These 5 Ingredients in Your Body Scrub are Actually Harming You

Body scrubs are a great way to rejuvenate your skin. With their refreshing scents, shimmering appearance, and exfoliating properties, body scrubs make for a perfect mini spa treatment (even if it’s...

The Real Cost of a Clean Home

Everyone loves a clean home. When you consider the benefits of having a nice, uncluttered, dirt-free space like keeping germs away and lowering stress, it’s not hard to see why some people genuinel...

“We Should be Able to Have Babies Like White People.”: A Beauty Shop Reflection on Race, Class and Infertility

A recent study suggests that Black women may be twice as likely as White women to have fertility problems but are far less likely to seek or receive infertility treatment. I remember being so arrog...

Cultural Stigma, Mental Wellness and One Black Woman’s Audacity to Heal

Culture is the learned system of shared meanings of identity and community from an exclusive group. Culture is what inspires our thinking, speaking and actions. Culture is highly influential within...

What Does it Mean to Decolonize Wellness?

When I did that, I figured out that it not that my blog is missing something. It is that almost everything in the wellness space is curate by mostly white women. I, and most other people, am traine...

Crashing Creative Anxiety

Creative anxiety can be described as the state of distress that impedes progress of expression of insight or creative thought. I had to construct this definition because the concept is relatively u...

House Cleansing: A Checklist for Clearing Bad Energy from Your Home

Your home should be your safe haven -- the place where you feel relaxed, happy, and at peace. But when bad energy is lingering around, your home can quickly become the complete opposite -- a place ...

Dark Spot Solutions

Achieving flawless skin is not impossible but the added frustration of fading dark marks can sure make it feel that way.

5 Essential Tips to Detox Your Skincare Routine

Clearing out your pores with a balanced spring skincare routine could be the detox that you need right now to help clear up acne, rosacea, dark spots, and hyper-pigmentation.

Transitioning to Holistic Wellness?

Holistic wellness considers the whole person when taking preventative measures to maintain health as well as process healing. The physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions are the three buildin...

Are feminine washes safe?

Short answer, yes (if they are not toxic). Feminine washes should be a vital part of the feminine hygiene routine. Though the vagina is self-cleaning the surrounding labia minora/majora (inner and...

Top 10 Black Owned Beauty Products

When we think of the phrase “Black-owned beauty products”, we’re instantly taken to other sayings like “representation matters”. Brands like the ones featured in this blog have created an outstandi...

Ending the Cycle: The Top 5 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer

"CONTINUING THE CYCLE OF POWDERED BOSOMS & PERFUMED PANTILINERS, MANY OF US NEVER REALIZED HOW MANY TOXINS WE WERE PILING ONTO OUR BODIES..."