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Blisstree Beauty School: Turmeric, India’s Favorite Spice, Belongs On Your Face

Blisstree Beauty School: Turmeric, Indiaâ��s Favorite Spice, Belongs On Your Face

My mom, a mid-life green living convert, had lectured me about adding turmeric to my diet because it’d be “good for me.” I didn’t pay much attention to what she was saying until I started seeing the spice in beauty products. (Score one for vanity.) I searched for “turmeric beauty products” on Google and found recipes to make pastes and ointments—all a little too DIY for my taste. Deeper digging lead me to some yummy—literally—turmeric discoveries. Oh, and glowing skin. More »

Blisstree Beauty School: Should You Swap Out Your Conditioner for Marshmallows?

Marshmallow isn’t exactly an ingredient I seek out in my beauty products, but my recent discovery of Dr. Hauschka’s Jojoba and Marsh Mallow Conditioner made me realize I might be missing out. I’d previously associated marshmallow with candy and sugar-sweet scented bubble bath, but Natural products wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) stuff their lotions full of fake candy scents, especially not brands like Dr. Hauschka and Jurlique. So I decided to submit the topic to Blisstree Beauty School: What exactly does marshmallow do for you hair and skin, or is it just a flashy word to get people’s attention (like mine)? More »

Blisstree Beauty School: Is Frankincense the New Botox?

Want to know what’s so bad about parabens in your lip balm, and whether or not there’s a natural alternative to Botox? At Blisstree Beauty School, our goal is to find out the answers to these questions and more. This week, we’re trying to figure out why Frankincense keeps popping up in so many of our favorite natural beauty products, and what this gift from one of the Three Kings of Orient is really doing for our skin. More »