough dead skin tissues, leaving the skin soft, silky, smooth
and moist while stimulating the growth of new healthy skin tissues. Also work wonders on
skin tone, scars, stretch marks and dull leathery looking skin. Apply daily. For best
results before bedtime or after bath. |
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ALOE VERA HERBAL SKIN BLEND contains allantoin and azulene to enhance the
benefits of aloe vera, producing a superior blend to moisturize and soothe dry irritated
skin. When chilled Nature's Life Aloe Vera Gel Herbal Blend cools and soothes sunburned
skin. Used daily, Aloe Vera Gel Herbal Blend helps ensure healthy, beautiful, radiant
skin.   |
- Monoi Tiare
- Jasmine
- Coconut
- Oil
- 4 oz.
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Monoi TiareTahiti with Jasmine flower in the bottle. A blend of pure
cocunut oil, delicately scented with the essence of Pitate, Tahitian Jasmine. Use as dark
tanning oil, skin moisturizer, before & atfer shampoo to add sheen and prevent dry
hair, as a bath oil, and as subtle natural perfume. |
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