The Soap Your Entire Family Will Love

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We get this question all the time from our clients and friends: What’s a safe soap for my family?

Believe me, it feels like we’ve tried them all!! And it’s important given all the dangerous chemicals lurking in our bath products. Continue reading “The Soap Your Entire Family Will Love”

Chocolate Beauty to Brighten Your Winter Mood

“We simply shouldn’t treat ourselves or our skin as an afterthought, after all the skin is our largest organ that protects us from everyday stressors and so it should be loved profoundly.” – Birgit Biehl  Continue reading “Chocolate Beauty to Brighten Your Winter Mood”

Detoxifying Avocado and Oatmeal Face Mask

RNL has another beauty treat for you, friends. Yup, another easy (and timely for all my detoxers) DIY beauty post from Lara Morrissey.  Continue reading “Detoxifying Avocado and Oatmeal Face Mask”

Detox Bath to Brighten Your Winter Mood

One of the most profound shifts we make with clients is when they start investing in themselves by spending some time on themselves each day.

One of the most popular de-stress techniques is taking a nice long relaxing detox bath. Because we’re typically also filling in deficiencies and re-balancing the system, I like the bath to be functional and healing for the body, as well as relaxing. Continue reading “Detox Bath to Brighten Your Winter Mood”

A Little Skin Magic… (Special Guest Post)

This month’s ingredient spotlight takes a closer look at a fabulous little plant mother nature has given us. Meet Alchemilla vulgaris otherwise known as lady’s mantle. Now don’t let the demure name fool you.
This fierce little herb isn’t of the skittish variety as it is often found in altitudes as high as 3600 feet in the Scotch Highlands.
Lady’s Mantle is one of the many active ingredients found in the certified gluten- free Raw Honey and Vitamin C creme as well as the Purify Mask. It is rich in skin protecting antioxidant flavenoids and astringent tannins. What does that mean for our beautiful skin? Continue reading “A Little Skin Magic… (Special Guest Post)”

The Great Deodorant Debate…..

If you read my post, Do You Really Need Purple Lotion, you are now aware that your regular over the counter deodorant may actually be toxic! Yikes! So now what?? Are you to go au naturale and have the bon a fide guarantee to never date again?? No fear, I’ve got all of your answers right here.  Continue reading “The Great Deodorant Debate…..”

Think Your Beauty Products are REALLY Safe?

Have you ever stopped to think about what’s in that pink lotion, purple spray, green eye shadow, and red lipstick??  These things are all legal, but you may be surprised at what you find when you become a detective and find out what’s REALLY in your beauty products and the side effects they may cause. (It’s flat out scary!) Continue reading “Think Your Beauty Products are REALLY Safe?”

A Natural Approach to Skin Wellness

We have all embarked on the health and wellness journey together by means of both visual and mechanical methods. Though some choose to only read wellness reports, others prefer practical approaches. It seems as though everywhere you turn there is a new method for treating skin issues. As a skin care educator, I have compiled some research on which treatments and therapies are both tried and true. With a tendency to look toward natural wellness, I hope the following will give you information to pursue your own skin excellence. Continue reading “A Natural Approach to Skin Wellness”

‘Simply Birgit’ All Natural Beauty Review

I was so excited when Birgit reach out to me to review “Simply Birgit.’ Simply birgit is a body care line with one mission: to craft beautiful, natural & fairly traded body care ~striving to make every woman feel gorgeous, fearless, inspired ~ because you blaze your own trail!  Now I was initially attracted because ‘Simply Birgit’ is clean, natural, vegan, organic, fair trade, eco-friendly and a local small business.  Continue reading “‘Simply Birgit’ All Natural Beauty Review”