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Erase 5 years off your face. JL Blacksoap, Dr. Oz recommended for its moisturizing & anti-aging benefits!
Purest, rawest, most organic African black soap available on the market today. Soaps that are on the shelves in stores around the world today have so many chemicals and unnatural ingredients that aren’t the best for your skin. Chemicals and filler ingredients can be found in your soaps, shampoos, conditioners, hair products, and many other products we depend on everyday. Astute consumers are starting to look to alternatives and want to use more natural products on their bodies. Using natural products like the JL traditional African black soap for example, will benefit everyone in the household health-wise.
8 Ways African Black Soap Benefits the Skin:
- Protects Against Photo Aging: Antioxidants in black soap protect the skin from free radical damage, which is a cause of premature skin aging, wrinkles and facial lines.
- Improves Skin Tone: Black soap firms and tones skin and improves skin texture, for more supple and glowing skin.
- Fades Skin Discolorations: Black soap helps even out and fade brown spots and discolorations.
- Reduces Inflammation and Skin Irritations: Black soap helps reduce inflammation and skin irritations. It is soothing on dry and irritated skin, relieving dry patches, rashes and red areas.
- Helps to Heal Problem Skin: It eases the symptoms of skin conditions like acne. Users have said that black soap helps lessen, treat and clear acne, gets rid of blackheads, psoriasis and eczema.
- Has Deep Cleansing Action: Black soap has antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and is great for deep pore cleansing. It also is effective at removing makeup because of the oils and butters.
- It Alleviates Razor Bumps: It is often used by men during shaving because of the high shea butter content, which protects the skin.
- It’s an Effective Exfoliant: The ashes in black soap provide exfoliating properties to remove dead skin cells and thereby improve fine lines, soften and rejuvenate rough skin.
Extremely high in natural glycerin, vitamins A & E and iron, JL Blacksoap is gentle and vitalizing to your skin. African black soap is considered to be safe and beneficial for all skin types—dry, oily, normal, combination and even sensitive in some cases. Users of JL African black soap have found it to be extremely soothing, beneficial, even healing to the skin.
Cleansing should be done minimally 2x a day, morning and before bed.
Useful Tips for Cleansing with African Black Soap
When using raw African black soap, take the soap apart and knead to make sure there aren’t any jagged edges and rub between hands to work into a lather. If you apply the soap directly to the skin, do so gently, because there could still be particles that can tear the skin.
Washing and rinsing with cool water can help reduce the possibility of stinging and redness. Avoid getting the soap in the eyes.
If you have sensitive or very reactive skin, don’t leave the soap on the skin for a long period of time.
You could experience tingling or a burning sensation in acne areas, open sores and cuts.
If your skin feels squeaky clean afterwards, it means the skin is too dry. Try reducing the amount of soap that you use. A very small amount (the size of a marble) can cleanse the face and neck.
JL Blacksoap is an effective and safe facial and body cleanser. African black soap can also be used as a shampoo because it eliminates stubborn oil and dirt from hair, scalp, and skin, while leaving your hair soft. Although this soap cleans very well, it is safe to use on even the most sensitive skin. Natives would use this soap on newborn babies right after birth. Avoid contact with eyes, lips and mouth.
Safe, gentle with no artificial ingredients, JL Blacksoap is safe to use every day for a moisturizing cleanse and should incorporated into your daily skin care regime for as long as you wish to maintain a glowing more youthful complexion.
JL Blacksoap is completely safe to use for the majority of the population. Should you develop an adverse reaction discontinue use until such reaction subsides. While some find the soap moisturizing, others might find it drying. Skin will react in different ways depending on the individual and the product, especially since black soap is made organically from local ingredients and can vary from batch to batch and can have varying proportions and types of ingredients.
Ordinary store-bought soaps can be too harsh or drying for your skin. African black soap is a gentle, all-natural alternative cleanser made only from plant materials. Proponents of African black soap say it does more than just keep you clean — the suds are packed with skin-loving benefits, too.
KNOW HOW BLACK SOAP WORKS
JL African black soap works by cleansing the skin but without harsh chemicals and is not your regular run-of-the-mill antibacterial grocery store soap. The “authentic” recipe for black soap calls for cocoa pod, roasted plantain skins, palm kernel oil, coconut oil, palm oil and natural sodium. Additional additives like shea or cocoa butter are often added to enhance the soap depending on the manufacturer. Basically, the ash from the plantain skins saponify the oils turning them into soap unlike traditional soap that uses sodium hydroxide.
When you first pick up the soap, you’ll notice that it’s firm but not hard like traditional soaps and if you drop it, it will easily crumble into large chunks. When you wash with it, black soap goes to work by penetrating the skin to remove impurities. It does not remove existing acne, instead it helps to prevent excessive oil production and bacterial growth which help to create acne in the first place. Because of this, when you use black soap you may experience “purging” where it seems like your skin is getting worse. Afterwards your skin will be very clear and vibrant as black soap also helps to fade dark marks from the iron, vitamin A and vitamin E it contains.
Key Ingredients:
Coconut oil- For skin it is a moisturizer, antibiotic, multivitamin, multi-nutrient, nourishing, anti-aging, anti wrinkle and anti-oxidant – All in one! And it is completely natural too! Coconut oil contains mostly fats, so it acts as an emollient for your skin – it provides a softening and soothing effect. As an added bonus, coconut oil further improves the quality and appearance of skin since it helps eliminate dead skin cells. Coconut oil nourishes the skin and helps prevent premature aging and degenerative diseases due to its remarkable properties.
Palm oil & Palm kernel oil- Palm oil contains the hard to find toctrienols, which are members of the vitamin E family..Vitamin E is a strong antioxidant that helps the skin to fight free radicals that damage the skin and cause fine lines and wrinkles. A stronger antioxidant than tocopherols, toctrienols have been proven to be more effective in preventing aging and damage from free radicals. Used topically, as with tocopherol, toctrienols are able to penetrate deep into the skin’s layers to enable healing and protection from the base up.
Raw shea butter- Shea butter is really incredible as long as you are getting the real deal. The Karite Shea tree grows in Africa. There is a big difference between raw or unrefined shea butter versus refined shea butter, raw shea butter is going to be the purest, most natural, least processed and most effective. The two most natural ways to extract the unrefined shea butter is by hand or an expeller. This keeps all the vitamins, minerals and other natural properties of the shea butter intact, making it very beneficial. The benefits of raw shea butter-the kind used in JL Blacksoap, are that it can be used as a superior moisturizer with all natural vitamin A, an anti-inflammatory, a minor sunscreen agent (up to SPF 6), and it also reduces wrinkles (studies show skin improvement in 4-6 weeks with daily use).
Cocoa butter- lubricates and protects the skin and also helps to fade scars. The skin has three layers. Cocoa butter penetrates the top layer of the skin called the epidermis. The cocoa butter can also reach the dermis, the middle layer. It is very effective for lubricating dry skin. This natural moisturizer also softens the skin. “cocoa butter is an excellent emollient that is well absorbed by the skin. Its incredibly high content of vitamin E is responsible for its beneficial properties.” Vitamin E is proven to help with skin renewal and repair. Cocoa butter is also an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect the skin from free radicals or toxins that damage tissues at the cellular level. Cocoa butter is frequently recommended for eliminating stretch marks and other scars. Many people believe that cocoa butter has helped to reduce their scars. Even some plastic surgeons have advised their patients to use cocoa butter on surgical scars.
Shea tree bark ash, Cocoa pods ash, Plantain ash-the distinctive color and texture is rooted in the way the soap is made, which starts with plantains, a more robust version of a banana. Plantains are rich in essential nutrients and oils —an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin E and iron which are great for nourishing & vitalizing the skin.
Ingredients: Coconut oil,palm oil, palm kernel oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, shea tree bark ash, cocoa pods ash, plantain ash, water
NO chemicals, NO animal fats, NO preservatives, NO colorants or color enhancers and NO fragrances added to our Pure-Raw African Black Soap!
