Handmade Beauty Product Review: Hana Aloha & Sea Siren Salts by Blue Moon Herbals

Sea Siren Salts
10 oz. | $10.99

You know how you get a package in the mail and you are so excited because you know it is some really fantastic skincare treat, and then, the experience gets even better when you cut the tape and can smell the aromatic oils even before you get the box opened??!! Well, that's what happened when I opened a box of goodies from Blue Moon Herbals. I smelled delicious things, and one of the most predominant scents was the neroli essential oil found in the Sea Siren Salts. This romantic blend of dead sea salts and botanicals is both beautiful and skin loving. The botanicals are composed of calendula and rose petals which I think must contribute to the lovely and very rich golden color of the salts. Also added are absolute of jasmine sambac and essential oils of neroli, sandalwood and rose oils. These exotic aromatics combine to create a scent that is alluring and mysterious. Jojoba oil, glycerin and vitamin E are mixed in to pamper the skin.

Hana Aloha
2 oz. | $14.99

This wonderfully fragrant and skin soothing product is named for the Hawaiian words for "love work." Debbi at Blue Moon Herbals told me that it can be used as either a perfume or a massage oil (it's at the perfume page at their Web site). I loved the scent so much that I used it as an all-over massage oil after a long, warm bath last week. I perfumed by body wonderfully! Hana Aloha contains virgin coconut cream, and is the first product I have used with that ingredient. (Virgin coconut oil is a different product.) It also contains apricot kernel oil and flower essences. The pikake oil (extracted from the flower using the enfleurage method), complements the natural scent of the virgin coconut oil to create a soft and soothing blend reminiscent of what it must be like to relax on a fragrant beach in Hawaii. Debbi tells me that Hana Aloha contains an amblygonite gem, the "Stone of Meditation," which is "cleansed" in white sage and seawater and charged during the moon cycles. I'm not sure what that means but if it adds to the sheer enjoyment I experienced while rubbing this product over my skin, I wouldn't use it without it!