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Scrap Your Bottled Moisturizer: Make Your Own Skin Creams

By on January 24, 2008 in TECHNIQUES

Moisturizer is that magic elixir that metrosexuals, black folk like me, and everyone with very dry skin considers essential. It keeps the skin supple, comfy, glowing, and young-looking. But over-the-counter lotions and creams also sometimes contains mineral-based oils which clog the pores, and unpronounceable ingredients our bodies don’t understand. For years, I’ve used a variety [...]

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Smell Fresh the Natural Way: Make Your Own Deodorant

By on January 23, 2008 in TECHNIQUES

Not everyone needs a powerful, sweat-absorbing antiperspirant. I don’t know about you, but the last time I checked, we weren’t all firefighters or police officers who drip sweat all day. Some of us don’t really sweat that much. But we wanna smell fresh. Fresh as the summer wind or the wee daisy flower, if you [...]

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Stop Filling your Head with Toxic Colors: Make your own Natural Hair Dyes and Highlights

By on January 21, 2008 in TECHNIQUES

Most conventional hair dyes are full of toxic ingredients like bleach and ammonia. Such ingredient lists are on the cancer radar and are also said to cause brain tumors, and other conditions. Mother Nature the Beautician Nature supplies us with various colorful foods and herbs that can easily replace the usual store-bought, chemical-laden colorants for [...]

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Turmeric – The Golden King of Plant Medicine

By on January 13, 2008 in DIET, HEALTH, spices, turmeric

I had the pleasure of seeing and hearing Dr. Michael Greger speak at Philadelphia’s Food & Health Expo in 2007. He was funny and wise, and one of the things he shared with us was the top 5 things that prevent cancer. I quickly jotted them down, and just as quickly lost the paper and [...]

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Arnica: A Natural Cure for Muscle Pain

By on January 7, 2008 in PLANT CURES

Dancers and athletes are quite often afflicted with muscle pain and discomfort. Those of us who are less physically still sometimes need relief from muscle soreness and pain. We sometimes experience, and need treatment for sprains, bruises, and inflammation (redness, swelling, pain) caused sometimes by insect bites or arthritis. Common treatments from decades ago usually [...]

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Curing Stomach Ulcers with Aloe Vera

By on January 7, 2008 in PLANT CURES

Aloe Vera has long been known as a powerfully soothing salve for the skin. It is now well known to be wonderful for healing cuts, scrapes, and burns. But did you also know that aloe vera just as effective with wounded interior skin? Aloe vera juice, when taken internally, can soothe the most irritated stomach [...]

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