Chicago, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/19/2011 -- Mercola.com founder and natural health expert, Dr. Joseph Mercola, warns against “health-compromising” chemical ingredients in some skin care products in the market today.
“If you can’t read or pronounce the ingredients, there’s a high likelihood it should not be in your lotion or skin care product. It is well-proven that when you apply these chemicals to your skin, they enter your bloodstream and become integrated into your body tissues,” Dr. Mercola said.
Dr. Mercola reveals eight key ingredients for “ageless skin” and natural beauty enhancement:
1. Organic Shea Butter. An all-natural vitamin A cream from West Africa, shea butter is used as a superior skin moisturizer. Unlike petroleum-based moisturizers, it restores your skin’s natural elasticity.
2. Organic Cocoa Butter. “In many ways, cocoa butter is the ultimate moisturizer -- helping increase hydration, decrease skin roughness and scaling, and support UV damage control from overexposure to the sun,” explained Dr. Mercola. German scientists attribute the benefits of cocoa butter to flavonols, compounds in cocoa that have been shown to improve blood flow and vessel function.
3. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil. It protects against formation of damaging free radicals while protecting skin from aging signs, blemishes, and overexposure to sunlight.
4. Organic Jojoba Oil. Used by Native Americans speed up healing of scratches and minimize scarring, jojoba oil is a long-chain wax ester that functions like sebum. Sebum retains moisture in your skin and keeps it smooth and elastic.
5. Organic Murumuru Butter. Growing in the Amazon Basins, murumuru has lipids that intensely hydrate and moisturize your skin by supporting the integrity of the cutaneous barrier.
6. Organic Rice Bran Extract. Stabilized rice bran is rich in vitamins and minerals and contains over 100 known antioxidants. Its extract functions like an emollient in personal care products and have been used by the Japanese as a skin and hair beauty enhancer.
7. Organic Palm Oil. Minimally processed palm oil contains phytonutrients, including phytosterols, squalene, CoQ10, and mixed carotenoids. It boasts of significant amounts of tocotrienols, an “extremely potent form of vitamin E.”
8. Organic Aloe Vera Juice. Aloe vera offers “a smorgasbord of health benefits,” including skin soothing, immune support and function, collagen and elastin production, vitamins, minerals, and amino acid body-building blocks.
All these natural ingredients are found in Dr. Mercola’s Organic Body Butter, a USDA-certified organic body butter that works as a hand and body cream and facial moisturizer. It is available in unscented, lavender, and sweet orange varieties.
Enjoy Free Shipping and Handling on your entire order and a free stick of Unscented Lip Balm valued at $4.97 when you buy a 3-Pack of Organic Body Butter from January 19 – 22, 2011. Free shipping and handling applies to Continental US and Canada orders only. See all Mercola products.
*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
About Mercola.com
Mercola.com is the world's most visited natural health website, averaging 14 million visitors monthly. It was founded in 1997 by Dr. Joseph Mercola, a licensed physician and surgeon in the state of Illinois and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers. Dr. Mercola was voted the 2009 Ultimate Wellness Game Changer by the Huffington Post, and has been featured in TIME magazine, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, the Today Show, CBS’s Washington Unplugged with Sharyl Attkisson, The Dr. Oz Show, The Doctors, and other major media resources. His mission is to ignite a transformation of the fatally flawed health care system in America, and to inspire people to take control of their health.