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Meri
Upstate, NY
Leave Home Without It!
3 star rating

a dry skin sufferer
Pros

    natural

Cons
    very greasy, strong scent

SEP
9
2008

Burt's Bees Hand Salve — 

Burt's Bees products are not tested on animals and are touted to be natural, but,  I find nothing natural about Burt's Bees Hand Salve that leaves you smelling like a Panda Bear's eucalyptus treat.

Available in 3 oz. and 1/3 oz. sizes, this hand salve is a 98% natural.  It's first two ingredients are sweet almond oil and olive oil.  Both of these are natural moisturizers.  Olive oil can smell heavy though so herbs have been added to not only help heal dry skin but to disguise the heavier scent.  This is fine if you are home alone and are just going to slather it on, cover your hands with bed gloves or socks and go to bed because the lavender and eucalyptus leaves you smelling like a sickroom and the salve's base is way too greasy for daytime use.

Use it home alone and always leave home without it.

Ingredients:

prunus amygdalus dulcis (sweet almond) oil, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, beeswax, fragrance, tocopheryl acetate, symphytum officinale (comfrey) root extract, tocopherol, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaves, lavandula angustifolia (lavender) flowers, rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) leaf extract, glycine soja (soybean) oil, canola oil

Last edited on Sep 10, 2008



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alicat8 wrote on Sep 12, 2008 at 9:54PM

I have used a lot of Burt's Bees Products and agree with you about the scent. I have a shampoo and conditioner that make my hair smell for weeks after I use them. I'm a fan of natural products but I think I could do with a little less scent!

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"I garden therefore I have ugly hands"
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