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A Sugar Cane Pucker!

A lip caress with with raw brown sugar and a little oil. What could be sweeter? Sugar acts as an exfoliant, removing dead skin cells, making your lips soft. The perfect pucker. Sugar scrubs can be delightful for the whole body, but I particularly...
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Is My Sunscreen Baby Safe?

This is not the first time I have written about sunscreen. It frightens me so. Last year I vented in 'Dear Cosmetic World, Am I a Bad Mother?' Now is the time of year when everyone here in the north is thinking about protecting themselves from the...
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Share in the Secret: Garlic

Gene Stone’s book, ‘The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick’ is an inspiration. In each chapter, whether it be on ‘napping’, cold showers, friendship or garlic, Gene Stone includes an excerpt on ‘sharing in the secret’. The following is on Garlic...
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Label Liberty

A Conditioner Fiasco Government labeling regulations for natural skin care, natural cleaning products or natural anything, are, well, unregulated. Manufactures are free to print misleading label statements until their hearts are content. How does...
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Giving Thanks

Slices of white turkey, left over stuffing and mashed potatos fill my fridge. Warm energies from our last night’s friends still encompass the house. With a family holiday today, life is feeling pretty good. The hot sun shining in October is a bonus...
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Make-Up SAFE on Halloween

Are you about to transform on Halloween and paint yourself into your latest fantasy? Or is your little one begging you to paint their face into their superhero or superhorror? I thought it would be a good time to give you a head’s up on the makeup,...
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Putting your Garden to Bed

Worried that the snow will be soon be flying and the ground will be frozen hard? Don’t despair, there are still a few weeks left for those of us who keep putting off the inevitable. Make sure you have a supply of those huge, sturdy garden compost...
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A Miracle in Saskatchewan

As legend has it… A lake of healing waters became known as Manitou. When European settlers pushed westward many of the tribes were forced to migrate from their land. Foreign diseases such as smallpox caused devastating losses. No natural medicine...
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Our Soil's Secret Magic

Our Soil’s Secret Skin Magic Discover the magic!! Distill a regal rose, squeeze an aristocratic argan, churn a succulent shea. Shower yourself in the floral water, soften in the soothing oil and slather on the butter. Gardeners and chefs rejoice...
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Silky Soy Massage

Calming candlelight. Warm (not hot) soy wax to moisturize the soul. Light a soy candle, enjoy its mystery. And then decide whether to go further and massage the warmth onto the skin, leaving the skin silky smooth, the hands, the legs or everywhere...

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