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Soothing Skin Recipe: Three Carrier Oils for Burns

by Andrea Butje on July 26, 2010

Healing Burns There are many wonderful carrier oils that can nourish the skin and speed the healing of a burn on your skin. Baobab oil, Shea butter and Tamanu oil are three of my current favorites. Baobab: The oil is made from the fruit of the Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) by cold pressing the seed [...]

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Lip Balm – A Love Story

by Maria on July 7, 2008

I have never enjoyed the waxy feel of over-the-counter lip balm.  When people talk about their lip balm addictions or my girl friends reach into their purses several times a day for gloss, I am the one scratching my head and simply not getting it.  To me, chapstick feels like rubbing a warm candle on [...]

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