Venustas Essentials : Hand & Foot Salve

An at home pedicure may be just the thing you need to relax and what better than having your own all natural foot cream?



ABOUT THE BRAND

                           
Learn more about Venustas Essentials HERE! 

KEY INGREDIENTS & THEIR BENEFITS

• Mango Butter: It’s rich in oleic acid, a mono-unsaturated omega-9 acid; and stearic acid, a saturated fatty acid: ingredients that the skin readily recognizes, takes up, and uses to help add moisture to the skin, repair damage, and improve elasticity (1). Dry patches, flakiness, eczema and dermatitis flare-ups, and even psoriasis can benefit from daily application of mango butter, which goes to work deeply moisturizing and repairing damaged skin (1). Because it’s rich in vitamin C, mango butter can help encourage the production of collagen, which promotes a firmer appearance on skin, reducing the look of sagging and bagging (1). Mango butter is also natural source of vitamin A that helps stimulate the cells responsible for keeping skin firm, reducing fine lines and wrinkles and increasing skin’s overall youthful look. Also helps reduce the degeneration of skin cells, preventing that damaging process that leads to wrinkles and helps heal  cracks, or other small wounds (1).

• Shea Butter: Provides relief from dry skin, it absorbs quickly and contains a number of fatty acids that help skin retain moisture over time.  The vitamins A, D, and E, in the butter help reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, while maintaining skin elasticity and encouraging the production of collagen (2). A natural source of allantoin: a compound that helps soften skin while encouraging it to bind to moisture more effectively. Cinnamic acid in shea butter also inhibits elastase, which is an enzyme that degrades the protein that allows skin to stay elastic protecting the skin from the effects of aging (2). Its anti-inflammatory properties, as well as its moisturizing and anti-irritant properties helps soothe skin conditions (2).

• Sweet Almond Oil: Prunus dulcis (Sweet Almond Oil): Great moisturizer for skin, almond oil has a natural ability to plump and firm the skin (3). Helps in repairing, rejuvenating, as well as revitalizing damaged skin ensuring it is left feeling relaxed and looking great (4). (Learn more about the benefits of sweet almond oil HERE!).

• Tea Tree Essential Oil: A natural foot deodorant and fungal medicine, Tea tree oil disinfects and has powerful antiseptic properties (5).

• Lavender Essential Oil: Has cicatrisant properties that help speed up the healing process of cuts and wounds, apart from making scars disappear (5). Apply it topically for anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and regenerative properties.

• Eucalyptus Essential Oil: Eucalyptus oil kills bacteria and some viruses, the root causes of cracked and blistering heels, while soothing dry skin (6).

The hand & foot salve, comes in a 100 gm container with an inner protective lid and a screw on cap. To use, slather the required amount on calloused feet, wear cotton socks and let the blend work it's magic.

Solid and soft in consistency, white in color the salve is dry & crumbly in texture (due to the mango butter) with the smell of eucalyptus essential oil.  The butters melt upon skin contact forming a clear oil that glides on the skin and gets absorbed within minutes of application and massage.

My feet are certainly not neglected but between flip flops and walking around barefoot, I have amassed quite the collection of callouses and scaly areas.  This salve has been quite the rescuer: a non-greasy formula, that is nourishing and rejuvenates sore, tired & dry feet! I used this for a mere 2 days and the results were prominent. Though I have been employing the salve primarily for my feet, it would certainly work wonders for dry hands, elbows and ankles too. Containing cooling, refreshing essential oils known for their antibacterial properties,  this ultra-moisturizing, restorative and healing foot salve that will help relieve tension and aching feet.  

Put some pep in your step, revitalize tired, achy feet with this ultra-rich, cooling foot salve that moisturizes, nurtures and helps protects.