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Beauty: It's Not Only Skin Deep
Have you ever wondered why some cosmetics leave behind a residue, or what happens when cleansers seep through your pores? If not, you should know that what you put on your skin affects you at a much deeper level. |
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Cosmetic Safety: It's Up to You
I read somewhere that two London-based beauty-queen sisters allowed themselves to be evaluated for the body burden resulting from the absorption of the stuff they rubbed on their skin. |
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How Safe are Your Nail Products?
Many nail polishes and related products contain formaldehyde and toluene which are recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency as carcinogens. |
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Ingredients to Avoid in Personal Care Products
There has been a lot of talk lately about using naturally-based personal care products and avoiding certain ingredients common in personal care products. |
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Is Anti-Bacterial Soap Bad for Your Health?
Anti-bacterial soap contains a chemical called triclosan that disrupts hormones. Exposure to such hormone-disruptors can lead to early puberty, reproductive difficulties, and breast cancer. Triclosan has been found in the breast milk of women who use personal care products that contain triclosan. |
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Personal Care Ingredients to Avoid While Pregnant
Whether a first time mom or one with experience, I am sure that you have heard that whatever you put into your body not only affects yourself, it also affects the little one that you now carry. But did you know that what you put on your body can also affect them as well? |
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Shady Ingredients Aren't Always Listed on Labels
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics recently conducted a study and found that even products labeled “gentle” and “pure” were found to contain formaldehyde and 1, 4-dioxane. This is the first study to document the presence of these chemicals in bath products for children such as baby shampoos, bubble baths, and baby lotions. And to make it worse, many products contained BOTH of these chemicals! |
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Sunscreens Hazardous to Your Health?
The Environmental Working Group (a Washington-based nonprofit organization) recently conducted an investigation of about 1,000 brand-named sunscreens. They found that 4 out of 5 common brand-named sunscreens don’t protect consumers and may contain harmful ingredients. Popular brands like Coppertone, Neutrogena, and Banana Boat were among the poorest performers! |
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WARNING: How to Read a Label Correctly
Labels on personal care products contain a lot of ingredients! If you want to make better choices about the products you are using, you might be wondering where to start. Here are some things to consider: |
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| Natural Beauty, Ingredients and Remedies |
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Natural Ways to get Better Sleep
Sleep is such an important part of life and it’s a part that is receiving less and less importance with our society’s fast-paced lifestyle. Here are some tips on how you can get a good night's sleep--without the aide of sleeping pills. |
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Salt: A Natural Cosmetic
I just got back from a holiday trip to northern Austria and southern Germany--an area rich in salt and proud of it. Salt crystals are displayed in restaurants here, salt mines offer tours reminiscent of theme parks, and local stores sell salt products for cooking and beauty uses. |
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What Makes Lavender So Medicinally Effective?
Okay, everyone knows that lavender relaxes you. Not rocket science, right? But, how often do you really use it? In other words, how often do you really think of lavender as a medicine? |
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How to Be Indulgent With Lavender
Lavender is one of the most ancient indulgences in human history and has been in documented use for more than 2,500 years. This is one timeless scent that will never go out of style. |
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Would You Like a Head Massage?
You don’t have to book one at a local spa. What if I gave you all the tools right now to give yourself one (or pass them on to your partner?) Or maybe you’d like to surprise your partner after a long day with a sensual, relaxing, and loving experience! |
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Organic Fiji Review
Organic Fiji was formed in 2003. Bob Rogers was on a family holiday Fiji and learn't about the beneficial properties of coconut oil. The islanders attributed the health of their skin to the coconut oil used in their body products. When he returned home, Bob began importing the coconut oil to America and developed a range of products based on the Fijian coconut oil. |
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Scents and Sensibility: How Important is Scent in Finding Love?
Recent research has shown that we use scent to assess compatibility in finding a partner. Claus Wedekind, a biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, conducted a study where he gave 44 men T-shirts to wear for two nights in a row. The men refrained from using any scent-based products, so that only their natural scent stayed with the T-shirts (they used scent-free soap and aftershave during this period). Then 49 women sniffed the shirts, and more often than chance, women preferred the shirts of men who were immunologically dissimilar. |
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Sensual Massage Secret Guide
There is a lot more to massage than just learning techniques of touch. There are other things to be aware of when giving your partner a massage that have a lot more to do with a state of “being,” of giving an experience, and of how body parts are interconnected as a whole. |
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A Natural Solution for Dry Mouth
It seems like something small, doesn’t it? Like it shouldn’t really be a big deal. It shouldn’t affect your life this much.
But it DOES. |
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New Natural Treatments for Hand and Nail Care
Many companies are now making anti-aging hand creams that contain the same advanced ingredients for fighting aging as popular anti-aging face creams. And they’re all natural! You may even recognize some of these ingredients from Derma e products and just not know what they are or what they do. |
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5 Natural Ways to Fight Wrinkles
Most people are aware nowadays that protecting your skin from the sun is one of the best ways to prevent damage to your skin and wrinkles. |
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9 Steps to Natural Sunburn Relief
When I made the mistake of getting sunburned on vacation this summer, I found it very difficult to locate a soothing product without all the harsh chemicals I try to avoid (it was extra difficult being in a foreign country). |
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Deal With Dry Skin!
Of course you know to use a moisturizer when you have dry skin, but are you doing everything you possibly can to take care of yourself? |
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Skin Cancer—Who’s at Risk?
Everyone needs to protect their skin from sun damage, but who is at greater risk? Obviously people with fairer skin and those who know they burn easier from experience. But what if these traits don’t apply to you? |
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Coconut Oil for Sensitive Skin
If you have sensitive skin or would like to avoid a rash or irritation, you should use only natural and organic products. Organic cold pressed virgin coconut oil is one of the most stimulating and uplifting oil for sensitive skin and can be classified as top “notes” or top grade skin oil. |
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Safe and Natural Cosmetics for Psoriasis
Here are some tips for using gentle cosmetics and bath and body products for women who suffer from psoriasis. |
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Can You Really Fight Aging Skin Naturally?
Even as early as your late twenties/early thirties, you start to see the signs of aging on your face. They’re subtle, but they’re present, and they are a reminder of more to come. Our culture gives us a mixed message about how to perceive this. |
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FDA Panel Proposes New Tanning Bed Restrictions
An FDA panel has recently proposed some new restrictions to protect people from the dangers associated with tanning beds. Among the restrictions proposed are a ban on tanning bed use for people with the palest skin type, called Fitzpatrick skin type 1 (those with red hair and freckles), because they don’t actually tan, but burn with tanning bed use. Tanning bed use is also recommended to be restricted to adults ages 18 and up. |
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Using Herbs for Skin and Health
Nearly 40% of all pharmaceuticals medicines are derived from plants, fungi, and naturally occurring chemical compounds. One example is the Alzheimer’s drug galantamine which contains ingredients that come from daffodil bulbs. Another example is the high blood pressure drug reserpine with ingredients that come from Indian snakeroot. Even the cancer drug vincristine contains ingredients that come from rosy periwinkle! |
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Aloe Vera Bath
An aloe vera bath can deliver some much-needed moisture to your skin in the winter and soothe your skin from sun exposure in the summer—plus it’s all-natural, fresh, and easy to use! |
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Aloe Vera Papaya Drink for Clear and Healthy Skin and Digestion
Most people already know that applying aloe vera directly to their skin or using skin care products that contain it can be healing for many skin conditions. But did you know that drinking it can be beneficial as well? |
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Pumpkins as Skin Care?
The fall season is all about change. As the leaves change color and fall from their branches, it is a good idea to 'fall out' of your old skincare habits and make subtle changes to help you look and feel your best as the days grow shorter. |
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Oatmeal Bath for Psoriasis
The following bath was recommended by a woman from a psoriasis blog. She reported that she found it soothing and it did help clear up her psoriasis. |
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Victorian Lavender Cookies with Rose Water Icing
Here is a recipe for Christmas cookies you can make that use two of my favorite ingredients (also commonly found in herbal personal care products)—lavender and rose water! |
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Manifest Meditation: A Technique to De-Stress from the Holidays and Set Intentions for the New Year
The holidays are such a stressful time of year, because in addition to everything you normally have to do, suddenly there are so many more expectations. Some of them are pleasant, such as having more parties to attend or trips planned, and some are simply extra work involving locating gifts and cooking food. Meditative techniques are a great way to de-stress and recharge, especially during a period when you feel you can’t afford to. |
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How to Apply Fragrance Decadently
I have always loved fragrance. I remember being enchanted at department store fragrance counters as a child, taking home as many scent samples as I could. |
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The Evolution of CLEAN
There are so many wonderfully decadent ways to stay clean nowadays—ever wonder how it all got started? |
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Things You Didn’t Know About Candles
Enjoying candles should be a relaxing experience, so make sure you know how to keep your environment safe while the soothing flames are burning. |
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