AWAKENING SHOWER GEL

Grapefruit essential oil

The sparkling, joyful grapefruit is an excellent source for essential oils. Grapefruit essential oil possesses a sunny and enlivening force that invigorates both the body and soul. Furthermore, it can help improve the skin structure.

Lactic acid

Lactic acid is is an alpha hydroxy acid, also known as AHA. AHAs are acids derived from foods, such as various fruit, sugarcane, even sour milk, and in cosmetics they are used to care for the skin regeneration, softness and a healthy appearance.
The main function of AHAs is to accelerate natural skin regeneration processes by promoting the cell replacement. Added to products such as cleansers, lotions and peels, lactic acid helps the skin to slough off its old cells, thus improving skin’s texture and revealing a glowing, healthy and youthful skin hidden underneath.

Lemon essential oil

Lemon essential oil has been known as a valuable tool in fighting fatigue. You will appreciate the brisk aroma by yielding yourself to the inspiring and invigorating effect of the oil. Moreover, it helps improve skin structure. Lemon essential oil is extracted from the peel of the bright fruit.

Menthol

Menthol is an organic, crystalline and easily evaporating compound, one of the compounds of peppermint essential oil with the distinctive peppermint scent. Menthol is widely used in cooking, as well as in cosmetics and perfumery.
Menthol stimulates your skin’s cold receptors as a result you feel a pleasantly refreshing and cooling effect. Added to cosmetic and skincare products menthol delivers this chilling sensation to irritated skin thus helping to soothe it and renew its comfort.

Orange (bitter) essential oil

The bitter orange is also known as pomerance. Its fruit is not used as food, but the essential oil extracted from its peel has many valuable properties and it helps reduce fatigue. The brisk aroma enhances your mood, refreshes perception and helps you find a taste for life.

Orange essential oil

Sweet orange essential oil is extracted from the peel of the orange fruit. This essential oil with a distinctive aroma of the juicy fruit invigorates and heightens the mood. It helps improve the structure of your skin and is therefore recommended for treating problem areas.

Patchouli essential oil

Patchouli essential oil is extracted from the flowers of patchouli plant by vaporising. The saturated and long lasting aroma of the oil is pungent and sweet combination of earth and wood aromas. It successfully helps fight anxiety and stress; as well, it unleashes sensuality and gets you in the mood for romance.

Peppermint essential oil

Peppermint(lat. – Mentha Piperita) is native to Europe and the Middle East and it is also a widely known plant in STENDERS homeland Latvia. Tea brewed from the fresh or dried peppermint leaves possesses wonderfully warming and calming effect.
Peppermint essential oil is steam distilled from the green peppermint leaves and it has a brisk, so-well-known aroma. Peppermint oil stimulates the natural protective capabilities of the body, moreover it contains menthol which gives this oil a cooling, so pleasantly refreshing effectiveness, thus leaving you fresh and energised.

Spearmint essential oil

Spearmint or garden mint (lat. – Mentha spicata) is a plant related to the well-known peppermint but with a softer, sweeter aroma and intensely invigorating properties. Spearmint contains less menthol that gives the powerful cooling effect we are used to when we apply peppermint essential oil.Essential oil of spearmint is extracted from the leaves of the plant and the fresh fragrance of the oil gives an immediate inflow of energy and an invigorating feeling. It effectively calms a disturbed mind, invigorates, tones and strengthens the body. Essential oil of spearmint can be an excellent addition to skin cleansing product formulas as it helps to refresh and revive the skin making it radiant. Also added to hair care product formulas it promotes growth of hair and gives vitality.