Health & Beauty At Home
We are pumped and ready to give all we’ve got to this brand-new year! We’ll start the New Year off right focusing on our well-being! Here are a few compelling reasons to prioritize your health and happiness as you step into the coming year:
Our Self-Care Goals for 2024
Refresh and Renew: A spa day isn't just a treat; it's a chance to hit the reset button. Treat yourself to rejuvenating therapies that will leave you feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the year ahead.
Stress Relief: The hustle and bustle of the holiday season can take a toll on your mental well-being. Indulge in stress-relieving treatments designed to melt away tension and promote relaxation. When was the last time you had a professional massage? You are worth it! For Dev, she appreciates the tranquil qualities in her Young Living essential oils. She just carries them with her and they help her relax. Give them a try.
Self-Care Resolution: Make a commitment to yourself for the New Year. Investing in your well-being sets the tone for a year filled with self-love and self-care.
Healthier Habits: Kickstart your wellness journey by incorporating healthy habits. From spa treatments to fitness classes, there's a variety of options to help you embrace a healthier lifestyle. Dev chooses Tennis, as her stress release. She’s dedicated and it’s something she LOVES doing!
Quality Time: Take a break from your busy schedule and spend quality time focusing on yourself. A spa day allows you to pause, reflect, and set positive intentions for the year.
Detox and Cleanse: Rid your body of toxins accumulated over the holiday season. Many spas offer detoxifying treatments and services to promote a healthy start to the year. In our New Year’s Newsletter, we have some suggestions on how you can bring the spa to your home!
Boosted Confidence: When you look good, you feel good! Treatments that enhance your natural beauty can give your confidence a boost, setting a positive tone for the year. See our new spa list.
Mind-Body Balance: Achieve harmony between your mind and body with holistic therapies. Practices like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness can contribute to a balanced and centered start to the New Year. We highly recommend trying out some meditation. There are now apps for this, meditation centers, books, video’s and so much more! Yoga too. There’s no excuse!
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, creating a spa-like atmosphere can be the perfect antidote to stress and exhaustion.
Dev suggests you to consider these transformative ideas to turn your home into a haven of tranquility:
Sauna Serenity
Introduce the soothing warmth of a sauna to your home—a space where you can unwind and rejuvenate. Saunas are not only excellent for relaxation but also offer potential health benefits, promoting circulation and reducing muscle tension.
Traditional Sauna: Typically made of wood, these saunas use dry heat produced by rocks and a heater.
Infrared Sauna: Uses infrared heaters to emit radiant heat, offering a different experience than traditional saunas.
Choose a Suitable Location: Consider available space, ventilation, and proximity to bathroom/shower facilities. Basements, spare rooms, or even outdoor spaces are common choices.
Plan for Ventilation: Adequate ventilation is crucial to maintain air quality. Ensure the sauna has proper ventilation, such as vents and an exhaust system. And of course, you may have to consult with your electrician and contractor. But we think this is surely worth the consideration. If you watch the news, you need a sauna, a massage and a get away. More on that in our next section.
Steam Room Retreats & Blissful Baths
Steam Room Retreat:
Bring the luxury of a spa steam room into your own abode. Steam rooms are renowned for their detoxifying effects, promoting respiratory health and providing a holistic relaxation experience. Imagine the serenity of a steam session within the comfort of your home.
Blissful Baths:
Upgrade your bathing experience with a larger, more indulgent bathtub. Immerse yourself in a sea of bubbles, surrounded by calming scents and soft lighting. A spacious tub is an invitation to unwind, offering a moment of respite from the demands of the day. And a MUST TRY for your new bath: Laura Mercier Crème Brulee Honey Bubble Bath! This product smells so good it will make your time in the tub feel more like a vacation.
Tranquil Touches
Enhance your space with calming elements such as soft lighting, soothing colors, and aromatic scents like lavender, or essential oils (Dev uses the Young Living Oils. Try their Joy – this exotic combination of Rose, Jasmin and Tangerine will bring Joy to your heart). Consider incorporating nature-inspired decor and textiles to create a serene ambiance throughout your home. The Pantone color of the year is Peach Fuzz. This is between pink and orange and we think its pretty calming too. The color is soft and inviting...it conveys caring. Color us Peach Fuzz!
As we welcome in a new year, let's prioritize self-care by transforming our living spaces into retreats that nurture our well-being. By making these thoughtful additions, you're not just creating a home; you're cultivating a sanctuary where relaxation and rejuvenation seamlessly intertwine.
Here's to a year filled with serenity, comfort, and moments of pure bliss within the walls of your own spa-like haven.
Beauty Secrets
It is well known that Cleopatra used sweet milk in beauty treatments to brighten her complexion. Traditional rural cultures have also used sweet milk for the very same reason, making it as familiar on a farmhouse dressing table as in the kitchen cupboard. One of our very favorite skin care companies, and one of Renee’s Raves: Farmaesthetics (found only in the best hotels and spa’s world wide), created Sweet Milk & Chamomile Flower Facial Exfoliate as a whole organic lactic acid delivery system to dissolve dead skin cells while feeding tissue with the healthy carbs and fats found in milk. Ground organic chamomile flowers contain anti-inflammatory, antioxidant properties that help soothe skin, reducing redness and irritation. Gentle enough for use by those with sensitive skin. It’s pretty to look at and even prettier to use... Happy Pampering!
Nourishing Lavender Milk
They also feature one of our all-time favorite moisturizers: Nourishing Lavender Milk: This is a light, luscious, everyday complexion lotion for all skin types. Its vibrant, clean, natural fragrance is addictive, and its skin mending properties are undeniable. Created for use on the face, but so divine, that many slather it all over their body–and why not? A beautiful complexion does not stop at the neck! We use it all over all the time! We believe this will be your new favorite. And the soothing lavender will keep you calm all year long!
Pink Petal Rose Solar Salt Mineral Bath
Ingredients:
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt Epsom Salt Jojoba Oil (organic) Rose Absolute
Description:
Pink Petal Rose Solar Salt Mineral Bath – now available in a luxury travel size! Wave a wand of well-being over any bathing experience. Hand-made with pink Himalayan salts, high-mineral sea salts, Epsom, organic rose petals, and rose essential oil, this high-vibration bath soak will bathe the body in the glorious scent of roses. Sprinkle in a warm bath to create a detoxifying, remineralizing soak that relieves tension (mental and muscular), while opening the pores and softening skin.
May Lindstrom: One Skin Care Guru We Love to Follow!
Blue Tansy
This is one of the most difficult to procure ingredients she incorporates into her formulas, and one of the most often adulterated. While a quick Google search will turn up many outlets that offer “blue tansy” for sale, lab testing will verify that many readily available sources are cut with chamomile and colored with dyes - none of this listed in the ingredients labeling, and is often unbeknownst to even those selling or developing products with it.
Much goes on in the steps between the harvesting farms, multiple middlemen and brokers, and the final consumer - particularly with the most expensive exotic oils, such as this one. Adulteration and misrepresentation is a troubling and prolific part of this industry, and one we dedicate vast efforts and resources to overcome. We have been working tirelessly over the years to secure our relationships with incredible farms who grow and harvest this powerful plant for us at the highest level of potency and efficacy and who can ensure each season that we are delivered only the purest, safest, and most effective and authentic extraction of true-blue tansy (tanacetum annuum) on the planet.
The Blue Cocoon
Solid Oil Facial Concentrate
Their balmy blue enchantress greets your skin with cool serenity. Its unique concentrated formula melts on touch into a hydrating, anti-inflammatory fluid that tenderly envelops you in the most decadent azule calm.
Mystical blue tansy eases feelings of emotional anxiety while releasing heat, providing nourishing relief and a comforting hug to even the most delicate and troubled complexions.
For those suffering with severely dry skin or any conditions like rosesa and dermatitis here is some top notch advice from a highly regarded skin care guru May Lindstrom:
“First, take a big, deep breath. You are beautiful and whole and perfect, exactly as you are. You are not your skin, and this will pass.
Perioral dermatitis, eczema, and rosacea are the kind of monsters that can come and go with a vengeance, not always with a clear and pinpointable cause. They live in our bodies and are often chronic, with skin flare-ups happening when exposed to irritants and aggravated by the dramas of life.”
“I encourage you to look at the big picture of what elements might be contributing to your skin, and make a commitment to eat clean while addressing what we can together from the outside. Indulge in lots of good fats internally - you’ll benefit from a bounty of avocados, raw coconut oil, olive, flax, and fish oils. Simultaneously decrease the consumption of inflammatory foods - dairy, sugar, gluten, alcohol, soy, and corn. Ensure you are drinking a plentitude of water in every season. All of this can make a world of difference when coupled with a loving and nurturing skincare ritual.”
Check out her phenomenal skin care line: its swoon worthy and divine!