You can only take one skincare product to a desert island. Is this it?

I really want to like Balm Balm Rose Germanium Face Balm. It’s 100% natural, 100% organic and has great ingredients like shea butter, calendula, bees wax and jojoba oil. (It’s for all skin types and not as greasy as it sounds). I love the name Balm Balm (probably because it sounds like bon bons) and I admire the fact that this little balm is so ambitious.

Here’s how it can be used: on the face, lips, cuticles, hands, feet, elbows, and even on disheveled eyebrows. It’s like the skincare version of Leonardo da Vinci (who was a philosopher, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician and painter).

I threw Balm Balm in my purse to see just how useful it would be throughout the day. I was about to go into an interview and noticed my eyelids were looking like eyelid jerky (wrinkly and dehydrated), the Balm Balm made them immediately look better. It helped my cuticles look less like I’d been trying to tunnel out of prison, using only my fingernails. It helped my chapped lips (but only for an hour). And by the end of the day, when my eyebrows started looking like fuzzy caterpillars, that were trying to crawl off my face, the Balm Balm helped them fall back in line. (Apparently, I decompose quickly throughout the day.) So, yes, I guess it was a helpful, little skincare item to have in my bag.

But while it does do a lot, it doesn’t do anything really well. Turns out rather than being the da Vinci of skincare products, it’s more like the Hugh Jackman (actor, singer, dancer, bad Oscar host) of skincare products.

Thank you Barbara for not forcing Mickey Rourke to do this to you as well. 

So if you’re traveling and want to pack light, or if you always like to be prepared, or if you’re going to be on Survivor and can only bring one item, this might be just the product for you.

I love the idea of a uni-product that does it all. Does anyone have one they think works really well?  

Comments

[Jane]

I'll take Hugh Jackman anyday!!
where can one find this balm balm?

[jenny]

Hey Jane,
Balm Balm is UK company. Here's one site that sells and ships to the US. http://www.lovelula.com/pd_balm_balm_rose.cfm
I'm hoping someone suggests a good uni-product that's easier to find.
Thanks!
jenny

[Jenni]

My favorite uni-product is coconut oil. Yeah. I use it as a makeup remover in a pinch, since it will get every speck of makeup off and lube up my face without breaking me out, in my bath as a bath oil, on my body as a moisturizer, and lips with a pinch of cinnamon for colour and tingle. It costs about $9 for a big ol' tub of it, and it will be solid or liquid depending on the temp. you are in. I put it in little travel tubs and lipgloss pots for transport.

[jenny]

Hey Jenni,
I'll have to try it again now that it's warm out. I tried it in the winter. My apartment was so freezing that when I got some down the sink it solidified in my pipes. Yikes. But now that it's warm I'll give it another whirl.
Thanks!
jenny

[Ammura]

a similar product to the one you mentioned is alba's unpetroleum jelly. i have not personally used it on my face, however i have used it on cutisles, lips, hair to tame frizz.