Elixir Greene

15/12/2025

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12/12/2025

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30/11/2025

Kick start your festive season with this extra special indulgent experience. Not your classic facial, Yule love this, specially created for those who are totally obsessed with all things Christmas🎄 combining ingredients inspired by the delights that make you feel warm and fuzzy and a definite must for those who love to add that extra sparkle and shine to their Christmas countdown!✨

On arrival you will be greeted by Santa’s Lil Helper, Elixir Greene the Elf, who knows if you’ve been naughty or nice!
Under a rainbow glow of the Northern Lights, you will be transported to the North Pole, where tidings of comfort and joy wash over you as you’re wrapped up like the precious gift you are in cosy Christmas blankets.
As you drift off on your festive adventure, you’ll smell Mrs Clause 🤶 has been busy in the kitchen creating culinary magic for your facial, all the ingredients inspired by Christmas…. Just imagine a Mulled Wine Cleanse with warming clove, Gingerbread Exfoliation using cinnamon & mandarin 🍊infused brown sugar,
a cooling Peppermint Candy Cane face mask with nourishing pine honey & let’s not forget about the 3 Wise Men delivering their Frankincense, Myrrh and Gold for your massage, leaving you totally relaxed, glowing and ready to sleigh all the way to Christmas.
If you get caught under the Mistletoe, don’t get your tinsel in a tangle as you’ll get a complimentary gift 🎁 before you go hohohome!

All products used throughout the Festive Facial created with 100% natural ingredients and pure essential oils, making it ideal for all ages, skin types and suitable for anyone undergoing cancer treatment.

13/11/2025

Our hormones influence everything. Our mood, energy, and sleep, metabolism, fertility, and emotional resilience. When they’re out of balance, we can feel it in every part of our lives.

Reflexology offers a gentle, holistic approach to supporting the endocrine system - the network of glands that produce and regulate our hormones (including the thyroid, adrenals, pituitary, and ovaries/testes).

When we’re under chronic stress, our bodies release high levels of cortisol, the primary stress hormone. Over time, this can throw other hormones off balance - affecting menstrual cycles, thyroid activity, weight regulation, and even immune function.

By calming the nervous system and promoting deep relaxation, reflexology helps lower stress hormones and encourages the body to return to homeostasis - its natural state of balance.

🧠 How it works:

Reflex points corresponding to endocrine glands are stimulated, helping to improve communication between these systems via neural and circulatory pathways.

Activating the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) response reduces cortisol and adrenaline levels.

With less stress load, the body can better regulate hormones like oestrogen, progesterone, insulin, and melatonin.

📚 What the research shows:

A 2019 study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research found that women who received reflexology during their menstrual cycle experienced reduced PMS symptoms, less pain, and improved mood.

In Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice (2017), researchers reported that reflexology helped reduce anxiety and fatigue in menopausal women, suggesting a beneficial effect on stress-related hormonal imbalance.

Other studies note reflexology’s potential to lower blood pressure, improve sleep, and enhance overall wellbeing - all indicators of a more regulated endocrine system.

✨ The bigger picture:
While reflexology doesn’t replace medical care or claim to “fix” hormonal disorders, it can be a valuable complementary approach to help the body find its rhythm again.
For many, it offers a sense of calm, better sleep, and renewed emotional balance - the foundation for healthier hormone function.

12/11/2025

Reflexology works on the body as a whole, so during a treatment all the organs and systems including the skeletal and muscles get worked on. 💪🏻🙇🏻‍♀️ By loosening up the spine, improving circulation, bringing all important blood flow 🩸to nerves and all the systems, it helps the body work more efficiently.
Most times if we’re feeling achy or stiff it’s just the body’s way of giving us a bit of a nudge that it needs looking after in whatever way ❤️‍🩹 Some symptoms can surface due to stress, emotional distress 😢 giving a physical problem in the body and reflexology helps to relieve this and bring the body back into balance ⚖️😌 If you haven’t tried it yet, maybe now’s your time to give it a go!

21/10/2025

Magnesium is not just another mineral — it’s a foundational element your body depends on every single second. Often called the “master relaxer,” magnesium fuels over 300 biochemical reactions, acting like the ignition key for your cells. Without it, the body can’t function at its most basic level — and over time, that deficiency can ripple into every system.

From relaxing tight muscles and calming the nervous system to supporting cellular repair, DNA synthesis, blood sugar balance, neurotransmitter production, and detoxification, magnesium does it all. It’s essential for producing ATP — your body’s energy currency — and for helping enzymes do their job in every organ system, including the heart, brain, and gut.

When you're low in magnesium, you may feel it in subtle ways: muscle cramps, insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, headaches, PMS, constipation, or poor digestion. Over time, these signs can grow louder, showing up as chronic stress, inflammation, hormone imbalance, blood pressure issues, histamine sensitivity, or even cardiovascular problems like arrhythmias and palpitations.

Magnesium also plays a key role in detox pathways — helping the liver neutralize toxins, the colon move waste out, and the lymphatic system stay fluid. It’s needed for proper methylation, glutathione production, and phase II liver detox, which are critical for clearing estrogens, histamines, environmental toxins, and heavy metals. Without enough, the body struggles to keep up with its own cleanup, and toxins begin to recirculate.

Modern life drains magnesium fast — chronic stress, blood sugar swings, caffeine, alcohol, medications (like PPIs, antibiotics, and diuretics), and processed food all burn through your reserves. Add to that the fact that most soils today are depleted due to industrial farming, and even nutrient-dense foods contain less magnesium than they used to.

That’s why restoring magnesium is often the first step in a root-cause healing plan — especially for those with anxiety, adrenal fatigue, hormone issues, digestive problems, or sleep disturbances.

🌿 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲

To truly restore magnesium, you want to focus on 3 key layers:

🥑 𝟏. 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦-𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 (𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)
Eating magnesium-rich foods is essential, but won’t fully restore levels if you’re already depleted — due to stress, illness, poor gut absorption, or soil depletion.

✅ 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦:
• Pumpkin seeds (1 oz = ~150mg)
• Dark leafy greens (spinach, Swiss chard, kale)
• Avocados
• Bananas
• Black beans, chickpeas, lentils
• Dark chocolate (70%+ cacao)
• Almonds, cashews (if tolerated)
• Quinoa, buckwheat, oats
• Seaweed & kelp
• Mineral-rich herbs: nettle, alfalfa, horsetail (in tea or tincture form)
💡 Tip: Soak or sprout nuts and legumes to reduce phytic acid and improve mineral absorption.

💊 𝟐. 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬)
Different forms of magnesium have different purposes — and choosing the right one makes all the difference.

🧠 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐆𝐥𝐲𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Calming, anti-anxiety, sleep support
• Bound to glycine (a calming amino acid)
• Great for stress, insomnia, muscle tightness, mood
• Gentle on stomach
• Dose: 200–400 mg at night

⚡️ 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Bound to malic acid (supports ATP/energy)
• Excellent for fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic pain
• Can be energizing, so best in the morning
• Dose: 200–400 mg with breakfast/lunch

🧠 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐋-𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Crosses the blood-brain barrier
• Supports memory, learning, neuroprotection
• Excellent for cognitive issues, anxiety, neuroinflammation
• Often more expensive
• Dose: 1,000–2,000 mg/day (usually divided doses)

💩 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Stronger laxative effect
• Best for constipation relief
• Avoid in sensitive guts or loose stool
• Not ideal for long-term repletion
• Dose: 150–400 mg as needed (start low)

💧 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐂𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 (𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 / 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐥)
• Absorbs well through skin
• Use in magnesium oil sprays, baths, or foot soaks
• Excellent for people with poor digestion or high needs
• Can sting on broken skin (dilute if needed)

🛀 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐥𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐄𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭)
• Classic magnesium bath soak
• Helps relax muscles, nervous system, reduce inflammation
• Soak: 20–30 minutes in warm water with 1–2 cups

🌿 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Bound to taurine, which supports the heart, blood pressure, and calming
• Great for POTS, palpitations, or high-stress sensitivity
• Very bioavailable and gentle
• Dose: 200–400 mg/day

🌱 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐎𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞
• Bound to orotic acid — used for heart function and mitochondrial energy
• Often used by athletes or in heart disease
• More expensive but well-absorbed

⚠️ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝
• Magnesium Oxide – Very poorly absorbed (~4%), mostly acts as a laxative
• Magnesium Carbonate – Harsh on digestion, low bioavailability
• Multivitamins with too little magnesium to be therapeutic

🧬 𝟑. 𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬
Even if you take the right kind, you need to support magnesium retention.

✅ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬:
• B6 (P5P) – helps magnesium enter cells
• Boron – supports hormone balance and magnesium retention
• Taurine – enhances magnesium utilization
• Potassium and sodium balance – support intracellular mineral flow
• Hydration – drink mineral-rich water with trace minerals or sea salt

❌ 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦:
• Caffeine and alcohol – both deplete stores
• Stress and cortisol – burns magnesium rapidly
• Refined sugar and processed food – increases magnesium excretion
• Certain medications – especially PPIs, diuretics, antibiotics, birth control

🔄 𝐒𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧
𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
• Magnesium malate (200 mg)
• Mineral water with a pinch of sea salt
• Whole-food breakfast with leafy greens or pumpkin seeds
𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧
• Optional: topical magnesium spray or bath soak
• Continue hydration with minerals
𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
• Magnesium glycinate or taurate (200–400 mg)
• Epsom salt foot bath or castor oil pack (optional)
• Sleep in darkness to restore melatonin–magnesium synergy.

20/10/2025

A different kind of ‘Happy Hour’ 😜

If you’re feeling out of kilter, don’t know why or what about, let your feet reveal the answer, find the sore spot, work it out. - Eunice Ingham 👣

Reflexology affects the body on many levels. Enkephalins and endorphins are released by healing contact, which encourages feelings of wellbeing and strengthens the immune and hormone systems in the body.

Book in for your ‘Happy Hour’ today and let the sun shine from within 🌤️ 🤗💖✨⏳😊

Call or text 0872779830

13/10/2025

We’re all doing our best, we’re all struggling in some way, but we don’t need to keep powering on through always.
We don’t always give yourselves the same grace that we so freely give to others. There are times we just need to release, let go, unwind before it becomes too much but most times we don’t listen, even when our bodies are screaming at us to slow down, to take it easier, or take some time out.

If you do nothing else today, say yes to letting someone else help you, even if it’s only in a small way, you are honouring yourself and giving yourself the permission you deserve to rest and recharge.

If this resonates with you, book a reflexology session to support yourself and all you do.

Call or text 087 2779830

24/09/2025

It’s World Reflexology Week 👣 and if you haven’t tried reflexology now could be the perfect time 🍁🍂 The change in seasons brings with it a lot of sickness but it’s also a time of letting go, just as the trees 🌳 shed their leaves, we too must release what no longer serves us, surrender to slowing down, honouring the time to rest, nourish our bodies by eat warm wholesome foods🍲 welcome evenings of hibernation 😴 and harvest gratitude 🙏🏻 as we reflect on what the year has brought us so far ✨

24/09/2025

It’s World Reflexology Week 👣 and if you haven’t tried reflexology now could be the perfect time 🍁🍂 The change in seasons brings with it a lot of sickness but it’s also a time of letting go, just as the trees 🌳 shed their leaves, we too must release what no longer serves us, surrender to slowing down, honouring the time to rest, nourish our bodies by eat warm wholesome foods🍲 welcome evenings of hibernation 😴 and harvest gratitude 🙏🏻 as we reflect on what the year has brought us so far.

02/04/2025

In the 1890s, British scientists found that nerves connect the skin and internal organs. They also found that the body’s entire nervous system tends to adjust to outside factors, including touch. 👩🏻‍⚕️🧠

A reflexologists touch can help to calm the central nervous system, promoting relaxation throughout the entire body and it’s internal organ systems. 🙌🏻🦶

Others believe that the brain creates pain as a subjective experience. Sometimes, the brain reacts to physical pain, but in other cases, it may create pain in response to emotional or mental distress. 🥲😢😭
Reflexology can reduce pain through calming touch treatment, which may help to improve someone’s mood, reduce stress and benefit a variety of symptoms and health conditions. 😊

The techniques used in reflexology are usually by the fingers, thumbs, knuckles.👍🏻👌🏻🤜🏻
The movements stimulate the nerve endings encouraging them to fire and increase the flow of energy and circulate blood to the related body part.🩸💞
This energy allows the body to begin its own natural healing system to re-balance the body. ⚖️

06/03/2025

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