5 Essential Oils to Pack for Summer Vacation
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
Now that summer is in full swing, you may be feeling the burn, rash, and blisters that come with playing outside and family vacations. Stock up your medicine cabinet and travel bag with aloe vera gel and these oils to treat summer ailments.
How Perfume Affects the Brain: Your Powerful Sense of Smell and Memory
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
We know scent can transport us to different places in time, but how does that actually work? Does scent have an effect on our brains? Can we use it to intentionally change our moods? Yes, and yes!
Shaving with Oils
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
From the Romans to the Renaissance, the world used oils or shaving soaps to shave. In the 1900s, major chemical and industrial advancements changed the shaving game.
Self-Care- 3 Health Benefits of Pampering Yourself
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
Chronic stress causes a wide variety of health problems, such as high blood
pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. What’s the best way to combat stress? Pamper yourself!
pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. What’s the best way to combat stress? Pamper yourself!
5 Resolutions Worth Keeping
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
Resolutions. We all make them and break them, but we generally feel the most guilt about breaking important resolutions involving our health, especially as the years start adding up.
Meet me under the Mistletoe
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
Have you ever been struck with fright that you might meet the wrong person under a strategically placed branch mistletoe at your company Christmas party? Where did this legend originate? Was it created just to strike fear in young maidens?
4 Ways to De-Winter-ize Your Skin
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
It's January. In most parts of the country you have to put on three layers of clothes just to leave the house. Here are some easy tips to abate the winter assault on your skin!
The Art of the Bath
- Posted by Julia Kahlig-Garuba
The shower has replaced the bath in our hurried modern society. But throughout the history of human civilization, bathing was both a sacred and social activity.
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