Health & Wellness

Why Chinese Herbs?

March 02, 2023

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Good Eats // Summer salad with killer dressing

May 26, 2017

salad solaskincare
The salad I eat daily, deconstructed.

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A Short Primer on Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine

May 11, 2017

Chinese Medicine Acupuncture

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an ancient form of healing involving herbal medicine, nutrition, moxibustion (a form of heat therapy), massage, acupuncture, and other alternative medicine modalities. Read on to learn more about it's rich history...

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The Bare Bum Balm: How It Heals Way Beyond The Diaper Years

May 08, 2017

Our family: Lila and Sophie
Read on to learn 13 ways to use our Bare Bum Balm beyond the diaper years...

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Herbology 101: Gan Cao (Glycyrrhiza Uralensis)

April 12, 2017

Gan Cao Licorice Root

Herbology 101 is a series where we explore the healing properties of the Chinese medicinal herbs used in Sola Skincare. Today we look at Gan Cao or licorice root. 

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How Overeating Sugar Affects Our Skin's Health

April 04, 2017

Eating Too Much Sugar

We all love to indulge in a treat once in awhile, but overeating sugar can negatively impact our skin’s health. Read on to learn more about how sugar affects our skin.

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Wellness Ritual: A Relaxing Facial Steam

March 24, 2017

Facial Steam

One of the ways to maintain the skin’s health is by steaming your face once or twice a month. In addition to the daily application of the Sola Face Collection, a relaxing facial steam opens your pores and stimulates the circulation in your face, allowing for deeper penetration of the natural skin care.

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6 Ways our Skin Shows Signs of Chronic Inflammation

March 01, 2017

Close Up of a Face

The skin is the largest organ of the body, so it makes sense that it would show signs of chronic inflammation. When our body is inflamed, our skin will demonstrate these 6 signs...

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Wellness Ritual: Nightly Herbal Tea to De-Stress

February 24, 2017

 

Herbal Tea Flat Lay
The ritual of drinking herbal tea has many health and wellness benefits. Our body relaxes priming the body for restorative sleep, sipping warm herbal tea also dilates the lymphatic channels ensuring the flow of toxins and waste and many herbal teas have healing properties and are often chock full of anti-inflammatory ingredients.

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Why We Should Let the Body Sweat with Natural Deodorant

February 22, 2017

Hiking

By allowing—even encouraging—the body to sweat, we are activating one of the body's systems of detox. Read on to learn why we like letting our body sweat...

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The Marilyn Denis Show!!

March 23, 2016

sola skincare coconut deodorant marilyn denis show

A huge thank you to The Marilyn Denis Show on CTV and to Samantha from Bellies Inc. for featuring our Coconut Deodorant today! You can watch the whole segment here:

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Coconut Deodorant

April 04, 2013

Coconut Deodorant – which is not just for the ladies by the way. Our all natural, safe and honestly effective deodorant smells great, and works, which let’s face it, is the most important thing when shopping around for deodorant.

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