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My new favorite thing
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I love serendipity...
And I love Queen Helene Body Lotion. The way it keeps the moisture in, the smell...So when I saw a 2oz tub of QH Cocoa Butter Creme on sale I bought thinking it would be good for our desert trips in the medicine bag. It would be less likely to explode from extreme heat.
It sat around my bathroom for about a week and I decided to try it after a shower. WOOT! Holy crap is this stuff great. Tony the Tiger Grrreat! Every part of me got soft. Even the scaly-from-meds parts of my legs shrunk a tad. It just smooths everything.
I love it on my face too. Before bed I wet a washcloth with warm water, wipe the dirt off face and neck, and wipe on the creme. In the morning my face isn't tight. When I first put it on it's kind of greasy, but soon it all sinks in. I put my hair up and use a headband til it does.
Yesterday I found a 15 oz. tub in my local Rite Aid for $5.39. I'm very happy. At the price, and because I could actually find the damned thing in a store. Seems everything I use is being taken out of stores for newer, shinier products that don't work any better, and I have to get them online. Dammit.
Ingredients: Mineral Oil, Distilled Water, Beeswax, Paraffin, Sodium Borate, Cocoa Butter, Stearyl Alcohol, Lanolin, Fragrance, FD&C Yellow No5, FD&C Yellow No6, FD&C Red No40, D&C Red No33.
So if you're allergic to lanolin this is probably not a good choice. If you don't know, test it on the inside of your arm overnight. But I highly recommend this creme. It's cheap, and the ingredients are pretty basic. And whoa, they're less than 5 syllables long and you can actually pronounce them. Bonus! -
I have tried this lotion before and the smell is yummy. But I would be afraid to put it on my face because my facial skin is so oily and acne-prone. But, on the rest of my body it is a nice treat :)
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Oh, TailFeather! It's nice to see you back. "Tony the Tiger Grrreat!" made me laugh! :bigsmile:
No kidding on this product. I googled it for reviews and people love the stuff! -
Hi darkeyes :)
Yes, I should've said those with oily skin maybe shouldn't use it.
Hi Karen!
I forgot to mention if you use it with cotton gloves......oooooo, yeah baby! Like a baby's butt that is :p -
Yes, it is good to see you back TailFeather! I may try this lotion not on my face though!
And serendipity is great too. I'm using a little piece of it in my novel. I think it is one of my favorite words too! -
I gotta get some of this. Nivea "replaced" their "extra enriched" lotion with something else (can't remember the name) so I'm in the market for a good, hard-core, "Tony the tiger grrrrreat" moisterizer. It has to be cheap since I'm going to cover myself with the stuff every morning. This stuff sounds like what I'm looking for. "Less likely to explode" is good too : )
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It just goes to show you that it doesn't have to be complicated and expensive to be a great formula. Some people get similar satisfaction out of Vaseline.
There's a reason that old standby products continue to stick around while all the new technologies come and go. They're cheap and they work.
Incidentally, I always thought it was interesting that Lanolin comes from sheep. It was discovered to be a good skin ingredient because shepherds had nice, soft, moisturized hands. :wink: -
Cate, I want to read your novel.... :)
Yep, Purple, exploding things aren't good when my husband is trying to drive over large boulders. :p I think you'll like this. I've been using the 2 oz jar for about 3 weeks now, all over, and it's still almost full. You really don't need a lot because it spreads nicely.
I swear, I can't remember anything like this that feels so GOOD after I put on. And the scent....yummmmy. Oo, I forgot to mention how nice it'll make your feet! Especially if you put socks on after.
Left, I totally agree with everything you said. :) -
Speaking of lanolin, lanolin and wool both have bad reputations for being irritants. I suspect the number of people who are truly allergic to both is vastly overstated, which is a shame. Lanolin and mineral oil are both treated like the poor relations of shea butter and all that other "natural" stuff.
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TailFeather--perhaps one day I'll get it out there. I've got a lot to get through though with it. Plus, I need to go visiting other countries. My girl is going to live in another another country for a few years. I just started in April and only because I was dealing with some emotional crap...too much death :cry: and I was crying all the time just like this little guy...very sad
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True, Purple...I was slightly allergic as a kid wearing a Catholic school uniform. My hands got spotty and red when I had my hands on my skirt too long. I dunno if it was really an allergic thing. Jeez, they had me tested for everything...Supposedly I was allergic to dust, wool, and feathers. Riiiight. What a load of hooey. If that were true I wouldn't have two parrots. The thing that pissed me off was they took away all my cherished stuffed animals. What-ever.
Sorry to hear that Cate. Sometimes it just sucks to be human. -
Thanks, TailFeather for this. With all the complexity of contempo life it is refreshing to hear of something SIMPLE that works!! And as Left Brain has said...that is precisely WHY it works!!
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Just an FYI:
Putting oil based products on your skin will not make you produce more oil be the cause of your acne.
Dermalogica recently came out with a product called Precleanse. It is an oil based cleanser to be used before the second wash. It does not cause acne or oily skin.
The oil from your skin comes from the secaceous glands and no amount of this product is going to penetrate in there to cause more oil to be produced.
Queen Helene prouducts can be purchased at Sally Beauty.
buenos dias,
Lynnette
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