Recovery Cream with Menthol and Aloe - Cooling Body Cream for Muscles and Joints - 4 oz (113g), Fragrance Free, Paraben Free, Cruelty Free

You want cooling you can feel within seconds, on the exact patch of skin you put it on, without stopping what you are doing to get it.

The usual answer to that is ice. A bag of frozen peas, a wet towel and fifteen minutes lying still, which only ever happens if you are at home and not in a hurry. That is why the cooling step is the one that gets skipped.

A cream does it standing up, dressed, anywhere you happen to be:

• Menthol is the part you feel. It works on the cold-sensing nerve endings that sit just under the surface of the skin, so your skin reads cool within seconds of the rub.
• Aloe leaf juice is second on the ingredient list. It is the part that holds water in the skin, which is what keeps skin you treat every day comfortable rather than tight and dry.
• Organic shea butter, coconut oil and olive fruit oil make it a cream. They are why it goes into the skin instead of sitting on top of it, and why you can pull a sleeve straight back down.
• Rosehip fruit oil, organic sesame seed oil and tocopherol are the skincare end. Rosehip and sesame as conditioning oils, tocopherol keeping the oils in the jar stable across the months you will own it.

KINETIC Recovery Cream is 4 oz, 113 g, worked into the skin over muscles, joints and tendons, up to four times a day. What you get for it:

• Cool exactly where you aim it. A thin layer rubbed all the way in, and it is working before your hands have left your skin.
• Skin left in better condition than you found it. A skincare-grade base doing that job every single time you go back to the jar.
• Nothing to wait for and nothing to smell. No greasy film sitting on the surface, and no added fragrance, so it goes wherever you go.
• A jar you scoop from. You take exactly as much as the area needs, and both shoulders on a Monday is simply how it gets used.

Here is what to expect, from the first rub to the third month.

❄️ The first thirty seconds

You feel it while your hands are still moving. It arrives as a clean cool rather than a sting, and it keeps building for a short while after you have finished. No wincing, no breathing through it, no waiting before you can put clothes on.

⏱️ Then it eases off, and you can go again

The cool comes on, holds, and fades. The directions allow up to four applications a day, so this is a step you repeat rather than a dose you sit and wait out. Morning, after the session, evening.

👃 Nobody else has to know

There is no parfum in this formula. What you get is the menthol itself with nothing built on top of it, and it goes quiet quickly. It travels into an office as easily as into a gym bag.

🧴 Your skin, a few weeks in

Aloe leaf juice, organic shea butter and rosehip fruit oil are working every time you use it. The shoulder or the knee getting this daily stays soft rather than turning dry and tight, so it is still a pleasure to put on when the jar is half empty.

👐 Hands washed, evening resumed

It absorbs, so you rub it all the way in, wash your hands thoroughly, and get on with what you were doing. Keep it well away from your eyes while you do.

This is a cosmetic, so what matters is what happens at the surface of your skin. That is well-covered ground, and here is what each part of the formula is understood to do there.

• Menthol and the cold receptors. Menthol is the best characterized cooling agent in skincare. It acts on the same cold-sensing nerve endings in the skin that a cold surface acts on, which is why the sensation arrives in seconds rather than building slowly.
• Aloe and water in the skin. Aloe barbadensis leaf juice is a long-established humectant in cosmetic formulation, used to hold water where dry skin loses it. It is second on this ingredient list.
• Shea, coconut and olive as the base. These are emollient oils. Their job is to soften skin and slow the water loss that leaves it tight, and they are why this is a cream that rubs in rather than something that has to dry.
• Rosehip, sesame and tocopherol. Rosehip fruit oil and organic sesame seed oil are conditioning oils used on faces as readily as on bodies. Tocopherol is vitamin E, in here to keep the oils in the jar stable.

How this formula compares.

Fifteen ingredients, printed in the order they appear on the jar, with aloe barbadensis leaf juice second on that list. Menthol brings the cool and the other fourteen are what your skin is left with afterwards. Every one of them is named, so you can see the sesame and the coconut before you buy rather than after.

This was made for people who train often enough that the jar gets used on ordinary days, not only on the heavy ones.

It is especially for you if:

• You want cooling you can feel in seconds, standing up, wherever you happen to be.
• You have washed something off in the shower because it burned instead of cooling.
• You stopped using the last one because you could not take the smell into the office.
• You read the ingredient list on the back before you buy anything that goes on your skin.
• You want the skin on your knees and shoulders looked after, not only cooled.

It is not for you if you react to sesame or to coconut, or if you were looking for something to put on broken skin.

Fifteen ingredients, all named. 4 oz, 113 g in the jar, and directions that allow up to four applications a day. Fragrance free, paraben free and cruelty free. Made in the USA.

If three of those sounded like you, this is the cooling cream you have been looking for.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If KINETIC isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.