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 Body Care with
Natural Ingredients
Discover how to use natural ingredients in common body care solutions with the help of
Sunflower Naturals
Non-Toxic Body Care.
Editor Review:
"Emily Patterson's Non-Toxic Body Care and Non-Toxic Cleaning Guide are well-written, informative guides that will change your life and put some money back into your pocket. Emily's conversational tone is more like chatting with an old friend over coffee than reading a "how-to" guide, and her directions are so simple to follow that anyone can start making their own natural products immediately. She includes her own personal experiences along with thoroughly researched information, so you can rest assured that every recipe is safe as Emily has tested and used every one of them in her own life. She practices what she preaches, and makes it easy for readers to do the same. If you are looking to reduce your dependence on chemicals and feel better, save some money, or both, you can't go wrong with Emily's guides." Jen Shoemaker, Editor
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 Therapeutic Value of Natural Ingredients
Relax muscles, calm your mind, detoxify, moisturize, stimulate circulation and clear your lymph system.
Author: Emily Patterson
Date Created: January 23, 2010
Dead Sea Salt
Therapeutic Properties: Relief of arthritis and psoriasis as well as reduced skin inflammation.
~ Dead Sea bath salts for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
~ Thermo-sodium phototherapy of psoriasis vulgaris (follow with exposure to sunlight)
~ The role of trace elements in psoriatic patients undergoing balneotherapy with Dead Sea bath salt.
~ Increased levels of enkephalin following natural sunlight (combined with salt water bathing at the Dead Sea) and ultraviolet A irradiation.
Epsom Salt
Although there are many anecdotal uses for Epsom salt, I was unable to find double-blind, peer reviewed studies that document the benefits of Epsom salt.
Anecdotal benefits include: eliminating nail fungus and athletes foot with warm water baths, reduce muscle fatigue after strenuous exercise, provide a drying effect to the skin for skin conditions such as poison ivy and acne.
Coconut Oil
Properties include: Anti-Bacterial, Emollient, moisturizer, anti-fungal
~ Novel antibacterial and emollient effects of coconut and virgin olive oils in adult atopic dermatitis.
~ A randomized double-blind controlled trial comparing extra virgin coconut oil with mineral oil as a moisturizer for mild to moderate xerosis.
~ Sporostatic effect of some oils against fungi causing otomycosis.
Honey
Anti-Bacterial, antioxidant, antitumor, anti-inflamatory, antibrowning, and antiviral, effective eradication of MRSA
~ Rediscovering the antibiotics of the hive.
~ Functional properties of honey, propolis, and royal jelly.
~ Healing of an MRSA-colonized, hydroxyurea-induced leg ulcer with honey.
~ Effect of medical honey on wounds colonised or infected with MRSA.
~ Manuka honey dressing: An effective treatment for chronic wound infections.
Oats
Anti-inflammatory, itch relief, anti-oxidant, restore cutaneous barrier (calm eczema)
~ Colloidal oatmeal: history, chemistry and clinical properties.
~ Natural advances in eczema care.
~ Avenanthramides, polyphenols from oats, exhibit anti-inflammatory and anti-itch activity.
Caffeine
Reduced skin cancer risk, reduced damage from UV, suppressed wrinkle formation, dermal connective alteration, and collagen accumulation.
~ Effect of caffeine on UVB-induced carcinogenesis, apoptosis, and the elimination of UVB-induced patches of p53 mutant epidermal cells in SKH-1 mice.
~ Effect of caffeine on the ATR/Chk1 pathway in the epidermis of UVB-irradiated mice.
~ ATR-Chk1 Pathway Inhibition Promotes Apoptosis after UV Treatment in Primary Human Keratinocytes: Potential Basis for the UV Protective Effects of Caffeine.
~ UVB and caffeine: inhibiting the DNA damage response to protect against the adverse effects of UVB.
~ Stimulatory effect of oral administration of tea, coffee or caffeine on UVB-induced apoptosis in the epidermis of SKH-1 mice.
~ Transdermal delivery of anticancer drug caffeine from water-in-oil nanoemulsions.
~ Topical application of plant extracts containing xanthine derivatives can prevent UV-induced wrinkle formation in hairless mice.
COMPARE TO CONVENTIONAL:
While natural ingredients, such as those mentioned above, are not associated with an increased risk of developmental disorders, cancers or other long-term diseases, the same isn't true for conventional chemicals in our body care products...
Parabens
Breast cancer, reduced semen quality, increased risk of male genital deformities such as hypospadias
~ Does breast cancer start in the womb?
~ Xenoestrogens modulate vascular endothelial growth factor secretion in breast cancer cells through an estrogen receptor-dependent mechanism.
~ Assessing the effects of endocrine disruptors in the National Children's Study.
~ Effects of environmental agents on the attainment of puberty: considerations when assessing exposure to environmental chemicals in the National Children's Study.
~ araben esters: review of recent studies of endocrine toxicity, absorption, esterase and human exposure, and discussion of potential human health risks.
~ Significance of the detection of esters of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (parabens) in human breast tumours.
Phthalates (synthetic fragrances as well as an emulsifyer to provide smooth-flowing product, FDA does not require disclosure, calls Phthalate blends 'proprietary' information)
Breast cancer, malignant tumors, asthma, allergies, eczema, hypospadias, lupus, allergies, developmental disorders, genetic damage, reduced semen quality, increased risk of male genital deformities such as hypospadias and undescended testes
~ Xenoestrogens modulate vascular endothelial growth factor secretion in breast cancer cells through an estrogen receptor-dependent mechanism.
~ Adverse effects of the model environmental estrogen diethylstilbestrol are transmitted to subsequent generations.
~ Environmental endocrine disruptors promote invasion and metastasis of SK-N-SH human neuroblastoma cells.
~ EPA Chemical Summary: Phthalates
~ Adverse effects of endocrine disruptors on the foetal testis development: focus on the phthalates.
~ The Association between Asthma and Allergic Symptoms in Children and Phthalates in House Dust: A Nested Case-Control Study
~ Autoimmune Disease: Phthalate Linked to Lupus in Mice
~ Lupus Foundation of America
~ About phthalates
Bisphenol A
Breast cancer, heart disease, pregnancy loss, diabetes, cancer, decreased fetal growth, decreased length of gestation, developmental delays, impaired neurological function, reduced reproductive capacity
~ Bisphenol A at low nanomolar doses confers chemoresistance in estrogen receptor-alpha-positive and -negative breast cancer cells.
~ Association of urinary bisphenol a concentration with heart disease: evidence from NHANES 2003/06.
~ Environmental exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a review of the science.
~ Environmental estrogens and obesity.
~ Bisphenol-A disruption of the endocrine pancreas and blood glucose homeostasis.
~ Perturbed nuclear receptor signaling by environmental obesogens as emerging factors in the obesity crisis.
~ Potencies of bisphenol A on the neuronal differentiation and hippocampal neurogenesis.
Mineral Oil (Mineral oil is in almost all lotions and creams on the market today. Baby oil is straight mineral oil. As a thinking person, would you agree that applying these products daily, often many times daily, is high exposre?)
Exposure to mineral oil increases the risk of the following forms of cancer: pancreatic, gallbladder, lung, melanoma, esophagus, stomach
, kidney, as well as: non-hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia, in addition to damage to the central nervous system.
~ Review of the toxicology of mineral spirits.
~ Estimated effects of solvents and mineral oils on cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort of aerospace workers.
~ Cancer incidence and mortality in workers employed at a transformer manufacturing plant: update to a cohort study.
Benzoyl Peroxide
Skin cancer - to the extreme
~ Benzoyl peroxide promotes the formation of melanotic tumors in the skin of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-initiated Syrian golden hamsters.
~ The function of benzol peroxide in the induction of Syrian golden hamster tongue carcinoma by chemical carcinogen
~ The treatment of skin carcinoma, induced by UV B radiation, using 1-oxo-5beta, 6beta-epoxy-witha-2-enolide, isolated from the roots of Withania somnifera, in a rat model.
~ Free radical generating agents lead to the rapid progression of benign skin tumors to carcinoma in iron-overloaded mice.
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Sunflower Naturals
Non-Toxic Body Care
Open your life to a world of natural body care based on 15 years of solution research through the National Library of Medicine. Discover how inexpensive and easy it is to care for your body without petroleum chemicals to reduce risks associated with synthetic body care products such as breast cancer, skin cancer and contact dermatitis.
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Sunflower Naturals
Non-Toxic Cleaning Guide
Open your world to a life of natural cleaning solutions based on 15 years of research through the National Library of Medicine. Discover how inexpensive and easy it is to clean your home naturally to reduce risks associated with common chemicals in conventional cleaning products such as asthma, allergies and contact dermatitis.
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