Beauty Chick needs help: “Sometimes when I apply my Tahitian Noni Moea Spa body butter, it seems to roll right off in nasty little balls. Is this the cream’s fault, or is it my dry skin coming loose and rolling off (ew)? Either way, what is a good solution to preventing this?” The Right Brain replies:
It seems unlikely that you`re stripping off enough dead skin to form nasty little balls, especially if you`ve just towel dried your skin after a shower. So, our guess is that it`s the product`s fault.
Why does this happen? Products that contain a high proportion of oils don’t mix with water very well. When you put a product like that on damp skin, the oily materials can’t get absorbed into the skin and so they can slough off in little balls as you described.
While it depends on the entire formula, certain ingredients tend to do this more than others. Looking at the ingredients in the Noni product, possible candidates include glyceryl strearate, PEG-100 stearate or cetearyl alcohol. All three of these are waxy or fatty based ingredients but the most likely culprit is the cetearyl alcohol. This is a mixture of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alchohol, the two most common thickening/bodifying ingredients used in body creams and lotions.
What can you do about it? You could try drying your skin more before applying the product. Or, waiting longer after you shower. You could also try a different kind of lotion to see if that helps. While many products use cetyl and stearyl alcohol, they use them in different proportions and in combination with different ingredients, so they’ll be absorbed differently by your skin. By experimenting with a few different products you should be able to to find one that fits your shower routine.
If the problem still doesn’t go away, you might be forced to consider the possibility that you’re descended from one of the many mysterious Serpent races that ruled the Earth in ancient times and that you possess one of their recessive snake genes that’s causing you to molt. If that’s the case, it’s only a matter of time before your new body bursts free of its leathery shell and you slither into the night in search of fresh blood. Then again, it probably is just your body butter.
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