Archive for March, 2008

Counting The Causes Of Cystic Acne

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A pimple here, a pimple there…many people can say that they have experienced a spot on their face at some time during their life. However, for those that suffer from cystic acne, their pimple problems usually consist of more than just a spot. Cystic acne is perhaps the most severe type of acne, with the potential to leave long lasting scars. The causes of cystic acne are nothing new—but being aware of them might allow you to avoid this terrible fate for yourself.

Classic Causes, Tricky Treatment

The causes of cystic acne are really not very different than the causes of other, less severe types of acne. It is not the causes of cystic acne that make it unique, but the results and treatment. Typically, people who have cystic acne can trace the cause back to oily skin and hair products, hormonal imbalances, excess sweat and humidity, and drugs such as steroids, phenytonin, estrogen, and testosterone.

Although these causes are typical sources of acne, the result of these cystic acne causes is quite different from other forms of acne. The result is a large number of nodules and cysts that deeply penetrate the surface of the skin. The appearance of the skin becomes red and inflamed. Treatment of cystic acne is tricky, because traditional products that you can get over the counter do not work. It is important that treatment of cystic acne causes be addressed by a dermatologist only; even dermatologists disagree about how to best treat cystic acne.

Covering Up

Many people, especially during their teenage years, choose to cover up their cystic acne in order to feel less self conscious. This is especially common with cystic acne, because this kind of acne most frequently shows up on the face. While covering up is understandable, it often just makes the situation worse for the sufferer. Before covering up cystic acne, make sure that the product you plan to use is meant for sensitive skin. It might even be a good idea to have the product approved by your dermatologist.

Skin Care At Its Best

In order to address the causes of cystic acne and prevent it from ever being an issue in your life, it is important to take good care of your skin. This means eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly to avoid stress, and washing your face daily. A healthy lifestyle is the best way to nip the causes of cystic acne right in the bud.

A Natural Acne Remedy

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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Acne is a problem that bothers millions of people on a regular basis. People go to their local drugstores to get creams and masks to dry up their oily pimples. Other people visit a dermatologist to get prescription acne medication. Little do these people know that a natural acne remedy can be found in an aloe plant.

Natural Acne Remedies Cost Much Less

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Considering the expense of creams and prescription acne medication, the fact that an inexpensive aloe plant is an effective natural acne remedy is indeed an appealing one. Before you go out and get an aloe plant, you first need to understand why aloe is such an excellent natural acne remedy.

First of all, acne is caused by an infection in the upper layer of the skin. The skin tries to safeguard itself against the infection going deeper by creating pus. The pus is a sign that the pimple is close to healing. When placed directly on a pimple, the natural acne remedy healing properties of the aloe cool the skin and absorb the infection.

Aloe is not only excellent for acne, it is also very helpful to sunburns. Look at many of the sunscreens, and you will find that many brands use aloe as an integral healing ingredient. So, with all this knowledge, you can now find an aloe plant.

Aloe plants are easily obtained at many garden centers. If aloe plants are not easily obtained in your area, you can always get one on the internet. Be aware, however, that the plant will only be shipped during favorable climate conditions.

Speaking of that, aloe plants do best if they are placed indoors. If they are nurtured correctly, they can get quite large, so make sure you get an accommodating pot! When it comes to harvesting the aloe itself, there are several steps to follow.

First, use clean scissors to snip a long arm of the aloe plant off – the closer to the root the better. Once that has been done, use the edge of the scissors to cut a vertical line down the entire arm. The aloe is a gelatin-like substance inside. Take the aloe out with a small spoon, and place it into a Ziploc bag for safekeeping.

Only take one arm every couple of weeks, as each fully developed arm supplies enough aloe to last that long. With the proper care, not only will you have a healthy, helpful plant, but you will also have excellent skin with a clear appearance.

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Everything You Need to Know About Acne

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Acne is a very common skin problem, one that affects millions of people around the world. More specifically, acne is the term that is used to describe plugged pores, pimples, and cysts that appear on the face and other areas of the body. Acne can occur on one’s face, chest, back, even the shoulders and upper arms.

Acne can be so mild that it is hardly noticeable or so severe that it can result in being devastating to the person’s self esteem. Some people do not even want to leave their home because of their condition, and so it can really end up being quite debilitating.

Causes

One of the biggest questions surrounding this skin condition is what causes it. There are actually a few answers to this question, but first it should be known that the myth that fatty and sugary foods cause acne is actually not true.

Basically acne occurs when the pores on the skin become clogged. Each separate pore is an opening to a canal known as a follicle, and when glands in the skin begin to produce too much oil the pores can end up blocked and will then begin to accumulate dirt and debris. As a result of this, usually but not always pimples will develop.

Acne can also be triggered by genetics, as family history plays a major role here. Hormonal changes related to menstrual periods or pregnancy, greasy or oily cosmetic products, certain medications, and high levels of humidity, all of these can trigger acne.

You will notice that you have acne if you have certain symptoms, including whiteheads, blackheads, cysts, redness on the skin, crusting of skin eruptions, or scarring on the skin.

Depending on how serious your condition is you may want to get treatment for it, and the best way to determine the appropriate treatment for you will be to speak to your doctor, or better yet a dermatologist. They will look at your skin and from this be able to assess the severity of your condition and decide on a treatment method.

Usually they will suggest a lifestyle change first, but there are various acne creams and lotions that are available which you can use to deal with your present acne and to prevent it from being so severe in the future. Medication may also be prescribed to help with your acne, but this should only be on the suggestion of a medical professional.

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Acne Free in 3 Days Review

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Acne Free in 3 days by Chris Gibson is a excellent book to have in your acne clear fast . If you are not particularly interested of natural health and how your body works, but mainly just want to get rid of those embarrassing pimples on your face then your really should buy Acne Free in 3 Days. It gives you a very simple method that will get rid of your acne and that you can repeat as often as you want to. But it won’t bore you with too detailed explanations on why those methods work.

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A ten-year acne sufferer myself, I will show you how I cured my acne condition in 3 days the natural way, saved myself from further scarring, and stopped wasting my money on expensive medications and over-the-counter products!

PS.

I tried Chris’s method. After two days of detoxing with his method, my girlfriend was amazed on how well my skin had cleared. She told me that my skin is shining so much that I don’t need lights in the room anymore. I’m sure we can all forgive her for her bad humour, but it just goes on saying that his methods work.

Say ‘aloe’ to a fab travel companion

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

You’ve packed your bags. You’ve got your tickets and you travel. Fantastic, but may have left something behind that should have been in your wash bag or beauty case.

There are three things people commonly meet when going on holiday: sunshine, new food types and alcohol. And fancy there being one single herb that has something to offer for all three…

Aloe vera is known to ease the effects of the above and good aloes may help your natural immune response. There is plenty of good research to underpin that aloe vera delivers these effects. Many people know aloe vera as a liquid in bottles, hardly the thing to pack into a suitcase! So you will be interested to know that there is one blisterfoiled, encapsulated aloe product available that is manufactured to pharmaceutical GMP standard.* It takes up no space in your travel bags (or your coat pocket) and, as it so happens, it contains way more working ingredients than other aloe products.

Eases Digestion & Hangovers
Travel guides immediately gravitate towards travel diarrhoea due to contaminated water (and ice cubes) or contaminated food stuffs. Sensible too, because during a two week vacation, up to 50% of people will have one or more episodes of it, the person suffering from it can feel very ill indeed and it can certainly be distressing enough to ruin a holiday or business trip. [Steffen R, DuPont H, Wilder-Smith A. Manual of Travel Medicine and Health, 2nd ed. BC Decker Inc., Ontario, Canada, 2003.] Fortunately for most European and American Continent travellers, things rarely get this drastic. But you’ll be surprised how many people do get a dicky tummy travelling.

Aloeride® placates the stomach and the gut lining (gastrointestinal tract), studies in aloe research show aloe to have ulceroprotection properties as well as to accelerate healing rates.** There are at least eight proper research papers on aloe’s natural anti-inflammatory effect, so a food irritated digestive tract will feel so much better for taking just a few capsules. It also is an extraordinary help the-day-after drinking beyond an elegant sufficiency of alcohol the night before, just two tiny capsules settle that horrible stomach feeling. Of course you’ll never need it for that but still.

Eases Sunburn
The seasoned traveller knows that on the beaches in the Caribbean you can get your back rubbed with a freshly cut chunk of aloe vera to appease the red skin. The interesting thing is that, when you take Aloeride® orally - 2 capsules a day one week before and during your holiday - , you can achieve a similar effect, it helps the skin bounce back from a sudden change in sunlight exposure and is likely to keep your tan for longer. So one herb made to unrivalled standards may make your holiday more enjoyable still.

Why choose Aloeride

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Why choose Aloeride® over other aloe vera products is a question some people, who haven’t used Aloeride® yet, may ask themselves. With so many aloe vera products on offer and confusing abound, knowing what the right choice is can be difficult. Paragraph by paragraph this article talks you through what the implication is of everything in our Aloeride® factsheet.

Aloeride® is the only aloe vera food supplement in the world manufactured to pharmaceutical GMP (classified as grade D (EU grade)/ class 100,000 (US class Federal Standard 209E) / ISO 8) including stability tests.

All manufacturers have the choice what Quality Control they produce to and from the independent lab tests you may conclude that many place their bottom lines and profit margins before your best interests. We set out to make the absolute best possible aloe vera product for you, with independently documented, verifiable Quality Control and we let financial implications be a secondary issue. This may not make the best business sense but to us it makes the best human sense.

Aloeride®’s Methanol Precipitated Solids (working ingredients) measurement reaches an unparalleled 4,680 mg/L, Size Exclusion Chromatography measured a vastly superior spectrum of ß-linked polysaccharides*.

Because Aloeride® uniquely contains all the required molecules in abundance, it has what it takes to deliver what research has shown aloe vera can do. You’d be surprised how many manufacturers quote research without bothering to deliver the molecules necessary for those researched effects.

Aloeride® is a powder that does not need stabilisers, colouring agents, flavourings or other undesirable additions routinely found in fluid aloes.

This is one aspect of what makes Aloeride® a unique 100% pure and hypoallergenic product. Striving for purity invites and embraces even the most sensitive and discerning of aloe vera users.

Aloeride® is 100% pure with only totally inert SiO2 and Stearyl Fumerate as flow agents for encapsulation.

Without a flow agent one cannot get a consistent powder quantity into a capsule, we use a minimal amount of flow agents that does absolutely nothing in/to your body; another aspect of what makes Aloeride® a 100% pure and hypoallergenic product.

Aloeride® is hypo-allergenic, to the species of aloe vera itself there is no known allergy, sensitive people who react to fluid aloes very often have trouble with the additions or the poorer quality aloe used.
Aloeride® can help those who reportedly didn’t tolerate other aloe vera products.

Aloeride® has a negligible <0.1ppm laxative polyhydroxyanthraquinones*, avoiding diarrhoea even in higher dosages.

It is a manufacturer’s choice whether or not their product contains laxative aloe vera molecules, for delicate digestive systems it is absolutely vital to have next to none. So we make Aloeride® fall below the smallest detectable quantity.

Aloeride® comes in tiny coni-snap capsules that can be swallowed easily by children as well as by adults who have difficulty in swallowing pills.
It makes Aloeride® so much easier to use, swallow a bit of water first then swallow the tiny capsule(s) with more water. As easy as one-two-three, even for small kids.

Aloeride® has no taste, virtually all of the fluid aloes taste horrible.
Very welcome - for kids as well as adults - especially because aloe gels/liquids are not a better option anyway.

Encapsulated and blister foiled, Aloeride® has a shelf life of 2 years from manufacture as opposed to 1 month refrigerated use from the moment of opening for all fluid aloes.
Welcome news to episodical users.

No refrigeration is necessary with Aloeride®. Portability in hygienic blister foil + no refrigeration required = instant usability when people feel the need for it. Hugely important for those who want help there and then, and for whom aloe vera juice in the fridge at home would be useless.

One pharmaceutical grade, certified bovine gelatine (certified Kosher) capsule contains: 180mg total process Aloe Vera Barbadensis Miller powder + 1.8mg inert Aerosil 200 BP NF (Silicon Dioxide SiO2 is quartz, the most common mineral and major constituent of many minerals) + 0.9mg inert Stearyl Fumerate
Our deceptively small capsules contain virtually nothing other than pure aloe vera powder of an exemplary quality which contributes to making Aloeride® a hypoallergenic product. Other products flag wave to have more milligrams but none so far are in the same galaxy when it comes to delivering a meaningful quantity working molecules.

If so desired, one can easily open the coni-snap capsule so as to ingest the Aloeride® powder only.
Aloeride® is a very versatile product.

How can there be more in a small pack of Aloeride® compared to a 1 litre bottle of aloe vera juice? Aloe raw material has a ratio of 0.5gr (500mg) of total solids per 100mL of original juice which contains 99.5mL (= mg as 1L = 1000gr, 1mL = 1gr = 1000mg) of water. One Aloeride® 180mg capsule = [180mg/500mg solids part] x 100mL = 36mL of original juice x 28 capsules/pack = 1,008mL so that is just over 1 litre of aloe vera juice. One pack of Aloeride® equates well to 1L of original juice. In that 1L, measured by independent laboratory tests, is 4,680mg/L of working ingredients (part of the total solids) and these 4,680mg consist of a very significantly better, ß-linked polysaccharide profile.

It may be tempting to underestimate our small capsules but you would be so totally wrong. Tankards and bottles look like Goliath compared to our pack that is David; but we all know the outcome of that one and with Aloeride® history repeats itself.

More molecules in a superior spectrum is the secret behind Aloeride®’s success.
Success shows in more and more people recommending and using Aloeride®. Aloeride® has featured in magazine editorials and is being talked about on UK live radio.

Aloeride® is available in fantastic discount multipack offers.
It is our pleasure to make the very best aloe vera product affordable to just about everybody. We can do this because we keep tight control of our overheads and deal with customers direct.

* data established by multiple, independent laboratory tests in 2004; tests were repeated in 2006 and 2007

What is aloe vera Aloeride and Climate Change

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Among plants aloe vera may be an Ugly Betty but it has a 4,000+ year track record of being hugely valued for improving both health and beauty. Earliest recorded pharmaceutical use dates back to 2100 BC (Sumeria/Babylon), also hieroglyphic inscriptions of aloe dated to 4100 BC were found in the tomb of an Egyptian Court physician. Queen Cleopatra and Queen Nefertiti, both renown for their stunning beauty, used aloe vera to stay healthy and beautiful. Aloe vera today still is unfailingly popular for the same reasons it was valued for throughout the ages.

Although aloe vera looks like a cactus, it actually is a succulent and a member of the Liliacae family (like the onion, garlic, asparagus, lily and the tulip). Unsurprisingly one of aloe vera’s nick names is ‘lily of the desert’ because that is where it grows naturally. To survive long periods of droughts these xeroids plants have the ability to retain and preserve large quantities of water.

Being able to survive such a harsh environment has interesting implications for you. When for instance an aloe leaf gets damaged it instantaneously repairs this damage thereby avoiding loss of water. Failure to quickly repair the injury site would result in evaporation of its precious reservoir and might jeopardise the plant’s health or survival. Such tissue repair and other powerful aloe vera properties are transferred to you when you ingest Aloeride®.

There are more than 350 varieties of aloe vera yet only 4 contain significant healing properties, the most nutrient dense of these is aloe vera barbadensis miller, the plant used to make Aloeride®. Aloe vera is a complex, interacting mixture of some 300 constituents including beta-linked polysaccharides, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, lignins, saponins and anthraquinones.

The challenge in processing aloe vera is how to extract all of these synergistic molecules without damaging them or without significantly altering their ratios to one another. Next you must deliver all these synergistic molecules in meaningful quantities for only then can the many properties attributed to aloe vera manifest themselves. We chose to grow the best and process in the cleverest possible way and as a result Aloeride® emerges as the top flight aloe vera product in multiple, independent laboratory tests.

With a nick name like ‘lily of the desert’ you won’t be surprised to learn that aloe vera cannot tolerate frost. Its water content freezes at 28° Fahrenheit (minus 2°Celcius) causing the plant to die. Consequently most commercial growth of aloe vera happens south of the Equator. North of the Equator commercial growth still is precarious, aloe growers in the ‘dust bowl’ of southern Spain got clobbered when in February 2005 temperatures fell to minus 10° in Madrid and minus 20° in Aragon. But also south of the Equator the climate is changing, until recently Australia was a large producer of aloe vera like it was of wheat, cotton lint, wine grapes and rice. Their prolonged droughts caused a drop in wheat production by over 58% which made wheat

prices surge to a 10-year high, these drought also affected Australia’s aloe vera production where one company alone converted some 7,000 tonnes of aloe vera leaf into around three million litres of gel each year. An aloe vera plant needs 150mL water a month as otherwise it dies. Plants that do survive the drought generate more aloin and emodin, resulting in their gel having an even more bitter taste and stronger odour than usual. It is what dehydrated aloe does for self-preservation because emodin and aloin have anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal and anti-cancer effect. These hydroxyanthraquinone compounds become life savers as the dehydrated plant fights cell disorganisation and bacteria, viruses or fungi that prey on it.

However, what is good for a distressed aloe vera plant isn’t necessarily good for you. In the lower gastrointestinal tract barbaloin molecules are hydrolysed to create aloe emodin which acts as a laxative by increasing water retention and mucus secretion in the large intestine. Aloe vera crop surviving droughts may come with a sting in its tail that causes mayhem in sensitive digestive tracts.

In order to achieve product consistency in a changing climate, we perform routine laboratory tests on trial processed harvests and base our purchases on those outcomes. The effect of climate change reaches aloe vera crops worldwide and to date Aloeride® has needed to make two rejections because of our very exacting Quality Control. Climate change certainly makes optimal harvesting more challenging than it has been in the past decades but the customer feedback shows that keeping to our unique standards makes an appreciable difference to customer’s quality of life. An Ugly Betty aloe vera may be, but in Aloeride® it waves its magic wand supremely.

Acnezine To Improve Relationship between Hormone and Acne

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

For most people, acne begins at puberty. The body starts to produce hormones called androgens. Androgens cause the enlargement and over-stimulation of the sebaceous glands in people with acne. This leads to the over-production of sebum, and coupled with a sluggish exfoliation process leads to blocked pores and acne. Sensitivity to these androgens also causes acne during the menstrual cycle and sometimes in pregnancy or during the menopause. It’s important to note that acne is not caused by excess in hormone levels, but an abnormal reaction to normal levels of these hormones. We are now seeing more people developing acne in adulthood; possible reasons for this are diet, lifestyle and more synthetic hormones in our environment (foods, water, plastics and medication). Acnezine has proved to be a relief to all those suffering from severe acne problems. Along with Acnezine you can help regulate your hormones by:• Avoiding stress — stress causes the over-production ofhormones• Using relaxation techniques, such as Yoga and deep breathing• Avoiding caffeine — caffeine stimulates hormone production• Exercising — exercise rebalances hormones and reduces stress• Eating hormone-regulating foods such as alfalfa, linseed(flaxseed), oats, celery, parsley, rhubarb, fennel and eveningPrimrose oil• Drinking still mineral water, preferably in glass bottles• Avoiding foods stored in plastic packaging• Eating organic produce where possible

StressStress is often linked to acne, whether it’s caused by school, college,work, relationships or money. Stress causes the production of hormones,such as cortisol, which can aggravate acne. Stress also causes thedigestive system to slow down because the body takes blood away fromthe stomach and intestines to prepare your muscles for ‘flight’, ourinstinctive response to stress; this in itself is often linked to acne. Acnezine controls metabolism to a certain level and tries to strike balance in the cortisol hormone level.

While undergoing treatment with Acnezine it is better to avoid• Dairy products (milk, cheese, cream, yogurt etc)• Meat (beef, pork, chicken, lamb etc)• Refined and cooked carbohydrates (white flour, bread, rice,crisps and chips, sugar etc)• Cooked fats (fried food, hydrogenated and partiallyhydrogenated oils, roasted nuts)All the above foods are acid-forming in the body. If you really want toget rid of acne, you need to eat more alkaline-forming foods — freshvegetables and fruit, nuts (but not peanuts as these contain alfatoxins)and seeds.
You can check the efficiency of your digestive system by eating sweet corn or sesame seeds and seeing how long they take to pass through. It is generally accepted that 24-36 hours is very good.

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