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Your Home Based Business Christmas Party

Around this time of year, many people are getting ready to attend their company or office holiday party. If you are a home – based professional, especially if you used to work in an office or at another place where the annual holiday party was something you enjoyed, you may feel a little sad that you will not be attending those festivities this year. On the other hand, some people really do not like attending company holiday parties so you may feel relieved that you do not have to endure another year of listening to your former boss sing Christmas … Continue reading →

Home Remedies for Colic Probably Won’t Work

According to a new review, based on fifteen different studies, most at home remedies for colic don’t work. The studies compared such folk remedies as fennel seed, sugar water, and massage. While some of these things worked for some babies, there was nothing that worked across the board. If you’ve ever had a colicky baby, you know this to be true. In my own experience, what would work one night, would not necessarily work the next. And I had it easy. The worst experience I had with colic was with my middle child. She would cry from five o’clock in … Continue reading →

Aromatherapy Massage

What’s better than a massage? How about an aromatherapy massage! Aromatherapy is the alternative medicine practice of using essential oils (made from volatile plant materials) to help your mental and physical health. Examples of essential oils include tea tree, sandalwood oil, lavender, eucalyptus, peppermint, clove, and sweet orange. Aromatherapy message is the practice of using essential oils during a massage. While you can perform this at home, there are also professionals that can use just the right essential oils to help improve your attitude and maybe even your health. If you try it at home, don’t apply too much pressure. … Continue reading →

Regular Massages Help Reduce Pain and Depression in Sick Children

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Massage isn’t just for stressed out moms. According to a study by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, it offers both physical and psychological benefits to children with special health needs such as Sickle Cell Disease. In the study, published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, researchers found that massage helps to reduce pain, anxiety and depression. Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects the red blood cells. It causes cells to become hard and pointed rather than the normal soft and round. Symptoms include anemia, repeat infections, and periodic pain. More than 70,000 Americans live with Sickle … Continue reading →

Frugal Spa at Home: Even More Natural Solutions

Natural beauty products can be good for your body and good for your wallet. You can get excellent results and pamper yourself without the chemicals and without the price of a spa. Just think, you could save up to $90 at home if you choose your own natural frugal spa solution rather than making a trip to the professional spa. This is my third post in this series. My husband loves to eat kiwi when it is nice and ripe. But there is another use for kiwi. If I can wrestle some away from the snack counter, I used it … Continue reading →

Frugal Spa at Home: More Natural Solutions

If you want the spa look and the spa feel without the spa price, then read this series! I’ll be sharing lots of great solutions that you can use for so much less than a visit to the spa. These solutions are all natural, so they are really great for you, too. I’ve been inspired by Body & Soul Magazine (wholeliving.com) and have adapted many of their suggestions for frugal pampering. Most homes have chamomile tea, or at least it is one of the brands of tea that are relatively common and inexpensive as far as teas go at the … Continue reading →

Frugal Spa at Home: Using Inexpensive Natural Solutions

A new spa opened up a couple of years ago near our home. I have to tell you that whenever I go in to get my hair cut in the salon part of the building I always have to wonder about how wonderful it would be to get a spa treatment. I even flip through the options book. But with treatments ranging from $90 to $3,000, the spa is not compatible with frugal living. So you can imagine how delighted I was to see some suggestions for spa treatments at home using natural materials. While the focus of the article … Continue reading →

Massage for Infants

A friend of mine has been teaching infant massage classes in Cape Fear, North Carolina. Massage is beneficial at just about any age, but can have some special benefits for an infant. The benefits of infant massage include: A stronger bond between parent and child. Ideally, you want to find fifteen minutes every day to massage your baby. But if you can only find time once a week, you’ll both still benefit from the time together. Longer, deeper sleep for the baby (which means more restful nights for the parents, too). Relieve discomfort from gas, colic, and constipation. Massage can … Continue reading →

Robots Come Home

Want to have a cleaner home or clean your gutters from the ground? With the new breed of robots, it is all possible. Welcome to the age of the Jetsons. Most of us have heard of the Roomba vacuum cleaning device. It is a little robot that goes around your home vacuuming up the crumbs and then happily returning back to its base, saving you the trouble of sweeping or vacuuming yourself. The company that makes the Roomba, iRobot, now has a whole array of helpful home robots to do a variety of jobs. And, they are all available right … Continue reading →

Want A Facial Massage? Ask A Robot

Like something out of a science fiction movie or the Jetsons, robots have now been called into service to give facial massages. Researchers in Japan have developed a robot that was specifically designed to give a therapeutic facial massage to patients in hospitals and spas across the country. The creators, located at Tokyo’s Waseda University hope to see the robot employed first for patients with jaw-related medical problems and then later for beauty and relaxation massages for the general public. The robot was also developed with Japan’s Asahi University. The robot, dubbed the WAO-1 robot, or the Waseda Asahi Oral … Continue reading →