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HAIR CARE: WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF YOUR HAIR? HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND ON HAIR CARE PRODUCTS?

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:08:19 +0000

Over the many years that I have tried the great variety of hair care products (from the cheapest to the top brands), I have discovered they are all based on the same basic ingredients. Going to the hairdresser was quite a costly event. I used to buy all the products I thought that I needed in order to get the best out of my new chemically treated hair. My hair was starting to look like straw, dull and lifeless. I am sure you all have had this experience. All I was doing however was adding more and more chemicals which, in turn caused more and more damage. This led me to experiment with different foods on my hair in an attempt to regain condition and to make it look and feel alive again. If you do use chemicals to colour or perm your hair, you will need to balance this by nourishing it with your own kitchen formulas, not by using more chemicals. Get to know your own hair type and be creative. Make your own cost effective products. The recipes below are only a guide line to help you get started with creating your own hair care products.

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BUSH REMEDIES USED BY THE ABORIGINES: WATTLE (ACACIA) SUNSHINE WATTLE – TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:04:53 +0000

Wattle (acacia) Sunshine Wattle – traditional medicinal use The Sunshine Wattle is antiseptic, consolidating, tightening. About one handful of inner bark of the young branches is cooked in one litre of water. The liquid is used once a day for scabies, sore eyes by washing the affected areas with the liquid. The bark of young roots is chopped into small pieces, mixed with hot water and left brewing for several days, until the infusion has a dark red or black colour. This preparation is put on ulcers and burns but is also taken internally as medicine against complaints in the stomach and intestines.

Long strips of the root are soaked in water and are placed on fractures and as a dressing on injuries. The resin is mixed water and used as an ointment to treat ulcers and bums. Scabies are washed with a weak solution. A powder made from ground dry resin is used for the treatment of cuts and open ulcers.

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SKIN DISORDERS: BLACKHEADS AND AGE SPOTS

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:01:42 +0000

Blackheads

Food: an abrasive facial scrub can be made of finely ground oatmeal and sea salt mixed with kefir or acidophilus yoghurt and stiffly beaten egg white. Make up a firm paste and massage into troubled areas. Rinse well with cool water and apply diluted lemon juice, apple cider vinegar or kombucha. Radish pulp can be applied to the affected areas, leave until dry before washing off. Save the asparagus water from cooked asparagus and use the water to cleanse the face morning and night.

Ageing

Food: massaging the skin with radish juice eliminates wrinkles. Urine: slow down the ageing process by drinking a glass of fresh urine in the morning as a tonic. Massage fresh urine into the skin 20 minutes before daily shower.

Age Spots

Papaya: latex or the fleshy side of the skin from a green papaya can be placed onto the age spots.

Urine: apply to spots for 20 minutes twice daily.

Oils: rub odourless castor oil or apply vitamin E nightly.

Foods: rub with cucumber or lemon skins to lighten age spots. Fresh apricots, cranberries, green grapes, strawberries and milk all have a bleaching effect.

Herbs: apply- fresh aloe vera gel, dry comfrey root tea, fresh juice from dandelion leaves, horseradish grated into buttermilk, kefir, kombucha or vinegar. Fresh parsley juice and elder flower are also effective.

Kombucha: apply kombucha tea or cream to the spots twice a day.

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KNOW YOUR SKIN TYPE: NORMAL SKIN

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:56:33 +0000

The skin is forever changing, depending on the state of health, diet, climate, age and emotions.

The basic skin types are: normal, combination, oily, dry and sensitive.

Normal Skin

A healthy, normal skin is supple, velvety smooth with a fine texture. It is blemish free with no flaky dead-cells, and is usually found only in the 18-26 age group.

Internal Treatment

Increase these foods into your diet – brewers yeast, bran, carrots, sprouts, green and red peppers, goats milk, kefir, kombucha, oatmeal, oranges, lemons, pumpkin, parsley, whole grain bread and cereal, rose hips, water cress. Add olive oil to diet and increase purified water and herbal teas to daily diet. Add spirulina as a natural vitamin and mineral food supplement.

External Treatment

Foods: Almond meal, apple cider vinegar, brewers yeast, butter milk, cream, egg, kefir, kombucha, honey, kelp, oats, sour cream., spirulina. Fruit and vegetables: Apricots, avocado, banana, papaya, peach, pear, melons, carrot, celery, cucumber, lettuce, potato.

Herbs: Aloe-vera, borage, clover, calendula, comfrey root, dandelion, elder flower, fennel, lavender, lemongrass, mint, nettle, rosemary, violet. Essential oils: Carrot seed, chamomile, frankincense, geranium, jasmine, lavender, neroli, orange, patchouli, palma rosa, rose, rosewood, sandalwood, ylang ylang.

Infused oils: Borage, calendula, carrot, evening primrose, rosehip.

Cold pressed oils: Almond, apricot, avocado, grape seed, jojoba, olive, soya bean, sesame, sunflower, safflower, wheatgerm.

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