During cold winter months our skin tends to dry out, itch and chap. In addition, heaters can remove moisture from the air and our skins suffer even more.  To keep your skin protected from the cold and drying elements, moisturize inside and out.

Carry moisturizer in your purse or brief case. Moisturize whenever you wash your hands. Wear gloves and a hat when you venture outside. Your hair needs protection, too.

Before a shower, smooth oil all over. MoonSong’s Aurora Romantic Massage Oil is rich in skin loving essential oils and Sweet Almond, Apricot Kernel, Hazelnut and Vitamin E carrier oils. A warm olive oil treatment before a shampoo is great for protecting your hair. Moonglo Body Washes are rich in aloe vera and witch Hazel, which moisturize and heal your skin.

Add a few drops of scented oil to warm bath water during winter months. After stepping out of your bath or shower, lightly towel dry then apply lotion all over.

My Moonglo Velvet Skin Body Lotion is rich, natural and contains my special blend of essential oils for aging skin.

If you have flaky winter skin, use a gentle exfoliant such as Moonglo’s Blue Moon Sugar Scrub scented with Lavender essential oil to add a healing touch.

Take care of your beautiful skin and it will take care of you. 

Happy Holidays,

Judith Light

About Aromatherapy

“the way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day,”
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 4th Century B.C.

What’s Aromatherapy? Aromatherapy is the use of aromatic substances to promote vitality and well being. What we use are essential oils. These oils are distilled from seeds, flowers, fruits, leaves, grasses, roots, bark, wood and stems. Make no mistake. They are highly concentrated, up to 70 times stronger than the original plant. If not handled properly, they can cause injury. There are only two that can be directly applied to the skin without being diluted in another “carrier” oil, in a bath salt, lotion or soap, for example. They are Lavender and Tea Tree.

Only 20% of medicinal plants yield essential oils and of those only a small percentage are safe to use in aromatherapy. One of the oils you will find in our Moonglo line is Jasmine essential oil. To give you an idea of what is involved in creating an essential oil, eight million jasmine blossoms are distilled to yield 2.2 pounds of essential oil. Jasmine’s scent is warm, rich, and sensual floral. It has euphoric properties, alleviates depression and anxiety. For dry, mature skin, Jasmine is soothing, healing and moisturizing. This oil is very concentrated and its fragrance can be dominating if not blended carefully. In the perfumer’s world it is considered a middle note. There is a touch of Jasmine in my Morgana’s Glamour Bath Salts and my heart and roses goat's milk & glycerin bar soaps.

Aromatherapy History. Aromatic of essential oils dates back to ancient Egypt, China and India at least 5,000 years ago. In Egypt, Imhotep, physician to King Zoser, recommended massage with aromatic oils. In China calamus root and mugwort leaf were used for hygiene. The sacred Vedas of India refers to aromatics and massage. Indian temples are built of sandalwood because of its meditative scent. The Romans advanced aromatic knowledge which unfortunately was mostly lost during the dark ages. The golden age for aromatics spanned 200 years from the 17th to the 18th century when all doctors and herbalists used essential oils. By the 19th century, advances in chemistry turned medicine from herbal therapy to a reliance on synthetic medicines made only from the active ingredients in plants such as aspirin whose active ingredients come from Birch, Wintergreen and Meadowsweet.

Aromatherapy’s resurgence came about by accident. In 1937 Rene Gattefosse, a cosmetic chemist, burned his hand. Plunging it into the first liquid nearby to quell the pain, he found it was lavender essential oil. The surprise was how fast his skin healed and how little scaring occurred. He began extensive research into the antiseptic and antibiotic properties of essential oils. A World War II surgeon, Dr. Valnet, used essential oils to treat war wounds and continued in his practice. His research was published and he taught other doctors about essential oils’ healing properties. Robert Tisserand of Britain translated Valnet’s book and brought aromatherapy into the mainstream. It is now a complementary holistic medicine approach throughout Europe.