Green Beaver Certified Organic Sunscreen We all look forward to summer every year, yet are wary of slapping on chemicals to protect our skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays. Well now you can be protected naturally using Green Beaver certified organic mineral sunscreen line! Green Beaver uses the safe mineral Zinc Oxide and titanium dioxide as the active ingredients, and infuse antioxidant Canadian-grown raspberry extract to ensure ultimate moisturization. Choose the one that suits you and your family the most, and be protected for up to 40 minutes (sweat and water resistant too!). As always, Green Beaver products are 100% natural, gluten-free, non-nano, biodegradable and lake friendly! Derma E Antioxidant Natural Sunscreen With clear, nanoparticle-free Zinc Oxide, this formula...
Rejoice! We're heading into the warm weather, which means swimming, boating, hiking, barbeques, picnics and outdoor sports! It's summer, and the living is easy! But it's also the start of a new bug season. How can we avoid those unwanted pests of Canadian backyards everywhere: mosquitoes! First, be sure to get rid of standing water around your property, where mosquitoes can breed. PIck up any vessels, like garden pots, and turn them over so they can't fill with rainwater. If you have a birdbath, water barrel or ornamental pond, flush it out once a week to break the egg-laying cycle. Mosquitoes breed in still water, so agitating it will upset their development. Did you know there are about 75 different...
Walk into any drugstore, and you will be dazzled by the sparkling rows of hair care products, cosmetics, perfumes, soaps, lotions and other body care products that create a visual plethora of hip graphics and flawless faces, all of which are marketed to you, the consumer. Those gorgeous models and shiny tresses are meant to entice you into buying the product to re-make you into that wondrous big brand image. But in all the flotsam and jetsam of labels and ingredients, what exactly are you buying? You might be surprised. Turn that jazzy packaging over, and read the ingredient list. Did you find a lot of long, confusing words describing stuff you've never heard of? And do you have any...
November 2 to 8, 2015 is NHP Week, an annual celebration of the health and happiness that millions of Canadians receive from natural health products (NHPs). This year, the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) commissioned a national survey on popular natural health claims to see if Canadians can distinguish fact from fiction. They asked 1,500 Canadians from coast to coast 15 true-or-false questions to test their knowledge, with surprising results! ______________________________________________________________________________ The Buzz about Honey Statement1: Honey has antibacterial properties: True Did you know that honey is the only edible substance on Earth that never expires? This wonder of nature boasts many benefits and Canadians are definitely curious. Our survey found that 84 per cent of Canadians knew that honey...
