Natural Beauty Products: Burt's Hand Creme

G'day my fellow naturals. Today I've decided to take my site into a new direction. Every so often, I will try to post a review of any natural beauty products that I use. Burt's Bees is currently one of my favorite natural lines, and I am very fond of their lip balms. Since my hands are consistenly in water and harsh detergents and other cleaning agents at work and home, I decided that if I am still going to have fly little hands for my grad pictures (as well as forever!) I need to protect my little beloveds.

burt's shea butter hand repair creme is my new best friend!! A little goes a long way but its so addictive and buttery that I want to use alot, even though that make everything greasy. After I apply it to my oh-so-dry hands, my little digits thank me repeatedly by gracing me with their softness. My hands look good as new every singe time. I encourage everyone to try it but beware, its not cheap! This creme costs $12.99 at the drugstores and online. Another downside: the combination of essential oils and butters makes this heavenly concoction smell like hell. Well...more like noxema (remember that??).

Off to determine my next hairstyle, and study. Finals are coming!!

Later~

--PS...in case you don't want to or can't get to their site, here are the ingredients that are in the creme:

rosa damascena (rose) flower water, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, stearic acid, beeswax, glycerin, sesamum indicum (sesame) seed oil, butyrospermum parkii (shea butter), tocopherol, theobroma cacao (cocoa) seed butter, macadamia ternifolia (macadamia) seed oil, glucose, rosa canina (rosehip) seed oil, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) oil, salix nigra (willow) bark extract, calendula officinalis flower extract, plantago lanceolata (plantain) leaf extract, alchemilla vulgaris (lady’s mantle) extract, rosa damascena (rose) flower oil, citrus aurantium dulcis (orange/neroli) flower oil, borago officinalis (borage) seed oil, sucrose stearate, retinyl palmitate, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) extract, vegetable oil, beta carotene, xanthan gum, sodium borate, glucose oxidase, lactoperoxidase

Hair Danger Zone

Hola natural world, I have returned. School has kept me busy, busy, busy and Spring Break last week made me lazy, lazy, lazy. The last time I posted, I was rocking those sexay kinky twists courtesy of my homegirls at Abass Braiding. I got them done January 17th and kept them in until March 14th. I wanted to keep them longer and probably would have if I hadn't realized that keeping those things in my head would do more harm than good in the long run. Most of you ladies out there already know that with braids and extensions, the risk of getting a receding hairline run high. Having to worry about braids/twists falling out is also an issue some of us worry about. As my second month of having twisted extensions approached, I began to feel like my hair was screaming to be set free lol. My scalp itched like crazy at first and I think it was because my hair wasn't 100% keen on having foreign hair intertwined with it (I've only had twists one other time and different hair was used that time--same for the zillions I had). After the first wash, I was set; oiling my scalp afterward helped too. I mostly wore my hair up or back in a ponytail; eventually the weight of the hair started irritating me and started to make me paranoid thinking of possible breakage and falling out--so I switched up between that and wearing it down. During my last month I decided to wear my hair down with some of the twists from the front pulled back and tied together--and that didn't help my paranoia at all.
I finally decided to take my twists out (March 15th) and let my natural hair be free. I thought I had a significant amount of growth and could not wait to see the stretched out (pressed/flat-ironed) version of my hair. Before I could do that, I washed my hair with Burt's Bees natural shampoo and conditioner in More Moisture Raspberry and Brazil Nut. I wasn't sure how exactly my hair should have felt after using the shampoo (it didn't feel "moisturized", it felt weird lol) and it wasn't supposed to lather since it was natural shampoo, so I didn't know if it was working or not. I conditioned with both the Burts conditioner and my Neutrogena deep conditioner and air dried. I love my hair. Part II coming soon....