Holistic facialist and founder of Honest Rituals, Elizabeth Carter, shares her beautiful experience from a childhood surrounded by nature and the journey that led her to lean into holistic skincare and her own beauty rituals. She reminds us that we all do not have to follow a traditional path in this life and that once you get truly clear on what you want your life’s work to look like, you can unleash so much wisdom that has laid dormant inside. Time to awaken.

 

Topics We Discuss: 

• Ritual
• Holistic Beauty
• Herbalism

 

In the Episode, We Learn:

• She grew up on a piece of land outside of town where she was connected to nature.
• If she was ever sick as a child, her parents would always give her natural remedies.
• She graduated from aesthetics school in skincare.
• After her natural upbringing, she rebelled and worked at a plastic surgeon office to learn about medical aesthetics before realizing it did not align with her.
• After leaving what she thought was her dream job, she took a year long off.
• She has always taken care of her skin holistically through her own beauty rituals.
• What facial massage is and its benefits.
• All about her personal rituals.
• About her Lunar Cleanse Facial and its benefits.
• Her rituals and why they’re important to her.
• How once she decided what she really wanted to do, so much information was downloaded to her. 
• How one of the most challenging times of her life became the catalyst for her starting her own business.
• How to make anything a ritual.

 

Resources:

• IG: @honest.rituals
• Elizabeth’s website: honestrituals.com
• Living Libations for oil cleansing rituals
• Eye of Horus 
• Vapour Beauty
• Renegade Beauty by Nadine from Living Libations
• Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within by Juliet Diaz
• Mother Wit by Diane Mariechild
• Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar
• Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health by Rosemary Gladstar
• High quality herbs: 
• Mountain Rose Herbs
• Starwest Botanicals