Own Your Beauty Rituals

It is so easy for women to feel bad about taking care of themselves, which is such a shame! Those few minutes we take are precious, and ancient. They are yours and yours alone! Trust that you are not doing it for others, or for a juvenile sense of having to look a certain way. You enhance your Life-given gorgeousness because you like to do it. It makes you feel good. So take even a little bit more time….

–Melissa Picoli, Esthetician/Founder, BijaBody health+beauty   www.bijabody.com/products/beauty-tea-blends

Finding Your Special Sauce

Every woman's skincare needs are different. Build a relationship with an anti-aging expert who will work with you until you find the right combination of products that work for your skin. 

Fighting facial wrinkles? Look for products that contain Licorice Root Extract and Panax Ginseng Root Extract.  These herbs have been used for thousands of years for anti-aging regimes in order to diminish wrinkles, improve the quality of your skin tone and brighten your complexion. 

Covering your brown spots with gobs of concealer? Look for products that have the active ingredient of hydroquinone to fade brown spots and ditch the concealer allowing you to look younger and use less make-up.

Redness and inflammation causing embarrassing comments for inquiring friends?  "…are you hot?"  …"did you just work out?" Seek out products containing aloe to soothe the skin and stop the inflammation cascade. 

– Kristen N. Burris, L.Ac., M.S.T.O.M.  Anti-Aging and Women’s Health Exert, Eagle Acupuncture and Rodan & Fields http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Kristens-Zen-Skin/248212175214896
 

Hundreds of Skincare Tips

Did you know that we have a special AlwaysNewYou site dedicated to skincare? It's called Hormones-Beauty-Health.com and it combines the science of skincare with the feelings of beauty to bring you easy-to-follow tips for keeping your skin looking radiant and youthful. Take a look at some of my favorites:

• Turn Back the Clock on Aging – Turn Off the Lights
• An Organic Ritual – Be Naturally Sexy
• Arm Yourself Against Cancer
   

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