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Amazing Organic Skincare Ingredients That You May Not Know About, pt. 3

February 10, 2012

Organic Ingredients for Healing

Over the past two weeks, I’ve been sharing some of my favorite organic skincare ingredients. So far we’ve covered ingredients that are food for your skin, restoring skin pigment, protecting against UV damage, and even aiding in DNA repair. We’ve also covered a few really wonderful essential oils and hydrosols. This week we’re moving into new territory and talking about ingredients that are helpful for people who have trouble with specific skin conditions like eczema, herpes and cold sores, psoriasis, and contact dermatitis. There’s no need to use harsh chemicals if you suffer from any of these. There are a lot of gentler ways to help your skin heal and restore it to its naturally healthy state.

Soothing and Pacifying Roots, Leaves, Seeds, and Oils

Magic Healing Balm is a soothing creme that promotes healthy skin by providing deep hydration, helping regenerate skin cells, and stopping the growth of bacteria that are at cause for skin infections.

What makes my skin love it so much?

It’s made with some of the most powerfully anti-viral and deeply moisturizing ingredients, including chaparral leaf, burdock root, lemon balm, sarsaparilla root, fenugreek seed, pomegranate seed oil, and immortele essential oil.

How do they work?

Chaparral Leaf is believed to have originated in Argentina before beginning to grow wildly in the US, where it has been used by native americans for thousands of years. It contains various amino acids, estrogen-like lignans, and zinc and has some truly remarkable healing effects when applied to skin directly.

Burdock Root is rich in antioxidants and acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. Traditionally, it has been used to treat acne, eczema, psoriasis, and various skin infections.

Lemon Balm, despite its name, is actually member of the mint family, named for its lemon-scent. It has been shown to quickly relieve itching and aide in the healing of lesions and sores caused by the herpes virus, as well as provide benefit when applied to many other viral skin infections.

Sarsaparilla Root was thought historically to be a cure for all kinds of maladies, but for the past hundred years has been largely disregarded. Recently, it is coming back into the spotlight because some of it special properties, like saponins, as a possible treatment for a viral infections, most notably herpes, as well as other skin conditions.

Fenugreek Seed is traditionally used as a spice, but contains a wide variety of biologically active constituents that have been shown to possibly help blood sugar regulation in diabetics and even increase breast milk production in lactating mothers. Most interestingly, however, is that fenugreek seed has been used for many years to treat acne, boils, and eczema.

Pomegranate Seed Oil is an extremely rich and luxurious oil. It penetrates deep into the epidermis of the skin. It contains potent antioxidants – fighting free radicals, and promoting cell regeneration. It helps to reverse skin damage. It is anti-aging, highly moisturizing, and nourishing to skin. It is also beneficial for skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. Pomegranate Seed Oil is bountiful in flavonoids and punicic acid, both of which have amazing skin and health benefits. Punicic acid, is metabolically similar to conjugated linolenic acids (CLAs), making it helpful for the metabolic system, so this precious beauty oil is also wonderful for internal use.

Helichrysum (Immortele) Essential Oil has been praised for quite some time for its ability to simulate the renewal of skin cells. In addition to it’s ability to diminish scars, fine lines, and wrinkles, it has excellent anti-inflammatory properties.

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Amazing Organic Skincare Ingredients That You May Not Know About

January 27, 2012

Raw, Healing, & Organic

I’m always seeking out the most amazing and potent plants, herbs, and fruits both for internal healing and skin rejuvenation. My skincare line is abundantly full of these magical ingredients, perfect for creating the most beautiful skin ever. Each of these treasures deserves it’s own book, but here’s a quick taste of just how amazing some of these ingredients are.

Raw and Edible Ingredients

Supernatural Facial Serum is designed to be applied as skin food, prior to moisturizing with Bee Beauty. It helps to firm skin, improve skin texture and tone, and stimulate collagen renewal. It also helps create an even skin tone, restoring your skin’s natural pigment, as well as, repair and protecting against UV damage, and even aiding DNA repair. It is also nice for soothing eczema and other skin conditions.

What makes my skin love it so much?

First of all, Supernatural is a completely raw, vegan, and organic skincare product. But what really sets it apart is a divine mixture of several highly potent ingredients, including: goji berry, rhodiola root, amla berry, mucuna pruriens, camu camu berry, noni, chaga mushroom, and mangosteen.

How do they work?

Goji berries have very high levels of antioxidants as they contain a whole host of healthy vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, and phytochemicals. Applying all of this to your skin will support its revitalization, evening out its texture and leaving it feeling taut and smooth.

Rhodiola is not only another excellent source of antioxidants, but it increases collagen synthesis and skin cell proliferation by increasing hydroxyproline and hexosamine levels. It has UV-protection, regenerative, anti-stress, and anti-fatigue properties.

Amla has cooling astringent properties and is used in ayurvedic medicine as a treatment all sorts of skin disorders. Deeply cleansing, it helps clear acne and tones the skin.

Mucuna pruriens leaves and seeds have long been used in ayurvedic medicine. As an organic skincare ingredient, it burns fat from the fat cells, decreases cellulite and wrinkles, and can even improve cholesterol levels and strengthen the immune system.

Camu camu is the one of most potent antioxidant Vitamin C fruits in the world with six times more antioxidant capacity than acai berries. This makes it a potent anti-aging superfruit and an excellent ingredient to assist in collagen production.

Noni contains high amounts of powerful antioxidants and aids the body in the production of xeronine by providing the necessary building blocks for it. Xeronine is very effective at repairing damaged cells, making noni a powerful source of anti-aging properties.

Chaga is very rich in melanin, which nourishes your skin cells, restores their natural pigment, and even aids in DNA repair. In some select clinical trials in the medical community, treatment with chaga extract has been shown to greatly reduce psoriasis.

Mangosteen is being found more and more to be an effective treatment for acne, eczema, psoriasis, and a number of other skin disorders. Thanks to the presence of tannic acid in the rind of the mangosteen fruit (technically called a “pericarp”), it acts as an excellent natural astringent. In the right amounts, it gently cleanses and exfoliates while clearing away harmful bacteria. Mangosteen fruit also contains organic compounds called xanthonoids, which are currently being examined for their potential disease ameliorating effects.

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Ingredient Spotlight: Ozone

January 13, 2012

What is it?

ozone for organic skincare

Ozone is a special molecule made of three oxygen atoms that sits primarily up in the Earth’s atmosphere. What you may not know about, however, is that ozone is also a fantastic natural health and beauty product that’s especially helpful for natural dental care.

If properly nourished and well taken care of, your body will take care of itself. Oral Care is no different. Keeping your mouth free of harmful bacteria and preserving its natural pH is really important to oral health. These two things, if taken care of, will lead to white, healthy teeth and full, pink, healthy gums. This is where ozone comes in.

Where does it come from?

Use of ozone for dentistry actually dates back to the end of the 1800′s when one of humanity’s great inventors, Nikola Tesla, founded The Tesla Ozone Company and started selling personal ozone generators to the naturopath doctors of the day. Ozone is naturally antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral and is very gentle on the human body. The ozone that these generators made was intended to be bubbled through olive oil to create a gel infused with nascent ozone which was then applied to the teeth and gums.

Where can I find it?

There are two ways you can start adding ozone to your daily dental regimen.

Ozonated Healthy Gum Gel from Living Libations has all of the benefits of Tesla’s original invention updated for the modern organic healthcare world. With a whole host of organic essential oils and natural oral care ingredients such as seabuckthron, jojoba, clove, and rose otto to fortify and strengthen its restorative and healing power, this gentle gel can be easily applied anywhere in the mouth to strengthen gums, soothe sensitive teeth, and aide abscesses, gum pockets, mouth lesions, and cold sores.

Ozonated Toothpaste is very similar to the healthy gum gel above, and is intended, as you probably have guessed, to be used as an actual toothpaste. The additional benefit of ozonated toothpaste is that it utilizes pyrophyllite clay which is rich in silica and electrolytes to leave your teeth polished to glistening health and feeling wonderfully smooth. Not only that, but it’s rich in magnesium which is an element that your teeth use for remineralization.