Posts Tagged ‘skin care’

Are You Polishing Your Skin With Plastic?...
Are You Polishing Your Skin With Plastic?

Are you polishing your skin with plastic? You are if your favorite facial scrub contains particles made from polyethelene. It’s a common exfoliating ingre

Can It Really Affect My Health
If I Just Put It On My Skin?...
Can It Really Affect My Health <br/>If I Just Put It On My Skin?

You might have heard that sure, parabens and other chemicals are bad if ingested, but they can’t penetrate your skin so you don’t have anything

The Safer Way to Make-Up...
The Safer Way to Make-Up

To achieve optimal health and create sustainable wellness, it’s imperative that you become aware of not only what you are putting in and around your body,

Ingredient Intelligence:
What You Need to Know about Fragrance...
Ingredient Intelligence: <br/>What You Need to Know about Fragrance

  Fragrance is the problem child ingredient of traditional beauty products. Wild and wily, these molecules of scent can wreak havoc on your skin by cau

How to Avoid the Most Harmful and Choose the Most Beneficial Ingredien
How to Avoid the Most Harmful and Choose the Most Beneficial Ingredients in Body Care

Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with toxic chemicals in personal care products. However, we don’t only need to know what to

Bug Off, The Natural Way...
Bug Off, The Natural Way

Bugs. For better or worse, biting critters are as much a part of summer as backyard barbeques and trips to the beach, except they’re a lot less fun. Thoug

Sunny Side Up: Get Your Healthy Glow...
Sunny Side Up: Get Your Healthy Glow

For decades now, the mainstream medical establishment has been bombarding us warnings to stay out of the sun! Use a 50 SPF sunscreen! Stay indoors till suns

The Most Toxic Cosmetic? Traditional Lip Glosses, Finds Study...
The Most Toxic Cosmetic? Traditional Lip Glosses, Finds Study

You won’t see heavy metals like arsenic, lead, and mercury listed on your beauty product labels. But that doesn’t mean your skin care and makeup is free

Are Your Body-Care Products Just Watered Down Skin Care?...
Are Your Body-Care Products Just Watered Down Skin Care?

Most body-care products include just a drop of the high-quality ingredients typically found in ones for the face. That’s what Diane Ginzel learned when sh

Melisse Gelula, the Christiane Amanpour of Skin Care Gives Us Her 7 To
Melisse Gelula, the Christiane Amanpour of Skin Care Gives Us Her 7 Top Skin Care Tips

Linda Wells, the editor of Allure, wrote Confessions of a Beauty Editor. Jean Godfrey-June wrote about her unlikely rise to the top of the moisturizer secti