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Promotional Lotions and Workplace Stress

The soothing balm of promotional lotions can help relieve job stress, a real issue that faces Americans. One-third of employees report high levels of stress, and in 1991 when the United States was experiencing a recession, one-fourth of employees said their job was the number one stressor in their lives. Stress contributes largely to turnover rates. Demanding jobs even increase the risk of heart disease and may lead to hypertension. Sometimes job stress is due to a bad match between employer and employee; sometimes stress results from poor organization within the company causing an unequal distribution of work. In times of corporate cutbacks, three people may remain to do the work of nine. Sometimes, however, there isn't much a company can do to relieve its employers of innately stressful work. That's when promotional products like promotional lotions, spa products, and other stress relievers can help boost company morale.

The Benefits of Massage with Promotional Lotions

Promotional lotions, or something like them, date back as far as the Old Testament. Esther, the Jewish queen of Xerxes, received strict beauty regimens at her husband's command that included the application of oil and myrrh. Today oils such as coconut, grape seed, macadamia, sesame, pecan, and mustard oils are often used to aid a massage session. In fact, our word "massage" may come from the Hebrew verb meaning "to anoint with oil." Promotional lotions, an emulsion of oil and water, can also be used to aid a massage. Massage is known to reduce pain, blood pressure and heart rate, anxiety, and even the number of stress hormones in our system. Over time massage can reduce clinical depression as well as the effects of some diseases. If an employer recognizes signs in an employee that indicate job stress -- disturbances in mood and sleep, headaches, and relational issues -- she should take action towards preventing further damage to the employee's mental and physical health, whether reorganizing company operations if the stress is major, or simply offering the employee a day off or a gift basket with spa products and promotional lotion if the stress is minor.

Maintaining Healthy Skin with Promotional Lotions

Promotional lotions help replenish our skin's supply of moisture after we have stripped it of its natural oils in the shower. In Medieval times people rarely bathed, because conventional wisdom held that bathing caused disease. By the eighteenth century, however, people came around to bathing, realizing that it actually promoted health. Now most Americans bathe every one or two days, and to do otherwise is considered unhygienic and gross. The problem is that the same soap that gets rid of the dirt and bacteria on our skin also washes away the natural oils our skin produces for its own good. Promotional lotions restore those oils and form barriers between skin cells and the air to keep water from evaporating. Promotional lotions, along with antioxidants and healthy living, prevent free radicals from killing healthy skin cells, keeping skin elastic and free of wrinkles. Whether the issue is job stress or dry skin, a timely gift of promotional lotions will smooth out wrinkles in the workplace.