Melting - Not Something I Want to do Right Now

I think faces melt as we age. I'm not sure why this is, but at some point I noticed that my skin looks like it's going to slide off my face. I look in the mirror and see it happening! When I tell my husband about it, he reminds me that I have distorted vision. I think he is just not paying close enough attention.

Now I'm on a mission to find something that will firm up my skin. I create natural skin products, so surely I can find something that firms skin! I found an article that claimed that raw shea butter firms skin (http://www.thehealthyvillage.com/beauty-care/skin-care/africas-miracle-plant-the-untold-story-of-raw-shea.html). So I bought 150 pounds of raw, unrefined shea butter. Do you know how heavy all that shea butter is? Fifty pounds of it came in a shell thing called a gourd or calabash. This stuff is seriously raw. I wonder if it's enough to make my skin firm. Gee, could this be another obsession sprouting?

I've been thinking about how much better I would look if only I could pull the skin on my jaw tighter, lift the skin on my cheek bones, get rid of the lines on my forehead, and somehow straighten my hair! Well, I have the hair part covered, I got a 2" Chi flat iron and problem is solved. The rest of it isn't so easy.

After a little more consideration, it occurred to me that I am AGING!! Oh NO! Okay, so here's where the 150 pounds of raw shea butter comes in. I'm not going to have cosmetic surgery....yet. I really hate sharp metal objects, but I'm afraid that if this face melt gets bad enough, I may put myself in a position to have to face that fear. Vanity is a tough task master [sigh] . So, my thought is that I'm going to do my best to protect me from my vain self. I have decided to conduct a test using raw shea butter. For the next 30 days, I'm going to use raw shea butter on my face each night. After 30 days, if the skin on my face has become more firm, I'll be adding raw unrefined shea butter to my product list! If not, I'll probably just have really soft skin on my face.

My husband never fails to remind me that as people get older they change, they look different, and they show their age. Well, DUH! I don't want to do that! How hard is that to understand?

I also try to take really good care of all the rest of my skin. I use this African black soap that is natural and made of shea butter. Interestingly, it's very brown and when I use it, it looks like I am putting foaming mud on my skin. My skin is very dry and sometimes it itches so bad that I will scratch my legs until they bleed. Since I have been using the African black soap, the itching and dryness has gotten so much better. It took about a month of using it before I could see and feel the improvement. Now, I carry it as one on of the products available through TRC.

So, back to the current battle which is the battle against face melt. The next 30 days will tell if I've found a way to stop and possibly reverse the melt. I wonder if raw shea butter does anything for weight management...hmmm.....