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Great skin-- everybody wants it.  Everybody.  If you don't have it you are struggling to get it; or, if you do have it, you are desperate to keep it.  The girl with the really great skin walks by, and it's the first thing you notice ( oh, that and her cool boots!)  She's the one at the party who seems so confident, the girl with the rosy cheeks, the Ivory Girl.

Bad skin can ruin your day.  And you know just what i mean... the all consuming anxiety over a big zit... rushing to a mirror as often as you can (without seeming unseemly, of course) to peer at yourself, to poke at your face, to apply more concealer.  The scaly dry patches, the big pores, the blotchy red spots-- where do they come from?   Or how about the wrinkles that crop up around your eyes one day?  I mean come on, you are definitely too young for wrinkles, right?  Worst of all, the day you realize you have zits and wrinkles !  How is this possible?

So what is a girl ( or guy) to do?  Read all the magazines, scour the articles for tips on how to achieve perfect skin?  Never eat french fries or chocolate again...?  Spend tons of money on fancy cremes and pastes and toners and balms?  Maybe.  They work, don't they?  But the thing is, did you ever read the ingredients in those fancy commercial brands?  Propylene glycol, Squalane, Imidazolidinyl Urea, Polyethylene?  WHat exactly are Guaizulene,  Hydrogenated Polysobuten or Triethanolamine?  Should i really put that on my face? 

 In a perfect situation, your skin would have all the factors it needs to keep itself beautiful clear and rosy, but sometimes it just all becomes too much...so if there is a secret to achieving really great skin, it  is to  use products that help your skin do what it wants to do... take care of itself.   Don't just moisturize your skin, help it maintain it's natural moisture.  Prevent the zits before the show up, ditto the big pores, dry patches and red splotches.  The best way to do this is with all natural skin care products made with ingredients with names you can actually pronounce.  

 That's exactly what we do at BIRDSONG BOTANICALS, we make castile soaps and all natural skin care products using only ingredients which nourish and sooth your skin, and we combine them in formulations designed to help your skin be it's beautiful, radiant self. 

Our products are made from ingredients that have been used in beauty products in many different cultures for centuries ---  such as cocoa butter, olive oil, french and rose clay, coconut oil, lavender and roses.  Other ingredients are things you might find in your own kitchen, like strawberries, kiwis, oats, almonds or wheat germ oil. 

 All of our products-- soaps, lotions, cremes, scrubs, toners, masques, lip balms, bath salts and aftershaves-- are  hand made in maine in small batches at our on-farm Soap House.