The most popular articles that I’ve published are about facial bone maintenance and rejuvenation. Bone maintenance is an important lifelong endeavor for optimal health. Facial bone maintenance may help retain facial characteristics over time. Facial bone loss is well documented and is the culprit behind my pesky eye wrinkles as a result of orbital bone loss. No lotion or cream will eliminate skin wrinkles that are due to bone loss. Fillers? Hard pass. Wolf’s Law describes the potential to build bone but to do so, the body needs the right ingredients to support bone formation or ossification. Bone remodeling requires a healthy biochemistry to support regeneration. Early research shows that creatine is beneficial for skin AND bone health.
Mewing - a Mandatory Posture for Optimum Health and a Balanced Facial Profile by Deborah Tosline
Mewing is a mouth posture invented by Dr. Mike Mew that maintains closed lips, uses constant nose breathing and rests the tongue against the roof of the mouth to develop healthy facial posture. Mewing propels the bottom jaw forward to develop a healthy facial profile that promotes straight teeth alignment, supports the nose and cheeks, widens the upper jaw and provides access to a full airway for better breathing. I began mewing in 2019 and continue to this day.
My DIY Skin and Facial Care Path by Deborah Tosline
My foray into advanced DIY facial care evolved slowly. I had little spare time and money and I integrated new DIY practices into my routine when I was able. Today, I am addicted to my own facial care products. Yes, I love them all, the DIY toners, creams, lotions, deodorants. Love, love, love. I don’t know, on some level it feels like I nurture myself deeply with these beautiful DIY nature-based skin care products and practices.
The True Cost of Making a Luxury DIY Skin Care Cream by Deborah Tosline
Over the decades most of my DIY skin moisturizing needs involved adding vitamins, nutraceuticals, and advanced, active, skin care ingredients to retail creams. I gravitated towards products that contained basic pure ingredients. The DIY approach fit my slim pocketbook and desire for luxury skin care. I rarely used body creams and lotions; I did not like them… too many chemicals. I used a lot of raw oils. In recent years, I began making emulsified creams and while it has been a simple chemistry experiment, I’ve had mixed results, until recently.
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DIY Relax Facial Muscles with peptides GABA, Argireline®, Leuphasyl®, and Vialox by Deborah Tosline
My primary focus is to find a way to relax my constantly micro-contracted forehead muscles. Do you know what I mean?
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My Atrophic Scar Turned Me into a DIY Facial Cupping Massage Convert by Deborah Tosline
Cupping therapy is an ancient practice that has been used for thousands of years in China, Egypt and Middle Eastern cultures. Based on my personal experience, a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) facial cupping massage is an easy, inexpensive treatment that may be used to increase circulation, loosen stiff facial fascia and muscles, promote facial lymphatic drainage, reduce inflammation and treat scars.
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Facial Design, Will you Live with a Smile or a Frown? by Deborah Tosline
Considering the times, it may be beneficial to learn how a smile expression can be a daily go-to expression or resting expression that can trigger the brain to promote happiness feelings.
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Aloe Vera for Effective, Economical, Collagen Boosting Skin Care by Deborah Tosline
What could be easier, less expensive and environmentally sustainable than picking an Aloe vera leaf, opening it and slathering it on your face as a makeup remover, toner, active ingredient, collagen promoting, ailment reducing gel.
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The Constant Waste Stream and Plastic Packaging Chain of the Beauty Supply Industry - Waste Management Begins with You by Deborah Tosline
There are many reasons why I “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) skin care products: I strive to reduce my exposure to synthetic chemicals and the uncertainty of skincare products, have a preference for high quality ingredients, like to reduce costs and not the least of which I try to reduce the waste that I personally generate on a daily basis.
Sugar… So Good, So Bad – Glucose, Aging and Skin Glycation by Deborah Tosline
Skin glycation causes lasting damage. No cream will protect your skin from glycation like a few new habits will. Prevent it, reduce it, and keep your skin healthy (=beautiful). If you have eschewed a healthy lifestyle but you want beautiful skin throughout your life, skin glycation may be your new incentive.
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One-Year Later: Natural Methods to Smooth Forehead Muscles for Results that Look and Feel Amazing by Deborah Tosline
In May 2018, I wrote about my practices to release tension in my forehead fascia and muscles to naturally maintain a smooth forehead. Read the 2018 article here. This article provides an update and describes the methods that I currently use for forehead skin and muscle rejuvenation.
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Beautiful Skin begins with Vitamin A Almost Every Night and Vitamin C Every Morning by Deborah Tosline
Whether you are a skin care enthusiast or minimalist you may achieve dramatic results following a simple skin care regime of applying vitamin A almost every night and vitamin C every morning to face and neck skin.
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New Year – New You, DIY Your 2019 Desires with Holistic Health and Skincare by Deborah Tosline
Hello! Here we are at the end of 2018 with the fresh New Year only minutes away! Once again, I summarize some of my favorite routines, tools and techniques for healthy skin because they continue to be effective! Its time to ditch some “products” and treatments, save some hard earned bank, reduce waste, promote personal health and reduce synthetic chemical exposure by avoiding processed foods and material goods that are easily replaced with whole natural products straight from the Earth. No doubt, some pre-made stuff is worth buying but rampant consumerism is a burden and appears to be hazardous to the planet and us all.
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Why I Extreme DIY and Don’t Buy, Buy, Buy: Do-It-Yourself for Health, Wealth, and Beauty by Deborah Tosline
I’ve saved tens of thousands of dollars and believe that I am using premium DIY skincare practices. Periodically, I’ll use an expensive cream or serum however, after decades of DIY, I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by DIY skincare.
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