Self-Care Plan: Total Lifestyle Gift to You Puts You on the Path to Fashion After 50

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.

Self-Care Time. This may time to be creative, to meditate, or for a long bubble bath. If not now, when?

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.

Changing Seasons of Life Are Times to Make Changes

Because menopause is the root cause of many of the changes a woman experiences later in life, a good starting place for your self-care plan may be Nursing Menopause.

This effectively organized site will take you through the physiological changes and help you to look and feel your best as you start the journey of your next phrase of life.

Sometime the boost you need is limited or seasonal. For example,Janet Sansouci has some tips for how to write out the simplest of self-care plans for a summer pick-me up.

It's a good idea to take good care of yourself during any busy holiday season, too.

Make-Up and Skin Care: New Products and New Needs

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 out of high-quality natural ingredients. Not a single product has come out of a machine.

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Something Special From Jerusalem

For a very special self-care treat, you can have Ahava products -- Jerusalem's favorite beauty products delivered directly to your home.

Made with healing Dead Sea salts and minerals, these creams and ointments use soothing natural remedies that have been loved for thousands of years.

Facial Skin Care has excellent information for every age group.

This site takes you through the process of how the years affect your skin, what you can do, and even covers special problems such as acne, rosacea, and eczema.

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, or Personalized Skin Care

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.

You'll find some natural tips for keeping your skin supple and moist at My Skin and Beauty. Did you know that very hot water has a drying effect?

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

Hair and 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.

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.

Time: The Ultimate Self-Care Gift

Gillian's Health-and-beauty treatments is another site that can help you with skin, hair, and weight loss. It's got all the bases covered, so you'll want to have a look around.

My favorite page on the site is Royalty Free Meditation Music.

This is a terrific and guilt-free way to set the mood for yoga, a nice soak in the tub, meditation, or relaxing after a long day.

If you are part of the crunch generation -- taking care of children and aging parents -- stress can become a big part of your life.

Did you know there is such a thing as simpler living educator? Beth Dargis offers ideas for simpler living on her blog, like this column about a self-care plan for the busy holiday season.

Inner Exploration: Our Last Great Frontier

Inner exploration, creativity, and brain fitness also is an important part of any self-care plan. I hope you'll visit the Jungian archetypes pages.

Starting with Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run with the Wolves, this path has been an important part of my life journey.

What about Your Post-Retirement Income

Self-care also includes financial planning for our elder years.

Some of us have been through several recessions; we are part of a generation that cannot expect to improve on the living standard of our parents. This is a sharp change from the generations before us.

Some of us also have faced forced retirement or unemployment during the current financial shake-out.

Do consider turning your hobby, special interest, or passion into your post-retirement income by building a website. Let SiteSell show you how with its complete affiliate business internet marketing program that is geared to helping beginnings like me get started.