Be Your Own Valentine: Fall In Love With Your Beauty

form of heart shaped by hands

I’ve always had a bit of a beef with Valentine’s Day.  It’s a very bossy holiday, telling you how to feel toward your partner, if you’ve got one, or making you feel “less than” if you’re single. I love my partner and I try to express that love every day we’re together; I don’t need… [Continue Reading]

Antioxidants and Free Radicals : Why the Hype?

raspberries

Antioxidant. It’s the buzziest buzz word in the health and beauty world these days. If you’re at all like me, you probably heard it and accepted it as a healthy choice but didn’t really understand it. Let’s talk. In order to explain antioxidants, I need to first explain free radicals: When the skin and body… [Continue Reading]

What Vitamins Do

Vitamin C

Standing in the vitamin aisle of my local grocery store, I suddenly realized I knew next to nothing about vitamins besides that multi-vitamins help compensate for vitamins you can’t get in your diet and that vitamin C helps with the immune system, to stave off colds. My thinking about vitamins didn’t stretch much farther than… [Continue Reading]