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cracked lips

3 Ways to Heal Cracked Lips

dry lips
There is nothing worse than cracked dry lips especially if you wear lipstick or need a good smootch. It’s not cute and can be painful. The good thing is your lips are just like the skin on the rest of your body although thinner and can heal quickly. Cracked dry lips can come from:
  1. Licking them too much
Constantly licking your lips in dry or especially cold weather drys them even more even if at first it helps.
  1. Dehydration
We’ve all heard the same mantra, DRINK MORE Water! But it is true. Because the skin on the lips is so thin, they are some of the first places a lack of water will show up.
  1. Exposure to Sun with no sunscreen
The skin of your lips have to be exfoliated and moisturized just like your body. To heal your lips and get them satiny smooth and kissable these products will do the trick. White Tea & Citrus Satin Lips® Set $22 A picture containing diagram

Description automatically generated Step 1. Exfoliate the lips with a gentle scrub is just enough to wipe away loose dry skin and smooth the lips. The pleasant tea and citrus tastes great. Step 2. Once the scrub is washed away, the lip balm will moisturize the lips with shea butter. This set is all you need to fix dry lips and keep them soft and sexy. Lipstick is another moisturizer that has sunscreen and is the third way to heal your lips TimeWise® Age-Fighting Lip Primer $25.00 Graphical user interface, website

Description automatically generated This TimeWise Age-Fighting Lip Primer not only moisturizes lips but guards against small wrinkles and lines from forming. Your lipstick will stay on for hours to protect your lips from the elements and will keep yoryrur lipstick from feathering around your lips due to dryness and lines .

Madonna Hands

3 Ways to Stop your Hands From Showing Your Age

Madonna Hands

Look at your hands. Do they look as good as your face? Unfortunately, too many of us spend a lot of money and time on our face, neck, and body. What about our hands? As you see in the picture above, Madonna’s hands give away her age, hands down no pun intended.
So how do our hands start to age?

1. Sun damage that causes those annoying dark spots.
2. Dry creepy skin that usually is caused by using harsh chemicals.
3. Stained nails and old manicures that have brittle nails showing.
4. Lack of a daily skin care routine for your hands.
So here is the perfect way to start a routine to give your hands just as much attention as you give the rest of your body to keep them smooth, soft, and sexy.

Step 1: Protect and Prepare
Fragrance-Free Satin Hands® Protecting Softener helps support the skin barrier, sealing in precious moisture. This fragrance-free formula moisturizes and protects skin, preparing hands for a stimulating spa experience. Massage into hands prior to using the refining shea scrub.

Step 2: Refine and Polish
White Tea & Citrus Satin Hands® Satin Smoothie® Refining Shea Scrub gently yet effectively exfoliates skin, polishing away dull and dry areas. Hands instantly look healthier after one application, and with daily use, they look rejuvenated and revitalized. Blended with luscious shea butter, this scrub instantly reveals noticeably smoother-looking skin as it buffs away dirt and impurities and leaves hands feeling softer. As part of the Satin Hands® regimen, apply the refining shea scrub after the protecting softener, gently massaging into hands before rinsing away.

Step 3: Nourish and Soothe
Pamper hands with the creamy comfort of White Tea & Citrus Satin Hands® Nourishing Shea Cream. It not only wraps skin in instant hydration, but it also is clinically shown to moisturize skin for 24 hours. Feel dryness disappear as this shea butter-infused cream instantly melts into skin and leaves hands feeling soft and noticeably smoother. Hands feel soothed and continue to feel moisturized even after washing.

The nourishing shea cream is a satiny spa experience that provides instant relief from dryness, so hands look rejuvenated. With regular use, cuticles and nails feel conditioned, and cuticles are softer and look healthier. It absorbs quickly, so hands won’t feel sticky, and it leaves a protective barrier on skin for long-lasting softness. During a consumer study, nine out of 10 women said their hands felt nourished and instantly felt soft, smooth and moisturized.

These results for these products were based on an independent consumer study in which 52 women used the product once a day for seven days.



Due to increased hand washing all day I use this soap in between pampering my hands. Multiple washing up without drying out! Treat your hands to new Fragrance-Free Satin Hands® Shea Hand Soap, blended with moisturizing, nourishing shea butter.
This cute size fits easily into your purse or pocket and Helps soothe your skin without sacrificing effective germ-killing power. Satin Hands® Shea Hand Sanitizer takes hand care to the next level, featuring a quadruple blend of moisturizing ingredients so you can clean and sanitize your hands while soothing skin.

Click on the products and get everything you need to fight aging skin on your hands and keep them as sexy and healthy as the rest of your body.
 


The Business of Life

Have you ever thought of your life as a business? Most of us have not but when you really think about it, it could be a very effective way to live. So you might say how can you think of your life as a business? When you take a very simplified look, a business solves a problem (service) or sells a product. But in order for that to happen there are many factors that take place before the “business” can happen. Deciding what the business will be, who the customers are, what it will be called, how will a profit be determined, how will it be brought to market, it goes on and on.

The same type of factors are also applicable to your life and how you live it. Who are you? What makes you happy, how do you fund your lifestyle, who are your friends and family and how do you protect your health? Make sense now? There are many decisions that you make daily that impact how you are living your life and the value to yourself and others it has. Of course your life is more important than a business but it has many of the same working parts that fit together. Finance, marketing, and projections work similarly.

Those of us that are business owners can better understand our own lives the same way and use this perspective to improve our own service or product to better fit the needs of our customers and to help them to improve their lives. Therefore, the title of this piece, the business of life is the life of your business becomes more understandable and is the subject I will explore in all of my upcoming articles.

As a business owner and consultant I have decided that I want to help others build stronger personal lives which helps to build stronger businesses. I will identify all the facets of business that can help you to take a closer look at life in general. Maybe you should start a business or maybe you can improve your current business by learning new perspectives.

Loving your life and yourself can only lead to having more abundance in every sense of the word. Follow me on twitter @toniyodom for daily inspiration and tips and catch this post every week to start making the business of life be the life of your business!