If you are like me your hands are hardworking and always in need of some extra TLC. I know the secrets and tips to beautiful hands, but for some reason when a weed needs pulling or I am involved in a DIY project that is all forgotten. This may not be the season that we are gardening but we are still outdoors. Winter is the time of year when the air is drier and we all can use a good hand cream. So make sure to place a jar by all your sinks and tuck some inside your tote. H

When you use an orange, lemon, grapefruit, or any citrus fruit be sure to save the peel. You can use the peels fresh or dried in creating energizing body care products. The peels contain essential oils. These oils have a fresh energizing scent they also contain skin beautifying acids that help loosen dead skin cells and remove surface impurities from your skin. I like to use dried peels in creating skin scrubs to use year round. I simply place my fresh peels on a clean pl

Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is one of my top "at home" natural beauty ingredients. I love it because it can be used from head to toe to keep your skin and hair healthy and clean. It also helps detox our bodies and neutralize acids. Baking soda is naturally found in mineral deposits, lake sediments and groundwater. You can even find it sometimes in ocean water. In the US most of our baking soda is mined. As a consumer it is easily found at your local grocery store a

My mission for the past almost thirty years has been to share my love of "Natural Beauty" with all of you. I love creating and using plant based beauty products. I am also a health and beauty writer so this is the time of year I plan for the year ahead and do a bit of research into what is in store for the future of natural beauty recipes, products and treatments. After the slow and at home pace of 2020 there are definitely some trends I am sure you can all guess will be

Happy New Year - 2020 definitely gave us lots of things to think about - we lived a little smaller and slower and as I look forward to 2021 and the year ahead I realize that there were silver linings to 2020. We learned to ask for help if we needed it and help those that asked us for help. We were all a bit more emotional, sometimes feeling all the emotions in a single day! We also learned to be more grateful for friends, home, family and just what we had in general. Eac