Although the New York weather seems to be taking its sweet time to warm up, that doesn’t mean we can’t continue our efforts to look and feel our healthiest for the summer! Here’s another health and beauty tip from Align with Nature!

Apple Cider Vinegar is an amazing product to have on hand as an all-in-one health and beauty product! It’s great to add daily to water and to your everyday skin and hair care.

Guess what!? You don’t have to buy expensive hair and skin products to enhance your natural beauty. Apple cider vinegar will do it all for you! It helps to balance your skin and hair’s natural pH levels. If you want to promote hair growth, restore your hair’s natural shine and get healthy, glowing skin, use apple cider vinegar in these three ways!

In Your Water

Add one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a glass of water and drink daily. Not only will this strengthen your hair, it will also promote hair growth. As an added bonus, drinking apple cider vinegar helps to boost your metabolism, promotes weight loss and boosts your immune system!

As a Hair Care Product

Hey everyone! Today’s health and beauty tip is all about organic coconut oil and 4 reasons to start using it right away!

•  Want healthy, thick, shiny hair? Feed your hair the nutrition it needs to help it get there! Coconut oil can be applied to hair as a conditioner to repair dry and damaged hair. Massage it into hair before washing for an excellent oil treatment that will protect your hair from further damage and will help with the regrowth of healthy, shiny hair.

• Want to delay wrinkles and sagging of skin? Coconut oil has antioxidant properties that help to prevent premature aging! I use coconut oil instead of lotion every day to keep my skin silky and nourished. Combined with dry brushing (click here for last week’s video Dry Brushing), your skin will feel noticeably softer even after just a few days of use!

• Want to give your metabolism a boost? Cooking with coconut oil helps you lose weight! It is easy to digest, contains less calories than other oils, and its fat content is converted into energy, giving you an added boost!Need a quick stress reliever?

• Coconut oil is known for its soothing properties. Apply a bit of warm coconut oil to your forehead and temples followed by a gentle massage.  

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Be savvy with your health!

xoxo,

Darlene

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

-Janis Joplin

Beautiful Body Types

Almost all of us have a distorted image of our body, often due to the importance our culture places on outward appearance and the onslaught of media images of airbrushed models and celebrities. On a daily basis, we talk to ourselves in ways we would never speak to another. Imagine speaking to a child the way you speak to yourself about your body. It would devastate and squelch a child. It affects you similarly, causing stress and emotional pain in your body, which can make improving your health or losing weight even more difficult.

Think of all the intelligence, creativity and time you spend on improving, altering and judging your appearance. Who would you be and what could you accomplish if your valuable resources weren’t used this way? Constant emphasis on the external makes us discount the great presence and intelligence that is housed by the body. It makes us forget the magic of our internal rhythms and fail to acknowledge the beautiful bodies we have.