From soaps, candles and bath and beauty products to ice cream and bread…palm oil is used in products we consume every day.
But the back story of palm oil tells an ugly environmental tale. Life-giving tropical rainforests are being burned and cleared for expanding palm plantations. Just one more reason why it’s super important to know [...]
Q: When is ‘skin deep’ not deep enough?
A: When technology worms its way into your personal care products!
Nanoparticles are a hot new technology and all the rage in the beauty industry. But beyond the hype, the picture isn’t so pretty.
We’ve touched on what aromatherapy can do for your body. So let’s look at what amazing aromatherapy can do for your home.
Aromatherapy is the use of pure essential oils to enhance our physical and mental well-being. Essential oils are highly concentrated distilled essences of plants that smell truly delightful. They are diluted either by water or with a ‘carrier oil,’ depending on the intended use of the essential oil.
Organic lavender essential oil – our personal fave – has the ability to evoke and increase the release of serotonin, thus producing a calming effect.1
Try these simple at-home tips and bring the soothing power of aromatherapy to your abode!
It’s time to think about transporting all the nutrient-rich soaps, sea salts, scrubs and more available from Napa Valley Bath in the most eco-conscious way with sea sponges and unbleached, organic loofah…
The average woman uses 12 personal care products a day…and the ever-enthusiastic teenage girl? More like 17.
As we’ve shared with you, many conventional personal care products carry a heavy chemical load for all of us. But teenagers are especially at risk: they’re at a period of accelerated development, physically, that makes them particularly vulnerable.
Love is the only answer to hatred.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Napa Valley conjures fields of lavender, sweeping vineyards and abundant olive trees. But how much do you really know about Napa?
It’s time to ramp up on your Napa Valley dinner party parlance…
Learn about the discount-rich Green America National Green Pages, where to find it online, and how to get your very own FREE copy!
Today, science makes it possible to dissect any natural scent and recreate it using synthetic fragrances. Smelling machines, or ‘electronic noses’ use chemical sensors to produce a fingerprint of any scent.
Doesn’t your special someone deserve something a bit more personal this holiday?
Our amazing lavender suppliers, The Kahns, boast 14,800 lavender plants, 2000 olive trees and 1/1/2 acres of petite syrah grapes on their truly spectacular property.
Their luxurious fields of purple splendor reap certified organic lavenders including English Munstead and Hidcote as well as French Grosso and Provence. This bounty of lavender is capable of producing 6-700 [...]
“We do not realize often enough that we are dependent on one another; at the simplest material level, we are all interdependent for our daily needs, and in this way we owe a debt to all beings. “
Kalu Rinpoche
“Each act of generosity is a recognition of our interdependence, an expression of our Buddha nature. ”
Jack Kornfield
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
The Buddha
“If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.”
The Art of Peace Morihei Ueshiba
“Daily training in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally. Keep your mind set on the Art of Peace, and do not criticize other teachers or traditions. The Art of Peace never restrains, restricts, or shackes anything. It embraces all and purifies everything. ”
The Art of Peace Moridei Ueshiba
I yearn to live soulfully….to appreciate every moment….every site that I see….smell that I breathe…..and touch that I feel. Nothing is more important then being absorbed in your surroundings.
I love to create my spaces to be soulful…..enriching through art, nature, pictures, woods, found objects, my imac .
It’s so easy to bring feel into your [...]
dsc_0947
Nature is my main source for inspiration….when I become aware of the natural things around me and their beauty….my whole mood can change….
Welcome. This is the voice of our latest creation, Napa Valley Bath. Inspired by the organic lavender grown in the Napa Valley and a six month hiatus in Florence, Italy, we created a bath and body line that is good for you...corpo, mente e anima. We aim to inform...inspire...and provide you with products that allow you to simply soak it all in.....
Pace.
Peggy O'Kelly