Starting a new year is like opening a beautiful book filled with blank pages. It’s a great time to reflect on what you want to keep in your life and what you need to get rid of. Here’s a New Year challenge: Clean up your act. Purge – your mind, your cupboards, your diet, your [...]
If you have read my blog on using turmeric and activated charcoal to whiten teeth, you will know that they both worked a treat. Both are incredibly messy, staining clothes, hands, the sink and just about everything else so it was a surprise to discover they almost miraculously remove stains from teeth. I balked at [...]
Are you worried about enlarged pores, blackheads or patchy skin? Try this amazing and natural mask to draw out all the impurities. Shrink the pores and leave your skin feeling refreshed and revitalised. It only takes a few ingredients and a couple of minutes to prepare but you will feel like you have been for [...]
Is your hair falling out in chunks or maybe thinning a little too fast? Androgenetic alopecia aka male pattern baldness can affect both men and women and is the most common type of hair loss. Although it is not life-threatening, it’s certainly not pleasant. Losing your crowning glory at any stage of life is quite [...]
I discussed reversing grey hair from the inside with nutrients but what do you do in the meantime? It’s all very well waiting patiently until the grey hair (hopefully) grows out and is replaced with something a bit more colourful but I don’t think I have that kind of patience. One option is to relent and [...]
Did you know that your expensive bottle of shampoo promising thick, smooth and shiny hair is probably full of endocrine disruptors, thickeners, foaming agents, solvents, plastic, silicone, preservatives and decidedly unnatural chemical fragrances? It also likely shares ingredients with things like paint, herbicides and putty. The scary thing is that very, very few of the [...]
Run out of foundation or simply don’t want to use the store variety anymore? You might be thinking that your only choice is just to go bare faced and be done with it but if you step right this way and into the kitchen, there’s another, entirely natural route. We already covered DIY mascara but [...]
Yes you can! It doesn’t seem possible to replace commercial cosmetics like mascara without getting a pharmaceutical degree but it is surprisingly easy when you know how. Once you get past the idea that make-up has to be complicated and full of impossible to get ingredients, you can make all sorts of lovely things [...]
Got dry or frizzy hair? Trying to cut costs? Like the idea of a conditioner safe enough to eat? Way too often we fall for hair products with alluring labels like "Nourishing" & "Shine" or even "Natural" which come along with their preservatives and other chemical additives. While that may not be lethal (in the [...]
Ever considered making your own soap bars? It’s no secret that commercial products can be loaded with chemicals, so if you’re concerned about what’s going into your skin, the best way to be sure is to craft your own. Apart from cutting down on the synthetic chemicals, preservatives, etc you get to go wild with [...]
