Posted by: beautyknot on: November 13, 2009

Now I only trust shea butter and cacao butter for ultra nourishment. My original intention to purchase Jergens shea butter cream is aim for hand care rather than body care. Jergens is relatively expensive to me as a drugstore brand, but that is undeniable they have satisfactory quality.

The cream is thick and emollient, like a butter or balm, thus it take a short while to be absorb properly, meaning that it is actually quite greasy in the beginning. The sweet cacao scent is over powering to me initially but I get used to it now (I have to). Most of the time, I use this as hand cream, it had not done better than Skin Food Cacao Hand Balm for my extra ‘thirsty’ hands, but budget hand care for day treat since I have to wash my hands frequently.

For body use, I usually mix the cream with Clarins body treatment oil for supreme moisturizing treat in dry season, the approach dilute the strong sweet chocolate scent (but my SO said the combination’s scent smell weird which I don’t think so) and make the cream more runny to spread on skin.
This is not helpful to soften hard nail cuticles nor heal the hard spots, but good enough for moisturizing, that’s why I still need a proper hand cream at night, but I will continue to re-purchase this for day use. It retails 288 baht for 221ml in Thailand.
Rating: ….)))
Good. Willing to buy again.
Ingredients:
Water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Cetearyl Alcohol, Petrolatum, Glycerin, Ceteareth-7, Ethylhexyl Isononanoate, Stearic Acid, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cyclopentasiloxane, Octyldodecyl Myristate, Dimethicone, Cetyl Esters, Mineral Oil, DMDM Hydantoin, Sodium Hydroxide, Fragrance, Carbomer, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.