MONTHLY ARCHIVES: APRIL 2014
Tips Tuesday – Product Use
Many people over use, or under nourish with the products they are using. Here are some tips to stretch your product and make sure you are using the right products. Keep in mind Salon Products like our HHDS Organics line in glass Mason Jars , Onesta, or Eufora are all organically derived, void of parabens, sulfates, artificial colours and scents and contain several other high quality ingredients too many to mention here. Many times they are more expensive due to the Fair Trade, organic or pure integrity of each ingredient in each product. Compare the seaweed scraped off the beech compared to seaweed found in the purest deepest areas harvested for higher quality products, this is the difference, less fillers, and detergent surfactants. Basically you get what you pay for, so word for the wise, if you love your hair, prove it! If you colour your hair, protect your investment!
If your hair is:
Brittle, Stiff or Naturally Curly Hair- You need tons of moisture! Even Deep conditioning treatments will help. Try HHDS Organics Lavender Love Shampoo and Conditioner or Onesta Hydrate shampoo and conditioner and for needier hair that is breaking or under a lot of stress use Super Conditioner in place of the conditioner and once in better shape, as a deep conditioner.
Fine Limp Hair – Don’t skimp on condition! Many of you don’t use conditioner, but wonder why it’s so fly away, there are conditioners available to you that will give your hair shine, manageability and won’t weigh it done like our HHDS Unscented Shampoo and Conditioner for Fine hair, or Onesta Volumizing Shampoo and Conditioner. Still nervous? Try the Quench Leave in spray from Onesta for light condition that is weightless and moisturizing.
Normal Hair – Not to be forgotten the normal hair crowd, we offer HHDS Peaceful Citrus Shampoo and Conditioner for a beautiful shine and appropriate amount of luscious moisture to maintain your perfect balance of health and most importantly comes without the waxes and silicones to give your hair and artificial coated feeling that many others give. Let your hair feel like hair because it’s in great shape and doesn’t need to be coated!
Thinning Hair – WOW! An awesome new option for Thinning Hair for just over $20 a bottle! a full treatment kit from Eufora is now available for you to help prevent more thinning and in some cases has proven to bring back lost hair follicles to their original healthy state! The kit is only $84.52
Lastly the most important thing to remember is the amount of product you need to use, less hair, less product, start with less add more as needed. Most shampoos and conditioners we use here at HHDS due to natural surfactants like coconut oils don’t have big bubbles like a lot of other detergent surfactants found in other products. Start with a nickel size of shampoo rub it in our hands, if you need more or less next time go ahead and adjust. Conditioners should be just a bit more then the shampoo and applied to ends first as the ends need it more and this avoids limp flat roots. Comb through your conditioner in the shower with a wide tooth comb, this prolongs your product. Stylers should be combed through to avoiding over use. Always rub shampoos, conditioners and stylers in your hands, then evenly distribute through your hair.
Enjoy an informative consult with your service provider for the products that would best meet your needs. Happy Hair, Happy You!
Tips Tuesday-Earth Week #2, The Three ‘R’s and a ‘U’
Tips Tuesday-Earth Week #2, The Three ‘R’s and a ‘U’
How have you celebrated our first Earth week? Any pictures to share, stories to tell? Well I’m excited to share that Cindy Pearce from Crystal Rainbows has collected 6 bags already with her family over the Easter Holiday! We are so looking forward to having her join our Green Family this May and sharing her many Holistic Healing skills with our guests.
Last week we discussed efforts to prevent inadvertent littering on garbage day, this week I wanted to share how we have managed to divert tons of garbage and recyclables from the local landfills and hopefully inspire you to look around your home to see what things you could Reduce, Reuse, Recycle or Upcycle! Yes we observe the 3 R’s …and a ‘U’.
Reduce
– We use both sides of printed paper for note taking at our front desk
– We have reduced and or eliminated all toxins from our skin and haircare lines
– We have shrunk our carbon foot print by partnering with Green Circle Salons
– We have our salon more efficient per square foot,
– We use Clean energy from BullFrog energy
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Reuse
– WE have a refill program for all of our shampoos and conditioners refilling the plastic containers twice and our glass infinitely while offering our guests a discount as an incentive to participate in the program above and beyond the obvious benefits to all for doing so.
– In each Renovation we have reused all of our chattel preventing filling landfilss with perfectly good usable items and not having to purchase brand new to replace them
– We furnish the Salon and Spa with many items from the Re-Store and antique furniture stores.
– The products taken from the Salon from green Circle is reused to make furniture , eye glass frames, light fixtures and ceiling fans
– We use hand towels in the washrooms, washed with Eco Friendly, Biodegradable laundry detergent
Recycle
– The producst taken from the Salon from green Circle is reused to make furniture , eye glass frames, light fixtures and ceiling fans
– We petitioned for recycling bins when we opened Hybrid at a previous location 5 years ago and did the same three years ago at our current location at which time no recycling containers were present at this building. All recyclable items of no further use to us are separated and placed in our recycling bins
– We have foiling mesh which we use for hilighting that can be reused
Upcycling
– We have taken furniture that no longer serves its purpose in it’s origin form and created new more suitably useable items out of the original. Like our candle fire place which in its original forma was an 8’x 4’ colour table and created a colour ‘Bar area and candle fireplace at our original location and since moved the candle fire place to the current location.
I have listed a few of our efforts in each area of awareness of the three ‘R’s and ‘U’, in order to inspire and motivate you to be creative in your upcycling options in your home, would a TV stand make a great desk? An old door a head board, an old desk an island in your kitchen? Can you do more to recycle or composting by putting individual receptacles in each room and labeling them for your family? Can you write to manufacturers’ to ask them to minimize their packaging so you won’t have as much to recycle? Could you not only vote or persuade with your purchasing dollars by buying items from conscientious manufacturers? Could you do more to support Green or Organic Business? Can you use pickle, jam and spaghetti jars for lunch containers instead of buying plastic containers, and bags? Could you sign up for BullFrog energy for your home?
None of this is necessarily ‘Easy’ some of it may be time consuming, a couple things more expensive, but most you will find is fun, money saving and fun in a creative and inspired way. Besides, can we afford not to?
“Ecology and Economy have the same root word, ‘eco’ which means ‘home’. But what we have done is elevate the economy above ecology” – David Suzuki
“The chameleon changes colour to match the Earth, the Earth doesn’t change colour to match the chameleon”
– Senegalese Proverb
“When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted, and the last fish has been caught, only then do you realize that money can’t buy everything.” – Amer.Indian
“Someone sits in the shade because someone planted a tree a long time ago” – Warren Buffett
Tips Tuesday-Earth Week
Tips Tuesday! You can’t and shouldn’t miss these of all Tuesdays Tips!
For the next two weeks our ‘tips’ will be referring to our Two week Garbage clean up Community Detox!
The fact that you are supporting our Green Business already speaks magnitudes of you as a human being! This creates awareness and strength to the Eco movement! But don’t stop there! Here will be a few tips on how you can be and share more Eco Awareness! Remember, where you spend your hard earned dollars is a form of voting to our Political Constituents. We are stronger together, let’s make our voices heard!
For the next two weeks our HHDS Green Family will be collecting garbage in our community and we ask for you to help us! We are keeping a running tally through out the Clean up so message us on Facebook and to hybridhairanddetoxspa@rogers.com with your tally to add to ours! As an added bonus this year check out Amanda Weber’s Vibrant Living Wellness Center FREE ‘Detox your Brain’ for two weeks April 22 to May 6th as we clean out or ‘Defragment’ our inner world along with our outer world! We are intrinsically connected to our planet. By creating more awareness of self we automatically begin to acknowledge our connection to our planet and all things . The sign up page is here http://vibrant-living.ca/braincleanse/
The focus is on cleansing your brain, it is a gentle, food-based cleanse which will allow all participants to enjoy the benefits of a cleanse without the obligation to purchase any kits or supplements. We’ll focus on eating whole foods (recipes supplied!) and enjoy daily inspirational videos with guided meditations and mindfulness exercises all aimed at helping to increase your success! Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ_btKMWRLM
‘As Within So Without’ ~Hermes Trismegistus~
Much of the garbage flying around and ending their travel in our waters is from garbage day and recycling bins and garbage bins tipping over in the wind on garbage day!
Help out your Waste Engineers out to make their job easier, get more recycling bins if you have to and separate your paper, plastic and metals, by doing so you make their sorting easier faster and idling trucks minimize toxin expulsion. Also overflowing bins are targets for flying debris! On windy days or any day, cover each recycling bin with a piece of cardboard cut to fit the top of your bin (Cereal boxes broken down works well) and place a reasonably sized weight\rock on top. I have been known to place my garbage bags on top of the bins too to prevent garbage escape!
Please feel free to share with us unique ways you have come up with to prevent litter or any other form of Environmental thinking with us so we can share with our friends!! In closing please enjoy these thought felt comments from many wise Eco Leaders
“There is a way that nature speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story” -Linda Hogan, author
“I’ve got to do everything I can to make sure that my grandchildren don’t say to me,’Grandpa, you could have doen more.’” – David Suzuki
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today.” –Chinese Proverb
“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build an yet leave a landscape as it was before” – Robert Lynd
“One should leave their hosts home in the condition or better then when they arrived.” –My Parents
How are we fairing this task for the Earth? This last quote embodies this effort we must all consider…
“Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the Earth.” – Kim Stafford
Tips Tuesday
Looking for healthier skin for the coming sun exposed months?
Proper cleansing and moisturizing of the skin is essential for glowing skin! Healthy skin glows from the inside out without the need for concealers and foundations to over flaws. Start with a gentle cleanser, RVB Holistics is a beautiful Organically derived skin care line with a cream cleanser for all skin types, it also doubles as a make up remover! ALWAYS REMOVE your make up before bed. Left over make up ages your skin and seeps deeper into your skin with little to no health benefits! Besides who wants to wake up next to a racoon anyway! After cleansing, a gentle toner for normal and oily skin, contrary to belief toners are not always recommended for all skin types year round! Ask Elena what regimen works best for you. Just before bed a beautiful RVB Serum can be smoothed over the skin, gracing your skin with much needed moisture, nutrients and a scent that leaves you floating on a cloud. DONT FORGET THE DECOLLAGE! Many women forget this delicate skin on the neck and chest! Don’t find yourself years later with a flawless face and saggy neck and wrinkled chest, nourish it too! (**Hint always use an upward motion while cleansing and moisturizing)
In the morning don’t over cleanse, water and a wash cloth are enough to remove any light debris from the night before (and minimize over using your product), unlike bed time where you must remove the days dirt grime and make up! Make sure you tone (if required) and always moisturize with either an day time spf 10 or a 24 hour moisturizer and then if you decide you need it, apply your make up. We recommend Mirabella Mineral Makeup for added nutrients for your skin and natural zinc sun protection.
Put your best face forward this spring with RVB Holistics , Mirabella Mineral Make up and don’t forget 20% off Facial Fridays!
Tips Tuesday – Thank You!
Tips Tuesday – Thank You!
Well I feel the need to thank you all for your support and perseverance through a tough weather week and still assisting us with removing over 60 bags from our community streets, parks and walking trails!
I am SSSOOOOO proud of our Green Family for participating in our annual Community Clean Up!
-JENNA AND HER CREW!!
I had noticed the weather had caused some interruption in our efforts to do our part, but luckily by the end of the week Mother Nature cooperated and gave us the opportunity to get out and make a difference! We had lot’s of family friends and local schools help out too so way to go!!
This coming weekend is the annual community clean up for Clair Hills! We are looking forward to helping out again!
Not only does it feel good to see a clean walking trail or park for everyone to enjoy but it feels good to be outside in the fresh air after a long winter! And sharing this experience with our kids is invaluable! It is up to us to instill in them the values and responsibility to our planet and each other.
I sat tonight talking to some family about local efforts to manage our garbage and recycling. A main theme seemed evident. Too many people are not doing enough, too many companies are not holding themselves accountable, and too many advertise being Green or Conscientious and it is simply ‘GreenWashing’. What is Green Washing? Finding a garbage and recycling receptacle requiring separation of refuse then looking in and seeing it all going into one garbage bag. Putting recyclables into blue bins and finding out it was redirected into landfills. Having our refuse shipped elsewhere to become someone else’s problem. What is the answer? Well here are a few and I hope you will share some of yours!
Reuse as many packaging items as you can, boxes, bags, bottles, jam and pickle jars make great Tupperware!
Fix things instead of being so quick to replace them especially household appliances that are lrge and take up valuable landfill space
Purchase less things that you think will make you happier, things wont make you happy
Purchase items with less packaging
Make sure you utilize all of the options at your disposal such as green bins and properly sorted blue bins
Cover your blue bins to insure your recycling doesn’t blow around
If you see someone ‘GreenWashing” call them on it. They think no one notices
I would love to share some our great ‘green’ Ideas! Please feel free to share on our facebook page!
Just friendly reminder! Kerstin is bringing in a knowledgeable representative for Electromagnetic Mats to Authentika studio on Marsland Drive this Wednesday evening! Amazing opportunity to get more info and learn more about this incredible healing treatment option both at HHDS and in your very own home find out how! FDA approved to increase bone density! Call to book a seat 519-886-8624
Hey You! Yes You! Com’ere!
So Earlier this week I wrote a letter to Mother Earth, well now it’s your turn!
Dear Human Race:
This Week HHDS participated in a community clean up. How many bags of garbage have you collected? Do you join your community on another date? If so when? and Thank You. If not the rest is for you.
Why not? What’s your excuse? Tired? Busy? Dead? HHHMMMM That last one could pose a problem but the rest of you I call Bull$#!*. Listen I get it, I have anywhere between 1-5 kids on any given day (Husband counts as one teehee) One Dog One Cat and a business, So I hear ya about being busy, BUT, Think about this for a minute.
This is an example I give my kids when they are negotiating whether or not to do their chores:
Imagine if Mother Earth Said,” Yeah you know what, I know you need water but I have a real important email to answer and I just don’t have the time…”
OR
“Geez you’re hungry, well cant you make your own snack, I’m not going to be able to do that right now I’m busy spinning so….O you can’t make your own food, AHHH, well sucks to be you!!!”
Which brings me to another point! Ever hear the expression don’t $#!* where you eat? Um HELLO! We dump all this ‘Crap” into our water, pollute our ground and are scientifically exploiting our ability to grow food. So if YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT WHAT DOES THA MAKE US?? HHMMMM
Ok Ok, A little tough love here I know, and this usually isn’t my style but COME ON PEOPLE! There is no excuse good enough to not get off your @$$ and get out in nature and show Mother Earth you deserve your ALLOWANCE!
On that I leave you with this lovely link to some positive Eco News which our 5:00 news never reports, I hope this inspires you to know we ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! Listen We spent one hour the other day picking up garbage and got 8 BAGS! so even one hour makes a difference! You can do it! Grab your kids, you boyfriend, your dog, your self and get out there and be Mother Natures Hero! RAH RAH GO YOU!!
Check out positive Eco News HERE!! http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/categories/news/Environment
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Earth Week Celebrations! April 21-25
Hybrid Hair and Detox Spa Annual Community Clean up!
Come out and Help!
We are asking all of our Clients and Social Media Friends to participate in our annual community clean up! Send us pictures of you and your family and friends picking up garbage! Send us a tally of how many bags of garbage you pick up and we will add it to our tally! Remember this is our planet for a short time, we are but stewards for our kids future planet, let’s give them the best start we can, giving then hope and inspiration! |
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Tips Tuesday – Garbage Collection Begins! Rain, Snow, Sleet or Shine or all of the above!
Tips Tuesday – Garbage Collection Begins! Rain, Snow, Sleet or Shine or all of the above!
Well My Girls and I headed out for our annual Garbage Collection for HHDS!
Poor Morgan had been picking up Garbage all day but I was thrilled to have her come out again with Olivia and I!
This Picture was taken at the end of only one green space trail near our house! THREE BAGS FULL!!
After what seemed like a long haul, only 1 hour later we had collected 8 bags!
Trudging up from a pond near our home, we had only one bag left to fill.
We had taken recycling bags and garbage bags, but most of what we picked up was recyclable. The most we picked up was plastic water bottles. With all the lovely glass options, let’s all try to completely stop using these bottles ok? We were sad to find pockets of solo cups clearly left behind after fun gatherings, not so fun for us to pick up however.
I decided to write a quick apology note to Mother Earth, it goes as follows:
Dear Mother Earth
I am so very sorry that we have the nerve to create ‘things’ that cause you and your habitat illness and disease. I apologize for the scarring we cause you in damaging your surface with digging for oil, carving out for mining and cutting down your trees. I am so remorseful that we are poisoning your crystal blues lakes and steams.
I am embarrassed by our behaviour. I hope you will forgive us. I hope you will guide us to do what is right before it’s too late.
I vow right now to you that I will continue to do what I can to honour you and the gifts you so readily offer us.
I will write to you again, hopefully in a more joyous manner.
Again, Truly, Deeply, Sorry
Regretfully
Erin L Kiers
Tips Tuesday- This Seasons Trends!
Tips Tuesday- This Seasons Trends!
Good Morning my Lovelies!
I wanted to inspire your inner Flower child with some gorgeous new looks for Spring! The latest trends are flower heads bands slung low on the forehead, natural make up and full luscious lashes!
So whether you are Doubling up..
Rocking it out!
Short and sassy!
Or Big Bold and Bohemian Rhapsody!
Headbands ARE the accessory of the season, why not kick it up a notch and do real blossoms for your wedding!!
WAIT! Don’t forget the amazing braid options that continue to be a must have hair design! Great for any occasion!
And to frame perfectly the windows to your soul! Lash extensions will be available starting this May at HHDS! These long luscious beauties last 5 weeks and can be refilled for butterfly wing affects all summer long!
Pastels
And Natural make up add Seasonal glow to your look
Put all this together and you get something like this!
Or this!
And if you are DROOLING over these long locks, We install GREAT LENGTHS Hair extensions too! Lasting 6-8 months you will have the tresses for braids and up swept styles to your hearts content! Check out their gallery for fun extension ideas and colours!
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So many exciting thing this spring! Long Luscious, natural, flowers and braids!
Book today for these looks with safer products and more!
DON’T FORGET!
THIS WEEK!!
Weds Aprils 15th Kerstin Kramer offers more info on Electromagnetic Therapy, FDA approved to regrow bone! From 7-8 only $10!
This Saturday April 18 Brenda Schrader-Sanders Offers you an opportunity to enhance your natural Intuitive Guidance with her class, Intuitive Guidance! From 12-2:30 learn new ways to improve your abilities to read energy! Only $40!
Plan ahead!
Wanting your Level 2 in Reiki?
Kerstin Kramer offers you this intunement Saturday April 25 from 9-5 only $150 with a $10 deposit to hold your space
And Last for April Learn Feng Shui with Brenda Schrader Sanders Thursday April 30th from 6:30-8 for only $45
Sign up today with your $10 deposit!
519-886-8624
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Tips Tuesday – Guest Blogger Sherri Dmyterko
Tips Tuesday – Guest Blogger Sherri Dmyterko
What’s in your emotional backpack? Just as we take care of our bodies by eating right and using products free of harmful chemicals, it’s equally important to consider how our thoughts affect our overall well-being.
I’m proud to be a part of the Hybrid Hair and Detox Spa team, where I work with clients to balance the energies of the body. In my energy healing sessions, I help a client to let go of emotional baggage that is weighing them down. Often people comment how they will feel lighter and happier after a session. I see toxic emotions as blackness in the body, and my healing techniques allow you to effortlessly unwind from anger, sadness, fear and stress.
What can YOU do right now to start your own emotional detox? The easiest thing is to get outside and go for a walk in nature, and leave the electronics at home. Rather than jamming in those earbuds, take the time to stroll down one of our many amazing trails and listen to the songbirds, the breeze blowing through the branches, and the soothing sounds of water bubbling in the creeks and rivers.
Take a few minutes and find a rock or a bench to sit down on and simply breathe in that fresh Spring air. Ask the Universe to take away your stress and lighten your load.
Emotional health and physical health go hand in hand.
If you’d like to read more about me, visit http://www.healingdiva.net.
Sherri
“I love Sherri’s reference to Nature and finding balance and healing by immersing yourself in it. I also love how she refers to the necessity to detoxify and clean up on the inside! During the week of April 21-25 we are participating in our Annual Official Community Clean Up (I say official because we all do it year round but this is the only week we challenge each other and our friends and guests to really get out there and kick off the Earth Maintenance effort for the year!)! Detoxifying our outside environment will help to detoxify you and your families inside environment detoxify by spending time outside with your family! Join us for Earth week and all the fun we would love to share with you! Keep posted here for our weeks promotions and activities posted soon!
Check out our workshops coming up in the next two weeks! This Thursday April 9th from 6-8 is Hypnosis for Transforming your life with Brenda Schrader! Only $10 deposit to save a seat and pay the balance $60 at the time of your class. Also Weds April 15th Enjoy insight on what Electromagnetic Therapy is and how it can change your health and your life! Amazing for Bone density increase, a great option for anyone with old injuries or osteoporosis. On Saturday April 18th Sharpen your intuitive ability with Brenda Schrader-Sanders’ Intuitive Guidance Class Only $10 Deposit and Pay the balance of $30 at the time of your class. Call us to book for a workshop or book an appointment with any of our amazing service providers including Sherri Dmyterko, our latest addition!
519-886-8624
Erin Kiers