Ingredient Spotlight: Shea Butter Shea butter is one of those ingredients you see listed in nearly every beauty product nowadays. In your shampoo, in your body moisturiser … it seems like a ‘buzz’ ingredient but is it really worth the hype? What is it even?! Shea butter is a solid fatty oil that comes from …
Is Sunscreen Dangerous to Your Health? Everybody knows that sun safety during the warmer months is of the utmost importance. UVB and UVA rays can cause irreversible damage to our skin and bring about undesirable signs of premature ageing, all the way to serious sunburn and in severe cases melanomas. Everybody needs sunscreen. But the …
How to be Sun Smart this Summer The sun is the source of summer beauty – bright, hot and life-giving. Summer is a supercharged season of activity, intensity and yin energy that can bring out your skin’s incandescent glow. But there’s a darker side. Read on to learn how to be sun smart. It is …
It’s always a shame to see summer fade. As the beach days and balmy nights make way for cooler weather, our skin prepares for the changes ahead. Don’t put away your Organic Sun balm yet! Although our favourite sun balm is a before and after sun moisturiser, the many other uses and benefits of this nourishing …
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I felt the first cool chill of the year this week, and realised that I am well behind in my goals for 2016! I had planned to launch two new products by this time, and although I won’t be ready to do that for a while, I have a special gift to share with you …
We all suffer from winter skin from time to time. Being our largest and most susceptible organ, the skin is our most reliable marker for how hydrated we are, and how we are faring with the environmental elements that our modern day lives expose us to. Dehydration can eventually cause inflammation, redness and loss of …
Imagine this: Curling up somewhere soft and cosy, and falling asleep peacefully. While you sleep, the laundry and dirty dish fairies are busy at work. The dinner pixies are getting down to business. And the rest of the boring chore fairies are weaving their magic too. Meanwhile in your dream state, you are resting and …
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Whether it be fleeting or ongoing, minimal or all-soul-engulfing. We all have experienced stress at some point in our lives. Motherhood, family, divorce, death, financial hardship, illness, work, home, our feelings towards the past, the future – many life factors deliver challenges to test our capacities to cope. These days we are overrun with well, …
I love the challenge of eating seasonally and creating new dishes from the foods I have available! In the interests of maximising fertility at my age
For years I tried many brands of natural and eco under arm deodorants and struggled to find one that I like, that works, and that isn’t expensive. This lead to my first attempt at hand-making some. I really wanted to incorporate my favourite ingredient of all time – Coconut Oil. It’s anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and is …
