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FUNCTIONAL FRAGRANCES We chatted with Jenna Rose Igneri from Nylon magazine about one of the soon to be biggest trends in the beauty industry - functional fragrances. We started from the beginning, explaining how functional fragrances stem from aromatherapy, and explained how many perfumes contain alcohol and other petrochemicals such as acetone, ethanol, and benzaldehyde which block out our ability to receive the therapeutic benefits of essential oils. Essential oils are at the base of many luxury perfumes, along with a slew of other chemicals and synthesized, lab created fragrances. Mental benefits found in Mental Essentials oils are naturally occurring in nature and their...

Question:What are Mental Essentials? a gang of oil characters reflecting a spectrum of moods and emotions,guiding and simplifying your wellness journey. Each character represents an oil, a country, a culture and a mood and are dressedin clothes from around the world. Lavie wears a simple dress similar to the ones worn by girls in Provence, in the south of France. Lems' paisely print tights reflect her Indian roots, while Berg's clothesare inspired by a Renaissance painting. The characters range in age; seven year old Mandi is the youngest, while Patch, the only one sitting down, stopped counting her age years ago. Each...

Text thumb was our worst discovery of 2017. We were in pain. We were hurting. Our poor thumbs were experiencing some serious joint pain, and we knew our social media addiction was at the root of the problem. We were completely addicted to Instagram, soaking up all the new features like Stories and Instagram Live, while fighting off carpal tunnel syndrome. Between scrolling, hashtagging and endlessly sharing memes and viral videos, our hands were paying the price.   We weren’t ready to give up our social media addiction though. We called it “research” and being on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook helped...

Birthdays are always wrapped up in emotions. Sometimes you want to celebrate and sometimes you want to lay low and ponder every decision you've ever made in life. But if you're going to be having a fete to celebrate the day you came into this world, then you're going to want to look like a million bucks on your birthday. Especially if all of your family and friends will be insistent on snapping as many selfies as possible and documenting the entire day’s (or night’s) events on their respective social media accounts in a race to see who can get...