In a culture that idealizes youthful looks and encourages
elaborate makeovers or even surgery to achieve them, the idea of
natural beauty is often all but ignored.
But true beauty is within reach for women of any age, without
submitting to needles or knives. The secret is nurturing beauty
from the inside as well as on the surface, caring for both body and
soul in a way that will naturally result in the smooth skin and
radiant glow of good health whether one is eighteen or
eighty.
A-list celebrities, professional makeup artists, and Hollywood
stylists have long embraced Dr. Hauschka’s botanical products,
attracted by their extraordinary results and the company’s
thirty-five-year commitment to purity, therapy, and luxury. Now the
same extraordinary results are available to the rest of us through
a rejuvenating prescription for healing. In Awakening Beauty the
Dr. Hauschka Way, Susan West Kurz, president of Dr. Hauschka, Inc.,
and a longtime devotee of the company’s products, offers readers a
transformative program grounded in Dr. Hauschka’s key principles of
natural ingredients and working with the body’s rhythms. Her
suggestions, when followed, naturally restore healthy, radiant skin
and a sense of peace and well-being, and can even result in weight
loss.
Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way outlines a series of
achievable lifestyle changes that can dramatically improve
appearance in a single month. First and foremost, Kurz describes
how using organically grown and mindfully harvested products can
have a positive impact on the body and skin. While simple dietary
changes begin to repair and renew the body, the complementary use
of meditation, massage, and exercise enhances good health inside
and out. Kurz’s holistic approach is founded on an understanding of
the body’s own natural rhythms, using them to direct the way each
of us receives and responds to subtle cravings for nutrition and
care. By recognizing exactly how skin behaves and how it responds
to other parts of the body, we can use specific practices to
improve the way we care for our skin and improve our overall
health. Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way includes detailed
advice on the most effective ways to wash, tone, and moisturize
skin using homemade products, as well as tips on how to critically
assess skin care claims and break unhealthy habits. Meal plans,
meditation techniques, advice on addressing specific skin
conditions and an extensive collection of recipes complete this
remarkable story. In just thirty days you can transform your skin
and bring forth a natural, glowing beauty that is truly your
own.
Nothing reveals your physical beauty more than your skin.
You may pride yourself on the shine of your hair or the color of
your eyes, but no other feature gives you a greater experience of
your beauty. . . .
The skin performs a multitude of tasks, most of which go
unnoticed and unappreciated. It protects us from disease and the
daily onslaught of particles large and small. It cools us when we
are hot and warms us when we are cold. It heals wounds afflicted on
it, often without any assistance from us. It absorbs sunlight to
produce vitamin D, essential to the health of our bones and teeth,
keeps itself moist, slows its own aging, and, every day, attempts
to renew and restore its beauty.
While skin accomplishes all of this on its own, it still needs
help. With every blemish, rash, and wrinkle, the skin is asking us
to understand its nature and to support its efforts at
self-renewal. Unfortunately, many of us respond to changes in our
skin with practices that, in fact, assault and injure it further,
consequently accelerating the aging process. On the other hand,
many of us do nothing at all for our skin—but nonetheless expect it
to remain clear, beautiful, and young.
In order to create the most effective program for our skin, we
must begin by understanding what it does each day, and how best to
support its work. —From Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way
關於作者:
Susan West Kurz is a passionate advocate of Dr. Hauschka’s
philosophy and practices. She began her career as an apprentice to
a master herb grower before becoming a sales representative for Dr.
Hauschka products in the 1970s, and went on to become a licensed
esthetician and the president of Dr. Hauschka Skin Care, Inc., in
1993. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband and two
young children.