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Benefits of Coconut Oil – Homemade Skin Care and More
Coconuts are solid, oval shaped, fruits produced by the palm tree. Palm trees are found in more than eighty-six countries around the world, mostly located in the tropics. Some people refer to the coconut tree as the "tree of life" because of the rich vitamins and minerals found in coconuts. Coconut oil is extracted from coconuts. This natural oil is a solid fat, white in color, appears crystalline and offers a multitude of benefits. The benefits of coconut oil include:
Prevents pre-mature aging of skin
Repairs damaged skin tissue
Wards off sun damage
Helps bring back youthful appearance
Helps prevent yeast infection in skin
Aids in removing dead skin cells
Helps eliminate plantar warts / athlete's foot (when mixed with garlic)
Helps keep connective skin tissue strong and supple
Protects against liver spots on skin
Helps reduce chronic skin inflammation
Soothing for wounds
Combats wrinkles, skin discoloration, wrinkles
Assist in treating psoriasis, eczema, and dermatitis
Reduces roughness or dry skin scaling
Soothing for chapped or irritated lips
Firms, softens, smoothes and moisturizes skin
Helps prevent acne, herpes and warts
Softens hair
Conditions scalp
Helps get rid of dandruff
Has an antiseptic, antifungal and anti-bacterial property
High in anti-oxidants
Contains health promoting nutrients
Protects against arthritis, heart disease, cancer and diabetes
Aids in digestion
Strengthens immune system
Stimulates metabolism
Helps yield a fluffy lather in soap
Improves thyroid function
Escalates energy levels
Has an anti-viral property
Has stress relieving aroma
Many commercial skin care products such as soap, lotion, and cream, are made with cheap refined vegetable oils. Sometimes chemical solvents are used during this refining process. During this refining process, anti-oxidants are stripped away allowing skin to be vulnerable for free-radical generation, causing skin to age faster. Instead, coconut oil is high in anti-oxidants penetrating the underlying skin tissues preventing and protecting against the formation of free radicals. Virgin coconut oil is non-hydrogenated containing a lauric acid, a natural anti-microbial proven to fight viruses and bacteria.
Some commercial body care products tend not to, even, use cheap refined vegetable oils. Instead, they use something worse such as mineral oil and byproducts of refined oil. Also, foaming agents and surfactants are often added to commercial soap to generate lather. These chemicals are known to cause allergy and skin sensitization.
Many commercial soaps are now including chemically produced, unnatural, anti-bacterial agents, like Triclosan, in order to claim the soap has anti-bacterial properties. Triclosan is an environmental toxin in its own right and is still completely legal to add to commercial soap! Now that is a skin care concern!
How is coconut oil used? It is found in a variety of bath and body products. It is found in many foods and used for cooking or frying. It is used as massage oil for relieving stress, tension or anxiety. It is used in a variety of ways.
There is natural homemade goat milk lotion, handcrafted with virgin coconut oil and other natural ingredients. This homemade lotion comes in a variety of natural fragrances including: lavender, juicy orange and peppy citrus. It also comes, Au natural, unscented with no added fragrance. This natural homemade lotion is extremely mild and gentle. It soothes and moisturizes dry skin, dry itchy skin, sensitive skin, dry flaky skin and more.
Natural homemade goat milk soap, containing coconut oil, is available in bar and liquid varieties. This homemade soap comes in natural fragrances such as: orange tree, peppy citrus, peppermint coffee, lavender, aloe and oats and, even, a unique alpaca wool felted soap! It also, comes Au Natural, unscented, with no added fragrance.
Natural goat milk soap is extremely healthful for many different skin types. People with psoriasis, eczema, dry flaky skin, acne and more notice the difference between using natural goat milk soap and regular commercial soap the very time they use it! Goat milk soap is extremely mild and gentle with healthful skin care properties. This natural homemade soap, made with coconut oil, offers nice bubbly lather compared to commercial soap using foaming agents and cheap mineral oil.
You do not need to use commercial skin products that use cheap refined vegetable oils, cheap mineral oils, foaming agents, surfactants, unnatural, chemically produced, anti-bacterial agents and more. Instead you can find homemade skin care products using natural coconut oil and other natural skin care ingredients. The coconut oil benefits are multiple and healthful!
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The key to being pain free from IBS is to eliminate certain foods for a few weeks and see how you feel. By not eliminating these 5 IBS trigger foods; you will continue to feel pain, discomfort, bloating and irregular bowel movements. Treatment for IBS begins with knowing which of these trigger foods promote an IBS attack for you.
Keeping a food diary of what you ate and how you felt after each meal will help you to assimilate what are your IBS triggers foods. Try caring around a small notebook in your pocket book or brief case with you to use as your food diary.
Eating a variety of foods in your dishes is the wrong way to go in determining which foods are causing you the pain and discomfort associated with your IBS.
Eating simple meals while eliminating these 5 trigger foods will give you relief from pain, bloating and irregular bowel movements; will also help you to take charge of your IBS.
These are the top 5 proven trigger foods for IBS:
1. Dairy
For starter's dairy is the top food that you should start eliminating. Often time's diary causes extreme cramping and loose bowel movements. If you use cows milk daily then try using a soy or goats milk and see how you feel after eliminating dairy for a few weeks.
2. Sugar
Sugar is one of the worst things for IBS. It strips the body of nutrients in order to process it. Try avoiding white table sugar for a few weeks and see how you are feeling. Try a more natural form of sugar in your teas or snacks, like agave nectar or stevia.
3. White Flour
White flour has no nutritional value to IBS suffers; there is very little if any fiber in white flour. Often time white flour can cause constipation due its low fiber and binding quality. Try replacing all white flour with a natural multi-grain for a few weeks and see how you feel.
4. Coffee
Coffee strips the intestinal lining, so coffee is very big trigger food for IBS. Try to gradually cut back on the amount of coffee you drink per day and see how you feel. Eventually you should be coffee free.
5. Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners often times cause extreme cramping followed by loose bowel movements. If you use any of the artificial sweeteners get rid of them, and replace it with natural sweeteners from your local health food store.
Try eliminating these trigger foods for two weeks and see how you feel. Remember to make sure you are substituting the foods you are eliminating with healthier options of non IBS trigger foods. This will ensure that you are still getting the correct nutrients, vitamins and minerals from your diet.
Following the above tips after consulting your doctor can help you have less pain, bloating and regular bowel movements.
Now, isn't that a great way to spell 'relief' for yourself? I think so and so do the many IBS sufferers I have been fortunate to work with.
Randi studied holistic nutrition, changed her diet and healed herself of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Hypoglycemia and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). She is sharing this information and her e-book (I Healed Myself from IBS and You Can Too!) on her website at www.happyhealing.net.
