The power Of Aloe Vera

The two Egytian Queens, Nafertiti and Cleopatra used aloe vera as their beauty treatment

Aloe Vera is a durable herbaceous plant that is both cheap and substantial, originally it provides 75 different nutrients, which contains 20 types of minerals, 12 types of vitamins, 18 types of amino acids and fatty acid, active enzyme and other nutrients that includes glucose, no wonder it has a name for “ Natural First Aid Kit”.

Legend tells us the two Egyptian queens, Nafertiti and Cleopatra used aloe vera as part of their beauty regime! 

The soothing and healing properties of aloe vera helps to calm the skin down

1. Soothing sensation

Aloe Vera has cooling and soothing sensation for instant relief for irritated and sunburned skin, it acts as protective layer on the skin and helps replenish its moisture. 

Before heading to the beach, apply sunblock contain aloe vera to block harmful rays

Besides, the Aloin content in Aloe Vera gel in the Aloe Vera has a UV shielding effect, it can prevent skin damage and oxidation to our skin as well as prevent swelling from tanning under the sun, sunburn and reduces burn spots.

Aloe Vera is a healing plant that can quench skin's thirst

2. Quench Skin's Thirst

Aloe Vera has the same PH level as our skin, plus it is form by 99.3% of water, it is a great way to hydrate and moisture skin. It can also increase collagen and elastin formation in skin, restored not only the softness and smoothness to the skin but also the elasticity.

Aloe vera produced at least 6 natural antiseptics which are able to kill 

3. A Healthy Body

Apart from that, Aloe Vera produced at least 6 antiseptics, which are able to kill bacteria, funguses, mold and viruses as well as treat the acne on our skin. Aloin from aloe vera can increase the secretion of the digestive juice to promote peristalsis, improving the intestinal system as well as the immune system.

Aloe vera is easy to grow plant which you can plant it in your garden

Aloe Vera is not only a good beauty product for inside but outside of our body that is why some people will plant it on their balcony for using anytime. In fact, not all Aloe Vera are consumable, be alert when purchasing any of it to avoid danger. 

Peel the skin before you eat aloe vera

In addition, eating aloe vera in a large amount can cause vomit and diarrhea, plus the skin of Aloe Vera has a poisonous emodin which can stimulate the skin and digestive system lead to diarrhea. So remember to peel of the skin before eating it!

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Coconut oil

Coconut tree is known as "The Almighty Tree" and "The Tree of Life"

In India, people call coconut trees as ‘The Almighty Tree’. In Philippines and the Pacific island countries, they call it ‘The Tree of Life’, and for traditional medicine in Samoa, part of their medication process will sometimes use coconuts. In spite of different culture, language and religion, they all has the same way of think coconut as their main source of food and medicine.

Pacific islanders consider coconut oil to be cure for all illness

Cure for all Illness

Coconut oil have to be extracted from the fresh, white meat of coconut, it is not only named the world most healthy cooking oil but also called the ‘Cure for all illness’!

A source said that the famous model, Miranda Kerr eat 4 tablespoons of coconut oil per day, either adding it into her salad or use it for home cooked meal and even mixing it with her tea to maintain the smoothness of her skin. Miranda Kerr is not the only one, the Oscar best actress, Gwyneth Paltrow said she used coconut oil a lot do on her face, her skin and in her cooking.

Coconut oil is a great skin softener without leaving a greasy feeling

Preventing water lost

Coconut oil is a oil that is soft and precious, 85% of it is saturated fatty acid, plus high concentration of mediam-chain fatty acid found in the coconut oil making it easy for the skin to absorb as it can form a protection layer on our skin to prevent water lose. It can hydrated the skin without leaving a oily residue.

Tips: Apply coconut oil on you nails after a fresh manicure

Coconut oil not only will add moisture and soften your lips, it can also use as a nail protection oil. After shower, apply coconut oil on your back, limbs, stomach and chest to keep your skin hydrated. Other that that, coconut oil also has a good cleaning effect as it can clean off dirt instantly on your skin.

Coconut oil's hydration properties soothe and nourish hair

Despite this, coconut oil has the best beauty effect on hair care, it can help with your damaged roots. This is because coconut oil can prevent damage when brushing your hair and form a protecting layer for your hair to decrease the friction between hair. Coconut oil can also strengthen cortical keratin and forms a lubricating film to protect the cuticle.

Tips: Apply coconut oil at the end of your hair to prevent damage.

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Mineral Salt

Dead sea contains high concentration of mineral salt 

The most alkaline lake - the dead sea has the highest level of alkaline density that is why it doesn’t have any living creatures in it. It is a lonely place but because of the richness of salt, it become valuable to humanity and also make us gain knowledge of it.

Salt plays key role in Chinese history 

Royal Ingredients

Since from the Northen Zhou dynasty 1500 years ago, the pureness, crystal like of the well mineral salt was already used in the palace for royals, even the leftovers from the bottom of the pot when producing salt were also used by the emperor and concubine for beauty usage.

Mineral salts play an important role in beauty

Following the product of well mineral salt, this salt began to be popular among the citizens. As the structure of mineral salt is similar to human blood and lymphatic, the salt can easily go into the blood and lymphatic helping humans to excrete old waste product and toxin thus plays a important part in beauty effect. Therefore, it is use as beauty products.

Mineral Salt helps to clean pores deeply

Deep Cleanse

The main usage of mineral salt is that it clears out the dirt through stimulating the sebaceous to secrete helping us to excrete the toxin from our body as it reach the standard of deep cleanse and tightening the pores making the skin looking flawless.

Salt water is good for helping heal wounds

Heal Scars

The zinc and sulphur are antibacterial and anti-inflammatory that can speed up the healing process of wounds, clearing blackheads and acne and even dandruff as it has a whitening and moisturising affect of the sodium as it also helps with scarring.

Mineral salt keeps PH balance in our cells which also slows the aging

Stop Aging

The potassium in mineral salt balances the water balance in our body as it increases metabolism and has magnesium to immune sensitivity to certain activities to upgrade the DNA decreases the raging of cells. When the cells of skin are healthy, different types of skin cells will follow the main cell as it slows the raging of cells.

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Face Washing Mistakes

You wash your face daily, but are you doing it right?

The easier the task, the more you're likely to make mistakes! Washing your face seems pretty simple as you do it daily, but are you doing it right?

 

Wrong cleanser may harm your skin 

 

1.       Pick The Right Cleanser

If your skin feels tight after washing, it doesn’t resemble that your skin is firming, but it means that the cleanser is too harsh to use on your face. The right cleanser helps to remove dirt, grime and makeup but not strip away too much of your skin's natural oils.

Wash your hand first before you wash your face

2.       Wash Your Hand Before Face Washing

Most of the people have their mind set that when face washing, both of your hands will also be washed. Therefore, bacteria and dirt will stick onto your face. We advice to wash your hands before washing your face especially fingernails where it has the most bacteria to prevent bacteria to stick onto your face.

 

Too hot or too cold temperature may irritating your skin

3.       Wrong Water Temp

We all know the rule: wash face with hot water to open pores, then rinse with cold water to shrink the pores. In fact, exposing the skin to different extremes temperature can actually cause irritation, lead to over drying or over production of sebum and blood vessel ruptures. Wash with lukewarm water is always the best idea!

Remove makeup before wash your face

4.       Remove Makeup Before You Wash Your Face

The staying power of concealer and foundation is amazing, many cleansers can't take off makeup products completely especially the eye makeup. Remove your makeup first, then wash your face with your cleanser to make sure your skin is totally clean and clear.  

 

Wash your face twice a day is a good protocol.

5.       Over Wash

Over wash or over exfoliating leads to dryness, irritation, inflammation, and even infection. Too much washing can age your skin, therefore, you should wash your face twice a day.

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Home Remedies You Can Find In Kitchen

Kitchen is your new beauty salon?

Kitchen is not only a place for cooking but also a place for beauty. Here are some quick fix to help beautify yourself in a hurry.

get rid of bags under-eye 

 1． Spoon

Cold metal spoon can shrink pores and cure under-eye bags and puffy eyes. If you noticed the problem in the morning, drink plenty of water to flushes the area and cause the swelling to go down, then placed cold metal spoon on your eyes for a few minutes.

Cling films not only to keep food fresh, it keeps your skin fresh too.

 2． Cling Films

A book, The Japanese Skincare Revolution, says steaming your face under the cover of a cling film mask (with holes for the nose and mouth, obviously), is the secret to younger, smoother and beautiful skin. Wrap your hands and fingers with cling-film sheet after apply hand cream, and putting warm gloves on for 30-45 minutes can enhance skin care penetration. 

Wrap your body in cling wrap when you exercise can be dangerous as it doesn't allow sweat to evaporate and cool your body. This can cause your body to reach unhealthy temperatures and may be deadly. 

Sugar is a natural exfoliating ingredients that helps to remove dead skin cells

 3．Sugar

The little granules of sugar scrape away dead skin with a relatively gentle touch, leaving your skin baby soft and smooth. 

When you think about sugar scrub, consider the key ingredient: white sugar is softer, so can generally be used on face and sensitive skin, brown sugar which is the little coarse for body scrub. Raw sugar is more naturally coarse is usually reserved for hand and foot scrubs. Kindly do a small patch test if you aren't sure how your skin will react.

egg whites are well known for tightening skin

 4．Egg White

Studies have shown that egg proteins significantly contribute in maintaining the elasticity of skin. Simply separate egg yolk and egg white, and make sure you mix your egg white really well each times you use it (by mixing it you will obtain a foamy egg white look ). Gently apply a thin layer of egg whites and let it dry up. Rinse off after it has dried.

To suit different skin type, you may mix the egg whites with other ingredients:

Dry skin : egg white with avocado

Oily skin : egg white with lemon

Combination skin : egg white with yogurt 

Sensitive skin : egg white with honey

   

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Know your enemy - Phthalates

 

A hot topic in Taiwan not long ago about plasticizer is still surrounding us! Other than toys, containers, even hand wash, hair sprays, perfumes and nail polish also contain phthalates, what actually does it do?

Reading label to avoid phthalates

Phthalates

Phthalates are ester of phthalic acid and used to soften and increase the flexibility of plastic and vinyl. Phthaltes widely used in plastics and variety products, especially containers of beauty products. 

Phthalates also use as fixative agents in synthetic perfumes to slow down the evaporation of the fragrance and promote a long lasting smell. Dibutyl phthalates is the main ingredients of nail polishes as solvent for dyes and as a plasticizer that prevents nail polishes from becoming brittle.

Phthalates widely used in plastics

All this substance will go into our body through respiratory system, digestive system and skin. Studies have linked phthalates to hormone changes, lower sperm count, less mobile sperm, birth defect in the male reproductive system, obesity, diabeties, and thyroid irregularities. 

Avoid toxic nail polishes

慎用指甲油

A study from Taiwan showed that long term ingestion of the toxic substances of plasticizers not only raise the risk of cardiovascular in humans, but increase the risk of heart and liver disease, and kidney toxicity.

Among all the beauty products, nail polishes contain the largest amount of phthalates. We advice you to apply nail polish in an air flowing room to avoid headache, as well as do not take foods after applying nail polish to avoid it stain on the food. It is the best to remove light colour nail polish after 7 days, and remove dark colour in-between 3 days. 

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Know Your Enemy - Mineral Oil

According to Environmental Working Group (EWG), mineral oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum. Other name for mineral oil include petroleum jelly (Vaseline), baby oil, liquid paraffin, petroleum and propylene glycol.

"No mineral oil" is the new "No parabens"

Cosmetic industry is a big fan of mineral oil, because it's cheap, colorless, odorless, doesn't oxidize and easy be kept for a long time. Mineral oil using in cosmetic is highly purified, but it's also consider "comedogenic" which means it can clog your pores and increase the risk to acne and blackheads.  

Mineral oil is widely use in cosmetics

Damage Your Skin

Due to Its highly penetration, mineral oils not only can easy to apply to skin, it will give skin a short-term fix too. What we don't know is, they can actually cause long-term harm to your skin.  

Even if the time being is short, your skin will be moist but it will block the skin to breath causing skin dryness and rough or maybe peeling.

Mineral oil don't let your skin breathe

Clog Pores

Most of the moisturizer often includes mineral oil. It is because the effect on locking water is the best. In all of the oily substance, the effect on locking water is the best with Vaseline as it decreases the loss of water by 95%. 

In fact, not only it locks the water but it also locks the sweat affecting the excretion on the skin, seal off your skin from air, water and anything else getting in (or out). Long term accumulation of dead skin cells and dirt will clog the pores making the pores to grow bigger initialing pimples to grow.

Mineral oil is a excellent short-term fix for dry skin

The more you wipe, the more the dry

When read the ingredients of cleansing oil and shampoo, it isn’t hard to notice the present of mineral oil. It’s because it has the effect of oil-soluble that can clean the dirt from make-up and hair styling products. 

Do not simply trust the "skin benefits" given by mineral oil, once it is used, all sorts of skin problems will begin to form making you regret.

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