There are potions to help you sleep, potions to settle your stomach or for digestion, even potions for fertility. The secret ingredients to these potions aren’t ‘eye of newt’ or ‘batwing’ as we see so often in movies. The ingredients are herbs. Plants with medicinal properties. Learn how to make an herbal blend for beautiful skin that works so good it must be magic!
Everyone knows they need a skin care routine, but how much do you need a body care routine for healthy skin? Only a lot!! Have you forgotten how important your skin is? It does us no good to have a face like a 20 year old if the body doesn’t fit with it. This means you need to be taking care of everything from your neck and your chest to your fingertips and toes! Let’s discuss what an ideal body care routine for healthy skin would look like.
We all love sugar, but what are the effects of sugar on the skin? Many of us don’t realize that by consuming sugar, we can be doing long term damage to our skin and our bodies. For instance, did you know sugar is more addictive than cocaine? In a study done on rats research showed the rats would choose sugar over cocaine, even when the dose of cocaine was raised! Sugar consumption has dramatically risen in the last century, causing a growing list of health problems in its wake. Let’s talk a little about what I mean when I say sugar.
You are here to learn how to get glowing skin. And what better way than to learn from a holistic esthetician! There are so many nuances to healthy skin, and honestly most are considered trade secrets that only skin care professionals really know. I would like to air out the most important of these trade secrets and give you guidance on how to get glowing skin.
June 4th is a Full Moon so in honor of this Strawberry Moon I designed these Full Moon Cookies based on an Ayurvedic cookie recipe with a coconut cream frosting flavored with strawberry powder! Trust me when I tell you, they are going to be your new favorite healthy treat because there is NO SUGAR in these cookies! Not even sweeteners like honey or agave! The natural sweetness comes from the dates. And the frosting…oh the frosting!! It’s a vegan buttercream alternative which I am so thankful I discovered because I could eat a bowl of buttercream frosting on its own. PLUS you can use any left over frosting (if you have any) as a luxurious, buttery, and natural shaving cream.
Rose hips are a very underthought herb…blossom? Actually rosehips are the fruit of the rose! They really are more common than you think, I bet you’ve seen them around in the wild or maybe even have them in your backyard. These little red/orange bulbs are packed with vitamins and natural medicine. Used for centuries to reduce inflammation, boost immunity, aid in heart health, and reduce the pain of headaches and arthritis. Modern herbalists still use rosehips for all of these things today however now we understand why rosehips are so powerful medicinally.
This bread recipe is what I use when I am craving bread but I don’t want to spiral about grocery store brands, extensive ingredient lists, preservatives, inflammatory ingredients, etc. When I got diagnosed with leaky gut and my doc told me to cut out all inflammatory ingredients including soy, gluten, sugar, and dairy, it got really hard to shop for groceries. I’ve always been good at making home cooked recipes but I was always like, “I don’t have a bread maker.” Well guess what. You don’t need one! This recipe only has 5 main ingredients, 6 if you include water. Now I can eat bread again and I don’t feel guilty or awful after I eat it.
Have you ever heard of Lymphatic Drainage? Do you realize how vital this process is for detoxifying the body? What are the ways to stimulate this function in the body? I have all the answers for you so you can get started healing your body and revitalizing your skin today!
This delicious dessert recipe for Camellia Tea Cakes is my niece’s new favorite thing. She LOVED getting a whole cake to herself and I didn’t feel guilty about giving her one because there is no refined sugar in these babies!
Cheers to the last soup of the season! (Hopefully.) The weather finally seems to be turning in favor of spring and I suppose this was my final craving for hot soup, at least for the time being. This soup is one of my favorites, my special Thai Coconut Curry Soup. It’s packed full of food magick and the best part is it’s the one soup that isn’t chili (which isn’t technically soup) that my husband will eat!
