Entries by Sarita Coren

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Hello! After obtaining my MSW, I pursued my interests in the alternative health and wellness field for 18 years. My blog "Peace on the Skin & Peace Within" (www.ediblefacial.com) captures my years of experience and study of holistic wellness, parenthood (I'm a blessed mom of five children), marriage, organic beauty, and musings on life. Thank you for checking it out!

Tips to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthier

Reblogged with permission from my post on Hip and Healthy UK. Encourage your kids to adopt healthy eating habits with these helpful tips. Do: Find out what matters to each child the most. One of my children wants to grow… 0 Shares |

DIY Recipes You Might Want To Lick Off Your Face!

Herbs transform skin care into fragrant, potent skin food that you might be tempted to eat. Actually, some of these recipes ARE edible and work as therapeutically internally as they do externally. Face masks can bring skin into balance by… 0 Shares |

7 Reasons Why My Family Doesn’t Drink Soda

If this chart listing the seven side effects of soda isn’t alarming enough, there is a lot of well-researched information about how diet soda actually makes people fat. Watch this informative 2 1/2 minute video here: Is soda really bad… 0 Shares |

Turn Your Lavoratory into a Laboratory

Warning: creating beauty recipes with herbs is highly addictive and fun. You have been forewarned. When you start experimenting with green beauty recipes, you might find that your bathroom and kitchen convert into an apothecary. Cabinets and shelves that were… 0 Shares |

Why Alternative Medicine Must Go

Change is in the air. I can feel it. People are waking up to a new alarm clock. It’s an internal device that has not been dormant all along, but rather alive and chiming—only we keep hitting the snooze button… 0 Shares |

The Ugly Truth About Your Beauty Label

You pick up a bottle of body lotion that reads: “Naturally derived ingredients.” You automatically assume that the product is healthier and safer than other brands.  Most likely, you are wrong. The unfortunate truth about product labels is that they’re… 0 Shares |

The Choice I’ve Made that Shocks People: What Fuels the Flame and Can We Extinguish It?

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche To vaccinate or not to vaccinate that is the heated debate. Regardless of what… 0 Shares |

Supplements to Support a Healthy Pregnancy and Childbirth

It must be Labor Day that has me thinking about pregnancy and childbirth. Go figure! Fortunately I delivered five healthy full-term babies without any complications and without using any pain-numbing drugs either. I attribute most of that to a Higher… 0 Shares |

Nursing Woes from a Mother Who Was Nearly Committed for Being Committed

Evidently, being large-chested bears no correlation to how much breast-milk a mother will produce or to nursing easily and comfortably. Not only did I have a hard time producing milk, I also had no clue how to maneuver my newly… 0 Shares |

Will Toxic Ingredients in Beauty Products Kill You?

As a green beauty blogger, I face this question daily: Do the toxic ingredients that I spend so much time blaspheming actually cause you to die? My initial answer might shock you: I don’t really think so. Do I think… 0 Shares |