CONWAY   ROSE

I have been fortunate to travel extensively in my lifetime. I love to travel meeting different people from different cultures. I immerse myself in getting to know their daily habits, seasonal rituals and their overall choices in lifestyles. Beauty rituals are a large part of different cultures. Women all over the world have their own way of preserving, maintaining and achieving healthy-looking. You can see by their skin tones where they live, how much they are in the sun, and what kind of food they eat. Most cultures take what Mother Earth has to offer using plants, mud, fruits and vegetables to grace their beauty rituals. I have learned a lot from these cultures. From a beautiful Italian woman on the Amalfi Coast who spoke not a word of English, I learned a waterless face cleanse we now incorporate into our Conway Rose Evening Ritual. From wide-eyed, Spanish speaking women from the little town of Ixtapan de la Sal in Mexico I learned secrets of fresh smothered fruit masques.

Although I have not visited India yet I have studied Ayurveda, a 5,000 year old healing system from India. I live an Ayurvedic lifestyle that includes daily yoga and meditation as well as dosha and seasonal eating, herbs and wellness routines that keep the body and mind in balance. A huge part of Ayurvedic living compromises the importance of sleep. According to Ayurveda, the body and mind heal and rejuvenate best during sleep. This got me thinking. With the skin being the largest organ of the body, why are we spending so much time with our skin care routine in the morning? If the body’s natural ability to heal and restore itself happens at night, why are we not capitalizing on this time for the skin to restore itself? I couple that with skincare products fighting the skin’s daily bombardment of free radicals, make up, radiation from the sun, and air pollution and started thinking we got this all wrong. And here is where Conway Rose Skincare manifested. 

Conway Rose Skincare is an essential part of a balanced lifestyle that enables you to achieve harmony and balance in mind, body and spirit as you journey through life. We use nature’s gifts of the highest reaches of our earth to the deepest oceans of our planet - rich, exotic, botanical ingredients to blend modern science with ancient Ayurvedic healing wisdom. Ayurveda, regards true beauty as a healthy internal radiance. The skin is a direct refection of your inner health. What happens on the inside, the food you eat, the emotions you feel, the sights, sounds, scents and touch you take in, all reflected through your skin’s health. By balancing our body and our mind, we will balance our skin.

According to my teacher Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws, law number four is the Law of Least Effort. This law is based on the fact that nature's intelligence functions with effortless ease and abandoned carefreeness. If you observe nature at work, you will see that least effort is expended. Grass doesn't try to grow, it just grows. Fish don't try to swim, they just swim. Flowers don't try to bloom, they bloom. Birds don't try to fly, they fly. When we learn this lesson from nature, we easily fulfill our desires. Conway Rose Skincare is based this lesson. Upon research I found there is greater blood supply to the skin and a number of different metabolic processes including cell rejuvenation all go on at night. During sleep, the body focuses on rejuvenating and repairing itself from the damage caused by the day's external attacks. I also learned the skin’s ability to absorb active ingredients peaks at night! BINGO! My Conway Rose Skincare Rituals and Boosts were born.

By targeting our skin’s individual needs each night, we can target the skin’s imbalance using the Law of Least Effort. For example, if your skin is dry, we balance it with Coconut Hydration Boost at night. If you have blemishes or acne, balance with Instant Spot Treatment Boost at night. Your skin’s cell renewal is more active during the night, and our Boosts are designed to make the most of the hours. It penetrates deeply due to the active ingredients not only nourishing and conditioning your skin but giving it the chance to repair the daily wear and tear caused by pollution, make-up and ultra violet light.

Once you begin to follow the Conway Rose Evening Ritual, you will immediately begin to see the harmony between you, nature and the Law of Least Effort. Although the rituals seem counter to the dogma that we have been taught, when we follow the laws of nature, we come most into balance. Through these guiding principals you will learn to incorporate the ancient secrets of flawless skin and ageless beauty into your everyday life.

Beauty is as unique as the individual itself. EVOLVE YOUR SKIN.

-Colleen Rose, Conway Rose Visionary