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A 6-Step Beauty Morning Ritual
Our well-being is a result of our good habits. We need to develop these as soon as possible, and make time for them on a daily basis.
Your skin is one area that you can create a morning ritual for to make sure it’s brighter every week.
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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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How to manage the reputation of your spa or massage practice
Managing your reputation online is more important than ever before. The Internet can be unforgiving and rush to judgement even before all the facts are in. That’s why you need a proactive plan in place to make sure that you are on top of what clients...
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6 holiday marketing ideas for your spa or massage practice
Even with Black Friday and Cyber Monday drawing in millions of shoppers, many people still are in the midst of working through their holiday shopping lists. If you haven’t stepped up your marketing plans to capture holiday buying, there’s still...
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Say “yes” to good skincare for lips
Hate those crow’s feet around the eyes? Are your laugh lines getting deeper? These are just some of the signs of aging? But as Jenna Rosenstein writes in “Why You Should Be Anti-Aging Your Lips,” for Harper’s Bazaar, the lips are one of the first places...
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Embracing Change
"Change is easy!" said no one, ever! Change can be incredibly difficult and often requires us to look past our current situation to where we would like to be. Planning and organizing what changes we need to make, how we need to make them, and determining...
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How to Make Time for Skin Care: Tips for Busy People
A common reason why people don’t take good care of their skin is not having enough time. If you think about it, however, skin care is a set of quick and easy actions that can be implemented into your daily routine.
We do so many unnecessary things daily that take 10 minutes here and half an hour there. But we don’t make time for our health as much as we should, and suffer the consequences at a later age.
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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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Being grateful everyday helps you and your spa or massage practice thrive
Thanksgiving is the time many take time to reflect on the things in life they are most grateful for. But being grateful or living a more grateful life isn’t something to reserve for one day of the year. In fact being grateful and conveying that feeling to friends...
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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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Take good care of the skin around your eyes
Not all of your skin is created equally and that particularly applies to skin under your eyes. The skin under your eyes is as much as ten times thinner than skin on the rest of your body. Skin under the eyes also is extremely sensitive. With all the...
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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...