Excited that your newest skincare product contains the highly-prized, miracle ingredient du jour? Be careful: you might be the victim of angel dusting. This sneaky marketing tactic let’s manufacturers include trendy ingredients – but in such miniscule amounts that their benefits are 100% ineffective. Learn how to blow angel dusting away, here.
Count up the amount of products you use every day in your personal care routine. Multiply it by the amount of chemicals in total (most likely over 100). Now read why Nicholas D. Kristoff, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who usually focuses on human trafficking and Darfur, found our chemical consumption serious enough to be worth writing about.
You won’t believe the impact a protein-shy diet can have on your skin! Click over to see which plant-based proteins rise to the top when it comes to caring for your body’s largest organ and why protein power counts.
Many popular fragrances – backed by celebs like J. Lo, Britney Spears and Halle Barry – are chock full of unhealthy chemicals, according to a new study by the Environmental Working Group. Get the hard truth highlights from this explosive report, and discover our recommendations for a more natural, don’t sweat-it scent.
Today, we share the spotlight with worthy bloom: the rose. Find out how to combine rose hydrosol with lavender essential oil to create a one-of-a-kind Sweet Water Mist that does everything from ease slumber to repel moths and insects.
Our list of green and brainy beauty tweeters is a great way to get in on the Twitter scene – or broaden your current list of those you follow. After all, who doesn’t want super quick tips on how to live greener and healthier – and still look fabulous? Click, learn and engage with these top 10 twitteristas!
When I first started blogging for Napa Valley Bath back in August 2009, it was all lavender, all the time.
Since, I’ve covered everything from DIY beautification to legislation to motivation.
As in all areas of life, it’s always important to revisit and refocus on what’s truly important. At Napa Valley Bath, lovely organic lavender wears that [...]
A baby massage is a greatly neglected nonmedical solution for many baby ailments. Find out how to give one and compliment it with a recipe for an all-natural massage oil.
Summer Rayne Oakes, Stacy Malkan, Julie Gabriel…three savvy scribes that make greening your personal care both interesting and fun. It’s time to build your live-better, be beautiful library. Read on to learn more.
We’re 99.9% sure your dad doesn’t have any Black Pepper and Lavender Essential Oil Blend lying around. Here’s your chance to make – and give – an unusual gift this Father’s Day. Plus, use this all-natural scent as a springboard on the myriad dangers of conventional personal care products, particularly fragrance…and you’ll really show dad you care.
“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 [...]
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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