What are the Benefits of Coffee Essential Oil: A Skincare Hero
The age-old debate about the health of coffee and how much of it to consume continues since its origins dating back to Ethiopia and the ancient Middle East. By the 15th century coffee grounds were found to have good skin exfoliation use for an energizing scrub as a remedy for puffiness and dull skin tone. […]
5 DIY Vegan Face Masks – Affordable Skincare For Fall
Holiday season is coming with gift giving, celebrations, and more, tugging at the purse strings. You may find yourself looking for ways to save up especially when it comes to such luxuries as skincare. As we have reviewed in previous blogs, there are a myriad of ways to support skin health without breaking the bank […]
Unveiling Greenwashing: Know Your Skincare Ingredients
We strive to improve our awareness about the product ingredients we consume both in our homes and for our skincare, and there are entire consumer/industry movements shifting behavior toward cleaner beauty in general. In the age of fast information, we sometimes fall prey to quick unchecked fact-gathering through unresearched social media posts and less than […]
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 […]
The Revival of Body Brushing | Time-Tested Skincare for Wellness
As we wind down this year and look ahead toward the next, refocusing on what makes us well means reviewing and pruning habits. Often we find that skin care and wellness walk hand in hand, and that simplicity tends to produce the best results, both in health and practicality. This year we’ve worked on simple […]
Face Washing 101 | Love your Face Year-round, Naturally
We put our faces through quite the gauntlet on a daily basis with irritants, pathogens, bacteria, oil, harsh products, chemicals, and more, no matter the weather. This holiday season whether you’re getting your cheeks pinched by relatives, kissed by pets, or facing the elements outdoors, face care will be a must. We’ve put together a […]
