Winter can do a number on our skin. Not only our faces, but our hands and feet.
About a month ago, I received a beautiful wrapped package from a new-to-me Israeli company, Bloom Mineral Beauty.
Bloom skincare products are made with minerals derived from pure salt from the Dead Sea. They combine that salt with hydrating natural ingredients like palm oil, soy, olive oil, and natural herbs such as calendula, chamomile, and green tea that provide antioxidants. Plus they leave out ingredients like parabens and petroleum that some of us like to avoid. Their products are free of genetically modified ingredients, and they are cruelty-free.
Now that you know a little bit about the company, let’s focus on the products: Bloom Shielding Hand Cream and Foot Cream.
How I Keep My Hands Soft with Bloom Shielding Hand Cream
My hands are not chapped this winter, yahoo! By applying hand cream religiously and by always wearing gloves when I wash dishes and pots and pans, I’ve been able to keep dry chapped skin at bay. Bloom Shielding Hand Cream is formulated with a mixture of vitamins A, E, linoleic acid, and essential fatty acids to keep my hands feeling silky and smooth. It also contains:
- Glycine Soja (soy) contains significant amounts of all the essential amino acids and is a good source of protein. It is derived from soybean amino acids and is rich in protein, minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin E.
- Glyceryl Stearate is derived from palm kernel. This lubricant easily penetrates the skin and slows the loss of moisture by forming a barrier on the skin’s surface.
- Vitamin E concentrate added for deep moisturizing benefits.
- Maris Sal (Dead Sea Salts) provides the highest concentration of key minerals and nutrients providing optimal hydration, skin nutrition and delivering anti-aging results.
Bloom Shielding Hand Cream is a rich white cream that gets absorbed into my skin and truly does form a protective shield around my skin. Yet it is completely greaseless! My hands feel so good wearing this cream. It does have a significant fresh fragrance when it is applied, but it does fade rather quickly. (But if you are scent averse, this may not be for you.) If you don’t mind scent during application, this is a wonderful, highly protective hand cream. On sale on the Bloom Mineral Beauty website till 1/31/18, $10 for 3.4 fl. oz./100 ml.
My Foot Exfoliating Routine and Bloom Shielding Foot Cream
As I’ve gotten older, my feet are significantly drier especially in winter than I ever expected. Unfortunately, that means more care taking on my part, and sometimes I do get lazy about it. In the summer, the sand on the beach helps exfoliate dead skin and keep my callouses at bay, but during the winter, it’s on me to get it done. One thing I used to do routinely that was so effective was the Listerine and Vinegar Foot Soak. I wrote about it here. It’s so inexpensive and easy especially if you keep a plastic tub handy to do it in. My plastic tub currently contains cosmetics that I need to find another place to store, so I can pull out my tub and soak my feet. It’s both relaxing and highly effective.
The other important feature of my foot care routine is using my Amope Foot File (reviewed here). I bought the extra strength version with coarse grain on the rotating file. It is so quick and easy to use. It gets off stubborn dry skin and keeps callouses from getting out of control. It kicks up quite a cloud of white as it files off my dead skin, so I always do it in the bathroom sitting on the edge of the tub.
On rare occasions when I don’t have time for my Amope, I use my glass foot file from Mont Bleu (reviewed here). Although not as full strength as the Amope, it does a good job in its own right and is perfect for use in-between major foot filing.
After exfoliating my feet, I apply Bloom Shielding Foot Cream and then put on cotton socks or bed socks that are impregnated with additional softeners. In fact, I apply Bloom Shielding Foot Cream and socks every night in the winter to help my feet stay soft.
Like the Shielding Hand Cream, it is a rich white cream that absorbs quickly, penetrates deeply and is greaseless. The foot cream is fragrance-free!!! It contains the following natural ingredients:
- Glycine Soja (soy) contains significant amounts of all the essential amino acids and is a good source of protein. It is derived from soybean amino acids and is rich in protein, minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin E.
- Glyceryl Stearate is derived from palm kernel. This lubricant easily penetrates the skin and slows the loss of moisture by forming a barrier on the skin’s surface.
- Calendula with natural anti-inflammatory, antibacterial properties reduce foot fatigue.
- Aloe Vera with high concentrations of Vitamin C & E provide hydration, while it’s natural anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory benefits work to kill bacteria and sooth the skin
- Maris Sal (Dead Sea Salts) provides the highest concentration of key minerals and nutrients providing optimal hydration, skin nutrition and delivering anti-aging results.
Also like the Hand Cream, the tube contains 3.4 fl. oz./100 ml and is currently on sale on the Bloom Mineral Beauty website for $10 till 1/31/18. So act fast! Bloom Mineral Beauty also makes a slew of facial skincare and body care products including a yummy sounding Hydrating Almond Scrub and Purifying Mud Mask!
I’m happy to have this hand and foot care duo to help me make it through the winter with soft hands and feet! What is your winter hand and foot care routine?
I love anything with Dead Sea minerals in them because my skin seems to drink it up. I remember when my forehead was irritated, there was only one moisturizer that has dead sea minerals managed to calm and finally heal the irritations.
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I agree. Dead Sea minerals are so effective. These are nice products. I’d love to try their mud next
Thank you for introducing me to this brand! My hands and feet have been dry this season, and since I got that bad flu I have noticed significant drying with my hands because of excessive hand washing. These sound very effective.
I’m sorry to hear that you were so sick, Helen, but hope you are better now. This is a terrific brand. I love Dead Sea minerals!
These sound amazing – I really enjoy using good hand and foot creams
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I cant live without vitamin e in my hand/foot care.
I wash my hands a lot, so I love a cream that creates a protective shield – that Bloom hand cream sounds really good.
Vitamin E is sooo good to have in a lotion!
These sound great. I’m very vigilant about my foot care routine, dry feet bother me to no end.
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Those hand and foot creams sound wonderful! I really need an intensive hand cream in the winter, the sides of my index fingers always get cracked. Also, I just got an Amope for Christmas and I love it!
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My hands and feet are taking a beating – it’s so dry here (Desert of Arizona) and the last 2 days the skin has been peeling around my knuckles! I need something heavy duty like this!
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Fragrance free saves the day. These are nicely priced and since I go through so many hand and foot creams in the winter that really helps.
p.s. Where you say “reviewed here” there’s no link to see those articles.
Thank you, Marcia, for pointing out that I’m missing the links! I totally missed that. And now I can’t sign in to my admin panel. Hope it will be miraculously fixed tomorrow coz I can’t stand any more blog-related problems. BTW, the Bloom Mineral Beauty Shielding Foot Cream is fragrance-free and a terrific foot cream. Unfortunately, the hand cream is quite fragranced.
I love Dead Sea products, there’s something very relaxing about them. The mud is especially fabulous!
I need a pedicure so bad!
Oh I really need a foot cream. Maybe I should try that one.
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I’m trying out some Bloom products myself right now and really like them!
I wash my hands in between patients and sanitize hence my hands area dry. I need all kinds of TLC!
So many typo errors, sorry! Super tired from work
No worries, Kathryne! I’m sorry my comment box doesn’t have an edit function.
These sound great and so affordable, I need them both!
I love Dead Sea skin care. It’s never a disappointment
I am forever and always looking for a good foot cream. I’m testing one out right now for a blog post but it looks like I might have to pick this one up to try out as well.
I’m very happy with this foot cream from Bloom Mineral Beauty, but I’ll be eager to read your review when it comes out!
I’m so good about putting on moisturizer but not hand or foot creme! I’ve just started using a new cuticle balm that I like but it’s indie and way too expensive when you think about bulk pricing so I love looking at new items!
I neglect my hands and feet more than I care to admit, which is terrible since I have naturally dry skin! I should give these creams a try!
It’s so easy to forgot hands and feet – especially feet. Keep these Dead Sea minerals products from Bloom Minerals in mind.
Dead Sea products are great, my skin loves them. I’ll have to check out their sale, that mud mask needs further investigation.
I agree: the Mud Mask is on my to try list too. The foot cream is terrific too.
Hand & foot cream are self-care essentials Bloom Shielding looks a worthy brand to try
I’m always looking for good hand creams! I’ve tried products with dead sea salt in before and really liked them.
I really need to take better care of my feet — they get so dry, especially in the winter!
I would love to try these! I always need lotion on my hands, and now that I work a retail job again, I want to start taking better care of my feet.
I especially love the foot cream because it’s just rich enough and it doesn’t have a scent. I think you’d like it, Stacie
OOO I want their hand cream!