7 Tips to Prepare Your Skin for that Spring Break Sun

7 Tips to Prepare Your Skin for that Spring Break Sun

Sunburn is often difficult to avoid, especially if your skin is fair like mine.  No matter how long the winter has been, spring is coming, and with it, the sun will be shining more!  Since your skin has not seen much sun, it’s important to take measures now to...
The 9 Reasons You Need to Consume Aloe

The 9 Reasons You Need to Consume Aloe

What?  You can consume aloe?  You mean it’s not just for sunburns?  Yes, you read that correctly!  While aloe soothes sunburns amazingly well, it is just one of the many uses for this plant.  Alexander the Great conquered an entire island with his army one time...
How to Combat Your Dry Winter Hair

How to Combat Your Dry Winter Hair

Help!  My hair is all dry and full of static!  What do I do?  It’s the middle of winter when the air is rather dry already, and your hair is so dry that it is breaking and giving you a headache.  You go to the hair salon to get it trimmed, but within a matter of...
Chocolate:  Friend or Foe?

Chocolate: Friend or Foe?

Chocolate is said to be a woman’s best friend.  You probably love receiving chocolates and giving them as gifts as well. You have probably read of health benefits of chocolate.  Are they true?  Well, maybe; maybe not.  Let me put it this way:  there are many...
5 Steps to Take When You Get the Flu

5 Steps to Take When You Get the Flu

  Flu season is here, and it’s not letting up any time soon.  To make matters worse, the flu vaccine is only 10% effective this year.  Schools are shutting down, and hospitals are filling up fast. If you have not gotten the dreaded flu, the easiest way to...
How to Combat Your Dry Winter Skin

How to Combat Your Dry Winter Skin

Winter is here in full-force by now if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, and your skin may be suffering terribly unless you took the steps outlined in “Preparing Your Skin for Winter.” The results are less than desirable and can mean red, chapped,...