Our customers have been requesting we offer boxed sets of Kabana products - so we did!

The Three Kings' Crème Sampler allows you to choose three essential oils and comes in two sizes: regular (3 x 4 ounce) and mini (3 x 2 oz). Don't forget the Frankincense!

A Whole Hanukkah Bush contains Kabana's full line of fabulous skin care products: one 4oz of each Kabana Crème, Green Screen and Sunsei and 0.5oz of the new Liplovers Balm in your choice of several tasty natural flavors.

Away in the Manger Couple's Gift Box contains two 4oz of each Kabana Crème, Green Screen and Sunsei in your choice of appropriate essential oils for him and her.

We'll pack them in nice craft paper-finished boxes and tie them up with cobalt ribbon, so all you have to do is put the packages under your festive shrubbery!

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UV light contains energy – like the infrared (IR) light that your electric stove produces, UV also heats things up, but more importantly excites electrons in the skin cell molecules that absorb it. This energy has to go somewhere – what happens in skin is these excited electrons – also called free radicals – promote reactions that attack DNA and other important skin cell components. This destructive process is called oxidation. When a certain amount of oxidative damage has occurred to these critical structures of your body, the intermediate result is premature aging (wrinkles!) and the end result is skin cancer (possible early death!).

Since the process of free radical creation by UV exposure results in oxidation, it makes a great sense to include a variety of antioxidants in sunscreen formulas. Antioxidants are called anti- oxidants because they make really easy targets for these dangerous free radicals – essentially antioxidants sacrifice themselves to destruction by the free radical, instead of allowing the free radical to attack critical cellular structures like your DNA.

While no sunscreen product can protect you entirely from UV absorption because there are simply too many UV rays when you go outside, it’s common sense to think that antioxidants would be a good addition to sun protection products. Inclusion of antioxidants is particularly beneficial since many of the synthetic hydrocarbon-based sunscreens can also promote free radical creation via photo-degradation (see Part 2 of this article), but for the unfortunate reason of economic utility (a.k.a. greedy pig profits) the major mass marketed consumer sunscreens contain few antioxidants, if any. Why? Antioxidants are expensive! Kabana’s Green Screen is chock full of antioxidants based on its rigorously natural retinol-rich tropical butter, lanolin and jojoba oil formula, and also includes fortification with botanically-sourced Vitamin E, to ensure you have the best 1-2-3 UV protection possible – 1-UVB, 2-UVA and 3-Antioxidants.

The only way you can understand the nature of personal care products is to read labels and evaluate the ingredients. The mass market manufacturers have discovered how to make your task even more difficult by using uncommon names for certain, ill - advised chemicals. While these obscure synonyms are technically accurate, utilizing them is a 'clever' marketing technique to confuse and deceive; it's a ruse used to distract your attention. Case in point: Trolamine. Upon evaluating some of Lubriderm's more recent products, I discovered this ingredient and had to ask, "What the heck is that?" I had never before seen it on a Lubriderm label, or anywhere else. So I did some research - a Google search yielded this.

Trolamine is another name for Triethanolamine, a basic compound used in cosmetics to neutralize acids and balance pH. Lubriderm previously used the name Triethanolamine in their ingredient list, but evidently changed this practice because, although Triethanolamine (TEA) is on the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) list, it has received recent bad press because it can oxidize to create nitrosamines, which cause cancer. Recall that your body is a big bioreactor that operates through oxidation, and while skin is not as acidic as the stomach, it is acidic with a pH of about 5 in the top layer. TEA is absorbed through your skin and is classified as a skin permeator and irritant. It hasn't been associated directly as causing cancer but it can damage cellular DNA. When it is absorbed through your skin it adversely affects your brain, liver and urinary system. Skin care companies try to justify use of TEA by saying it's use reflects "slim" or "insignificant" risk. But, dilution is still pollution, particularly when its in your body.

Why risk it when alternatives are available and your long term health is at stake?