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Have you ever heard of the School of Holistic Cosmetology? You should have. It's the only truly natural skincare training school that I've e...
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Happy Easter! As today is our modern day for gorging on chocolate or cocoa in all its various forms, I wanted to write about the uses of coc...
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Everyone knows and loves lavender! It's been widely used for centuries and is probably the best known beauty herb on the skincare market. La...
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A true hydrosol or hydrolat is the flower water that is collected when plants are steam distilled for their essential oils. Hydrosols have a...
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The infant cosmetics industry seems to be growing all the time, churning out new products that are 'essential' for your children. Or are the...
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Lemon Balm, also known as Melissa or Balm, is a wonderful lush green herb that has many uses in natural herbal skincare. This herb has been ...
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Herb & Hedgerow runs the popular BeautyCraft beauty app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This beauty app is a recipe book for DIY natura...
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Herbs used in natural skincare and beauty products can provide great anti-ageing properties. Given the continuous growth in the natural skin...
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Having spent the last years learning about ‘conventional’ skincare and cosmetics, I have now got to the point that I prefer to use as many n...
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Rice has been used as a natural beauty treatment for thousands of years to relieve inflammation associated with skin diseases and for cleans...
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Lots of beauty herbs grow around us in the hedgerows and many of these herbs also yield an essential oil that can be used in beauty products...
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I was recently asked how I come up with the new recipes that I write and add to BeautyCraft app - the natural beauty app for iPhone and iPod...
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Blue Star of the Wildflower Meadow
The deep blue cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) used to grow prolifically across Britain's wildflower meadow...
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We often associate beauty herbs with expensive, exotic or tropical plants because that's what we see most often in the shops - rose petals, ...
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Lots of people are scared of applying oil to their face. They think it will make their skin greasy or give them spots or they simply don't l...
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Herb & Hedgerow is based on the south coast of England, where strawberries are quintessentially part of our heritage. During the summer ...
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From Babylonians to Samurai warriors
Vinegar is one of the oldest fermentation processes known to humankind. The oldest fermentation proces...
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Given that winter is upon us, the HerbBlurb will start with a profile of the beautiful rosehip. Here in England at this time of year, the ro...
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Ancient Egypt & Rome
Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was renowned throughout history for her radiant skin and her stunnin...