Kristen Arnett & The Green Beauty Team

The Green Beauty Team photo

Do any of you follow Kristen Arnett and/or The Green Beauty Team?

I'm a fan. Yeah, I'm completely hooked. I follow them all on Facebook, the Green Beauty Team Newsletter and the Twitter feed.

Kristen, the founder and Editor-in-Chief
is a make-up artist who learned first hand the value of safe simple ingredients. While living and perfecting her skills in make-up and the Italian language in Italy she followed the advice of a model friend and tried olive oil as a moisturizer. She's been finding and sharing green beauty solutions and techniques ever since. 

Her make-up skills and advice are sought after in the fashion and entertainment industries, but it's her recipes, solid information and tips that prompted me to make her the subject of this post.

A few weeks ago she suggested introducing sizzle & spice into my beauty routine with recipes including cinnamon, turmeric and honey. Just reading the post made me feel relaxed and happy... and a little hungry.  A quick check around the house showed me I already had all the ingredients for two of the three treatments in my cupboard and refrigerator This is part of what I really like about her ideas. You can put her yummy ingredients on your face, hair and body. And if some gets on your lips... well that's yummy too.

Another thing that's really great about the team is the amount of information shared. For the Introducing Sizzle & Spice Into Your Beauty Routine recipes there was background information on the main ingredients as well as a link to an entire page on the history and benefits of Turmeric The Age & Acne Fighter.

Ceylon Cinnamon photo

My first instinct- to go for the cinnamon, turmeric and honey facial scrub was based on how happy I feel whenever I smell cinnamon. 


Sweet, yet a little spicy and hot it reminds me of so many things I love: crisp winter days, roasting spices for the traditional Chana Dal on Christmas Eve, chocolate chip oatmeal dough transforming into cookies in the oven and steaming mugs of cocoa after ice skating on frozen ponds all day. 


Although I tried both the face mask and foot scrub and both were really wonderful, the mask was my favorite. Here's why...

...read more after the jump...