Knowing Your Organic Skincare No Nos

When I get the chance to blog about all things organic skincare, I like to talk about what we should be doing to look after our skin - whether that be what we should eat, what we should drink (or not!) or how to make sure we carry out a proper daily skincare routine.

But whilst there are plenty of beautiful natural and organic raw materials that can help our skin, there are plenty more that we should avoid. Here's three...

Five Reasons To Keep The Faith This Feb

So it is February already and whilst you might have had high hopes to improve your organic skincare routine and New Year resolutions in general - let's face it... we all need a bit of help in keeping our promises.

So rather than beat yourself up about why you have raided the chocolate drawer again, or helped yourself to that extra glass of red, check out five top tips to help get your healthy lifestyle back on track!

Resolve Yourself To A Natural Skin Care Regime

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new year and your skin is feeling good!

Well it would be if you were to follow a few simple organic skin care resolutions, that should stand you -and your beautiful skin - in good stead for the rest of 2011 and beyond....

Everything's Cool and Everything's Smooth...

The winter is truly upon us, with minus temperatures out there and heating full on inside, it can play havoc with your organic skincare routine.

Whether your skin is chapped, sore from shaving, red and inflamed or just super sensitive, here are three natural and organic soothing raw materials that will help calm your skin.

Introduce Your Man To Organic Skincare

If you’re a Man looking for the right organic skincare (or a woman buying for their son, husband, boyfriend, uncle, nephew, friend or lover) you'll want to know what ingredients you should look out for and what should you be wary of.

So do Men need different products to Women – or can we share our bathroom cabinets and shelves?

Five Fixes For a Fab Facial

Who doesn’t love a good massage to relax, release tension, tone, detoxify? Aching limbs, shoulder stress and aches and pains can be pummelled away and our body can feel like it’s floating in the air.

But massage isn’t just good for our back, neck, shoulders, limbs and soul - it should be included in your organic skincare routine, as it’s fab for your face too!

Snuggle Up To Organic Skincare

The clocks have gone back and for me, it’s a real sign that Autumn is out and Winter is well and truly upon us. As the seasons change so do our wardrobes but it’s also worth giving your natural skin care routine an overhaul as the cold weather sets in.

Winter weather can play havoc on our skin as we are faced with going from artificial central heating out into the cold. These extremes of temperature mean our skin needs some extra TLC within your organic skincare regime to avoid our skin looking dull, dry & flaky.

Here are my top tips for keeping your skin looking wonderful this Winter.

Organic Skincare By Any Other Name...

Roses conjure up so many images – the quintessential English garden flower; the florists favourite - the lovers bunch of red roses, the friends bunch of yellow.

They are delicate, precious, expensive and smell exquisite.

It may take a lot of rose petals to make just a drop of Rose essential oil – making it one of the most expensive essential oils you can buy - but they are also a organic skincare dream product.

Rosehips - A Natural Skin Care Phenomenon

It is one of those amazing, wonder ingredients that defies explanation.

A natural raw material that is found in hedgerows up and down the British Isles that, when used correct can benefit so many skin types and skin conditions - and thus is found in some of the best natural skin care products you can buy.

Step forward and take a bow, the humble Rosehip.

Does Your Natural Skin Care Product Pass The Acid Test?

We all know the importance of keeping our body hydrated. We can keep our skin hydrated by keeping our body hydrated, making sure we drink at plenty of natural mineral water as well as cutting down on substances that act as natural dehydrators – such as caffeine, sugary drinks and alcohol.

But we can also keep our skin hydrated by using natural skin care products contains an ingredient that does three important things - add moisture, lock in moisture and hold moisture. That ingredient, is Hyaluronic Acid.