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Getting down to essentials: Litsea Cubeba
Litsea Cubeba is an essential oil that may not be familiar to everyone, but it’s one that isn’t quickly forgotten after use. With its intense, citrusy aroma, Litsea Cubeba, the botanical name for May Chang, a tree native to Southeast Asia, has a number of...
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Doing Good Pays Off in Many Ways for your Spa or Massage Practice
The traditional season of giving may be over, but that doesn’t mean giving on behalf of your spa or massage practice should end. Having an ongoing company giving program, not only helps the community you service; it helps your business standing.
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Promoting Good Health, Good Luck and Happiness in the Treatment Room
These three things are traditionally what the three petals of the shamrock stand for and I am dedicating the month of March to promoting and celebrating just that. Why am I talking about March the week after New Years? If you remember, in my last...
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Warm Up Clients’ Skin This Winter With Cocoa Butter
Is cold weather wreaking havoc with clients’ skin? Cold weather not only means getting bundled up to keep out the cold; also changes the types of treatments and products you use on clients at your spa and massage practice to keep moisture...
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Make good skin care a New Year’s resolution
What’s on our New Year’s resolution list? It’s not too early to start thinking about changes you want to make in your life, your work and even your health as we wrap up 2017. A new year is also a good time to think about making sure your skin is in...
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Bringing Purpose to your Practice
A lot of you have shared your struggles with making a living pursuing your passion of massage therapy and burnout. I don’t have any quick answers but I want to offer this: Passion is a wonderful place to start and inspires us on the good days but...
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Getting down to essentials: Patchouli Oil
Many of your clients may not have heard of Patchouli Oil, but they have experienced it. Patchouli Essential Oil has a dusky, musky, earthy scent, which makes it popular for adding to perfumes, soaps, incense, and essential oil blends...
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Why Shea Butter should be your treatment menu
In the savannah regions of West and Central Africa, the people call the Karite Tree, the Tree of Life. Here in this dry, arid region, the fruit of the nut of the Karite Tree, known as Shea Butter, has been used extensively to improve skin and hair.
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Getting Down to Essentials: Orange Essential Oil
With its fresh tangy aroma and healthful properties, orange essential oil has been popular for thousands of years. In “13 Outstanding Benefits of Orange Essential Oil,” Marnie Clark, writes that “The people of China, India, the Middle East, and...
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Scars as Storytellers: Scar Massage and Treatments
Every scar tells a story. It’s important we ask about that story. It could be from a surgery a client neglected to list, an injury that they forgot they experienced, or an actual contributor to dysfunction. In my time working in an Occupational Therapy...
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5 Reasons You Should Increase Your Water Intake ASAP
We all know that most of our body consists of water, we are familiar with the benefits of drinking plenty of it, and it’s one of the first changes people make when looking to improve their overall health. And yet we rarely do something to increase our water intake.
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Breakthroughs in massage therapy research
Endometriosis is a condition in which the inner lining of the uterus starts to grow outside the uterus. Among women suffering from endometriosis, the pain during menstruation can be very intense. In 2010, the Iran Journal of Nursing and Midwifery...