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1: TAKE CARE OF THE SKIN BENEATH YOUR BEARD.

Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t need care. The secret to a great beard is a solid foundation. Your facial hair steals moisture from your skin which sometimes leaves your skin dry causing dandruff in your beard (not cool bro). It’s important that you implement a daily skin care regime when you’re rocking a beard, so even if you decide to shave your beard one day, your skin will be smooth and healthy. To keep your skin healthy

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1. Nyakio Kenyan Coffee Face Polish — a creamy scrub to gently exfoliate, restore, and revitalize your skin with antioxidants, caffeine, shea butter, and jojoba oil.

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Founded by Nyakio Grieco who's of first-generation Kenyan descent and based her brand on family

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anxiety t work

Whether you work from home or go to an office daily; you are always working for someone else. Your services, talents, skills and knowledge are being exchanged for money and that means meeting expectations. It also means dealing with daily triggers that frustrate us. According to Dr. Sanam Hafeez, these triggers build up stress which may negatively impact our personal relationships physical health. Dr. Hafeez, a NYC based licensed clinical neuropsychologist, teaching faculty member at the prest

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They tell us to eat for health, eat for nutrition. But FOOD, y’all. Why is it SO good? It’s one of my life’s great conflicts – the desire to eat healthfully versus the delicious ubiquity of carbs, sugar and fried things. There are benefits to drinking more water, eating a healthier diet and eliminating food items that can have negative internal effects, and those benefits go beyond just healing and wellness. So often we think of a diet as an act of self-deprivation intended for weight loss,

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Saving Our Sisters: Breaking the Silence on Black Women And Health

I’ve seen too many women die over the past few months. Women that had so much life left to live. Women that had virtually conquered the world and transformed lives. Women who were gone too soon. I took their deaths personally.

I was angry that I didn’t know about their cancers before they died. I was angered by their secrecy. I was angry at the disease that caused them to turn inward and remain invisible. Could they have been saved? I took it exceptionally hard because, just a few years ago,

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