Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts

Neutrogena Wave Sonic

The Neutrogena Wave Sonic is a handheld vibrating cleanser that fits perfectly in your hand. To get started, just wet soap pad and turn on the Wave and start cleaning your face. It comes with pillows, which has a lovely Neutrogena soap on them. When you are finished, just throw the pad away.



The soap on the pads is mild and smells good. This makes it safe enough to use every day without stripping the skin. Vibration of the Wave is not too strong, it's perfect. I've used this on my face for about 1 week now and I love it! It keeps my skin soft and looking healthy. This definitely makes it less tedious to wash your face. All in all, it is a good buy and I'm sure you'll like it!



Neutrogena Wave Sonic

The Neutrogena Wave Sonic is a handheld vibrating cleanser that fits perfectly in your hand. To get started, just wet soap pad and turn on the Wave and start cleaning your face. It comes with pillows, which has a lovely Neutrogena soap on them. When you are finished, just throw the pad away.



The soap on the pads is mild and smells good. This makes it safe enough to use every day without stripping the skin. Vibration of the Wave is not too strong, it's perfect. I've used this on my face for about 1 week now and I love it! It keeps my skin soft and looking healthy. This definitely makes it less tedious to wash your face. All in all, it is a good buy and I'm sure you'll like it!



Bath and Body Works Aromatherapy in Warm Milk and Honey Sleep Massage Oil

I have my ways of dealing with insomnia. Some days I would be lucky to get a good night's sleep, and insomnia for me is one thing that runs its course. It is not just a way to pamper yourself with relaxing scents. Aromatherapy has helped me in many ways. I spend sleeping massage oil from the set to put me in a relaxed atmosphere. It is great for hydrating tired feet, especially redness around the heel of the foot after a long day of wearing stilts. A large bottle costs $ 13.

There are just so happy every time I press my Achilles heel and going down the leg portion while receiving a tax of pain, injury, but it feels so soothing to massage your feet with the help of this oil. It's good that I somehow have invented something clever from this massage oil every night - call it a night cream for tired feet. I believe therapeutic infusions in bath products work for me. Take a hot bath at night wash away hard to remove sillages of perfume on my body. It is my guess that you should pour a lot of oil to build a lasting aroma. The smell, I guarantee, is a great one to own.


Dream Bath



Bath Salts



Sugar Scrub



Massage Oil



Body Lotion


Bath and Body Works Aromatherapy in Warm Milk and Honey Sleep Massage Oil

I have my ways of dealing with insomnia. Some days I would be lucky to get a good night's sleep, and insomnia for me is one thing that runs its course. It is not just a way to pamper yourself with relaxing scents. Aromatherapy has helped me in many ways. I spend sleeping massage oil from the set to put me in a relaxed atmosphere. It is great for hydrating tired feet, especially redness around the heel of the foot after a long day of wearing stilts. A large bottle costs $ 13.

There are just so happy every time I press my Achilles heel and going down the leg portion while receiving a tax of pain, injury, but it feels so soothing to massage your feet with the help of this oil. It's good that I somehow have invented something clever from this massage oil every night - call it a night cream for tired feet. I believe therapeutic infusions in bath products work for me. Take a hot bath at night wash away hard to remove sillages of perfume on my body. It is my guess that you should pour a lot of oil to build a lasting aroma. The smell, I guarantee, is a great one to own.


Dream Bath



Bath Salts



Sugar Scrub



Massage Oil



Body Lotion


John Frieda Sun Streaks Heat-Accelerated Highlighter

A gentle peroxide-based gel that lets you highlight where you feel chunky shiny threads or strips. Controlled application you can create a wide, chunky highlights, thin, random rays, or touch-up roots between color applications. Recommended for blonde to medium hair only. Apply the gel to dry hair and exposed to direct sunlight or apply blow-dryer heat. Lightening effect will increase with each use. Highlights will be permanent.


Avoid contact with skin, eyes and clothing. Wash hands after use. Stay away from children. If skin irritation or redness appears, is not used. Apply the gel on fingertips and pull through selected strands of hair from root to tip.

John Frieda Sun Streaks Heat-Accelerated Highlighter

A gentle peroxide-based gel that lets you highlight where you feel chunky shiny threads or strips. Controlled application you can create a wide, chunky highlights, thin, random rays, or touch-up roots between color applications. Recommended for blonde to medium hair only. Apply the gel to dry hair and exposed to direct sunlight or apply blow-dryer heat. Lightening effect will increase with each use. Highlights will be permanent.


Avoid contact with skin, eyes and clothing. Wash hands after use. Stay away from children. If skin irritation or redness appears, is not used. Apply the gel on fingertips and pull through selected strands of hair from root to tip.

Going Organic for Acne Treatment

Acne can be embarrassing, but many acne treatments have already been created to save us from embarrassment that acne can cause. Among the large number of available acne treatments out there that are organic skin care for acne is now available on the market. These forms of skin treatments become available to anyone with acne problem to use.


Organic skin care products use pure natural ingredients that are organically grown, meaning that harmful herbicides, pesticides and other toxic products that were not used to grow the product. To ensure that it is completely organic, it is very important to look at the package to see the ingredients used in the product. When you use apple cider vinegar as an acne treatment, make sure that the product is purely organic, because organic apple cider vinegar still contains natural enzymes that act as detergents.

Tea tree oil is also another organic product used as an acne treatment. It contains a substance called terpinen-4-ol, which plays an important role in the ability of tea tree oil to kill microbes. The organic nature of tea tree oil has been shown to have less side effects than other non-organic products such as benzoyl peroxide, a popular acne treatment product that is known to cause dryness and gives an itching, burning and stinging sensation on the skin when applied.

Going Organic for Acne Treatment

Acne can be embarrassing, but many acne treatments have already been created to save us from embarrassment that acne can cause. Among the large number of available acne treatments out there that are organic skin care for acne is now available on the market. These forms of skin treatments become available to anyone with acne problem to use.


Organic skin care products use pure natural ingredients that are organically grown, meaning that harmful herbicides, pesticides and other toxic products that were not used to grow the product. To ensure that it is completely organic, it is very important to look at the package to see the ingredients used in the product. When you use apple cider vinegar as an acne treatment, make sure that the product is purely organic, because organic apple cider vinegar still contains natural enzymes that act as detergents.

Tea tree oil is also another organic product used as an acne treatment. It contains a substance called terpinen-4-ol, which plays an important role in the ability of tea tree oil to kill microbes. The organic nature of tea tree oil has been shown to have less side effects than other non-organic products such as benzoyl peroxide, a popular acne treatment product that is known to cause dryness and gives an itching, burning and stinging sensation on the skin when applied.

A Little Sunday Skepticism

Shamelessly stolen from Amy Alkon

who also linked to your Friday dose of woo from the Respectful Insolence blogger who cleverly takes on pseudoscience and pseudohistory.

Of McQueen: Mastery, Success and Despair

My mind has been on Alexander McQueen this week
wondering about his life of extremes
from his mastery of fashion, meaning not just clothes but wearable art
to his success as the world's youngest leading designer
to his despondency and death
He could create clothes such as these
that were so immanently wearable
like this suit, perhaps without the birds nest hat

and this feather dress which we all know was copied on project runway

and this tropical bird of paradise evening gown, utterly wearable without the feathers

He could also create clothes that were pure theatrical genius

Like this "Red Queen" coat, an Orientalist - Georgian confection

and this armored warrior queen - note that the dress without the mail is dazzling in its cut

this basking butterfly headdress

and these iconic "bedlingtons" so aptly named by Miss Cavendish

and this birds of prey in flight headdress seemingly holding up this frock.

How does a 40 year old man at the height of his success succumb to such despair as to commit suicide? Granted that he grieved for the mother that he lost only days before his death, and his friend/champion Isabella Blow that he lost three years previously, but to take his grief to such extreme is for me, not understandable.
When I consider all of the people who are out of work and have families to feed or who are seriously ill from a terminal decease, who get up everyday continue with their lives, I wonder that McQueen couldn't have found the will to go on.
I friend of mine lost his daughter to cancer almost two years ago, after battling it with her for almost 8 years. His daughter was 24 years old when she died. He despaired in fact he still despairs but he goes on with his life. A woman that I work with has had cancer treatment off and on for the last 6 years and now the cancer has metastasized to her brain. She goes on knowing how fragile life is and appreciates each additional day.
I guess that in some way I'm insufficiently sensitive to the trials and travails of the talented, successful and wealthy 40 year old McQueen.

I leave you with this link to part 1 of McQueen's last show, Plato's Atlantis.
The embed code has been disabled, thus the link.
Watch and enjoy the last of his brilliant body of work.

lecitin



Pred kratkim sem si kupila lecitin, ker me nenormalno daje pomladanska utrujenost (sploh si ne predstavljam, kako bi bil cel dan pokonci, brez da bi šel za kakšno uro popoldne spat,...). Pa sem si rekla, da bom probala še to.
No in danes sem šla še malo po netu raziskati, za kaj je vse še dober, poleg tega da ti pomaga pri koncentraciji. in sem bila čisto šokirana. To je zlata zadeva! Če je res vse kar piše ga bom jedla do konca življenja. :) Pridelujejo ga iz soje. Stane 10€, notri pa ga je 180 g. Na dan naj bi ga pojedel cca 10g. zadeva je v takih rumeno oranžnih zrnih, ki so zelo higroskopični (vežejo se z vodo), tako da je najbolje, da poješ suhe in poplakneš z vodo, ali pa ga zmešaš v jogurt.

Torej, pomagal naj bi za:
- spomin in koncentracijo ( izpiti.. )
- skeletne težave, sklepi (imam probleme s kolkom)
- srčne težave
- zmanjšanje deformiranosti dlani in stopal ( imam malo ploska stopala, plus to je zelo dobro za športnike, sama pa zadnje čase tečem, rolam..)
- pospeši razgradnjo in presnovo maščob, izgorevanje maščob, varovanje jeter -> daje energijo (hehe ta točka je še posebej super :D )
- prepreči napenjanje, odpravlja zaprtost (super.)
- znižuje nivo holesterola
- prepreči tvorbo žolčnih kamnov
- izpadanje las
- pomaga pri motnjah v rasti nohtov (tooooo :D )
- pomaga pri kožnih spremembah - npr. dermatitis

Če vsaj malo pomaga je super. Je pa čisto za vse, kar si spomniš :D

Še članek iz strani nutrilab.si
Lecitin je naravna snov, v človeškem organizmu prisotna kot sestavina živcev, jeter in celičnih membran. Je fosfolipid, ki nastaja v jetrih, udeležen pa je pri presnavljanju maščob.

Kot emulgator se lecitin pogosto uporablja predvsem v proizvodnji margarine, čokolade, majoneze ter nekaterih sladoledov, poznan pa je kot E 322.

Naravno je lecitin prisoten v vsaki živalski in človeški celici, zlasti v jajčnem rumenjaku, možganih in živcih. Za naš organizem sta pomembni predvsem glavni sestavini lecitina, holin in inozitol, ki pomagata ohranjati mentalne sposobnosti, izboljšata koncentracijo in spomin. Kot glavni in najpomembnejši vir holina ima lecitin v našem organizmu zelo pomembno vlogo, saj je holin potreben tako za tvorbo nevrotransmiterja (nevrotransmiterji so spojine, ki živčnim celicam omogočajo komuniciranje z drugimi živčnimi celicami, mišicami in številnimi žlezami) acetilholina, kakor tudi kot sestavni del celičnih oziroma vseh bioloških membran.

Acetilholin je pomemben prenašalec vzburjenja med živčnimi stiki, ki igra pomembno vlogo pri prenašanju živčnih dražljajev preko sinaps in iz živčnih končičev v mišičevje. Ima pomembno vlogo v delovanju parasimpatičnega živčevja, uravnavanju kalija v telesu in s tem delovanju srca. Zato se lecitin, kot naraven izvor holina in s tem pomemben vir acetilholina pogosto uporablja kot naravni prehrambeni dodatek za varovanje živčevja pred motnjami oziroma kot učinkovito prehransko dopolnilo za ohranjanje mentalnih in intelektualnih sposobnosti. Kako pomembna je prisotnost acetilholina za ohranjanje koncentracije in bistrega razuma pove dejstvo, da na primer pri bolnikih z Alzheimerjevo boleznijo v večji meri propadejo tiste živčne celice, ki uporabljajo za prenos informacij acetilholin oziroma se zmanjša njihova odzivnost na številne kemijske snovi, ki prenašajo signale v možganih. Posledica izgube živčnih celic oziroma prvi znak Alzheimerjeve bolezni je pozabljivost, nato pa se spomin, zmožnost tekočega spremljanja časa in zmožnost prepoznavanja ljudi, krajev in predmetov počasi zmanjšujejo. Pri zdravih ljudeh lecitin spodbuja delovanje možganov in poveča sposobnost pomnjenja, zato se pogosto priporoča kot prehransko dopolnilo šolarjem in osebam, ki opravljajo intelektualno delo.

Lecitin pomaga pri delovanju skeletnih in srčne mišice. Zelo uspešno preprečuje ter lajša različne oblike skeletnih in sklepnih težav, tudi jutranjo okornost manjših sklepov ter zmanjšuje deformiranost dlani in stopal. Zato se kot prehransko dopolnilo priporoča tudi starejšim ljudem in športnikom. Ti si lahko z njegovo pomočjo olajšajo bolečine v sklepih, ki so pogosta posledica večjih fizičnih obremenitev ter napornih, vsakodnevnih treningov. Tudi nekateri poklici, ki od človeka zahtevajo težko fizično obremenitev pri kateri je mišično in hrustančno tkivo napeto zaradi prisilne drže, prispevajo k večji potrebi organizma po lecitinu, ki lahko ob rednem, vsakodnevnem jemanju učinkovito pomaga pri ohranjanju zdravih sklepov.

Ker olajša oziroma pospeši razgradnjo in presnovo maščob se lecitin pogosto uporablja tudi v različnih dietah ter pri osebah z oteženo prebavo maščob. Lecitin v našem organizmu deluje lipotrofno, kar pomeni, da pripomore k izgorevanju maščob za pridobivanje energije oziroma, da varuje jetra pred nalaganjem maščob (trigliceridov). Ker emulgira holesterol in ga na ta način pretvori v vodotopno obliko, ki jo telo lažje izloči, je lecitin pomemben tudi kot prehrambeni dodatek, ki pomaga zniževati nivo holesterola v krvi ter hkrati tudi prepreči tvorbo žolčnih kamnov.

Praktična uporaba lecitina je danes, lahko rečemo skoraj, vsestranska. Pogosto se namreč lecitin omenja tudi kot učinkovito blagodejno sredstvo pri prebavnih težavah, saj naj bi preprečeval napenjanje, pospešil samo peristaltiko in na ta način odpravljal tudi zaprtost. Zato ga priporočajo tudi žolčnim bolnikom, bolnikom s težavami trebušne slinavke in ljudem z motnjami v absorpciji.

Uporabljamo ga lahko tudi pri tudi pri dermatoloških težavah, kot so izpadanje las, motnje v rasti nohtov ter pri kožnih spremembah (ekcemi, psoriaza, nevrodermatitis…), kjer ga kombiniramo z nenasičenimi maščobnimi kislinami (omega-3 maščobne kisline) z dodatkom vitaminov E in beta-karotena.


zeleni čaj

Ne le, da je zeloooo zdrav, meni ima tudi nenormalno dober okus.
Zelene čaje kupujem v čajnici Cha v Ljubljani in pa v čajnici (ne spomnim se imena :) ) v starem delu Kranja.
Obstajajo prav posebni obredi kako bi si moral pripraviti čaj. Za tako kompliciranje jaz preprosto nimam časa, pa tudi ne da se mi, tako da jaz v mikrovalovki pogrejem vodo, dam notri cedilo in vsujem ščepec čaja. Pustim cca 3 minute in spijem :) Če pa imate čas in voljo piti čaj kot obred je tukaj navodilo, kako ga pripraviti.
Najprej zavremo vodo v odprti posodi. (klor ki je v vodi izpari, zato je potrbno imeti odprto posodo)
Ko voda zavre jo prelijemo v čajnik, pustimo notri kakšno minuto in nato vodo iz čaja prelijemo v šalice.
Tako smo ogreli čajnik, ki je sedaj brez vode.
V prazen čajnik natresemo lističe zelenega čaja (1 žlica na šalico) in prelijemo vodo iz šalic v čajnik.
Čajne lističe pustimo v vodi okrog 2-3 min.
Tako smo vodo pravilno ohladili in ogreli šalice, tako da ob zlivanju čaja iz čajnika, čaj priteče v že ogrete šalice.
vir; http://www.caj.mojforum.si/caj-about65.html, avtor:
Domen

Najraje pijem čaje z okusom. Do sedaj sem sprobala vse okuse, ki jih ponuja čajnica Cha.

Tukaj jih je Top 5 :D
1) zeleni čaj z okusom pinacolade
2) zelena vanilija
3) zeleni čaj z okusom jasmina
4) zeleni čaj - granatno jabolko (okus ni najboljši, je pa vonj nenormalno dišeč)
5) zeleni čaj z okusom mente

kateri pa je vaš najljubši okus?