Green Ingredients
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Unexpected Results from Soap Nuts
Recently, I made an amazing discovery. From the title of this article, you probably can guess the subject of what amazed me so much. Yes, it is soap nuts or Sapindus mukorossi or Ritha (Reetha). These nuts originate from India, so often they are called “Indian soap”. What are soap nuts? Soap nuts are among [...]
Beauty Secrets With Spirulina
Today’s talk will be about the super magical algae plant called spirulina and it’s skin benefits. If you are not yet a devoted consumer of this algae plant, you definitely should change your mind. Today, I’ll explain you why. What makes spirulina a super plant? I want to start with a little piece of scientific [...]
Amazing softening skin care recipes with oatmeal milk
I’m sure you already know how to make porridge. You are probably also aware of the health benefits from this food. However, do you know that you can use oatmeal for your beauty purposes? You already do? Hmm … Yet, I bet you don’t know the most basic methods for using oatmeal in your skin [...]
An Essential Benefits of Shea Butter
Shea butter is also know as “karite” in some countries. This slightly yellowish or ivory colored natural fat is extracted from the seed of the African Shea tree. To be more specific, Shea butter is created from the dried kernels of Shea fruits, which are then shredded and pounded until they are in the form [...]
What Everybody Ought to Know About Cornflower
Cornflower Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower, Bachelor’s button, Bluebottle, Boutonniere flour, Hurtsickle, Cyani flower). Cornflower has numerous applications, but it is most often used for treating the eye area. Cornflower is very powerful to treat dark circles underneath the eyes. The active substances in Cornflower prevent dark circles from forming below the eyes, and they simultaneously smooth [...]
The Amazing Power of Aloe Vera!
As always, I write about natural skin care, so I can’t pass up the amazing plant of aloe vera. I finally took a sprout of aloe vera from my friend’s mother to grow it myself. I proudly placed it on my windowsill amongst other helpful plants, and I can’t wait to pick a leaf to [...]
How to Make Herbal Infusion?
The day before yesterday i was telling you about amazing properties of horsetail infusion. At the same day and the day after i received some emails with two common questions “What is oil infusion” and “How it can be made”? So, here we go. Infusing a herb in oil allows extract its active fat-soluble ingredients. [...]
Try Horsetail as an Amazing Anti-Wrinkle Treatment
Field horsetail (Equisetum arvense) is also called horsetail, bottlebrush, scouring rush, pewterwort, shave grass, and corncob plant. Field horsetail is an herbaceous perennial with a hairy, tuberous rhizome (see pic.). The stems are erect, without leaves or hairs and have black-toothed sheaths with whorls of spreading, green branches. Field horsetail is normally found among the [...]
Top 5 Green Tea Benefits for Your Skin
Green tea is a wonderful and potent ingredient when it comes to protecting the health of your body and the health of your skin. Green tea is full of antioxidants, and it also provides long-term anti aging benefits when enjoyed as a tea and used topically in beauty products. Here are the wonderful benefits that [...]
What is Hydrosol?
Hydrosol is the same as floral water or distillate. It is collected after a plant has been distilled to manufacture essential oils. Sometimes the amount of oil that is produced is so small that the entire process is conducted with only the purpose of extracting hydrosol, and any essential oil will be considered as a [...]
