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Easy One Ingredient Natural Vitamin C Exfoliant
Learn how to make an easy one ingredient natural vitamin C exfoliant to brighten, to reduce the signs of aging, to polish and refine the texture of your skin.
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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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Easy 5 Ingredient Non-Toxic Laundry Detergent Recipe
Let’s make a quick and easy non-toxic laundry detergent recipe together! Laundry soaps you buy at the store these days are full of chemicals, hormone disruptors and agents that irritate the skin. These are TERRIBLE for your beautiful skin and also for your whole body! In my article a few weeks back, 5 Secrets on How to Get Glowing Skin, I discussed the importance of having clean fabrics. This includes using clean products to clean your fabrics. If you want to read more about the significance of this for your skin please click this link to read that article. Now, let's get to brewing!
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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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Benefits of Using Fantastic (Adaptogens) Fungi in Skincare
Have you seen the documentary called Fantastic Fungi on Netflix? It is an incredible look into the magical world of mushrooms. While this documentary was for most people the first time they started to see mushrooms as something other than gross squish fungus, for me I began to see mushrooms as something truly powerful when Eminence began using adaptogenic mushrooms in their products. So lets discuss the powerful benefits of using adaptogens in your skincare ritual.
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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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Recipe For Strawberry Rhubarb Overnight Oats
Overnight oats are an easy protein option for a breakfast on the go! I love this option for breakfast fuel because you can dress oats up however you want - make them decadent if you want or pack them full of nutrients. For this particular recipe, we are going to focus on ingredients for glowing skin: strawberries and rhubarb. Not only will you be able to make this into a delicious edible recipe but you'll also be able to use as clean skincare!