Body scrubs improve your skin tone, remove dead skin cells, boost circulation and keep your skin soft and glowing. Homemade body scrubs are easy to make with sea salt, sugar, coconut oil, olive oil and essential oils. Olive oil and coconut oil moisturize and hydrate, sea salt is rich in minerals, and sugar is ideal for sensitive skin types. Detoxifying and relaxing essential … [Read more...] about 3 natural homemade body scrub recipes
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8 all-natural exfoliants for youthful, radiant skin
Save money on expensive boutique exfoliating products and look after your body at the same time with these 8 natural exfoliants. As your body naturally produces new skin cells, the old, dead ones fall away. However, often those dead cells don't flake off at the same rate, leading to clogged pores and rough, uneven skin texture. Furthermore, your body's skin cell … [Read more...] about 8 all-natural exfoliants for youthful, radiant skin
Why is aluminum harmful?
Aluminum is one of nature's most common elements and is used in many different applications throughout our society. It's used for everything from cans and foil to airplanes and certain electronics parts. And in general, we face little danger from aluminum even though it's around us all the time. So why do we think that aluminum may be harmful then? Evidence that … [Read more...] about Why is aluminum harmful?
Natural deodorant without baking soda
Natural deodorant without baking soda offers all the health benefits of natural deodorant without any of the sensitive skin issues as we'll discuss below. Why use natural deodorant? If you use a regular commercial deodorant, just take a minute to have a read of the list of ingredients it contains. You probably can't even pronounce half of them, let alone know what they are or … [Read more...] about Natural deodorant without baking soda
Beauty product ingredients that may cause cancer
Unfortunately, it's not just the aluminum in deodorant that you need to be concerned about when it comes to beauty products and their potentially harmful ingredients. Companies continually flood the beauty product market with new products, and many of these contain damaging chemicals which studies have linked to cancer. So let's take a look at some of these beauty product … [Read more...] about Beauty product ingredients that may cause cancer