Thursday, August 7, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Moisturizing Even The Roughest Hands
I don't think I've ever mentioned that I have dry skin. It's gotten better as I get older, however when I was a small child all the way until I was about 30, I had such dry skin that I actually had bumps on the back of my arms. My legs looked like a road map; dry, scaly lines crisscrossing all over.
My skin seemed to drink lotion. I'd put it on and five minutes later it looked like I hadn't moisturized in years! It wasn't until I was in my 40s that I started making my own soaps and body moisturizers. I did this for a very practical reason, I was spending a fortune on moisturizers! And the good ones cost many times more than the bad ones!
After some time perfecting my potions and experimenting on myself, I began to see dramatic results. Unfortunately, I didn't have any before and after pictures to show because I really wasn't expecting to see much, after all I had spent a lifetime moisturizing to little effect. Then it dawned on me that I could do a before and after picture if I stopped using my products for a while.
I decided to sacrifice one hand to the experiment.
Here it is, my hand after not using Lora's Beauty Body Butter Roll On and Whipped Butter Cream for one month. For complete disclosure, I didn't use any moisturizer of any kind for one month.
I know, gross. Now starts the process of healing.
Everyday I would scrape my hand with a pumice stone to remove the dead skin, I then applied Whipped Butter Cream. Through out the day I applied the Body Butter Roll On, probably about 5 times.
Day One of this procedure saw my hand looking like this. Noticeably better and healing.
Even better yet, Day 3 sees my hand looking like this:
I'm not sure how long it will take to get my hand back to normal and normal isn't even that pretty. I still have pretty rough hands. I often thought of going to a palm reader, my hands would probably blow their minds, but I don't want to hear what they'd say.
Day 4 now and we're almost healed!
Overall, I am quite please with the progress 4 days has made!
Lora's Beauty Whipped Shea Butter Cream is simply shea butter whipped with coconut oil and cocoa butter so it's extra light and fluffy.
Lora's Body Butter Roll On is rich in beeswax, sunflower oil and shea butter.
Both products are 100% natural, no chemicals are used. For best quality, they are handcrafted in small batches.
Lora's Beauty offers free shipping on orders $20 and over!
My skin seemed to drink lotion. I'd put it on and five minutes later it looked like I hadn't moisturized in years! It wasn't until I was in my 40s that I started making my own soaps and body moisturizers. I did this for a very practical reason, I was spending a fortune on moisturizers! And the good ones cost many times more than the bad ones!
After some time perfecting my potions and experimenting on myself, I began to see dramatic results. Unfortunately, I didn't have any before and after pictures to show because I really wasn't expecting to see much, after all I had spent a lifetime moisturizing to little effect. Then it dawned on me that I could do a before and after picture if I stopped using my products for a while.
I decided to sacrifice one hand to the experiment.
Here it is, my hand after not using Lora's Beauty Body Butter Roll On and Whipped Butter Cream for one month. For complete disclosure, I didn't use any moisturizer of any kind for one month.
I know, gross. Now starts the process of healing.
Everyday I would scrape my hand with a pumice stone to remove the dead skin, I then applied Whipped Butter Cream. Through out the day I applied the Body Butter Roll On, probably about 5 times.
Day One of this procedure saw my hand looking like this. Noticeably better and healing.
Even better yet, Day 3 sees my hand looking like this:
I'm not sure how long it will take to get my hand back to normal and normal isn't even that pretty. I still have pretty rough hands. I often thought of going to a palm reader, my hands would probably blow their minds, but I don't want to hear what they'd say.
Day 4 now and we're almost healed!
Overall, I am quite please with the progress 4 days has made!
Lora's Body Butter Roll On is rich in beeswax, sunflower oil and shea butter.
Both products are 100% natural, no chemicals are used. For best quality, they are handcrafted in small batches.
Lora's Beauty offers free shipping on orders $20 and over!
A Casual Summer Shower
Lora's Beauty Pepperwood Goat's Milk soap blends hot peppers and hibiscus flowers together to make a very saucy summer soap! Try some today! Free shipping on orders $20 and over!
Friday, August 1, 2014
Cinnamon Soap Escape
Time for a cinnamon escape? Lora's Beauty Cinnamon & Honey Goat Milk Soap is a great way to stimulate your senses and soothe your skin. Pick up a few bars today at Lora's Beauty!
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Monday, July 21, 2014
Fitbit Zip Review
I'm happy I only spent $49 on an activity monitor. I like the fact that it's not a bracelet and I can clip it discreetly to an article of clothing. I also found it interesting to see how many calories are burned by just living, breathing, and walking into the kitchen to get more coffee. I also like the website monitoring and log that comes free with a Fitbit purchase. The food database is quite extensive, which means just about everything you eat can be found in the database and therefore all you need to enter is how much of something you ate and the calories will appear automatically.
It's also nice that you can log activities you may do manually on the website because one of my biggest not-likes (dislike is too strong of a word) is that the Zip doesn't track cycling very well. Before I purchased it, I read several reviews that said it would and that you just needed to clip it to your shoe. The rotation of your foot on the pedal would register steps. This is true, however, it's no way accurate, especially the miles traveled. Because of this, I've been logging cycling manually. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a way to remove the steps the Zip logs while I'm cycling and I'm ending up with the activity being logged twice.
I received my Zip Thursday and immediately started using it. Sunday of the same week, the battery died. The Zip uses a 3V coin battery and they are quite cheap, about $3 for 5 of them. When I researched why my Zip's battery would die within 4 days I found that I should have installed the firmware update. No problem, but it would have been nice if I were forced to do that once I first registered the Zip and synced it. As it is now, I can't update it because it's dead until I get a new battery, see picture above.
Wearing the Zip for the past 4 days got my mind to thinking of the possibilities of it. How easy, it would seem, to make a really REALLY accurate activity monitor. Sure, it would cost more than the $49 I spent on the Zip, but for some it would be worth it. For instance, add a GPS to the monitor to accurately track miles. Add a heart rate monitor to accurately track intensity. Add a camera to allow you to photograph labels or bar codes of food items you ate then look up the exact item to get a real calorie count of the food. And please, keep it small and discreet. Perhaps this is all overkill, but I'm just thinking, it seems like it could be so much better...
Overall, I am please with the Zip and I have ordered more batteries and I will do the firmware update and continue to use it. The new update may even include a way to edit the steps the Zip logs so I'm not doubling up when I cycle. It has been an eye opener to log the food I've eaten and I see some easy adjustments I could make to help with weight loss. I'm glad I didn't spend $100+ for an activity monitor since I really didn't see that they were twice as good as my $49 Zip. I imagine soon there will be monitors that include all the suggestions I made and more! For one of those, I'd spend more.
Monday, July 7, 2014
Keeping watch on your UV index
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| Photo from wikipedia |
During the dog-days of summer, it's probably worth checking your zipcode's UV index and following the recommendations suggested by the EPA.
Today, in "cloudy" Portland the UV index is 10, on a scale of 1 to 11 with 11 being the highest!
Even on days where the UV index is 2 and less, it's recommended to wear a 30+ SPF sunscreen!
Even on days where the UV index is 2 and less, it's recommended to wear a 30+ SPF sunscreen!
Check out Lora's Beauty for an all-natural sunscreen.
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