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Laugh Lines, How funny Are They?
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For centuries, a paste of mangosteen peel and coconut oil was fashioned to treat the challenged skin conditions of Southeast Asia. Experience XanGo’s answer to creating soothed, energized, and protected skin.
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Nearly all cultures incorporate herbs and spices into their regional cuisine. Unfortunately, American food culture focuses on heavily processed sugar, salt, and unhealthy fat to enhance the flavor of many of our dishes. Herbs and spices not only make food more palatable, but offer a wealth of nutritional benefits as well.
Fresh cilantro, basil, and home-dried dill.
During the warmer months, you’ll find a bountiful supply of fresh herbs at your local farmer’s market. Look for basil, mint, cilantro, rosemary, sage, and dill. You can easily grow your own herbs at home either in a garden or indoors in pots. You can also dry your own fresh herbs by hanging a bunch in a sunny spot for one to two weeks.
Don’t compromise quality when it comes to spices. An organic, high-quality spice will taste more potent and consequently last longer since you don’t need as much of it to enhance a dish.
Here’s a list of herbs and spices along with their respective health benefits and ways to incorporate them into your diet. This list doesn’t include everything… I encourage you to try any herb or spice that intrigues you! Many of these herbs and spices have a long list of health properties; I’m only highlighting a few. Remember when it comes to herbs, fresh is always best.
Fresh Herbs
Basil: Antioxidant, decreases inflammation. Use in home-made pasta sauces or pesto.
Cilantro: Antioxidant, digestive aid. Use in home-made guacamole or to add more flavor to any Mexican dish.
Dill: Antioxidant, antimicrobial, diuretic. Combine with greek yogurt to make a creamy dip or make Creamy Cilantro Dill Dressing.
Thyme: Antioxidant, inhibits bone resorption. Add to organic scrambled eggs.
Mint: Antioxidant, antimicrobial, stomach soother. Make your own herbal mint tea by steeping leaves in boiling water.
Spices
Cayenne Pepper: Boosts metabolism, decreases inflammation, improves digestion. Sprinkle on soups, stir-fries, or anything that could a spicy kick.
Turmeric: Antioxidant, decreases inflammation, antimicrobial, antiviral, antifungal. This Indian spice is being widely recognized for its astonishing health benefits. The taste is similar to mustard. Sprinkle on salads for flavor, or use in curry powder to make Indian dishes.
Cinnamon: Antioxidant, antimicrobial, controls blood sugar, boosts metabolism. Add cinnamon to fresh fruit or any sweet dessert to help manage blood sugar levels.
Garlic: Antioxidant, lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, decreases inflammation, boosts immunity. Add to sautéed vegetables.
Ginger: Antioxidant, decreases inflammation, boosts immunity, digestive aid. Use fresh ginger in stir-fries or home-made vegetable juices.
This only skims the surface of what herbs and spices have to offer. Not only are the health benefits are astounding, but they’ll bring your cooking to life, too! What are your favorite herbs and spices and how do you use them?
Spice things up,
Emily
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There’s hardly anything worse than losing your hair! You stare at your comb in horror as handfuls of hair comeout.The drain in your shower gets stopped up with your falling hair. You’ve been changing your hairstyle to cover up the thin spots. You feel naked - and old! Discover why more are turning to Provillus to help regrow their hair. It helps stop hair loss, and gets to the root of the problem. Its formula contains Minoxidil, the FDA approved ingredient minoxidil for hair re-growth. You’ll see the benefits, fast.
The true causes of hair loss fall into three categories:
Our proprietary formula combines the powerful FDA-approved ingredient, minoxidil, with natural, time-tested vitamins, minerals and herbs. If your hair loss is due to certain medications, cancer treatment, or the after-effects of illness, Provillus will not help. You need to talk with your health care professional about these other causes. Most are temporary and do not need additional support. Your doctor can advise you.
Strong, healthy hair is a result of good nutrition. Our formula features the vitamins, minerals and herbs targeted for hair growth and vitality.
Take one capsule every night and every morning to help stimulate hair growth from inside to out. These natural herbs, minerals and vitamins will nourish your hair follicles.
Provillus Ingredients:
Vitamin B6
B6 is one of the B-complex water-soluble vitamins. It’s important for supporting many normal healthy body functions, including normal hair growth.
Biotin
It’s also a B vitamin. Biotin is involved with the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates. It plays an important role in supporting healthy skin, hair and nails.
Magnesium
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Magnesium works with calcium to promote healthy hair growth. Food sources include green vegetables, wheat germ, whole grains, nuts, soybeans, chickpeas and fish.
Horsetail Silica
Horsetail is a descendent of huge, tree-like plants that thrived 400 million years ago during the Paleozoic era. The fresh or dried leaves and stems are used. It’s best collected in the spring when the emerging plants are still shorter than seven inches. It has been used in folk medicine since the time of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
Para-Amino Benzoic Acid
It is known for its ability to absorb ultraviolet (UV) light, thus reducing wrinkling of the skin. It is widely used in sun block preparations. It may correct loss of pigmentation in skin and hair, prevents hair graying and retards hair loss.
Good nutrition is the foundation of beautiful hair. These nutrients will feed your hair follicles with the elements they need to grow beautiful hair for you.
Our unique formula: Helps stop hairloss, Gets to the root of the problem, No Prescription Necessary, FDA Approved Ingredient, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
For more information please visit: Provillus for Men or Provillus for Women.
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Goddess Garden, a Boulder, Colorado skincare company founded by a mother wanting safe sunblock products for children, announces the introduction of a new organic sunscreen line using mineral-based sun block agents. The new Goddess Garden kid’s sun care products have a distinctive bright green label with a red ladybug and a golden yellow sun. As part of the launch, the company is introducing a first-of-its kind Ultraviolet Educational Program with a point-of-purchase UV Bracelet for children to learn about the strength of the sun when they are outside, and an UV Index on the company website: www.NaturalSuncare.com where people can type in their zip code to determine the UV forecast in their town daily.
The active sun block ingredients are from natural minerals, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, to block harmful ultraviolet radiation and provide SPF 30 protection. Two versions of the sunscreen line will debut at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA, March 6-8, 2009: a lightly-scented lavender sunscreen lotion made with pure French lavender essential oil for children and a version for adults.
Both the new sunscreen products for children and adults will be offered in three sizes: one-time-use 1⁄2 ounce Xela packets, a 3-ounce and 6-ounce family size. Additional ingredients include: Organic Aloe Vera, Apricot Kernel Oil, Organic Sweet Almond Oil, Organic Soy Bean Oil, Soy Lecithin, Vegetable Glycerin, Organic Jojoba Oil, Fair Trade Shea Butter, Organic Cocoa Butter, Xantham Gum, Potassium Sorbate, Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Phenoxyethanol (preservative less than .5 percent), and Organic French Lavender (lavendula angustifolia).
“We are pleased to offer sun care products that are all-natural and contain the highest percentage of organic ingredients in any sun care line on the market – 70 percent!” said Nova Covington, founder and owner of GoddessGarden. “We are providing UV Bracelets so kids have a fun way to see for themselves how UV rays change when the sun is out and when the sun goes behind a cloud. It’s important for children to be aware of Nature’s effect on the skin, and learn how to take good care of themselves with safe products,”
said Covington, a fourth generation Herbalist.
The new Goddess Garden sunscreens are made with 70 percent certified organic ingredients. Noteworthy ingredients include certified organic aloe vera – a succulent plant known for its healing properties, most notably its cooling effect on sunburned skin – and shea butter prized for its moisturizing and antioxidant properties. The Fair Trade shea butter used in Goddess Garden products is harvested by members of the Agbanga Karite Women’s Cooperative in Togo, Africa. The Fair Trade Federation and the Africa Fair Trade Council assist the women’s co-op in selling their shea butter while earning a living wage.
According to The Natural Foods Merchandiser Market Overview report, U.S. natural products sales grew 9.8 percent in 2007 across all retail and nonretail channels with over $62 billion in total sales. Sales in the natural and organic personal care product category grew 12.7 percent to more than $3 billion. The Goddess Garden sunscreen line can be purchased online through the company websites: www.NaturalSuncare.com, www.GoddessGarden.com and Amazon.com or by calling toll free 1.888.445.8725. Products are available in retail outlets and spas nationwide.
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Goddess Garden was founded in 2004 by Nova Covington, a fourth generation Herbalist. As a new mother, Nova was inspired to make organic skincare products initially for her daughter Paige. As a baby, Paige was allergic to sulfates, the synthetic bubbles in traditional bubble bath and soap. When Paige was 1 year old, Nova created her first organic skincare product: a body wash made with all-natural organic castile soap.
As a mother who reads the labels of children’s body products, Nova was uncomfortable with many synthetic and chemical ingredients which are absorbed through the skin. Motivated to develop skincare solutions that her family could use safely, Nova developed additional products that were made from natural and organic ingredients. Within a year, she had created a sunscreen made with 70% organic ingredients using a pure mineral, zinc oxide, as the active agent for sun protection.
The Goddess Garden sunscreen became the launching pad for a differentiating product line: 70% Organic Lavender Sunscreen made with Fair Trade Shea Butter providing SPF 30 protection. These natural sunscreen products have the highest organic content of any sunscreen on the market. Working with plants and botanicals comes naturally to Nova. She grew up in the Canadian and Oregon wilderness where much of her childhood was
spent out-of-doors in nature. Herbalism was handed down from mother to daughter for four generations in her family. Her great grandmother, Marie Walters, learned the medicinal use of native plants from the American Indian women in the Sierra Mountains of California. The knowledge continued through to Nova’s mother who made herbal remedies, including golden seal antibiotic ointments and rosehip tea as Nova was growing up.
In addition to her family’s roots in Herbalism, Nova comes from a long line of well-educated women. Her great great grandmother, Frieda Ross, earned a degree in Business at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1807. Her great grandmother, Marie Walters, studied to be an interpreter of foreign law at UC-Berkeley. Her grandmother, Jane Fisher, served as the Mayor of Bishop, California for 12 years, as well as columnist for the local newspaper and the editor of a historical magazine. Nova’s mother, Nancy Covington, and her grandmother are both published authors of books and
magazines articles.
Nova credits the women in her family for her intellectual and research-oriented approach to business. She has a Master’s Degree in International & Intercultural Communication from the University of Denver and joined Hewlett- Packard in her early 20’s. At HP, her communication skills and leadership training allowed her to excel within the company. When she left the corporate world to start a family in 2002, she was supervising training programs for 500 employees and 75 managers.
Goddess Garden is a woman-owned business with Nova directing dayto- day operations as President of the company. She applies her aromatherapy training to create unique combinations she wishes to see in individual products. Daughter Paige, the impetus for the first Goddess Garden product, is now 5, and gives input to Nova. Paige chose the grape flavor lip balm sunscreen as a children’s favorite, with Nova creating a version for adults, a cocoa mint flavor. Lip sunscreen products contain zinc oxide for sun protection and are made with 70% organic ingredients.
Nova’s environmental stance reflects her personal calling to do work that is good for the Earth, both in her choice of product ingredients and the reduced carbon footprint of her company. She says: “My personal pledge for Goddess Garden is to reduce the carbon footprint my company makes on the Earth while creating superb facial and skin care
products. While my daughter Paige was my first customer, I am pleased to have created a line of organic sunscreen products that keep children and adults protected from the sun and are safe to apply!”
Goddess Garden now sells over 50 products with customers in 11 states. Best selling products include the Lavender Sunscreen, Pomegranate Facial Cream, French Green Clay Facial Cleanser, and Immortelle Facial Serum. Goddess Garden products are available at retail outlets such as Ellie’s Eco Home Store, spas such as Gold Lake Spa & Mountain Resort in Colorado, and through online retailers including Boulder’s Best Organics and Amazon.com. Products are available for direct purchase online at www.GoddessGarden.com and www.NaturalSuncare.com or by calling toll free 1.888.445.8725.
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Remington, the leader in styling tools, and Brickfish, The Social Media Solution, announced today the “Tools for Celebrity Style” campaign. The campaign, located at http://www.stylewithremington.com/toolsforcelebritystyle, asks entrants to submit photos of their ‘favorite celebrity hair moments.’ Entrants are then asked to select their favorite Remington styling tools and share which celebrities have inspired their hair dos. The Grand Prize winner, selected by the Remington team from the top 250 highest scoring entries, will win a celebrity weekend for two in Hollywood, complete with a hair styling session by celebrity stylist Richard Marin whose A-list clientele includes Megan Fox, Denise Richards, Cindy Crawford and others.
“Our line of styling tools makes beautiful hair attainable for anyone,” said Christine Kuske-Riese, Director Brand Marketing of Remington Women’s Personal Care. “By leveraging social media in our ‘Tools for Celebrity Style’ campaign, we will be able to familiarize our online consumers with our styling tools. We look forward to receiving exciting celebrity-like hairstyles that can be achieved by using the innovative Remington products.”
In addition to a celebrity weekend for two, the Grand Prize winner will also receive a $500 American Express Gift Card, a collection of Remington hair products and the opportunity to guest blog on the StyleWithRemington.com site and have his or her entry featured on StyleWithRemington.com. Prizes will also be given away to one Runner-up, to one Most Viral winner and to forty-three Sign-up Sweepstakes winners.
Brickfish social media campaigns enable brands and agencies to launch online marketing campaigns that engage consumers in a meaningful brand dialogue. Consumers create exciting, personalized brand-focused user-generated content (UGC) and then share the campaign and their content virally via their vast social networks, widgets, IM, blogs, email and more. Campaign participants interact with the brand campaign in a variety of ways that include creating, reviewing, sharing, voting upon, and watching brand-relevant content. This powerful viral marketing vehicle generates extensive brand awareness, engagement, reach and results.
“We are thrilled to partner with Remington for its ‘Tools for Celebrity Style’ campaign,” said Nichole Goodyear, president/CEO and co-founder of Brickfish. “By asking consumers to create and share their celebrity hair moments and their celebrity hair inspirations, Remington has the opportunity to connect with its consumers and become part of the conversation. We are confident this campaign will drive increased awareness for Remington and its line of styling products.”
The “Tools for Celebrity Style” campaign ends September 14. For complete details, visit http://www.stylewithremington.com/toolsforcelebritystyle. For more information about Brickfish, visit www.brickfish.com/company.