3 best herbs for skin health & Clear Conscience Soap co.

Nurture yourself and feel beautiful with these top tips from Katie Lee Grech of the beautiful natural company, Clear Conscience Soap Co.


3 Best Herbs For Skin Health
Applied topically, these herbs can have your skin soft and glowing with health. Fill a jar with the herb and pour in boiling water to fill. Leave it steep overnight then strain the herbal water into a spray bottle. Store it in the fridge to keep it fresh. You can spritz this onto your skin to enjoy the herb benefits!

1.    
Lavender

The calming benefits of lavender are famous for easing you into sleep, but did you know that it also calms your skin? It’s anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti-bacterial, meaning that you can use it to calm down skin rashes and acne sores.

2.     Calendula

Calendula is growing in popularity for its skin healing benefits. It’s very gentle and recommended for dry skin types, where itching and eczema are a problem. Plus you can add some lemon to the mix and spritz it through your hair to create blonde highlights.

3.     Rose

Saving the best for last, the most popular floral water for skin health. I personally use this one when I have problem skin on my face. My skin type is oily, but still for some reason I get dry scales on my face from time to time. Rose water gets rid of it completely.

There is simply no need to be spending hundreds of dollars a year on skincare, when you can find these beautiful products for free in nature – enjoy!

Thank you so much Katie for sharing your expert advice!

I recently had the absolute delight or reviewing some of Katie's beautiful products from her Clear Consceince Soap Co Range, for many years I have been focusing on eating really healthy, living an active healthy life and detoxing my home from chemicals and toxins but skin and hair care and make-up has I am sorry to say been an area I have only recently really been making a priority!!

After all isn't it crazy to be passionate about food and well-being only to use whatever on your skin?Hair? Toxic make-up? Chemical cocktail hair products?

My oldest daughter has very curly hair that drys out and knots really easily and also cops a lot of product use due to ballet classes and to detangle so we were absolutely delighted with the effects of using the lovely natural conditioner and beer soap in her hair.

To get great results, naturally is a very exciting thing indeed.

We were at first a little nervous and yes, I got some faces from the kids about "beer" shampoo and it being in a soap bar form rather than a liquid from a bottle but the results spoke for themselves and I would happily recommend the products from this range and use them again on my own and my children's hair and skin.

You can check out their entire range HERE
And check them out on FACEBOOK as well HERE

A healthy life is healthy, beautiful, true living life in all aspects of your life.
Be well, shop well, live well, choose well.

Bek XXX 

De-stressing and nurturing myself with a Comvita Antioxident Challenge & Olive Leaf

Health is Wealth -Virgil

Such a profound saying.

One of the most important things I have learnt in life is just how important it truly is to take care of yourself and your health, and even more so when you become a mother.

As mothers we so easily put ourselves last and let our health not be a priority without for a moment realising just how important and vital our health truly is.
We can sometimes feel it is selfish to spend time and/or money on ourselves but after all if we suffer bad health through stress, illness or disease how can we truly care for our families then?

We live in busy times, we have busy lives and more and more we are exposed to toxins all around us even in our work and home environments.

We need to take our selves but we also need simple ways of doing so. Ways we can actually stick too and see real benefits from.

I am doing a few things for myself at the moment, yes, things just for me and my health because I have seen and felt the face of bad health and it is terrifying and not a road I want to go down in my life if I can help it. And I am not waiting for New Year's Eve to start taking great positive steps either.

I starting right now and I am loving being a part of the really fun Super Antioxident Challenge With Comvita

Each day I am:

• Taking the Comvita's Olive Leaf Extract ( and this olive leaf extract has no unpleasant taste, sickly mint flavour or artificial sweeteners - making it wonderful in my book!)
• Taking 5 minutes to myself to sit in silence out in the garden and just let the world get real quiet as I
  allow myself to just be, and to just feel and relax.
• I am turning off electronics during the day for short periods to have a break, yes, even my phone!
• Having a nature outing with kids every Sunday at least where we will go out into a forest, go bushwalking, climb a mountain, go look at a waterfall, swim in the ocean. 
• Eating real, beautiful food.
• Mindfully being CALM
• Making myself at least one meal or snack a day that I have spent time making it just because it is something I will enjoy, something that will fit in with the great benefits of the Mediterranean theme.
• Going for a walk, a pram walk with my kids and getting out into that great fresh air. 
• Indulging a passion in some small way be it some writing, art, dancing, music, cooking...

The challenge I am thrilled to be taking part of is based on the very successful and healthy Mediterranean diet and taking lessons from the recognized ' blue zones' around the world, whereby people are living longer and experience less disease by using the properties of the olive plant in their diets to maintain a healthy, fulfilling and energetic lifestyle.

Anyone that has been following my blog, facebook and recipes would know how much I LOVE Olives so

Comvita Olive Leaf Extract -find out more about it HERE

you can imagine how perfect this challenge fits into my lifestyle and I am really looking forward to sharing with you how it goes!

You can find out all about this fun health challenge here:

http://go.comvita.com/super-antioxidant-challenge-AU

AND by being a art of the challenge you could WIN a YEARS supply of Olive leaf extract, books and more!
It is absolutely worth checking out.

Here is to health.
Don;t forget to take care of YOU this Christmas! XXX

Remember to cherish YOU - these holidays too

The festive season is upon us.
It's exciting, it's often fun and a time of year we all generally very much look forward too and love.
But it can also be exhausting, emotional and stressful for many or even just some of the time...
So these holidays remember to hold your family and loved ones dear but hold yourself dear too. Remind yourself that you are a key special part in your own happiness. You are loved.
Let go of the bad and embrace the good. Do what you can and then let go for the day. Be patient. Be kind. Be calm. Be peaceful. Be positive. Be happy x

Remember too If you ever find yourself feeling on edge or think you might be a little more than just exhausted or upset reach out to loved ones, friends and family, your doctor or a supportive group like Lifeline 13 11 14
You are never alone, and you are so important to your family so you should be to yourself too!

Love Rebecca xx