STATEMENT: Chocolate makes you break out. Facts: Cacao beans, which is what chocolate is made from, “contain several nutrients that are important for overall health, such as magnesium, vitamin C, iron, antioxidant flavanoids, omega fatty acids, and many more.” These properties combat free radicals, strengthen immunity, and help reduce inflammation.

Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and toxic too! Sugar is an enticing and dangerous seductress: obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cavities, and a litany of other health woes are all well-documented sugar-related problems. Sugar is also a skin aging and wrinkling accelerator. It is a cruel paradox: How can something that tastes so good be so bad?

We all have those nights when we are just too bone-tired to take off our makeup. But when it gets to be a habit, that is when trouble can start. Let us begin by looking at multiple studies done by people who have purposely not removed their makeup for one full month to see what would happen.

Beauty comes from wellness. Wellness can be found through nature and a holistic approach to skin and body care. And the sourcing of this approach to beauty lies in ingredients found in plants, known as phytotherapy.