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January makes us itchy...

Posted by Barbara Lynn Cantone on January 22, 2011 0 Comments

January all too often feels like an emotional desert. 

The holiday festivities have ended. Spring is at least eight weeks away. The days are short and our desire to stay in a warm, comfortable bed can easily be at odds with the daily ring of the alarm clock.

Here in New York City, it's cold. The streets are covered in ice and snow and salt. Most of us spend our days climbing over drifts and running out of biting temperatures into the nearest warm sanctuary where the heat is blasting though clanking, old pipes. 

Traversing those drifts and alternately breathing cold air and dry heat can make us feel achy. Tired. And it can give us extraordinarily dry and itchy skin.

Let us offer you some relief: Parched is the perfect antidote for that winter sandpaper skin and those tired, achy bones. Dead Sea salt soothes muscles. Colloidal oatmeal and German chamomile calms redness and irritation. Palmarosa oil hydrates and promotes healthy skin function. Lavender soothes the senses and brings about a sense of well-being. (And it's antibacterial to boot!)

We recently sent some samples of Parched to plus.lily.makes.three, the online creation of New York mom and blogger, Maria Colaco. Maria is a professional dancer and choreographer with her own modern dance company, Maria Colaco Dance. If there's anyone who knows about fighting winter stress, it's Maria. She summarized her experience as follows:

The salts really do get rid of all that nasty dry dull skin and when you wash it off and soak, you are left with a nice soft glow.

You can read her full review here.

Thank you, Maria, for reminding us that fifteen minutes can take you from desert to oasis.