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Clean Beauty DIY: Floral Facial Serum Using Natural Ingredients

Clean Beauty DIY: Floral Facial Serum Using Natural Ingredients
Do you struggle with dry skin on your face? Did you know that flowers have tons of natural benefits for your skin?
I recently formulated this floral facial serum and have been loving how my skin feels after using it! My forehead gets especially dry over the winter, to the point where the dry skin starts flaking off.
Yes, I know, I should exfoliate and moisturize and do whatever else to my skin more often to head this off. But ... I don't. Skin care has never been a huge priority for me.
That's one reason I am loving this serum. A few drops, rub it in, and enjoy my improved skin!
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5 Essential Oils for Sleep and How to Use Them

5 Essential Oils for Sleep and How to Use Them
Sleep is a crucial component of overall health. Lack of sleep not only affects you physically in being tired, but it also affects you mentally – brain fog, difficulty concentrating, and trouble making decisions – and emotionally – mood swings and irritability.
However, knowing you need sleep does not necessarily equal actually getting that sleep. Many people have trouble either falling asleep or staying asleep for various reasons.
One simple and proven way to naturally get more and better quality sleep is to use essential oils.
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The Importance of Sourcing Essential Oils

The Importance of Sourcing Essential Oils
Essential oils have been exploding in popularity for a while, and they're now readily available at many local stores. Many of these drugstore or big box store essential oils are extremely inexpensive compared to other brands. Why is that? Does cost matter? What is really the difference between cheap and expensive essential oils?
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New All-Natural Perfume Option – Wyld Notes

New All-Natural Perfume Option – Wyld Notes
Perfume and cologne have been one of the most difficult items to find natural options for. Artificial fragrance is toxic, and obviously, these items are made up primarily of artificial fragrance.
Natural options included DIY perfumes or roll-on scents made with essential oils, but personally, I never found that they lasted more than a few minutes. It makes sense since they are so readily absorbed by the skin, but that didn't help those of us who wanted a scent that lasted.
So I was extremely excited this spring when I finally discovered truly natural fragrance that lasts.
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Five Essential Oils to Get Started With

Five Essential Oils to Get Started With
Essential oils are one of the easiest tools for naturally dealing with a wide variety of health ailments. However, so many people never get started because they just don't know which oils to begin with. I'm here to change that.
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Meet Melissa Denelsbeck

 

For years, I was trapped in a fog, never feeling 100%, always tired but too stressed out to get a good night’s sleep, struggling through headaches 3-4 times each week. Almost every afternoon at work, I would hit that mid-afternoon slump and be unable to keep my eyes open. Often, my headaches would start around this same time and last through the rest of the day. All I wanted to do was go home and sleep, but when I went to bed, my thoughts would race, and I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep.

I felt like I was stuck in a never-ending cycle of fatigue – tired all day and wide awake at night, and the headaches just made it all more difficult to deal with. I pushed on as well as I could through the sleepiness and the pain, but I never felt like I was functioning at full capacity.

Then, I started making some changes in my life and becoming aware of what I was putting in and on my body. Over time, I realized that my headaches were becoming less frequent, and my sleep quality, energy, and mental clarity were improving.

Now, a couple years later, I feel my energy levels remain steady from the time I wake up until I go to bed. I am able to quiet my anxious thoughts and fall asleep quickly at night. And the headaches? They’re so infrequent that I can’t even say how often they come – maybe 3-5 a year?

It wasn’t even that difficult a change to make. I just swapped out products in my life that were contributing to my bad health, and I replaced them with versions that enhance my wellness instead.

It’s a step-by-step process that you can take at your own pace, and I am here to be your guide on the journey and empower you to take back your own health! Take a look around my blog or join my free Facebook group where we discuss tips for how to take back your health and live your life abundantly!

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