If you've ever stopped to look at the ingredients in your bottle of shampoo, you would likely find a list of 20-30 or more different compounds, most of which you cannot pronounce, and if you are like the average individual, you'd probably just say, "huh" and rub the nice bubbly lather all over your head anyway. …
What is in Your Chapstick? (A.K.A. “A Rant About Toxic Beauty Products”)
The biting winds of winter and the constant running of the furnace lead to dry skin and inevitably to dry and chapped lips. The atmosphere at the hospital where I work is always dry, and by the end of my shift my hands are red and starting to crack and I feel stuffy with a …
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Peppermint White Hot Chocolate
This is another hot recipe to warm you up this winter 🙂 This peppermint white hot chocolate is creamy and very rich. For those who are trying to avoid high oxalate foods, hot chocolate using cocoa butter is lower in oxalates than regular hot chocolate made with cocoa powder. It is still, however, an advanced …
Peppermint Citrus Sugar Scrub
Living a healthy lifestyle involves more than just eating organic produce once in a while or trying a cleansing diet for a month. These are both good ways to get started on a road to health, but healthy living really involves more than just food. It involves everything we breath, everything that touches our skin, …
GAPS and Essential Oils
Photo credit: donnierayjones via Visualhunt.com / CC BY Anyone who has gone through the GAPS diet knows that starting the diet is not the easiest thing you've ever done; it may have been the hardest. The Introduction Diet can be brutal, in terms of how you feel when you are in the throes of detox …
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