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79Making Salt Scrubs
Salt scrubs, sometimes referred to as salt glows, are found in almost every trendy bath and body shop around. For good reason. They are a wonderful sensory experience. They smell heavenly, but more...
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86Kukui Nut Oil
There are a variety of exotic oils to be found in the skin care aisle today. It can be a bit intimidating to say the least. We are familiar with some, others we wouldn't know if they were sitting right in...
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90Honey for Skin Care
When you think of honey, what do you see in your mind? Do you see that little bear container filled with the amber syrup? Or, do you see the little girl on the jar of Sue Bee honey that I remember as a kid?...
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74Salicylic Acid
Salicylic Acid, the Beta Hydroxy Acid, is a generally well tolerated chemical exfoliant, and yet so much more. Chemical keratolytics (exfoliants) unglue the bonds holding dead skin cells together allowing...
0 comments95Olive Squalane
Squalane is a unique emollient oil that has been touted as nothing short of a miracle in a bottle. I highly doubt the miracle claims, but I do believe that squalane has an important place in anti aging skin...
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80Patchouli Essential Oil
Love it or hate it, Patchouli essential oil is valuable not only in perfumery, but in skin care as well. Pogostemon patchouli is a tender upright herb with spikes of white flowers, purple tinted. The...
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76Frankincense
Frankincense was one of the precious gifts given to the Christ Child by the Magi. The history of frankincense goes further back than this however. The earliest recorded use of frankincense is found on...
7 comments63Hyaluronic Acid for anti aging
There is nothing new about hyaluronic acid (HA). The compound (aka hyaluranan) was originally discovered in 1934 and up until the late 1970's was thought of as simply "the goo molecule". Gradually, sometime...
0 comments75Emu Oil
Emu oil has been the subject of many research studies, and had just as many claims attached to it. Remarkably, for the most part, the claims seem to be substantiating themselves through the research. Emu oil...
3 comments63Exfoliants-Which to Choose
There are essentially two ways to exfoliate--chemically or mechanically. Mechanical exfoliators are things like scrubs (salts, sugars, jojoba beads, etc), loofa's, micro dermabrasion and the like. Chemical...
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