This maysound like a ridiculous question, but withincreasing consumer awareness over chemicals and the potential health risks that they pose, it is a question you might like to consider.I hate to sound like an alarmist, and quite frankly in the past I have never been a strong advocate of the soy and alfalfa sprout brands of skincare products so abundantly available in healthfood stores, simply because while they have lovely ingredient listings, THEY GENERALLY FAIL TO PERFORM.That is, they generally do not perform as well as the laboratory concocted, super concentrated and scientifically formulated vitamin cocktails do, the ones that you get from your dermatologist or high end skincare specialist (like me!).
Before you rush out and spend a fortune on candles this holiday season, you should know the facts. Soy candles vs. paraffin is a growing debate. You may have heard that paraffin candles emit soot that is somehow harmful to you and the environment, and that soy candles burn clean.Here's the truth…
In the ten years since I first established The Healthy Skin Shop, and during the countless articles and lectures I have prepared during that time, never once did the subject of high-performance strategies on a budget ever come up. I guess there’s a first time for everything.
The skin care industry has morphed over the last dozen years or so into not only a huge business but an expensive one. Long gone are the days of cold cream and Noxema. Beginning in the mid-nineties, the industry boomed with high end potions and formulas, costly nutritional support, and of course all sorts of new-fangled treatments that not surprisingly also came with looming price tags. No end was in sight while the economy zoomed into the stratosphere. The pendulum has now swung back the other way, rather harshly at that. So we are now forced to think about alternatives, or to prioritize the products or treatments that are worth continuing while we eliminate the rest.
Something Fishy is Going on…. Written by Maggie Casola, The Healthy Skin Shop
Rarely does a vitamin supplement impress me with quick and dramatic results the way that a pure, liquid fish oil does. Yes, I said liquid. No, it doesn’t taste nasty. The new fish oils are highly purified, definitely doable...
THIEVES IN THE NITE: Don’t Let the Cold Weather Steal your Health! Written by Maggie Casola
Here comes the cooler weather, and with it concerns about catching a cold, or worse – dare I mention it – the dreaded swine flu.
Rather than get carried away in the fear and drama we see playing out in the news each morning, we do what we always do, look for the most natural and side-effect-free way to stay healthy during the colder seasons. Enter Four Thieves Oil, or Thieves Oil Blend, the patented name for a blend of essential oils that enjoy the reputation of being excellent anti-bacterial agents. I never get tired of telling the Thieves Blend story, so here I go. I have no idea if it is true, but I love it just the same.
