Glowing Winter Skincare Regimen

In the next few days I will be posting more tips on how to keep your skin supple and glowy (yep made that word up haha) even throughout the winter if you live in seasonal regions. Here’s tip 1:

Steam Your Face! Steaming the face does a lot for your skin. Benefits that I have noticed include putting moisture back into my skin, cleanses my pores, and allows my skin to fully receive the nourishment after cleansing including all natural healing oil and aloe vera gel that I use afterwards. Moisture for your skin is extremely important, especially in months where there is less humidity in the air and the air is extremely dry. If you don’t do this already, give it a try at least 3 times a week and see if you notice a difference.

More tips to come! Have a great day! 🙂

SN: You dont have to have a face steamer to complete this process. You can simply boil water on the stove then remove the pot from the stove, place a towel over your head trapping in the moisture and let the steam do the work. At least 15 minutes or as you feel needed.

Winner Food Wednesday: OMG Kale!

Got Kale?? Who doesn’t love kale?! If you shouted in your head “Me!” or even mumbled quietly to yourself, “…What is kale?” I hope to make you a believer in kale by the end of this post. Here are a few benefits:

1. Look no further, are you lactose intolerant?? Well kale has got you covered. Kale boastfully has more calcium than milk (calorically based)

2. Apparently kale is great for your frisky life. With essential vitamins like B6 that increase libido, you can’t go wrong.

3. Staying in the same alley, B6 is said to have an effect on PMS symptoms so before you grab that bottle of midol maybe go for some kale? Haha.

4. Can help lower cholesterol 

5. Good for detox and to overall help with people suffering ailments and potentially cancer 😉

The list could honestly go on but it shouldn’t take much more to convince you to get some kale in your system. You can cook your kale but I prefer to make kale salads and use kale in my smoothies. You can also use kale in soups and to make kale chips.  I look forward to sharing a few recipes soon via video. Until then, Got Kale??

Did you learn something new or do you have any recipes or special preparations for kale? Id love to hear them. Have a great day! ❤

 

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National Kale Day!!!

Hey guys, thought you’d want to know about an awesome deal today offered by Whole Foods. Today is National Kale Day, yes, National Kale Day haha and Whole foods is offering 5 bunches of organic kale for $5 today only from 4-8 p.m. So if you live in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Marlton, Princeton, or New Jersey go grab yourself a bunch or two. I bought 5 bunches myself! ^_^ Thank me later. Have a good day and don’t forget to get your greens on!!! 🙂Image

 

 

 

Easy Wondrous Watermelon Smoothie

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Here’s a easy simple watermelon smoothie recipe. 3 ingredients! Watermelon, ice, mint leaves. You can use your discretion but I used about 2 cups of watermelon, 2 mint leaves, 1.5 cups of ice. Add more or less as you please.

The key to this recipe is the order you put your ingredients in the blender. If you don’t have a decent high speed blender, have your mint leaves on bottom, then ice, then watermelon. Happy Blending!