Being a home based working moms enable us to work from home and we no longer pay attention to our look. Work, stress, pollution and toxins from the environment can take away the beauty of our skin. The green living tips today is about what nature wonders can do to nourish skin.  The degradation of collagen in our skin leads to aging and wrinkles. To simplify, collage is the main protein of fibrous tissue mainly found in skin. Collagen is responsible for the strength and elasticity of the skin.  As we are getting older, the ability of our body to create collagen deteriorates, causing dry and wrinkles in our skin. We need to rejuvenate our skin. Let’s take a look at the secrets of nature wonders from plants for skin nourishment:

White Tea: to enhance collagen level, thus protect your skin from wrinkles and damage from UV radiation

Salicylic Acid derived from wintergreen leaves: it is used for exfoliation, to unclog pores and to tighten skin pores.

Cucumber: to moisturize skin and a source of skin hydration. Cucumber is rich in nutrients. Cucumber can reduce wrinkles, fine lines and boost skin complexion.

Glycerin from exotic palm kerner and palm oils: to enhance the natural protection of your skin against moisture loss and to attract moisture to your skin cell so your skin will stay hydrated.

Allantoin derived from herb comfrey and seaweed: to promote skin regeneration by attracting moisture into your skin and to protect against moisture loss

Shea Butter: The fat of shea nuts of karite tree can increase skin suppleness and reduce the appearance of scards, stretch marks and moisturizes the skin

Cocoa Butter: the fat derived from cocoa tree contains antioxidant to nourish skin and to reduce the signs of premature aging.

Lemon: to cleanse and to exfoliate your face.

Ginseng: to tone, soften and soothe skin.

Green tea: powerful antioxidant

There are more plant extracts which can benefit for skin nourishment. Can you imagine that you can have the goodness of these plant extracts concentrate for your skin? Would you like to have royal jelly extract, green tea, soy bean and botanical extracts in your cosmetics? Or you would rather buy commercial cosmetics and skin care loaded with chemicals. For home based working moms, if you want to live a healthy lifestyle, start with reducing chemicals right from your home.  Find out more from Green Living Tips.

• They have to make initial investment to buy the stock, thus you carry the inventory.

• Mostly WAHM business owners don’t open a physical store, thus they set up a website as an  online store.

The nature of  WAHM business selling physical products above is online business. They have the product knowledge but most of them do not have business marketing online strategy. Their business marketing online strategy limits to marketing to forum, internet social networking and blogging. Most of them make trial and error and copy other WAHM business marketing online strategy. Understanding SEO and Blogging are absolutely necessarry to put our WAHM business in the front. We have to educate ourselves continuously.

What if you can sell physical products but you don’t need to have the inventory. The disadvantage of keeping stock is the quality of products may deteriorate over the time if you keep the stock for a long period.

I would suggest Drop Shipping and Consumer Direct Marketing as alternatives of WAHM Business model for home based working moms if you want to sell physical products and make online profit.

Drop Shipping

Take a look at Doba, the third party which outsource all the reliable products and suppliers for you.  You need to pay monthly fee to Doba and you get ecommerce training and an access to millions of products.  You need to set up an online store or to open an account with ebay marketplace.  You don’t need to keep the inventory and the suppliers will ship to your customer directly. The supplier sell at wholesale price to you and your customer pay at retail price to you and you make the profit margin from the price difference. The disadvantages for Doba: you can only sell at US market. You can search local companies which provide drop shipping but mostly the profit margin is small. You can check with Kidzpuzzle which offers drop shipping and rewards home based working moms with good profit margin.

Consumer Direct Marketing

The principle of consumer direct marketing company is to sell products at wholesale price to consumers. The access to their products is only from direct marketing, it means that their products are not available in the market or retail sectors. They save advertising and building rental cost and pass the saving cost to consumers so consumers can purchase products at wholesale price. The companies who run consumer direct marketing usually sell daily essential products that consumers need them in everyday life. Thus, the consumers are bound to make purchase repeatedly from the company. How can home based working moms make online profit from consumer direct marketing business? Yes, home based working moms can act as a referral and set up their WAHM business from it. This WAHM business model is the most viable as you don’t need to carry inventory and you keep your customers happy by selling products at wholesale price. You can offer hundreds of products and you don’t need to open an online store. Your customers can shop online at the distributor’s ecommerce store. It has more advantages than drop shipping as you don’t need to keep inventory and don’t need to open an online store. Join Million Dollar Moms network if you want to learn how to make online profit from your WAHM business using business marketing online strategy.

In these modern days, most parents are busy. We often overlook  to build   relationship with our kids. Instead, we focus to attend their basic need  and monitor their school activities.

Do you remember when is the last time you play with your kids? Many parents can not afford to set aside time to play with their kids. Life has made us so serious and focused that we have lost the joy of the simple things. Play was one of the first to go.

But for kids, play is essential for their life. It warms the heart and bring up the spirit. For kids, who live closer than we do to nature, play is as spontaneous as breathing. Sadly, most grown-ups have lost that skill. Our kids can be our reminder.

Playing with your kids brings you back to the present, reminds you of what matters, and slows you down  to smell the roses. It also connects you emotionally with your child, rebuilds the closeness that the fast-paced, boring routines of life are all too quick to strip away.

Playing together is even more important for your kids than it is for you, because they needs to feel close to you and they want to feel loved and happy. If you have neglected time together for long enough, it may appear that your child is not interested in your attention. She may even tell you as much. But that is just a protest.  They hide the fear that you will disappoint them again if they wish for time alone with you. If you initiate playing together, and do it at frequent intervals, even the most distant pre-teen will start to look forward to it and, in time, throw herself into the fun.

What kind of play should you do? Pay attention to the activities your kids engages in: their  play ideas. If these things seem boring to you, try hanging out nearby, observing as they do. Express your curiosity with words. You  may find that you eventually develop a genuine interest. If your child is a couch potato, take up your perch on the couch beside him. After you are allowed “in,” initiate some play that might be more pleasant than TV.

Think back to what you did as a child was memorable, especially activities you did with your parents before. Think about things that are free or cost little, that involves experiencing life together. Start a list of play ideas and add more:

Outdoor Play Ideas

• Taking a walk
• Walking the dog
• Collecting treasures from the nature
• Flying kite
• Getting up early to watch the sunrise

Play Ideas at Home

• Reading comics, joke books, poetry or story books.
• Baking cookies,  a cake or making pizza
• Playing hide and seek
• Playing cards or board games
• Making shadow figures on the wall with your hands and a flashlight
• Building something from blocks
• Making a scrapbook
• Making up a silly poem or song
• Playing a memory game
• Playing games of pretend

Day Trip Ideas

• Watching a parade
• Going to the zoo or museum
• Going somewhere such as to  the beach
• Having a picnic in the park

Playing together is different than finding entertaining activities for your kids. Play involves you, while entertainment eliminates you from the picture. If you find yourself saying, “But my schedule is too busy for any of the things on that list,” consider whether you need to reschedule.  Your child will cherish the moments when you play with her.

Closeness with a child cannot be taken for granted. Like any other relationship, it will slip away unless you make a priority. Nothing builds trust and bonding with kids like sharing a moment of silliness and laughter. Come together for light-hearted play, and you just may find your child opens up about serious subjects. The relaxed atmosphere of play helps us let our guard down and reveal more of ourselves.

When you play together, let your kids feel like the most important person in your world. Give them your undivided attention: no cell phones, no interruptions, no slipping into your own private thoughts. Be present – body, mind and spirit. Then let yourself do whatever comes naturally, imagine what you feel when you yourself were a child. Your instincts will be your guide.

Growing closer through play is easy. It just takes dedicated moments, given on a fairly regular basis, so your kids begin to count on having time with you.

Let your kids teach you the wonderful secrets of play. You both will feel more secure and peaceful – and a whole lot happier, as the reason you do it all for, starts to come back to you.

Build relationship with our kids is not overnight.  Kids need our affirmation that  we love them unconditionally and we trust them.

Winsome Coutts holds a teacher’s certificate in education and has written hundreds of articles on self-development. She has studied with Bob Proctor and John Demartini, popular teachers featured on “The Secret” DVD. She is the passion behind the Goal Setting for Kids and is a parent and grandparent.

photo credit: Randy Son Of Robert

Green Living is about how we live to depend on Eco friendly natural products which are safe for our health and our environment. Please take a look at the following green living tips to compare between toxic household cleaner and Eco friendly natural product.

Toxic Household Cleaner

What do you read on the label of your household cleaner? Most commercial household cleaners in the market give you the straight solution: kills 99.9% germs, tough on stains (means remove stains fast). Many household cleaners rely on chemicals to get rid of the dirt/stain and germs. Chemicals are inexpensive ingredients to produce and they work on stains and germs effectively. The cleaning products that kill germs are even more dangerous than the germs themselves. Your skin can absorb the chemicals when you are in direct contact with the liquid. Some release their toxins as fumes, therefore they have strong odour. Mothers who breast feed and young children should be cautious when they use toxic household cleaners at their home.

How Toxic is Your Household Cleaner?

The chemicals used in household cleaners are loaded with carcinogenic and neurotoxins ingredients and some are the same chemicals used in the pesticide. You may read the label: chlorine, ammonia, formaldehyde and so on. This is the reason why cancer is on the rise not only for human but also for pets.  Use gloves, cover your mouth so you don’t inhale while cleaning and rinse with water after cleaning are ways to minimize the danger of chemicals exposure. Can’t you imagine that you clean the floor and wipe the table and your kids touch the surface with their hands? They may put their hands into their mouth. It means that they may swallow a small percentage of these chemicals. You may want to save on the household expense but it may cost your health over a prolonged period and the environment suffers too.

Eco Friendly  Product

The environment that you should protect first is your home. Make your home a safe place for your family especially for your kids. Would you like to have something familiar in your household cleaner such as  the following ingredients of Eco friendly product.

• Natural Enzyme Cleaners can break down food stains
• Thyme and Citric Acid kill germs effectively

Eco friendly Product is also strong, effective, gentle for our skin and biodegradable.

Now, you have the picture from the comparison of  green living tips above. If you continue using commercial household cleaners, you must take extra care. The choice is yours. For more information about Eco Friendly Products, please visit Eco Green Business.  Find out how Eco Green Business has a different approach to build the business and at the same time they bring the goodness of green living for the people.

We know that Victoria Beckham and David Beckham are celebrities. I wonder how their parenting style is. Do they have time for their kids?  Victoria is a super busy mom and she switched her career from singing to fashion icon. And David Beckham is football superstar.  They still have a lasting marriage untill today and they are proud parent of 3 boys: Brooklyn 11, Romeo 7 and Cruz 5. When they are free, they spend their time with their kids.

Victoria and her boys.

Victoria is kind, generous and loving to her children. Victoria has learned to be a multitasked person with her career and motherhood.  She is a healthy eater who cooks for the boys when she is free. She teaches her boys about caring and sharing with unlucky children through her charity job. She knows how to live her life and always smiles. She said that her children, her husband and her work made her smile.

It is heartwarming to see the loving parenthood characters from David and Victoria Beckham although they have a glamour life as celebrities. They raise their kids well and it is truly touching how they teach their children to care for others. I hope that we will emulate their exemplary parenting style.

The environment that we live in is vital for our survival. How we treat the environment has a direct impact on the quality of our lives. A lot of green living awareness is being raised about Eco friendly products. This Eco friendly product is designed to keep the environment clean and green.

Eco friendly products are goods and services that are manufactured in an environmental friendly manner. The production and use of Eco friendly product leaves no negative impact on the environment.

Harmful Effects of Industries on the Environment

For many years now, industries have been emitting harmful chemicals into the environment. These industries manufacture a variety of products that in turn cause more harm to the environment. These harmful gases and chemicals degrade the quality of air around us leading to air pollution. As a result many people fall victim to health complications such as asthma, allergies, respiratory diseases, and others. The main goal of Eco friendly products is to create goods and services that are gentle on the environment.

Eco Friendly Product Made of Recycled Materials

Eco friendly products are  made with recycled materials that don’t exploit the already depleting resources of the planet. The main focus is to add to the environment and not take from the environment. Although our beautiful planet has much to give us, we cannot continue plundering the limited resources that are available. At this rate, there will be nothing left for the future generations. More and more people are becoming conscious of their roles as responsible citizens of the earth and purchasing Eco friendly products that are made from recycled material. Several useful products are made from recycled plastic, recycled rubber, and many other common materials that we use every day.

Identifying Eco Friendly Product

If you would like to transform your home into an Eco friendly haven, and looking for the right, green products, you have a lot to look forward to. Not only are super markets and local shops full of Eco friendly products, but so is the world of the internet. When it comes to buying Eco friendly products from online stores, you will truly be spoiled for choice. From recycled paper to eco friendly bags, you have a huge array of green products to fill your home. Identifying an Eco friendly product is easy; all you need to do is carefully read through the description of products that states whether they are organic, recycled, or completely natural. Descriptions on eco friendly products usually read as “hundred per cent organic,” “made from recycled materials,” or anything on those lines.

Creating Eco Friendly Product

The process of creating Eco friendly product is vital for the good quality of the environment. For a product to be Eco friendly it must be made from organic materials. Recycled products such as organic cotton are made without the use of pesticides. Similarly any product that is made organically without using any sort of chemicals is said to be Eco friendly. Eco friendly products are much the rage among environmentally conscious people who are eager to contribute towards a cleaner and greener planet.

Eco Friendly Product Cuts Down on Waste

One of the many positive outcomes of creating and using Eco friendly products is that these don’t accumulate as harmful waste that fouls the air and the earth. Environmentally bad products such as plastic toys and battery-operated gadgets bring about a lot of harm to the environment when improperly dumped. Organic and recycled products cut down on the colossal waste that gets generated everyday around the world.

Eco friendly product is the first choice for environmentally conscious individuals looking for green goods and services to live a simple, fulfilling life.

Find out more about Eco friendly product at Eco Green Business to give your family safe and healthier products. Use chemicals free products  and make your home a safe place for your family.

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As February is the month of love, I am talking about love and relationship. I mostly talk about a happy relationship. But, I may forget one thing that there are moms out there with unhappy relationship.  Moms  from a happy family usually trust people and I could feel from their tone. Moms with a bitter relationship distrusted people and they had a bitter tone. I wish that I could be a super hero mom to give counseling but I may not have the experiences.

Resources Sites for Single Moms and Women in Crisis in Malaysia

So, I am searching for resources sites that can give counseling for single moms and women in crisis. My advice to those moms, do not keep the problem to yourself  and  do not be afraid to seek a help. There are helping hands out there. Relieve yourself from the pain and build a better future for yourself and the kids. Here are the resources sites for single moms and women in crisis in Malaysia.

Calvary Life Ministries counseling service is open to everyone, Christians and non-Christians. Face to face counseling for a wide range of problems: grief, trauma, terminal illness, sexual abuse, anger, divorce and stress. For e-mail counselling, please contact clm@clm.org.my

Women’s Aid Organisation provides phone and face to face counseling to help women in crisis and to offer basic legal information.

Women’s Centre For Change in Penang provides counseling and emotional support for women in crisis, legal advice concerning the rights of women and their kids and helps women and their kids to seek medical, police and welfare assistance.

The Nanyang Single Again Women’s Helpline offers tele-coaching to single mothers (widowed, separated, divorced) who needs a listening ear and personal coaching to help with their problems.
The helpline is available every Saturday from 3.00pm – 5.00pm  (2 hours only). Please Call 03-7650 8669/ 7650 8676.

The organisations below also provides general counselling services in Mandarin:

The Bridge Counselling Service (phone 03-92877251)

Chinese Association Counselling Centre (phone 03-22733960)

Wanita MCA National Counselling Bureau (phone 03-21618044 (ext. 266/269)

Please note that those helpline above is based on searches. I am not responsible for the accuracy. I am trying to provide resources sites for single moms and women in crisis, where to find a help so they will find a solution in their life and can move forward to a better future.

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