Diet and Natural Skin Care

Eating For Beauty

Many times skin conditions are a result of diet, but your dermatologist won’t make any money by telling you that. Chronic acne, psoriasis, dry skin, and various skin rashes can all be due to eating the typical Western diet. Even if you think you are eating a relatively healthy diet, processed foods by their nature [...]

Raw Food Redux

Sometimes the universe tries to give you hints. I’ve been thinking for a while that I need to make changes to my diet—lean more towards vegetables and away from meat. Lately I keep running into recipes for great raw vegetable dishes. I’m not even looking for them, but they just keep popping up. So I’m [...]

Bacon That’s Good For You

Seaweeds are remarkable for the sheer number of nutrients they contain. A more accurate term would be sea vegetable. Of course, now that we are aware of their value, they are grown commercially. Some of the wild versions are actually in danger of being over harvested and there are laws about when and who can [...]

Iodine and Natural Skin Care

I use a leave-in hair treatment that contains iodine. As far as I know it’s the only product of its kind that contains iodine, so of course I was a little miffed when it wasn’t in stock. I looked at some of the other products in the same line and was surprised to see that [...]