Healthy Family Healthy Budget - Summer Edition

How to protect your summer skin
Remember that story of the tortoise and the hare?
Can you also recall the moral of that ancient fable?
Basically the tortoise wins, without cheating and an
over inflated ego, slow and steady wins the race
my mum would teach me.
As usual, it turns out she was right (big surprise
there!), at least for our bodies anyway.
Organic Products are often equated with slow
results due to their natural structure. There’s a
reason your mum always told you that good things
came to those who waited, or that patience is a
virtue. Without the harsh chemicals often aligned
with non-organic products, natural based skincare
items often take longer to see results but the
outcome tends to be longer lasting and more
satisfying.
We all desperately want to slow down the ageing
process – you just have to put your television on
right now to see the obsession we have with
reversing this natural process.
Society has long perpetuated that all too common
feeling of ageing being a dirty word but it doesn’t
have to be. Embracing and celebrating our natural
ageing process is the first step to enjoying a
fulfilling life because it doesn’t have to be as scary
as it sounds.
Once we realise ageing is not a negative part of our
lives, we can start searching for ways of doing it
naturally beautifully - just the way Mother Nature
always intended.
Summer is notorious for putting your skin through a
not very subtle or gentle workout, many of us feel
tired and burnt out (metaphorically and literally)
after a hot three months of the season. Though
summer holidays evoke warm fuzzy feelings of
long, hot summer days on the beach, often our skin
doesn’t feel as sunny and bright about this time of
year.
Summer is a perfect time to shake up your skin
routine with natural products because like most
things, Mothers know best and it’s no different for
Mother Nature. A little added natural protection
during summer is going to go a long way for the
rest of the year and generally on a more long-term
basis – for life as well!
How to make Nature a part of your Daily Skincare
Routine
A large number of us are terrified about dumping
the easy to use, great smelling supermarket shelf
poor alternatives we’ve been using and who could
blame us?
They’re just so convenient to use and who doesn’t
want that fresh, salon smell all the time, every
time? However, adopting natural skin care routines
doesn’t have to be as challenging as we think.
Plus, with the increased and rapid usage of natural
and organic body care products, the organic trend
is clearly here to stay. This probably means that
large companies you may be loyal to may already
have natural alternatives for the products you
already use and love.