Creams, lotions and other potions promise (and sometimes deliver) radiant, youthful, magnificent skin. But sometimes the key to beauty is feeding your skin from the inside out. Here's a list of my favorite powerhouse foods that are proven to keep you looking gorgeous:. Continued...
My main goal in starting Saffron Rouge was to give people health benefits through clean, healthy, chemical-free, organic beauty products. Smothering your skin with harsh chemical ingredients and pesticide-laden ‘natural’ ingredients never made any sense to me these ingredients actually enter you body. Plus, plants are naturally loaded with healing vitamins, mineral, fatty acids and other marvelous things that feed and nourish your skin. For example, Jurlique’s Face Wash Cream is so pure that Jurlique’s founder Dr. Jurgen Klein used to add a dab to his pancake mix (I’d like to see you do that with your run-of-the-mill drugstore face wash). All of the organic plant base oils at Saffron Rouge can be used in cooking. (Not that you need to. But it’s good to know that you can.) Continued...
The pages of the weekly magazines would lead you to believe that all celebs live a life of champagne wishes and caviar dreams. But that's truly not the only scenario. Some use their stature (and money) to help a cause. And what bigger cause can there be than trying to save the earth? Woody Harrelson has done a lot with his name. He's gone on 'tour' promoting simple organic living, he's published a book (How To Go Further) and he even has his own eco-driven website that he started with his wife, Laura (voiceyourself.com). Continued...
Here's a statistic that will make you stop licking your lips. Experts estimate that the skin absorbs up to 60% of the ingredients found in your moisturizer, lip gloss and other products. So if you are what you eat, aren't you also what you slather on your skin? Continued...
I love gardening. It helps soothe and relax me, while also making me feel more connected to the earth. Unfortunately to most people, gardening includes synthetic fertilizers and pesticides that seep into the soil, polluting the environment. Continued...
John Masters started doing hair thirty years ago. Soon after he realized that a ‘green’ salon with environmentally friendly and nontoxic products would be a unique and beneficial business. To this day his salon is the only ‘clean-air salon’ in Manhattan (a city with hair salons on every block) and his organic hair products are adored by celebrities, hair stylists and the average consumer alike. I interviewed John to find out what products he uses, steal some of his favorite hair tips and learn what exactly inspired his organic vision… Continued...
A lot of people think that to protect their skin from the sun's damaging rays, they need to slather on the highest SPF they can get their hands on. And of course the mainstream, chemical-filled brands play into this fear with products that tout SPF 45, 50-even 70! But really, a higher SPF doesn't really give you greater protection. Continued...
That is the question I get asked all the time. There are so many ads out there making people believe they need to use a thick, heavy night cream. But I really believe that the trick is to using something light. Why? If you use a rich, heavy night cream every night your skin becomes dependant on the creams and forgets how to produce a normal balance of natural oil. It's like a cosmetic addiction (as if being addicted to chocolate wasn't bad enough). Continued...
