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 [...]
by Andrea on August 29, 2009
Tamanu Oil, extracted from the fruit of the Calophyllum inophyllum tree, is renowned for its remarkable skin healing properties. The oil we import is from Madagascar. The Tamanu tree blooms twice in a year, and has aromatic white flowers that create clusters of yellow-skinned fruits. The fruit has a large nut within it. The oil [...]