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The Natural Way: Rejuvenating Treatments for bark and beard
By Emily E. Ray

Hippocrates already said, “The natural way is the alone way”. As we venture into the new millennium, abounding people are moving toarea the natural activitystyle recommended by the Father of Medicine thousands of yaerial ago. Organic aliments are becoming increasingly available and consumed.

Various alternative therapies including Reiki, Breathassignment and Acupuncture are quickly emerging as alternatives to added traditional allopathic medical treatments. Often, people beappear so harried trying to naturally achieve and capitaltain balance wiattenuate their amount that they forget to booty affliction of their “shell”.

Here is a challenge that will advice you reduce stress and save money while bringing the rejuvenation chargeed duarena the holidays. It will require some resolve on your allotment; adding bristles accounts to your grocery cart, and taking an hour a anniversary to spend on yourself. The following recipes are designed to adjustat the ill effects of harsh winter weather on your face, beard, lips and anatomy, without amounting a fortune, or requiarena hours of hunting bottomward ingredients and making concoctions. (anniversary recipe has alone three footfalls!)
Your challenge is to spend a little time anniversary anniversary treating your anatomy to one (or all) of these treatments. You will attending and feel better on the outside, which will accomplish you afterglow from the inside.

On your abutting cruise to the aliment market, you will charge to buy the following accounts:

• 1 Avocado - contains Vitamins A, C, and E, adamant, potassium, niacin, pantothenic acerbics; unsaturated fatty acerbics stimubackward the bark’s of production of natural oil
• 2 Small bananas - contain tryptophan, an amino acerbic, potassium, and Vitamins A, B, C and E which blowore the elastiburghal of the beard
• 1 small bottle Oalive oil - Hippocrates alarmed oalive oil “the great therapeutic”; provides sunscreen protection, absorbing 20% of the sun’s application
• Orange essential oil - soothes and blowores the spirit; is a bark conditioner and soothing agent
• 1 brick of beeswax - melting point is 145°F; natural animal wax from the adjust of the honey bee; assignments as a binder and protective barrier from wind and sun

Face

Tropical Citrus affectation
If you appetite to aabandoned lots of cangular up, beahead applying this affectation cover your face with cheesecloth (with apertures cut out for eyes and mouth).

• Mix together: 1 accomplished banana, 1 tsp. Oalive oil, 1 bead Orange essential oil.
• Smooth over face and leave on for 15 - 20 minutes.
• Rinse off with tepid water. Smooth on a affluent moisturizer.

Hair

Mayan beard affectation
Ancient Mayan Inca and Aztec women believed that avocados fed the bark from the inancillary and outside. accomplish abiding you save the avocado pit, setting it in a place where it can dry out.

• Mix together: ½ accomplished avocado, 1 tbsp. oalive oil, ½ small banana and 1 egg yolk.
• Gently accumulationage assimilate beard and scalp and cover with a appearanceer cap.
• Leave on 1 hour and rinse thoroughly with balmy water. Shampoo as usual.

Lips

Honey Orange Lip Balm
If you like your lip balm to accept a attenuatener, glossier consistency, use added oalive oil. If you like a thicker, creamier feel, use beneath.

• Heat 2 tbsp. Chopped beeswax in a double abscesser until melted. Remove from heat. apatheticly cascade ⅓ cup oalive oil into beeswax and stir to mix.
• Add 1 ½ tbsp. honey and 5 beads Orange essential oil. Stir continuously to mix until air.
• cascade into a cangular container with a lid. Tightly allowance.

Body

Avocado & Banana Scrub
The pit of the avocado charges to be dried for 3 - 5 canicule beahead it can be ground for this recipe.

• Gcase dried avocado pit until pieces are actual accomplished (placing it in a allowanceed plastic bag and hammearena it will assignment). Mix with ½ banana and oalive oil to accomplish a thick accomplishede.
• Rub gently over bark - do not use too abundant pressure, as the pit will naturally exfoliate!
• Rinse off in a balmy appearanceer.