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@JorjaDouglas

🌶 Skincare and crystals, what more could a girl need? Luckily the @healthgeenie shop carries both ✨
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#HealthGeenie #Shopsmall #shopsmallbusiness #blackownedbusiness #womanownedbusiness #botanica #botanicashop #crystalhealing #chakrahealing #chakrabalancing #skincare #skincareroutine #kbeauty #beautybloggers #dcblogger #washingtonian @healthgeenie #QuarantineShot #WithJay ...read more

🌶 There is a lot of power in truly loving every aspect of yourself and being unafraid of letting people know. Power in rejecting the concept of feigning humility or dimming your light to not appear “full of yourself” — a phrase which begs the question, if not me, then who exactly should I be full of???

Society has done a number on women — especially Black women and women of color — in terms of the constant socialization that requires us to be beautiful, smart, excellent, driven, sexy, motherly, kind, brave, strong, feminine... but also asks us to keep quiet about it.
And to that I say, most (im)politely, with my legs crossed, lips painted, and eyelashes batting, “fuck no.”
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I have more to say on this but I have to get back to my day. It’s a full time job being this phenomenal.
I’ll see y’all at my next selfie.
Happy Friday beautiful people, don’t be afraid to let the world see how truly magnificent you are.
💛 @healthgeenie #QuarantineShot #WithJay ...read more

🌶 If you suffer from brittle nails and broken hair you might benefit from consuming more silica.
Cucumbers are extremely high in silica. Grab one.
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Silica is a mineral that contributes to the growth and connectivity of tissue in your body. Silica contributes to hormonal balance and the balance of magnesium and calcium.
Silica is also a crucial mineral for #beauty : it keeps your #skin looking young, it makes your #hair shiny and strong, and it gives you naturally long perfect #nails
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Stay tuned for recipes!
#HealthGeenie
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#healthylifestyle #healthandwellness #organic #organicskincare #cucumber #instanails #naturalnails #opiinfiniteshine #naturalbeauty @healthgeenie #QuarantineShot #WithJay ...read more

🌶 Is there anything more stressful than running low on your favorite night cream?? For me, no. Especially right now. I’m in Denver, Colorado for a few days, a notoriously dry city and feeling the repercussions of leaving my moist DC swamp. My skin is drier, more oily and very irritated 😫. I’m using twice the amount of moisturizer that I usually use! Thankfully I have a brand new jar on the way 🥰
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Nightcreme: @epanouieskin @healthgeenie #QuarantineShot #WithJay ...read more

🌶 Food Law: Defining Natural
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The Gist:
Natural” has no legal definition applicable to 80%+ of American food. Most often it is a marketing tool used by food producers to make money not a food label regulated by the government.
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The Juice:
Food labeling laws in the U.S. are regulated by two federal agencies: FDA and the USDA.
The USDA is in charge of meat, poultry, and eggs. The FDA is in charge of almost everything else ( ~80% of our food supply).  
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The FDA has not formally defined natural. It has not created parameters or metrics for a food to meet to be able to bear the label.
The USDA HAS formally defined “natural” and it applies to 3 major products: meat, poultry, eggs. .
This means for everything that is not meat, poultry, or eggs. “Natural” has no formal meaning and is able to be used as one of the greatest food marketing terms in our consumer history.
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Why is it such a great marketing term? Because according to the Consumer’s Union association, 90% of American consumers believe that “natural” indicates, at the very least, that the natural product is somewhat healthier than the product without the natural label. Food producers make minimal (if any) changes, slap on the word natural, make the packaging brown, and hike the price up 30%. A superior scam.
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Does this mean that all food that has a natural label is attempting to deceive? No.
Lots of companies have defined what natural means to them and stick by their own definition or adopt standards from other associations and countries that have more strict policies on the word “natural”. And some companies are taking advantage of a consumer trend and a legal loophole. .
In sum:
Law permeates every aspect of your world. Especially in the United States.
Wellness goes beyond green smoothies and instagramable diets; it also has to be about about understanding labels, food law, and the entities regulating EVERYTHING that you consume.
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HG 2020 will feature a LOT more law and legal analysis of health and beauty issues. Might as well put this degree to use 😉💛 @healthgeenie #QuarantineShot #WithJay ...read more