Natural Ingredients for Health and Cosmetics
It’s becoming more and more fashionable to use cosmetic ingredients made from plants or the ocean, which have beneficial skin properties. Beauty rituals help us take care of ourselves even better, and consequently make our faces more beautiful, with a generally healthier look to hair and appearance. But why are natural ingredients ...Read More
Reduce or Prevent Gray Hair Naturally
Often times people want to cover up their grays. And often times this leads them to using chemical dyes to cover them up. But there are natural ways you can reduce the amount of grays you have, and sometimes you can completely prevent them. In order to get rid of grays, applying ...Read More
The Basics for a Healthy Diet
Our bodies consume a certain amount of energy throughout the day in order to function. This energy comes from our foods, without which, we couldn’t live. But it’s not just as simple as that. In addition to energy from calories, we need other substances not only to live, but to maintain good ...Read More
The ABC’s of Cellulite
Statistics from trustworthy sources like ABC News point out that at least 90% of women around the world develop cellulite at some point in their lives. Although this skin condition isn’t serious, it can turn into extra weight to carry for those that want to look good. Even though there are no concrete ...Read More
Sodium Bicarbonate for Health and Personal Hygiene
Currently there are an endless amount of products on the market that are created for home and personal hygiene. Unfortunately a lot of these products aren’t very safe if they’re used in large quantities or for long periods of time, as they contain toxic agents. Sodium bicarbonate, however, is a good option ...Read More
How to Clean your Intestines: 5 Pieces of advice for doing so naturally
Waste and toxin accumulation in the intestines can cause an individual to suffer from different diseases, like irritable colon syndrome or colitis, constipation or diarrhea, abdominal inflammation and pain, etc., which are annoying and affect largely a person’s daily life. That’s why it is becoming more important to know how to clean ...Read More
6 Home Remedies for Vitiligo
Vitiligo is caused by cells in the body’s tissue that lose their natural pigmentation, leaving several white marks on the skin. This condition affects the melanocyte cells present in the skin, which are responsible for giving color to the skin. Whenever these cells die, however, or are affected, they stop producing the ...Read More
Apitherapy: Honey, Pollen, Propolis, Royal Jelly, and more for your health
Apitherapy is the use of products derived from bees for therapeutic effects. The products that can be used include honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom. There are a lot of ways to beneficially apply these products, from including them in a healthy diet, to treating illnesses like hay fever, ...Read More
Prepare and Protect your Skin During Winter
Winter and cold can bring certain unpleasant skin changes. While some people only notice their cheeks get rosy with the cold, or dry hands and feet, other people could have more aggressive skin reactions in lower temperatures. The temperature could dry out their skin, creating an uncomfortable stretching effect. And when it’s really ...Read More
How to Eliminate Toxins from the Kidneys
The kidneys are two organs located behind the abdomen, and their purpose is to eliminate toxins and residues from the blood stream, through the urine. This means that they “filter” the body. In order for your kidneys to be healthy, you need to exercise and stay hydrated, as well as eat a ...Read More
Remedies for Irritable Colon
In spite of the fact that in the past, irritable colon was attributed to stress, today we cannot say that we actually know what causes Irritable Colon Syndrome. Stress could spark the symptoms, but it isn’t actually the cause in itself. Unfortunately, there is no cure. But you can control it, and ...Read More
When my Body Hurts… my Soul Hurts
Do you want to feel good no matter what happens? Our bodies are made up of approximately 72,000,000,000 cells. They have different functions: some contract and expand, and form muscles. Others transport oxygen and make up part of the blood. Some form minerals and make up bones, and some transmit electricity, parts ...Read More
No More Snoring: Natural Remedies and Recommendations
Although snoring may seem fairly harmless, it could affect your rest, altering your sleep patterns along with your partner’s, who shares the room with you. There are lots of different things that could cause someone to snore, like relaxed tongue and throat muscles, a long palate, congestion or obstruction of the respiratory tracts, large ...Read More
Being Overweight is More than Just Eating and Running
The recently published article “You Thought Those Extra Pounds Came Simply From Eating…” focuses on the psychosomatic causes of being overweight; here I would like to talk about a real-life clinical case that demonstrates this focus. Paula’s weight loss story (*) (Real clinical case) Paula is 41 years old, born in Venezuela, ...Read More
Five Tips for Rejuvenating Facial Skin
Would you like to rejuvenate your facial skin? Does your face look tired, a few years older, in spite of using daily creams? You might not be using the right cream for your skin type, or you aren’t taking other health precautions, like exfoliation, or using sunscreen. But even your diet could ...Read More
Natural Remedies for Kidney Stones
The kidneys are in charge if filtering the blood, detoxifying the body by removing impurities that are circulating through the blood stream, and eliminating waste products through urine. Whenever there is some sort of disease in the kidneys, other functions in the body are affected, precisely because the kidneys are so important. ...Read More
Refresh and Treat your Skin with Mud
For millennium, mud has been used to improve the way skin looks. This therapy, which is based on the usage of mud, has been around for quite some time and in a lot of cultures, it has been used for thousands of years to calm skin irritation as well as different types ...Read More
You thought those Extra Pounds came simply from Eating…
There’s no doubt about it: your weight is determined by the balance between what you eat and what you expend. This depends on your metabolism and endocrine/hormonal system. Your metabolism is how your body uses foods that you ate. This means that it uses, stores, and eliminates the energy in the foods ...Read More
Coffee: Things You Didn’t Know
A lot of people around the world habitually drink coffee almost daily, and we don’t pay that much attention to it…but what is it we are truly drinking? Coffee just might be the most highly used medicinal plant around the world. In fact, preparing it as an infusion (the plant or powder, ...Read More
Home Remedies for Genital Herpes
Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease, or an STD. It can be caused by the Herpes simplex type 1 virus, and type 2. The first type is also known medically as HSV-1, which is the same virus that causes herpes on the lips, face, etc. Type 2 herpes virus is contracted ...Read More