Body Lotion? Ain't
nobody got time for that. Sometimes (or all the time) you are just in a rush,
you just want to hop in the shower, hop out, clothes, hair, face and just get
out.
However you have dry
flaky skin. Its either your skin looking kind of ashy, it seems like there is a
fine white powder on your skin, or perhaps you have dry and pigmented skin at
places where you joints meet, elbow, knuckles, and knees.
You know you have to put
on lotion, but dear god, time is just running of your feet. You use conditioner
on your hair after you shampoo. What? You don't use conditioner? You don't know
it exists? Gasp!!. Well my friends it’s an awesome piece of chemical
engineering that you use after you shampoo. Yes, there are those "all in
one" shampoo where you hair gets cleaned and conditioned at the same time,
but you never have lived until you felt you hair after you apply conditioner.
Holy sweet "what ever you worship in", you never thought your hair
could get this soft and smooth. True, that conditioner is usually for long hair
and heaven sent for those who have curly kinky hair, but trust me, if you can
comb your hair, you would love the baby softness hair conditioner does to it.
This is basically how Nivea In-Shower Body Conditioner do. How does exactly a
lotion that you apply to skin stays on after you wash off..
We are going to do a
little chemistry children, but don't worry, you lived with it during school,
you are going to survive this blog post.
These are the important ingredients in Nivea in Shower Body Lotion works in moisturizing the skin.
Cera
Microcristallina, and Paraffinum Liquidum are a type of petrochemical product
that is normally used in skin products, commonly known as petroleum jelly. These
are what we called as “occlusive”, which forms a film on your skin which blocks
water from evaporating. This causes the skin to feel moisturized. Since you are
in the shower already, you are keeping in all the water in your skin.
Glycerin
is humectants, which will attract and bind water together. It’s a byproduct
from traditional soap making process called saponification, but today’s
detergent based soap, glycerin is added so that the soap will be less drying.
Hydrogenated Coco-Glyceride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Stearyl Alcohol, and Myristyl
Alcohol sounds like a recipe for cocktail but its actually types of
emollients. It’s basically a fatty acid that is found in plants and animals,
but for skin care, we use plant origins. They are supple, wax like, lubricating, thickening agents that prevent water loss and have a softening and soothing effect on the skin. This is one way that you skin feels
nice and smooth after using Nivea In-Shower Body Lotion
Maris
Sal. What? Who? Google this now. Well apparently maris sal is basically dead
sea salt. It’s not just your ordinary table salt which is sodium chloride. There
is a whole other lot of mineral in it. It comes from the infamous Dead Sea, a
sea where the water is so dense with mineral, you just float in it. The ocean
contains 85% sodium chloride, but the Dead Sea contains only 12-18%. Other
minerals that contains in Maris Sal includes silicon dioxide, calcium dioxide,
aluminium dioxide,magnesium dioxide etc. It has a lot of known benefits such as
helping ease common skin ailments such as acne, psoriasis and inflammation.
Whoa.
It blew my mind when I wrote this blog post. Who knew so much science comes
from a product. However it’s always good to find out what are the ingredients
in your product is, especially those that is located in the upper tier of the
list. When you understand what each ingredient do, and where it comes from, you
are more educated and wise when you use a product.
I liked
it a lot actually, even more after I understand how it works. I just don’t have
the time or the diligence to apply body lotion, so an in shower rinses out
product works perfectly.
Another nice touch that Nivea did was to put perfume at the last ingredient on its list. So you are left with a very light “soap like” scent that won’t over power your perfume or your natural body odor.
Another good thing Nivea
did is that it offers this product in two variants. One for normal skin and the
other one is dry. The ingredients are almost similar except that instead of
Maris Sal, the one in the blue bottle which is made for dry skin, contain
almond oil, which is a type of natural emollient. I choose the regular white
bottle because I don’t like to get too moisturize because I sweat very easily.
This is a good product
if you have no time to put on body lotion or you just need an extra coat before
you apply your favorite body lotion.
This is definitely worth
a try.
Take a peak at the Nivea In-Shower Body Lotion video. Its a quirky video with plenty of eye candy, if you like half naked men.
