Clean Kiss Lifestyle
The Hidden Dangers: How Toxins in Mainstream Skincare Products Impact Your Hormones
The skincare industry has grown exponentially in recent years, with an increasing focus on innovative products promising flawless skin. However, behind the alluring packaging and enticing advertisements, there's a dark secret: toxins in mainstream skincare products. These toxins can have a significant impact on your hormones, potentially disrupting your endocrine system and causing a range of health issues. In this blog post, we'll delve into the dangers of these toxins and how they affect your hormonal balance.
Learn more
Hormones a hot mess? Ditch yoyo dieting and do this instead.
As women enter their midlife years, hormonal changes can bring about a variety of physical and emotional challenges. These changes can disrupt the delicate balance of hormones in the body, leading to symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, weight gain, and more. Instead of relying solely on quick fixes or extreme diets, a holistic approach to hormonal balance can make a world of difference. In this blog post, we'll explore several key aspects of maintaining hormonal balance for midlife women, including using non-toxic skincare products, eating whole foods, intuitive daily movement, getting enough sleep, managing stress, exercising in line with the menstrual cycle, and most importantly fostering a stronger mind-body connection.
Learn more
5 Natural health tips to be the heroine of your own menopause story
It is no secret that the hormonal changes we go through in midlife, also known as (peri)menopause, can wreak havoc on your skin and body, not to mention your mental health. There is one thing that "the experts" (medical doctors, alternative/holistic practitioners, menopause educators) all agree on. That is that you can be doing things proactively to minimize the impacts of your dropping estrogen levels and to make your experience more pleasant. Keep reading to find out the 5 Natural Health Tips to ease your menopause transition so that you can (hopefully) have a positive experience, instead of the horror stories we all hear about from friends and the media.
Learn more
11 coffee alternatives to try for natural energy and better health
Drinking coffee is a sacred event to me. I am not one to take a sip and leave it on the counter to get cold. I only prepare my coffee when I am ready to sit down and savour it as part of my daily ritual. This is especially truer now in my life that I have chosen to reduce my coffee habit down to only one or 1.5 per day. It makes that sacred coffee even more sacred! I used to drink four cups a day, all before 9 am. For real. It was when my kids were little, I was exhausted all the time, and I was under extreme stress and pressure with the business I had at the time. And my health was suffering as a result. Now I am finding natural ways to boost my energy with coffee alternatives such as elixirs, herbal teas, fresh fruit waters and more. I have made the switch and seriously reduced my coffee intake because my cortisol and hormones were giving me big signs that the coffee was doing more harm than good. If you can relate, then keep reading to find out what to drink instead that is still fun, brings you joy and is as tasty as coffee!
Learn more
How Can Probiotics Help My Angry Skin to Look and Feel Happier?
As a Certified Aesthetics Nutritional Professional (CNAP) meaning I am trained in how nutrition affects skin, and a Holistic Nutritionist (CNP) I get these questions a fair bit. Let's dive in and get to the bottom of this topic in a moment. But first...before we do that I just want to preface this discussion by saying that your skin is only "angry" if you deem it so. We don't like to label any skin condition as a "problem" unless you are here because you think it is a problem. You are beautiful in whatever skin you are in be it acne-prone, aging, inflamed or any other skin challenge you face. We do not define beauty as "perfect" skin. Perfection doesn't exist! But if you do want to have healthier looking skin, you are in the right place. Now let's talk about how probiotics can help your skin to look and feel happier. Can they? The short is answer is YES. Taking a daily probiotic is always a good idea no matter what your skin health status is. Let's find out why and how probiotics, prebiotics and foods can help your skin to look and feel happier!
Learn more
Natural Deodorant 101: Expert Advice on Detoxing and Other Myths
You may have decided it's time to make the switch to a natural deodorant after this trend has been sweeping Amazon, online store shelves and armpits now for almost a decade in a big way. And it isn't slowing down anytime soon. But how on earth do people survive making the switch to natural deodorant? You've heard the (horror) stories from friends and co-workers about how they tried a natural deodorant and had horrific body odour before noon that day! We all have heard them, maybe even lived them. Or perhaps you heard about a friend that went through a "detox" process for a month and then they were fine with their switch to natural deodorant. Maybe you made the switch already during the global pandemic while working from home or maybe you are just plain resisting it because even at home alone you aren't willing to give up your trusted and true anti-perspirant in lieu of wicked body odour. I get it. Change is hard.
Learn more
How to Keep Your Sanity this Holiday Season in 3 Easy Steps
As a Wellness Expert, I promote and educate on the trifecta of good health: Non-toxic Skincare + Holistic Nutrition + Movement It's a simple formula. What you put ON your body + what you put IN your body + how you MOVE your body. It all sounds great doesn't it? It is great. But life is messy and imperfect and obsessing over getting it all right is going to make you CRAZY!
Learn more
Top 10 Skincare Mistakes to Stop Now to Get Healthy Skin this Fall
That nourished glow of a healthy complexion. You know it when you see it. There are some simple skincare and lifestyle principles that can help you get there if you really are committed to having healthy looking skin, at any age or stage of your life. The truth of the matter is that you can use all the natural, beautiful skin care products that money can buy you but unless you are following these simple lifestyle principles to keep your whole body healthy you will not achieve your skincare goals. Keep reading for my Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid this Fall for your skin.
Learn more
Is self care the new mandatory must-have of basic personal care?
The concept of self-care has been around since the days of Socrates in 5th Century BC but it seems to me that everywhere I look nowadays in 2022, kind of "post-pandemic-ish", there are messages of self-care popping up. Is it overused? Misunderstood? Or the necessary messaging that we all need nowadays? While I couldn't agree more that if ever there was a time for self-care: IT IS NOW. The pandemic taught us that our time on earth is fragile, misused and misunderstood. Our entire world and being was turned on its side and we had to learn to question everything. But, what really is Self-Care anyway? "First off, the Greek word for "care" would have been understood to include meditation, regular fasting, prayer, education, music, exercise -- anything that can be said to feed the soul.
Learn more