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** I have been given this product as part of a
product review through the Chronic
Illness Bloggers network. Although
the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was
in no way influenced by the company. **
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I’ve fallen
off the blogging bandwagon, but I’m back, and my first post in is a product
review that I wanted to share with you.
I love
trying new products, especially those that are thought up by those with chronic
illnesses in an effort to help and improve the lives of others with chronic
illnesses.
I recently
had the opportunity to try Mo’s Dream Cream and No Mo Pain Stick. The key to this is that the product is all
natural and the main ingredient is capsaicin paste.
I have heard
of capsaicin before, but have never tried anything that contains it.
According to
Keri, the creator of Mo’s Dream Cream, arthritis pain relief can occur in five
minutes and can last for six to eight hours, and sometimes longer.
I’ll admit,
I was skeptical about this product. I
have used other pain relieving gels and creams with varying levels of
success. I was also skeptical because I
thought, “Fermented cayenne pepper is going to help my pain? Yeah right.”
So imagine
my surprise, when after using Mo’s Dream Cream, my pain was greatly improved in
a very short amount of time. I spot used
Mo’s Dream Cream against another pain relieving product that I used as a test to
see which worked better. And I didn’t
test it on just any “normal” pain for me.
I tested it when I was in a full-on flare.
And it
worked! I mean, really.
I feel that
the lotion was more effective than the stick.
However, I love the stick because it is portable, and you don’t have to
worry about getting it all over the place.
Because it’s
all natural, I suppose you can use it over larger areas of your body. But being used to using products that aren’t
all natural, I haven’t tried using it much more than on spots that are
especially sore.
To me, the
only downside is the smell. It takes a
bit of getting used to, and as a result of my lupus, I am very sensitive to
smell. You can smell the lotion through
the bottle, but once I had it on, after a while, the smell didn’t bother me
anymore. I found that the smell of the
stick was a bit more palatable, although it’s still a pretty strong smell. I will say, however, that all of the other
pain relieving products I have tried do have pretty strong smells, it’s just
not a smell that I’m used to.
If you have
sensitive skin, you may want to spot test to make sure that you don’t have a
reaction. I have sensitive skin, but I
didn’t have any problems in this regard.
I was also worried that the lotion might burn. It didn’t.
The only
caution is that you must wash your hands after using the lotion because it does
have cayenne pepper in it, and there are certain places you don’t want cayenne
pepper to go – your eyes, etc., you get the picture. Common sense, but I’ll say it anyway.
To learn
more or to purchase Mo’s Dream Cream, visit https://squareup.com/store/modreamcream. The lotion costs $20 a bottle and the stick
costs $15.
And if you decide to purchase Mo’s Dream Cream or the No Mo
Pain Stick, you can use the promotion code LESLIE4U that Keri has generously
created specifically for my readers.
This will give you 10% off all products.
And it never expires!