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The Sweet and Salty Side of Exfoliating

As summer approaches, it’s time to exfoliate and rejuvenate skin!  With all the different scrubs on the market, how do you decide which scrub is right for your treatments?  Let your client’s skin type decide! Sugar Scrubs- If you have very sensitive skin, a sugar scrub is your best bet.  Sugar scrubs (like Scandle’s Hawaiian Raw [...]

Exfoliate Your Way to Healthier Skin

By now, the cold winter air has taken it’s toll on your skin leaving in dull and lifeless. Here’s a great skin treat get your glow back on until you can find the time and money to head out for that Spring Break Vacation on the beach!;) Scandle Get Your Glow on Treatment: This is [...]

Botox by Bike?

We all live in a day and age where convenience is king. But botox by bike really takes the cake! Apparently there is a new service being offered where Nurses will bring round the injections by bicycle or motorbike and party hosts are offered a discount on treatments if they can persuade up to five [...]

No Sweat, Do It Yourself BO Buster (Deodorant) Recipe

Spent all weekend dancing at The Dallas Salsa Congress and I swear I smelled some body odor that brought me to tears on the dancefloor!  I don’t know if some of these men could not afford deodorant or just chose not to wear it?  At any rate, I’m hoping it’s the first thing!  If that’s [...]

Focus on Tea Tree Oil

When my husband and I went for our honeymoon in Australia, I discovered an essential oil that I thought I knew a lot about but really didn’t – Tea Tree Oil.  It is one of the most popular and widely used essential oils, and with good reason. Because of it’s antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral and anticeptic [...]

Do It Yourself Botox? Don’t Do It!

I’m all about Do It Yourself (DIY) beauty! It’s fun and a lot of times can save you beaucoup bucks over having a professional do the service for you. However, there is one DIY beauty trend that I would never recommend…not even to my worst enemy (well, on second thought there are a few that [...]

Celebrate with an Avocado Face Mask

Happy Cinco de Mayo!  It’s time to pull out the chips, dip, and margarita Scandles : )  If you’re making homemade guacamole, why not use those leftover avocados for a moisturizing face mask? Try these quick, easy recipes for both dry and oily skin: Dry skin- You will need 1/2 of  an avocado, 1 tablespoon of [...]

Oatmeal…Not Just for Breakfast and Cookies

Last night I looked like I had been in a fight with a bowl of oatmeal and the oatmeal won! I have been suffering from dry skin patches on my face for the last few months.  I typically have oily skin but all the extreme weather fluctuations here in Texas over the last few months [...]

Recycled Roses

Now that we have passed the Valentine’s Day mayhem, you may be one of the lucky ones and received some flowers for this romantic holiday. If you did receive some roses from a secret admirer, do not let them go to waste! If you’re like me at all, I like to preserve my roses. It’s [...]

Winter Woes

Isn’t winter over yet? It seems like we’ve been stuck in this cold, dry and dreaded season for months now. The cold fronts and winter flurries certainly have not been very friendly. If it’s been winter for so long, can’t Mother Nature just take a break? The trees look dead, our dogs don’t want to [...]