Better than lotion
Fat thing: Body butter is the best choice against dry skin in winter – but two smear off in the Ökotest
Body butter is a good choice for dry skin.
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The skin needs special care in winter. Even better than lotions, body butter works against dry skin. Ökotest looked at which products keep what they promise.
In winter, the skin groans and moans. Cold wind and harsh weather become a strain, the sebaceous glands work less productively, the skin dries out, becomes irritated and reddened. Only cream, cream, cream helps. Those whose skin thirsts for intensive care should replace the body lotion with body butters, which come with a shovel more fat. Ökotest tested 26 products and the majority of them are actually fine. Two, however, smear in the test.
The body butter range has swelled considerably in recent years. The range is huge and the buyer is often spoiled for choice in front of the shelf – conventional or rather natural cosmetics, cheap or expensive? Ökotest has two pieces of good news: 1. If you reach for the natural cosmetics shelf, you can hardly go wrong. All certified body butters compared were “very good”. 2. Top body butter is available for little money. The cheapest of these represents Balea. For 83 cents, this does not lubricate any worse than the expensive competing product L’Occitane, which costs 24 euros. Among the very good natural cosmetics butters, Bevola is the price-performance winner (1.48 euros).
Expensive losers among body butters
Only two body butters in comparison did not convince the testers. There were deductions in the rating for the “Bettina Barty Body Butter“. The examiners found in it, among other things, paraffins and aromatic mineral oil carbons, which can be harmful to health. That doesn’t have to be the case, say the eco-testers and award the grade “insufficient”. The second “black sheep” in the test is Biotherm. 19 euros have to be shelled out for the body butter. 19 euros that you can invest better. There are a lot of silicones in the Biotherm product. Ökotest evaluates “inadequate”.
You can find the entire test for a fee at test.de
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