Everyone wants to have those luscious locks that we see everywhere from Hollywood starlets to glossy magazine ads (even though most of those commercialized gorgeous heads of hair are not even real hair…can we say, extensions?). Regardless of what drastic measures modern society has taken to achieve beautiful hair, having a healthy head of your [...]
After many months, we are proud to introduce our “Tea with Lemon & Honey Sugar Body Scrub“. Here at G.B.’s we’ve been playing around with the idea of an exfoliating shower/bath scrub for awhile. After all, we know darn well that exfoliation is one of the most important steps you can take to maintain soft [...]
What does the toothpaste you used this morning, the sandwich you had for lunch and the face cream you used before bed all have in common? Well unless you are vigilant about what you put in and on your body they’re most likely to be preserved by a myriad of the synthetic preservatives that we [...]
Eggs, oatmeal and bananas aren’t just great staples of a healthy breakfast, they’re also awesome beautifying treatments that can provide an easy and convenient beauty experience while helping your face look more vibrant and young! It just makes sense, when you consider, these simple and readily available ingredients (in the below listed recipes) and how [...]
We’ve decide that Jojoba Oil just doesn’t get all the credit that it deserves. With all the fancy synthetic moisturizers out there there is little room for a natural oil that does a better job! This exceptional “oil” (it’s really a wax) has been used by native cultures for hundreds of years for it’s moisturizing [...]
Happy New Year everyone! It’s been quite a year for us here at G.B. Proudfoot’s and we’re so excited for 2011. Feedback on our products has been tremendous and it’s always nice to know that people are enjoying and finding value in our products. We really owe our success to our customers, those who were [...]
Why spend money on over-commercialized, preservative-ridden beauty products when simplified beauty regimes and treatments can easily be made by yourself from the comfort of your own kitchen. Through such basic recipes and by way of common, healthful ingredients anyone can whip up simplified beauty recipes that will yield impressive natural results. For any beauty regime, [...]
What’s up with nanoparticles and their effects on our bodies and health? Well nobody seems to know and that’s the problem. We do know that they are increasingly being used in cosmetics and body care products and you may want to start looking out for them on your labels. Almost 10,000 times smaller than the [...]
Once again the G.B. Proudfoot’s team was a welcomed guest on the popular “Healthy House Call Radio Show” on KFNX 1100 AM. It was a lively chat where the panel of experts discussed the negative impact that unnatural and commercialized body care products can have on our bodies. The group discussed parabens, fragrances, and preservatives [...]
The potential toxins that we can find in most mass marketed body care products are really broken down into four basic groups: carcinogens, penetration enhancers, allergens, and hormone (endocrine) disruptors. Hormone disruptors are perhaps the least recognized for their ill effects but as a growing body of evidence shows, they should not be ignored or [...]
