by keira-anne ?

Natural Organic Skincare Tips

Did someone advise you to buy natural organic skincare? Did you see the importance of using one? It is hard to convince someone to use something, if she does not believe it. Some people are driven by brands and prices. If the product is made by a notable brand, or if the price of the new introduced product is high, then people will go for it. Some too are lured by endorsers, if the product is advertised by Hollywood actors or other well-known celebrities, then people will try and buy it.

But now, it is time to change that mindset because not everything you believe like branded products, expensive ones, Hollywood actors, and etcetera will give you a safe and effective skin care products. It is time to wake up from that wrong notion.

So seriously, why some people are campaigning for skin products that are made from natural and organic substances? What is the difference? Truthfully, there is a big difference. Organic substances have no side effects and it is very effective.

If you want to know the truth, then keep reading.

Do you know that there are branded skin care products that contain toxic substances? Yes, and every time you apply it on your skin, it is like putting some acid on your face or body. Some side effects may not show on the outer side but it may have effects on your overall health and your vital organs. If you do not want that to happen, then time to switch to organic products. Do you know that parabens, fragrances, artificial colors, mineral oils, or genetically modified organism from plant sources, including synthetic preservatives are definitely harmful?

That is why you need to be discerning with what you buy especially products that you apply on your skin. It is not hard to identify what to buy if you have the right information. Do not just believe what everyone says about a product, you have to conduct your own research regarding the manufactured goods. Nowadays, it is easier to verify information because of the internet. It is not hard to know the truth because you can Google almost every thing that you want to know. Be cautious and get the habit to check first the ingredients of the natural organic skincare that is being introduced to you.

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by keira-anne ?

Natural & Organic Skincare Products – Money Spinners Or Genuinely Better For You?

We all like to believe that if something says ‘natural’ or ‘organic’ that it must be better for you than the alternatives, but is this just another set of cleverly thought out marketing drives and gimmicks? It is after all a sad fact of life that where there is money to be made there will be rats who try and take advantage of this. I am not an expert on the effects of chemicals in skincare but wanted to present my views as from my experience there are genuine skincare companies out there that are trying to make a difference and do really care about the products they sell:

Do I really need to buy organic and natural products as the just seem to be more expensive and it is drying up my already barely flowing, credit crunch munched finance
river?

I am not going to advocate buying natural and organic products for the sake of the alternatives as ultimately we all need to consider the benefits and risks and make our own choices. At the same time though do I believe in natural and organic skincare products as a better choice? The answer for me is most definitely yes. They have made a massive difference to the way my skin looks and feels and the knowledge I have that I am not putting potentially harmful chemicals onto my skin is greatly reassuring. It is great to know that I am using product made by people who put what is best for me as a consumer ahead of share price value. Not to mention the natural and organic products themselves are really improving in terms of packaging and general presentation which makes them a very fun and edgy alternative.

Is it really worth the money?

Again it comes down to economic principles. As there are a few huge skincare companies driving the market they are best placed to take advantage of marketing drives, influencing consumer preference and just generally being out there (when last have you gone an entire day without seeing an advert by one of the big boys?). Because of this they are able to mass produce products cheaper than other smaller organic and natural skincare companies. The other fact is that massive companies are going to try and maximize profits for shareholders and will as such use the most economically viable products not necessarily what might be best for you the consumer for example organic alternatives.

So the answer is if you want to follow a natural and organic lifestyle you are going to have to pay a premium for the privilege. So the brutally honest answer to whether they are money spinners or Genuinely good for you is that it is a little bit of both. There are people out there piggy backing the rising desire to follow a healthy lifestyle and cloaking old products as ‘new natural ingredients’ and others who are not trying to make a quick buck and do things for more altruistic personal reasons.

It all comes back to you as the consumer, do not be afraid to challenge companies and do your own research. After all an informed decision is better than a decision on its own.

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by Toban Black

Solve All Your Christmas Gift Dilemmas With Vouchers For Natural And Organic Skincare Products And Treatments.

Stuck for what to get you loved ones for Christmas, or stumped by the friend who has everything? Give your special ones exactly what they need or let them choose for themselves with gift vouchers from Scinboutique and Scin Spa. With a voucher they can choose from all the gorgeous natural and organic Skincare goodies at http://scinboutique.com, spend their gift voucher on pampering themselves with a fantastic treatment at Scin Spa in Notting Hill, or combine the two! We offer some great treatment packages which could be purchased with vouchers at our beautiful and relaxing Notting hill Spa…

The Scin Indulgence for One or Two; this amazing pampering package is now half price. It includes a Hydrotherapy session, a full body massage and a quick fix manicure or pedicure, you can go along with a friend or just relax on your own. The complete package for one person is £60 or £120 for two people.

The Scin Pregnancy Pampering Package is the ideal present for any mum to be. The treatment includes a face, scalp and full body pregnancy massage and a quick fix manicure or pedicure. All Scin pregnancy massages are performed on a specially designed pregnancy treatment couch so the mum to be can enjoy maximum comfort and relaxation. The couch has a hole with elasticated mesh which supports and molds to the bump – whatever size it is! This treatment lasts for two hours and is suitable for anyone over thirteen weeks pregnant.

We feel that men don’t get enough pampering and can often be tricky to buy presents for, so why not spoil your man with a totally relaxing and refreshing Scin treatment especially designed for ‘him’. The pampering package is £75 and combines the ‘back treatment’ – the most popular treatment among our male customers – with a quick fix pedicure or manicure to ensure he is groomed to the max. The Mens Pampering Package lasts 90 minutes.

The Scin Ultimate Pamper Package includes hydrotherapy, fast fix organic facial, back and scalp massage, full manicure or pedicure £125 for 150 mins. Scin Buttock and Thigh Detox includes hydrotherapy, buttock and thigh treatment and a pedicure, £110 for 135 mins. With the Scin Massage Heaven you will be treated to utter relaxation with hydrotherapy, face, scalp and body massage, £95 for 120 mins.

At the Scin spa in London we provide a variety of Dermalogica Facials and Organic Aromatherapy Facials. Scin Dermalogica Facials are deep cleansing and generally include steam and extraction. All Scin beauty therapists are fully qualified and undergo intensive Dermalogica training to ensure that all Dermalogica Facials at Scin are customised to your specific needs and desire for glowing youthful skin. The most popular facial at Scin is the Customised Standard Facial. To bring a little cheer to these credit crunch times we are now offering 15% off all Dermalogica products with every Dermalogica Facial. The offer expires at the end of November 2008, not available on the Fast Fix Facials.

In Scin’s Organic Aromatherapy Facial we use a range of skincare products called Circaroma. Circaroma is a handmade certified organic skincare range and the products contain an array of beautiful organic aromatherapy oils and other natural and organic ingredients. We tailor the Organic Facial for your skins needs from the Circaroma products designed for either dry, combination, oily or sensitive skin. Scins Organic Aromatherapy Facial is wonderfully relaxing and we aim for you to leave with your skin feeling clean and refreshed and feeling personally rejuvenated.

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by keira-anne ?

Natural and Organic Skincare Products and What They Can Do For You

Once upon a time the business of shopping was very simple, but now it seems that purchasing even the most everyday of products requires a long period of squinting at a big list printed in small font, trying to remember whether parabens were good or bad, essential oils to be avoided or welcomed, ginger extract suitable for muscle cramps or not.

Unlike natural and organic skincare products, many of the intensively branded, expensively marketed, high profile products subsidise their marketing budgets by using liberal quantities of chemicals and synthetics, often to extent a products lifespan (allowing the shipping between factory and shop shelf to be unhurried) or to perfume a product that would otherwise smell of burning plastic or chemical death.

Whilst analogies between the food industry and the skin care industry are not perfect – after all, one does not have to be a incurable cynic to suggest that some of the big brand food manufactures out there use more dubious ingredients than we might like – what is certainly true is that the privileging of organic, or at least relatively additive free foods has not entirely crossed over in consumer’s attitudes toward skincare.

This is crazy, because our body absorbs around sixty percent of everything that we place on our skin, meaning that ingredients in our creams and lotions become just as cosy to us as the food we eat.

For this reason more and more people are turning their attention away from the well advertised, but not entirely beneficially constructed, big brands and taking the time to find out about the benefits of various natural and organic ingredients. Whereas a couple of years there was the assumption that the more ingredients a product had contained within it the better it was for us, now the tide is shifting, and many of us are aware that a well produced and packaged product consisting of a few genuinely beneficial natural or organic products can far better meet the needs of our skin than it’s chemically cousins.

An example of a fantastic natural skin product is Scin Boutique’s very own This Works Deep Calm Bath and Shower Gel. Rather than other, non natural shower gels that we can choose to lather onto our body, our This Works products work their magic thanks to the fantastic natural properties of the plants that we use as ingredients. In the case of our Deep Calm shower gel, lavender – grown at high altitude in France – is used for its antibacterial properties, as well as for its calming and relaxing scent.

In addition wild camomile, grown in Morocco, is used in combination with vetivert for their calming and soothing properties (anyone who has ever enjoyed a cup of camomile tea will attest to its relaxing properties).
Another great body wash on the market which utilizes the power of natural ingredients is the Green People Nourishing Body Wash.

This product uses ylang ylang and ginger for their natural uplifting properties, and avoids parabens and other artificial fragrances that can lead to the ‘chemical cocktail’ – the unpleasant thought of many different chemicals penetrating and remaining in our bodies.

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by Toban Black

London Spa Vouchers and Natural and Organic Skincare Vouchers

Scinboutique has a large array of natural and organic skincare products for men and women. You can check out all their delicious smelling, looking and feeling products on the website. The Scin spa in Notting Hill offers a variety of amazing treatments such as massage (including Pregnancy Massage), facials (dermatological or organic aromatherapy), waxing (including hot wax for all bikini waxing), manicure, pedicure, tinting, spray tanning, cellulite treatment and body treatments.

If you’re stumped for present ideas, looking for the perfect way to spoil someone special or just want to treat yourself (why not!) then you can create a great, personal gift with vouchers. You select the value of the voucher and the lucky recipient can choose from all the gorgeous natural and organic skincare goodies at Scinboutique, spend their voucher on a pampering session at Scin Spa in Notting Hill or combining the two.
If you want to give someone a voucher for a something specific then here are a few ideas for some really special treatments…

The incredibly relaxing Hydrotherapy bath for one or two people warms muscles so is perfect for softening up before a massage, body treatment or facial. Scin Package “Massage Heaven” combines a Hydrotherapy session with a Face Scalp and Body massage, two hours cost £100 and this treatment has proved very popular!

The Scin Pregnancy Massage is the perfect way for a pregnant lady to truly relax in total comfort, and not have to worry about her bump! Scin has a specially designed pregnancy massage couch with a hole in to allow an expecting mum to lie on her front with her bump supported by a moulded, elasticated mesh, using an organic pregnancy massage oil to eradicate all those baby-carrying aches. The treatment is suitable for women who are over thirteen weeks pregnant and a full body massage is £70 for one hour. Alternatively the Scin Pregnancy Pampering Package combines a 90 minute face, scalp and body pregnancy massage with a quick fix manicure or pedicure, costing £105.

Manicures and pedicures always go down well with ladies, especially ones who are too busy to spend time on themselves. At Scin the manicure and pedicure area is located in the Boutique, with huge windows looking out onto Kensington Park Road, great for people watching and the odd bit of celebrity spotting whilst you’re getting pampered! The Scin manicures and pedicures range from £25 for a Quick Fix (30 minutes) to £50 for a luxury treatment (1 hour).

If your voucher is for someone with no free time, or a shopaholic then let them treat themselves with the gorgeous natural and organic skincare products on offer from Scinboutique. We have loads of different products from delicious shampoo, to miracle creams to pubic hair dye! We stock a variety of high quality brands and there are always special offers to benefit from. Give someone a gift that they can really benefit from with the Scin vouchers, allowing them to choose their own treat or surprising a deserving person with something they would never usually get for themselves.

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by Jason. Tabarias

Natural Face Cleanser

You need to have gentle Natural ingredients that cleanse without drying your face. Ingredients that nurture and moisturize the skin and preferably ingredients that will help improve the health of facial skin. Natural cold pressed cleansing oils include coconut and castor oils. Both oils have proven cleansing ability and are non irritating. Moisturizing oils may include macadamia, almond and apricot kernel oils. Vegetable derived glycerin is another skin friendly ingredient.

A good face cleansing regimen consists of first cleansing and then toning your face. The article below discusses the numerous benefits of using face cleansers and toners. It also offers information on the key ingredients of a cleanser and toner to help you select your cosmetic products wisely.

For better results, you will have to follow the following technique using Olive Oil face cleanser. Make a practise to apply olive oil twice every day by applying a clean cotton muslin cloth over your face. Give light steaming to the skin so that the oil penetrates deep inside to show the effect. The next step is to wipe it off completely and then to apply any medicated moisturizing lotions available.

Holistic health care providers, especially Ayurvedic practitioners strongly believe that one should use natural colon cleanser to cleanse the intestines. One should clean the intestines since our intestines meet plenty of hazardous substances and harmful materials every day. They undergo lots of stress and many times, when we eat junk food, canned/packed foods, the intestines are overburdened. Moreover, when we unknowingly consume contaminated or stale foods, the intestines face a lot of trouble. Over the times, they get weakened if not cleansed and hence, intestine cleansing is required.

Many health care providers, especially holistic healing experts strongly suggest that one should clean their intestines regularly in order to keep them healthy and well functioning. For this, there are many products sold under the label of bowel cleanser but actually containing some chemical and synthetic material that may give spontaneous results but also adversely affect the body system. That is why, more and more people now prefer to go for some natural bowel cleanser is the one that contains all natural herbal extracts or powder that work as bowel cleansing agent.

You should always avoid harsh chemicals on your skin, however popular creams on the market use alcohols, fragrances, parabens, petrolatum and many other substances that will not help to the overall health of your skin.

Knowingly or unknowingly, a lot of people do not take care of their skin at all. They use harsh soaps which dry their skin badly and they don’t use any moisturizer or night cream to repair and rejuvenate the tired and damaged skin cells. As a result, their skin becomes dull, saggy, and wrinkled in no time. You don’t want to be one of them, right? So, let us take a look at what you can do to treat dry skin.

The next step is to use your fingertips to gently massage the cleanser into your face. Be sure that you go in a circular motion all the way up to the hairline, emphasizing the areas of your face where acne most often occurs. You should be very gentle in this step and avoid hard scrubbing. You should also be sure to use your fingertips and not a washcloth.

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by keira-anne ?

Why Choose Natural and Organic Skincare Products?

Organic and natural skincare products are becoming staple purchases for an increasing proportion for people. Everyone has their own reason for making their change, but perhaps two main areas of concern can be located explaining why organic and natural skincare products are taking the place of traditional, often far more extensively marketed, non-organic cosmetics.

The first of the reasons is the concern over what affect synthetic products have on the environment, both in terms of their disposal once they have been used, as certain chemicals found in skincare products can wreak havoc on the ecosystems that they eventually end up in once they have passed down the drain. Triclosan, which is found in soaps, along with toothpastes and deodorants, is an antibacterial which has been discovered concentrated in marine life, to which it is known to be toxic, and also in human breast milk. A quick mention should also be made to products that actually appear, or are, entirely natural and organic, but which are owned by companies that manufacture other, environmentally harmful products. Such an example came recently with the selling out of natural favourite Burt’s Bees to a leading bleach manufacturer.

The second issue which has caused many consumers to make the change from non-organic to organic skincare products is the concern over the effect that the chemicals they contain might have on our bodies. Here we should place a subdivision between ingredients that have been proven to be harmful under testing – which we shall discuss below – and ingredients that have been identified as potentially harmful, and which have not been proven to be otherwise, ingredients such as parabens (which have been linked to cancers, causing many companies to explicitly list their skincare product ‘Paraben Free’) and Genetically Modified ingredients, which people, quite frankly, just do not trust.

One pair of ingredients that you might want to stay alert for if you are still buying non natural cosmetic products – and one that you can be assured you are avoiding by picking those organic skincare products – is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and its brother in trouble Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate. These two ingredients are used in industrial and mechanical processes that might not initially appear to have much to do with the activities we normally associate with skincare and cosmetics, namely in car washes, for degreasing automobile engines and as floor cleaners. Yet, they are also found in over nine out of ten of all products that foam.

Of course, just because these two ingredients are used for industrial processes does not, in itself, mean that they are unsuitable for rubbing into our hair and skin. The fact that animals placed into contact with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate experience massive damage to the central nervous system, to their respiratory system along with chronic eye damage, diarrhea, sever skin irritation and, in a sizable proportion of instances, death, might be slightly more convincing argument for avoiding these chemical ingredients and going for organic or natural products – ignoring, of course, those that try to sweeten its appearance on their ingredients list by adding the information that is a ‘coconut extract.’

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