Trick or Treat….Treat!
October 29, 2009 by admin
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Happy Halloween everyone! bluebasins bath and body wants you to have a treat this halloween! Come on into bluebasins.com and purchase whatever you want to treat yourself with then enter promo code treat09 and receive 30% off at checkout!
Take a long bath with on of our bath melts:
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Our Sensual essential oil synergy blend enhances your sensuality. If you have a hot date, take a bath with this, and your night will be even better. Your skin will be smooth all night. Great moisturizer! |
Treat your feet:
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Have beautiful feet with our creamy foot butter. This thick butter leaves your feet soft and supple all day long. Great for those with dry cracked heals. Best used after a shower or anytime in the day to keep dry heal syndrome away. Use as part of our Perfect Pedicure Routine. |
Massage your face….whatever you want to treat yourself for this halloween.
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Taking care of what you wear everyday!
What skin care manufacturers don’t tell you
October 15, 2009 by admin
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Here’s a great article by Dr. Lorne Brandes from Toronto’s CTV news station writing on the hidden ingredients manufacturers won’t tell you about. Results found that a lot of the rejuvenating creams have contained significant amounts (up to 0.61%) of estriol or estrone, two potent forms of estrogen!
Skin care products and cancer: What manufacturers don’t tell you
by Dr. Lorne Brandes
On a recent visit to a department store cosmetics counter, I was amazed at the number and variety of “rejuvenating” skin creams and lotions for sale — and not just for women!
“How much did all that cost?” I asked warily as the smiling clerk handed the Visa card back to my wife.
“If they help my skin look younger, it’s worth it,” was all she would say.
It now appears that her faith in the products she bought may have been misplaced: a new report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) warns that an ingredient in some skin creams may have serious long-term health consequences for women with, or at risk for, breast and uterine cancer. The offending substance? Estrogen!
The story began with an alert by an oncologist. He observed that… Read on.
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Here at bluebasins bath and body our skin care product ingredients are all natural. We only use what mother nature has provided for us to create our products. Check out our ingredient list.
Matthew McConaughey’s Avocado Soup
October 13, 2009 by admin
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Yes ladies Matthew McConaughey makes avocado soup too! Here’s his receipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 avocados diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 C. buttermilk
- 4 tsp fresh lime juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp red pepper
Directions:
- Add avocados, garlic and 1 cup of the buttermilk to blender or food processor.
- Blend until smooth.
- Add the rest of the buttermilk along with the lime juice, salt and pepper.
- Blend until smooth. If the soup seems too thick, you can add more buttermilk or a little cold water.
- Chill and serve.
Did you also know that avocado makes a great skin mask and buttermilk makes a great soap.
Breast cancer reality check: Toxic chemicals in cosmetics may be the biggest cause
October 13, 2009 by admin
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by Mark Rubi
It’s time for a breast cancer reality check: Despite all the hype about obesity, toxic chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products may be the biggest cause. As everyone in America seems to know, even the National Football League, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Even if an average guy had not noticed the hundreds, if not thousands, of articles devoted to breast cancer in the last week or so, watching NFL football this past weekend would surely have cured him of his ignorance. Football fields all across the nation were adorned not only with “pink ribbon” logos, but players and officials were wearing a variety of pink wrist bands, shoes, and gloves to show the NFL’s support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The reason that a reality check is needed is that many of the articles seem to place the blame for breast cancer primarily on obesity, as if a major new discovery had been made. In fact, no such new discovery has been made about obesity alone being a causing agent for breast cancer, particularly breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.
Those studying breast cancer have long tried to place the blame for this unfortunate disease at the door of obesity. By doing so, they can blame the victims, even though the causes for obesity, at least to the extreme currently plaguing America, are neither well known nor understood. The most commonly repeated mantra in the health care community is that obesity is nearly completely self-imposed, despite growing evidence to the contrary. Environmental factors such as food and water toxins, cellular level food hypersensitivites, and even a virus are all routinely dismissed because it easier to blame the victims for the pollution which now makes it necessary for millions of Americans to choose to drink bottled water.
Witch hazel wards off their recession
October 6, 2009 by admin
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EAST HAMPTON, Conn. - Nothing signals the presence of a venerable remedy in this quiet suburb 30 minutes southeast of Hartford. No garish signs, no proud slogans, no roadside stands proclaim the world-famous properties of the humble shrub that flourishes beyond the shores of Lake Pocotopaug.
The only clue is the lone plant growing a dozen feet high in front of a brown stucco building on Connecticut Route 66. This is witch hazel, hamamelis virginiana. It stands outside the business that has made the astringent distilled from the shrub’s ridged bark a household staple for generations.
Native Americans used witch hazel as a cure-all. So did the early European settlers. Your grandmother used it; a bottle of the clear, nut-scented liquid is probably still tucked away in the back of her medicine cabinet. And so, perhaps without your knowing it, have you: Witch hazel from East Hampton is an important ingredient in shampoos, mouthwashes, high-end facial toners, acne treatments, and eyewash, to name just a few items.
Because of that, Dickinson Brands Inc., the world’s largest producer of witch hazel, has quietly prospered here, in what is arguably the witch hazel capital of the world.
Owners and employees say they have avoided the layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts that have benighted so many companies. And in this season of shrinking sales and mounting losses, the privately owned company says it has experienced double-digit growth.
The challenge for Dickinson, which bottles and sells the astringent under the brand name Witch Hazel, is how to make the remedy relevant for today’s generations. “It’s become a part of Americana,’’ said Bryan Jackowitz, the company’s marketing director. “People say: ‘Oh yeah, yeah, I know Witch Hazel. My grandmother used it. What do I use it for?’ ’’
No one at the factory knows for sure the origins of the name of the plant, a shrub that grows in northern forests and is distinguishable by its yellow flowers, which bloom in late autumn, after most trees have shed their leaves. A popular version has it that “witch’’ is derived from an old English word, “wyche,’’ which means pliant or bendable. The word “hazel,’’ it is suggested, may have come from the use of twigs from the shrub as divining rods, the way twigs from the hazel plant once were used in England. Dickinson is hoping to tap into the increased demand for all-natural skin-care products. In recent years, it has phased out the word “astringent’’ from one of its two versions of Witch Hazel, the yellow-label one, which it now markets as “pore perfecting toner.’’ The more powerful blue-label Witch Hazel, for treatment of bites, scrapes, and irritation, is still sold as “100 percent natural astringent.’’Continued…
