Baths and Showers - Long, hot baths deplete your skin of oils and moisture that are essential for protection and lead to dry skin or itching. Even though bathing appears to hydrate your skin, it is only temporary, causing greater moisture loss than gain. In winter it is better to avoid bathing/showering every day, if possible. Saunas and steam baths are much less ageing.
Body Scrub - Try using a natural body scrub, which will exfoliate, detoxify, cleanse and moisturize in the one treatment. Most commercial shower gels and bath additives use anti freeze (glycol) as the base ingredient, with additional pearlizing chemicals, just to make it look attractive.
When you bathe use coconut or tea tree based bath salts. Gently pat your skin dry afterward and moisturize immediately with an oil based cream. Oil based creams may feel a little greasy compared to water based lotions, but they are far more effective, sealing in moisture and minimizing loss of hydration.
I have a collection of recipes for beauty and health products, some very old and some very modern. I am working them into an ebook, but in the meantime, here is a link to a book with some wonderful recipes.
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