Unless you use the cream up very fast, if you use water you need a perservative. Just my .02 cents worth. I've had very dry skin since birth. I've been using whipped shea butter. I also make a soap that uses shea butter. It's about the best thing I've seen for it so far. Jojoba oil is actually a wax, btw. I use six ounces of shea butter whipped together with 4 oxs safflower oil or sunflower oil. If using safflower, be sure it has vitiman e in it. Vitimin e is a perservative of sorts. Safflower is really light, feels good on the skin, but has a short shelf life if it doesn't contain the Vit E. This "butter" uses no water, so it doesn't need a perservative. It's one of the reasons I like it. You can substitute any oil. I have a recipe for cream that does use a perservative, that uses MSM and Emu oil and menthol. There isn't really a good substitute for Emu oil for the transdermal properties that it has. That combination virtually eliminates arthritic pain.
As always, I wouldn't go without my soap with Shea butter and my whipped shea butter. If you all want further instructions on how to whip it, just let me know, and I'll tell you how to do it. Roxanne -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
