Why not start your spring with a super healthy spring vegetable.

Because of its high sulfur, silicon and vitamin C content, radishes are a known as a super healthy spring vegetable.  Best of all, radishes can be used as both homemade beauty remedies and weight loss detox recipes to help you feel and look younger.

I would like to share these super beauty remedies recipes with radishes for you to try and share with your family and friends.

Spring Radishes and Avocado Beauty Remedy

Ingredients:

• 8 radishes sliced
• 1 red or white onion chopped
• ½ avocado sliced
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 ½ cup mix of arugula and baby spinach
• parsley diced
• 2 tbsp walnuts
• 1 tbsp cranberries
• kelp with cayenne to season

Directions:

Combine all ingredients. Toss thoroughly.

Homemade Beauty Remedies Salad for Spring

Ingredients:

• 5 radishes sliced
• 1 cup of arugula
• 2 tbsp pine nuts
• 1 avocado sliced
• 1 clove garlic, diced
• lemon juice from 1 lemon or 2 tbsp organic apple cider vinegar
• 1 medium yellow squash, diced
• dill diced
• Seaweed Gomasio (sesame seeds, seaweed, and sea salt)

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients. Toss thoroughly. Sprinkle with Seaweed Gomasio.

Radish and Fennel Salad and Beauty Remedy Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 radishes sliced
• 4 small fennel bulbs sliced
• 2 tbsp organic apple cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Combine all the ingredients. Toss thoroughly.

P.P.S. visit Simple Detox 101 for information about other super foods you can use in the spring to detox and cleanse naturally

Bon Appetit!

Breathe, smile and be happy.

©Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition and Relationship Coach

Do you have a favorite natural skincare routine that you use to keep your skin glowing?

I recently interviewed  Julie Raines, an Esthetician and Facial Therapist, about beauty remedies for aging skin on my women’s holistic health talk radio “Feel and Look Fabulous with Irina.” If you would like to learn how and why natural regular skin care routine can benefit your skin aging.

One of the natural beauty remedies / anti-aging tips I talked about with Julie Raines follows.

Simple Cucumber and Yogurt Cleanser Anti-Aging Beauty Remedy and Recipe

• 1 Pot of Organic Natural Yogurt (try Greek if you want a creamer blend)
• ½ Cucumber mashed in blender

Mix yogurt and cucumber in a bowl until well blended.

Damp skin with warm water and use a generous amount of the yogurt /cucumber mix and emulsify in your hands and massage using upwards strokes from the top of the bust to the top of your head. Massage until a sticky consistency then remove with a damp face cloth. Splash your face with plenty of water and pat dry.

This is wonderful to get pre teens in to a gentle skin care routine & they can experiment with additions of honey or oatmeal about 1 teaspoon of each. This is also fabulous on maturing skin as it will calm redness and the cucumber will freshen and stimulate. You can use slices of cucumber on the eyes and even use it as a quick toner for the skin in an emergency.

 Click to listen to our interview with Julie Raines Esthetician and founder of Charlie Locks Skin care  for more tips on natural anti-aging skin care.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health Coach and Counselor

How well have you been taking care of yourself? Don’t forget that you need to nurture yourself if you plan to feel as great as you want to look.

Here are some ideas for you to try:  a love your body meditation as an anti-aging remedy, facial meditation for your dry skin, healing baths to reduce stress and sleep better,or a self foot massage as a real pleasure and treat to yourself.

I also would like to share with you this fabulous pomegranate scrub created by Susan Gala, a Licensed Massage Therapist and AFAA group fitness instructor.

Pomegranates are full of skin preserving anti-oxidants, while the white sugar provides a natural form of glycolic acid to help sweep away dead skin cells.

Pomegranate Body Scrub Beauty Remedy and Recipe

• 1/2 cup of pomegranate seeds
  1/2 cup white sugar
  2 teaspoons of avocado or safflower oil
  2 drops of essential oil

In a small bowl combine seeds and sugar, and crush with a spoon. Add oil and blend. The pomegranate seeds will naturally scent the scrub. AHH, massage gently onto damp body.

Click to listen to our discussion with fitness instructor Susan Gala on How to Strengthen Pelvic Floor Muscles in order to Get Rid of Incontinence and Improve Sexual Desire.

Click to listen to our discussion with Julie Gabriel, Holistic Nutritionist on Holistic Beauty Remedies for Your Skin and Hair.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition Counselor, Coach, and Relationship Expert

Did you know that on any given day you are exposed to up to 500 chemicals?  All these toxic chemicals can cause cancer, hormonal imbalance, headaches, menopause problems, headaches, etc.

If you are interested in reducing your exposure to these chemicals, start by using safer personal care products, or by making your own homemade beauty remedies.

Listen to an interview with Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the national Campaign for Safe Cosmetics on how to avoid chemicals in personal care products and which alternatives are safer.

If you prefer homemade beauty remedies for natural face lift, exfoliation, rejuvenation and moisturizing your skin, I would like share with you  two homemade beauty recipes I adopted from the book The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Guide to Organic Natural Skin Care. by Julie Gabriel. They helped to make my skin more glowing and younger looking.

Yogurt Face Scrub Natural Exfoliator Beauty Recipe

• 20 gr of powdered brewer’s yeast
• 2 tsp plain yogurt
• 2 tsp almond meal
• 1 tsp raw honey

Mix all ingredients. Use scrub immediately, and do not store in the refrigerator.

Clay and Egg Mask as a Deep-Cleansing Face Lift Beauty Recipe

• 2 tbsp white clay
• 1 tbsp
• corn flour
• 1 egg white
• 1 drop chamomile oil

1. Blend ingredients; mix well to dissolve egg white completely.  Apply to clean, dry face. If paste is too thick, you can add a little bit of  freshly brewed chamomile tea. Let it dry and wash off with warm water. Yo can keep the mix in the refrigerator for a week. (adopted from the book The Green Beauty Guide..)

* Click to listen to more Holistic Beauty Remedies with author Julie Gabriel.

* Click to listen and try facial exercises for natural face lift with Cynthia Rowland,Facial Fitness Expert and Creator of Facial Magic. 

* Click to listen to our discussion with Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the national Campaign for Safe Cosmetics on How to Find Safer Personal Care Products.

Breathe, smile and be happy.

© Irina Wardas, HHC

Women’s Holistic Health, Nutrition Coach, Counselor and Radio Show Host