What is Hello Sunshine Aromatherapy Spray?

Why you should include Hello Sunshine Aromatherapy Spray in your self-care ritual 

Hello Sunshine aromatherapy spray is a revitalizing and mood-enhancing product designed to uplift your spirits and energize your day. 

The unique blend of essential oils used in it invigorates the senses, provides a sense of calm, and promotes overall wellness. 

Using natural, carefully sourced ingredients, it ensures a pure and wholesome experience. The cheerful essence of 'sunshine' captured in a bottle can be used anytime, anywhere to foster positivity and brighten your ambiance.

 It is aimed at people who seek natural, holistic ways to enhance their mood and mental wellbeing.

 

How to use Hello Sunshine spray

It can be used as a:

Linen spray-it also makes your linen cupboard smell beautiful.

Car freshener-the lemon will revitalize you while driving

Hand sanitizer

Room spray

Pillow spray-I use it on my pillow and it smells glorious

Perfume

What oils does it contain?

•  Bergamot  essential oil has the ability to reduce inflammation, lower cholesterol levels, and increase positive mood

• Inhaling Bergamot soothes the nerves and reduces tension and anxiety.

• Bergamot helps treat anxiety and stress-related symptoms. It has a fresh, citrus scent (that reminds you of Earl Grey) that complements the lemon scent. 

  
  
  

• •  Rose and Lemon have also been added to boost its ability to kick-start your spirits. Lemon is an effective anti-oxidant while Rose has a pleasant, calming effect, with a sweet smell.

  • Rose essential oil has a sweet, floral fragrance that is very pleasant. It relieves stress and acts as an aphrodisiac. 

    
    
    

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  •  Lemon essential oil is an ingredient that fights exhaustion, helps with depression, clears your skin, and kills harmful viruses and bacteria.

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  • I often used the combination of rose and bergamot at the end of my day, and can verify its soothing and relaxing qualities.

• What you get:

  You get 60 mL / 2.0 fl oz spray in a glass bottle, with a fresh, sweet, citrus scent that is familiar to many as the flavoring in Earl Grey tea.  

• Use it at home or pop it into your bag for use during the day, while driving, spraying onto your hands, or a quick pick-me-up body spray.

Check it out here.

Do you want more products to pamper yourself, develop positivity, or make you laugh? Check out this self-care post.

                                                        

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Hair Care Tips for Older Women

 

Anti-Aging Hair Tips

As we get older, women lose their hair and it becomes less lustrous and manageable. It can add to the look of 'aging' and women try various methods to have youthful hair.

However, the methods used by some women may actually accelerate the aging look, rather than help us look more youthful.

Bad practices:

1. Dyeing your hair a much darker colour than your original colour. This can be further  darkened with bad dyeing techniques, such as constantly redying the hair before it has grown out. This will make the shade significantly darker, except for the grey streak at the roots, which will be lighter than the rest of the hair. 

What to do about it:

• only touch up the roots, if the rest of the colour is still showing a nice colour. Touch up the roots for about 20 minutes. Then apply the colour to the rest of the hair, after about 10-20 twenty minutes, depending on how much colour has washed out.  You don't want the roots to be lighter than the rest of the head.

2. Dyeing your hair a red tone, especially if your hair is sparse. brittle, and white. Okay, this is a personal dislike! It usually looks brassy too, unless you go to a hairdresser you trust.  It just does not look good on older women whose hair is not healthy and it gives you 'an older woman trying to be younger' look. 

What to do about it:

• choose a colour that is softer and suits your skin tone. Your original hair colour is a good guide.

3. Constantly dyeing your hair. 

If you are dyeing your hair at home, the home dyes do have more harsh chemicals than the hairdresser's products. 

• I give my hair a rest. I noticed that my hair was getting drier. I had always had healthy hair so it was a big bugbear of mine to see dry, unmanageable ends (even when I was having regular haircuts and conditioning it)

What to do about it:

• you can just leave it for a longer time between dyeing OR
• I used to put a rinse over my dyed hair. At the moment, it is hard to get the range of rinses, or semi-permanents. that they used to have, but I would get a brown-based semi-permanent. As I am in my 60s, I do have grey hair but this trick worked for me. 
• I would apply the semi-permanent over my dyed hair. I did this after about 2-3 weeks after dyeing my hair before my grey tips started to appear. When you do this, you are washing the semi-permanent that is on top of your dye, and it preserves your dye for a much longer time. 
• By doing this trick, I was able to wait 3-4 months between permanent dyes. 

4. Get a good haircut, based on the shape of your face. Look around for ideas online. You don't have to opt for the pixie look that seems to be the choice of so many older women. 

5. Don't become a 'helmet head' lol.  

• hair is meant to move yet you see so many older women who use so much hair spray, that their hair never moves. They look as if they are wearing an immovable helmet. There are great products on the market that give you volume ie Volumizer, without the harsh look of hair spray.
• If you prefer hair spray, run your brush through your hair before it is completely dry. It will keep the style and stop those pesky ends from sticking up, without that sticky unnatural look.

6. Buy good quality hair shampoos and conditioners, that are suitably labeled for your hair type.

7.  As you get older, your hair will not become as oily as when you were younger so wash your hair less. I used to wash it every second day, but wash it twice a week now. If the fringe seems oily, I only wash the fringe and hair framing my forehead so it always looks fresh and clean. 

8. Use zinc. It is great for hair and nails and the difference is noticeable when you take zinc tablets. 

9. Give yourself a hair and scalp massage with either olive oil or coconut oil. You can also wrap Gladwrap around your hair and leave the oil on for an hour. 

10. Rinse your hair after a shampoo with Rosemary water. Just boil rosemary in water, put it in a container, then pour it over your hair after a wash. It encourages hair growth and gives your hair a fresh, healthy smell. 

Bonus Tip for continued hair growth: Essential Oil Recipe

Use it for one week on your hair to see improved hair growth.

If you think this post has some good tips, please share it. 

Products I recommend for your hair:

Mielle Rosemary Mint Scalp and Hair Strengthening Oil

This product has the benefit of essential oils, rosemary and mint which are excellent for your hair and scalp. A great natural product.

Organic Rosemary Oil For Hair Growth with Castor, Argan, Coconut, Almond, Jojoba, Avocado, Grapeseed, Vitamin E, Lavender & Peppermint for Hair & Scalp Treatment

Another great product that is great for your hair. For all the lovers of nature-based products, you will love the multitude of natural oils in this product. 

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Classic wool beret

I love berets! My primary school 'hat' was a beret and I love pulling one over my head. 

This classic French beret is 80% wool and is both stylish and warm.

It suits any hairstyle. See all the great colour range here.

You can team your choice of beret with this set of 

TEAONE Stylish Rhinestone Pin, 16 PCS Faux Pearl Brooches 

Gratitude and A Positive Mindset

 

Benefits of Practising Gratitude

Practising gratitude is well known for developing a positive mindset. Our positive reflections force us to notice things that may otherwise go unnoticed. We become more appreciative of those little things that make up our day. 

This brings more happiness to our everyday lives as we do not focus on one bad thing that may be ruminating in our minds.

And what does everyone on this planet want? Happiness, of course! 

Negative people attract negative people and negative interactions whereas positivity attracts positive relationships. Relationships are often a source of frustration so gratitude journaling can help you attract more positivity into your relationships. 

 

It helps us enjoy our lives as we see a balance in our lives, rather than overwhelming gloom and doom. We become more appreciative.

Gratitude is easy to do - just requires us to reflect on our day. But it is a powerful tool for changing our mindset. 

Why I chose to practise gratitude

After some very sad occurrences in my life, I sank into a deep depression. This was very unlike me and it was scary.

I refused medication but had to find my own way out of depression. So I came upon the habit of gratitude while blogging online. 

It was a turning point for me in relationships and work. I was working on a casual basis at schools, at this time but I could choose to work every day with multiple offers. Other staff remarked that I always seemed happy and had a smile for them. I enjoyed my time in classes with children and gratefully helped out when I could.

Each day, I reflected on my day and it made me happy as I reflected on my accomplishments that day.

I became happier when I focused on each day's positives and started reaping the rewards in my new work situation. I became in high demand in my profession and had many offers of work and was given an ongoing position at age 67(which was unheard of).

 To this day, I am grateful and still reaping more benefits borne of practising gratitude.

Gratitude Journaling

A gratitude journal helps you keep track of the positives that happened throughout your day and the most effective way is to journal daily.

They say it takes a month to develop a new habit so you can challenge yourself to a 30-day gratitude challenge here.

Gratitude journaling becomes a beautiful keepsake for you and the coming generations as you can reread your experiences and thoughts throughout the year.

Your children and grandchildren can read and find out what sort of person you were through your journaling. 

I am a teacher and I did the Gratitude Jar with one particular student and we reread it to see what had happened in the past days. You will be surprised at how many little things you forget and it really does become a nice memory.

The Gratitude Jar is a nice idea to use with children who write the day's reflection on a strip of paper, fold it and put it in the jar. They can pull out strips when they want to read their reflections.  

Children do get excited about this activity and love rereading their past refelctions. 

For this reason, I prefer journals to apps as who knows what will happen in the future with apps?

Gratitude Journals  you may like

You can use a gratitude journal daily guide to cultivating a life of gratitude and abundance.

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This is an example page of the full page inspirational quotes in Gratitude: Changing My Mindset

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Gratitude: Changing My Mindset Large Paperback 

This beautiful big book (8.5 x 11) contains all the important elements for your reflections of the day, helping with your mindset and road to happiness. It also has colourful, supporting gratitude quotes. Read more here.

A couple of examples of inner pages in this gratitude journal:

Start With Gratitude: Daily Gratitude Journal

I hope you have enjoyed this post. If you are interested in further reading, I have a post on Self-Care you might enjoy. You can read it here 

For more information about gratitude, you can read How Can Practising Gratitude Help You? 

Gratitude Journals for you:

Start With Gratitude: Daily Gratitude Journal

Designed to increase your happiness, bring you more joy, and by building the habits of positivity!

The Miracle Journal: Your Guided Manifestation & Gratitude Journal

Suitable for both men and women, it guides your growth by combining  shadowwork journal techniques and manifestation methods.

The Life-Changing Power of Gratitude: 7 Simple Exercises that will Change Your Life for the Better. Includes a 3 Month Gratitude Journal

This book leads you to the all-encompassing benefits of gratitude and strategies to make your life and relationships happier. It comes as a book and a journal. 

 Wishing you a blissful day.