Charcoal for a Brilliant Detox

Charcoal has long been used to detoxify the digestive tract, removing waste and neutralizing the ph. Charcoal also removes many times it weight in water. Yes, it makes you less puffy. Activated charcoal can be found where supplements are found, and for only a few dollars.
Support your body's detox with Power Repair Salt Scrub, it contains Sea salt, dead sea salt, grapeseed oil, vitamin E oil, grapefruitseed extract, and pure essential oils of sweet orange, peppermint, coriander, clove, and wintergreen. You will glissade out of the salle de bain light as a feather, and energized from the essential oils in the scrub.
As you float through the day on angel wings, so light and radiant, and people will glance around to see where the harp music is coming from, cherubs will snap your photo. You are as pretty as you are clever, because what does coal turn into? Diamonds!

Acupressure for Facial Toning

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. 
John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone is beautiful in their own way, that is what it is important to find out what makes you beautiful. Acupressure is one way to make you your prettiest.
Acupressure keeps energy flowing. Your energy is your beauty.
Begin by spraying your face and throat with Power Repair Face Mist - hydrating and full of antixodants, it smells of geranium and other wonderful things.
Points down the middle of the forehead 
Starting at the middle of the forehead at the hairline, use your middle finger to apply firm pressure for 3 seconds, release then repeat twice.
Move down to the middle point between the eyebrows, apply pressure, and repeat twice. These points ease frowning and headaches.
Points on the sides of the nose
Place your index fingers next to the base of your nose by the nostrils. Press firmly for three seconds, then release. These points may be tender as a great deal of tension is stored here.
Point in the middle of the upper lip
Place one index finger in the groove above the upper lip and apply pressure, then release, repeat twice. This point tones the lip area as well as controlling hunger.
Points at the Temples
Use three fingers together, with one hand on each temple. Press inward firmly and gently, then release. Repeat twice. These points increase energy and blood flow to the eye area, increases alertness and concentration.
Beauty is energy so create your own beauty in the day.
Be kinder than you need to be.
Listen to Sibelius on a long low couch, upholstered in pink and fuchsia Marimekko fabric, next to a very large lemon tree, that has your smart phone buried in its base, enjoying pistachio and dark chocolate macaroons from Patisserie Ines with gunpowder tea on Rose Chintz china from various years with Tiffany teaspoons from 1918, each with a different flower handle, watching the rain pour down.

Exercise to Lift Top Eyelid

"We are God's hands."
St. Therese de Lisieux
This little drill strengthens the upper eye lid muscle by opening up the eye and lifting the brow.
Place your index fingers flat under your eyebrows. Gently push up with your fingers while pushing down and holding both eyebrows. Hold to the count of 10, and repetez 3 times.
Power Repair Eye Cream is all natural and reduces under eye puffiness. Puffy is for ski jackets, not your pretty eyes.
Beautiful habits are wonderfully frugal, you have better things to spend your money on. Such as the Homeless Cooking Program at St.Clouds the third Wednesday of every month, where neighbors descend upon the  bistro's kitchen to create wonderful meals to feed 450 homeless, serving dignity along with the beautifully prepared food.
All that chopping and stirring needs a divine look, such as this scarab ring from Faberge.

Quelques Fleurs Meditation

"Life is commensurate with the number of beautiful impressions that can be squeezed into it. Let us have as many as we can." 
English Architect Ernest Grimson in letter to a client, 1907
The scent of all flowers and leaves is due to essential oil. In flowers that is known as attar. Put fragrant plants close to your house, so that when you walk outside you will easily catch their scent, Plant narrow beds to allow you walk close to the scented leaves and squeeze them, make low hedges of lavender, and raised beds to enjoy thickly planted cutting flowers.
Turn your shower into a scented garden. Sprinkle a generous amount of rose and jasmine essential oils on the floor of the shower. Dry skin brush, then in the shower lather up with Lemongrass Body Wash and mix it with Power Repair Salt Scrub, not missing an inch of your body with your loofah. Then spray all over with the light- as- fairy -wings Cocoa Butter Misting Skin Oil. 
Then sit comfortably, and  using your pinky finger, close your right nostril and breathe in through your left nostril. Do this five times then switch, and repeat the cycle several times or until you are ready to face the day. This balanced breath balances the energy in your body, and brings soothes the brain.
When you are done with the breath cycle, press the palms of your hands together  as in prayer. Joining the nerve endings joins the two sides of the brain, which is why hands in prayer is the same universally. Spray yourself Quelques Fleurs by Houbigant, created in 1912, and lightly spray your hair.
The day has been so elegant so far, keep it going by serving setting a table outdoors. A live string trio is always a nice touch, or maybe a classical guitar player.
Serve Prosecco and radishes with butter, and this sexy and simple recipe: Boil and drain angel hair pasta, top with a dollop of creme fraiche and a dollop of caviar, serve in low bowls.
Voila, as desirable as you are calm!

Tone Your Bottom for Autumn

Fall is here, a quick warm up on brisk mornings is heels together, toes apart, on the balls of your feet, tail bone skyward and hands on the ground on either side of your feet, go up and down fast twenty times or until you break a sweat- and you will. This tones the back of thighs and bottom.
Then scrub with Power Repair Salt Scrub, it contains pure essential oils of sweet orange, peppermint, coriander, clove, and wintergreen. Apply Body Lotion. This super product also tightens legs and bottoms, as it contains DMAE. DMAE enhances your mood and tightens skin.
Now you can celebrate the new season by painting the outside of your window frames with goldleaf to reflect the sun, giving your house a lovely glow, or having several leisurely outdoor lunches at Admiral's Inn, English Harbor, Antigua, then take leisurely launches to Galleon Beach.

Essential Beauty Points for La Rentree

La Rentree -  end of summer sounds better in French.
This essential list certainly will help ease the transition into autumn, a season that can be as sweet as summer. And because everyone looks like Shrek sometimes.
Pressing these  points help to increase the blood circulation and energy flow on the face and tones the skin. Press each point for seven seconds.

• If your face is tired or sagging, rub in the middle of the lower cheekbone on both sides of the face.
• For puffy eyes rub on each side of the nose in keeping with the inner edges of the eyes, this moves lymph..
• If your face looks tired or is sagging , rub on the outer edges of the eyes on both sides.
• For lifeless cheeks and jowls rub the dimples beneath the ears on both sides of the face.
• For eye bags and loose cheek muscle rub the space  between eye and cheekbone on both sides of the face.
•  To tone up the muscles of the entire body, rub in the middle of the palms of both of your hands, briskly, generating heat.

Now play the Don MacLean's American Pie, loudly and spray your face with Power Repair Face Mist - hydrating, soothing and lavender and ylang ylang smell divine.
With the money you save knowing how to do your own quick fixes, you can have friends over for Campari and soda, Tomato and Onion Tarte, some olives with orange rind grated on top , on a Camargue cloth tablecloth.Or put roses and dahlias in a dimpled white milk vase, faded, tattered roses are still lovely,  or buy a pair of Gina Pankowksi drop earrings - the tear drop shape dangles elegantly just right near the jawline, best earrings ever, subtle and stunning -  white gold and pink quartz.

Facial Clarity, Beauty, and Lifting with Lymphatic Drainage

Manual Lymph Drainage for the face is de rigueur for our French cousins, and gaining in popularity here. The face treatment works to get rid of excess fluid in the face, reducing bags under the eyes,  firming jawline, making eyes more clear and leaving the skin with an inner glow. A contoured, lifted face is the result.
After a lymphatic drainage treatment, you skin will be clear, smooth, toned and lifted, as the toxins are gently carried away. Drinking copious amounts of water enhances the treatment.
Vitamin C helps move lymph, as do products with geranium oil, such as Power Repair Face Cream. Between salon appointments, Clarisonic Opal and the Clarisonic Skin Care system both gently move lymph along daily. The LightStim LED helps too, as LED  light can promote lymphatic circulation and body metabolism.

Perfect Skin Complexion Balm

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? As You Like It  WS

This is the best product to enhance flawless skin - it goes on smooth, completely transluscent, the look is completely natural. Your natural beauty shines through. Wear under makeup or alone for flawless skin.
Colorless, sheer,  and all natural, it contains: corn starch, arrowroot powder, coconut wax, African shea butter, carnuba wax, jojoba oil, vitamin E oil, titanium dioxide, vitamin C ester (ascorbyl palminate), and a pure essential oil blend (lavender, geranium, and ylang ylang).
The best make up allows your natural beauty to show.

Facial Steam for an Organic Facelift

Power Repair's Facial Steam is a an important step in cleansing the pores, flushing out toxins, accelerating cell regeneration, and hydrating the skin. Facial Steam purifies and clears the skin and balances oil production. The organic ingredients transport you to a lovely garden:  chamomile flower, red rose petals, pink rosebuds, purple rosebuds, lavender flower, and calendula flower.
1. Steam Pour boiling water into a bowl, with a genrous amount of Facial Steam. Maybe to the flowers add some drops of lavender oil. The latin word root is laver, to clean. In French Lavage is to clean.
Think about that as you breathe in the steam with a towel forming a tent over your head.
2.Cold water splash This is toning and helps flush out toxins. If you don't have melted snow handy, put a bowl of water in the freezer before your set up for this.
3. Fingertip Circles Take a bit  of lavender or geranium oil and apply it all over your face with small circular massage movements, working it in to areas that need attention.
4. Finger Drainage Movements Place your index fingers flat together in the middle of your forehead, and slowly push outward to the sides of the face. Repeat over the cheeks and finally the chin.
These movements encourage toxins to come out of the tissues.
Green Clay Refinisher Facial Mask stimulates new cell growth, and penetrates deeper after the steam. Listen some Bach celllo while the clay dries on your lovely face.

Geranium and le mois d'aout

Geranium is one thing that blooms through the end of summer fading garden tatters as the fingers of autumn creep over the lawn. Oh cheer up, fall clothes are the best! 

Geranium oil has very positive effects on the skin - it boosts circulation and also invigorates the skin, and also balances the production of sebum, and helps to improve skin elasticity. This wonderful scented fleur boosts  the lymphatic system as well.
Geranium not only helps to reduce sebum production and return it to normal levels, it also helps to clear congestion from the skin.
It is helpful in relieving water retention , making it an excellent ingredient to use to prevent cellulite. Geranium essential oil also calms irritated skin.
When boosting the lymphatic system excess water  that may have been retained in the tissue is also released, which again translates into firmer skin.
Keep a bottle of essential oil in the shower a use it with your body wash.
This wonderful smelling powerhouse is found in many Power Repair products and Body Nurish skin care products, and Super Salve's Baby Products.

Aloe Vera for Skin Hydration

Aloe vera pulp is the clear, thick substance inside of the Aloe vera leaf. Aloe vera juice is made by liquifying Aloe vera pulp. Aloe is used in many skin care products because of its ability to stimulate healthy cell growth and repair damaged tissues. Aloe vera products contain the highest concentrations of healing agent which is beneficial for the skin.
Aloe makes the skin smooth and glowing. It does this by giving oxygen to the cells which in turn increases the strength and synthesis of skin tissue. This improves the ability of the skin so that it can hydrate itself, and has the ability for effective penetration and transports healthy substances through the skin. This prevents aging.
with body-loving nutrients such as vitamin E and C.
The Power Repair Toner is a must - it feels and smells so cooling your skin, and is found in many other Body Nurish and Super Salve products.

 

A is for Antioxidants

"Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start."

Maria, The Sound of Music
Antioxidants are chemicals that protect cells by neutralizing external forces (such as damage from the sun, pollution, wind, and temperature) and internal factors (for example, emotions, metabolism, and the presence of excess oxygen). Common antioxidants are Vitamins A, C, E, and beta carotene. These special chemicals assist in skin repair and the strengthening of blood vessels.
Phew, so these are necessary to keep skin hydrated and repeair and prevent damage. You can eat leafy greens, high in anitioxidants, and drink teas and tinctures.
Super Salve products have enzyme Q10, Power Repair Products deliver antioxidants to the skin in each step, the Face Mist delivers antioxidants and is refreshing on a hot day, and the Vitamin C is a membrane stabilizer and lifts and tightens collagen. Power Repair and Body Nurish have the daily steps you need, each has a routine packed with step of products with anitoxidants.
And the operative word - daily, nothing drastic.
Jean Cocteau said "Elegance is the art of not astonishing."

What I Like About You

Energize your skincare by playing the Kinks and the Romantics. And think about Vitamin C, it works all day and all of the night.
Start in the morning with lemon water to wake up your liver, then a nice steaming cup of coffee to restore the tissues.
First, exfoliate with Power Repair Exfoliant, then apply Green Clay Exfoliant Mask. After it dries, use Power Repair Foaming Cleanser in the shower. Then apply Power Repair Toner, Vitamin C Serum, and then Power Repair Face Cream or Sunscreen.
Use the Citrus Body Butter by Super Salve on your legs for a smooth look and pleasant scent. The scent of citrus is cheering and energizing. Results published in the Behavioural Brain Research journal suggest that lemon oil possesses anti-anxiety, antidepressant-like effects by suppressing dopamine activity. Other studies suggest the scent of grapefruit, lime, orange and lemon make people you in a more positive light.
In the evening, use the floral facial steam to rinse off the day, followed by toner, Vitamin C, and Power Repair cream. Vitamin C works harder at night when your body's rhythms are working to restore things.

While You Were Sleeping

"Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care.." 
Shakepeare, Macbeth

On the days when the fondue fork of life stabs you in the palm of your hand, when you open the mail box expecting a thank you note and a moth flies out, when your hourglass shaped bottle of eau-de-vie brandy is empty, save for the soaked pear you can't figure out how to retrieve, here is the cure.
Put on Brahms "Lullabye", or some Bach. When you sleep, beauty products are able to work more effectively. The purpose of sleep is repair.
The first step in this lovely routine is enjoy the Power Repair Facial Steam  - you will feel your day improving, as you experience the roses, lavender, and chamomile. Then massage Fruity Lift into your face. Here, either use cuppping or apply Power Repair Exfoliant, a healing mask. I apply it directly over the Fruity Lift, it seems to act as an accelerant. After the mask dries, shower to wash away the cares of the day.
In the shower, wash with Power Repair on your Clarisonic Brush. Out of the shower, apply the Power Repair Toner, the smell is divine, and it calms the skin. Then apply a generous amount of Power Repair Vitamin C Solution. If I were ever only allowed one beauty product on earth, this would be it.
Applying this cools, clarifies, and brightens your skin. I apply another layer of Vitamin C, then Power Repair Cream. Sometimes I apply the eye cream with Clarisonic Opal, for deeper product penetration.
A generous amount lets it work as a mask while you sleep. The vitamin C moves lymph for a more contoured face, you wake up clear and radiant.
Vitamin C Solution over a clean and exfoliated face is my favorite facial, home or salon.
The common denominator in Power Repair, Body Nurish, and Super Salve products is the ingredients are so pure and so intense, each time you wash is an event. The pleasant experience is as intense as the results. With so many beauty products, the rush is the packaging.
The above products are a great value and can all be purchased for less than a salon facial, with greater results.
In the morning you will look your best for any occasion. Making the mundane special is the most elegant.

Verjus

Verjus is a wonderful product, it is centuries made from pressed green grapes, and contains and enormous amount of antioxidants, and reservatrol, both are great for your skin. Mix it with fizzy water and honey for a nice alternative to drinking, particularly in the the heat.
If you do drink too much, I can heartily recommend the Soothing Herbal Jelly Mask  - ahhh, so cooling, I keep my in the fridge,  it changes the energy, takes away the dullness in your head.

Soothing Herbal Jelly Mask is infused with herbs that are traditionally used to heal and soothe irritable and damaged skin. This mask feels cool and calming while toning and conditioning the skin. A light and lovely product, it   heals and soothes and is  rich in natural vitamins and minerals. The list of ingredients list makes you feel better just reading it: distilled water infused with marshmallow root and calendula flower, orange blossom water, aloe vera gel, rose water, seaweed, xanthum gum, essential oils of neroli and yazu, glucose, and enzyme.

Ahh, hangover in French is mal a chevaux - my hair hurts!

Super Salve Superb Glow

The benefits of all natural supersalve.com Power Repair products cannot be overstated. Owned and created by two charming sisters, certainly minor royalty in their native Yugoslavia, it is an amazing value in addition to having great ingredients. The Vitamin C  Solution brightens your skin to the point that people will remark, Specifically, the person handing you a steaming hot coffee will stare, point, and 'say "what what, you tell me! so pretty!" Yes, and I too will love you very long time.
An effective and is at home Cupping and LED facial using Power Repair:
Cup your face and neck using Fruity Lift, apply Power Repair Clay Mask, rest and rinse,
 generously apply Power Repair vitamin C Solution, and use the Light Stim LED gadget
, finish with Power Repair face cream and your face with be soft and radiant.
A friend with enviable skin swears by Cocoa oil, and their Mochachino butter has a rich texture, is quickly absorbed, and imparts a very warm glow, as it nourishes your skin.
The toner is light and pleasantly scented, refreshing in the heat,  the list of ingredients of all the products is a rural idyll just reading them - and antixoidants a priority.  Fruity Lift works well with facial cupping, and Power Repair serums absorb perfectly. I have given their starter kits to my mom, sis, and a few friends, all who have switched with unswerving loyalty to Power Repair.