It’s been over a week that I’ve been using Ballard Organics Certified Organic Foaming Soap. After a week of using it at home and using the Pure Touch Organics Massage Crème at work my skin seemed to improve.
The soap at my work is not the Ballard Organics Certified Organic Foaming Soap so I was still noticing some serious dryness while at work post washing my hands. While at Mill Creek Central Market I picked up two more, one for the kitchen and one for my office. Since I wash my hands up to 15 times while at work I’m hoping that while I continue the massage cream and cleanser my hands will continue to get better.
My recommendation still stands. I love this soap! Give it a try and your hands will love you for it!
I’m always on the look out for good healthy food. For a good part of last year and early this year money was tight and we all suffered eating cheaply. I have slowly been changing that for all of us, Rick, me, Xiann and Milo.
I did a search for organic dog food made or carried locally. I found MudBay a company started by a family started in Washington State. According to their site they carry only high quality food without unnecessary ingredients.
Milo has come close to the end of his bag of food so I’ll be heading out in a day or so to check out the store. One of the great things is there are many locations around the greater Seattle area! There is even one just down the road from our apartment in Bothell.
I’ll let you all know what I find. I’m going to do some further research about the brands that they carry and pick a couple to try for my babies. We get variety in our diet, if done carefully; it’s only fair that I do it for them.
I just started using this massage crème in replacement of my other stuff as my skin is doing strange things these days; mainly eczema that has been gone or dormant (whatever) has resurfaced in the last two weeks. As a massage therapist I spend a lot of time in contact with other people. It is not safe for my client or myself to be working with open skin from an “eczema crack”.
I have used Biotone products before and only quit using them as my finances needed a bit of a break. Well, let me tell you, being cheap is not the way to go when dealing with skin. Though my clients have never complained about the other stuff, in fact they preferred it to the oil other therapists had used on them, I made a switch. In the long run it isn’t that much more expensive and I can afford a few extra dollars every couple of months now.
Organic things are much healthier and less likely to cause reactions. So I pulled up Biotone website in search of something better. I found Pure Touch Organics Massage Crème. Reading up on it I found that it contains no parabens, which are known as questionable ingredients in soaps lotions, and face care things, hypoallergenic, contains shea butter and jojoba oil (both of which I love!). It does not contain nut oils, which is important. Some clients tend to leave out allergies on the health form, whether or not they think it doesn’t matter or just forget. It is better to be safe than shooting someone up with an epi-pen.
I have used this lovely product two days in a row now. It feels heavenly. It silky, thick and melts well with body temp. It isn’t oily, absorbs well and provides both grip and glide, which is important in that I do both deep tissue massages and more gentle Swedish massages. It is “unscented” though it has a pleasant “unscent” of the ingredients themselves. It actually smells healthy and clean. It seems to be treating my skin well. Yesterday I had to coat my eczema with New Skin. Today it wasn’t open so I didn’t. So far it seems fine, certainly did not get worse.
As a person with sensitive skin I’d recommend this to other massage therapists. It is important not to stress out the skin too much. What is put onto our skin does make it to our “insides”. Though I wouldn’t recommend eating any lotion the ingredients themselves come from eatable sources. As a massage therapist working with it was wonderful. I have missed the Biotone quality. Believe that I’ll be using this for some time. I highly recommend!
Recently I have been having a lot of trouble with my skin. As a child I had eczema on both hands very badly. I haven’t seen it since though, until about two weeks ago. It’s back. Not nearly as bad but still, it itches and cracks. As a massage therapist I need to keep my hands happy. I can’t work if my hands are too horrible cracked. I’m using New Skin to cover the spots just in case.
Thinking about my options I decided to switch most of my skin care and even soaps, to much gentler options. Also that way I can “green” my life up. While I was at Central Market the other day I walked to the Natural Resources department to look for different hand soap. I have been thinking about switching away from the anti-bacterial I’ve been using. I firmly believe that we are all killing too many germs and thus weakening our immune systems and creating super bugs like MRSA. That is however, for another post. I also think that store brand or even Soft Soap is too artificial and very hard on skin. So I picked out a foaming hand wash that had ingredients I understood. I pickedBallard Organics Certified Organic Foaming Soap orange scent
. It was very reasonably priced at $5.45. That really isn’t much more than Soft Soap. The great thing is the pump bottles are refillable. They sell the soap in concentration so you can refill it.
My review:
Day One: So far I love it, though to be fair I’ve only been using it a day. It foams wonderfully. That shouldn’t be a deciding factor but it may be important to some people. It doesn’t seem to dry my hands out. In fact it seems that it actually moisturizes my hands. Best of all though it doesn’t seem to be irritating my eczema. I’ll update this with my “one week” review soon.
