Entries RSSWind and cold are not nice to our skin. No problem if you’re the Marlboro man. But I’d like to look good even if I’ve been outside having fun year round. It’s been a hard winter here in the Chicago area, probably the snowiest and coldest since I moved here 16 years ago. But I’ve tried to keep riding my bike to work as much as possible and I knew I needed some protection that wasn’t petroleum-based. I’m all for keeping bees gainfully employed, so I picked up a tin of Burt’s Bees Miracle Salve. It’s a blend of pumpkin seed oil, olive oil, wheat germ oil, bee pollen, and bee’s wax.
It’s really nice for face and hair on cold days, but I’d recommend removing it from your face once you’re inside if you tend to break out. It really came to my rescue, though, on my hands. They tend to split and crack at the finger tips in cold weather, no matter how diligently I apply hand lotions. Slathering some of this Miracle Salve on under a coat of regular lotion really healed up cracked skin and kept it healthy, despite repeated hand-freezing on my bike or shoveling the many inches of snow we’ve gotten. It’s great stuff!
Burt’s Bees Miracle Salve 2 oz. tin, $7.00 msrp. Available online at www.burtsbees.com and many health food and natural product stores. I found my tin at Target.
