You can be a better blogger.
Do visions of googlers finding your blog dance in your head???
Do you have lots to say and need a way to share your thoughts and information.
Have you recently made accomplishments with your own "secret" steps?? DO you long to share those with others???
YOU TOO can be a BLOGGER.
A few easy steps, the right focus and the right topics and you too can be Blogamous, a new word I just made up, it means Blogger FAMOUS!!!
Obviously I am still getting the hang of blogging..............
So, I've been doing my favorite thing, googling, researching ways to be a better blogger. I wanted to share this little nugget I found.
http://www.copyblogger.com/the-two-most-important-words-in-blogging/
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Check out these reviews of my make up!
http://alliesanswers.com/beauty/lisha-lynn-mineral-cosmetics-foundation-giveaway/2342
and
http://themoderngal.blogspot.com/2008/11/lisha-lynn-mineral-cosmetics.html
These are two fun blogs!!!!
and
http://themoderngal.blogspot.com/2008/11/lisha-lynn-mineral-cosmetics.html
These are two fun blogs!!!!
Reflecting
I was sitting in the car line outside the boys' school today. I was thinking I needed to blog! I haven't been able to come up with a) enough topics b) the time or c) the topic and the time together!
I love reflection time. My favorite time to do this is while I'm waiting in the car line because I'm by myself and there is nothing to distract me. I can't decide to go do laundry, check my email (no iphone for me!) or decide to do something else around the house or in my "lab."
I have been reading ALOT lately. I have so many things I want to know about and perfect in my life.
My current stack (literally, right here next to me) is The Out of Sync Child, The Sales Bible, Tribes, Bringing up Children without Tearing them down, The Best Life Diet, Carbohydrate Addicted Kids, Recipes for Carbo Addicted Kids, BIBLE, and The Little Green Book of Getting your way.
I think I have TOO much to think ABOUT!!! My friends have just started laughing when I say I'm reading a book on "that."
Today, it occured to me, what am I NOT reading about??? I read about health, nutrition, parenting, marriage, friendship, Christian living, and anything about cosmetics I can find!
So, that 's me and REFLECTING...
I also thought about this today about blogging: It's so funny that in college I wanted to write a column but my teacher said it needed more "something." Like it was too bland for a newspaper column. Even my reviews were only A- at best. FUNNY because THOUSANDS of people are making a LIVING writing very similiar "columns" and thoughts on the web only a few years later and I find a lot of them ALOT less interesting than myself!!! LOL
I know this is a random post but it's so typical for me to combine a bunch of stuff and relate it all together. That's just me.
I love reflection time. My favorite time to do this is while I'm waiting in the car line because I'm by myself and there is nothing to distract me. I can't decide to go do laundry, check my email (no iphone for me!) or decide to do something else around the house or in my "lab."
I have been reading ALOT lately. I have so many things I want to know about and perfect in my life.
My current stack (literally, right here next to me) is The Out of Sync Child, The Sales Bible, Tribes, Bringing up Children without Tearing them down, The Best Life Diet, Carbohydrate Addicted Kids, Recipes for Carbo Addicted Kids, BIBLE, and The Little Green Book of Getting your way.
I think I have TOO much to think ABOUT!!! My friends have just started laughing when I say I'm reading a book on "that."
Today, it occured to me, what am I NOT reading about??? I read about health, nutrition, parenting, marriage, friendship, Christian living, and anything about cosmetics I can find!
So, that 's me and REFLECTING...
I also thought about this today about blogging: It's so funny that in college I wanted to write a column but my teacher said it needed more "something." Like it was too bland for a newspaper column. Even my reviews were only A- at best. FUNNY because THOUSANDS of people are making a LIVING writing very similiar "columns" and thoughts on the web only a few years later and I find a lot of them ALOT less interesting than myself!!! LOL
I know this is a random post but it's so typical for me to combine a bunch of stuff and relate it all together. That's just me.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Complacent
I cannot stand complacency.
I gave an informational lecture to a class the other day about the safety of personal care products. They all stared back at me without an ounce of interest in their faces.
No one had any questions. No one laughed at my jokes. I tried to not let it bother me. BUT, it did. Why were these girls or women looking at me with such empty stares??
I came home and thought about it.
I figured it out...................they were complacent.
They were not happy to be where they were, at least not that day. They weren't excited about what they were doing there. They were going through the motions of another day and I just happened to show up in their lives this particular day.
How sad is that?? They should have been interested in what I had to say. Not just because I'm AWESOME, but because it pertains to the field of the career they have chosen. They should be interested in anything that gives their education more VALUE.
Complacency will not get you anywhere.
Let me say that again. Complacency will get you NOWHERE. As I told these ladies, you have to take the circumstances in your life and manipulate them for motivation. If you don't, you will be complacent. And while that may work for today, at the end of your life, you'll wish you had DONE something. Take what frustrates you, whether it is a person, a product, a company or whatever and DO something with that. Become a person of action. Do what creates meaning for you.
I gave an informational lecture to a class the other day about the safety of personal care products. They all stared back at me without an ounce of interest in their faces.
No one had any questions. No one laughed at my jokes. I tried to not let it bother me. BUT, it did. Why were these girls or women looking at me with such empty stares??
I came home and thought about it.
I figured it out...................they were complacent.
They were not happy to be where they were, at least not that day. They weren't excited about what they were doing there. They were going through the motions of another day and I just happened to show up in their lives this particular day.
How sad is that?? They should have been interested in what I had to say. Not just because I'm AWESOME, but because it pertains to the field of the career they have chosen. They should be interested in anything that gives their education more VALUE.
Complacency will not get you anywhere.
Let me say that again. Complacency will get you NOWHERE. As I told these ladies, you have to take the circumstances in your life and manipulate them for motivation. If you don't, you will be complacent. And while that may work for today, at the end of your life, you'll wish you had DONE something. Take what frustrates you, whether it is a person, a product, a company or whatever and DO something with that. Become a person of action. Do what creates meaning for you.
Finding Value
Right now everyone seems to be looking for value in everything from the things we buy to the actions we repeat everyday. We want meaning, we want value.
We are asking: What value do we feel we have in our lives?
When it seems the bottom is falling out or the *stuff* is hitting the fan, we re-evaluate the choices we make. Now we realize what we had been focusing on may not have been the most important............
Wake up calls like the one our country is in are usually somewhat short-lived - think 9/11. But, if we use the wake up call wisely we can put more VALUE back into our lives.
RE-EVALUATE
MAKE CHANGES
FOCUS on being VALUABLE to others
FOCUS on having VALUE in your own life
FOCUS on finding VALUE in everything
We are asking: What value do we feel we have in our lives?
When it seems the bottom is falling out or the *stuff* is hitting the fan, we re-evaluate the choices we make. Now we realize what we had been focusing on may not have been the most important............
Wake up calls like the one our country is in are usually somewhat short-lived - think 9/11. But, if we use the wake up call wisely we can put more VALUE back into our lives.
RE-EVALUATE
MAKE CHANGES
FOCUS on being VALUABLE to others
FOCUS on having VALUE in your own life
FOCUS on finding VALUE in everything
Monday, September 8, 2008
What's on my mind
I've been thinking organic thoughts lately! What do I mean by that??? I have been doing lots of reading about products that offer us a more natural alternative but still perform. It is difficult to find products in regular stores (around where I live anyway) that consider the ecological effects, health effects or cumulative effects of the products.
Today's blog is for the beginners in this arena! I just want to use this blog to inform regular moms like myself who want to look out for the health of their families and friends, and of course, anyone else who is researching ingredients and product safety.
It doesn't take much googling to find "dangers" related to PARABENS, petro-chemicals, talc, mineral oil, silicones and pthalates. So, unless you are already a "granola" type person or big into researching skin care products, you probably don't know what these things are or why they might be dangerous.
I'm including an excerpt from an email that I sent out to my customers. I make my own brand of mineral makeup, Lisha Lynn. That's how I got started in the beauty of health and the health of my beauty products.
Here it is:
These days we have a product for everything: cleanse, condition, tone, firm, deep conditioning, soften and so on. While there are benefits from these types of products, we may be getting MORE than we bargained for:
carcinogens, reproductive disruptors, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, plasticizers, surfactants and degreasers. Betcha didn't see that listed on the bottle!
There are many ingredients with potential for harm, but I'll just start with a few here today.
PARABENS - (Preservatives used in just about everything from makeup, lotions, deodorants, toothpastes, and even food. Researchers have proven that parabens, used as a preservative is a known endocrine disruptor, as it has estrogenic properties. Traces of parabens have actually been found in breast cancer tissue. As around 57% of cosmetic products contain penetration enhancers such as urea, this can drive any potentially harmful ingredients quickly into the blood stream. Cosmetic ingredients do not sit on the surface of the skin - they are designed to penetrate, therefore, while it may seem that we are using all of these ingredients at safe levels, it is likely that we are being overexposed each day, by the fact that we layer products on our skin - if all of this is absorbed, then the concentration would be anything but safe to our bodies.
While there is no link that the parabens pose a risk of causing development of cancer tissues - it does show that paraben remains in the body tissues unmetabolised, therefore leading to overexposure. Further studies may at a later date, make this link. It is certain that many parabens have an estrogenic affect on the body, but it has not been made clear if this is in a high enough concentration to cause damage to the tissue.
PETROLEUM Products -potential carcinogens. Trace contaminants are usually found in petroleum based ingredients which are readily absorbed by the skin, and this is due to the use of ingredients which have been used without testing for any potential contamination. Or it may be that the ingredients meet the FDA standards of 1 part per 10,000,000. This may be so for that particular ingredient - but then add it in with another 5 ingredients in the same product with the same levels!
DIOXANE
Consumers need to beware of products potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane (Diethylene Oxide). 1,4 Dioxane is a trace contaminant of some chemicals used in cosmetics, detergents, and shampoos.
(blog.wellness-shop.com)
Being a carcinogenic ingredient, it can also affect the kidneys & liver and cause nasal irritation when the vapor is inhaled from showering or laundering. What really is SCARY is DIOXANE 1,4 is found in high levels in the childrens products tested by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. (See their website for more information) Furthermore, this can be in a mixture of different products, and the risks associated are not worth gambling with.
Beware of these dioxane related ingredients: "PEG," "polyethylene," "polyethylene glycol," "polyoxyethylene," "polyethoxyethylene," or "polyoxynolethylene", -eth-" (such as sodium laureth sulfate), "oxynol" "ceteareth," or "oleth.". (blog.wellness-shop.com/wellness/Cosmetic-Ingredient-Safety.html)
Mineral Oil
Mineral oil is actually a petroleum by product, and is a mixture of refined hydro carbons. It leaves a coating on the surface of the skin, almost like plastic, and is renowned for the fact that it blocks the pores of the skin, preventing the release of toxins from the skin, causing acne and infection.
And one more reason to use Lisha Lynn Makeup: I do not use Bismuth Oxychloride like the huge mineral companies do!!
Bismuth is known as synthetic pearl, but occurs in the earths crust. Many bismuth compounds used in cosmetics have a low toxicity when ingested, but do have a very high potential to cause allergic reaction when used externally on the skin. In 1992, the FDA placed a ban on the use of Bismuth in fever blister & and cold sore treatments as it was not as safe as had been claimed.
Today's blog is for the beginners in this arena! I just want to use this blog to inform regular moms like myself who want to look out for the health of their families and friends, and of course, anyone else who is researching ingredients and product safety.
It doesn't take much googling to find "dangers" related to PARABENS, petro-chemicals, talc, mineral oil, silicones and pthalates. So, unless you are already a "granola" type person or big into researching skin care products, you probably don't know what these things are or why they might be dangerous.
I'm including an excerpt from an email that I sent out to my customers. I make my own brand of mineral makeup, Lisha Lynn. That's how I got started in the beauty of health and the health of my beauty products.
Here it is:
These days we have a product for everything: cleanse, condition, tone, firm, deep conditioning, soften and so on. While there are benefits from these types of products, we may be getting MORE than we bargained for:
carcinogens, reproductive disruptors, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, plasticizers, surfactants and degreasers. Betcha didn't see that listed on the bottle!
There are many ingredients with potential for harm, but I'll just start with a few here today.
PARABENS - (Preservatives used in just about everything from makeup, lotions, deodorants, toothpastes, and even food. Researchers have proven that parabens, used as a preservative is a known endocrine disruptor, as it has estrogenic properties. Traces of parabens have actually been found in breast cancer tissue. As around 57% of cosmetic products contain penetration enhancers such as urea, this can drive any potentially harmful ingredients quickly into the blood stream. Cosmetic ingredients do not sit on the surface of the skin - they are designed to penetrate, therefore, while it may seem that we are using all of these ingredients at safe levels, it is likely that we are being overexposed each day, by the fact that we layer products on our skin - if all of this is absorbed, then the concentration would be anything but safe to our bodies.
While there is no link that the parabens pose a risk of causing development of cancer tissues - it does show that paraben remains in the body tissues unmetabolised, therefore leading to overexposure. Further studies may at a later date, make this link. It is certain that many parabens have an estrogenic affect on the body, but it has not been made clear if this is in a high enough concentration to cause damage to the tissue.
PETROLEUM Products -potential carcinogens. Trace contaminants are usually found in petroleum based ingredients which are readily absorbed by the skin, and this is due to the use of ingredients which have been used without testing for any potential contamination. Or it may be that the ingredients meet the FDA standards of 1 part per 10,000,000. This may be so for that particular ingredient - but then add it in with another 5 ingredients in the same product with the same levels!
DIOXANE
Consumers need to beware of products potentially contaminated with 1,4 Dioxane (Diethylene Oxide). 1,4 Dioxane is a trace contaminant of some chemicals used in cosmetics, detergents, and shampoos.
(blog.wellness-shop.com)
Being a carcinogenic ingredient, it can also affect the kidneys & liver and cause nasal irritation when the vapor is inhaled from showering or laundering. What really is SCARY is DIOXANE 1,4 is found in high levels in the childrens products tested by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. (See their website for more information) Furthermore, this can be in a mixture of different products, and the risks associated are not worth gambling with.
Beware of these dioxane related ingredients: "PEG," "polyethylene," "polyethylene glycol," "polyoxyethylene," "polyethoxyethylene," or "polyoxynolethylene", -eth-" (such as sodium laureth sulfate), "oxynol" "ceteareth," or "oleth.". (blog.wellness-shop.com/wellness/Cosmetic-Ingredient-Safety.html)
Mineral Oil
Mineral oil is actually a petroleum by product, and is a mixture of refined hydro carbons. It leaves a coating on the surface of the skin, almost like plastic, and is renowned for the fact that it blocks the pores of the skin, preventing the release of toxins from the skin, causing acne and infection.
And one more reason to use Lisha Lynn Makeup: I do not use Bismuth Oxychloride like the huge mineral companies do!!
Bismuth is known as synthetic pearl, but occurs in the earths crust. Many bismuth compounds used in cosmetics have a low toxicity when ingested, but do have a very high potential to cause allergic reaction when used externally on the skin. In 1992, the FDA placed a ban on the use of Bismuth in fever blister & and cold sore treatments as it was not as safe as had been claimed.
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