Foreue – Natural Skin Care (Handmade & Vegan)

The words luxury and vegan are not contradicting terms. Although it can be somewhat of a hard search, you will find out that vegan luxury soaps and skin care products do exist.  You don’t have to buy silky smooth body creams and lotions that are loaded with parabens to achieve beautiful skin, nor do you have to limit yourself to cleansing bars that contain some interesting natural ingredients but are also laced with the traditional chemicals and preservatives.  By the way, it is important to realize that when very good soap is handmade, attention is placed on making smaller quantities at a time, with more attention on quality.  I will show you where to search for the best of vegan luxury soaps, so read further.

Doesn’t it takes approximately 3 weeks to change a habit?  I think so.  And if that is right then the simplicity of drinking enough water daily, can be a habit we can all aspire to, as it is one of the most beneficial health habits we can have.

When we or our children are thirsty, we can offer everyone, water first.  Afterward, we can drink juice, lemonade, herbal iced teas, health smoothies, etc. becuase we have already quenched our thirst with water.  And maybe we won’t even want as much of the other sweet liquids, which might cut some unneeded calories.

A brush, a comb, a curler, oh my! What other goodies do we use every day, sometimes several times a day, to keep us looking orderly and beautiful? How many times in the past month have we stopped to clean and care for our beauty and make-up tools? Read on for a few simple tools.

Tool #1   Organic soap and water

It just makes sense to look for simplicity when you want to solve a problem. And Mother Nature is the best example of simplicity that I know. So the issues we face to beautify our problem skincare should be simple but powerful.  First, let’s concentrate on the big picture, then, zero in on the details.

For starters, let drink water.  How much? Well, let’s drink half our weight but no more than 80 oz per day.  For example, if you weigh 125 lb, then you will want to drink 63 oz per day.  Or if you weigh 240 lb, then of course, half, which is 120 oz of water per day is way to much.  Remember, you will want to drink only about 80 oz per day.

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.

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!

In my recent trip abroad to Malaysia and Thailand, I was on the look out for things natural and hand made. Very quickly, I found out just how big of a market share our pharmaceutical and beauty subsidiaries have made overseas. Perhaps I am more of an idealist than most, but I was expecting homegrown, local products to be more available than they were. Or simply, I just wasn’t in the right places.

Handmade soapmaking is really a craft to be learned. There are so many ways to go about making soap- particularly when it comes to selecting soap ingredients. That is the major difference between handmade soaps and commercial soaps, as the former tends to be made with more natural ingredients. It is important to learn which soap ingredients to use depending on the type of soap you want to make. For instance, coconut milk soap tends to be very moisturizing, as are soaps with lots of olive oil or shea butter. Lets take a closer look at natural soap ingredients.

Want to know just how natural and safe is your beauty routine? And want to do something about it? Get on to these websites and find your chic eco zen.

1. Skin Care Ingredients
The Environmental Working Group’s extensive database provides safety ratings on over 46,000 personal care and beauty products. I was mortified about some of the products that I have been using for years!
www.cosmeticsdatabase.com