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Love Your Skin! Enjoy 30% Off Smooth Skin Set For Valentine's Day
Love Your Skin! Enjoy 30% Off Apothekari Smooth Skin Set For Valentine’s Day Pamper your skin & punch up the smoothness with an invigorating exfoliating polish and luscious moisturizing butter for the body! Until Sunday, February 16th, 2020 – save 30% on our Apothekari Smooth Skin Set (Regular Price: $78.50; Sale Price: $54.95) This Set Includes: Bamboo Lemongrass Foaming Body Polish Punch up the smoothness with this invigorating exfoliating polish for the body! Made with walnut shell powder, powdered bamboo and a light, refreshing essential oil blend of lemongrass, mimosa, this foaming scrub revitalizes and invigorates your skin and your senses leaving skin feeling soft, smooth and silky. Shea Body Butter Pamper dry skin! This luscious butter for the body moisturizes dry, cracked skin. Made with organic shea butter and infused with healing herbs, fresh oils and an intoxicating blend of essential oils this extra-rich, protective crème penetrates deeply to leave softness behind. Learn More About Getting Smooth Skin: How To Exfoliate What Makes Skin Soft? Apothekari Clean Skincare Formulations You’re concerned about what you put on your skin and we are too. Our clean skincare formulations are made with naturally safe ingredients that are also free from: Aluminum Baking Soda Silicone Parabens Phthalates Formaldehyde Synthetic Colourants Synthetic Fragrances SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) and SLES (Sodium Laureth Sulfate) And, Apothekari Skincare products are never tested on animals. Except the human kind, of course! Apothekari Skincare products are registered with Health Canada. Learn more about our philosophy here…
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7 Ways to Self Love For Valentine's Day
I’m not hugely into Valentine’s Day (though I must confess I like the chocolates :)) and this year I’m in the mood for a bit of self reflection, making self love and self care seem like appropriate topics for today. Shop All Apothekari You’ve no doubt come across the terms self love and self care more of late. Self love is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support our physical, psychological and spiritual growth. Many experts contend that if you are good to yourself, kind to your body and soul, then you can completely and authentically give and receive real love. By practicing self love, we begin to better accept our weaknesses as well as our strengths, have less need to explain away our shortcomings, have compassion for ourselves, are more centered in our life purpose and values, and can expect to live a fulfilled life through our own efforts. Loving and nurturing ourselves through self care leaves us feeling less resentful, more energized and well rested and able to receive love more readily. Contrary to what some may say, self love and self care do not involve beauty makeovers or new wardrobes. While these things may feel gratifying, they will not help you to love yourself more. Here are seven things that may actually work: Be Grateful. Whether through meditation or journaling, document your accomplishments, the things you feel good about and everything you are grateful for. It will help to give you appreciation for all that you have instead of focusing on what you don’t. Be Positive. Turn down your inner critic. Choose to be your own cheerleader. Forgive Yourself. We humans can be so hard on ourselves. Accept that you aren’t perfect and can make mistakes. When you make one, try to learn and grow, rather than beat yourself up over it. Be Mindful. Try to be more aware of what you think, feel and want. Live with design and purpose. By doing this you will make decisions that support this intention and act on this knowledge rather than being swayed by others. Practice Good Self Care. Take better care of your basic needs. Be more thoughtful about choosing nourishing food, exercising, getting enough sleep and choosing healthy relationships. Set Boundaries. Set limits and learn to say no to work, relationships or activities that deplete or harm you physically, emotionally and spiritually. Protect Yourself. Bring the right people into your life. Get rid of people who bring you pain and who take pleasure in your losses. Focus on those who share in your happiness and success and who bring a smile to your face. This Valentine’s Day, let’s focus on self love. Let’s give ourselves a break, appreciate who we are and share our awesome selves with the world! I think that’s a better gift than any bouquet of roses could ever possibly deliver. DON’T FORGET! The contest for our Valentine’s Day Giveaway runs until February 18th! You only need to shop online at Apothekari.com to qualify for an entry into our prize draw featuring over $200 of Apothekari products. Follow along on social media (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – links below) for additional chances to win! Retail value: $218 Contest Closes: February 18th and winner will be drawn on February 20th. Good luck!
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A Valentine's Day Giveaway
For Valentine’s Day this year, we are sharing the love! All purchases online at Apothekari.com between February 11 – 18th qualify for an entry into our prize draw featuring over $200 of Apothekari products. Follow along on social media (Facebook and Instagram – links below) for additional chances to win! Our gift basket contains the following: A is for Anti-Aging Serum. One of our top sellers at Apothekari! Daily Infusion Moisturizer. Not too light and not too heavy, this Cinderella of moisturizers is very popular for a reason. AHA-Mazing Clean or Cloud Nine Cleanser. Depending on your skin type or needs, you may choose one of our two cleansers. Bamboo Lemongrass Foaming Body Polish. Once you try this, you’ll never want to take a shower without it! Exfoliates and cleanses for the softest, smoothest skin, ever. Vanilla Rose Sugar Body Polish. Fine sugar body polish scented with floral notes of rose and vanilla. Lemon Verbena Sugar Polish. Fine sugar polish with a vibrant and refreshing citrus scent. Retail value: $218 Contest Closes: February 18th and winner will be drawn on February 19th. Good luck!
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7 Facts About Valentine's Day
Here are 7 facts about Valentine’s Day, that ‘holiday’ in February we know and associate with hearts, roses and romance. Whether it’s a holiday that you embrace or one that you despise, Valentine’s Day’s beginnings are rooted in both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. Shop All Apothekari Beyond cupids and the Saint that is the namesake of this day, here are 7 facts about Valentine’s Day that you may not know: You may know that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Saint Valentine’s death or burial–which probably occurred around A.D. 270. However, did you know that there were at least three early Christian saints who went by Saint Valentine? Most academics agree that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed “from your Valentine.” Others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia – a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. It wasn’t until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to a medieval scholar, it was the poet, Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine’s Day with romance. In 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England’s Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day. In “The Parliament of Fowls,” the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine’s Day are linked: For this was on St. Valentine’s Day, When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate. By the 18th century, gift-giving and exchanging handmade cards on Valentine’s Day had become common in England. This tradition spread to the Americas, where hand-made cards made of lace, ribbons, and featuring cupids and hearts were given. It wasn’t until the 1840s that the tradition of Valentine’s cards became widespread in the United States, when a native of Worcester, Mass., Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made elaborate creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap.” Women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines. Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year. (An estimated 2.6 billion cards are sent for Christmas.) According to a 2015 survey by digital coupons website RetailMeNot.ca, 78 per cent of Canadians feel Valentine’s Day is an overrated occasion. Whether you’ll be partaking or not, here at Apothekari, we’d like to show you some love for Valentine’s Day. Until February 15th, every online purchase qualifies for FREE SHIPPING (code love2017 at checkout) and a generous 1 oz jar of our Bamboo Lemongrass Foaming Body Polish. No code is needed for this special gift and it’s included with every purchase at our online store. It’s our way of showing our appreciation. Hope you found these 7 facts about Valentine’s Day interesting – I learned something writing it! Happy Valentine’s Day from us all at Apothekari!
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