Growing Your Own Skincare Garden!

Growing Your Own Skincare Garden!

Have you ever consider growing your own skincare garden. Go to any beauty counter or online beauty store, and you’ll find hundreds (if not thousands) of skincare products featuring plant-based extracts. Regenerative creams with rose geranium oil, anti-wrinkle...
Summer Skin Survival Tips

Summer Skin Survival Tips

Summer skin survival tips ~ who doesn’t want to go make-up-free in the summer? Intense heat, high humidity, or desert dryness can do a real number on your skin, and the last thing you want to do is cake on makeup, right? Sweat means increased oil production...
Summer Fun, Don’t Forget Your Skin!

Summer Fun, Don’t Forget Your Skin!

Summer Fun, Don’t Forget Your Skin! Summer is here and in full swing! Fun in the sun, a day at the pool, cookouts, and outdoor activities are once again part of our lives (YAY!), and a return to active lifestyles is BACK!!! It’s easy to fall out your daily...
Summer Sun Protection – The Straight Facts From  A-to-Z

Summer Sun Protection – The Straight Facts From A-to-Z

Since May is National Melanoma Skin Cancer Awareness Month, it’s important to remember how much your daily summer activities affect you and especially your skin, and what precautions you can take to protect yourself and your family. Since skin cancer is predominantly...
How the Environment Affects Your Skin

How the Environment Affects Your Skin

Whether you’re indoors or out, your skin is affected by the environment. Your skin is bombarded by environmental aggressors daily. Air pollution and blue light from your computer screen and electronic devices produce free radicals that cause daily oxidative...
Clinical Skin Care – From a Botanical Perspective

Clinical Skin Care – From a Botanical Perspective

Treating skin discoloration is a big business in spas and skincare clinics and is growing tremendously by the day! The rise in photo-aging is caused by the sun and environmental exposure and the impact of technology and electronic devices and the HEV (high energy...
Too Much Fun in the Sun?

Too Much Fun in the Sun?

I am so excited that spring has arrived and beautiful weather is here again and we can all get outside and soak up some much-needed vitamin D! What is too much fun in the sun?  After a year of lockdown, excessive stress, and indoor confinement, our immune systems...
Is Your Skin Ready for Winter?

Is Your Skin Ready for Winter?

Although it has been a tough year, as we start the new year, we turn our attention to healthier habits, better nutrition, and the changes we all want to make for the new year ahead.  We move “out with the old & in with the new,” right?,  our internal...
The Perfect Skin Polish for You

The Perfect Skin Polish for You

Overexposure to the sun without protection leads to wrinkles, brown spots, and, eventually, the potential of skin cancer. Lack of sun protection is not news to most of us, but how to deal with it is. How do you enjoy an active, outdoor lifestyle and not end up looking...
Incredible Seaweed for Your Skin

Incredible Seaweed for Your Skin

Seaweed – an unexpected oceanic plant that is incredibly beneficial for the skin. Apart from its ultra-hydrating and antioxidant qualities, seaweed and many varieties of algae are chock full of anti-aging and anti-inflammatory benefits. It’s also packed with...