The Magical Properties of Ginger for Your Skin
It’s no secret that a number of natural ingredients can dramatically impact the health of your skin, but did you know that ginger is one of the best natural choices? In Traditional Chinese medicine ginger is known as “jiang” meaning “defend” or in India they practice a form of medicine known as Avurvedic, it prescribes [...]
Lanolin in Beauty Products
Lanolin also called wool wax, wool fat, anhydrous wool fat or wool grease. It is a yellowish-white, soft substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing sheep. It is collected (sheep are not hurt in this process), neutralized, filtered, bleached, and deodorized into a waxy consistency. It is extremely nourishing, soothing, and softening, product that’s [...]
Rose Water
Rose water is used in cosmetics for its lovely scent, but also because it has light astringent properties. As the gentlest of all astringents, rose water is often used as toner for all type of skin. To prepare rose water by yourself is very simple. This recipe is the more traditional way to prepare rose [...]
Beeswax in Beauty Products
Beeswax is the material secreted by a bee’s abdominal glands. It is used in many forms, to make art, candles, in medicines, pharmacy and certainly in cosmetology. Bees collect nectar from flowers and bring it to the hive where it becomes either beeswax or honey. The production of beeswax is essential to the bee colony. [...]
Glycerin in Beauty Products
Glycerin is an organic compound, also commonly called glycerine or glycerol. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid, which has a high boiling point and freezes to a paste. Glycerin pulls moisture to the skin that’s why it is widely used in cosmetics or beauty products like lotions, soaps, creams etc. But there is a [...]
