Miss Moonmaker

Whether we’re *buggin’ on the Coast of Maine or workin’  ha-ahd in the back-40. Our skin takes a beatin’ especially our hands and what do we do to thank them? We expose our hands to the elements 365 days a year! This tin will be your Salve-ation for your dry, irritated, cracked skin. Hard workin’ folks like Lobsterman, fisherman, landscapers, contractors and more can all benefit from the good stuff inside this tin! With oils of sweet almond, olive and coconut infused with calendula flowers, plantain leaf, lanolin, cinnamon, vitamin-e and honey, your skin will truly be soothed. Smelling somthin’ fresh too, “Deah,” with essential oils of lemon and cinnamon! Dang.

Good Stuff Inside: 

• Sweet Almond Oil: almond oil can slow the aging process and prevent structural damage caused by UV rays more… 
• Olive Oil: Olive oil has the same healthy fats as avocado, and plumps and moisturizes the skin with a combination of vitamin E and vitamin A more… 
• Coconut oil: Coconut oil is a powerful moisturizer that is beneficial to restoring dry or flaking skin more…
• Lanolin: Lanolin falls into the lipid-rich emollient class of moisturizers. One of the causes of dry skin is a lack of lipids, which allows water to escape. Lanolin fills in those gaps, preventing future water escape more…
• Vitamin E: from rough skin to wrinkles learn more…
• Calendula:  is beneficial for dry or damaged skin and also promotes the fast healing and regeneration of the skin more…
• Plantain Leaf: antiseptic properties and can be used topically to promote the healing of damaged skin more…
• Honey: is a humectant which is an item or substance that attracts moisture and keeps in locked inside. Moisturizes, protects and promotes healing more…
• Cinnamon: beneficial to the skin because it brings blood and nutrients to the skin surface while also helping to dry skin. more…
• Lemon EO: lemon oil deploys antiseptic effects on fresh minor infections of the skin with an invigorating and fresh scent that helps deal with pesky odors more…
• Beeswax: Acting as a surfactant, beeswax, when blended into cold creams and other skin lotions, forms a protective barrier on the surface of the skin. more…

Lobstering Facts: 

• Buggin: term used for lobstering. Lobsters are also referred to as bugs.  
• Smack Float: a float located on the ocean where lobstermen can pull up their boats and drop off their haul of lobsters for payment. While at the float they can also buy fish, salt and other supplies for lobstering. The term Smack originates from a fishing vessels built in the 1840’s. More on fishing smacks
• Eggers: a female lobster with eggs that can be seen on the outside under the tail. The eggs are usually black. 
• Size Matters: Minimum size for a legal sized lobster is more than 3.25″ from the eye socket to the back of the carapace. They are usually measured with a measuring tool called a lobstering gauge. 
• Tails: if the flipper just to the right of the center flipper is notched in a V-shape this means that the lobster is a reproducing female and must be thrown back. 
• Trapped: lobster traps seem to imply that lobsters are actually get trapped and cannot get out. They indeed can actually go in and out of the trap at will to eat the bait. Catching them it a matter of pulling up the trap while they are still hanging out in the trap eating your bait!
• Shorts: a lobster that is too small is called a “short.”
• Cull: is a lobster with one claw or no claws.