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Hydration? Here’s the scoop: Often a moisturizer

Hydration? Here’s the scoop: Often a moisturizer isn’t enough to hydrate unbalanced skin! 😬⁣⁣
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Why? 🤔⁣⁣
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Because your skin needs a combination of water and oils to stay balanced and keep its acid mantle intact (moisturizers typically only provide the oil portion of the equation). ⁣⁣
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👉 The skin’s acid mantle is your body's natural, protective layer of sebum. Without it, your skin is open to damage, dehydration, and oil imbalance.⁣⁣
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Hydra Healing Gel provides the water part of the balanced skin equation. 🥳⁣⁣
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In fact, the ingredients in it are 1000 times more hydrating than water alone and they easily absorb into the layers of your skin! 💪 ⁣⁣
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You know I’m not one to promote quick fixes but sometimes just one tweak (like adding a hydrating product into your routine) is all that’s needed 🥰

Holistic Healing For Acne: workbook + planner⁣
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🌱 Download a sample of the workbook (the first 14 pages!) via the link in my bio. ⁣
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When I asked our community if putting together a short e-book/PDF/workbook version of our roadmap to radiant skin course (a course we previously ran for those trying to figure out and navigate acne triggers and root causes) be helpful right now, everyone who weighed in voted “YES PLEASE!”⁣
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With our studio being closed for a little while (re: COVID-19), I wanted to focus on something that would help give radiant rebels a positive sense of control and something healthy we can focus on right now (but only they actually thought it would be useful 😊).⁣
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With the unanimous vote to bring an acne-prone skin specific workbook into the world (that covered both topical skincare and internal factors), I got to work and in a week’s time this laser-focus resource was born!⁣
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A free preview is available for download (or get the complete digital workbook/planner for $5 CAD). See the “holistic healing for acne” link in my bio. ⁣
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Wishing you lots of love, light, and healing herbs 🌿

Inside Time + Acne Breakouts ⁣ ⁣ I was asked a

Inside Time + Acne Breakouts ⁣
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I was asked a question you might also be contemplating. ⁣
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The question was....⁣
“Would being inside more cause my face to break out like crazy? Other than a little stress from COVID-19, nothing has changed other than being inside much more. But my face is breaking out. It has not done this in years!”⁣
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My answer...⁣
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It’s more likely to be the stress from COVID-19. Stress affects our hormones which affect the oils (sebum) on our skin ... the sebum gets stickier and contains more inflammatory substances. ⁣
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While it’s not easy, the best thing to do is find ways to tackle the stress that’s spiking cortisol. Herbal tea, zinc, probiotics, antioxidants, rest and movement. ⁣
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If you’re being more sedentary that usual, look for ways to move more - this releases stress from our body and is one of the best ways to combat it (as long as we don’t get competitive or hard on ourselves about it!) For me, I use the app “just dance now” because it’s a fun way to move 😊. ⁣
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Also check to see if there’s something in your diet you’re consuming more (or less) of than usual. ⁣
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For example, if you’re getting an excess of B12, that can spike breakouts as can an inadequate supply of antioxidants and zinc (compared to folks who aren’t prone to acne, acne-prone skin needs more of both to stay clear). ⁣
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📸 Pictured here: @groundedsage Pineapple Facial Scrub

A beautiful palette from Mother Nature 🍃🍁🍂 spotted during a reflective walk in the woods with a good friend 🐶🌲. ⁣
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#ecotherapy⁣
#connectwithnature⁣
#naturenurture⁣
#healingwithnature

Washing our hands over here with the stock pile of

Washing our hands over here with the stock pile of soap ends that accumulate each time we cut our soap loafs into bars is a pretty sweet way to stay safe if you ask me lol 😅. ⁣
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If you want to hand wash the handmade way too, all our soap bars on sale for 20% off with the coupon code SOAP20 until the end of the month. ⁣
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The coupon code above will work during free shipping day (this Thursday on March 19th) or score free shipping any time within Canada 🇨🇦 and the US 🇺🇸 if your order is $100 CAD or more. ⁣
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Here’s to happy handmade hand washing 🧼💚

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