Lotion

Aajonus's core claim was that all skin oils, soaps, and lotions, whether marketed as natural or not, smother the skin and make it toxic while simultaneously appearing to lubricate it. He stated this plainly: processed oils applied to the skin are 90% solvent-reactive, meaning the body uses them not as nutrients but as cleansers to dissolve tissue, break down toxins, and strip the skin of its own protective layer. The result is a cycle of apparent short-term softening followed by increased dryness and cellular damage over time.

He identified skin cancer specifically as a condition that develops in people who are deficient in utilizable fat in the skin, and he attributed that deficiency in part to the application of any skin lotion, including all suntan lotions. His reasoning was that these preparations smother the skin, block the skin's ability to transform sunlight into vitamin D, and create vast quantities of dead cells that the body cannot afford to discard. In this framework, the commercial moisturizer that appears to be protecting or hydrating the skin is actually producing the deficiency it claims to address.

He was particularly pointed about sunscreen. Whatever sun protection was attributed to commercial sunscreen formulations, Aajonus rejected it entirely. He stated that washing the skin or applying any lotion before sun exposure removes the body's own natural oils, which are the true natural sunblock. Applying commercial sunscreen in place of those natural oils removes the protection the body generates and substitutes a toxic compound that poisons the skin. His alternative was either to apply no substance at all before sunning, to use coconut cream or unrefined cold-pressed coconut or peanut oil the night before, or to use his Primal Facial Body Care Cream, which he described as acting as both a sunscreen and a tanning lotion in all empirical tests.

The biochemical reasoning Aajonus used to explain why commercial lotions fail connects to his broader understanding of pressed and processed oils. He taught that pressed oils, whether vegetable, seed, or nut-derived, cannot be utilized by the body the way raw animal fats can be. When applied to the skin, these oils function as solvents. The skin absorbs them, but rather than using them to nourish or protect the cells, the body mobilizes them as cleansing agents. They dry the glands, strip the tissues, and over time produce the same acrid, drying conditions internally that they appear superficially to address externally.

He applied this reasoning to commonly recommended natural oils as well. Almond oil, for instance, he explicitly said would dry out the skin because the skin cells are not meant to eat oil. Sesame oil he dismissed with the note that it cannot be pressed below 160 degrees, making it unsuitable for skin application. Flaxseed oil he said dries the glands. The only pressed oil he gave any qualified endorsement to was unrefined cold-pressed coconut oil applied the night before sun exposure, and even there he consistently preferred coconut cream, which he said contains not only the fat-soluble components of the coconut but also the water-soluble vitamins and minerals, making it capable of working with the full range of the body's chemistry rather than only the oil-soluble fraction.

He summarized the distinction between coconut oil and coconut cream clearly: coconut oil is the oil separated from the coconut cream, and it is mainly solvent-reactive, working only with water-soluble fats and minerals. Coconut cream, by contrast, works with everything, because it retains the full matrix of oil, water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, and minerals together.

Aajonus expressed particular contempt for the use of the word "natural" on commercial skin products and cosmetics. He stated that almost all cosmetics have some kind of kerosene derivative and formaldehyde in them, and that there is not one makeup that is genuinely natural even when it claims to be. He identified beet juice, raspberries, and clay as the only genuinely natural dyes and skin preparations, noting that these substances last longer and are far easier for the skin to absorb.

He identified a specific commercial manipulation in the way moisturizers are marketed: "You can sell them a $30 bottle of moisturizing formula if you promise them it's going to bring their skin back to life. It's all bullshit." His position was that commercial moisturizing formulas do not bring skin back to life under any circumstances. The substances that actually regenerate skin, in his framework, are moist fresh sperm and bone marrow, because they contain stem cells. Protective fats, especially coconut cream, can protect the skin, but regeneration requires those stem-cell-containing substances applied directly.

In place of commercial moisturizers, Aajonus developed a series of topical preparations made entirely from raw foods. The logic was consistent with his core principle: if you cannot eat it, do not feed it to your skin. Every preparation he recommended for topical application was also edible, and several were versions of formulas he recommended for internal use.

The Primal Facial Body Care Cream, given on page 145 of his recipe book, is the central topical preparation. Its formula as given in the recipe book is two ounces raw cream, two ounces unsalted raw butter, two ounces raw coconut cream, one-quarter teaspoon unheated honey, one-quarter teaspoon royal jelly, one teaspoon fresh lime juice, and one teaspoon fresh ginger juice. The lime juice is stirred into the coconut cream first and allowed to stand for ten minutes. All ingredients are then warmed in a capped eight-ounce jar immersed in a bowl of mildly hot water for five minutes, then blenderized on medium speed for five seconds. Any excess is wiped away twenty to thirty minutes after applying to skin. It must be kept refrigerated.

He described this cream as an all-in-one sunscreen, suntan lotion, sunburn lotion, burn salve, abrasion and cut salve, and general skin nourisher. He stated that in all empirical tests it acted on all participants as both a sunscreen and tanning lotion, that participants who normally did not tan began to tan, and that participants who thought they had burned because of redness found no burn or soreness the following morning and no peeling. Applied liberally to cuts, scrapes, or abrasions, it prevents excessive scabbing, prevents the dryness that results from scabbing, and helps heal wounds without scarring. Applied liberally and left on existing scabs, it slowly dissolves them.

He also described a variation of this cream he had developed more recently for sun use, different from the original Primal Facial Body Care Cream formula: two ounces butter, two ounces cream, two ounces coconut cream, half a teaspoon of honey, and one-eighth teaspoon of royal jelly, blended together. He tested making this both cold, which produced a texture like commercial face cream, and warm, by immersing the jar with blades in warm water before blending, which produced a harder, more butter-like texture that lasted longer. He emphasized that none of the components work in isolation for sun protection. Applied alone, coconut cream causes burning. Applied alone, dairy cream causes burning. Applied alone, butter causes burning. The combination of all three is what prevents burning.

For the cream and ginger preparation he developed for skin with scarred or thickened tissue, he described three and a half ounces of cream juiced with one tablespoon of ginger juice, blended together to make a whipped cream, applied all over the body. He described this as a great moisturizer for everybody when toxins pass through the skin. He told one client with thick scarred skin from breast cancer who had been on the diet for nine years to use this preparation and reported the results were remarkable.

He also described a skin preparation for itchy skin as a bath additive: one-quarter cup of good mineral water, one small tomato or one-quarter cup of melon, blended with one tablespoon unsalted raw butter, fermented coconut oil, or one tablespoon stone-pressed olive oil, blended until warm to the touch so the oils are properly homogenized, then poured into a hot bath.

One of the most important contextual points Aajonus made about commercial moisturizers is that they were developed to address a real problem, which is that skin does not receive adequate fat even when large amounts of fat are eaten. He observed that on at least fifty percent of his patients, eating abundant amounts of raw fat, cream, and butter still produced dry skin, because the glands, organs, and muscles, being closer to the digestive tract and being in a state of chronic starvation, absorbed all available fat before it could reach the skin, bones, connective tissue, and lymphatic system. He called this the orphanage problem: the bigger, stronger kids closest to the food source take everything, and the weakest ones on the outer edge receive nothing.

Commercial moisturizers attempt to address this problem externally, but because they are made from processed oils and synthetic compounds, they introduce toxicity rather than nutrition. The skin is left with neither internal fat supply nor usable external nourishment. The answer Aajonus developed was the Moisturizing Lubrication Formula consumed internally, which digests so rapidly because of the pre-digestive action of lemon juice and egg on the butter that the glands and organs cannot absorb it before it passes to the skin, bones, and connective tissue. This formula is the internal nutritional solution to the problem commercial moisturizers attempt to solve externally with processed ingredients.

In his newsletters, Aajonus included reference lists of commercial products he identified as problematic. Among the personal care products listed in the context of industrial contamination were Gillette Complete Skin Care MultiGel Aerosol Shave Gel, Murad Acne Complex Kit, Diabet-X Cream, Aveeno Therapeutic Shave Gel, and numerous soaps including DermaKleen Antibacterial Lotion Soap, Naturade Aloe Vera 80 Antibacterial Soap, CVS Antibacterial Soap, and Phisoderm Antibacterial Skin Cleanser. Cosmetics named included Supre Cafe Bronzer, TotalSkinCare Makeup Kit, Garden Botanika Powder Foundation, Mavala Lip Base, Jason Natural Cosmetics, Blemish Cover Stick, Movate Skin Lightening Cream HQ, and Revlon ColorStay LipSHINE Lipcolor Plus Gloss. Deodorants named included Old Spice High Endurance Stick, Right Guard Sport Deodorant, Queen Helene Tea Tree Oil Deodorant, DeCleor Deodorant Stick, Epoch Deodorant with Citrisomes, and X Air Maximum Strength Deodorant.

He did not evaluate these products individually for their specific chemical compositions. They appear as examples within his broader argument that very few industrial advancements create better long-term well-being, and that all such products are designed to alter the body or temporarily improve function without improving health.

He commented specifically on deodorant as part of the broader category, and on cosmetics: almost all cosmetics contain kerosene derivatives and formaldehyde. He expressed particular irritation when companies use the term "natural" to describe products that are not genuinely natural, specifically calling out Jason Natural Cosmetics by name in that context.

Aajonus recommended coconut cream specifically as the replacement for commercial soap. He noted that historically, ninety percent of all soaps made in the world were made with coconut, and that industrial production replaced coconut with soybean oil and other cheap plant fats that could be grown quickly and easily. He stated that all commercial soaps are toxic and that the best internal body soap is coconut cream, meaning fresh coconut cream made from mature coconuts with thick white meat, processed through a juicer to separate the pulp from the thick cream.

He recommended coconut cream for use as shampoo, with the modification that if you do not want the hair to be oily, you allow it to ferment out of the refrigerator until it turns pink, then dilute it with water, wet the hair first, and apply the diluted fermented coconut cream. He recommended coconut cream for massage, specifically using fresh coconut cream when the goal is to feed and neutralize the skin, and fermented coconut cream when the goal is cleansing and breaking down toxins under the skin. He also recommended putting two to three tablespoons of coconut cream into the top of the bath water just before getting out, so that the body is coated with a thin layer of coconut cream as it emerges from the bath, because getting out of a bath typically leaves the skin dry and the coconut cream counteracts that.

A recurring element of Aajonus's position on commercial moisturizers is that the body must be nourished from both inside and outside simultaneously, and that commercial products fail on both counts because they are not food. He described the Primal Facial Body Care Cream as something you put on your skin every day if you bathe every day, because the skin needs ongoing external nourishment just as the body needs ongoing internal nourishment. He described one cosmetologist patient who had been on the diet for approximately ten years but still had dry skin and looked her age, because she would not eat enough butter. Putting the Primal Facial Body Care Cream on her skin was helpful, but the fundamental problem was nutritional deficiency internally.

He also noted that bone marrow applied directly to the skin makes a huge difference, and that a blended mixture of equal parts raw butter and bone marrow rubbed into the skin helps strengthen it and reduces the skin cells' reactions to toxins passing through the pores. Meat applied directly to the skin is another preparation he described using personally, sleeping with raw sirloin placed on his face for five to six hours overnight, and observing that ten percent of wrinkles disappeared after a single application, with continued improvement of two to four percent per additional application.

He stated clearly that butter does not penetrate the skin very well when applied alone, and that the Primal Facial Body Care Cream, which combines coconut cream, dairy cream, and butter with small amounts of honey, royal jelly, lime juice, and ginger juice, is what actually revitalizes the skin from outside. Straight coconut cream applied topically is also useful and can be used in the same context.