Enjoying the feeling of comfortable and healthy skin is not just about getting eight hours of sleep a night. Facial skin will also benefit from giving some thought to the types of material in the pillowcases we use. After all, we spend a third of our lives sleeping. And, there are many silk pillowcase benefits […]
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3 Reasons Seaweed Can Help Treat Rosacea
Three Reasons Seaweed Can Help Treat Rosacea Seaweed is highly anti-inflammatory and calms skin. Seaweed helps strengthen skin. Seaweed is rich in nutrients…up to 10 times more than any land plant! If you suffer from Rosacea along with Renee Zellwegger, Cameron Diaz and Bill Clinton, it is important to use gentle products which are as close […]
Why Use A Natural Deodorant?
I want to explain why I use a Natural Deodorant and thought it would be a good idea to write about it to help you make choices as to whether a natural deodorant is right for you. My lovely customer, Shelley, emailed me this week with some questions about her skin and how best to […]
Easter in Ireland
A time of new beginnings and a sign that summer is just around the corner following a cold, bleak winter, Easter in Ireland is usually enjoyed by many people, whether religious or not. It is a gloriously, long weekend with a real sense of spring-time renewal. The Donegal skies are beautifully sunny here this morning […]
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 2016
A Chara, This post is coming to you from a most beautiful morning here in County Donegal. The sun is, quite literally, splitting the heavens as we prepare for a day, or in some parts, days of wearing the green, smiles and an excuse to be as silly as we like. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Lá […]
The Amazing Science of Your Skin
Skin is the largest organ in our bodies. Even with problem skin conditions such as acne, rosacea and psoriasis ( which I have now lived with for 44 years), we wouldn’t be able to survive without it, faulty and difficult though it may be. No matter what the challenges are with our skins, we can […]
3 Wonderful Irish Christmas Poems for You to Enjoy
I have chosen three of my favourite Irish Christmas poems to share with you as we go into December 2018. They are… “A Christmas Childhood” by Patrick Kavanagh “Christmas Eve” by Celia and Ruth Duffin “The Magi” by William Butler Yeats Enjoy! From Patrick Kavanagh Collected Poems A Christmas Childhood by Patrick Kavanagh This poem […]
Lavender Essential Oil : The Story of Lavender
Lavender Essential Oil: The Story of Lavender Won’t you buy my sweet blooming lavender, Sixteen branches one penny, Ladies fair make no delay, I have your lavender fresh today. Buy it once, you’ll buy it twice, It makes your clothes smell sweet and nice. It will scent your pocket handkerchiefs, sixteen branches for one penny. […]