Best Go Green Beauty Tip; Cocoa Butter

One of the best things you can do for yourself when thinking about going green is to eliminate or significantly reduce the amount of chemicals you put on or in your body.  Shampoos, soaps, toothpaste, beauty creams, nail polish, lotions and more can contain some nasty chemicals.  Being a more “green” shopper and learning how to read labels is an important first step on your journey to go green.

One simple change you can make is to switch over to cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is a product that is extracted from cocoa beans that are used to make chocolate.  It is 10% natural, gentle on the skin and as an added bonus, it smells like chocolate.

Physicians have been recommending cocoa butter for years to help heal scars after surgery.  Once your surgical scars have healed, the use of cocoa butter on the scar, helps keep the skin smooth and reduces the amount of scarring on most people.  The same goes for stretch marks after pregnancy.  Cocoa butter helps reduce those unsightly stretch marks by keeping the skin nice and soft and supple.  It also has the ability to lighten up the blemishes and scars you may have.

Cocoa butter, as it turns out has some mighty powerful properties.  Using it after a shower helps keep you skin hydrated.  If you have a tendency towards dry skin, they hydrating properties of can’t be beat.

Cocoa butter is also great as an inexpensive moisturizer.  An along with keeping your skin hydrated, and using it as a moisturizer it acts as an anti-aging product, that will keep you skin looking younger.

Cocoa butter is non-irritating to the skin, so it can be used by those individuals with sensitive skin.

For some great cocoa butter products, try one or more of the products featured below.


July 18, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: going green tips

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