Nontoxic Beauty Secret from around the world.

How does your Beauty secrets compare with the rest of the world

The world we live in is image conscious, it has become an increasing demand to look as good as one feels and to maintain one’s look even in the presence of an illness. The perception of role models and public figures from all areas of lifestyle like in sports, entertainment, fashion, and beauty display a youthful alluring appearance so as a result many youths have become obsessed and very self conscious about the way they appeal to the rest of the world on a daily basis, which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it and to what extent you model these public figures—do you perceive the benefits of loving and caring for yourself  the way that suits you or do you over critic yourself for not having those attributes or meeting this beauty quota. Focusing only on outward appearance underscores the fact that beauty comes from within, and that the best approach to feeling great and looking better is one that looks into the internal foundation upon which the external beauty is based. This is one of the primary reasons why a holistic approach to wellness and age management is essential. The Holistic philosophy is one that helps to enhance the whole self by implementing proper nutrition, balancing hormones, appropriate skincare and of course regular exercise.

Attraction to beauty is global, no matter how beauty is defined. Everyone wants to feel attractive and beautiful. It’s not superficial or vain; it is reality and this reality has economic, psychological, and social effects that directly affect our progress whether we choose to recognize it or not.  Investment into living healthier is an investment in “feeling and looking good”. “If you live well, you feel well and you will look well”

The skin is the largest organ of our body and can be quite embracing when it’s not appealing to you.  It is the first thing people see when they look at us—“your skin’s appeal”. When our skin is healthy and vibrant, this is a good reflection of one’s total health and well-being.  The skin renews and repairs itself, as we age; the physio-chemical homeostasis of the skin becomes compromised, leaving it more susceptible to intrinsic and extrinsic stressors that ultimately degrade its impact on accelerated skin aging. External factors that contribute to skin aging are Environmental pollutants, toxic and harsh personal hygiene products.

Growing older is inevitable; however, we can try to slow the aging process and prolong our lives by taking measures to promote continuous cell rejuvenation and renewal. To help you feel good and look your best we have put together some Alternative beauty products and secrets tips from around the world that can help keep you safe from toxins.

Secret Tips from Japan: Rice bran, the brown outer layer of the rice kernel is used by Japanese women for skin care because it contains rich oil, making it a great exfiolante. It contains B-complex that helps improve blood circulation in the skin. It also contains vitamin E, antioxidants and fatty acids. Rice bran can be used to cleanse, revitalize, prevent wrinkles, exfoliate and make skin blemish free.

Japanese women use chili peppers to stimulate circulation, wake up tired feet. At the end of the day take chili peppers and put into some hot water and let your feet soak for ten minutes.

White camellia oil is commonly used for moisturizing, conditioning, nourishing and softening of the skin. Camellia oil gives the skin a healthy glow while helping it eliminate wrinkles, treat burn scars, revitalize hair growth as well as strengthening nails. Camellia oil is also used on the hair as it is high in olein acids and glycerides---it adds shine and conditions.

 Secret Tips from India: India eats good antioxidant food plus they use coconut oil. You can heat up some coconut oil mildly and apply to the scalp, this helps seal the cuticle and prevents split ends. Coconut oil contains lauric acid, the most essential fatty acids. For great looking skin---women turn to yogurt and almonds; they ground up almond and mix it in yogurt, apply to the face as a mask and then rinse for a smooth look finish.

Secret Tips from Brazil: Natural Brazilian love their natural glamorous looks---they are known to lie on the beach near the sea water while rubbing beach sand on their skin to help exfoliate the skin as well as stimulate the blood flow to the skin to reduce cellulite. That is how they get their sunset beauty.

Secret from the French: The French soak up toxins and purify the skin by using clay mask which absorbs oils and impurities without drying out the skin. Simply mix up powdered clay with water and smooth over dry your face and body, rinse and dry. Remove eye makeup with sweet almond oil, which keeps the skin smooth and soft.

For hair, they use flour mixture with distilled water and vinegar to apply to hair for half an hour to smooth out the hair shaft and keep it smooth and healthy.

Greek secret---Greek women exfoliate naturally and they eat a bit of vegetarian Greek salad. They use olive oil mixed with lemon juice and sugar applied in the shower and washed away. The oil loosens layers of dead skin while the sugar sloughs it off. They give their feet a treat by dipping them in warm olive oil and then buffing with coarse sea salt. Olive oil is a great source of fatty acids and antioxidants.

 

Polished secret from Poland: In this part of the world, for women is all about the “wild Honey”—if you want to be a honey, use honey on skin and in your diet. Apply a layer of honey to their faces as a moisturizer because of its firming and moisture-retaining properties. After letting the honey sit for a few minutes, they rinse skin and they get a smoother complexion. Honey is also applied to the lips to soften and plump.

Coat your hair with wild honey, cover with a shower cap and leave on for 30 minutes, wash out. Your hair will look soft and shiny

Secret Tips from Belgium: The natural beauties of Belgians turn to mink oil to look their best and to diminish the appearance of aging. Mink oil is the most absorbable and compatible oil for human skin and it helps reduce fine line and wrinkles, age spots, blemishes, stretch marks, and scars. It can be used as a face moisturizer (or mixed with foundation to set makeup), a nourishing treatment for the bath and to revitalize thinning hair.

Secret from china, for the Chinese—it’s all about the teas, green and white teas. Great tea is known to be a great antioxidant, helpful in detoxifying the body and for maintaining healthy weight—weight-loss. Green tea can also be great for the hair when mixed with rosemary oil. To fight aging though, Chinese women turn to white tea, taken from the tip of the green tea plant. The plant contains many antioxidants in the tips and they act as shield against free radicals thus fighting off aging.

Australian beauties use tea tree oil as a beauty quick fix choice. Tea tree oil gives skin a great glow and helps to repair damaged skin caused by dry skin, sun, fungus or acne; it is also a great disinfectant. Tea tree oil also has a great disinfectant. Tea tree oil has great oxygenating properties for the skin, is also very mild and safe for sensitive skin.

Asian, Thailand and Middle East women avoid shaving, waxing, plucking their hair instead they prefer threading---a painless way to remove hair without aggravating the skin.

In Australia aboriginal women use Yarrow root to prevent stretch marks. 


In the Dominican Republic women have discovered the secret to strong nails adding garlic to their nail polish.
 

Egyptian, Caribbean, Africans use coconut oil, jojoba oil, palm kernel milk and Apricot oil an amazing antioxidant, it helps soften the skin, and it’s very rich. Coconut oil is great for anti aging, softening the appearance of fine lines, it’s a natural sunscreen, people in Jamaica use this daily to protect their skin from the sun.
Women in Egypt use almonds to keep their body beautiful. If you have dry dead skin, just grind down the almonds use a little bit of milk to make a paste, rub it all over your body then wash it off and you will have incredible skin. 

 African women have known for years the natural healing power and sweet gratification of smooth, healthy, and glowing skin credited to brown sugar or natural cane sugar, Sugar is used as an exfoliate for the skin. You can use lemon sugar recipe by adding lemon, plain non-dairy yogurt to natural cane sugar to help slough off dead skin and renew the look and feel of your skin.

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BWC Herbal Cream Facial Cleanser is a light, creamy, soap-free cleanser that delicately removes daily impurities and make-up without over-cleaning your skin. Nature's own botanical balance, refresh, and tone your skin while pure organic, aroma-therapeutic essential oils improve circulation and leave your skin clean, soft, and refreshed. This herbal cream cleanser is PH Balanced and contains 100% vegetarian ingredient that is not drying to the skin ---making it the best cleanser for dry skin and sensitive skin types.

Facial Cream

Silky-smooth moisturizer helps revitalize dull, dry skin and restore moisture balance with antioxidant-rich seabuckthorn and Ester-C.

Camellia green tea skin cream by Madre-Labs diminish existing skin damage, helps reduce oxidative skin damage, helps maintain skin Hydration and firmness while brightening and balancing skin tone.

Camellia green tea skin cream contains EGCG from camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) plus resveratrol and hyaluronic acid that have antioxidant, anti-aging and anti-inflammatory properties.

Avalon Organics, MoisturizingCream Shave, Aloe-Unscented is made with plant oils and Aloe Vera that helps nourish, moisturize and provides a smooth glide.  Beta Glucan helps speed the repair of nicks and irritation. Avalon Organics Moisturizing Cream Shave is safe, effective and contains 100% vegetarian ingredients with no artificial colors, synthetic fragrances or parabens, harsh preservatives. Avalon Organics Moisturizing cream is cruelty free and is EU Cosmetics Directive Compliant.              

Honeybee Gardens, Truly Natural Lipstick,Camelot

No mineral oil, no FD&C colors. Only natural beneficial ingredients like coconut oil which penetrates and moisturizes lips, shea butter which protects your lips, sesame seed oil to heal and soften vitamin E as an anti-oxidant, and pure botanical extracts which act as a 100% natural preservative.

A night out french glamour Tip

• Portable oil absorbing soft tissues.
• sheer gloss for a night out? kid's stuff-   High wattage gloss in a neutral metallic is fine, subtle, luscious vinyl-like finish.
• Travel-size version of any signature/favorite scent for emergency fragrance reviver to fit in a tiny purse.
• it's tacky using mirrors on the walls, or your drinking glass to check your teeth, instead carry with you a compact mirror like Ecc0-bella compact mirror that comes with organic powder or some thing like Physicians Formula Bamboo Wear Bamboo Compact . Excuse yourself away from the table if you need to fix your teeth or face. Don't do it at the table.
• A blush or conceal stick is wise for reviving your looks if makeup fades from it original look, it is also good for eyeshadow and lipstick.
• A sugarless chewing gum for after event/dinner as you're walking out the door and saying your goodbye-avoid chewing while still talking.
• Keep in mind; less is more......Neat

 Onyinye A

Why you should avoid Sodium Lauryl Sulfate

National geographic green guide says Sodium lauryl sulfate is found in 90% of products that foam such as shaving foam, hair mousse and foam bath products. Animals exposed to SLS experience eye damage, depression, labored breathing, diarrhea, severe skin irritations, and even death. Young eyes may not develop properly if exposed to SLS. May cause damage to skin, immune system and also converted into nitrosamines, a potent class of carcinogens. Your body may retain SLS for up to five days and maintain residual levels in the heart, liver, lungs and brain. It is also common source of children eczema and skin irritation, and when found in tooth paste; it may be related to mouth ulcers.

Pure Delight in Australia says: Sodium LaurethSulphate is a byproduct of Sodium Lauryl Sulphate and is even milder.This is a very controversial area.  Some people are trying to avoid Sodium Lauryl Sulphate and similar surfactants (sudsing agents) because they've been told these are harmful chemicals that can cause a whole host of health problems.  There are a lot of urban legends floating around about what these chemicals can do to you (everything from causing cancer to kidney damage).  Most of these rumors are not based on any scientific fact.

First of all, you should know what Sodium Lauryl Sulphate is a foaming agent found in shampoos, detergents, toothpastes, etc.  It is naturally derived from coconut oil (a natural ingredient).  You will find it and its derivatives ingredient labels under many different names.  All soaps and detergents can irritate the eyes.   Therefore, rubbing pure Lauryl Sulphate on your skin would not be a good idea. In its pure form, it is an irritant. However, sodium Lauryl Sulphate has been used for many years in many different products intended for use on the skin (and even in the mouth) and is generally considered safe. It's used in most of the "natural" products you'll find because it is a very good foaming agent, has no taste is considered safe by most people and is considered "natural" by many.  Many natural product manufacturers use this ingredient because it has been so widely used for such a long period of time and it does a good job. 
We feel there is nothing wrong with using Sodium Laureth Sulphate in the amount it's used in the products we sell.  For those with very sensitive skin, you may want to try to avoid Sodium Laureth Sulphate.  However, there is a lot of bad publicity on the substance (and a lot of just plain wrong information floating around). Chlorinated water is probably more likely to be the culprit when it comes to skin condition, especially when it's hot!
  Are sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) serious problems in cosmetics? Paula Begoun says in the complete beauty bible : Rumors about SLS been carcinogenic has been circulating all around the internet, it's a myth and the newways people misquoted Dr Green research report; there are no scientific evidence pointing to this cosmetic ingredient  to cause cancer. Emails have been flying around & misinformation from youtuber claiming SLS and SLES causes cancer; although, there are no medical journals relating to SLS been carcinogenic.
However, SLS is a potent skin irritant, protein denaturing ingredient and can cause allergic or sensitizing reactions in most people. It has been known that bubble bath products containing sodium lauryl sulfate can cause urinary tract infection. It is best to avoid it altogether because it is also known to be very drying, irritating and damage protein in the skin which then may lead to other skin problems that could become cancerous as a result.
Source: Complete beauty bible by Paula Begoun; page 53 - 55.
             European Journal of Dermatology September-October 2001, 416-419.

Facial Beauty

Get a gorgeous face for a naturalistic

Most important don't scrub your face, gently exfoliate with a wet  towel because the facial skin tissue is very sensitive and fragile, it's  not same as the skin on your leg. sometimes we think the harder we  scrub the more dirt we get out of our skin; that's wrong because it will  only tear your skin, make it sag faster and leave your pores much open  for bacteria and dirt. The key is scrub gently daily, it takes about 60 days  before you can clearly see much result.

Do a steam detox once every 2week. Boil water and add lemon/orange bark and pineapple  bark. put the boiled  mixture in a wide bowl, put your face over the steam, not too close  because you don't want the heat to burn your face but you want to be close enough to feel the steam evaporate into your pores, cover your head with a thick towel to prevent the steam from escaping for 5mins then exfoliate, rinse, don't  dry with dry towel/hard cloth, use a fairly damp towel then moisturize; - this  helps set your skin. Caution:- avoid going outside in the sun for 20mins to prevent sunburn or otherwise use Aloe Vera on your face as a sunburn blocker.

you can use European facial mask on your face to remove oil and debris from your face.

Shape eyebrow with tweezers man twee z  and dap a little Aloe Vera to enhance your eyebrow. If you have a thin eyebrow you can make it fuller with a color just a bit  lighter than your own eyebrow color or use same exact color following eyebrow shape (the shape is up to you). Use aloe Vera to tone the skin around your eyes.

• Use 2 to 3 color on your eyes brings more depth to your face; for e.g  red undertone color inner, gold or dark color like indigo on outer side, gold  at the upper top of the eye. lighten under eye with color slightly lighter than your skin tone when going for a natural look.
• Use physician formula  toxic free mascara to make your eyes pop (avoid mascara that will run off into your skin) Blush your cheek with rosy colors to add vibrancy to your look, if you are fair in complexion, use gold or pink undertone blush and if your complexion is dark, use a golden brown or red undertone.
• Use pure Aloe Vera gel + lip gloss/balm to make your lip plum and pop. (aloe Vera will help your makeup set in nicely into your skin and it benefits your skin) Pineapple, lemon and water mist refreshes and adds a glow to your skin. (don't add too much pineapple to this mixture, it will be glue like- use only a little) Use cold water to refresh face and close pore.
• Use any of these oils- jojoba oil, grape seed oil, coconut milk/oil, olive oil, almond oil, is great for your skin. (I love pure squeezed coconut milk for my skin and hair-island beauty tip from NL) Shampoo and Condition hair(for ethnic hair, use a conditioning shampoo to avoid dryness),
• To get rid of dandruff  add 1/2 cup of baking soda with 2 cups of water to your shampoo and scrub then rinse.
• keep your hair neat and away from your face.
• Finally do regular skin and liver detox, eat nutritious super food, take your hair skin and nail supplement. DE dust for enhancing skin beauty...email:- nontoxiclifestyle@live.com to get a price quote.

Author: Onyinye A