Detox your skin and practice some loving self care with this three-step beauty ritual. You will remove dead skin cells, steam clean, and purify for baby soft, glowing skin. Spring is the season of renewal, and this time of year has my schedule packed with clients seeking to slough off winter skin with a deep cleansing ...
India is a country with a distinct beauty. The cinema known as Bollywood shows radiant colors, and beautiful women adorned with jewels, mendhi patterns, and black smoky eyes. Grooming practices in India are very traditional. Indians believe that a healthy diet, oiling the body, and avoiding the use of chemicals are the best way to maintain a ...
Pleasure and enjoyment need to surround our food in order to achieve the naturally glowing skin and energized health we all deserve. In my last article I shared 3 Foods That Ruin Your Complexion and it caused quite the buzz. It is not all about deprivation -- as that won't ensure sustainable changes in our health. So ...
All artificially imposed notions of beauty naturally make women feel less attractive. Women begin to feel as if they are miles away from the impossible standards given to them by the media. Should we enhance our natural beauty? Absolutely! However, we seem to be destroying, not enhancing, it. We will experience different kinds of beauty from the ...
The new BeautyCraft app from Herb & Hedgerow for iPhone and iPod Touch ($1.99 in the iTunes store) features DIY beauty treatments made with ingredients you can pick up at the market, with tabs for the 60+ DIY beauty recipes, along with a list of natural ingredients, and the equipment you'll need to whip 'em up. It's easy to ...
One of my favorite ways to wake up each morning, is with a baking soda face scrub. This is the perfect scrub for a number of reasons. It is cheap, effective, natural -- the perfect degree of exfoliation ... not too rough, but gets the job done. For years, I've kept a box in the refrigerator to ...
Since my job is often times to make jet-lagged and over-worked models look perfect for the catwalk, I realized that some of my beauty secrets could be interesting for those of you trying to look a bit more refreshed, no matter where your lives have taken you. Whether you're working hard, playing hard, traveling a ...
Yoga is reputed to be the fountain of youth and beauty, but what if you end up with the visage of a pimply teen instead of the serene yoga glow you had envisioned and worked so hard for? Hot yoga and vigorous vinyasa practices make you sweat like a beast, which feels gloriously cleansing, and ...
The most surprising prescription I've been given by a doctor wasn't something I could pick up at my local pharmacy. Instead, she told me to get out in the sun more -- and go easy on the sunscreen. The advice from my doctor came when a blood test revealed I had a vitamin D deficiency. As someone ...
I formulate skin care for a living, am obsessed with decadent plant oils and have dozens of lotions and potions from other companies I admire overflowing my bathroom cabinet. So what I did when my three-week-old, beautiful newborn broke out in full body baby acne may surprise you. I didn't reach for a product, rather my ...
