These days there is a real fear that natural beauty products and what they claim will happen are too good to be true. Ingredients may not be sourced properly or be natural at all — “All natural” says the bottle, but the ingredients list reads differently. Manufacturers may not follow ethical standards — Is the manufacturer [...]
Years ago, I used to love to read fashion and beauty magazines for beauty and skin care tips. I would devour information on the benefits of numerous hair and skin care products, and naively believe the amazing claims and promises and run out to buy them at my local drugstore or at my favorite department store's beauty counter. [...]
When I was a little girl, I loved to watch my mother sit at her dressing table, look in the mirror and begin her nightly skin care ritual. Mom was blessed with smooth, beautiful, brown skin and she cared for her skin with beauty rituals which were passed down by her own mother. She would apply heavy white [...]
Smooth and moisturize your skin with brown sugar and olive, sugar! Spring is in the air! And I'm so glad! Soon it will be time to peel off all of the cold weather layers and expose more skin. To me that means it's time to smooth, soften and exfoliate my dry winter skin now! [...]
