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Here are five great magazines to get to know better.
Body + Soul Magazine: Articles on whole living, living green, health and fitness articles, recipes.
Cooking Light: Hundreds of light, low calorie, and low fat recipes each month. Great fitness articles. Wellness.
Organic Gardening: Advice on green gardening, eco-issues, environmental issues, living organically.
Every Day with Rachael Ray: Many recipes each month, lifestyle advice, decor, girlfriends, household tips, etc.
Cincinnati Magazine: A favorite resource guide for local Cincinnatians. Shopping, dining, events in and around Cincinnati.
Shop Supernatural Botanicals’ Summer Sale now. All Face and Body Spa Soaps are on sale for only $6.00. Stock up now!
Supernatural Botanicals Face and Body Spa Soaps
Pure Tangerine and Grapefruit Face and Body Spa Soap.
Pomegranate and Grapefruit Face and Body Spa Soap.
Mixed Berry Ultra Exfolating Spa Soap.
Sweet Tropical Mango Face and Body Spa Soap.
Island Coconut Face and Body Spa Soap.
By now, surely you know that the eco-awareness movement isn’t just for wacked-out enviormentalist nut-jobs. For those of us who have been eco-aware for years, we’re glad the masses are catching up. It’s not a job we can leave for someone else to do; we all have to take part in saving the planet. Here are five ideas that can get you proactively moving in the right direction.
1. Use you slow cooker (crock pot) to save on energy costs.
2. Group errands together to not only save on gas, but produce less polution.
3. Don’t automatically turn on the air conditioning in the summer. First, start with the windows open. It airs out your house and puts you in a happy mood because you are a bit closer to nature. If it’s miserable out, go ahead and turn the air on to breathe better. I’ve noticed that when I don’t automatically turn the central air on, it forces me to turn my “auto-pilot” off and think about whether or not I really need to turn the air conditioning on.
4. Don’t use disposable plates and cups, use real plates and cups. It saves them from eventually being dumped in landfills. Beyond the practical, think esthetics. Who wants to eat off of plastic when you can eat off of a beautiful plate?
5. Grow a garden. Trees and plants oxygenate the air, helping you to breathe better, and you’ll save a ton of money in the produce department by growing your own veggies. The taste is superior when freshly picked and the veggies’ natural sugars are flowing.
Why wait for tomorrow when you can do this today! Here are five things you can do, today, to make your skin look better tomorrow. As I’ve said a million times, the only way to make something a habit is to do it……and do it…..and do it. That’s how good solid habits are formed. And isn’t looking sensational worth it?
Try these habit-forming ideas today!
Drink as much water as possible! It rids the body and skin of toxins and keeps your skin looking hydrated and healthy.
Make the effort to eat better. Start eating things that make you radiant (think veggies and greens) and less of things that make you unattractive (fast food and double lattes!) Choose from super-foods, like blueberries that contains mega antioxidants.
Start working out! There’s so many benefits to exercise. Make sure to break a sweat at least once a day. Sweating off toxins, as nasty as it sounds, is a very, very good thing for your skin. Hit the steam room or sauna as much as possible.
Make sure you are washing your face once or twice a day (definitely before bed) to remove makeup and the day’s grime, helping to prevent breakouts. It gives your skin a chance to breathe while your body is in a restorative state (sleep.) Plus, it saves your expensive pillow cases from getting lipstick on them.
Use a great moisturizer at least once a day. Preferably before applying makeup in the a.m., and after taking makeup off in the evening. It helps to hydrate the skin, preventing dull, dry looking skin.
These are five things you can do today to look hot tomorrow! It’s so worth it!
Are you falling in bed each night completely exhausted? Too exhausted to wash your face before bed? Sleeping in makeup is considered a Cardinal sin in skincare maintenance. It blocks your pores, essentially smothering your skin. It causes the appearance of your skin to look dull and older than it needs to look.
The added benefit, for me, is the aromatherapy aspect I get from washing my face with Spa Soaps. Spa Soaps are our best sellers at Supernatural Botanicals….and for good reason. They smell amazing and give immediate aromatherapetic benefits. For instance, Grapefruit and Orange essential oils are thought to stimulate the mind and enliven the spirit. I love washing my face with this. It’s instantly refreshing.
I also love the fact that I can wash my face with a bar soap and not have to worry about breakouts. In our clinical study, none of our participants experienced any breakouts whatsoever, and in fact, all noted improved complexion.
Explore our entire line of Spa Soaps at Supernatural Botanicals. They are so indulgent and delicious!
Here’s a sneak peek! I’m really excited about these new Sea Salts we are getting ready to introduce at Supernatural Botanicals next week. The salts are Bath and Shower Sea Salts. Sea salt is extremely effective in exfoliation when combined with shower gel or body oil for the shower, provides the body with much needed minerals, deeply relaxes muscles, and makes bath time a luxurious spa experience.
We have five new amazing salts:
Island Coconut Bath and Shower Salts. These sea salts are formulated with coconut milk and make the water ultra creamy, super indulgent. Tropical, light summery coconut scent. Island Coconut is always a top seller.
Pure Mango Bath and Shower Sea Salts. Gorgeous coral color bursting with juicy mango essential oils. Delicious! You’ll have guaranteed complements on how great you smell after using this….(I’m constantly using Pure Mango Body Butter!)
Mixed Berry Bath and Shower Sea Salts. Formulated with blueberry and strawberry seeds and mixed berry pure essential oils. This one is really sensational….I’ve gotten a request for it every single day from numerous people since I’ve introduced it to my circle (girlfriends and family.)
Pure Orange Bath and Shower Sea Salts: This is a must-have for orange and citrus lovers (like me!) These salts are formulated with orange peel, packed with vitamin C, and smell like the juiciest orange imaginable. Ridiculously good! Super fresh, super beautiful.
Supernatural Spa Collection Bath and Shower Sea Salts: If you’ve ever had a spa experience, you know they are mega luxurious; the sights, the smells, the ambiance… it’s perfection. I was absolutely adamant on creating a Spa Collection Line that recreated that exact experience for home use. After many (many….trust) prototypes later, this is, without a doubt, a spa experience in a bag. Formulated with Orange, Eucalyptus, Patchouli, Ylang Ylang to evoke a relaxed and calm mild.
Here’s your sneak peek. These will be available on the website www.SupernaturalBotanicals.com next week. We will also be offering a sampler pack to try all five! As always, they are eco-chic, green, and all-natural! More info to follow! Feel free to email me with any questions! Robin@SupernaturalBotanicals.com
So I’ve decided to have a neighborhood holiday block party at my house this year. I’m not sure my neighbors are overtly eco-friendly, so I’m thinking a little green exposure won’t hurt them. When you know better, you do better, right? So my plan is to inadvertently expose them to an eco-friendly party and show them how fantastic going green can be. Want to green up your holiday? Incorporate a few of these suggestions into your party
How cool is this? Organic Vodka for your holiday party. How absolutely fabulous can that be? Square One Vodka is eco-chic, and is the first 100% organic American Rye Vodka. Also a perfect hostess gift for a green-ling.
Keep it organic with your appetizers. What could be better than a bounty of organic vegetables? ….a bounty of organic veggies with a big bowl of organic Ranch dressing, that’s what could be better!
This is a really important step to a great party…ambiance! It’s often overlooked which is sad, because it’s absolutely key in the overall feeling of the party. Throw those light switches on dimmers, and set the mood. You’ll be creating the right ambiance while saving on your lighting bill. Who knew green could be so sexy?
So you’ve dimmed the lights, now lets make it glow! Soy candles are beautiful, and you’ll be sure to get compliments. Perfect platform for green-telling stories. Candles give perfect ambiance to the room and help you to turn the electricity down. Another perfect green-ling hostess gift.
Gifts to the guests. It’s always nice sending your friends out the door with a token of your appreciation. Supernatural Botanicals All-Natural Body Butters will be a perfect eco-friendly parting gift to my guests. Both women and men love these butters and they smell simply sensational! Other considerations are bags of organic granola (you can find great bags for these at craft stores everywhere.)
The idea is to shift the focus to greener living. It’s a great holiday theme, a great conversation starter, and guilt-free partying!
Here are five great selections to give to yourself, or a friend this holiday season. Everyone loves a great read, and more so, everyone starts to think about ways to improve their life this time of year (think New Year’s resolutions!) Here are a few of my favorites. Extra points if you can turn someone on to the love of reading. One of these great books will get a non-book-reader headed in the right direction.
Quiet Mind by David Kundtz. More than a meditation book, Quiet Mind is a series of reflections that can illuminate every aspect of life. It offers readers guidance on using the moments between activities, which the author calls “stillpoints”. As opportunities to focus on becoming more fully awake to who they are. “These times are the ‘spaces in between’ the events of your life,” writes Kundtz, “spaces often lost, or worse, filled with anxiety. And these spaces in between are just waiting to bring you the calmness and clarity that an over-demanding schedule steals from you.” A welcome respite for anyone whose gear shift is perpetually in overdrive, Quiet Mind is an invitation to rest, find peace, awaken, and remember. It offers deceptively simple wisdom to help readers sharpen their senses and make room for life.
Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipfer. Help others. Help yourself. Be a better person, and make the world a better place. Using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire, INSTANT KARMA is a universe of things a reader can do, right now, to accumulate good karma. And, like pennies going into a piggy bank, each is a seemingly little thing-but feed the bank day after day and feel it grow richer and happier. Created by Barbara Ann Kipfer, the author whose books-including 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, 8,789 Words of Wisdom, and The Wish List-have 1.2 million copies in print, INSTANT KARMA is a compulsive, densely packed, chunky little book of 10,000 or so suggestions, wishes, thoughts, and the occasional heartening quotation.
It’s Up to You by Karen Casey. It’s Up to You invites readers to do three simple things: meditate, pay attention, and make choices to change their lives–for a few minutes each morning and evening, one principle a week for twelve weeks. As we reflect on Casey’s insight into the insidious ways we create misery or drama, try to impose will, and suffer needlessly, and as we follow her gentle prompts to make different choices, we begin to see that we can change just about anything in our lives by taking these small steps. Nothing could be simpler, and nothing could be more effective. Or as Karen Casey puts it, “Progress is guaranteed. Perfection isn’t expected.”
Easy Green Living by Renee Loux. We are what we eat, but we also are what we use to clean our homes, pamper our skin, and decorate our rooms, according to Renée Loux, accomplished raw food chef, award-winning author, and host of Fine Living TV’s Easy Being Green. In her new book, Easy Green Living, she applies her whole-foods philosophy to home, garden, and beauty routines. Renée Loux demonstrates that being green at home is easy, affordable, and better in every sense of the word. She discusses the daily choices we face that can keep the home, personal care, and beauty routines free of toxins. She exposes the dirt on cleaning products and common hazardous ingredients and reveals her recommendations for greener options, including her “Green Thumb Guides” for choosing non-toxic, eco-smart, and human-friendly products. Peppered with compelling and inspiring facts, Easy Green Living is full of “5 Step” lists, products and recipes for green cleaning, helpful charts, safer choices for every room, and inspirational advice so we can save the planet–one cleaning spritz at a time.
The Girls’ Guide To Building A Million-Dollar Business by Susan Wilson Solovic. Featuring interviews with daring, powerhouse women like Gayle Martz, President & CEO, Sherpa’s Pet Trading Company, and Taryn Rose of Taryn Rose International, Solovic offers frank advice and hard-won lessons including:
-Taking emotions out of the workplace.
-Make business decisions based on what is best for the company, not on your personal feelings.
-Thinking big and bold.
-Believe that you can be successful and be willing to announce your intentions to the world.
-Managing for growth.
-Hire the right people and discover the best ways to keep them.
-Never being afraid to take a chance.
-Boost profits by taking financial risks.
Inspiring and unflinching, The Girls’ Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business shows women that not only do they have the power to earn more money and control their financial destinies – they deserve to.
1. Pomegranate and Grapefruit Face and Body Bar.
2. Island Coconut Face and Body Bar.
3. Supernatural Botanicals Grapefruit Body Butter.
4. Supernatural Botanicals Sore Muscle Soak Bath Salts.
5. Supernatural Botanicals Bolivian Bath Salts
These are our top five sellers at Supernatural Botanicals for December thus far. Trending is a difficult thing to capture. We knew that Pomegranate and Grapefruit would sell well in December, but the Island Coconut threw a bit of surprise in the mix. Many of our Island Coconut lovers are repeat customers. I must admit, it’s really one of my favorites as well. The smell is intoxicatingly tropical. Aromatherapy at its finest!
Our Face and Body Spa Bars are all natural, eco-friendly, and perfect for anyone who wants to get back to basics in their skincare. Essential oils make the soaps pop to life with beautiful aromatherapeutic scents. A soap that’s good for your skin….now there’s a concept! Also, case-study proven not to cause breakouts.
Our Body Butters are amazing! I rave about these a lot because they simply deseve the praise. It only takes one use and you’ll know what all the talk is about. Our special non-greasy formula makes this a must have for beautiful, sexy skin. It deeply moisturizes skin and is packed with skin-loving ingredients. Cool packaging allows you to slip one in your purse for on the go moisture anytime.
Our Bath Salts/Sea Salts are wildly popular this time of year….they relive stress! A nice long soak with bath salts will detox your body, while drenching your skin with beneficial essential oils.
As always, Supernatural Botanicals greatly appreciates your business. Your feedback helps us to create the products you love. Keep the emails coming. For more information, visit our website at http://www.supernaturalbotanicals.com/. To contact us, email Info@SupernaturalBotanicals.com.
