Oil me up, baby

Don't worry, it's not what you think - you cheeky little monkey. This is not a post about natural female body building and my particitation (or lack there of) in it. Hey, whatever floats your boat right?

No, not really - just kidding with your lovely selves. It is instead a post about the rate at which I have lately been slathering my person with oils of differing varieties (ie. a rate of absolute knots!) I'm not sure what first attracted me towards moisturising with a body oil rather than a traditional cream moisturiser, perhaps it was the fact that the near freezing weather down here in the south east of South Australia (wow, that's a lot of south and just a tad of east) has quite rapidly been turning my skin into a gigantic flakey nightmare, or perhaps it was the realisation that I had run out of every creamy moisturiser that I currently have lined up on my bedside table except for the Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Natural Bronze Body Lotion ($12.95) which I didn't feel was quite appropriate considering the gloomy grey skies outside.

So, long story short I reached for my trusty Trilogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil ($35.95 for 45mL) which I realise is not strictly an oil designed for moisturising the entire body but I figured it's such a versatile little winner of a product that it would do the trick, and I was indeed (uncharacteristically) right! Yay! Here's what it looks like in my garden if you were wondering:

It did indeed leave my skin lovely and moisturised, or moisture-ful if you will, and as a little bonus the pesky little stretch marks that we all love to hate were noticably less noticable as well! The only problem I can see with using this as a full-time all-over body moisturiser is that after 3 weeks I had nearly finished an entire 45mL bottle (now that's a lot of oil) and at $35.95 a pop it might not be entirely cost-effective for those of us who are on a bit of a tight budget. But you know this rosehip oil will always be a part of my life as it's just such rich, organic, wonderful product.

So, I was of course so enamoured with the moisturising potential of a bit of oil that I went down to my local fish and chip shop and asked if i could bathe in their deep fryer. No not really (oh, so many jokes today), but I did however pop down to Priceline on my weekend visit to Adelaide and pick up a little bottle of Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Moisturizing Body Oil ($10.60). I was actually looking for the Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Skin Therapy Oil ($9.95) which is available in cocoa butter and rosehip and you can see reviewed on beautyhaven here, but since it was no where to be seen I thought I'd give the body oil a go, which you can also see here in my garden:

Although it doesn't feel quite as nice as the Trilogy oil it does absorb into the skin very easily (once you get the hang of not squirting too much out and thus ending up in a big oily mess) and leaves it nice and moisturised without feeling like you're all oily. It also smells like chocolate - kind of like a less pungent but more chocolatey version of the smell of the Cocoa Butter Formula Lotion ($7.40) - if that makes any sense at all. So yes, oil seems to be a big winner when it comes to giving the old skin sheets a massive moisture hit especially given their tendency towards winter flakiness. Hoorah!