Your Skin and Soaps

Your Skin and Soaps

One of the things I like about Ayurvedic medicine is this policy: if you wouldn’t put it in your mouth, don’t put it on your skin. ​​​

Certain soaps and liquid soaps strip the delicate skin barrier, are very harsh on our skin leaving it in a vulnerable and overly dry state. It can lead to people developing itchy skin and reactive dermatitis. Of course we need to remove germs and dirt, but the soaps we choose matter.

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How to Blend your own Spreadable Butter

How to Blend your own Spreadable Butter

Hmm butter, you’re so delicious and creamy, and even better when you are blended with organic plant based oils and made easy to spread on toast! This is another recipe for which I have to thank to the women of my family. This and many other home recipes like it is partly why I became a naturopath.

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