February’s Chocolate Facial

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What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Week, or Month with a Chocolate Facial from our own Licensed Esthetician, Victoria Kniess. Let the chocolate invigorate your skin while the Lemon, Tumeric, Orange and other amazing healthy ingredients secretly improve the tone and texture of your skin.  We can make this facial a couples facial if you would like to bring your significant other in for Valentines Day.

This service includes an Exfoliating Cleanse, Chocolate Mask, Massage, Treatment Oil and Moisturizer. You will also get to try our Chocolate Sugar Lip Scrub and have an application of our Featured Product of the Month, Jane Iredale’s Lip Drink, to keep your lips smooth and protected from the harsh winter winds.

Also make sure to grab your Lip Drink (10% off) at the Reception Desk to maintain the wonderful silky smoothness that this product helps to preserve.

Click Here, To Book Your Chocolate Facial

 

Featured Product of the Month – February 2019

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Here at Back To Bliss we love to keep every aspect of natural and organic lifestyle true. With Jane Iredale’s Lip Drink we can make sure that with the SPF protection your lips will stay smooth and healthy through the winter months.  Lip Drink Lip Balm will quench your lips with hydrating protection that will leave lips feeling moisturized, protected and refreshingly scented.

 

January’s Featured Product of the Month

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We are happy to announce that each month we will be featuring one of our staffs favorite product at 10% off. This month, we are featuring Carrie’s favorite, Hyland’s Muscle Therapy Gel – with Arnica. She is a Master Massage Therapist here at Back To Bliss and she knew right away what product she would choose for the staff pick favorites. She explains that this is her favorite because, “I like the way it works in the skin, it isn’t oily or sticky when rubbed in.  It brings instant pain relief and it has helped a lot of my clients.” This is what our other staff members are saying about Arnica Muscle Therapy Gel.  “It is such a wonderful product, and the best part is that it doesn’t have a scent and it’s better for your body than most products out there.”

Muscle Therapy Gel – with Arnica

Muscle Therapy Gel with Arnica is the one of the first natural remedies for inflammation, reduction in swelling, bruising and trauma to a specified area. One of the main properties that are used in this product is Arnica. What is Arnica, you ask? Keep on reading to learn more.

Arnica is actually Arnica Montana and it is derived from a daisy plant. It has many known alias’s such as: Fall Herb, Mountain Daisy, Leopard’s Bane, Well­bestow, Wolf’s Bane, and Wound Herb. It is said to originate from Europe in the high-elevation of areas that surround, and including mountains. Arnica really loves it sun and really thrives in it with the amazing terrain and cultivated soil.  Arnica dates back into the 1500s and was used for the same as it is today, pain and muscle relief. You can use it in two different ways: topically – such as creams, gels (Muscle Therapy Gel), ointments; and orally – which can only be used in the homeopathic form – pills, tablets, and liquids. 

All of our Staff recommends this product and our families use it, as well, to treat any bump or bruise. Can be used by children, pets, athletes, adults, anyone with pain.

Footnotes: http://www.arnica.com/category/about-arnica/ https://www.britishhomeopathic.org/charity/how-we-can-help/articles/homeopathic-medicines/a/arnica-montana/ 

November Pumpkin Spice Facial & Coffee

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For the Month of November we are teaming up with The Coffee Coop to make a great offer for all of our lovely clients!

Replenish dry Summer skin with the fabulous Fall inspired Facial. The benefits of using Pumpkin will help nourish the skin while smoothing and brightening it.

*Schedule a Pumpkin Spice Facial with Back To Bliss and get a 10% off coupon for a Pumpkin Spice Latte over at The Coffee Coop; or vice versa, buy a Pumpkin Spice Latte over at The Coffee Coop and receive a 10% off coupon for our Pumpkin Spice Facial.

These wonderful Pumpkin Spice Facial’s are exclusively with our Licensed Esthetician, Victoria Kniess and it’s also a Signature Facial at Basic Facial cost, only $45. You can book your appointment at our Main Colby Location or our Marshfield location today to grab your spot.

It’s that simple to save and to treat yourself to something better than candy, coffee and a facial!

*After the scheduled appointment for Pumpkin Spice Facial you will then receive the coupon for the Pumpkin Spice Latte over at The Coffee Coop. Cannot use coupon with Sale Gift Certificate to receive 10% off of Facial, must use other form of payment. This promotion runs to the end of November.*

Bach Flowers: Remedies for Emotional Balance

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Anxiety, depression, judgment, impatience.  These are just a few of the unbalanced emotional spaces we can fall into. Bach Flowers give us a holistic and gentle way to resolve these negative emotions at a deep soul level. And not just deep clinical emotional unbalances. Bach Flower Remedies are great for us to use just to keep tendencies of unbalance from becoming problematic at larger levels.

Bach Flowers work at a vibrational level, which is an excellent method for transmitting deep emotional and subtle information. They work without drug interactions and are completely safe for children. In fact, since they work on a very subtle level, they are great for helping children process emotions which they don’t have words to process intellectually.

Learn about the original flowers developed by Dr. Bach as well as the seven major veins of mental anguish he categorized.  Flowers such as Holly which helps people process jealousy will be discussed so you can learn how to help the emotional balance of your family. We will discuss all of the original Bach flower remedies along with how to use them. 

4 weekly classes will run Sundays from 3:30-5pm beginning on Feb 26th. Fee is $20 without book and $40 with book. Class will be casual with tea and discussion.

 

Promotion Of The Month – September 2016

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Our September 2016 Promotion of the Month is:

 

Buy 1 get 1 half off

Liter Sale

 

Valid for all of our shampoo and conditioner liters.

This is a great time to stock up on all your hair care needs. Included in this sale are all of our regular product lines:

Organic Coloring Systems

Malibu Wellness

Onesta

 

This sale is good until the end of September 2016. We hope you take advantage and bring some excellent natural hair care products into your home at a great discount.

Why I Love Coconut Oil

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I have recently rediscovered what is sometimes called the healthiest oil in the world: coconut oil. When I first learned about this superfood, I used it as much as I could and tried to incorpotate it into just about everything! I still am using it because of all the benefits I’ve gotten from the wonderful oil and I will continue to use it forever!

For many years, people have been using coconut for so many different things. Pacific islanders believe the coconut is the cure for all illenss and the palm tree from which they grow is known to them as the “Tree of Life”. In traditional medicine, coconut was used to help heal such things as; bruises, burns, earaches, fevers, lice, rash, sore throat, upset stomach just to name a few. As the years have gone by, modern medicine has discovered even more ways coconut oil can be helpful in everyday life. Researchers have even found that it can kill viruses, bacteria, and fungi!

One of the many ways to benefit from the oil is to consume it! You can use it to cook with, as a subsitiute for butter, incorporate it into smoothies or eat it raw! Coconut oil is lower in calories than other fats and can promote loss of excess weight by increasing the metebolic rate! Another way it can help with weight loss is that it can reduce hunger because of the way the fatty acids are metabolized. Coconut oil contains medium chain triglycerides which are immediatly transfered into the liver and turned into fuel. Consuming the coconut oil, you can also get stronger bones and teeth because of the calcium it contains. Coconut oil is also a great source of fiber, vitamins, minerals, potassium, magnesium, electrolytes and amino acids.

Another way to use coconut oil is to use in on you skin and in your hair, which is the way that I use it most often! I use it in my hair everyday morning and night; I use it when my hair is wet and when its dry without my hair getting too greasy. Coconut oil contains antioxidants that protect our skin from free radicals, which can slow down the aging process. Another way coconut oil benefits the skin is that it imporves the lipid mositure and acid mantle which helps protect the skin. If you are a person who likes to enjoy the sunshine in the summer, coconut oil is very useful to protect your hair and skin from up to 20% of UV rays! After being in the sun, it is also a good idea to apply it to avoid peeling if you do end up with a burn.

There are SO MANY other uses and benefits of coconut oil, I have just listed a few that I found most interesting. What I love most about the oil is that it is so versitile, eliminating the need for so many different products. Now that you know why I love coconut oil, I hope that you will try it and love it too!

You can find a quality cocunut oil right here at Back to Bliss.  We have Dr. Bronner’s Magic “All-one” Coconut oil for $26.99! The jar is 30oz so it will last you an incredibly long time! You will notice that the product is in a solid form, but liquifies with just the warmth of your fingers! I hope I have given you enough of a reason to pick one up today so you can enjoy these health benefits as well.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Signature Scent Vata Trimester

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With October quickly approaching,Vata Season is upon us.  At Back To Bliss, we are attempting to bring the natural Ayurvedic cycles of nature into our programming. With three main phases of the year, we are bringing you programming based on Trimesters, four months to each season.  This usually includes and down cycle for the last season and the uprush of new energy for the next season.

Vata Season is October through the end of January.  Being some of the coldest months of the year, this time of year often leaves us feeling drained and down. On a deeper level our body is transitioning for the wintery weather ahead.  Our skin may start to dry out due to the changes in the temperature, humidity or just the additions of the seasonal winds.  The dust, mold, and allergens are starting to build in the air and clog pores or respiratory systems.  In order to balance with these changes we should add some warm and comforting scents to our routines.  Emily has formulated a blend to do just that!

Orange, Cypress, Ginger and Ylang Ylang all blend together for a warm and inviting scent that provides energetic balance for the season ahead.   Orange is great for fighting depression, a diuretic, and helps to calm nerves.  Cypress helps boosts the immune system, helps us to fight respiratory issues, it speeds up wound healing, and soothes skin conditions.  Ginger aids in calming digestive issues, it is a great anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and stimulating agent that gets the blood pumping.  Ylang ylang will help balance and soothe the warmth of this oil, it’s an aphrodisiac and helps to calm the skin and our soul.

Using our Signature Scent in a massage oil and regularly getting massages during the whole season can help you better transition from the heat of summer to the cold of fall. It will help you to dispell the gloom on your spirit that often comes with a decrease in daylight and a restriction to the activities of summer.

Our Signature Scent for this Vata Season has been added to several products. These products have been created to help complete your wellness routine and focus it for this seasons stresses.

Emily’s suggested use:

After a massage: with the Signature Scent oil, take Signature Scent epsom salts and place 2 cups in a warm to hot bath.  Relax for 20-30 minutes.  After use 2 tbsp of Signature Scent oil to moisturize before towel dry.  Sleep well

To start your day:  Dry brush in the direction of the lymph nodes (toward the heart or watch the video), Shower and use 2 Tbsp of Signature Scent oil after showering and rinse off or blot dry.  Allow oil to soak in before dressing.

Product Of The Month – Epsom Salt

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Epsom Salts

These amazing salts are a great health product that works through the skin to support and balance many of our bodily systems. Even though we work with them and recommend them all the time for our massage clients, when we pull out the list of benefits we are still amazed by their potency and the sheer range of benefits they bring. When you combine their effectiveness with the delivery method – a long relaxing soak in a deliciously hot bath, how could you not want to indulge? As our Product Of The Month for October, we will be offering a 10% discount for any epsom salt purchase. This offer is good while supplies last.

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Benefits Of Epsom Salts

  • Epsom salts are a great way to deepen the effects of your massage
  • They help to balance over 600 enzymes in the body
  • They soothe the skin and fascial tissues for both beauty and health
  • They help the body purge lactic acid and other waste products stagnating in the tissues
  • They help cut down the time it takes to heal, getting you back out into the action faster
  • They help to sooth and balance the digestive system
  • They aid in the formation of proteins for joints and brain tissue.
  • And they help to reduce muscle tenderness after workouts.

Supporting Your Massage With Epsom Salt Baths

During injury, which includes micro strain and tears during exercise, our body will produce lactic acid along with many other hormones, byproducts, and supporting agents. While lactic acid is a natural byproduct of our bodies natural healing system, it has several drawbacks when not metabolized and removed from the muscles soon after. One of the larger negative reactions that lactic acid produces is the creation of adhesions. These sticky muscle and connective tissue knots, need to be softened and removed for health.  If they are not, then over time, the body will stiffen and have a greater potential for pain as the restrictions and adhesions continue to pile up.  Massage is very good at creating fluid flow to purge the waste products like lactic acid from the muscle tissues. The targeted pressure and kneading action of a massage is superior for removing all muscle tension, including any adhesions lactic acid build up may have caused.  Along with regular stretching, gentle movement exercises, and an active lifestyle, massage is an essential and powerful tool to keeping pain and stiffness away. However, Epsom Salt Baths following a massage can increase the amount of fluid flow to your muscles and ease any soreness caused by the massage itself. Adding a bath ritual to your home routine after a massage enhances the experience in several helpful ways.

How To Use Epsom Salt

At Back to bliss we offer a pre-mixed package of Epsom Salt.  We have mixed our quality mineral salts with baking soda and some have received our Signature Scent – Vata Season Essential Oil Blend.  This helps to more quickly pull lactic acid  from the tissues.  The body is able to purge it thought the skin instead of metabolizing it through the liver, which is a much slower process. Typically Epsom Salts are used as a bath additive, but they can also be used in a foot soak. A recommended amount is 1 cup of Epsom Salt per 100 pounds of body weight.  You can add the salts into the bath as you are filling it so they are well mixed in solution, but you can add them at any time without reducing their effectiveness.

We have prepared 2 cup and 4 cup bags of Epsom Salts; available in our Eco Boutique. During the month of October we will be offering a 10% discount for any epsom salt purchase.

Seasonal Balancing With Our Signature Scents

Our Signature Scents are one of our newest ways to keep things fresh and increase the health impact of our services and products. Our trimester based schedule flows with the movement of the seasons and our class offerings and signature scents will be tailor made to offer the support and balance needed by each season’s stresses.

Beginning this October we enter our Vata Balancing Trimester. It focuses on establishing routine, navigating the energetic flow as we lose the heat of summer and flow into the cold of fall, and calming the agitations brought on by the activity packed summer. Look for more blog posts about both our Trimester Schedule and the philosophies of health that it follows as well as about the powerful benefits that our Vata Season 2015 Signature Scent brings.

What’s In Our Signature Scent?

This season’s Signature Scent is a mixture of Orange, Ginger, Cypress, and Ylang Ylang essential oils. Our Signature Scent will be mixed into our Epsom Salts as well as added to our choice of massage oils when you receive a Signature Elemental Massage at Back To Bliss. Emily is busily adding more products to our list of offerings that will only be available until supplies run out this Vata Trimester.

The mixture of essential oils in our Signature Scent blend create a delicious spicy citrus tone with floral hints that will satisfy as the temperatures continue to drop outside. As we lose the heat of summer, the warmth of the ginger and the hints of citrus and floral ylang-ylang will gently calm our nerves with memories of summer without intensity and agitation. Overall, the scent will help to calm the nervous system and soothe the mind.

Product of The Month – September

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Take 10% off

These amazing kits are exactly what you need to defend and strengthen damaged hair.  Take advantage of this months special product.

Offer good while supplies last this September.  Download the product of the month flyer here for complete details.

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10% off Color Care Kit for the month of September
PROBIOTIC COLOR CARE KIT
Actual Price-36.83 + tax
Retail value of $65.88

3 Piece Kit includes the following Products:

Probiotic Shampoo contains color-enhancing extracts of certified Organic Chia and Fennel. The Lactobacillus probiotics support a healthy scalp. While a combination of quinoa and vegetable proteins help protect, defend and strengthen damaged hair.

Probiotic Conditioner contains anti color fade extracts of Certified Organic Amla and Shea Butter.

Leave in Strengthening Spray has the healing properties of probiotics of hair care.

Three Remedies For the Dying

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No matter how good our doctors, our diet or our wellness plans are, our bodies will fail us and will one day expire.  As our bodies fail, there can be much pain and discomfort. There can be a dulling of the mind as well as deep emotional strain. Here are three lesser known holistic remedies for the dying that work with us at all three levels: mind, body, and spirit.  Each of these creates connection between the physical process of dying and the deeper mental/ emotional parts of us; allowing greater peace throughout the entire process.

1: Angel’s Trumpet Bach Flower Remedy – Back Flower Remedies are oral remedies that carry emotional intelligence via vibration. They are given in water and taken orally to help all manner of emotional and mental issues. This remedy has the key word of surrender.  This Remedy is good for the entire family whenever there is resistance and denial of the impending transition. It allows the experience of ‘surrendering to death’ to flow more smoothly by helping us to see death as a more spiritual process.  By expanding our perspective we see death as a part of the full process of life and thereby accept the need to surrender to it.   A great deal of emotional distress can be alleviated with this remedy.

2: Homeopathic Arsenicum Album – Arsenicum is indicated when symptoms are ‘worse at night’ and whenever the thought, ‘I’m going to die,’ is present.  It is indicated when there is both vomiting and diarrhea concurrently and the mucus membranes are inflamed. In hospice settings, all of these symptoms are common and this remedy can be considered whenever any of them are present. The more of these symptoms that are present, the more strongly arsenicum can be helpful.

However, arsenicum has a more profound and important use. When given in very high potency, 1-10M, during the last few hours of life, it offers tremendous peace to the person as they pass. One of its key notes is the ability to help us process fearful thoughts about dying. Its helpfulness holds true even with the intense fears that can be present when death is truly near.

Caution: Working with any homeopathic remedy of high potency should be done with supervision by a professional.

3: Massage For Hospice – Gentle touch can be very palliative; easing stress, anxiety, and pain.  Patients report better sleep, clearer minds, and are more capable of processing their stresses after even the gentlest of massage.  While all of these things are a normal part of the massage experience, they are incredibly valuable for hospice patients and their families. Massage releases the distractions of pain and stress from body and conveys compassion in a profound way. These benefits are received even by those who have an impaired ability to communicate.

Remember: Death is a part of life that you will eventually face.  Processing the stresses, emotions, and changes that it brings is vital to staying well.

 

Greenwashing

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Today I wanted to make you aware of a term called greenwashing.  It’s an important trend for all of us to know about; especially if you are trying to go green. The idea behind greenwashing is that companies can take advantage of the green consumer by slapping an “all natural” label on products without really providing a green product.

One example of a product line getting greenwashed is Burt’s Bee’s.  Burt sold his company several years ago to Clorox.  Burt was a hippie through and through, and built a brand that stood for his ideals from the ground up.  He made a great product that spoke strongly to his market and made millions because of it.  I was managing a yoga gift shop at the time, and I watched the Burt’s Bees product line change drastically for the worse after Clorox purchased the brand.  Let me just say that we stopped carrying it within a year because the only thing that stayed the same was the packaging.

Greenwashing happens in many ways, and it happens a lot. Sometimes it is blatantly unethical marketing.  Sometimes executives simply don’t understand what going green means.  Regardless, the bottom line is that the scope and extent of greenwashing puts serious distrust into the process of purchasing green products. People looking for healthier options believe they have a right to know about the ingredients in the foods they eat and in the personal care products they put onto their bodies.  They also believe that there need to be standards upheld in the definitions of the words used, such as natural, organic, and ethically sourced.  They want to trust that their ideals and ethics are shared by the companies they purchase from.

Since the practice of greenwashing strikes deep into the ideals of green consumers you can guess that there is some activism in response.  Two issues that are being battled in courts right now are truth in labeling, and legally defined standards for terms like ‘organic.’  Voices for the green movement are fighting for structure so that the muddy terminology can be cleaned up, making greenwashing more difficult to do.  The most interesting, and to me scary, legal battles happening right now are the truth in labeling ones.  Recently California voted no on a proposition to force GMO foods to be labeled as such.  Why would special interests spend millions to keep the fact that we are buying products that include GMO foods hidden? It makes me wonder, “Would we buy their products if we knew the whole truth about how they were made, packaged, and their ingredients?”

And so the issue is trust and how much energy you are going to devote to making sure your products are delivering to your standards.  Retailers all have buyers and policies about how they choose their products.  One of the best ways to make the process easy is to find a retailer that you can trust and let them do the research for you.  However, you need to trust the retailer and pay attention to what products they have on their shelves.  Back To Bliss has very stringent product requirements on personal care items, however there are others that are even more strict than us.

The bottom line on the issue is that if you are one of those green consumers, you need to decide how passionate about it you are, because when it comes to green, the path is pretty gray.