Skin Care

Have you ever heard the saying "if you wouldn't eat it, you shouldn't put it on your skin?" Scary but true. Our skin care products are loaded with harmful chemicals and it is up to us as consumers to read labels and educate ourselves on what we are putting in and on our bodies.

I love getting facials. I have been getting them fairly regularly for a few years now. My own education process started first with the health alert about the possible connection between parabens and breast cancer. Since then, I have been increasingly leery of getting facials that include having chemical-laden products put on my skin for an hour. So you can imagine my delight when I met Vida at Remedy Skin Care. She has carefully selected an amazing organic skin care line and only uses the purest of products. These products smell so good you will want to eat them, like the Sour Cherry Masque, which I had the pleasure of experiencing. The truth is these products are so so pure you probably could eat them!

It just gives you an all-over good feeling to know you are supporting a business that is doing their part to make the planet a healthier place, even if it is one facial at a time. The choices we make in food, skin care and makeup directly impact our own health and the health of the planet.

It is a learning process, and one discovery leads to another. But one thing is for sure - putting products on our skin that is chock full of chemicals and preservatives is not the way to go.

Next time you are in the market for a facial, give Vida and her amazing skin care line a try. You will feel good inside and out!

Now we just need to find an environmentally friendly place for mani's and pedi's!

Here is an informational link on reading labels and what to avoid: http://www.ewg.org/files/EWG_cosmeticsguide.pdf