Natural Beauty from Nature Purity

Dear Reader,

Summer camp season is about to begin. It’s going to be a lot of fun for your kids! But sometimes they get infested with lice… According to the CDC, between 6 and 12 million children a year become infected with lice. If your kid(s) got these creepy critters, what do you do next? First, don’t panic: although lice are creepy tiny blood suckers, they do not pose any health threat. Second, don’t rush to the anti-lice hair salon or the specialized anti-lice services which can cost up to a few thousands $ for a family. You can do it yourself, naturally, safely, efficiently and for less than $30. Here is what you need to know about lice and how to get rid of them organically.

Lice 101
So you’ve spotted live lice, which can be tan or grayish white, or nits – tiny white or yellow eggs that stick to the hair like superglue: don’t freak out (check the lice and nits photos from the CDC to make sure it’s lice). Remember that lice are no indication of poor hygiene as they equally infest kids in poor and fancy neighborhoods. Bottom line, everyone goes through this and it doesn’t mean your house, your kid, the school or the camp are not clean. Before running to the drugstore and jump on any anti-lice treatment, be aware that the mainstream anti-lice treatments use toxic pesticides and that pesticides have recently been linked to the epidemics of ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder) in kids. Moreover, more and more lice are resistant to these pesticides, so they’re not only unsafe but also useless. So what’s next?

War on lice goes green and safe!
We have a set of organic anti-lice shampoo and lotion. They are made with essential oils like Lavender, Tea Tree and Citronella which will chase lice away if they’re here and keep them away if they’re not here yet. No harsh treatment, no toxic stuff: just the natural power of essential oils. Lice cannot survive outside a human host for more than 36 hrs so don’t worry about your pets and carpets and rugs. Just wash all the bed linens and clothes and dry them in high heat.

Here is the how-to step by step:
- Wash your kids’ hair (and yours) with the anti-lice shampoo and leave it on for 2-3 min.
- Rinse throroughly
- Apply the anti-lice lotion on the wet hair and leave it on for 20 min. Wrap your kids’ hair in a towel
- Comb your kids’ hair with a fine comb to remove lice and nits
- Rinse throughly
- Repeat 2-3 days later, then once a week for 2 weeks to get rid of all the nits

This is a safe, inexpensive and efficient way to get rid of lice or keep them away from your family if the school or the camp have issued a warning.

Have a beautiful day!

Dear Reader,

Dermatologists and beauty experts have hammered into our heads that sun exposure is not only making your skin age fast, but it’s also very dangerous for your health because of the risk of melanoma, the deadly skin cancer. I would challenge their recommendation to stay away from the sun and overuse sunblock all the time. Here is why…

You need sunlight

Life on Earth would not be possible without sunlight. Although we aren’t trees, which use sunlight to create energy and generate oxygen, we still NEED sunlight. Sunlight is absolutely necessary for your skin to be able produce Vitamin D (of which most of us are deficient according to recent studies). Vitamin D is a very critical vitamin for many aspects of your health like immunity, cardiovascular health, bone strength and cancer and depression prevention. Even Dr Nicholas Perricone, the famous dermatologist, says that we all need sunlight. The key here lies in moderation. If you expose yourself to burning sun, then, yes you will damage your skin. But soft, gentle sunlight is one of the most important nutrients for your health and it’s FREE!

The thorny issue of sunscreens

Although you see ads everywhere about the danger of sun exposure and the absolute necessity to put sunscreens on everyday, facts show us that it’s not true. When you look at numbers, the incidence of the deadly melanoma is 0.02%. I wouldn’t call that an epidemic of skin cancer. Moreover, some recent studies have shown that sunscreens may even generate some types of skin cancers. So buttering yourself up everyday isn’t the best way to protect your skin and prevent aging. Meanwhile, most of us spend more than 90% of our time indoor so we’re sunlight-deficient. So you need sunlight, but you don’t want to burn yourself: what are your safe options?

Aftersun care

The first recommendation is to use common sense: don’t overuse sunscreen and don’t expose yourself to burning sun. The second one is to help your skin suntan smoothly and repair itself in a healthy and beautiful way if it’s been burned or even inflamed. The natural suntan you get is your best and healthiest protection against sun damage. Here, aftersun care is of essence: using products like Shea butter, or Grape seed oil which contain natural healing and moisturizing components, will help your skin to keep its youth, suppleness and radiance. Remember: the summer is the season when you stock up on Vitamin D for the long dark winter season.

Dear Reader,

You may have heard about anti-aging skin care, who hasn’t?! But have you heard about anti-aging hair care? Everyone is used to focusing on preventing or erasing wrinkles, fine lines, crow feet and sunspots. But virtually no one pays attention to the hair. Unfortunately, your hair is another giveaway of your age. Although you can easily (and painfully) do a facelift, there’s no option for “hairlift” yet! Find out here what you can do to look much younger than your calendar age.

Your hair ages too

“A woman in her 40s doesn’t have the hair she had at 20 — it’s not just her imagination,” says British hair expert Philip Kingsley, author of The Hair Bible. What happens is that as you age, your hair grows thinner, duller and grayer, sometimes dryer or oilier. But it definitely looks less full and sexy than when you were young. Lots of things affect your scalp and locks, wearing them out, like:

- wrong hair care products
- sunlight, ocean or swimming pool water
- hairstyling like dyeing, perming, bleaching, straightening
- body burden toxic load
- pollution at home or at work
- stinking diet
- lack of exercising
Those are the major culprits when it comes to damaging and aging your hair, and you can easily ward them off by taking some simple preventive and restorative steps. First comes first: review your current hair care and hairstyling and get rid of chemical loaded products and harsh hair treatments.

Anti-aging hair care 101 for a fuller, shinier and sexier hair

You need a shampoo which instead of loading you with more chemicals and toxins, is going to detox your hair and scalp. This is exactly what organic clay shampoos do for you: detox your hair and scalp from all the damaging pollutants and stimulate their vitalizing and rejuvenation. Clay is a powerful natural earth ingredient that attracts and traps toxins and pollutants. Instead of staying in your hair, the toxic chemicals are gently removed without damaging your hair. Like a plant grows better if there’s no dust on its leaves, your hair thrives once those toxins and chemicals are removed. My favorites are the Damaged Hair Clay shampoo with Witch Hazel and Ylang-Ylang and Fortifying Clay shampoo with Sage and Echinacea because my hair is so fine and delicate and needs special care. I also always use our 100% natural and chemical-free organic Shea butter conditioner after each shampoo. If you had organic Jojoba or Argan or Monoi oils as leave-on conditioners, not only do you boost your hair’s vitality and beauty, but you also protect it from future damage and aging.

The little known herbal extract for a forever young hair

Few people think herbal extracts when it comes to hair beauty and vitality. There is a special Chinese herbal extract that is known to rejuvenate and revitalize the hair to make or keep it young: it’s Ho Shou Wu. Taken regularly, this herb stimulates the anti-aging and regenerating biological processes in your body and hair. It has the reputation to be able to return gray hair to its original color. So instead of rushing to your hairdresser to do dyeing as soon as you see gray hair, think Ho Shou Wu!

If you want to know more about how to make your hair stunningly gorgeous and youthful, read our hair detox article.

Enjoy these simple steps and let us know how well it worked for you!

Dear Reader,

Last week, the President’s Cancer Panel issued the big statement that environmentally caused cancers are “grossly underestimated” and “needlessly devastate American lives.” While scientists, lobbyists and law and policy-makers are arguing, fighting and wasting precious time, you can protect yourself and your children with simple steps.

41% of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer
Yes, you read this right! Although it seems like cancer rates and mortality are decreasing, this isn’t true for all cancers and there will still be 41% of us diagnosed with cancer. Moreover, some types of cancer are increasing rapidly, like thyroid, kidney and liver cancers. More alarming is the increase of cancer among children, which no one can really understand. Altogether, this is the first big warning about the danger of pollution and chemical exposure by the agency that is the mission control of mainstream scientific and medical thinking: the President’s Cancer Panel. “We wanted to let people know that we’re concerned, and that they should be concerned,” said Dr Leffall, one of the panel experts.

Recommendations for a cancer-free life from the President’s Cancer Panel
We aren’t all equal when it comes to body burden and health. Some of us are more exposed to pollutants through our jobs, our home, our environment; some of us are more vulnerable to toxicity due to our genetic make-up. Unless you get a real genetic testing, you cannot know whether you’re more vulnerable or not. The best approach is prevention. Here is what the panel recommends:

- when pregnant and with small children, choose foods, beauty products, toys and garden products with fewer endocrine disruptors  (like pesticides, herbicides, BPA,  and parabens and  phthalates which you can find in mainstream beauty and food products). If you want an up to date list of endocrine disruptors, visit the website of Our Stolen Future.
- if you have a job where you’re exposed to chemicals, remove shoes when entering the house and wash your work clothes separately from the rest of the laundry
- filter drinking water
- avoid plastic water and juice bottles as well as baby plastic bottles
- choose organically grown foods
- check levels of radon, a radioactive gas, in your home

The necessity of detoxing
I often mention detoxification as a crucial step in beauty and health and to prevent aging. The reason is simple: we are all exposed to many different sources of toxic chemicals. Although there might be minute levels of toxicity in your shampoo or your moisturizer, or your home or at work… in the end, all of these toxic chemicals end up in your body, disrupting its normal functioning, your fertility, your mood, your level of energy and making you fat and sick and underproductive. So doing a thorough detoxifying program at least twice a year is not an advise, it’s an absolute necessity. For a more regular detox, you can get great detox help and results with herbal extracts like as a few examples:

- Healthy Liver Tonic
- Burdock
- Dandelion
- Connective Tissue Tonic
- Red Clover/Stillingia

You can find more about which herbal extract you need in this summary table

Meanwhile, throw away any mainstream chemical beauty product and switch to natural and organic only with Nature Purity! Be determined to whatever it takes to not be part of the 41% of Americans who will be diagnosed with cancer.

Stay safe and clean to enjoy life as you should!

Dear Reader,

With the summer coming in a few weeks, we all want to have our best beach body ever. Anywhere you turn -magazines, TV, internet- you find a new miraculous recipe or program for quick and easy weight loss and lots of those concentrate on diet. However, no diet will get you far or for long if you don’t address one of the main factors in weight: stress!

There is much more than diet to weight loss

You can eat as healthy as you want, detox as much as you want; if you are stressed, your weight loss program is doomed to fail anyway either now or when you get back to your normal diet. Why? because your metabolism is geared to either keep this weight or put more. Moreover, in addition to the usual dose of stress that you manage everyday, you now have the stress of the diet and exercise program. Stress of not being able to eat your comfort foods and drinks when you need them, stress of monitoring what you eat and how long you exercise, stress of not being able to go out with your friends or go to a party and have fun as usual… the list can be very long! But maybe you’re starting to get the point of this catch 22 situation…

In the end, it all comes down to what kind of metabolism you have, and if your body is flooded by stress hormones, there is no way you will be able to lose weight easily and stay at your ideal weight. So what can you do? Get some herbal help to reset your nervous system and your metabolism! Nervous System Tonic compound.

Relax to let the lbs go easily

When your body is flooded with stress hormones, the least priority on its to-do list is to lose weight. Because we are all programmed for survival, when stress hormones are present, your brain interprets that there is a life-threatening situation which necessitates absolute attention and action: fight or flight. Everything else is insignificant for your brain and body, including your very serious weight loss program. It doesn’t matter if the stress is about a lion chasing you or your boss sidelining you or your girlfriend dumping you: it’s all the same for your brain: stress.

But after months of being stress or living a stressful life, how can you rebalance your metabolism in a stress-free manner so that you can lose weight easily? One option is to enter a zen retreat for 6 months. The other is to use the power of herbal extracts to restore strength and balance in your nervous system. Nervous System Tonic compound is designed specifically for that. It does have a soothing and nurturing action on the exhausted, overworked or overstimulated nervous system to bring calm and balance. Once your nervous system is rebalanced and strong, your metabolism will be free of stress hormones and ready to shed lbs off like a bliss.

Be smarter than everyone else, put your priorities straight according to body wisdom and use the power of Nature to get your body back in slender shape.

Enjoy!

Dear Reader,

Cellulite -the dimpled, uneven fat that mars the backsides and thighs of women everywhere- is one of women’s worse nightmares. If you have it, you want to get rid of it. If you don’t have it (you’re then in the lucky 10% of cellulite-free women), you want to make sure that it stays this way. Although Dr. Molly Wanner, an instructor in dermatology at Harvard Medical School and an author of an evidence-based review of existing treatments in 2008, says “At this point, there is no outstanding treatment for cellulite”, maybe she didn’t hear the last news about the genetic factors contributing to cellulite.

Mind your genes honey!

Dr Emanuele, a clinical pathologist from Italy, has recently discovered that women with cellulite have a certain form of 2 important genes, ACE (Angiotensin Converting Enzyme) and H1F1 (Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1) that women without cellulite don’t. This Dr Emanuele claims that women with these 2 gene forms are predisposed to cellulite. Malfunction of ACE is involved in conditions like high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetic nephropathy and diabetes. So Dr Emanuele is now proposing to use the anti-ACE drugs in ointments to apply on the cellulite area. Smart… but doomed to fail. Why? Because a lasting anti-cellulite remedy would have to address more than just one gene. In fact, a real anti-cellulite  cure would have to act deep on all the tissues involved in cellulite: skin, fat, connective tissue and underlying muscle. And there is more than one gene at work in all those tissues!

Treat cellulite at its root

One of the symptoms of cellulite is reduced blood and lymph flow. So by stimulating the blood and lymph flow, you help to bring more oxygen and nutrients and remove cellular waste: you help your body to remove cellulite and rebuild new healthy tissues. Green Tea and Grape seed have been known to stimulate healthy blood and lymph circulation for a long time. When infused in natural oils, like organic Green Tea oil and Velours de Rose, they are perfect to use for massaging directly on the cellulite areas. The beneficial action of the massage will synergize with the deep action of the botanicals to help remove the cellulite. But you can even enhance this anti-cellulite strategy by rebalancing and strengthening your connective tissue (the tissue which supports the skin and surrounds the fatty tissue) with Connective Tissue Tonic. This herbal compound contains specific herbal extracts to make the connective and fatty tissues and skin stronger and healthier.

So yes, the Harvard Medical School Dermatology instructor was right: there is no single silver bullet to cure cellulite. But try this combination and you will be able to show off the results with your sexiest bikini on the beach this summer!