Did your beach weekend leave your skin barbecued???

After a relaxing long weekend on the beach, it is always hard to come home and get back to work.  Concentrating at your desk is even harder when you have skin that is irritated and sensitive from too much time out in the sun! Nothing is more uncomfortable or unsightly than irritated skin, even people who continuously reapply their sunscreen can come home a little more crisp than they anticipated. Oftentimes, over the counter skin creams  don't seem to do much and can, in many cases, cause more irritation. Many of the so-called "skin soothers" on the market today are made with harsh, drying chemicals which defeat the purpose of trying to truly soothe your skin.


But here at Replenish we are introducing two new treatments for the summer that specifically target sensitive and irritated skin.  Our Vitamin C Calming Treatment will brighten and gently exfoliate sensitive skin and our Cooling and Calming Treatment is perfect for hydrating and healing sun-burned skin.


The best way to protect is to make sure your sunscreen has broad spectrum coverage that shields your skin from both UVA and UVB rays.  But if you do end up getting a little crispy this summer, stop on in for one of our soothing summer treatments to pamper your skin!

Teacher Appreciation Week!!!

The faces blur. The names, a lot of them anyway, are lost forever in a haze of science projects, book reports, and math problems.

But some will remain forever embedded in my mind, important fixtures in my life, for the lessons they imparted that often had little to do with the subject matter they taught.

Like Miss Kugler, my fourth grade teacher, who taught me to be compassionate to everyone and that a smile and a kind word go a long way .

Or Dave Lichter, the science teacher with a pet snake who ate a live mouse in front of the class every other Friday.

Or Barbara Reilly, my high school English teacher, who comes to mind whenever I use the phrase "my friend and me" - the grammatically correct term is "my friend and I".  Thank you Mrs. Reilly - oh, and I still love those clogs that you never gave me a demerit for junior year.  The dress-code rebel in me relished the frequent commentary on them.  And the little catholic school girl in me prayed everyday that you would keep that demerit pad in your desk so that I would never have to face my mom with the write-up and the shoes.

This is Teacher Appreciation Week, where teachers are supposed to get their due.  Now, let's face it, like any field not all teachers are due accolades. (I could go on about my acting prof in college who told us about a "great way to make money" freshman year at the gentleman's club down the street, but I think I’ll save you all from that story.) But there are game changers, life changers, who deserve whatever recognition they get.

What teacher or teachers from your life do you appreciate most, and why?