Wicked Winter Weather, and How to Maintain Moist Healthy Skin

Brrrrr, It’s cold, the wind torments us, and our skin feels like its been sanded with 20 grit sandpaper. How in the world do you escape this feeling? It’s well documented that during the winter months the moisturizer level in the air goes down, our skin feels itchy and just loses more and more moisture. It’s time to fight back against mother nature and take matters into our own hands, literally. Here are a few vital tips that will help stave off old man winter, the blahs, and keep your skin beautiful for what promises to be a wonderful spring, in two or three months. First: Soak away those winter blues with one of our aromatherapy mineral salt soak. Our high mineral in our concentrated salts fees your skin the over 70 trace minerals and elements that our skin so badly needs, scented with the perfect amount of pure essential oils, your soak can either relax, stimulate, and help your mind heal itself from the daily winter attacks. With six scents to choose from or our all natural un-scented salt soaks, you can choose the mood. Next, moisturize, moisturize, moisturize, your skin day and night. Don’t use any moisturizer or lotion that has water as its main ingredient, it wont last and you will feel and be dry faster than ever. All of our moisturizers and lotions start with pure organic aloe juice, helping to heal and moisturizer the way you should. Be moist, be happy, beat Old Man Winter at his own game, and do it at 10% off our regular prices. Use the code LH006 when checking out… You wont regret it….Beautiful skin naturally.

JOJOBA OIL as a ingredient for skincare products

There are as many ingredients in products as there are products in the world today. What I thought would be important over the next few posts would be to talk about the ingredients we use and why.  Many people  to this day forget to turn the jar around and read what the ingredient list is, and if you do, Its alomost imposible to understand what the words are. I’d like to break it down, make it a little more simple to understand. We never hide our ingredients, and we never will.

One of our super ingredients is JOJOBA OIL..pronounced hohoba. First off, we only use 100% pure pesticide-free golden jojoba oil. It is processed in accordance with organic standards. It is pesticide, fungicide, and herbicide-free. So, dang good stuff. So what is jojoba oil and why use it in skincare products? Great question.

Simply, jojoba is actually a liquid wax derived from a jojoba seed. (Simmondsia chinensis) The molecular structure of jojoba oil is the closest to our own skin’s sebum, which allows it to be easily absorbed and to restore the skins natural oil balance without clogging pores. jojoba oil is non-allergenic and can be used on the most sensitive skin. Because jojoba oil will penatrate the skin, it is able to helps  the skin retain moisture, keeping it supple and beautiful. Jojoba oil contains alpha, delta, and gamma tocopherols, all natural forms of the anti-oxidant, Vitamin E. Jojoba oil has other benifits that help skin, including antibacterial. anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-viral and free-radical fighting properties. Some have claimed that Jojoba oil is the best all around moisturizer and skin helper outer there is. We love it and use it in our Moisturizing body oil, our professional grade massage oil, our Facial moisturizer,  and our Hair finishing serum. You will always find that we use only the best ingredients, and make the finest skin, body, and haircare products available.

Inch Loss Wrap

Inch loss wrapLet’s face it. There are plenty of us who are working hard and trying to exercise and lose a little or a lot. And then we hit the wall. It’s very hard to stay motivated and keep working when this happens. Well, we at Ojavan have that little something that can keep you motivated and moving forward. We have developed an inchloss wrap with our Ganabe essential oil and Mineral Mud from the Great Salt Lake. It is becoming available at a number of Spa’s and Wellness centers, and we will have a home version ready within a few weeks. This wonderful internal and external  detoxifying wrap works with any type of body. Our results have been on highly athletic women and well as others who are working to just lose some inches and keep it off. Results have been from a 17 inch overall loss to a 5 inch loss. This process will help pull the toxins from the body and really cleanse you. The Mineral Mud tightens the skin to a beautiful glow. please clik on this link to see the results. One more way to be green, and Feed your Skin

It’s Tough being a little guy

Why do we have a hard time believing in skincare products and companies today? Is it because many have lied to us over the years? Is it because the claims they make are shallow? What about all the man-made harmful chemicals? It would be easy to list many more problems and become part of the nay-sayers club. But you know what? Ojavan doesn’t want to be that way. We are a small company with one main goal, and that is to simply be honest, and forthright with what we sell and the products we carry.  There are a number of small honest companies out there with great products, but not a great deal of money to do the kind of advertising that they need to become profitable and to grow like they would like to. Ojavan is really in that same boat. Until people give us a chance, try the products, nothing happens. That’s why us “small” companies blog, Facebook, twitter, etc. Just hoping for that break to happen where we can be a great help to the people that want products that work, and are not harmful to the skin and body. This post is a big THUMBS UP to all the little guys and gals that are trying to make a difference out there. We salute you and are right there

A beautiful look of where our products come from

behind you. The world just celebrated the 7th billion  person being born. There are lots of people to talk to and share our stories with. Keep up the good work. Lets make this world a better and safer place to live, eat, raise a family, and just sit back and enjoy what the world gives us. Thanks, thanks to all who try just a little more.

Why a Bath can be good for you

Soyala, (meaning: Time of Winter Solstice, Hopi)

In today’s world we always seem to be is  a rush. Hurry, hurry, hurry, seems to be the watch word. We no longer take the time to “stop and smell the roses.” Well, here is a good reason to do just that. Stop, take a little time for you, after all you deserve it. One more thing, it’s going to be good for you and your skin. As stated before, our skin is the largest organ on or in the body, and sometimes its the most abused. If you have been reading the posts about trace minerals and elements you know how bad our body needs them to function properly. Well here is a chance to help your skin get what it needs to stay healthy and young-looking, while giving your mind and body the rest and rejuvenation it sorely needs. Just a few ounces of one of our salts in your bath water once or twice a week, will help feed your skin the trace minerals and elements it needs.  The pure essential oils we use will work holistically to enhance your desired mood. Plus we have a bonus in each and every one of our salts, a crystal from the earth that will add to your bathing and holistic experience. All of this works in harmony to detoxify your body and prepare you for life. And above all, you deserve the break. It’s time to have your own Ojavan experience. You will want more. I promise you.

Trace Minerals & Elements

 

Our Factory

Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus pauling has stated, “You can trace every sickness, every disease, every aliment to mineral deficiency.” If that is the case then we, as people should be looking for ways to ad these all important trace minerals and elements to our bodies. This ia an area where Ojavan can help. Our Npato, (meaning Radiant, in Sioux) Mineral Mud is created as the healing waters of the Great Salt Lake expand and evaporate allowing the minerals and salt to be absorbed into the mud below. This natural fusion of Great Salt Lake water and shoreline mud contains over 70 trace minerals and elements essential to healthy skin. The mineral mud is hand harvested and re-infused with concentrated GSL mineral water that natural processes have aged to perfection over crystal beds. By using this mud as a face or body mask you, cleanse the skin and remove impurities, you help heal the skin tissue, improve your blood circulation, it has anti aging benifits because of the trace minerals and elements. It detoxifies and tones the skin, and helps restore the skins pH balance.  This mineral mud helps in alleviating a variety of skin conditions including, acne, psoroasis, eczema, and dry or oily skin.  Why wait? Now is the time to star towards having the best skin possible.

Trace Minerals & Elements 2

As early as 480 BC Euripides in Iphigena in Tauris wrote, “The sea heals man’s illnesses”. Now flash forward a few thousand plus years. With all the research by scientists we now know that “sea” water or “inland sea” water contains the same trace minerals and elements that the human body has, only in a much more concentrated amount than that of the human body. Our bodies contain about 4% of these trace minerals and elements, But they activate such things as, building blocks of enzymes and hormones, equalizing pH, digestion, growth, and tissue regeneration, to name a few. They are indispensable for optimal functioning of a healthy body. With our body, and the visual part being the skin, researchers have found that when trace minerals and elements are absent, the epidermis loses its structure, or our skin begins to look wrinkled. and we say yech! Also, skin becomes fragile because of these deficiencies and offers an ideal terrain for the appearance of various disorders, like acne, psoriasis, eczema, dry skin and more. When trace minerals and elements are present, cohesion between cells is visible. Skin is strong and completely healthy, and many of the visual symptoms simply disappear. Tomorrow we discuss, how to re-infuse your skin with the trace minerals and elements we so need.