It’s a little bit funny that I am so enthusiastic about natural body care when, in reality, I take low maintenance to a whole new level. This is great for me, not so great for the man in my life. Ah well. Win some, loose some. So when I went to go about making a toner for my natural body care workshop, I took it upon myself to learn the difference between a toner and an astringent as I haven’t really used either all that regularly.
As it turns out, the two words are used pretty interchangeably though some argue the difference is that astringents have alcohol and toners do not. My question, of course is why on earth would you want to put alcohol on your face? I would so much rather put the alcohol into my face than on it, and even then its not ideal for my health.
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To celebrate Making Love In The Kitchen’s first birthday, the bestest posts of the last year are getting another turn in the spotlight. These were selected either because they had the most traffic or should have. While together we stroll down memory lane, I will be away on a farm with no computer! We’ll chat [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Disease Prevention, Food, From Scratch, Health, Healthy, Holistic, Nutrition, Organic, Smart Choices, Video, Wellbeing on Sep 25th, 2009
To celebrate Making Love In The Kitchen’s first birthday, the bestest posts of the last year are getting another turn in the spotlight. These were selected either because they had the most traffic or should have. While together we stroll down memory lane, I will be away on a farm with no computer! We’ll chat [...]
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To celebrate Making Love In The Kitchen’s first birthday, the bestest posts of the last year are getting another turn in the spotlight. These were selected either because they had the most traffic or should have. Enjoy the stroll through memory lane! I will be away on a farm with no computer! We’ll chat when [...]
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Posted in Event, Food, Green, Happiness, Health, Healthy, Holistic, Nutriiton, Nutritionist, Uncategorized, Video, Wellbeing on Sep 23rd, 2009
To celebrate Making Love In The Kitchen’s first birthday, the bestest posts of the last year are getting another turn in the spotlight. These were selected either because they had the most traffic or should have. Enjoy the stroll through memory lane! While together we stroll down memory lane, I will be away on a [...]
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I am settling in well to the new kitchen and let me tell you, there is going to be some creative endeavors going down in this pink kitchy kitch. One of the first are my favourlicious Curried Sweet Potato Dumplings. This is my ‘back-in-my-new-home-cool-wind-blew-in-with-September’ comfort-food. Now this raises an interesting question. What is comfort food? [...]
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What I hold here, my minty fresh friends, is a great big bundle of freshly harvested mint and wow did it smell amazing. This past weekend I was with my friend Josh at his cottage on Lake Simcoe when he proudly boasted that he knew of a mint patch that was ready to be harvested. [...]
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Posted in Cleansing, Green, Holistic, Organic, Raw on Jun 9th, 2009
Day 3 of the Green Smoothie Cleanse and then we are home free. No problem right? During a cleanse, I always feel like everything in my life moves just a little bit slower- or maybe that I move a little slower. I mean this in the best possible way. I chill out a bit, focus [...]
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Posted in Holistic, Nutrition, Nutritionist on May 25th, 2009
For starters, we talk a lot about poo. We also talk a lot about colons, vegetables, enzymes, eating and cleansing- which really all has to do with poo. I spent the past weekend at the Canadian Holistic Nutrition Conference that was held in Toronto at the Ontario Science Centre and it was great fun. There [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Green, Holistic, Organic, Raw, Recipe, Sauces, Vegan, Veggie Protein, Video on May 21st, 2009
Asparagus. The vegetable that we look at knowingly… knowing what it will do to our pee. According to the book Why Do Men Have Nipples, Asparagus contains a sulfur compound called mercaptan. As I mention in my video, the smell occurs when this substance is broken down in the digestive system. Now, not all people [...]
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