Posts under Tag: peppermint oil
Swollen, Dry Heels – Use a Bandaid or Heel Vitality Balm?

I recently spent a few days at a trade show and conference where I had the dubious pleasure of walking for hours upon hours each day. By the end of the show my feel were swollen and sore, and I had a blister on each foot. And because at the end of each day I stumbled into my hotel room [...]

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Essential Oils – essential to healthy feet this winter

Heel Vitality is an advanced heel and foot therapy that is delivered in solid form for easy application, and packaged in a convenient, non-mess container. The ingredients are all natural, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal essential oils and carrier oils in an organic beeswax base. The resulting topical is a smooth, soothing balm with a comforting fragrance that softens and heals feet, [...]

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Do it yourself dry, cracked heel cure?

Your grandma or her grandma probably had a homemade cure for … well, for just about anything. Back before computers there weren’t even televisions, and before that laundry and dishes were all washed by hand, all food was made from scratch, and you just sometimes had to figure things out for yourself. So, granny would put a bit of clear [...]

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What Walking Can Do for your Health

I appear to be blogging about walking and running this week, so to continue the trend, today I’m going to reference another terrific blog post I found – it’s a podiatry center’s blog (read the post here) and they go into detail about the many health benefits of walking. Since I’ve now started to walk regularly (not daily … just [...]

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The sweet smell of essential oils – how it can effect your mood

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” ~Helen Keller The olfactory system, which senses and processes odors, is associated with the limbic system, one of the oldest parts of the human brain. Among our senses, only taste and smell are chemical, and only smell has a unique tie [...]

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Break the addiction?

I realized today that I am completely addicted to Heel Vitality! I love the feel, I love the scent, and I absolutely cannot do without the way it softens and moisturizes my poor, much-ignored feet. And because I am also incapable of passing up a cute shoe, no matter how bad it might be for me, I am lucky I [...]

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Killer High Heels and You

OK Ladies, be honest … how many times have you put on the perfect pair of killer high heels, knowing all you were going to do all day was sit at your desk, only to find out you have to spend most of the day on your feet? Ouch! You look awesome, but by the end of the work day [...]

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Peppermint Essential Oil – how it soothes dry, cracked heels

I want to focus today on Peppermint essential oil – one of my favorite oils. From a scientific standpoint, peppermint oil is: Botanical Name: Mentha piperita Common Method Of Extraction: Steam distilled Parts Used: Flowering plant Perfumery Note Classification: Top Aroma: Initially strong, fresh, very minty, herbaceous, with a vegetative back note Largest Producing Countries: Hungary, USA, and Egypt Peppermint [...]

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How Hiking Harms Heels

I read an article today about how wearing the wrong shoes or overdoing it on a hike can really make your feet sore. With summer around the corner, lots of people will be hiking and walking all over the place, and so I wanted to mention that one of the essential oils in Heel Vitality — Peppermint Oil – has [...]

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