The Beauty of Balance

Author: Mooreganics  //  Category: natural skin products

Nature, in all its incredibly magnificent forms, willingly devotes itself to our good health and pleasure.

Pure water, earth, plants, minerals, the ocean…offers human beings healing, comfort, shelter, and everything we need to live comfortably. Skilled doctors and surgeons compliment nature with their ability to heal. Add exercise, massage, acupuncture, and other healing arts, and we have a recipe for abundance and well-being that harmonizes with the natural balance of human beings and the planet.

Living is often hard, exhausting work. Physical labor tones, strengthens, detoxifies, and keeps our bodies working optimally. Long ago life was very physical. Then our brains devised ways to give us more free time, ease, and rest – something we can all appreciate! The problem came when people started substituting artificial, synthetic chemicals for nature in the entire scheme of things to get faster and more aggressive results. Instead of backbreaking work, weeds can be killed with herbicides and pesticides. Pesky bugs can be exterminated with insecticides. We can eat junk food and take synthetic pills to make us feel better. We can waylay sickness by killing germs on countertops with strong, lab-generated chemicals. This brings us to the Bad News, Equation #1:

Synthetic drugs, known to be toxic and degenerate health, build up in the human body, accumulate in the vast oceans and lakes where they are magnified in the fish we eat, collect in the soil where we grow our crops, and in the fresh water that we drink. Constant contaminant poisoning has been linked to the development of asthma, cancer, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalances, diabetes, obesity, and more. Our bodies just don’t know what to do with the junk. We might get quicker results, but the question to ask is what quality of life are we living?

We were made from the dust of the earth. From out of the earth comes the ingredients we need to stay healthy. It’s true, and it makes sense. For so long we have trusted companies to create safe, quality, healthful products and food. Now we’re not sure who to trust. Companies tell us their products are safe, and even spend billions of dollars in advertising to prove it: beautiful, witty, fun-loving people enjoying life to the extreme using their products, drugs, or eating their food. And the health fanatics are – well, just weird!

Or are they? Perhaps we’ve gotten so far away from living close to the earth that we can’t understand those doing it.

Miessence – an advant-garde company formulating beautiful, clean, potent products from nature that make you think twice about the chemicals you’re using.

Go into your bathroom and take a look at the labels on the following products: toothpaste, mouthwash, body wash, bar soap, hand soap, deodorant, lotion, and body powder. Do they sound like ingredients from nature or from a lab? You’ll have to be savvy because many companies hide artificial ingredients in words that sound like nature, but are actually chemically derived. Also, the word ‘natural’ allows plant ingredients to be genetically-modified, and grown with the application of toxic chemicals. And if the fragrance smells like no mango or coconut you’ve ever smelled before, it’s probably fake. Then remember that your skin is the body’s largest organ, and that it absorbs all the ingredients you rub onto it. Even the fumes can be dangerous.

Now, take a look at these pure ingredients in the same products made gently and respectfully by Miessence: certified organic (co) aloe vera leaf juice, (co) essential oils and extracts, (co) avocado and sunflower seed oils, (co) shea fruit butter, (co) coconut oil, white kaolin clay, sea salt…

Sound different? And the side-effects of using ingredients straight from unspoiled nature soothe, comfort, revitalise, restore, and beautify – naturally!

Miessence has made the process of utilising nature simple for you – without the nasty chemicals and backbreaking, physical labor! And it wasn’t that difficult. We’ve put together a Healthy Bathroom Changeover Pack at 20% off the retail price for the month of July. So many vibrant, fresh ingredients waiting to work their magic on you!

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Warning – Chemical Minefield Ahead

Author: Mooreganics  //  Category: natural skin products

Are you a product loving consumer? Who doesn’t enjoy a nice, refreshing shower or bath, lotions and creams and potions and deodorant that make us feel and smell good, hair products that cause our hair to shine and behave in a way air drying doesn’t – except for those born under a lucky star. And that’s before cosmetics ever touch the face. Like Santa’s reindeer there’s Blusher and Concealer and Glosser and Lotion, Polish and Fragrance and Shadow and Bronzer… And unless you’re using the purest products on the planet, i.e. miessence body and skin products, then you’re most likely absorbing a minefield of health compromising chemicals in the effort to look and feel beautiful.

Here are some of the alarming facts about the average number of chemicals found in everyday personal care products, including some of the worst offenders:

Product Chemicals Most worrying chemicals & some of their effects
Shampoo: 15 Sodium Lauryl Sulphate; Tetrasodium and Propbylene Glycol – possible eye damage
Eye Shadow: 26 Polythylene terephthalate – linked to cancer
Lipstick: 33 Polymenthyl methacrylate – also linked to cancer
Nail Varnish: 31 Phthalates – linked to fertility issues and problems in developing babies
Perfume: 250 Benzaldehyde – linked to kidney damage
Fake Tan: 22 Ethyl/Methyl/Propylparabens – possible hormonal disruption
Hairspray: 11 Octinoxate, Isophthalates – possible hormonal disruption, linked to change in cell structure
Blusher: 16 Ethyl/Methyl/Propylparabens – possible hormonal disruptions
Foundation: 24 Polymethyl methacrylates – possibly disrupts immune system, linked to cancer
Deodorant: 15 Isopropyl Myristate, ‘Parfum’ – possible respiratory problems
Body Lotion: 32 Methyl/Propylparabens, Polyethylene Glycol, also found in oven cleaners – possible hormonal disruption

If you did your math, you discovered that after your nice shower or bath that’s supposed to cleanse you of waste, dirt and pollution, you could be adding up to 475 toxic chemicals to your body! And remember, your skin absorbs what’s put on it. And that’s just after one shower or bath. Most of us apply lotions and lipstick and other products throughout the day, and wash it all off at the end of the day, and then reapply the lotions and potions and creams. Unfortunately, many of the absorbed, potentially toxic chemicals aren’t flushed out of the body, so they build up day after day, year after year, compromising your health.

That’s the bad news – here’s the good news

The good news is that miessence doesn’t contain ANY toxic manmade, synthetic chemicals – not ONE! Every product is vital and pure. But they do have side-effects: soothing, restoring and beautifying skin and hair, evening skin tone, adding a rosy blush to cheeks… Beauty the way it used to be…
Beauty the way to still can be… Beauty the way it should be… That’s miessence!

Learn more about chemicals you need to stay far away from by visiting the miessence website. Your body will thank you!


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Nature in a Bottle

Author: Mooreganics  //  Category: Botanical Perfume, Essential Oils

It is our pledge to you that miessence products will always be created using raw, organic, whole-food and vegan principles. We haven’t jumped on the bandwagon of incorporating organic ingredients into our formulas because everyone else is doing it and it’s now big business. And we haven’t just turned natural and organic for the same reasons, because savvy customers now know what’s good for them and care about their planet. miessence has and always will provide customers with body, health and home products from the purest organic sources possible. We created the first certified organic skin care range in the world, and we will always maintain the highest principles possible.

So where do we still find pure, uncontaminated botanicals in this ever-increasing toxic world?

Our shea butter comes from Ghana. Women hunt and gather the only fair-trade, organic shea nuts in the world. The butter is hand-kneaded in baskets hand-woven for that very purpose.

Frankincense hails from Somalia. Providing frankincense essential oil for miessence supplements the semi-nomadic Samburu’s income. The valuable resin is collected from the Boswelia bush and transported by donkeys.

Cinnamon and Clove Essential Oils and Tamanu Oil come from Madagascar. Our Fair-trade suppliers organized a mobile still to steam distil oils so farmers in Madagascar can receive fair wage from their crops.

Our new, certified organic, hand-blended botanical perfumes are the latest editions to our miessence range that embody our high standards of purity. Because, really, what smells better than nature?

I’d Like to See the Perfumes

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Toxics in your body

Author: Mooreganics  //  Category: Life in general

Here is an interesting graphic showing how toxins outside our bodies infiltrate various areas of our bodies.  Click here.

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