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Tea Tree Oil

Tea tree oil, the most widely known of the Australian essential oils, is nothing short of one of nature's true gifts. Tea tree oil should be in every household, both in the medicine chest and in the cleaning...

3 comments    health acne essential oil
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Making Salt Scrubs

Salt scrubs, sometimes referred to as salt glows, are found in almost every trendy bath and body shop around. For good reason. They are a wonderful sensory experience. They smell heavenly, but more...

4 comments    health how to beauty
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Turmeric the Medicinal Spice from India

Up until recently, I hadn't given Indian food much thought. Some of it I liked, some was pretty hot for my taste. Recently however, I have discovered something really exciting. Turmeric. Not only does...

7 comments    health alternative medicine
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Olive Squalane

Squalane is a unique emollient oil that has been touted as nothing short of a miracle in a bottle. I highly doubt the miracle claims, but I do believe that squalane has an important place in anti aging skin...

10 comments    health beauty skin care
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Honey for Skin Care

When you think of honey, what do you see in your mind? Do you see that little bear container filled with the amber syrup? Or, do you see the little girl on the jar of Sue Bee honey that I remember as a kid?...

14 comments    health beauty facial masks
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Using Sandalwood Essential Oil

Sandalwood is one of the most versatile essential oils, distilled from the heartwood and roots of the Sandal tree (Santalum Album). A tree that takes 60 to 80 years to reach maturity. East Indian Sandalwood...

0 comments    health beauty acne treatment
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Pumpkin Seeds-Delicious Nutrition

Pumpkin seeds are flat green seeds that may or may not be encased in yellowish white shells (edible). If you are true believers of the "waste not want not" philosophy, the pumpkin and its seeds are a supreme...

7 comments    health how to food
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How to use Mullein

Mullein is a velvety soft, very large plant that grows almost everywhere...in pastures, scrub lands, along railroad tracks etc. It is known by many names such as velvet plant, flannel plant, Juniper's Dock,...

0 comments    health herbal remedies
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Aloe Vera Healing

Aloe Vera, Aloe, or Aloe Barbadensis is a succulent plant that many people have become quite familiar with. It is found in shampoos, lotions, after sun preparations-almost anything you can find in the...

3 comments    health skin care essential oil
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The New Medical Threat MDRO's MRSA and VRE

I worked in a hospital setting for 13+ years, and during that time I saw the dramatic increase in not only MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), but also VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococci)....

6 comments    health infection
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