This time of year in Seattle, my skin feels so dry. Even though it rains buckets here, I have had chapped lips since I moved to The Emerald City (why do they call it that? I still don’t know) from California. Today, I went to Whole Foods to shop for our Holiday dinner parties, and there was a woman giving a chat about the new organic skin line from Sweet Beauty. It is made locally, and she gave me a lip balm! It smells like a Tootsie Roll because it has chocolate in it, apparently from Theo Chocolate, also local. I love it that Whole Foods picks up so many local businesses. Maybe they will take a shine to our Beauty Alert! labels. Anyway, I have the chocolate lip balm on now, I was worried that it would have a brown tint, but it is sheer and looks great. It is making me crave sugar…
I am on the East Coast, transplanted from California, and the winters here are making me itchy crazy with dry skin. We’ve been here 12 years now and I thought I could not take another day. My dermatologist recommended Cetaphil, so I had been using it religiously, but I must admit it was not the miracle cure I was expecting.
Then one fortuitous day I was buying my trusty Tea Tree Oil shampoo at Trader Joe’s and I saw bottles of Vitamin E Oil and Jojoba Oil … right next to the shampoo! How could I not have noticed these before? I desperately put both into my shopping cart. I would have bought more oils had there been more to choose from. I crossed my fingers super tight and willed these things to do some magic trick for me.
The second I got home I slathered Jojoba Oil all over my head. Yes I did. It made me look like I had not bathed in a week, but the scalp relief was instantaneous. My hair was extra silky after I washed it later. The Vitamin E Oil I put on my legs and arms…it did not seem to be as fabulous but still much better than any lotion or cream I had tried.
I hope my “finds” help someone else out there with ultra dry skin. I still can’t take another day in Washington DC, but at least it is not because of itchy skin!