Buttering up over winter
Body butters nourish and repair your skin better than anything else over winter, and positively melt into your fingers.
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During winter, there isn’t one morning when you don’t think about how you can protect your skin from the assault of cold weather, while nourishing it as usual. What do the pros recommend? Body butter!
It sometimes has a bad reputation for having a “greasy” texture and there are many questions about how to use it specifically, but body butter is actually the darling of all beauty professionals. Its special formula, like its texture, has revolutionised skin care and will meet your skin’s every need during the harsh winter months.
Body butter and face balm are the stars of skin care in winter. Their rich formulas fulfil all your skin’s needs when it turns chilly, and can completely rejuvenate your moisturising routine.
Here is all that is good and gorgeous about body butter, along with some simple little tricks for becoming a skin care goddess.
Body butter’s special formula
Body butter is gorgeous… You’ve got to admit, it is like no other body moisturiser. As an emulsion, this unique little cosmetic product mixes oil- and water-based ingredients with real panache! It’s rich and smooth, while an ordinary cream is thick and unctuous. Balms such as body butter are the best repairers for your skin because they restore its essential oiliness – a must over winter. “Ingredients like oils and butters are mixed together, and these contain important fats,” comments Christelle Robert, Product Director at Caudalie.
In organic body butter products, plant oils are chosen for both their fragrance and their nourishing properties. Vegetable butters are “long-lasting” on the skin, “and waxes are also added to these products”, adds Sophie Marcheteau, cosmetic expert for Bionessence.
Body butter to beat winter dryness
Rather than complaining about the spiteful cold weather that seems to be out to get your skin, go for a product that is specifically adapted for winter skin care. “Body butter’s formula is close to that of our body’s natural hydrolipidic film. This means it gets absorbed quickly and will have lasting effects,” Sophie Marcheteau explains.
This film is in peak perfection when we are born, and then deteriorates over time. So that this film can perform its protective job, especially during winter, you need to give it something to help it restore itself. This quest is perfectly suited to body butters as they are brimming with oily and hyper-nourishing ingredients.
When temperatures plummet, “Your skin begs for regenerating and nourishing products even more than usual,” adds Christelle Robert. This is in part because skin produces less sebum in winter than during other seasons. It is also due to the fact that we cover up more and the areas where clothes rub the skin take exfoliation to a whole new level.
With balms, your skin’s nutritive needs are satisfied with a supply of Omega 6, a large quantity of essential fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants contained in vegetable oils. Butters have soothing properties, which are particularly desirable for skin in winter, especially if it is prone to becoming rough and chapped. “Dry to very dry” skin goes crazy for moisturising balms, but even oilier skin types can reap the benefits too.
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Posted 09.11.2011
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