Aroma Essentials : Ylang Ylang Body Butter

Body butters are perfect for smoothing and soothing dry, flaky elbows, heels, toes – anywhere you need an extra moisture injection. Body butters are composed primarily of oils and butters. Many of these natural oils and butters can penetrate the surface of the skin to help nourish and condition skin.

ABOUT THE BRAND

Learn more about Aroma Essentials HERE!

KEY INGREDIENTS & THEIR BENEFITS

• Mango Butter: Has natural emollient properties and regenerative activity (1). Rich in vitamins A, C and E, these work to combat free radicals. When applied to the skin, mango butter has the ability to protect it from the sunburn as well as sooth sunburned skin (1).

• Kokum Butter: A natural skin nurturer and a healing butter that can help revitalize skin cells while supporting elasticity and flexibility (2). It is rich in essential fatty acids, vitamin e, and is non-comedogenic (won’t clog your pores), making it a perfect choice for soothing dry, cracked, rough, damaged and calloused skin (2).

• Sesame Oil: Two special antioxidants in sesame oil, sesamin and sesamolin, improve skin elasticity and reduce signs of aging (3). These effects are reinforced by sesame oil’s high vitamin E content. In addition, its linoic acid soothes and softens the skin and improves the barrier function, reducing water loss and making sesame oil an effective moisturizer and salve for sensitive and irritated skin (3). It helps reduce eruptions and maintain a glowing complexion, plumping up fine lines to give skin a soft, smooth feel and a luminous look (3).

• Almond Oil: Great moisturizer for skin, almond oil has a natural ability to plump and firm the skin (4). Helps in repairing, rejuvenating, as well as revitalizing damaged skin ensuring it is left feeling relaxed and looking great (5). (Learn more about the benefits of sweet almond oil HERE!).

• Aloe Vera: An antipruritic (relives or prevents itching), it’s a great way to hydrate, moisturize and rejuvenate the skin and increase skin elasticity through collagen and elastin repair (6). (Learn further benefits of aloe vera, HERE).

• Soy Lecithin: Works as a natural emollient, emulsifier, thickener, antioxidant and spreading agent (7). It helps to soften and moisturise the skin, alters the skin structure, allowing other substances to penetrate deeper. Soya lecithin helps emulsify oil and water products, making formulas more stable (7). Works as an antioxidant helping repair free radical damage, soothing inflamed & irritated skin (7). It attracts water to the skin, working to prevent moisture loss from deep within the skin tissues. due to its high levels of oleic and linoleic acid, soy lecithin is very moisturizing (7).

• Ylang Ylang Essential Oil: Blended with an emulsion or moisturizing creme, Ylang Ylang is a great essential oil for the skin, nourishing and moisturizing flaky and dry skin (8).

• Geranium Essential Oil: Promotes beautiful and radiant skin, geranium oil is  used to treat acne, reduce inflammation, alleviate anxiety, balance hormones, uplift the mood, lessen fatigue and promote emotional wellness (9).

• Permitted Food Grade Coloring

The ylang ylang body butter come in a 50 gm opaque white jar with a screw on top. Thick in consistency with a buttery, velvety texture, the body butter has a distinctive ylang ylang fragrance with undertones of geranium.

To use, take the desired amount and slather away to preferably towel dried skin for best results.

My skin has a tendency to dry, forcing me to exfoliate 2-3 times a week. So when moisturizers feel heavy and form greasy residues (which has happened with several brands of handmade butters), I do not appreciate it. When Madhu sent me a jar of body butter I was a bit skeptical, but THANK YOU Madhu!

Fluffy to touch, this light, creamy and ultra-emollient blend of whipped mango and kokum butter,  concentrated almond and sesame oils smoothes on easily, absorbs quickly and leaves even the driest of skin soft, supple, hydrated and nourished. The natural  fragrance of ylang ylang and geranium is soothing and not overpowering. The formulation consists 70:30 butter to oil proportion. 

Aroma Essentials products are made of 100% natural ingredients but what I did not know was the almond oil used in the body butter preparation is actually extracted in-house.....WOW!!!

Finally would like to sign off with a request of Madhu : please do rename this amazing product to body parfait because it is perfectly whipped to provide lighter and easier application but designed to provide intense, long-lasting moisturizing for the skin!