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Magic Potion for Beautiful Skin
There are potions to help you sleep, potions to settle your stomach or for digestion, even potions for fertility. The secret ingredients to these potions aren’t ‘eye of newt’ or ‘batwing’ as we see so often in movies. The ingredients are herbs. Plants with medicinal properties. Learn how to make an herbal blend for beautiful skin that works so good it must be magic!
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The Best Body Care Routine for Healthy Skin
Everyone knows they need a skin care routine, but how much do you need a body care routine for healthy skin? Only a lot!! Have you forgotten how important your skin is? It does us no good to have a face like a 20 year old if the body doesn’t fit with it. This means you need to be taking care of everything from your neck and your chest to your fingertips and toes! Let’s discuss what an ideal body care routine for healthy skin would look like.
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What are the Effects of Sugar on the Skin
We all love sugar, but what are the effects of sugar on the skin? Many of us don't realize that by consuming sugar, we can be doing long term damage to our skin and our bodies. For instance, did you know sugar is more addictive than cocaine? In a study done on rats research showed the rats would choose sugar over cocaine, even when the dose of cocaine was raised! Sugar consumption has dramatically risen in the last century, causing a growing list of health problems in its wake. Let’s talk a little about what I mean when I say sugar.
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5 Secrets on How to Get Glowing Skin
You are here to learn how to get glowing skin. And what better way than to learn from a holistic esthetician! There are so many nuances to healthy skin, and honestly most are considered trade secrets that only skin care professionals really know. I would like to air out the most important of these trade secrets and give you guidance on how to get glowing skin.
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How to Make Avocado Toast with Microgreens: Detoxifying Recipe
I have been intermittent fasting for years and only recently have switched up my eating patterns based on a new study. This means I get to eat breakfast again and man oh man it feels like Christmas came early! I had forgotten how much I love breakfast food, because I associate breakfast with sugar like cereal, pancakes and muffins. However there is so much more to breakfast such as Avocado Toast! Since I don't do anything basic, I enhanced this toast quite a bit with Microgreens and a few other skin healthy ingredients. Hope you like this delicious breakfast recipe!
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Recipe for Vegan Full Moon Cookies with Coconut Frosting
June 4th is a Full Moon so in honor of this Strawberry Moon I designed these Full Moon Cookies based on an Ayurvedic cookie recipe with a coconut cream frosting flavored with strawberry powder! Trust me when I tell you, they are going to be your new favorite healthy treat because there is NO SUGAR in these cookies! Not even sweeteners like honey or agave! The natural sweetness comes from the dates. And the frosting…oh the frosting!! It’s a vegan buttercream alternative which I am so thankful I discovered because I could eat a bowl of buttercream frosting on its own. PLUS you can use any left over frosting (if…
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How to Use Seed Cycling to Balance Hormones
I absolutely love the concept of hormones and the effect they have in our lives. As a holistic esthetician, and from personal experience, I realized a long time ago the incredible need to have balance if you were to heal. My acne when I was growing up was the most frustrating concept. I pride myself on my intelligence and my drive, so when I tried EVERYTHING I educated myself to fix my acne and NOTHING worked, I kinda gave up for awhile. It has taken me years to understand the complexities of balance in the body and how they worked to heal and treat my acne, bringing me to a…
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Three Healthy Recipes with Rosehips: Cough Syrup, Apple Butter and Cider
Rose hips are a very underthought herb...blossom? Actually rosehips are the fruit of the rose! They really are more common than you think, I bet you've seen them around in the wild or maybe even have them in your backyard. These little red/orange bulbs are packed with vitamins and natural medicine. Used for centuries to reduce inflammation, boost immunity, aid in heart health, and reduce the pain of headaches and arthritis. Modern herbalists still use rosehips for all of these things today however now we understand why rosehips are so powerful medicinally.
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Basic Holistic Bread Recipe
This bread recipe is what I use when I am craving bread but I don't want to spiral about grocery store brands, extensive ingredient lists, preservatives, inflammatory ingredients, etc. When I got diagnosed with leaky gut and my doc told me to cut out all inflammatory ingredients including soy, gluten, sugar, and dairy, it got really hard to shop for groceries. I've always been good at making home cooked recipes but I was always like, "I don't have a bread maker." Well guess what. You don't need one! This recipe only has 5 main ingredients, 6 if you include water. Now I can eat bread again and I don't feel…
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Health Benefits Of Saging & How to Get Started
I love burning sage in my home. It makes the whole house smell earthy and fresh. It is a good way to cleanse the air before lighting a scented candle. Scented candles only mask smells, sage actually cleanses the air. I really wanted to keep my air clean when my doctor started talking about mold poisoning, this was my favorite solution. Reap the health benefits of saging your space with me.
