Awakening

By Robert Hardwicke, Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care All of us hear many things written about “good fats” and “good oils”.    Also “bad fats” and “bad oils”. While you may not always be able to discern the difference between the good and the bad, your skin can! The one ingredient none of us never […]

By Rob Hardwicke, Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care There’s a blog that I follow called Personal Care Truth or Scare that keeps holding a mirror up to our industry — and the image most often reflected back at us can be most disconcerting.  Indeed, scary. A recent post raised the topic of just how […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master — Awakening Mineral Skin Care Why should a skin care company for peoplebe concerned with horse grooming tips?  The answer is simple: Because horses are a shared interest of ours.   People who groom horses typically live, work & play in tough physical and weather conditions, so their own […]

By Rob Hardwicke, Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care It’s already Friday and the “Awakening Wednesday” post hasn’t yet happened.  Time has the nasty habit of swamping both good intentions and bloggin’ editorial calendars — though I suppose I could procrastinate another 5 days and we’d be back on the Wednesday timetable again! Of course, […]

By Rob Hardwicke, Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care Anyone who was alive in 2002 likely has some fond recollection of the hit movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding.  One of mine was the use of Windex glass cleaner as the perfect, all-purpose remedy for all ailments.  Have a zit?  Spray it with Windex and […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.  I live and work in the world of skin care, and this, sadly, is a world prone to hype and illusion. There are two, basic polarities of interest: “Beauty/Cosmetic” on the one end […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care The ball cap is a ubiquitous fashion statement with about 80% of the U.S. male population.  Some position the bill forward; some aft.  But the result in any position — other than doffed —  is that the hair (if there is any) and scalp […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care “Travel Season” can be defined as practically any time of the year — Americans are a travelin’ bunch of people.  But the stretch of time from Thanksgiving through Christmas and New Years is finally starting to see crowds hit the road (or skies) in […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care Just recently, one of the newest of the late Steve Jobs’ remarkable consumer products has reached the marketplace.  It features state-of-the-art voice-recognition capabilities — “intelligent” human interface by an electronic contrivance.  Skin care is growing more ‘intelligent”, too, as more and more of it […]

By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Mineral Skin Care This is an “Awakening Wednesday” post on yet another matter that affects the health of skin and which may help you keep your own skin in good shape in an increasingly complicated world.  So, what’s with “Biotin”? Probably best to start with the question, […]