A Self-Care Plan is Your
Total Lifestyle Gift to You

A self-care plan is the best way to ensure that you weave together the health of an active body, agile mind, and resilient spirit.

A woman’s body undergoes many changes with aging, as do the outer circumstances of our lives.

  • Skin.With hormone loss, your skin may become dry and lose the rosy glow of youth. Do you wonder what make-up for older women is appropriate?

  • Hair. You may experience hair loss, dry hair, and silvering.

  • Fitness. You may have less energy or less motivation to exercise.

All of these considerations may be factors in creating a self-care plan that is right for you. Here is a brief list of some web sites that may be of interest.

All of these sites are run by people like you – people who want to offer solid content and service to visitors like you.

Make-Up for Older Women and
Skin Care

Have you ever tried egg-white facials and cucumber eye masks to reduce shadows? Savvy Homemade has a page devoted to homemade beauty recipes of natural ingredients. There’s lots of great ideas for home remedies for everything from acne to wrinkles.

Create a spa day in your home as part of your self-care-plan.

A Natural Alternative Soaps and Toiletries are as close to making them yourself as you can get. My niece, Hedge, makes them herself out of high-quality natural ingredients. Not a single product has come out of a machine.

Janette has the scoop on how honey is a natural way to lessen some symptoms of menopause. This site is an encyclopedia about everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know about honey and more.

Affordable, organic skin care products by Feierabend are the focus of Jasmine’s Fitness-Beauty-Spa. This website is operated by four fitness trainers who also will provide you with advice.

Lacey at Moisturizer Reviews will help you find a product that is right for your skin type. I especially like the page that summarizes dermatologist opinions.

Mineral make-up is the latest buzz. Susanne has an informative page about her experience at Mineral Makeup Reviews.

Hair & You

If you are convinced the only way to look youthful is to dye your hair and wear it short, please take time to visit Ronni Bennett’s Time Goes By column on this topic.

You may be inspired by Elazar Harel’s photo gallery of women with long gray, white, and silver hair. I was ready to get a year’s growth cropped short until I saw the comments on this page.

Stay Young Beauty Secrets includes a variety of suggestions for hair, skin, dental, posture, and diet. It's also has a video on its home page.

Fitness for Women Over 50

Fitness After 50-Plus may be the site that sparks you on the exercise part of your self-care plan.

Are you looking for approaches to fitness for women over 50? Dave writes with you in mind. He covers disease prevention, fitness, nutrition and diet, and brain fitness, too.

Inner exploration, creativity, and brain fitness also is an important part of any self-care plan. I hope you'll visit the Archetypes of the Month that explore these taproots to inner imagination. Or perhaps you'd like to take the Fashion Archetypes Quiz.

 Walking is a fabulous way to explore the world around you and get fit.

Fifty Plus Fitness Walking is listed on Fashion After 50’s Resources, sites I’ve hand-picked for you.

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