Best Way to Become a Lunar Beauty

The sun provides us with energy and light. The moon exerts its influence on the tides and our own monthly cycle. Find out how to become a lunar beauty.

One day, cosmetics may not need preservatives – if manufacturers are prepared to make them according to lunar cycles. Dr. Hauschka’s bio-dynamic skincare has always been made in rhythm with the moon, and Gaby Just, a German beauty who now has her own cosmetics line, Just Pure, has also discovered the potent effect of the moon while creating her products. Struggling to make preservative-tree cosmetics that had a shelf-life, Gaby Just found that they didn’t develop bacteria or molds when she made them at certain times in the lunar cycle. This led her to research the moon’s impact on our skin, body, and psyche as well.

Lunar beauty

Have you ever wondered why a bikini wax is sometimes agony and yet at other times it is almost pain-free? Or why, occasionally, you have a non-PMS-linked food craving? In fact, just as biodynamic gardening recognizes the impact of the moon’s phases on growing cycles, so the moon affects our body’s functions, too. Keep a lunar calendar on your desk and start to observe the link for yourself.

• The waxing moon is a time of regenerating and absorbing. Everything applied to the skin in the 12 days of the waxing moon has a much greater effect, so it’s the best time tor aromatic oil massages, nourishing treatments, and masks.
• At full moon, skin seems to be at its most absorbent, so facial oils, herb compresses, or oil baths have an optimum effect. If you have only a little time each month for a pampering blitz, make it now.
• A waning moon is a good time to start a diet, or an anticellulite program, especially skin-brushing.

• New moon is when purification and detoxifying are at their most effective. It’s a great time for a juice or tea fast.
• The best time for hair waxing, or for getting your teeth fixed, is at new moon or under a waning moon, when you’ll experience the least pain. The opposite is true at full moon.
• If you’re going to grow your own herbs in the garden or a windowbox for making masks or for aromatherapy treatments, the best time to pick them is full moon.