Everyone knows skin is the body’s largest organ, but we sometimes forget it is also a vital organ; as vital to our overall health and well being as healthy lungs or a healthy heart. In addition to helping regulate the body’s temperature, one of the key roles of our skin is to act as a barrier, keeping essential nutrients, inclu .....

Time and again we hear how overwhelming it can be to walk into the beauty department of a store and find literally thousands of different skin care products.On a recent visit, I noticed one prestige line of skin care alone has 27 different moisturizers. Nighttime, Daytime, Day and Nighttime; for Face, for Eyes, for Décolleté; Lotions, Creams, Serums, Gels; for Dry .....

 Our skin is always changing. Fueled by age, lifestyle factors, and our environment, the rate of change varies from person to person; but the one thing that remains constant, is that it never stays the same.Perhaps the most dramatic changes we see in our skin, regardless of lifestyle and environmental factors, occur with the change of seasons. The most pronounced changes occur at this time of year .....

If you enjoy grocery shopping like I do, you probably spend time browsing the aisles looking for great new products. I’m always interested in something that will help me pick up more dirt, that will make my meals taste better, and that will get my whites whiter than white. Discovering these products isn’t difficult; you just have t .....

It is easy to neglect our skin in the summer. The warmer, more humid weather means our skin isn’t as dry and itchy as it is in the winter; and the sun kissed look of a tan can make us feel better when we look in the mirror.But the lazy days of summer don’t mean we should be lazy with our .....

You have probably heard of the Environmental Working Group (EWG).Founded in 1993, their mission is to protect the environment and the health of individuals through “the power of information.”With a specific emphasis on the protection of developing fetuses (and by extension, their mothers), babie .....

At a press conference not so long ago, the Vice President of a large natural skin care company famously dipped his finger into one of their body lotion products and proceeded to eat it. His purpose was to demonstrate the purity of their products, and presumably their safety.This undoubtedly made for memorable theatre be .....

You don’t have to look far to realize there is a controversy surrounding the common group of skin care ingredients called “parabens.” Walk the aisles of your favorite drugstore and you will see “No Parabens” popping up on more and more labels; and just the other day a well-known Beauty Editor tweeted about a new pr .....

When I hit my mid thirties I noticed a huge change in the condition of my skin. I had trouble keeping it hydrated (it became chronically dry), it lost elasticity (wrinkles!) and most strikingly, I noticed heightened sensitivity. Of particular concern was the fact that these issues were progressi .....

 “That which we call a rose,” Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, “by any other name would smell as sweet.”What if the scent of that rose was actually derived from chemicals with names like dibutyl phthalate and diethylhexyl phthalate? The scent, while authentic, may not seem so sweet after all. Almost certainly, at least, it would lose its romance......