BLACK VELVET
Healing Earth Moor Mud Spa Bar

Black Velvet, the bar verions of Healing Earth Moor Mud formula, is a great all-around companion to Rhassoul as an evening cleanser or fill-in on non-Rhassoul days. It will nourish all skin types ... and can be added to any regimen as a supplemental cleanser. It's fine body and shower bar as well. Its consistency is smooth and does not exfoliate. It's pure skin nourishment. DayBreak's Black Velvet combines the most luxurious, completely hydrosoluble moor with the moisturizing properties of our unrefined shea butter. This blend brings forth a rebalancing of the skin as it washes and flows around your face and body.

Every bar has a full 2 ounces of Moor Mud in it. Plus it is also made with 33% shea butter so it is both highly nourishing and moisturizing. Yet, despite its richness, it's very gentle and easy on even the most delicate skin. Moor is an astonishing collection of plants, mineral and trace elements, organic substances such as a truly unique collection of plants, minerals and trace-elements, organic substances such as volatile oils, amino acids, waxes, resins, phyto-hormones, vitamins, enzymes and natural antibiotics, all in the most natural balance.

Want to learn more about Moor? Moor Mud is a therapy quality peat - an organic substance, product of natural decomposition of multitudes of plants under special conditions. Unlike Rhassoul, Moor Mud contains virtually no clay (less then 3%) and consists of organic residue of herbs, flowers and grasses. Over period of thousands of years this residue was transformed into a fine paste that easily dissolves in the water, has unusual concentration of bio-minerals, trace elements, vitamins, amino acids, plant hormones and fatty acids in a molecular form that is easy for the human skin to absorb. Think of it as a plant extract not from just one plant, but hundreds that reflect environment of Earth 10,000 years ago, without present day pollution. Its uncanny ability to heal, nourish and detoxify has been observed by people for millennia and used scientifically in European Spas for well over a century.

The therapeutic properties of moor mud have been known for thousands of years. Its unusual qualities have been recognized by man from the times of Europe's earliest civilization. As far back as 120 BC the Romans took advantage of its curative powers and Renaissance physicians praised it as the Quinta Essentia.

For ages, moor mud has been successfully used in spas all over Europe for natural preventative medicine because of its curative properties. Modern scientific research provides for new application techniques with moor mud in many therapeutic treatments, particularly in the fields of Rheumatology and Dermatology.

Moor is still one of the earth's few natural resources totally unspoiled by pollution. The moor mud is collected from deep earth where its thickness reaches several meters and where its consistency is constantly circulated by the action of pure streaming thermal water.