A really nice homemade sugar scrub I like to make to help really exfoliate my skin is my homemade sweet maple sugar body scrub. It is very moisturizing and exfoliating and really gets skin feeling soft and looking glowing. The ingredients you will need to make my homemade sweet maple sugar body scrub are 4 ...
Along with the chills of the winter approaching, the cold weather also brings red, itchy, and dry skin. As we get older, our skin is not able to retain as much moisturize and the cold weather makes it even worse. While our hands and feet get the worse of the cold weather, every part of ...
Vaseline Intensive Care Nightly Renewal Light Body Lotion is a fantastic, low cost all-over body moisturizer. With grape seed extract, lavender, and a variety of vitamins (including the skin-renewing vitamin A – the active ingredient in Retin-A) and skin nourishing oils like Sunflower Oil, it is everything you need for all-over soft, glowing skin. It’s ...
Now that spring is has arrived, many people are making plans to spend more and more time outside, enjoying the warm weather. Although a small amount of sun is healthy, too much sun exposure isn’t healthy and can actually be harmful in more ways than one. According to Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center, being exposed ...
Pregnancy can be a wonderful time during a woman’s life. It’s exciting to prepare for a new baby. Body changes can be a little disconcerting though. We’d all love to have the beautiful pregnancy glow but being pregnant isn’t always pretty. One surprising side effect of being pregnant is a pregnancy mask. Also known by ...
As colder weather approaches so does the appearance of flaky, itchy skin. Winter temperatures and dry indoor heat brings an increase in the number of cases of xerosis, the medical term for dry skin. Xerosis is the most common cause of flaky, itchy skin. Before assuming that your itchy skin is due to xerosis, it’s ...
My daughter and I attended a Body Shop home party, and The Body Shop rep had a ton of products that she passed around, (while we were soaking our feet in a tub of hot water with peppermint oil!) I love the smell of cinnamon, and other “Christmas” like scents, and so I fell in ...
If you’re like me, you don’t want to go into the summer months with pasty white skin, looking like you’ve never seen the sun! If your concerned about the health of your skin (and not looking like a lizard in 30 years) tanning beds may not be a viable option for you. A great way ...
The skin is the largest organ of the human body and because different areas of the skin are exposed to different elements throughout they day it requires different types of moisturizers to keep it healthy. There is a wide variety of body moisturizes on the market and some claim to be made with all natural ...
Shave minimizing lotion products are another one of those product inventions that had most of the women in America shouting “hallelujah!” You can truly buy some great shave minimizing lotion products for well under $10.00. In a world full of $5.00 coffees $10.00 to save you from having to shave your legs as often seems ...