Tricia's Be​st Naturals

How to prevent baths and showers from making dry skin worse.

1. Close the bathroom door and limit your time in the shower or bath to 5 or 10 minutes.
   
2. Use warm rather than hot water. Hot water will dry your skin. 
   
3. Wash with a gentle, fragrance-free cleanser. Using a natural or handmade soap is best for dry shin. 
   
4. Apply enough cleanser to remove dirt and oil, but avoid using so much that you see a thick lather.
   
5. Pat your skin gently dry with a towel.
   
6. Put on a moisturizer immediately after drying your skin. Moisturizers work by trapping existing moisture in your skin. To trap much needed moisture, you need to apply a moisturizer as soon as you dry off.
7. Store brought lotions can be irritating to the skin. Using a natural cream, salve, or balm that contains oils such as olive oil, jojoba oil, and/or Shea butter also works well on dry skin. Some skin care products are too harsh for dry/sensitive skin. When your skin is dry, stop using deodorant soaps and skin care products that contain alcohol, fragrance, retinoids, or alpha-hydroxy acid (AHA).

8. When our skin is dry and raw clothes and laundry detergent can be irritating. Wearing a cotton tee shirt under your clothing  and using a hypoallergenic laundry detergent can help. 
   

9. Using natural/handmade products will help with dry irritated skin. Natural products should not contain alcohol, artificial fragrances, retinoids or AHA.
   

Roller balls are a combination of essential oils and skin safe carrier oils.

Carrier oils are oils that are used to help essential oils penetrate into your skin and not allow the essential oil to   burn the skin

Be very careful when it comes to essential oils

If you have never used essential oils before please, please, please do your research

Always use a carrier oil. Essential oils can and will burn if used alone

With the right recipe essential oils roller balls can be used to treat everyday ailments naturally.

Roller balls are easy to use and can be carried in your purse, your bag, or even in your pocket.

They usually work quicker that most pill.

They are absorbed through your skin and/or used for aromatherapy

Never put essential oils in your eyes or ears