Thanks Mom!

In honor of Mothers Day I’d like to thank all our mothers, grandmothers and great-grand mothers for the common wisdom they passed down to their children. Even if she couldn’t explain the science behind a belief she knew enough to trust her mother and the women before her to keep her safe.

It’s the simplest advice that easy to overlook and maybe even push aside because we don’t know why it’s true – it just is, or it doesn’t get the kind of press that makes it exotic and sexy. We all know apples keep away doctors and that chicken soup is really good for a cold, and that we should eat the crusts of our bread. Mom also had skin tips too. And like the tips I just mentioned they are common and easy to ignore for something a little more flashy.

My mother always told us to wash our face before bed. Good advice, because washing off the dirt and excess oil will allow your skin to breathe and heal without having to combat daily make up build-up.

If you got a rash or itchy skin your mother may have put you in a milk bath. Milk is a mild cleanser which keeps your skin safe from infection and making your skin condition worse but it will also moisturize it.

Moisturizing skin helps to keep skin healthy. So instead of using a fancy cold cream on her face at night she may have just reached in the pantry for some olive oil. Olive oil is high in antioxidants, which she may or may not have known. But she did know it was good at keeping skin young looking and kept her hands and elbows soft.

These tips may seem boring because they are familiar. Mom’s tips seem common and ordinary but they are this way because they worked and women kept passing them down to their daughters and so on.

Thanks mom for giving me good advice – even if I didn’t take it at the time it was given. It was filed away and waiting to be shared when my daughter is ready.

Lisa Radke is one of the owners of Wild Natural Beauty natural and organic beauty essentials. Please visit our website at www. wildnaturalbeauty.com.