Essentials For Summer Living
Moondrop Herbals has your essential items covered for outdoor living: Bug repellent, travel aids, and skin care offering protection and healing from sun and stings.
Many of the products listed below do ♥double duty so you can pack lighter for hiking, camping, and day trips with the kiddos. Best of all they’re all nature friendly, toxic free, and biodegradable.
BONUS! For those who love the beach but don’t care for the questionable ingredients in sunscreen, scroll to the end of this article for an easy recipe that protects, heals, promotes tanning, and prevents peeling!
Time & Travel Synergy Pulse Point Blend | ♥ Triple Duty (fights fatigue, soothes the tummy, + relieves stuffiness)
Ingredients: Fractionated coconut oil and essential oils of organic lime peel, peppermint, ginger, and vetiver.
What It Does: Fights travel fatigue and nausea with calming, soothing and grounding essential oils. Can temporarily relieve sinus congestion and is stimulating to the brain, helping to revive your sensibilities.
Directions: Shake gently before each use. Remove cap and roll on pulse points of wrists, neck, elbows and back of knees. You also can simply inhale the aroma from the bottle taking several slow, deep breaths. Alternatively, I have rolled this into my hands and cupped them over my nose and mouth for inhalation purposes to relieve congestion and clear mental fog. External Use Only.
.35 fluid ounce roll on bottle | $12.95
Aloe Vera Gel | ♥ Double Duty (healer + light moisturizer)
Ingredients: 99.7% cold-pressed, organic aloe vera stabilized with sorbic and ascorbic acids, and thickened with seaweed alginate. (NOTE: aloe in the big box stores contain very little aloe, lots of chemicals, dyes, and synthetic preservatives.)
What It Does: Pure Aloe vera is soothing to sunburned skin and contains properties that can begin healing damaged skin on the spot. Keep it in your cooler at the beach and apply often. If you have very oily or overly sensitive skin and you find moisturizers too heavy or harsh, aloe will give you plenty of protection and healing properties to relieve irritation from sunburn, minor rashes, and insect bites. It can help restore skin pH and contains antiseptic properties.
Directions: Use as is for a light moisturizer or apply often to sunburned skin and other minor irritations, burns, bites and blemishes. Apply one-two tablespoons through wet, damp, or dry hair for a light holding or styling gel.
8 fluid ounces | $8.50
Gentle Skin Cleanser | ♥ Double Duty (all-body wash + shampoo)
Contains: No lye, sulfates, dyes, synthetic preservatives or fragrances.
Ingredients: Purified water, decyl polyglucose (renewable source, earth friendly), vegetable glycerin, citric acid, xanthan gum, and essential oils of tea tree and lavender
What It Does: This gentle, non-drying cleanser is an all-body and face wash that can even be used as shampoo in a pinch, or to save room in your travel bag. Lavender and tea tree essential oils contribute to the antiseptic and skin soothing quality of this cleanser. It is biodegradable and a safer alternative for use in lakes and streams when camping.
Directions: It is recommended to dilute with 50 – 67% purified water and use with a self-foaming container but can be used full strength with a standard pump or squirt bottle. External use only.
4 fluid ounces |$7.95
16 fluid ounces | $21.95
Skin Care Repair Moisturizing Serum | ♥ Double Duty (moisturizer + sun shield)
Ingredients: *Aloe vera, *apricot kernel oil, *castor oil *hemp Seed oil, *red raspberry seed oil, sea buckthorn oil, and essential oils of *lavender, *geranium, and ho wood. (*Organic ingredient)
What It Does: This light serum administers vitamins, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids, and cell-regenerating properties to precious skin while providing protection from everyday environmental elements such as sun and airborne toxins. Use as part of your daily skin care regimen.
Directions: Apply to clean damp skin. Shake bottle & Spritz twice into clean hands and gently massage into face using small circular motions. Best used within four months. External Use Only.
2 fluid ounces | $17.00
Tone & Soothe | Choose one of four blends for your type.
Ingredients: *Aloe vera (stabilized with sorbic and ascorbic acids and thickened with an *distillates, *extracts, *vegetable glycerin, *grain alcohol, and *essential oils . (*Organic ingredient)
What It Does: Choose from Healing, Balancing, Sensitive, or Mature skin type. A light, non-drying astringent containing aqua-distillates and extracts which aid in cell regeneration and firming of the top layers of skin. Aloe vera offers both healing and protection from environmental elements and is cooling and nourishing.
Directions: Spritz small amount into hands, pat & smooth into still damp skin. Moisturize directly after if necessary. Suitable for all Skin types. External Use Only.
2 fluid ounces | $14.00
Do. Not. Bug Me! | Original or Aromatic Scent | Water Based Spray or Lotion
What It Does: Free of toxic chemicals, these excellent natural products contain essential oils that are naturally bug repellent and can deter mosquitoes, black flies, and ticks. If you’re camping or hiking in the woods I suggest using the lotion on exposed parts before setting out and taking the spray version along in your backpack to apply as needed.
Directions: Apply as needed to non-sensitive skin areas, avoiding face. Spray version should not stain most clothing but avoid delicate fabrics. Not for use on infants and toddlers. External use only.
Water-based Spray Ingredients: Distilled water, *witch hazel extract, *vegetable glycerin, and pure essential oils (*organic ingredient).
4 fluid ounces | $8.95
Lotion Base Ingredients: Aqua, cetearyl alcohol & ceteareth-20, glycerin, sunflower seed oil, shea butter, glyceryl mono- stearate, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, cetyl alcohol, phenoxetol, vitamin e, sodium citrate, and carbomer. Additives: Organic aloe with Sorbic and Ascorbic acids and seaweed alginate; and pure essential oils.
4 fluid ounces | $8.95
Both Green and Black Tea Contain
Polyphenols, catechins, and proanthocyanins found in both black and green tea aid in prevention of free-radicals, protect the skin from UV rays, and promote healing to damaged tissue.
Day At The Beach Cooling Mist
Make this up a day before your planned sun-day-fun-day! Moondrop Herbals carries all ingredients to make this recipe except the hot water. If you purchase any ingredients, including the container and sprayer, I’ll give you a free cute label to put on your bottle.
~ Prepare a strong 6-8 oz cup of green or black tea (preferably organic), steeping for at least twice the amount of time you would for drinking
~ Strain and let cool, then refrigerate
~ Once the tea is chilled, mix equal amounts tea + aloe vera gel/juice in a spray bottle. Cap tightly and keep cold.
~ Store in your cooler at the beach and spray yourself often. This helps both to prevent, and heal, your skin from the effects of the sun.
~ Keep using throughout the day and evening.. This should prevent you from peeling, and promote tanning over burning..
~ This will stain clothing so be careful! You could use a squirt bottle and apply with your hands if misting is too risky for you.