Healthy Ingredients

Earth Goddess Botanicals Oils

Proper skin care includes using the following oils to promote nourishment and moisture for healthy skin.  These oils listed below can also be used in your hair to promote shiny, thick, full bodied hair; massaged into your scalp and hair at least a half an hour before washing your hair.  You may use these oils plain or add an essential oil of your choice for scenting and aromatherapy benefits.

Almond Oil (Sweet)

·  Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, and E

·  Excellent emollient, alleviates dry skin

·  Helps to soothe inflammation

·  Beneficial to relieving the itching due to eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, and scaly skin 

·  Soothes sunburn, eases irritation on baby’s bottom

Avocado Oil

·  Vitamins A, B1, B2, and D

·  Contains minerals potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, sulphur, calcium, sodium, copper

·  A superb emollient

·  High degree of penetration into the epidermis

·  Moisturizing, softening, anti-wrinkle

·  Soothes general skin inflammation

Jojoba Oil

·  Anti-inflammatory, can be beneficial for arthritis and rheumatism

·  Beneficial to dry skin, psoriasis, eczema, sunburn

·  Controls accumulation of excessive sebum and reportedly prevents its build-up

·  Permeates the skin easily and smoothes wrinkles

Macadamia Nut Oil

·  Easily absorbed by the skin, described as the vanishing oil

·  Beneficial to older skin because of the high levels of  palmitoleic acid, which is found in baby skin

What are Pure Essential Oils?

Earth Goddess gourmet soaps are scented with essential oils, plant extracts, flowers and ground spices.   

Essential oils are liquids distilled from plant seeds, bark, leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruits.  To produce pure essential oils requires several hundred pounds or even several thousand pounds of plant material to extract one pound of pure essential oil.  The purest essential oils are extracted from plants that grow in organic soil and are processed using low temperatures, low pressures, and no chemical solvents. 

Essential oils are the re-generating, oxygenating, and immune defense properties of plants.  Essential oils are so small in molecular size that they can quickly penetrate skin tissue.  They are also lipid soluble and are able to penetrate cell walls, and can affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes and are metabolized like other nutrients.  Essential oils contain oxygen molecules which help transport nutrients to human cells deficient in oxygen and also stimulate the immune system. 

The Therapeutic Benefits of Essential Oils

·  Essential oils are powerful anti-oxidants which prevent the oxidation (aging) in cells. 

·  Essential oils are antibacterial and anti microbial and have been proven to destroy bacteria while simultaneously restoring balance to the body. 

· Essential oils have a bio-electrical frequency that is  several times greater than the frequency of herbs, food and even the human body.  Clinical research has shown that essential oils can quickly raise the frequency of the human body restoring it to a normal healthy frequency level. (72 – 90 MHz)  

· Essential oils are aromatic and provide air purification  by removing metallic particles and toxins from the air, increasing atmospheric oxygen, inhibit bacterial  growth, destroy odors from mold, cigarettes and  animals.

How Our Skin Works

Our skin is an organ working hard to rid our body of impurities and absorb light and moisture.  The pores in our skin accept a variety of water and oil-soluble materials.  Our skin absorbs or “eats” everything we place on it into our blood stream.  Since the good and bad enter readily, we must select carefully the products we use.  Our skin acts as a protective barrier, and each toxic exposure damages this barrier and inhibits the skin’s ability to function properly, and benefit our over-all health. 

Many commercial soaps are made from industrial detergents and petroleum-based by-products, which can cause a variety of skin irritations and deposit toxins in your skin and blood stream.

Why Cold-Processed Soaps?

Earth Goddess Botanicals gourmet bars are made with fruit, vegetable, and nut oils cold-processed to create healthy, cleansing, and moisturizing skin care; this means the natural glycerin and the essential fatty acids from the oils are retained in the skin care bars to retain the healing qualities of the plant oils.  Commercial soap makers remove the glycerin from their soaps and sell it separately as a valuable by-product. 

Earth Goddess Botanicals gourmet soaps  contain no detergents, no artificial coloring or preservatives, no animal fats, and no petroleum products.

Why Vegetable, Fruit, and Nut Oils?

Our bodies do not manufacture some fatty acids which are necessary for continued good health, so we must include them in our diet or massage them into our skin.  Certain vegetable, fruit, and nut oils contain   essential fatty acids and there are two of them – linoleic acid and linolenic acids.  These essential fatty acids regulate blood pressure, increase blood flow to the organs and helps reduce blood clots.