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If you're like me, you constantly try to reduce your impact on the environment, but it's not always easy. In the spirit of one of my favorite holidays, I've put together some ideas for how you can celebrate Earth Day every day. Small steps can make a big difference.

Purify your morning routine: From shampoo to lotions to deodorant it's important to know what's in your brands. EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database is the original and most

Organically Loving Your Epidermis

The loving goal is to provide your skin/body with the most wholesome basis to organically heal, firm and reinvigorate itself for enduring results. Nutritional scientists are continually discovering micronutrients, both known and unknown, found only in whole foods and their gently/USDA Organically processed ‘primary’ ingredients, are more essential to health than isolated vitamins, minerals and adulterated 'derived from' chemicals separated from their complete food matrix.

Unlike SanRe’s USDA Organic ‘skinfood’,

According to a report by the National Health Interview Survey, 81 million Americans experience dry, itchy or scaly skin during the winter months. The cold temperatures, humidity-free air and contact with wool and heavy fabrics can make the skin irritated and uncomfortable - worsening through the fall/winter. For most people, it is just an annoyance. But many with conditions that cause itch, like psoriasis or eczema, can really suffer.

Normal, healthy skin is 20–35% water. When the skin’s water content drops below 10%, it begins drying and brings discomfort

October often starts the beginning of the cooler fall season. The changing conditions require a change in one’s skin care. No matter what your skin type is, it does react to the changing temperatures and dryer conditions marked by fall. Below are a few suggestions to protect and restore you natural beauty.

Moisturize.

During the summer, controlling oil and helping the skin resist the effects of the sun and heat are top priorities. Coming into fall, focus more on balancing the skin and repairing the previous season's damage. Once humidity in the air drops, cold

Happy Feet - Happy You !!

Working, Walking Waltzing. Your feet take a beating, and its naturally very important to care for them. Our feet absorb the brunt our movement, the temperature extremes from hot to cold, wetness to crackling dry, and sadly receive little praise.

Provide more love to those laborious soles, and your feet, along with your body will thank you. Reflexology and acupuncture highly stress the importance of your feet; with thousands of nerve endings and connections related to your vital organs and energy points throughout your body. Along

Work, family and numerous responsibilities result in high-stress modern lives. We know stress can surely affect our mentality, but it can also affect our skin by aggravating skin problems, such as psoriasis, eczema, acne, hives, excessive sweating, hormones and oil excretion. It can be a terrible cycle, with stress causing skin problems and skin problems causing stress.

Your stressed emotions can have a powerful effect on your skin. In fact, a new field of medicine, called psychodermatology, has evolved that focuses on the correlations of the mind-skin connection.

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Used for centuries by natives to North Africa, Argan oil is renowned for improving skin problems, such as acne, scars, burns, wrinkles and imperfections. Argan oil is also widely recognized for its moisturizing, rejuvenating and hydrating effects on the skin, and for its strengthening and beautifying the hair and nails.

Specifically, Argan oil has several properties that make it a wonderful healing element.

• Active substances called triterpenoids offer skin protection benefits, including tissue healing (scars), anti-inflammatory, sun-protective and disinfectant

At SanRe, we use whole organic ingredients in our formulas to feed your skin, never synthesized extracts. We know that the precious and vital nutrients from plants, flowers and minerals are readily absorbed and can have a powerful effect to heal, nourish and gently encourage cell growth to give you radiant skin. We know what’s important to put in to our formulas and most important—what to leave out. Our labels reflect pure balanced formulas that we personally crafted for your health and beauty. Our line of Skinfood is now USDA Certified Organic so that you know it’s

How to Start a Personal Skin Care Routine
By: Bette Daoust

One of the most necessary things for any person is skin care. Depending on a person's beliefs they will have different personal skin care routines. For some their personal routine involves going to their favorite parlor to beautify their skin. Some would prefer to do their personal routine through facials and body scrubs, which they use, skin care products for. When it comes to personal skin care individuals have their own convictions. Contrary to what many think skin care doesn't have to

"If it can be done naturally, why go for artificial means" - this is the basic premise on which organic skin care works. Organic skin care is the most natural way of skin care. In fact, organic skin care was the first to be used by humans when they first woke-up to the needs of their skin. If exercised in the right way, organic skin care can prevent the occurrence of a lot of skin disorders and can help keep your skin healthy and young-looking for a much longer time.

Organic fruits and vegetables are extremely popular in organic skin care routines, for example cucumber is very