Know The Uses And Differences Between Body Butter And Body Lotion

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JAKARTA - In order to get smooth and healthy skin, the use of a series of skin care is very much needed. One of them is body butter and body lotion.

Having a texture and content that both can moisturize, of course there are still many who don't know that these two types of skin care have significant differences. Here is the difference between body butter and body lotion.

According to HighEnd, Tuesday, July 5, body butter has a thicker texture than body lotion. This is because there is no water content in body butter. Made from various essential oils and butters, this one product usually contains shea butter, cocoa butter, or natural oils such as coconut oil, olive oil, and jojoba oil.

If body butter has a texture that is more like butter, body lotion has a much more fluid texture because it is made from an emulsion mixture of water and oil. Body lotion has a high water content and is good for dry skin.

Body butter and body lotion have the same content that is good for your body's skin. You can adjust it according to the type of skin needs of each.

Reporting from Netmeds, some of the benefits of body butter are creating a barrier on the skin to lock in moisture, giving more hydration to the skin, reducing wrinkles in some parts of the body, restoring skin from sunburn, psoriasis, eczema, and rosacea.

Other uses are repairing skin folds and scars from stretch marks, softening the skin.

Those are the uses and differences between body butter and body lotion. If you have dry skin problems, you can use body butter to give your skin more moisture. Meanwhile, for daily use, you can use body lotion.