The beauty aisle (or in most cases aisles) in any grocery or drug store are stocked full of impressive looking jars that promise you the moon but in addition to costing a nice portion of your take home pay they also include tons of ingredients that you can’t pronounce and are probably hazardous to your… Read More Top 5 Beauty Products Hiding in your Kitchen
Let’s begin by defining what an adaptogen is. As the name implies, regular use helps you adapt to your internal and external conditions. These are herbs that have been touted across the centuries globally for their healing benefits. Taken over time they are preventatives that help the body naturally function the way it was intended… Read More Let’s Talk Adaptogens
Alright ladies, let’s get personal. Whether you call them moon days, Aunt Flo, ladies’ days, a period, a cycle, or the curse I don’t know of any woman that looks forward to having her menstrual cycle. They are inconvenient and messy at best and expensive and painful at worse. For some of us it’s cause… Read More A Pleasant Period
I’m back eager readers but this one will be a quickie. Settle down fellas, not that kind of quickie. In the interest of the weather changing here in the city I thought I’d throw a little something out to my fellow sinus/allergy sufferers. I’ve discovered that adding 1/8 tsp. of SEA salt (not that mess… Read More Himalayan Pink!
In my recent musings I’ve come across a most interesting phenomenon – that of oil pulling. I was really impressed with all of the testimonies that I read at http://www.earthclinic.com/. The premise of oil pulling as laid out on http://www.oilpulling.com/ is that by swishing (or pulling) 1 tbsp of either sesame, sunflower, or coconut oil… Read More Oil Pulling
Consider this a public service announcement about that prickly, green plant which resembles desert flora that every one’s grandmother has growing around the house. I’m speaking of aloe vera. I don’t think you can consider yourself full grown until you have your own plant in your own house and now I know why. While putting… Read More Aloe Vera
O.k., have you ever known one of your parents or grandparents to have a cure for EVERYTHING that ails you? With my father it was alcohol and aspirin. My poor brother almost lost his toe to an ingrown toenail because Daddy kept telling him, “Just put a little alcohol on it, it’ll be alright”.… Read More My Precious! (aka Extra Virgin Coconut Oil)