Busy, busy, busy. Roxanne Creates a new BIZ Fresh Toppings Facebook page.
The new year is about to roll over to 2012, we are in the process of switching from an individual page for RoxanneZ to a Business website especially for Fresh Toppings. We would love to hear from you, here on the Natural blog or on our As the new year Facebook Wall.
- Coupons “Just for January” -Give Fresh Toppings a “LIKE” on Facebook and receive a free tube of our Healthly Lips lip balm with your order. A $10.00 value. It stops dry lips in their tracks.Feels great!
Happy New Year. RoxanneZ
FRESH TOPPINGS brand new website – visit and tell us how you like it!
We have a beautiful field of fresh blooming flowers for your enjoyment.
The site will be tied to our educational YouTube videos, as we produce them. You will be able to watch handmade fresh skin care being made!
The Fresh Toppings Facebook link will be up soon. Educational info will be offered on growing botanicals, customizing your Fresh Toppings Skin Creams with vitamins, Essential Oils and suggested recipes to modify creams for your special face conditions.
Fresh Toppings OPEN HOUSE Timonium MD Outlet Store DEC 17 11:30 -1:30
The Open House is on for this Sat . 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM.
Stop by and sample and buy our fresh handmade skin care.
Foaming Hand Soaps -buy 2 get 1 free at the OPEN HOUSE Sat 12/17
Our newest creation- Foaming Cocoa Butter Hand Soaps, scented with Lemon, Peppermint or Orange E. O- just in time for Christmas gifts.
Large 8 oz size.
Hello again from Fresh Toppings Natural Skin Care!
Happy December 2011. Christmas is just around the corner. Santas Elves at Fresh Toppings (mainly me!) are working hard each day to fill our shelves with Fresh Toppings Natural Skin Care Products.
Making products fresh daily this time of year, to keep up- try our best selling exclusive recipe- Restore Anti-aging Creams in Mountain Rose and Sweet Orange Essential Oil scents, new whipped Body Butter Scents, my brand new creation -Foaming ‘Herb Tea’ Soaps, and all the favorites. All are hand made from natural sourced products.
Read new posts to learn about what has been going on at Fresh Toppings! Please share our posts with friends.
Merry Christmas- Roxanne Z.
New Fresh Toppings TM Herb Toner & Sunflower Cleanser out this week!
Two new products will be available by Weds. August 18, I will put them here on the blog.
The Herbal Toner has chamomile infusion, rose water, alcohol and witch hazel. It used to take off cleanser is gentle on the skin.
The Sunflower Cleanser contains orange essential oil scent , peppermint to refresh, sunflower oil, olive oil, etc.
We also have two new natural soaps- Peppemint Soap and a new Rose soap.
Healing Lips- Soothing relief for parched, cracked or dry lips- All natural emu oil, coconut cream
Our newest product is great for dry or cracked winter
lips.
The product is a natural, very rich lip balm called:
Coconut Cream Healing Lips
Comes in a slimline tube. $10.00
Easy to tuck away tube.
Nude tone.
A little goes a long way.
Fresh Toppings organic body butters- new-Hawaii Coconut Cream and Cinnamon Coconut Swirl
TRY TWO NEWEST SCENTS-
Coconut Cream Body Butter!
3.0 oz.- $ 10.00
Link for Blog on”Beneficial Properties of Pure, Unrefined Shea Butter: Spotlight on Cinnamic Acid”
This blog below has articles on the ingredients that make shea butter special. Please note that two types of shea are commonly used -west African Shea butter and East African Shea Butter.
Beneficial Properties of Pure, Unrefined Shea Butter: Spotlight on Cinnamic Acid
Most shea butter available to the general public outside of West Africa is white and odorless: in other words, it has been “refined” to remove the naturally-occurring scent and color. Only pure, unrefined shea butter has the true healing and moisturizing properties sought after by people for millennia. Due to the high heat, chemicals and other harsh applications involved in the refining process, the majority of shea butter’s effective agents are also removed when it is not handcrafted.
One of these agents is Cinnamic Acid. It’s presence in shea butter is an indication of the butter’s environmental history and post-extraction conditions. In other words, a higher concentration of Cinnamic Acid signifies a more natural, higher quality and better performing shea butter. This crystalline acid is also found in cinnamon oil and balsams and is widely used in the manufacturing of fragrance for the perfume industry. The Merck Index defines Cinnamic Acid’s odor as “honey” and “floral” and indeed raw, unrefined shea butter has a subtle sweet scent to it. Remove the odor and you have removed much of the inherent healing and protective features in shea butter.
Cinnamic Acid
Cinnamic Acid The beneficial properties of Cinnamic Acid are far-reaching. Research has demonstrated that Cinnamic Acid has antibacterial, anti-fungal and parasite fighting abilities. It also inhibits elastase, an enzyme that breaks down proteins, including elastin, which as the name implies, is responsible for the elasticity and resilience of youthful skin. Studies have also shown that Cinnamic Acid absorbs UV radiation. Chemists surmised in a 2006 study performed at the Northeast Normal University in China, that Cinnamic Acid and its derivatives have potential for use in sunscreen products.
By Matsya Siosal, Contributing Writer
BLOG LINK- http://www.alaffia.com/blog/?p=1122
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Fresh Toppings Best seller- Restore Light: anti-aging natural cream with DMAE
Restore Light- Sweetest orange essential oil scent .
Smells delicious! Normally $36.00,
in our store or online- $30.00 for 2 oz.!!
Restore Light- Mountain Rose essential oil scent.
Smells heavenly of roses! $30.00 for 2 oz.
Thanks to all our clients and customers in 2009. You made Restore Light our best seller, and it continues in 2010. Don’t forget to use the fast action companion product Restore Emu Oil to quickly remove age spots or hyperpigments. It usually lifts darkness within a week or two.
If the spot is deep, it may take longer, but you will see improvement.
Healing Lips- Soothing relief for parched, cracked or dry lips- All natural emu oil, coconut cream
Our newest product is great for dry or cracked winter lips.
The product is a natural, very rich lip balm called:
Coconut Cream Healing Lips
Comes in a slimline tube. $10.00
Easy to tuck away tube.
Nude tone.
A little goes a long way.
Tips for renewing and refreshing your skin- Fresh Toppings TM Natural, Anti-aging Skin Care
Fresh Toppings Tm Natural, Anti-aging Skin Care Tip for renewing and refreshing skin tone and texture during dry winter months.
Lets talk about skin anatomy and characteristics. When I hosted my radio show “Lasting Effects TM” here in Maryland a few summers ago, a frequest topic came up on skin care.
As a professionally trained electrologist, I often dealt with my patient’s problems with dry skin. I set out to learn more about why their skin was dry and how we could solve the problem. This is in the previous post.
Lets talk about the indirect result of dry skin- loss of freshness and softness, a scaly dead look to the skin.
First things first- Healthy skin comes from the inside out, not by peeling away outside layers.
Basic skin anatomy- Your skin has three major layers. The epidermis is the outside layer and is primarily a dead layer of skin. This is the part that so many of you are constantly trying to slough off with those acids like Alpha hydroxy’s ( glycolic, etc.) ,in your skin creams and soaps, Retin-A , and even the big gun “laser resurfacing” ! Yikes, what an assault on the poor skin.
The two major inside layers contain new and developing skin, which then slowly works it’s way up to the surface to become the dead, outer layer. Fixing the two inner layers gives the skin lasting beauty and radiance…. not vigorously scrubbing off the outer layer with acids. If you buy bad, dried out fruit, no amount of cleaning and scrubbing the outside skin will cause the inside fruit to be pretty and lucious!
The truth is that naturally beautiful skin is it’s own reward- and can be easy to obtain- -your goal is to simultaneously-
- Heal and nourish your skin by building the components health up on the inside
- Stimulating collegen gently, to rebuild new skin components.
- Thickening the paper thin layers to a more normal healthly tone.
- Keeping the debris like excess oil cleared away, so the skin can breath.
Then wa-la! You can simply acheive Beautiful skin with the sought after component- RADIANCE.
Yes- a glow of health.
How does Fresh toppings TM Natural, Anti-aging Skin care help your resore your skin to it’s natural beauty? I recomend two of our natural products:
1. Restore Cream to moisturize and tone.
Restore Anti-aging Skin Cream contains:
- Natural nut butters like African Shea, to moisturize.
- Natural collegen builders like emu oil.
- Skin toners and tighteners like DMAE and Rosewater.
2. Restore Herbal liquid Cleaner to remove excess oil so the skin can breath.
This contains natural oils, tea diffusions and botanicals to gently cleanse the skin.
Go ahead and get that beautiful skin you desire. With Fresh Toppings- your skin will drink it up!
Fresh Toppings Tm Natural Ingredients- Emu Oil
Emu Oil is a staple of our products, because it has so many healing properties that make the skin look young!
Emu Oil can act on skin, according to multiple research articles and electron microscope pictures, to thicken skin’s layers- moving it from a fragile like skin to a more robust , firmer and smoother tone. As the skin absorbs Emu Oil, it begins to respond by taking on smoother and firmer tone normally seen in younger, healthy skin.
FYI- As you probably know, less estrogen causes skin to thin dramatically and so this is occuring in women after menopause as a sign of aging. Yikes!
We need an effective weapon in our arsenal against aging skin, and this is it!
TIP- Using our Restore Emu Oil with essential oils or our Restore Skin Creams both allow you to benefit from the pure oil alone or in concert with moisturizers.
Remember that products infused with high amounts of emu oil act on the skin by penetrating into the fifth layer of skin in seconds-the fastest known penetrating oil.
Emu oil also heals skin, and lifts hyperpigmented spots- such as age spots.
So try some, you should enjoy the results. We offer little frosted glass bottles with hands free roller tips for under $20.00 in the store.
Blogged Why use natural produc…
Blogged Why use natural products?- Reason # 1-Skin product chemicals on skin are stored in your body fat.: – http://tinyurl.com/ycddbfr
Why use natural products?- Reason # 1-Skin product chemicals on skin are stored in your body fat.
Fresh ch
unks of African Natural Shea Butter.
Did you know that most people alive in the USA today have dozens if not hundreds of chemicals and drugs hidden in their body, stored in the body fat?Fresh Toppings TM is striving to use as many fresh and natural derived ingredients as possible. collected in the old methods which use no chemicals or as few chemicals as possible. We strive towards making our products more healthy.
Link to an article from Toxic Nation, that talks about exposure to chemicals. 
This image is from the article .
Some FYI about commercial skin care products:
- Skin lotions applied to your face and body, as well as soaps and sprays often have properties that affect you and can cause cancer and numerous health consequences.
- Check out the database called SKIN DEEP. Type in the name of one of your favorite skin creams and see the report on the rating of ingredients and their danger to you.
- Some come from the water you drink, which can have the remanents of drugs that were flushed down the toliet or introduced into the water supply. This includes antibiotics and anti-depressants.
- Chemicals and pesticides that you handle, spray, bomb or walk through are absorbed into your body, just like they are with pests. If pesticides can penetrate the hard shell of an insect, surely they go through human skin.
Why use Fresh Toppings Natural Skin Care? Reason # 2- Some botanicals have the power to repair not just treat.
#2 – Reason for using natural skin care products.
Why do we bother as consumers to research databases and articles on ingredients such as essential oils, botanicals, herbs, emu oil, nut and fruit butters and start seeking them in our skin care products? Well- What we want is non-carcinogenic ingredients, non-harmful ingredients. What we want is to learn about and use effective ingredients which have the ability to give real benefit to the skin. Ahhh- the undiscovered secrets.
FYI- You will notice three issues seem to keep popping up in natural skin care -
- Many natural ingredients are well researched and often documented to have a repairing effect on the skin.
- The natural ingredients COST a lot more than the CHEAPER mineral oil and petroleum bases and chemicals found in commercial products.
- When companies do put highly sought after natural ingredients on the front label, why are they then found way down at the bottom of the ingredients-which means the concentration of the “natural ingredient” you seek is actually low?
- Best practices for consumers- Just like I council my students in our school-
- READ, READ,READ the label before you buy products, whether fresh or preserved.
- Evaluate to your satisfaction whether you are being given real concentrations of the ingredients you admire and seek. And if the product is full of unpronounceable chemicals- better check www. SKIN DEEP to see what your skin and body are consuming!
- You can not gain the reported benefit if the amount is minimal.
For example- Emu Oil has the ability to penetrate deep into the skin quickly, and it is known to remove age spots. It appears to build and repair the skin underneath the age spot, move the fresh skin up and thereby lift off the aged skin with the spot. I have seen client after client use our pure Emu Oil scented with E.O called RESTORE OIL- to remove age spots with success. And it works quickly too!
Real life example- If you use pure 100% Emu Oil on an age spot, it will lift much faster than if you use a 10% diluted form.
At Fresh Toppings TM , each product is designed to give real benefit to the skin though rich inclusion of natural ingredients. In the Restore Cream , we use 1/3 pure Emu Oil by weight. In Restore Light we use 1/6 of the total weight in Emu Oil.
On of our mottos is- No skimping!!
Fresh Toppings TM best seller-…
Fresh Toppings TM best seller- Restore TM Anti-aging Face Cream. Made with natural African shea butter, rosewater, orange & rose oil, DMAE.
Fresh Toppings TM Best Seller- RESTORE TM Anti-aging skin cream.
Behold our best seller for four years- “Restore TM” & “Restore TM- Light “.
This lovely whipped cream is a natural , fresh made moisturizer that smooths and softens your skin.
This cream contains a high content, base of rich, thick real African Shea Butter mixed with Rose Water and Emu Oil. It also has DMAE , which is now understood through science to have a tightening effect on the skin in about 20 minutes.
The African Shea is top quality and an excellent moisturizer and softener, Rose water tones the skin and Emu Oil is known to thicken and restore skin tone, remove age spots and discolorations and thickens and tightens skin. You may come into the Lasting Effects TM Clinic and Fresh Toppings Store to try some yourself. Everyone who tries it seems to loves it , because we have trouble making it fast enough to keep it on the shelf.
Two essential oils scents- sweet orange and mountain rose. 2.0 oz. $30.00
Fresh Toppings TM Anti Aging- Natural Skin Care- your skin will drink it up!
Return to Fresh Toppings Website and store
Fresh Toppings TM is a fresh made, natural line of unique skin and body care products using natural butters, fruit oils, essential oils, cosmeceutical, herbs & flower extracts, giving your skin the very best nature has to offer! Many products have expiration dates, and the products are made frequently in small batchs.
Your skin will drink it up !
Silky… soft, smooth, whipped decoctions, some liquid, some cream ,some butters, some soaking teas, all - gently fragranted with essential oils and natural scents to be enjoyed by your spirit and absorbed by and nourshing to your skin.
We do take advantage of the newest anti-aging cosmeceuticals in face products- Restore Cream does have the great skin tightener DMAE . You can buy it without if you like-just ask.
Simply… the best natural ingredients with minimal preservatives. They do have expiration dates, and so are sold in small sizes to keep them fresh.
What you WON’T find in our Fresh Toppings -
- No mineral oil
- No petroleums (ick!)
- No paraben wax ( we use beeswax)
About us: Roxanne Z. is the owner and maker of the creams and products, and a well know secret among her permanent cosmetic and electrolysis customers is that she has been offering her fresh made skin and body care products exclusively to our Lasting Effects TM Clinic customers for 4 years. They have been very popular, and sell out very week.
This includes our best selling RESTORE TM anti-aging face cream, RESTORE Emu Oil Age Spot reducer, Whipped Body Butters, Whipped Body Creams with herbal decoctions, Foaming Hand soaps, Foaming Bath Gels and matching essential oil scented Natural Glycerine Soaps, Pure Virgin Coconut Cream Cuticle Cream, RELIEF pain reduction cream for sore muscles and aching joints, and a bevy cute of Fresh Toppings TM Tee Shirts which all began with our simple logo tee.
So… we have launched a project to offer our natural, handmade skin care products to everyone through both the Fresh Toppings TM Website Store and our Outlet Store inside the Lasting Effects TM Clinic at 22 W. Padonia Rd, Suite C-253 in Timonium, Md.
Call us for store hours, at 410-252-3994.
