Happy Safe Baby

Here is an easy facial steam to give yourself a home herbal spa for a fraction of the price!

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of water

• 1/4 cup dried Herbs*

• cooking pot/Bowl

1. Bring water to boil in pot

2. Add herbs, cover and turn off heat

3. After 2 minutes, uncover, give the herbs a stir, and remove from stove

To Use:

1. Place pot on counter or where you will be comfortable with your face about 6” above it. Drape a large towel over your head and allow it to hang down around the pot so that it catches the vapors and steam.

2. Keeping a comfortable distance, try and stay under the towel as long as you comfortably can.

3. Your skin will be baby soft!

Tips:

1. Dry Skin: Rose petals , lavender flowers, chamomile

2. Normal Skin: Mints, lemon balm

3. Oily: Sage, rosemary

4. You can use 3 – 5 drops of *essential oils in replace of herbs.

This is the same treatment that a salon would do for triple the price. You may feel itchy and a tingling sensation, this is normal. It is your skin reacting to increased circulation caused by the steam.

Continue this weekly, itchiness will decrease and the increase circulation will leave your face aglow.

Keep the herb solution and put it in a spray bottle: spray to refreshen your room, spray on your face as a toner, and spray on counters after they are wiped down.

Joanne

Submitted by Kelly-Sue Chobotiuk booboobears.com

How can you stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated drinks? The following tips describe two herbs that not only taste delicious, but give you a similar energy boost as well.

Plus, they make you more healthy.

To kick the caffeine habit, replace your coffee or other caffeinated drink with peppermint or spearmint iced tea. You can have them fresh, everyday, since they can be easily grown in a small pot for plants.

Here are more ways that peppermint and spearmint help you to be more healthy and live better.

Peppermint

* Peppermint leaves are helpful for digestive upsets, pick a few leaves and steep in boiling water.

* If you’re trying to kick the caffeine in the morning this is a healthy alternative. Peppermint is a slight stimulate to get you going in the morning.

* Drink after meals to promote good digestion.

* Left over herbal teas can be stored in the fridge with lemon slices and stevia extract and drank as a natural iced tea! Stevia is a herb that is 70% sweeter than sugar, has no calories, no carbohydrates and won’t affect your blood sugars.

* Soak you tired hot feet in an infusion of peppermint tea, it cools them down and stimulates circulation. I use a Refreshing Mint Spray for this purpose all summer long. It’s a quick way to spray on the feet for the same cooling result.

Spearmint

* Used similar to peppermint, but is milder and has a gentle diaphoretic effect for children. Some prefer the taste.

* Useful for stomach problems and vomiting, very handy to have growing in a pot outside your door.

* Helpful for the vomiting with morning sickness.

* Mice detest spearmint, so plant it to keep them away from food sources and other plants.

Joanne

Submitted by Kelly-Sue Chobotiuk booboobears.com

What is a BooBoo Bear? The Boo Boo Bear™ is a handcrafted warm/cool herbal pack which provides cuddly comfort for tummy, ear, muscle aches and for many types of common “booboos” that happen as babies and young children grow up.

Without chemicals and stinging treatments, it provides a completely natural way for you and your child to sooth the pain and trauma of those accidental bumps and bruises.

Are they easy to use? Absolutely!  You just heat them in the microwave for 1 to 2 minutes in order to provide a warm and soothing friend for your child to hold themselves. For the future, it can be kept on the shelf or as a friend in your child’s room. Or, for a quick cool pack, in the refrigerator for scrapes, sprains, or any other boo boos your child may encounter.

So, how do you use them? Take a look below to see…

1. Encourages Children To Be Involved And Connected With Their Healing

Children feel scared when they are hurt and in pain often because they don’t know why it hurts or how to stop the pain. By giving them a BooBoo Bear, they have a tool to use for themselves to help stop the pain and heal their “booboo”.

2. Contains Soothing Relaxing Herbs (Aromatherapy)

Aromatherapy herbs are the key to how BooBoo Bear and his friends help sooth and heal. The scents of chamomile, lavender, and peppermint have their own unique natural properties that work with the body to nurture the healing process. In essence, lavender is restorative and relaxing, chamomile has a gentle sedative effect, and peppermint stabilizes that is useful for muscle pain and stiffness.

3. Warm/ Cool Therapy

BooBoo Bear works to sooth and calm quickly whether it is warmed up or cooled down. By placing your BooBoo Bear, or for example, his friend Meowies for Owies in the microwave for only 1 or 2 minutes you can use it’s warm herbal scent to sooth ear aches, tummy aches, or muscle aches.

Or, for cool therapy just place it in the refrigerator and later, when you need to sooth an aching sprain, for instance, and put your BooBoo Bear or one of his friends gently on it.

4. Color Therapy

Most restaurants learned years ago that red stimulates an appetite, while blue tends to make people feel calm. BooBoo Bears have taken color therapy a step further by using soft, soothing, cheerful colors on all their products. Soft blue, pink, beige, cream, violet, and similar shades of various colors are all designed to bring out positive, comforting feelings for everyone that uses BooBoo Bear or any of his friends.

5. All natural filling straight from Mother Earth

It is nice to know that when your child puts their BooBoo Bear on their aching tummy, only natural, harmless herbs are at work to help comfort and heal. They can hold their bear for hours if they like, letting the herbal filling continue to work.

Special Note

It is good to know that Boo Boo Bear Herbs for Hurts products, are Class 1 medical devices which meet all Health Canada Regulations.

BooBoo Bear, Meowies for Owies or any if his other friends make a unique baby gift that helps to give the child more self confidence and a gentle friend with a purpose.

By Kelly-Sue Chobotiuk – booboobears.com