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Two of the most commonly known natural moisturizers are shea butter and olive oil. Both shea butter and olive oil have been around for centuries, they are both safe to use and vegan friendly. You can use either product in pure form, in soaps, or other skin care products.  But with all the similarities, one is left to wonder what are the differences between shea butter and olive oil.
Shea butter is a natural fat that is used to moisturize skin, fade unsightly scars and stretch marks, diminish wrinkles, and more.  You can even eat shea butter as sometimes its used in chocolate based products. What is more amazing is that this multi-purpose beauty and health remedy is actually derived from the seeds of the African shea tree.  To produce the butter, The flesh of the karite nut is removed and the seed or nut is dried, roasted, pounded into a paste, mixed with water and then customarily kneaded by hand. The thick mass is boiled to separate the natural oils that later yield beige or yellow shea butter in various qualities.  Note: Unrefined shea has the real natural healing and moisturizing properties. Refined shea is bleached (white) , deordorized and heated to over 400 degrees.
Olive oil is derived from the olive plant.  Making this is a rather complex process as the oil is extracted after the olives are milled  until a paste is formed . Then it goes into a press that separates the liquid from the paste.   Like shea butter, olive oil has many useful purposes in beauty, skin care, and food preparation. There are many different types and grades of olive oil.   Extra virgin olive oil has the highest quality, therefore in food consumption, of course it is  best to choose extra virgin olive oil and organic when you can. For beauty needs also use the best quality olive oil that you can find when formulating your own skincare recipes. Olive oil can be use as a moisturizer, bath oil, lip balm, or for treatment of  minor skin wounds.
In the end it is important to know that both shea butter and olive oil based products have a place in your vegan skin care routine. Both are natural based moisturizing remedies that have worked for ages, so you know that they work. There are even a few vegan beauty products on the market that contain both ingredients, so if you decide to give them a try in your own formula try them together  to get the benefits of both all natural carrier oils.
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For much of my childhood, I was an active dancer and I loved to ride a bicycle and roller skate.  But unfortunately, my eating habits weren’t healthy and my strength level went up and down.  My unhealthy eating habits interfered with my activities and I sometimes found myself lacking interest in any kind of dance movement or outdoor activity.  The day I discovered healthy organic vegan nutrition changed my life dramatically and I became a different person.

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I believed in the myth that oil was bad for our faces, especially in areas that were already oily (e.g. the T-Zone of forehead, nose and chin). I’m happy to report that I have been proven wrong by Replenish Moisturizing Serum.

Through Replenish, I have become a convert in the use of oil on my face. My previous images of oily skin being doused with more oil until the point it can’t breathe haunted me. That old belief had to go!

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You already live a natural life. You eat healthy, consume the right products, and you may even be a healthy vegan, but what about your hair?  Are you aware of the dangers in using harsh shampoos, conditioners, styling products, or boar bristle hair brushes?  Like choosing your food, natural skin care products, and cosmetics, you must make smart choices when it comes to choosing vegan products for hair care. Here are just a few ways to beautify your tresses the vegan way!
1- Rethink Your Products: Despite what most hair care product companies will tell you, shampoo is really just soap. Choose one that was formulated with pure ingredients like Ole Henriksen Natural Hair Wash wit Sea Kelp. Keep the same method in mind when it comes to selecting conditioners and treatment products.
2- Embrace The Nature Of Your Hair: You already know that frequent use of heat styling hair appliances will eventually damage your hair, so why continue fighting nature? Instead of trying to change your hair, you should work on nurturing it. Instead of blowdrying your hair 4 or 5 times a week, let your locks air-dry. Instead of trying to straighten your curly locks, use vegan hair care products specially formulated for frizzy and dry hair. Try Josie Maran Argan Oil Hair Serum and Phyto 9 Daily Ultra Nourishing Botanical Cream for Ultra Dry Hair, Dread Fusion or Knotty Boy Soap
3- Be Creative: Say your hair is dread locked and of course you want it to be ” fab”. Get an interesting professional hair cut, or braid or twist your wet hair to form waves or that curly look.  Once your hair is dry, you can undo them and arrange your style.  Grab any loose hairs that show up before you twist you hair and roll them together in your fingers like you would a lock, finally you place them inside the base of the nearest lock and up along side the lock while you twist the two together. Repeat this with all other loose hairs. You will gain a cleaner look.  Remember, African hair (especially if treated like European hair) is more fragile than Caucasian hair.  For this reason, use products made especially for your hair, whenever possible.  Dr. Bronner’s shampoos are vegan friendly, organic, fair trade and so good for the environment and humanity at the same time. Style by allowing hair to hang freely, or  tie hair with some of the longer lock strands, with clips, with other ponytail holders.
4- Think Simpler Hair Styles: You don’t need 30 different hair products to have fun with your hair, you just need a little imagination. Do you want to transform your straight hair into loose and soft waves? Start with clean damp hair and make a loose braid,  then secure it with a ponytail holder. Let your hair naturally air-dry before taking out the braid. Gently brush the waves to enhance your hair’s look. You can also try different styles of ponytails, braids, and more. All you need is a comb and ponytail holder or two.
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The days are getting longer, the sun is shining brighter,  and you know its time of the year to start wearing sunscreen.  Although sun safety is something we should think about year-round, most of us don’t really start wearing sunscreen until the start of early summer. But the smartest rule of thumb is to wear sunscreen year round, and just switch to a natural skin care product with a higher SPF(sun-protection factor) during the summer.
Of course, you may not find vegan sunscreens or vegan skin care products with a form of SPF, you may have to look for these types of vegan products in specialty stores or online. Here are a few vegan skin care sun essentials to look for:
  • Moisturizer Your Face With SPF- You should always select a moisturizer with SPF, which is not only your best defense in anti-aging, it will also protect your skin from the sun’s dangerous cancer-causing UVA and UVB rays.  Try Alba Botanica Sea Moss Moisturizer SPF 15.
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Want to know more about the pain relief product by foreue?  Check out their natural skin care product, that’s vegan friendly, with no preservatives. The video below will give good info on how and when to use this popular product.

Blue Magic is good for both external and internal use, and can be used as often as you like.  Customers say it acts quickly and is absorbed into the skin right away.  Essential oils make the application pleasant to use.  Learn more in the video.

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Organic vegan henna hair dye is an alternative to chemical hair dyes that dry and damage the ends, resulting in uneven hair color. Henna powder does not contain any ammonia, parabens, hydrogen chloride, or any other synthetic chemicals; it is made from the leaves of Lawsonia tree. Natural vegan ingredients like clove or walnut are added to the dye to create different colors.

Henna hair dye works best for people who have less than 20% gray hair, and being a semi permanent hair dye, it washes away within a few weeks, though lasts longer if a vegan natural shampoo is used.

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No other scent says, “Welcome Home” like the sweet and alluringly warm scent of almonds. This feel-good scentsation is captured in a bar of vegan  Foreue’s Infinite Almond soap.

Almonds contain a hefty dose of Vitamin E, an undisputed monosaturated fat that softens and nourishes skin. They also contain magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron and calcium; all necessary minerals for the maintenance of healthy skin care and healthy skin cells. The combination of natural ingredients in Foreue Infinite Almond vegan soap with the nutrient-dense almonds make for a double benefit. Add the chunkiness of the crushed nut as an exfoliant and voila! you’ve got a triple benefit nicely packaged into that little bar of almond soap. It’s goodness tripled!

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Vegan cold press soap is made from natural organic and vegan ingredients, infused with essential oils and floral waters of the finest quality. Reacting oils or fats together with lye, a solution of caustic soda, dissolved in water, makes cold press soap. Vegan ingredients like natural clays, essential oils, flowers, and oatmeal maybe added to create individual soaps. There are many types of cold pressed oils used in the manufacture of cold press soap.  It’s great to know that Mother Nature has such wonderful plant-based oil options with exciting distinguishing qualities.

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Organic skincare products using vegan ingredients help make your skin look more radiant, smoother, and youthful. Mentioned below are the best organic skincare products, which are generally used.

  • Organic Sweet Almond Oil- It is one of the most popular organic skincare products due to its beneficial and gentle nature. Sweet Almond Oil can easily be colored, tinted, or scented and has a light texture that moisturizes well. It forms a good base for creams, lotions, soaps, body butters, and scrubs.
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Vegan almond soap contain natural vegan ingredients, it is less harsh on your skin, and leaves your skin healthier. Almond soap is mainly made of almond oil, which besides moisturizing the skin, produce nicely scented almond soap. Being a soothing soap, used for those with sensitive to normal skins, it is ideal to be used on sore skin, sunburns, or rashes.

Follow these simple tips to make almond soap.

  • You can use finely ground almonds and a little amount of almond oil for making the vegan soap.
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There is something that most women do on a regular basis to improve their appearance that is very dangerous to their health. Its easy to overlook the hidden dangers that lurk inside most at-home hair dye kits. But its not just the easy-to-use ammonia based hair-dyes, its also the products that many hair colorists use on a regular basis. It’s not only a danger to you, your colorist, and even your offspring. According to various statistics, many hair-dyes are linked to diseases such as bladder cancer or non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and leukemia. The scarier fact is that long-term use will increase your lifetime risk of getting these diseases.

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