Posts Tagged ‘skin’


Rosemary’s Many Uses

You may only know the herb rosemary as a cooking spice, but this inexpensive, abundantly grown herb (it is even found in the wild all over in the Pacific northwest, you can walk down roads and see it growing wild many times) has many other uses. They are uses ranging from beauty to therapeutic health [...]

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Congress to Investigate Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients

In another round of great news for those who are health conscious about the products they not only put in their body, but also on their body, US Congress will be launching investigations into unsafe cosmetic ingredients over the next several months.  This was at the request of their constituents, thanks to pressure from those [...]

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Cocoa Butter’s Chocolatey Smell, Skin Health Benefits

So I’ve been tanning to get my dose of vitamin D in a specially designed UVB tanning bed that my husband and I purchased. I have to admit, it’s nice to also lay back in this bed and pretend it’s summer time, and with the long winters here, we really need to feel like we [...]

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Grapeseed Supplement Benefits

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the much ballyhooed compound called resveratrol which is a derived from the skins of darkly pigmented grapes, and is present in red wine (although according to some experts you’d have to drink 30 glasses of red wine to get enough of that anti aging benefits of [...]

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Lycopene and Sun Burns

I’ve talked about this before, but I think it is worth mentioning again. Especially considering the fear and paranoia that the media and others in high influence spread about getting sunlight exposure. The sun is there for a reason. It showers us with thermal, therapeutic, absorbing heat, which is therapeutic in its own right (who [...]

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