Safe Swap: Body Butter
Lotion is great… but I’ve always been a body butter fan! I did a quick google for the “most popular body butter” and the same brand kept popping up over and over! So I dug a little deeper and wanted to share some ingredient results AND give you my favorite safe swap-a-roo! Significantly safer ingredients AND same general price point
Ditch it ($21+ – plastic packaging):
Aqua (Solvent/Diluent), Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter (Emollient), Butyrospermum Parkii (Skin-Conditioning Agent/Emollient), Glycerin (Humectant), Glycine Soja Oil (Emollient/Skin Conditioner), Glyceryl Stearate (Emulsifier), 👎🏼 PEG-100 Stearate (Surfactant), Cyclopentasiloxane (Skin-Conditioning Agent/Emollient), Cetearyl Alcohol (Emulsifier), Triticum Vulgare Germ Oil (Emollient), Lanolin Alcohol (Stabiliser/Emollient), Cyclohexasiloxane (Conditioning Agent), 👎🏼 Phenoxyethanol (Preservative), Tocopheryl Acetate (Antioxidant), 👎🏼Methylparaben (Preservative), 👎🏼 Propylparaben (Preservative), Xanthan Gum (Viscosity Modifier),👎🏼 Parfum (Fragrance), Benzyl Alcohol (Preservative), 👎🏼 Disodium EDTA (Chelating Agent), 👎🏼 Citronellol (Fragrance Ingredient), 👎🏼 Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone (Fragrance Ingredient), Sodium Hydroxide (pH Adjuster), 👎🏼 Linalool (Fragrance Ingredient), 👎🏼 Geraniol (Fragrance Ingredient), Citric Acid (pH Adjuster), 👎🏼 Colour (scarily vague on that last one)
… It started off strong with some great ingredients… but those good guys rest on a bed of bad guys and the research tells us time and time again that it’s NOT worth the risk!
Switch it ($20+ – glass packaging)
butyrospermum parkii (shea) butter, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, aloe barbadensis (aloe vera), vitis vinifera (grapeseed) oil, helianthus annuus (sunflower) oil, tocopherol (vitamin e) oil, coffea arabica (coffee) oil, vanilla planifolia (vanilla bean) oil, corylus avellana (hazelnut) oil
Simple.. Delightful smell.. and SO good for you skin, girlfriends! Treat yo’self by grabbing one from: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SkinFoodByAB
