Coconut Oil Hair Conditioner And Hot Oil Treatment
Virgin Coconut Oil Hair Conditioner & Hot Oil Treatment
By Julie Timis
Are you suffering from dry, thin, lifeless and dull hair?
Try virgin coconut oil. It is a good natural conditioner that makes your hair thicker, stronger, softer and healthier looking.
Tropical women have been using coconut oil for intensive deep conditioning and moisturizing treatment. Such treatment has been used for hundreds of years, giving these women thick and shiny hair.
Research was conducted to determine how effective is coconut oil as a natural conditioner in treating dry, damaged hair.
Studies shows that coconut oil contains special fats which are attracted to hair proteins and thus allow the oil to actually penetrate the hair shaft.
Coconut oil reduces protein loss and prevents hair damage and dryness.
How to use virgin coconut oil as conditioner & hot oil treatment:
You will need 100% virgin coconut oil, bowl of hot water and a shower cap, hot towel.
- Wash your hair and let it dry until slightly damp.
- To melt the virgin coconut oil, you can put 2-3 tablespoons (depending on your hair length) in a small bowl.
- Submerge small bowl in the bowl of hot water.
- Once melted, take a spoonful of oil and pour it on your scalp. Make sure to distribute it evenly.
- Massage your scalp for a minute or more.
- Pour the remaining oil and rub on your hands and run your fingers through your hair.
- Use the plastic shower cap to cover your hair. The shower cap will retain heat to increase absorption.
- Leave for an hour and wash your hair thoroughly with organic shampoo if you don’t want to be left with an oily scalp.
You can do this treatment once every two weeks. In a short time, you will notice how thicker, softer, and stronger your hair grows.
Enjoy a beautiful, healthy looking hair.
Nature And Green Spaces Prevent Disease
Nature and green spaces prevent disease, according to a study conducted by researchers from the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
People who live closer to nature and green spaces are at significantly lower risk for a wide variety of mental and physical diseases.
The researchers examined the health records of 350,000 patients who had been registered with 195 general practitioners across the Netherlands for at least one year. Using postal codes, the researchers then calculated the percentage of area within both one and three kilometers (0.62 and 1.86 miles) of their homes that was covered by greenery.
The results showed that anxiety disorders and depression rate were significantly lower for people living close to nature and green areas.
Also, physical diseases were 15% lower near nature.
The physical diseases most affected are coronary heart disease, diabetes, asthma, respiratory infections, migraine, stomach infections, urinary tract infections and back, neck and shoulder complaints.
If you live in the U.S., you’re most likely to be healthiest and happiest if you are in the west.
The city of Boulder, Colo., came out on top in a study based on interviews with more than 353,000 Americans about such issues as satisfaction with their present life, emotional health, healthy behaviors, work environment, physical health and access to food, medicine and health insurance.
Among the highest scoring cities were Honolulu, Hawaii, and the California municipalities of Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, Santa Rosa-Petaluma, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara.
So, again, being closer to nature is healthier.
Honey For Skin Natural Cosmetics
Honey For Beautiful Skin
Honey is very good for the skin and hair. Famous women throughout history have used honey to enhance their beauty and to preserve it. Foremost of these women is Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, who was notorious for her baths of milk and honey. The Chinese also have a recipe for making the skin clear and smooth, which is a paste of ground orange seeds mixed with honey.
What makes honey so great for the skin?
Honey has three properties that make it sought after as an ingredient whether in a homemade beauty recipe or in commercial, manufactured cosmetics. These three properties are the following:
Honey is a natural humectant, which means it can easily attract moisture and retain it. This makes honey an ideal component for moisturizing products such as creams, gels and lotions.
Honey is mild and generally does not cause irritation. This is essential for use in products and recipes for taking care of sensitive skin.
Honey is a good source of alpha hydroxy acid, also known as AHA. Alpha hydroxy acid helps in exfoliating the skin, ridding it of dirt and dead cells, renewing it and making it glow.
What are the ways that you can use honey for the skin?
There are many, many ways of using honey as part of your skin care regimen. Probably the most simple means of using honey to care for your skin is to apply the pure stuff on your face and on your skin and let it rest there for fifteen minutes until it is dry. Once it is dry, rinse the honey off with warm water. It will leave your skin smooth and glowing.
Another way that you can enjoy honey for your skin is to add half a cup of honey in your bathwater and soak to your heart’s content. Not only will your skin feel soft and supple afterwards, but it will also infuse your skin with a sweet scent.
As a facial cleanser, you can combine a teaspoonful of honey with some milk powder within the cup of your hand. Once combined, you can massage the mixture on your face and then rinse it with warm water.
To tone and moisturize the skin on your face, you pulse a couple of slices of peeled apple with a tablespoon of honey in your blender. When the mixture is smooth, you apply it to your face and leave it there for fifteen to twenty minutes. And then you rinse it off with warm water.
Honey is great, one of the sweetest treats that Mother Nature has given us – natural cosmetics.
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Dark Chocolate Health Benefits Natural Cocoa
Natural Dark Chocolate Is Healthy
By Gabor Timis
Natural dark chocolate has a higher total flavonoid content on a per weight basis than any other food, including red wine, green tea, blueberries, cranberries and many other fruits and vegetables.
Black currant is the only one with more flavonoids. Flavonoids are antioxidants.
The seeds of the cacao tree have a very strong bitter taste, and must be fermented.
After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form.
Tablets (tabliya) are made from pure cacao nibs that are roasted and ground.
Tropical countries like the Philippines, make these tablets – cacao tabliya.
The best way to have your dark chocolate – add one tablet to hot water and drink it. It tastes somewhat like coffee with no sugar added.
The natural flavonoids present in the cacao bean is mostly destroyed by further processing, depleting them of their antioxidant properties.
Organic dark chocolate, containing a minimum of 70% cocoa with the least sugar and other additives is your next best choice.
Dark Chocolate Health Benefits
Dark chocolate – not white chocolate or milk chocolate – lowers high blood pressure, according to Dirk Taubert, MD, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Cologne, Germany whose report appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A recent study published in the Southern Medical Journal looked at the effects of dark chocolate on inflammation, lipid levels, and the stickiness of the blood (known as platelet reactivity).
They fed the individuals 1 oz of dark chocolate daily for 7 days.
The results:
- HDL (good cholesterol) increased by 9%
- LDL dropped by 6%
- hsCRP (inflammatory marker) decreased
Dark chocolate also contains copper, magnesium, potassium, calcium and iron.
Indeed, eating natural foods is truly healthy!
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