During our long cold Alaskan winters my skin suffers from the dry air. I have very dry skin, and it becomes so dry my hands actually hurt. My legs get flaky and my heels and fingers feel like sandpaper.
I have used many different creams, lotions and body butters, looking for the perfect product that will be the answer to my dry skin problem.
Fig Body Butter is made by Korres , and the 7.95 ounce tube is expensive, around $30. It is also available in a smaller travel sized tube (1.69 ounces) if you want to give it a try without spending a lot of money.
I have come to the conclusion that when one finds a great moisturizer, it is worth the price. I’d rather have a tube or two of expensive moisturizers that work than I would a basket full of lotions and creams that don’t.
I don’t just buy any kind of body moisturizers, they have to meet my criteria for ingredient integrity. I prefer to use products that contain no petrochemical ingredients, parabens , propylene glycol, chemical fragrances, dyes, and other chemical or man made ingredients.
Korres Fig Body Butter is free of these! It contains no sulfates, synthetic dyes, petrochemicals, phthalates , and GMO’s . The only negative I can say about the ingredients is that they do not list them as being organic.
This is a luxuriously thick body butter, and it is the first body butter that I’ve seen packaged in a tube rather than a wide mouth jar. It has a very unique scent that is earthy and slightly fruity, and the scent will stay on the body for several hours. It’s a subtle scent that isn’t bothersome, and I am fussy about the scented products I will use. I wasn’t even sure what a fig scent would smell like, but this one really is pleasant and soothing to the senses.
Like most body butters I have used, this one is also quite greasy, but it does absorb into the skin easily. The tube states that it is an “Extra moisturizing cream for dry skin conditions. The bottle also reads “From the first homeopathic pharmacy of Athens, George Korres , scientist, combined nature with science to develop products that are skin compatible, environment-friendly, joyful and effective.
Not only does this body butter work well on hands, (albeit a bit greasy), it works well on elbows and heels too. It is very thick, similar to Avon Moisture Therapy in the white colored tube. It leaves the skin soft and moisturized.
Depending on how dry your skin is,you might notsee results the first time you use it, but after a few daysyour skinshould besoft, smooth and very healthy looking. Dry skin tends to age my hands, which are the only part of my body that gives away my age. The Korres Fig Body Butter helps plump up the skin and hide those tell tale wrinkles that are magnified by dry skin.
If you are looking for a natural, luxurious body butter, and you are willing to pay a bit more for it, I would recommend Korres Fig Body Butter. The tube goes a long way, and it really does work on very dry skin.
Ingredients
Water, Cetearyl Alcohol, Sweet Almond Oil, Glycerin, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Sunflower Seed Oil, Coco- Caprylate / Caprate , Squalane , Dicaprylyl Ether, Shea Butter, Avocado Oil, Cetearyl Glucoside , Ceteareth -33, Fragrance, Butylene Glycol, Xanthan Gum, Phenoxyethanol , Benzyl AlcoholImidazolidinyl Urea, Potassium Sorbate , Lactic Acid, PEG-8, Alcohol, Tocopherol , PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Ascorbyl Palmitate , Fig Fruit Extract, Grape Seed Extract, Ascorbic Acid, and Citric Acid.
