By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Skincare
In my earlier blog posting on the subject of antioxidants ["Skin Antioxidants & You (Part 1)"], I described some of the causes of skin oxidation and the resulting negative impact on the health of your skin.  It’s bad enough that the unavoidable sands of time rob your [...]

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By Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Skincare

Take a walk down the skincare aisle and the word “antioxidant” is everywhere. Most assuredly it’s overused, yet most laypeople have only a vague notion of what it means. And what it means can make a very big difference for the health of your skin — let [...]

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Comments by Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Skin Care
Thanks to Oprah, many good things happen.
One of those good things is the public’s growing awareness that “skin health” (another way to say “skin beauty”) is very much within the power of each of us to influence.  Yes, PEOPLE MAGAZINE and US WEEKLY earn their profits by [...]

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Comments by Robert Hardwicke, President and Product Master of Awakening Skin Care.
As I’ve never encountered a person living well (let alone living at all) without the benefit of the skin of a scalp upholstering their skull, my conclusion is that scalps are fundamentally essential equipment for us homo sapiens.   Yet how many of us ever [...]

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Comments by Rob Hardwicke, president and product master at Awakening Mineral Therapies.
All kidding aside about what the Financial Times did or did not know, FT.com, the Times’ web edition, came out just recently with an excellent article, “Dead Sea Brings Life to Skincare”, on the ascendancy of Dead Sea minerals in the world of natural [...]

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A note from Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master of Awakening Skin Care Products

It’s always awesome when someone likes what we do for the health of skin!  I’m not suggesting that LOTS of people don’t love the healing, non-greasy richness of Awakening’s mineral skin care products — they indeed do.  But it’s truly encouraging when [...]

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A note from Rob Hardwicke, President and Product Master at Awakening Mineral Therapies.
One of the nice things about making mineral skin care products that are designed for the rough & tumble of life is that they are suitable for just about everyone who has hands, feet — or simply skin — and that they’re easy [...]

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Serious Fall Skin Care 101 with Rob Hardwicke, President and Product Master at Awakening Skin Care.
It seems that every September 21st or so, I find myself suddenly scrambling around the house, trying to find the lip balm I carelessly tossed aside in April. And what about my hands? All summer, I haven’t given them much [...]

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Serious Hand Care 101 with Rob Hardwicke, President and Product Master at Awakening Skin Care.

If you poke around in the world of “hardcore gardeners” (I’ve known a few myself), you invariably find some very dedicated, very passionate people with very beaten up hands. Not that it stops them of course - when your passion for [...]

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Serious Skin Care 101 with Rob Hardwicke, President and Product Master at Awakening Skin Care.
At Awakening, Dead Sea cosmetics (or “cosmeceuticals”) - including lotions, creams, and other mineral skin care products like our Dead Sea mud masque - are our “raison d’être.” We have built our company on the idea (and the proof) that skin [...]

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