Health Blog

Yes - dogs, cats, horses and other pet animals can all suffer from hemorrhoids, caused by too much pressure in the rectum brought on by sitting for too long, by constipation or by straining to make a bowel movement.

It can be so tempting just to jump into bed at night without a thought as to taking some care of your precious skin.

But it is never too late to establish a better and consistent routine for looking after your skin.

If you can get into a good habit of ensuring a regular night time routine, you will reap the benefits for your skin when you wake up the next morning and beyond.

Our ideal is to have is to have shiny, healthy hair with plenty of new growth.

The good news is that there are some essential oils that can help to naturally thicken the hair by stimulating the hair follicles and these include Lavender Essential Oil which will strengthen the hair by balancing estrogen levels. 

We share a host of other ideas too.

Cellulite and Stretch Marks are two different skin conditions appearing on the body but can sometimes be confused.  While cellulite appears as dimpled skin, stretch marks are indented streaks on the skin that usually start out as pink, red or purple and then fade to white.

Although we all love the summer months, the dryness and warmth can bring some challenges for the skin on our faces and bodies and even lead to cracked heels.

We share some suggestions on how to help...

Insomnia in the modern world seems to be a growing problem with sufferers struggling to fall asleep at night - and then perhaps waking up every hour to check the bedside clock and countdown the minutes until the morning.

We share some helpful suggestions by sleep experts...

Sleep inertia is the name given to that discomfort you can feel when you wake up feeling even more tired than when you went to bed or even when you have a good night's sleep, you still wake up feeling sluggish, disoriented and grumpy.

Many adults struggle with waking up fresh and feeling alive in the mornings.  While it is often normal to wake up feeling a bit otherwise, most of us will find any grogginess will quickly disappear as the brain fully awakens.

However, if you consistently don't get enough sleep - thereby building up a "sleep debt" - your chances of feeling sleepy will increase. 

Learn how you can safely share your sleeping space with at least one of these indoor plants...

With the warmer, spring weather in the Northern Hemisphere, many of us start looking around our homes and notice perhaps that they are not as clean and sparkling as they could be.

While some will enjoy the act of spring cleaning, others find housework impossible to keep on top of at the best of times.

We share some tips and tricks to spring clean your home - taking just five minutes at a time - to make it easier for you...

We recently posted Top Ten Trusted Health Tips to Follow, giving ten top health tips, five for mornings and five for evenings.

Here are a further ten tips which can be carried out at any time of the day...

The wonderful aroma of Lavender Oil, derived from the Lavandula angustifolia plant, is known for its calming and soothing properties, potentially helping to reduce stress and anxiety while promoting better sleep and even supporting skin health and wound healing. 

Lemons have so many uses from cooking and baking to cleaning and natural remedies and I have a slice of lemon every day in my mug of black tea...