Comments by Robert Hardwicke, President & Product Master, Awakening Skin Care
Outside the borders of the United States, there are more than 1,200 Starbucks® stores scattered across the nations of the world, so it’s no surprise that the words “coffee” and “Starbucks” often are equated as nearly one and the same by millions of people.  Similar to [...]

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Comments by Rob Hardwicke.

Dog handlers (let alone trainers, breeders, groomers, walkers and owners), whether they’re involved with the family dog or with working dogs, are willingly exposed to all kinds of extreme weather and rigorous working & show conditions in order to achieve the excellence they desire of themselves and their dogs. There [...]

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Comments by Rob Hardwicke, president and product master at Awakening Mineral Therapies

When it comes to spending time outside, leisurely hours in the garden are like no other.  Whether in the cool, damp solitude at dawn or the warm, still moments at dusk in summer, feeling the rich earth in your hands stimulates not only the [...]

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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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Elephant Pharm is gone.  This natural pharmacy will be missed in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We all try to take those extra steps to keep our bodies and skin healthy, and to do it naturally.  Sadly, one of the best, first prototype commercial efforts in America towards that natural goal passed from the scene on [...]

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Comments by Rob Hardwicke, President & Product Master of Awakening Mineral Therapies
In this series of articles, I’ve been talking about Alopecia, which is the medical term for hair loss. In this post, I’d like to take a closer look at the issue of “androgenic alopecia” in women. And although menopausal hair loss, which falls into [...]

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Hair Loss 101 with Rob Hardwicke, President and Product Master at Awakening Mineral Therapies
Hello all - This is the second article in a series I’m doing about Alopecia, which is the general medical term for hair loss. As I mentioned in the first article, your hair is a part of the skin organ, so the [...]

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