Youthful Beauty...Naturally

All-natural beauty products help you look and feel your best. By choosing non-toxic, nutrient-rich personal care, you're supporting health as well as beauty!

Scrubs:

Refreshing and rejuvenating, natural salt or sugar scrubs leave skin feeliong smooth and supple, while removing dead skin cells and promoting circulation. Make your own with salt or sugar, apricot or almod oil and a few drops of essesntial oils like lavendar or rosemary.

Moisturizers:

The right natural moisturizer won't just feel good, plant-based products with nourishing shea butter, cocoa butter and natural oils can help prevent psoriasis, eczema and acne. They also fight wrinkle-causing environmental damage by locking in skin's moisture.

Beauty Supplements:

For a great boost, look for skin-protective nutrients found in grape skins, hyaluronic acid, coenzyme Q10, collagen and vitamins A, C and E.

The Back Rub Company offers a course called Making Scents at Work. Schedule in Phoenix by April 15th and get 1/2 off!

The Toxic Side of Beauty!

Many of us have made changes to our diets by including more fruits and vegetables, choosing organically grown produce and reading food labels. Yet while we are holding the food industry to higher standards, refusing to buy products with harmful ingredients; the cosmetic industry is still flying under the radar of government agencies and the public eye.

Beauty, however, is more than skin deep and reading labels can open your eyes to the dangers lurking in today's beauty products. From lead in lipsticks to the phthalates and parabens in your baby's lotion, the list of toxic and health-damaging ingredients is long and expands daily.

Did you know that on any given day, the average woman uses a dozen personal care products, containing 168 chemicals, 89% of which have never been tested for the safety of their ingredients?

The top five harmful chemicals most commonly found in popular beauty products are lead, formaldehyde, parabens, phthalates and nitrosamines.

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Kerstin Wingert is the Owner of SouviaTea and "chai-wallah" of Moon Valley.