Beauty Basics

The Ultimate Guide to Holistic Skin Care

Now that you actually understand your skin, let’s get to the how-to and discuss the essentials of holistic skincare.

Number one thing to remember for optimal skin health, take good overall care of your body. Your skin reflects its external treatment as well as the health of other organs in the body. Even the most thorough superficial skincare routine won’t be enough if the skin is actually reflecting an internal problem. Here it is, everything you need for beautiful, healthy skin from the inside-out……

Daily Skin Routine: the Ayurvedic Way

aaaahh, the skin routine!–the foundation of skin health. A good skin routine can feel more like meditation than chore. It’s a twice daily ritual where we clean, massage, and refresh the skin.

Let’s go through the ritual for removing makeup, cleansing, nourishing, and moisturizing the skin–the Ayurvedic way……

Protecting Your Skin from UV Damage

Using sunscreen daily is the best protection against ultraviolet radiation (UV) damage. However, it’s important to know how to choose the right sunscreen.

Tips for choosing sunscreen:…

Do You Know How Your Skin Works?

What your skin does for you:

Skin is the body’s primary defense system, acting as a physical and chemical barrier and shielding the internal tissues of the body from the outside environment. The skin protects internal tissues from ultraviolet radiation, free radicals, microorganisms, and other environmental hazards.
Skin is the body’s primary regulator of temperature.

Most important in understanding skin function is understanding the epidermal permeability barrier, which plays a crucial role in your skin’s ability to perform its duties. In the past, much of the medical community believed a compromised permeability barrier was merely a symptom of skin disease. However, recent research suggests that a compromised barrier is actually a primary pathophysiological factor for many skin diseases (such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis). This means a compromised barrier leaves you vulnerable to an array of problems….

Your Intro to Holistic Hair Care

hair-2000 Forget all the clichés, we all know a girl’s true best friend is her hair. This relationship may not be the healthiest–after all, a bad hair day can easily turn even the most blissful, nurturing women into bitter and disgruntled curmudgeons…

But before the $400 haircuts, blowouts, and endless styling and color treatments, there are some basics things we can do to help care for our hair. …

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