Why Use Shea Butter? Everything You Need to Know
Most people have heard of or used shea butter for skin care, and natural skin brands like Ellovi swear by it as part of a team of hero ingredients that make body and face care so effortlessly healing. So what’s all the hype about? What actually is shea butter? Let’s do some learning. Origin & […]
Common Skincare Routine Mistakes: A Review
Information about what we should do and what works and doesn’t work for others when it comes to skincare enters our direct or peripheral attention every day. If you’ve ever given a skincare algorithm on social media your valuable attention, you’re targeted with all sorts of product ads and influencers professing some specific routine or […]
How Does Sleep Affect Skin Health? Healthy Habits Made Easy
Yes, beauty sleep is real. So often we want to blame other bad habits or poor skin care regimens when there are breakouts and other skin issues, when, in reality, there are more factors involved in what’s going on. Much more often than not, the culprit is internal. One of the biggest players in skin […]
How Does Vitamin D Affect Skin & Wellness? Your Year-Round Guide
It’s that feeling of euphoria after time outdoors, that quiet contentment driving a healthy appetite, a deeper sleep, sparkling eyes, and a rosy glow on the cheeks. That healthy feeling is your body thanking you for letting it do what it was meant to do, live and thrive. Skin, our biggest organ, acts as the […]
How Do Hormones Affect Skin Health? The Power in Balance
Maintaining health, home, financial stability, and relationships has been the subject of many a meme and venting session lately. Social media captions like “positive mental attitude,” “everything is fine” and “adulting” below a rocking panda or sweating, eye-twitching person, ring true alongside our amusement. It’s an all too familiar act. With hefty pressures like […]
Skincare Tips to Beat the Heat This Summer: Cucumbers & Ice
The less glamorous joys of summer ~ constantly blasting air-conditioning, chlorine exposure, blistering heat mixed with pollutants, and our own body’s sweat, create quite the sticky situation for our skin, especially apparent on our faces. A review of good practices to throw into rotation is in order to put your best face forward and show […]
Skincare Industry Snags Abroad: Bringing Home Lessons From A Global Pandemic
When global conflicts or challenges occur, costs and shortages skyrocket hitting brands with impossible dilemmas forcing many to cut corners that reflect poorly on their values and ability to thrive. The domino effect can be crippling. Aside from problems with depending on outsourced supply and workforce stability, raw material brands tend to use, more often […]
Summertime Skincare Hero: Avocado
Summer’s just around the corner and we’re already out there soaking up Vitamin D, happy to get a break from volatile weather and layered clothing. Each season brings its own unique beauty as well as challenges for our bodies, starting, and ending for our biggest organ – the skin. As we expose skin to warmer […]
Travel Skincare Made Easy | Best Practices
Air travel and all travel, for that matter, can take a physical toll on us, with artificially recirculated air, dehydrating airplane cabins, low humidity, and hard water. In addition, travel can be stressful, whether you’re attending an event you’re anxious about, or a daunting work function, or you’ve just hit some snags along the path […]
Bathing Ritual: Re-learning Ancient Self-care
Amid the flurry of the holidays, work deadlines, sick season, and all the other ever-running to-do list items keeping us hyper productive day in and day out, not to mention the constant tech saturation, and pressures on small and large scales, it’s no wonder stress is written all over our faces (and bodies). We know […]
