But! Luck (or not) was on my side about a month ago when I found some dry skin on the heel of my foot, I knew this was my chance to try Ultrabalm.
With only three ingredients in this product, it's as natural as you're going to get. The jojoba oil is the ingredient that gives Ultrabalm it's moisturising and hydrating properties, candelilla wax is the vegan alternative for beeswax and it acts as a barrier to make sure that the jojoba oil stays on your dry skin. The third and final ingredient is rose wax and this helps soothe and calm irritated, dry or sensitive skin, it can also help reduce redness.
This is Lush's version of Vaseline but where with Vaseline you can use it on your lips, I do not recommend this with Ultrabalm. This was the first ever thing I used Ultrabalm for. I got a tiny amount on my finger and massaged it into my lips. No. No. No. The texture was so odd for my lips and I felt like it's not a smell that I would want hanging around underneath my nose all day. It's also very very greasy, so it didn't do anything for my lips at all.
As I just mentioned, this is a very greasy product so you do not need a lot for it to do it's job. After I had realised that it wasn't good as a lip balm, I tried it on the balls of my feet where I had some dry skin. Again, I put a little bit of the product on and over the course of the week, I noticed that my feet were much more moisturised and the dry skin and gone.
Success!
I then tried it on the palms of my hands. I work in retail and handling clothes every day and dusty rails doesn't do wonders for my hands. A week later, I got the same result for my hands as I did with my feet. My hands felt softer and the dry, peeling skin had pretty much completely disappeared.
The last thing that I tried it for was sun-damaged skin. Silly me spent a whole day out in the sun reading and didn't put sun-cream on so for a week, I was in agonising pain and my back was peeling. I applied Ultrabalm to my peeling skin. It took a little longer for it to work for sun-damaged skin as there was a lot of damage! But after about 10 days, Ultrabalm had helped add the moisture back into my skin; to help get rid of the peeling, I used Rough With The Smooth body scrub. These two products made a great team is sorting out my stupidness.
For the price of £9.95, it may sound like a lot for a 45g tin but honestly? Ultrabalm has soothed my skin so many times, the best time being when I had sunburn. I have only mentioned three times where I have used the product, if I had named all of them then this post would be very very long. It can be good for little cuts or scrapes as the candelilla wax acts as a barrier for dirt as well and Ultrabalm can also be good for stings - whether it's a bee or nettle - as the rose wax is soothing.
It might sound expensive but this product can do everything - apart from act as a lip balm! - and from the looks of things, this product is going to last me a very long time! It's a good job that it's self-preserving!
Description on Lush:
This is a very simple but effective formula, with just three moisturising ingredients. Pop this anywhere that feels really dry for instant relief: chapped lips or hard skin such as elbows, or use to tame lashes and eyebrows, brighten up tattoos, or to protect your skin when you're dyeing your hair. Perfect for carrying in your bag or on your holidays.
Ingredients:
Organic Jojoba Oil, Candelilla Wax, Rose Wax
Price:
£9.95/45g
Vegan:
Yes
Rating:
xoxo
Kirsty
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