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Ella’s Botanicals Hydrating Lotion

Since I’ve increased my sweat sessions with daily yoga and infrared treatments, I’ve increased hydration big time. Not only have I increased my water intake, I’ve amped up my moisturizing.

These sweaty days I’ve been refreshing with Ella’s Botanicals Lavender Bliss Hydrating Lotion. Avocado, coconut, sunflower, geranium, Vitamin E, and lavender oils hydrate the skin after each shower with an extra antioxidant kick of Japanese green tea. Ella’s Botanicals Hydrating Lotion is not greasy nor oily, which is a fantastic departure for me since my love affair with body oils has left many of my clothes stained.

Ella’s experience in herbal medicine and aromatherapy is leaving me sighing “ah” and relaxing anti-aging breaths each day. Lavender Bliss’s scent is just as superb as its moisture.

Hydrate with a sigh of relief HERE.

Lavender sprig illustration via Floating Lemons.

IN THE WILD

Shape House LA

This month, I have been house hopping and sweating a lot. I do yoga every day at Yoga House and getting a weekly sweat on at Shape House LA.

Shape House LA is an urban sweat lodge that is the exact opposite of our cliche visions of sweat lodges (does Arrested Development Season 4 come to mind?), it is a very chic, charcoal grey space with warming touches of orange and such a convivial staff.

At Shape House LA, you lay on a bed and are wrapped in a blanket that emits infrared light that is invisible to the eye and creates radiating heat without any skin damage (infrared light is not UV light). The radiating heat created then makes you sweat and also gives you a cardio workout similar to a very long jog because it raises your heart rate. While you are sweating it out, you are treated to your own flat screen tv equipped with Netflix (I of course watched the sweat lodge episode of Arrested Development), Hulu, and Ted Talks to keep you entertained during the 55 minutes, along with unlimited alkaline water and cool wet towels for your head.

After your session, you are escorted to the relaxation room with chilled orange slices and more alkaline water. Stay as long as you like and chat with other urban sweaters or just enjoy the solitude. There is no rush to leave.

Far infrared technology has shown to improve body injuries, lower blood pressure, improve blood circulation, relieve stress, relax, detox the body, burn calories, and result in soft, glowing skin. You know how I treasure glowing skin! After each session my muscles feel so relaxed and my mind is more sharp and focused…my mind isn’t in la la land like it is after spa treatments or a massage.

If you are in the Los Angeles area, definitely visit Shape House LA. You may catch me in the Relaxation Room!

Shape House LA

434 North Larchmont Blvd

Los Angeles, California 90004

323.467.3000

Last photo via Shape House LA

Mo-Jo

Sunscreen Prevents Aging

You saw it breaking all over the news yesterday…

Sunscreen prevents aging! Wow!

But, I’m sure you were already aware of the magic of sunscreen…unless you were living under a rock (which would be anti-aging as well) or you are Magda from There’s Something About Mary…

Me, snarky? Of course not….(wink)

TARGET ON

This Email Stopped Me In My Tracks

Late last week, I received an email from a Goddess Huntress reader that stopped me in my tracks and made Melanoma Awareness very, very real…

Hi I subscribe to your website. A week or so ago you put a contest about melanoma for Pinterest-of course I am trying to win but that’s not the reason I’m contacting you. Your email reminded me to go get my mole checked out on my upper thigh-I have been meaning to go to the dermatologist since my daughter was born in Dec 6, 2012. Needless to say time kept passing me by and I’d forget about it. I seen the pins and I called my dermatologist that day an got in right away. They performed a punch biopsy and he thought it was squamous cell caricinoma-fast forward today I got the call its melanoma. I went in today to get the rest cut out and pray it shows up clear. My scar is going to be 5″ long. Needless to say I’m scared, I’m 40 years old with 2 beautiful girls ages 4 and 6 months and a fantastic husband. I can’t but think of my stupidity when I was younger for tanning. They think we caught it early and I pray they are right. Thank you for posting this contest because it was a reminder for me to get my mole checked out.

-Samantha

On this last day of Melanoma Awareness month, let’s get on the phone and schedule our skin examinations with our doctors. Samantha and I highly suggest it. Check your moles (don’t forget your ears), get healthy sunscreen, and get protected.

Samantha can really use our hugs and cheers right now.

Please leave her a comment below or on the Goddess Huntress Facebook Page (I will notify her of your FB comments). Either her or I will be updating you on her status.

The GH Shop is donating 10% of each COOLA Suncare sale to the Melanoma Research Foundation in Samantha’s name during the month of May. Get protected!

Stationery via Hello! Lucky

GODDESS GOODIES | ON THE HUNT

Woodenspirations + Giveaway

I adore all wooden product design. Its grain soothes and is the perfect compliment to metal and glass. To me it just makes the product look so modern.

Here are a few items on my wooden beauty adore list. A couple of them I already own, love, and continue to adore (brush and iPhone skin). Listen up, remaining 3, I’d like to acquire you…like ASAP!

1/Woodchuck iPhone Wood Skin

2/Villeroy & Boch Wood Tray (use it as a vanity tray!)

3/Yukio Hashimoto Wooden Teacups (also can be used for cotton ball/swab storage)

4/Alima Pure #25 Foundation Brush

5/Tarte Maracuja C-Brighter Eye Treatment

I am giving away 2 Woodchuck iPhone cases (4/4S) to two lucky Goddess Huntress readers!

|Contest now closed| To win/In the comments below, share your favorite wooden item. This could be the tree you climbed as a child, a piece of furniture, the splinter you successfully removed, longboard skateboard, that rickety roller coaster…you get the idea!

(GH Newsletter subscribers gain automatic second entry upon commenting. If you haven’t signed up yet, do so HERE)

Winner will be announced here in this post on Wednesday, May 29th.

Winner update/Congratulations, Carris and Candi!!! I will email you both shortly!

After you submit your comment, check out Woodchuck’s Kickstarter campaign. They’ve got some sweet bonuses for your pledges!