Dr. Oz talks about 'Mineral make up"

You may have heard about Dr.  Oz, of the “Dr. Oz Show” saying the long-term use and inhalation of minerals in makeup can lead to inflammation, irritation, and lung disease. Dr. Oz made it very clear that at the present time there are no clinical studies which substantiate the amount of potential danger that mineral makeup could present. He explained during the broadcast that it is the size of the particles contained in some of the makeup preparations that we need to worry about. La Bella Donna is not a nano-particle mineral makeup. Our particle size is not part of the category of minerals Dr. Oz warned about. The CEO, Kathy Tracy, was kind enough to explain this in a letter below.

Remember, La Bella Donna foundations physically cannot clog pores or be absorbed into the skin. Our particles are naturally waterproof and have a natural SPF 20.

La Bella Donna Loose Powder ** only 4 ingredients ** make up that is healthy for your skin La Bella Donna’s signature product! Available in twelve different shades:

Loose Mineral Foundation is completely inorganic and cannot conduct bacteria. Dermatologists and plastic surgeons have recognized Loose Mineral Foundation as a calming, healing must-have for post-op. The naturale sun protection SPF 20 gives you all day confidence protection. Perfect for acne-prone teenage skin. Ideal for all skin types.

HOW TO APPLY: Using the Mineral Makeup Brush, apply Loose Mineral Foundation in circular motions at the center of the face while working out toward your hairline with light sweeping strokes.

Call us to request an appointment with our FAB gals at Kasia Organic Salon for a makeup lesson TODAY!

Thanks Le Reve Day Spa for sharing!

ORAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR PSORIASIS

OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS!

What are they?

Omega-3 fatty acids are in the category of “essential fatty acids” (EFAs), along with omega-6 fatty acids. EFAs are termed as such because they cannot be synthesized by the human body and thus must be derived from exogenous sources, namely, food. The nomenclature refers to the location of the double bond within the carbon backbone of the molecule. They are also characterized as polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), which refers to the presence of two or more double bonds in their molecular structure.1 Linoleic acid (LA) and a-linolenic acid (ALA) are essential PUFA of the omega-6 and omega-3 families, respectively. LA must first be converted to gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) and then to arachidonic acid (AA), the biologically active compound. The downstream products of ALA are eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), two long-chain omega-3 PUFAs.2

Where are they found? Omega-3 fatty acids are composed of EPA and DHA. Because humans cannot make these, we must get them from our food. Omega-3 fatty acids can be found in cold-water oily fish, such as salmon, black cod, herring, mackerel, tuna and halibut, other marine life such as algae and krill, certain plants (purslane), and nuts/seeds (walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, flaxseeds).2,3,4

What do they do? Omega-3 fatty acids play a crucial role in brain function as well as normal brain growth and development in utero and in childhood. In addition to this well-known role, there are numerous conditions that benefit from omega-3 fatty acid supplementation. It is clearly established that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation prevents heart disease, coronary artery restenosis after angioplasty, and in particular, sudden cardiac death. Omega-3 fatty acids also lower triglyceride levels, increase HDL (“good”) cholesterol, and decrease vascular inflammation and blood clotting.5 Rheumatoid arthritis is another condition that benefits from supplementation, with improvement in symptoms and diminished use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder have shown positive results when supplementation has been used as an adjunct to standard pharmacotherapy.

Learn about CORE, essential fatty acids, HERE!

Read more from Skin ad Anti-Aging Study Here!

Why we LOVE Jojoba Oil and it's many uses...

We LOVE it!  Kasia Skin Proffesionals use jojoba in many ways for the skin and hair, as well as a carrier oil for our GM Certified Essential Oils!

Jojoba oil helps promote healing of the skin in many ways. It can actually discourage the growth of some bacterial and fungal microbes that attack the skin. The composition of jojoba closely resembles that of the skin’s natural sebum, so it is easily absorbed and rarely causes any reactions, even in the most sensitive individuals.

Jojoba oil is composed of liquid wax esters rather than oil, therefore leaving your skin less greasy than other carrier oils. The body’s natural sebum also contains wax esters, which act as a sort of natural moisturizer and environmental barrier for the skin. However, wax ester production steadily decreases with age, causing the skin to appear dull and emphasize wrinkles.

For this reason, Kasia Salon uses jojoba oil in our hair and skin services and retail options!

Jojoba oil can prevent the skin from becoming too oily. Because the structure of jojoba oil so closely resembles natural sebum, it can actually trick the skin into producing less natural sebum. Jojoba oil may help treat acne, both by reducing sebum production and by protecting the skin from harmful bacteria.

To control Acne

Many people are surprised by the fact that Jojoba Oil is used to treat acne because it is an oil. People automatically assume that oils will clog the pores and make acne worse, but because of the unique structure of Jojoba Oil, that does not occur when you use it. Studies have shown that Jojoba Oil can actually help to unblock the pores and also they can prevent further clogging later on. It only takes a couple of drops a day to help with your acne problem; however, it is mainly only suitable for mild acne.

As an eye makeup remover

Soak a cotton pad or ball, and swipe over your eye shadow, liner, and mascara. Not only will your eye makeup be gently and completely removed, you'll find your lashes lush and conditioned, too.

As a facial moisturizer

Because jojoba oil closely resembles human sebum, our skin accepts it very well without threat of breakouts or reactions. If you're oily or combination skinned and afraid of putting any oil on your face, rest easy. Jojoba oil actually helps to balance skin's sebum, so it moisturizes dry skins and eases the oil production in oily skin. Apply jojoba oil by mixing two drops of it in your moisturizer, or use it sparingly on its own.

As a lip conditioner

If you suffer from dry, chapped lips, a small amount of this can be used as an alternative to chapstick or more expensive lip balms.

As a cuticle oil

Say goodbye to dry, ragged cuticles. A small amount of jojoba oil, rubbed into the cuticles on a regular basis, helps keep them soft.

As a hair conditioner or serum

Mix a few drops into your conditioner and rinse out. You can also put a couple of drops on your palm and apply to the ends of damp hair before blow drying - a great trick for soft strands. Or if your hair is looking dull, or frizzy, a little jojoba oil on the ends will smooth out the cuticle, making it look shiny and healthy.

As a body oil

Perfect for skin, especially aging or menopausal skin as it replaces loss of aging skin's natural wax esters. Use it all over your body after a bath or shower. It sinks in quickly, but leaves your skin hydrated and moisturized -- not to mention luxurious when we add drops of our sweetest smelling essential oils.

Kasia partners with the Jojoba Company!

Mix your 100% ORGANIC  Jojoba Oil with fabulous scent enhancers that HEAL.  We love Elizabeth Van Buren Oils for their purity and ethical practices. Stop in the salon anytime to 'sniff n' experience' the beginning of  a complimentary healing journey personalized for you!

Women: SENTINELS OF IMBALANCE, Upcoming Event!

A woman’s health is a barometer of her environment. It ismodeled and shaped according to her evolution in the womb and the social, cultural, and ecological environment of her childhood. It is created out of her relationships, her joys and traumas. It is grounded in the quality of her nutrition and the purity of the water and air around her. At each stage of a woman’s life cycle, because of her innate connection to birth, creativity, and the protection of the human race, a woman’s health represents a sentinel of subtle and great disturbances in our culture and our environment. For that we should be thankful.

Women are the canaries in the coalmine, warning us of imminent danger, of disturbances no one else can see or feel. Unfortunately, these disturbances reg- ister in the anatomy, the biochemistry, and the souls of women. They create imbalances, which can be healed by shifts in belief, nutrition, and activity and supported by the fruits and plants of the earth, which have evolved in harmony with our own bodies, offering healing and balance.

The canaries are singing loudly enough. Why is there an epidemic of hormonal disturbances in women’s life cycles? Why is there an increasing incidence of early menarche, hormonal dysfunction, eating disorders, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), endometriosis, fibroids, menstrual difficulties such as pain and heavy bleeding, infertility, breast cancer, and difficult transitions supporting it with oxygen and medication, hoping it survives, while ignoring the poison gases all around.

MEDICALIZATION OF WOMEN’S HEALTH

Increasing numbers of young girls and women suffer from the vicissitudes of a toxic food environment filled with sugar and fats that promote obesity, increases in circulating estrogens, and early puberty.

Our industrial environment, filled with xenotoxic estrogens, disturbs normal hormonal cycles and stimulates pre- mature development. Early puberty is now seen in 8-year-old girls.  Teenagers experience increasingly irregular cycles, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and premenstrual syndrome. Physicians prescribe oral contraceptives to “regulate” patients’ cycles rather than addressing lifestyle and environmental etiologies of altered function.

If women’s health (or lack thereof) is a sentinel for imbalance in our lifestyle and environment, then perhaps that is a better starting point of inquiry into etiology that might provide a better guide for therapy than accepting as normal hormonal imbalances that require medication. Let us examine the role of diet (one of many factors, including exercise, stress, and environ- mental toxins, that influence hormonal function).

The influence of diet on hormone balance is vast and includes the differential effects of specific types of carbohydrates and fats, amino acids, and fiber and gut flora, as well as micronutrient effects on hormone synthesis, receptor function, metabolism, and detoxification. Anti-nutrients—harmful foods and non-nutritive substances in our food supply, including xenobiotics, exogenous hormones, and antibiotics—have powerful effects on hormone function.

The most striking and useful clinical examples of dietary influences on hormonal balance will be reviewed in reference to sex hormones; however, diet and environment also greatly influ- ence the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and thyroid function. Diet can create imbalance or restore optimal function. Emerging diagnostic and therapeutic strategies can help clinicians navigate a paradigm that regards symptoms as adaptive or maladaptive clues of functional imbalance.......

Come and Learn more from the EXPERT!

April 18th  at 4:00 PM at Kasia Organic Salon!

Julie is an experienced certified nurse practitioner with advanced training in Functional Medicine (your body functioning properly at the cellular level) and application of bioidentical hormones. Her focus in on women's health, age management, and the functional management of chronic illlness.

Special Events on March 14th To Help Heidi’s and Blackbird Restaurants

Over 55 restaurants will rise up in force to help Heidi’s and Blackbird - two Lynnhurst restaurants that lost everything recently during the tragic fire. Choose one of three delicious ways to Fork The Fire and be part of this awesome outpouring of support – go to http://heavytable.com/fork-the-fire-to-help-heidis-blackbird/ for all the info!

SPRING MAKEUP TIP! LABELLA DONNA going.......LIQUID!

Take a look as it is a little movie on how to turn our amazing minerals into a liquid foundation...Enjoy!

Determine Your Skin Tone * Mineral Makeup Guide

If the veins on your inside wrists are:

Blue: most likely a “cool” skin tone. Green: most likely a “warm” skin tone.

COOL SKIN TONE

What do cool skin tones look like?

True olive complexions, like most Asians. Latinos and Afro Americans Brown with pink undertones/  Choose shades such as Caterina or Marinanna Minerals.

• Medium and no color in cheeks
• Medium with faint pink cheeks
• Medium with golden undertones
• Pale with no color in cheeks
• Pale with pink undertones
• Brown or bronze when tanned Golden brown when tanned

What color should naturally cool people avoid?

• Avoid gold, yellow, red and bronze tones, which can make you sallow and drawn.

What colors will complement a cool skin tone?

The best shades, depending on the depth of the colors in your skin tone are;

• Cool reds, as in burgundy or Bordeaux such as La Viva en Rose Baci or Pansy Lip Sheer.
• Intense browns with a warm base, like red or blonde to the brown. Choose Suede Eye Shadow, or Sultry Olive. Add cheek color such as Tangerine or Pink Sorbet
• Highlight with cool shades like, Wheat, Honey or Taupe or a cool ash brown.

WARM SKIN TONE

What do warm skin tones look like? Choose mineral shades such as Marta, Umbria and Sophia.

• Pale with peach or gold undertones
• Golden brown when tanned

What color should naturally warm skin toned people avoid?

• Naturally warm people should avoid blue, violet, white and jet-black hair. These colors next to your skin can make you look washed out.

What colors will most complement warm skin tones?

• Deep rich browns like, chocolate, chestnut or auburns as a base. Highlight with warm golds and reds or copper. Choose Eye shadows such as Chocolate, Grapevine and Eggplant…Also Mocha or Dylan Blush and Blossom or Copper Lip Color.

SW MPLS Journal Tracks Kasia Salon and 10 other biz startups throughout the year

Hello there Informed Beauty!

2 weeks ago, Jake from SW Journal (our fabulous MPLS neighborhood paper) contacted me for a upcoming feature proposed for a years "check in" on new local businesses and entrepreneurs.

With a whirl wind of the great launch party, training staff, and addressing customer service innitiative, I found today clients reaching out/emailing, and sharing the HIGHLIGHTED INTERVIEW in the SW JOURNAL PAPER ON PAGE A19.

Well, here we go! THANK YOU for your patranoge and joining the Kasia Team as we strive in everything we have to provide YOU with customer service, fast learned- learning curves, and every-growig passion i what we love to do....for YOU!

I look foward to servicing YOU, learning, growing..and bring about our message and differientiation of services along side other fellow risk takers!

Venturing out on their own ....

The Southwest Journal will be tracking 10 business startups throughout the year. For this first report in the ongoing series, Journal reporters have checked in with the entrepreneurs to get their economic outlook for 2010.

YEAR ONE

Uniting inner health with outer beauty is the goal of Kasia Organic Salon, a venture entrepreneur  Kassie Kuehl launched in February at 50th & Bryant. Kuehl’s salon uses natural and  botanically based products and a holistic approach to beauty that is unusual in the salon world. In fact, she claims her business is among only a handful of organic salons throughout the nation.   “What we’re about is building  the hair up and building the skin up so it’s healthy and reflecting its natural capabilities rather than covering things up,” she said. Kuehl, who was trained at Aveda Institute in Minneapolis, has a long list of titles beyond  salon owner: certified personal  trainer, yoga and pilates instructor, functional medicine student, certified health coach and living foods educator.

Health is paramount for Kuehl, who experienced firsthand the adverse affects of traditional beauty products while renting chair at an Uptown salon. “I was getting sick from the affects of ammonia I worked in,” she said. “That caused me to leave the industry and start doing the research to start creating a better environment for me and my clients.” word for pure, offers hair cutting,  ammonia-free hair coloring, hair masks and treatments, skin care, custom organic facials with live food (such as strawberries with essential oils), waxing and  massage.

Kuehl has spent years researching natural and organic products and also sells her own line, which includes non-toxic deodorant, sunscreen, moisturizing cream and fair-trade teas.  Her salon’s products are a bit more expensive than at a traditional salon, but Kuehl said  there’s a reason for that. “Other products have incredibly cheap ingredients,” she said.  Those ingredients, she contends, can contribute to a variety of immunity diseases, infertility issues and even cancer.  Kuehl said launching her first business was a challenge and required a bank loan and an additional loan from the city. She’s and organic skin specialist and a massage therapist on her payroll. Days before opening, a huge fire consumed five businesses across the street, devastating the node she chose largely because of its thriving restaurants and  boutiques. After the incident, she turned her open house into a community gathering to support the affected business owners.

It’s risky being a startup, she said, but she’s confident in her  abilities and those of her staff. “I and my girls know that we have a very unique niche here and I am a destination business,” she said.

Service: Organic salon

opened: February 2010

location:  822 W. 50th St.

phone: 386-4044

website: kasiaorganicsalon.com

Read the SW Journal Online HERE!