Making my own healthy cosmetics and body care is something I like to dabble with now and again, and something I've come back to more recently in order to try and not only save some money, but to also be more health conscious, since I became a contributing writer for a health and wellness website, Trevida.  One recipe I'd been saving for this week was a homemade exfoliating scrub with microderm abrasion properties.  For a fraction of the price of what I'd normally pay for a scrub for my face, ...
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I know, it's one day before Christmas Eve and 2 days from Christmas Day, and maybe you've had it all planned out in your head for months, so you're reading this and laughing at the question with a rhetorical response hovering on your lips.  But on the other hand - maybe you have been running around like a crazy person all week trying to get all your last-minute shopping done.  I'm raising my hand on being THAT person, because for all my preparations I've set out to do ahead of time, somehow i...
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