Winter skincare regimen, and tips (Part 1)

If you did not know, I am a naturopath, I try to incorporate as many organic brands as I can and I try to use as little products as possible. I have a personal belief that wearing skincare that includes nasties like “alcohol”, “fragrance”, sodium laureth sulfate” defeats the whole point of “skin care”. The staple items I use for facial skincare are moisturiser, cleanser, suncream and serum. My skin philosophy is that if I am not going outside I avoid putting anything on my skin besides water and I allow my skin’s natural oil do the moisturising, and your skin’s natural oil is the best moisturiser that caters to your skin pH and type.

I should first tell you that I have combination/oily skin before I start recommending you products, just so you can have a good idea what skincare is best suited for your skin type. During the colder months my skin is a mixture between oily and dry, it’s mostly dry when it has been exposed to windy weather. (Tip: UV rays are particularly stronger during rainy days, so apply suncream!).

No matter what the weather or how lazy I am I make sure I apply suncream at all cost when going outside! I think cancer in my family is a genetic trait so I am absolutely afraid of the sun especially living in a country where the risk of skin cancer is especially high, therefore I lather my self with suncream and reapply every few hours. I use two types of suncream and I interchange for some variation. I use the Essential-C Day Moisture Broad Spectrum 30+ and its infused with vitamin C and the second is to help prevent wrinkling and ageing, I use anti-ageing formulas because I find them to be a lot more gentle than the formulas for teenage skin, Total effects Anti-Aging Daily moisturizer SPF 15 with SolaSheer Technology.

For cleanser, i’m currently loving Skin Resurfacing cleanser by Dermalogica, the only downside is that it has alcohol ingredients disguised as words like Citronellol and Benzyl PCA. But on the contrary it does have a list of appealing and very natural ingredients such as Capric Triglycerides which is a fatty acid a factor that could restore skin’s youthfulness and plumpness and Aniba Rosaeodora, Rosewood Oil and Perlagonium Graveolens that are all plant derivatives.

 

(part 2 is coming soon…)

 

 

Healthy eating and raw Pana chocolate

I’ve always being a fan of dark chocolate mainly because i’m a savoury fanatic and don’t enjoy eating things that are too sweet. So I decided to treat myself with something on the more pricier side and went for “Pana raw chocolate”. On the packet it reads that it is raw, organic, handmade and contains no dairy, soy, gluten or refined sugar.

The ingredients contained coconut nectar, coconut oil, figs, carob?, cinnamon, wild orange essential oil and himalayan crystal salt. Although, it was very tasteless, bland and the texture was almost creamy spotted with a few dried oranges here and there, it tasted strongly of Earl Grey the tea. The flavour I chose was “Fig + Wild Orange” mainly because it had a higher cacao content than the other flavours like the Goji berry, Mint and Nuts. It tasted nothing like Fig and Wild Orange, even the fruit bits was stripped of its natural sweetness.

I was expecting a little bit more for an overpriced 45g worth of chocolate. But it also made me realise that if the usual chocolate I eat (85% dark chocolate by Lindt) tastes more sweeter and flavourful than 70% raw organic chocolate, I wonder what type of nasty preservatives/additives do Lindt put in their chocolate?

If you choose health over taste when buying chocolates, I strongly recommend Pana chocolate. It definitely has an acquired taste but I wouldn’t recommend it to those who prefers their chocolate sweet!

In love with Kjaer Weis

I’ve always been a fanatic about clean and organic skincare and makeup and recently i’ve come across this brand which really helped with giving a dewy and healthy complexion while being completely natural. I have very sensitive skin towards makeup but this definitely allowed my skin to breathe and it does not feel too heavy on the skin either.

I haven’t tried the foundation yet but i’ve been loving the lip tint and blush. It’s in a cream formula and the consistency is to die for and it’s nothing compared to the dried patchy consistency of Bobbie Brown’s cream based makeup.

I’ve currently being using the lip tint in ‘passionate’ which is a warm raspberry red and it diffuses perfectly with my natural lip colour but it also gives it the extra depth in colour which I love!

 

And the blush in ‘sun touched’. My skin has a yellow undertone so I was weary about buying this type of shade because it’s a bronze colour but it shows more as a peachy brown on the skin.