Valentine’s day traditionally focuses on gift-giving and love for your significant other, however, the holiday’s history is based on centuries-old festivals celebrating the coming of spring. Yes, those celebrations also focused on fertility rights and on the paring of men and women, which is where today’s Valentine’s day gets its chocolate, flowery love bias. That being said, the celebration of the coming of spring includes essential topics such as rejuvenation, renewal, health, and growth. With longer days and the promise of summer, we should look at our own health and wellbeing and our loved ones at the same time.

What is your new year skin resolution?  Don’t have one yet?  Rest assured.  It doesn’t take rocket science to put together a skin care regimen that truly WILL transform your skin and give you a fresh start.  Here’s the best part: It should be simple.  Your regimen should be very straightforward and only contain the ingredients that actually transform the skin: MEANING?  No matter how good the marketing, over the counter skin care lines are often made up of molecules so big that they never make it through the skin to do anything.  It is important to study the science behind skin care lines’ ingredients and verify that 1) the molecule actually makes it through the skin and 2) once inside the skin, active molecules actually build collagen, and remove sun damage.