Aromatherapy
How Essential Oils Work
What is the Chemistry of Essential Oils? Essential oils are Mother Nature’s volatile aromatic compounds. They are generated within flowers, shrubs, roots,
Skin Care
Avoid These Skincare Products
With all of the different beauty care products on the market and less than optimal regulation of what is put into these
Breast Cancer
Avoid Parabens
Recently, researchers published their work in which they found higher concentrations of parabens (preservatives found in many products, especially beauty products) in
Aging
How to Lessen Skin Aging
Here’s a disturbing fact – at this very moment, a destructive process called glycation (actually Advanced Glycation End Products or AGEs) is
ARIIX
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils – Fact or Fad?
Recently, one of my nursing students asked me what I thought about essential oils and aromatherapy. Now she wasn’t talking about the
Air Filtration
Air Pollution: It's not just outside
I grew up in Los Angeles, California. Fortunately, I lived a couple of miles away from some of the nicer beaches in
Filtration
Don't Drink the Water – if it's Stored Warm
Plastic water bottles are frequently made from polyethylene terephthalate (PETE). When heated or stored in warm areas, the material releases the chemicals
Aging
Age Accelerators
Aging is not just the way we look… Your skin is your largest organ in the body. We look at aging differently
The Truth & Consequences of Cosmetics and Skincare
What is Skin? It’s Not Just Our Outside! A friend of mine was once asked by a male patient who
Antioxidants
Wine and Toxins – How Dangerous is it?
Drinking wine is one of mankind’s oldest pastimes. It’s even mentioned early in the Old Testament. But what if it made you