8 Beauty Treatments You Can Do at Home – Skin Care Tips – Skin & Beauty – Daily Glow. In the summer, it seems even easier to take ingredients that I have at home and mix them up into potions for moisturizing and tightening. With all the fresh fruits and veggies available, it’s hard to …
Dealing with Adult Acne – The Daily Glow
Dealing with Adult Acne – Aging Skin – Skin & Beauty. Several months ago, I posted a blog post Win-Win: Eat Dark Chocolate, Look Younger. The gist of it was eating an ounce of dark chocolate per day provides health benefits: it improves cardiac health and even skin health. Some of my friends on Facebook …
Is Your Face Cleansing Brush Doing More Harm Than Good? – HuffPost; Should I Buy One?
Is Your Face Cleansing Brush Doing More Harm Than Good? Derms Address This Beauty Myth. I have been seriously wanting a Clarisonic Mia Cleansing Brush or any of its sisters for ages now. Like my electric toothbrush, it works via sonic technology. I read that a lot of beauty bloggers received them, including the Clarisonic …
Alba Botanica Natural Products
Alba Botanica is a brand that consists of affordable natural personal care, hair care and skincare products that are made in the U.S. The brand is a division of Avalon Natural Products, and both Avalon and Alba are owned by The Hain Celestial Group that also makes Celestial Seasonings and Hain oils. Alba has quite …
Gel Manicures: the Good, the Bad and the Who Knows
We all love some of the benefits of a gel manicure. Your nails look almost blindingly shiny. The polish doesn’t chip at all, not a bit, for at least 2 weeks. It just doesn’t come off till you have it taken off. What a great invention, right? Recently The New York Post, no shrinking violet …
Foundation Makeup: Friend or Foe?
For most of my life, I didn’t wear foundation. I was lucky that I always had “good skin” with few breakouts, rosy cheeks and a few freckles. I couldn’t understand why I would want to wear foundation. I thought it was messy and heavy. Although I can’t remember the brand, I can see in my …
Skin Benefits of Avocado, or Justification for Eating Guacamole (recipe included)
In spite of the fact that my team, the Patriots, didn’t make it into the Super Bowl this year (tear), we’ll watch the big game. And that means guacamole. Did you know that Americans eat about 8 million pounds of guacamole on Super Bowl Sunday? I adore guacamole, and I’ll be contributing to that 8 …
New Year Resolution #2: Hydrate…but Moisturize!
Second week of the new year and second resolution. Don’t worry, there won’t be 52 of these! Hydration. There are many people who are never without a bottle of water. I am not one of them. I don’t get enough fluids, and Jeff, my signif other, often tells me I should drink more water to …
New Year Resolution #1: Exfoliate!
I seldom, if ever, make New Year resolutions. I figure if you want to accomplish something or make changes in your life, you don’t need an artificial start date. But this year, I was thinking there were a few small things that I would try to incorporate into my health and skincare routine. Here’s the …
Win-win: Eat Dark Chocolate, Look Younger
What to do with all the chocolate you got for Christmas? Eat it, of course! Especially if it’s dark chocolate. For years, chocolate got a bad rap when it came to skin. Chocolate was pegged as the culprit for acne and blemishes. But not all chocolates are the same. It was not the chocolate that …