Watkins Shea Butter and Petro-Carbo Salve

Before I give my review of the Shea butter and PetroCarbo salve....I need to tell you how much I love the "look" of all the Watkins products. I'm a sucker for pretty packages, and Watkins has some seriously pretty packaging going on.

Lavender Shea Butter:


I live in Utah. It's dry. The winters are cold. I also wash my hands a lot all day long. My hands are a wreck--dry, itchy, cracks on my knuckles and fingers. I get these deep little cracks to the side of my fingernails that just ache and throb.

I'm always on the lookout for lotions and creams to fix my sore, dry hands. I've mostly stuck to lotions containing petroleum and similar ingredients. Shea butter is actually something I've tried before, but not recently.

The first thing that got my attention about the Lavender Shea Butter was the intense fragrance. I heart lavender. When I buy something that says it's going to smell like lavender, I want it to smell like lavender. This Shea butter did. The smell is intoxicating in a very good way.

Just for comparison, my husband and I trekked over to a local store that carries a lot of natural beauty products and took a look around to see if we could find anything comparable. (And truthfully...to see if they carried Watkins products so we could instantly have another tube of shea butter. We haven't shared it very well.)

Anyway, we couldn't find anything that we liked as much or that came close to the quality of Watkins' Shea butter. My hands were much better even after one application of the Shea butter. I'm anxious to try out the other fragrances as well. (It also comes in Aloe & Green Tea, Mango, Vanilla, and Lemon Cream.)

The Shea butters are available in a 140 gram jar or 95 gram tube. (The jar is the better deal.)

Verdict: We're thinking we may need to order jars by the dozen.
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Petro-Carbo Salve:



My mom LOVES Petro-Carbo Salve. When I called to tell about the great stuff Linda sent me, she asked if I'd tried the PCS. (She even had some in her desk at work--I kid you not. My mom's always prepared.)

Apparently my grandmother always had this on hand, too. (And she also only used Watkins products in her home--spices, home remedies, etc. This I didn't know. But, I'm not surprised.)

The smell of PCS took me right back to my childhood. It has a great scent. But more than that--it really helped repair the cracks on my fingers. I stuck it in my diaper bag so I can be prepared, too.

You can buy it in either a small, travel size (9 gram) or a larger (124 gram) tin.

Verdict: My home will never be without this again.