Wellness / Beauty / Inspiration

In this issue:

• Ask the Abbey....
• Natural Beauty: Of eye circles and puffiness.
• Fountain of Youth Quick Tip: Keep your clothes on.
• Skin Care Cosmetics: Mineral troubleshooting.
• WELLNESS: SLIP! SLAP! SLOP!
  

My arms are bumpy, especially in the back. Is there anything that can help this?

SOY-RICE PEPTIDES.
The Abbey's newest anti-aging skin care ingredient that dramatically reduces dark circles and puffiness around the eyes. Studies showed a 35% reduction after eight weeks of treatment, improved skin smoothness and texture, and an increase in the microcirculation of the blood in the skin.

“I am so happy. I’ve been using the improved Intense Line Relief Serum and the Eye Nourishment Crème for only a week and I can see a huge difference in the wrinkles around my eyes. I am no longer the “bag lady” each morning. (I also started sleeping on my back as you suggested in a newsletter. That helped!) I have started using the ILR around my mouth and after only two days the tiniest lines are almost gone and the deeper ones are not as deep. ... My husband has even started using these now so I am getting his and hers containers.”
Martha K. Portland, OR.

As I was returning from a visit to my mother in Grand Rapids, I saw a woman standing at the airport car rental counter. Her appearance was riveting. She wore a short demin bomber jacket and was poured into denim Capri pants over orange platform heels. To compliment the pants she wore a lacy, strategically-placed --- I hesitate to call it a shirt -- piece of cloth. Enormous hoop earrings and several body piercings in areas I didn't care to look completed the ensemble. The disconnect was that these fashions graced the body and face of one whose cheerleading days were long gone and, in fact, will never see fifty again. She was trying very hard to retain a look that had long slipped her grasp.

Less is Younger ~~ Keep it Natural
Skin that is losing firmness needs less makeup, not more. Makeup tends to slide into and accentuate even tiny facial furrows. Mineral powders applied with a light hand reflect light and minimize wrinkles and sagging.

Like a beautiful painting, a beautiful face begins with surface preparation. Nothing is more important in the efffective application of makeup than good skin care habits. The heavy lifting in developing smooth, clear and firm skin is done by cleansers, toners, serums and cremes. Faithful use of appropriate products and treatments including regular exfoliation is crucial to achieving the proper moisture and oil balance. Once that balance is achieved, the proper makeup not only gilds the lily (you) but enhances the condition of your skin. Healthy makeup up adheres to Hippocrates ancient admonition to all healers “...make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm."

Read on for application troubleshooting hints for minerals

Over half of all cancers in the United States are skin cancers and the American Academy of Dermatology considers skin cancer an unrecognized epidemic. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in her or his lifetime.

If you were a visitor to an Australian beach twenty-five years ago, you would have kept company with bronzed and sunburned bodies, all aiming for tanned, and often leathery, skin. An alarming rise in melanoma rates changed all that when an Australian community service campaign set out to halt the disastrous trend. Enter Sid the Seagull.
In an effort to shift public attitudes toward sun protection, Sid the Seagull was introduced to television viewers. His mantra was his mission: "Slip! Slap! Slop!" The public was exhorted to slip on a shirt (more protective clothing), slop on plenty of sunscreen, and slap on a wide brimmed hat.

And it worked. The change in attitudes took only one generation resulting in a leveling off of the incidence of melanoma with continued hope for further reduction in skin cancer rates as succeeding generations "Slip! Slap! and Slop!"