Girls Beauty Tips

As a kid and a teenager growing up in Kentucky I had always been around bees and beekeepers and worked with honey, pollen, and any other byproduct of a bee. If I told you any more than that I'd have to kill you. If there is one thing I learned it's the value of local bee pollen. Bee pollen comes from the male part of the flower that gets picked up by the bodies of the bees. As the bees enter the hive there is a trap that knocks the pollen off of the bee's legs. The beekeeper then bottles it up and sells it to either health food stores or the farmer's market. It is meant to be consumed raw. What most people don't know is bee pollen can act as an inoculation to local allergies just as taking a flu shot is preventative with the flu if it is the correct strain. The bee pollen just has to come within a 25 mile radius to where you live to be effective. Otherwise you're ONLY getting a great bounty of vitamins, mineral, lipids and energy. Taking a a granule to no more...

I love this time of year when I get to try to explain to the tax accountant what it is that I do especially when deductions for items like stem cells and expensive equipment come up at the same time as French Chocolate. They are all related in some way because we find, test and share all of the best products the world market has to offer. Just last week someone introduced a new natural line to me that had awesome packaging, tight marketing and even some impressive ingredients, BUT the first ingredient was water and shortly after that was alcohol. The goodies were all the way at the end of the list. You want the goodies to be closer to the top of the list. Ingredients are listed in the order of concentration by weight. Actives are generally listed as actives. Aloe is a better ingredient that water because it keeps the bacteria counts low and is really great for inflammation and soothing the skin. Companies just don't want to spend the money. You can check out more great facts by CLI...

There are thousands of tutorials on the market out there to tell you how to put on concealer. Here's a small list of MY best DO's when it comes to applying concealer that I think many videos lack: DO apply your foundation all over the face first to even out skin tone IF you need it. (I recommend Revlon's Photoready Airbrush). BLEND. BLEND. BLEND. DO choose a color concealer/foundation that is the same color as your skin. Selecting a lighter shade can make bags appear fuller and also make the look appear overdone. Remember darker colors recede and lighter colors highlight bags. The only areas you should use a lighter color are the actual creases if you have physical bags. Just make sure to use some translucent powder to set after application. DO place a dime-sized amount of foundation and warm it on the hand before applying it to the dark circles. You'll use less product this way. It looks less cakey. You won't look older by applying it. DO use your ring finger to ap...

There is just so much confusing information out there when it comes to supplements, nutrition, technology and skincare. I can't begin to attack it all in one post. Our cells are wired to protect themselves from viruses and invaders in addition to transporting nutrients. As we age the cells get stubborn and crankier and don't want to allow ANYTHING to pass through the membrane, the protective outer layer. The video above gives a very simple, yet complex demonstration of how nutrients get into the cells. When I was formulating an oral anti-aging product, the labs and manufacturers told me the maximum percentage of a vitamin that could be absorbed is about 10-30%. There are so many factors why. Enzymes, available glucose, particle sizes and much, much more. I will be able to surpass these issues with technology in the future if P&G would take me on (hint. hint). When it comes to skincare most of the particle sizes are too large to absorb. I demonstrate this in an old video fr...