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1. Beauty Exposé V OL U ME 1, I SSU E 1
S U MMER E D IT ION
2010 /2011
Inside this issue:
Beauty Tips 2
Look a little closer… The Natural Guru 2010 Make up—Preparing the
‘canvas’
3
More people are search- Propylene Glycol Medical Science 4
ing for healthier skin care This is widely used in cos- and Alternative Therapies
products and opting to metics as a moisture vehi-
use brands that claim to cle, to hydrate the skin, Aromatherapy 5
Part 1
be natural or promote the plumping it up and dimin-
inclusion of specific natu- ishing fine lines and wrin-
About D&M 6
ral elements. Unfortu- kles. It is used as anti-
nately all may not be as it freeze and in hydraulic and
seems as many brands brake fluids. Propylene
that include some natural glycol is a strong skin irri-
ingredients (usually mini- Mineral Oil/Petrolatum/ tant and can cause prob-
mal amounts) also have a Petroleum jelly/Liquidum lems in both liver
wide variety of chemicals Pariffinum (abnormalities) and kid-
still as part of the formula. A Hydrocarbon derived neys (damage).
It is important to read the from petroleum. It is ex- Parabens (Butyl, Ethyl,
ingredients list to ascer- tremely occlusive, remain-
tain just what is actually ing on the skins surface. It
contained in the product is used in cosmetics
and this will also give you mainly because it is cheap Special points of interest:
an idea of just how much and it's use justified by  Not all ‘Natural’ products are so
is included. The higher an having the benefit of being natural.
ingredient is on the list the able to prevent moisture Methyl and Propyl)
These are preservatives  A promoted natural ingredient
greater the quantity in- loss from the skin. It is doesn’t make the product All
cluded. akin to covering your skin that are widely used in
Natural.
with cling wrap but with cosmetics. They destroy
There are some ingredi-  Chemical concoctions in skin care
much more dire results; it enzyme activity and thus
ents quite commonly used can cause health issues.
blocks pores and causes inhibit microbial activity.
in skin care products that  Read the ingredients list of all
formation of blackheads, These preservatives can
are not good for you or products before purchasing them.
leaches required vitamins get into the blood stream
your skin and products
and minerals from the and, as such, the organs of
containing such ingredi-
skin, interferes with cell the body where the pre-
ents should be avoided.
development and the servative activity contin-
skins ability to eliminate ues, limiting the body‟s
toxins and may also con- enzyme activities. Cancer-
We are going to look at 3 tain contaminants ous tumors dissected in
of these ingredients in this (polycyclic aromatic hydro- laboratories showed para-
edition of The Beauty Ex- carbons) that are carcino- ben residues and their sus-
posé: genic. It also interferes pected carcinogenic poten-
with the skins natural lubri- tial led to the banning of
cating function and with parabens in Japan
continued use exacer-
bates dryness of the skin.

2. Beauty Tips.
Summer Essentials – Manicured Feet
- Sacred Sage 2010
Book yourself in for a cle softening product, Cooling Foot Balm for a
do-it-yourself pedi apply to your cuticles real feet treat! Tip: Put
and get your tootsies and leave for a couple some bed socks on and
of minutes. Wrap a tiny go to sleep and wake
beautifully groomed
piece of damp cotton up with rejuvenated,
for the summer sea- wool around an orange/ soft and energized feet.
son: bamboo stick and gen-
tly push your cuticles
Paint your toes nails
Cut & File nails to back. Tip: Add a few
the next day and you
shape prior to soaking drops of essential oil to
have summer ready
your feet. Tip: Keep a the water prior to soak-
feet! Ensure you use a
little bit of length on ing to stimulate tired
good base and top coat
your nails to elongate feet- try Rosemary or
to prevent staining and
the look of your toes Peppermint essential
chipping!
and feet. oils.
Remove calluses and To keep your feet in tip
dead skin build up using top condition through-
a variety of tools- a cal- out summer:
lus shaver (only use on Applying cuticle oil and
calluses), a rasp and a foot balm daily. Have
pedi paddle. Ensure them next to your bed
your feet are damp and so you can just pop it
gently use the callus on before you go to
shaver over calluses, sleep.
Brighten stained nails then work the rasp
Are your feet ready for by squeezing lemon briskly back and forth
juice onto cotton pads/ over the dead skin build Exfoliate your feet
exposure during the weekly with a scrub,
balls and rubbing all up and finish with the
summer season? over your nails. Tip: pedi paddle to smooth pumice stone or pedi
Leave the soaked cot- the soles of your feet. paddle in the shower.
ton pads/balls on top of Tip: Apply some foot/ Remove chipped polish
your nails for 3-5 min- body lotion to your feet and apply new polish
utes for extra stain re- prior to callus and dead as soon as chipping
moval power. skin removal for a soft occurs.
finish and to reduce the
chances of removing Give yourself a full pedi
Remove ridges by
too much skin.
lightly buffing your nail every 3-4 weeks.
plates (top of your
nails) using a block Massage a couple of
buffer or a gentle nail drops of cuticle oil into
file. Tip: Only buff on each cuticle and nail.
the nails with ridges Try D&M‟s strengthen-
and only until a pow- ing and nourishing cuti-
dery coating appears cle oil. Tip: Buff your
on the nail plate- Do nails with a 3 way buffer
Not over buff! for that professional fin-
ish.
Soak your feet in warm
water for 5 mins to sof- Lather some foot balm
ten your cuticles and onto your feet and mas-
skin. If you have a cuti- sage it in- try D&M‟s
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3. Make yourself over Part 1 – Skin Prep
- Sacred Sage 2010
It‟s very easy to get heard the saying “you
caught up in the daily need the perfect can-
grind and apply the vas to start with” so
same make-up every let‟s invest a couple of
single day. But every minutes into skin prep
now and then we all to give you just that- a
look in the mirror and perfect canvas!
think I‟m really sick of
what I look like! Well
with summer and 2011
fast approaching now
is the perfect time to
refresh your look using
easy tips and tech-
niques to suit your skin
and features. We are
stripping it all back and “Try these quick
starting with skin solutions and see
preparation. We‟ve all which one/s work for
you:”
Problems and Solutions
Does your skin look dull Does your make-up wear cleanse and prime your skin. ensure your make up applica-
even after you have ap- off quickly or just disap- tion is even and always allow a
Apply your foundation and few minutes between applying
plied your make-up? pear?
concealer and allow it to set for your liquids and your powders
a couple of minutes. with extra time if you have
This generally occurs on oily applied a moisturizer and/or a
Your skin is probably a little
skin types and if: Sweep and gently press some sunscreen as well.
lifeless and in need of a boost.
Try these quick solutions and translucent powder over the
The make-up formulation has a
see which one/s work for you: top to seal. Does your make-up
high oil content which is unsuit-
Apply a light, hydrating mois- able for your skin. crack?
turizer underneath your foun- Apply powder and/or bronzer
Your skin requires more pre and blush.
dation if you don‟t already do make-up preparation or the use Usually this occurs on skins
so. of a primer. that tend to be dry and/or de-
Continue with further make-up hydrated and by using founda-
You are using poor quality applications. tion and concealer products
Use an illuminating product make up with minimal lasting that are unsuitable for your
underneath or on top of your power. skin. People with a tendency to
Do you experience cak-
foundation to give your face a dryness and or dehydration
The chances are that your skin ing or blotchy make-up?
healthy glow. Apply most should be applying a light but
prominently to the top of your is quite oily and the best skin hydrating moisturizer under-
cheek bones, bridge of your preparation for you involves the There is nothing more irritating neath their make-up and
nose, centre of your chin and following quick steps: than realizing your make up is should be using a foundation
forehead and dust the excess blotchy once you have finished with a high oil content to pro-
over your chest. Cleanse your skin in the morn- applying it all! Normally this tect against further dryness
ing and if you like to moisturize occurs when you don't leave and cracking.
in the morning only apply a tiny enough time between applying
Think about when the last time amount of a suitable and a light your liquids (moisturizer/
was that you exfoliated and if With the above make -up
moisturizer (free from mineral foundation etc) and your pow- issues exposed and the
it‟s been a while aim to exfoli- oils) to your skin. ders causing the powder parti-
ate twice a week. inclusion of a good skin
cles to group together and set prep rout ine you should
Allow your moisturizer to be on the moist areas of your skin. now be able to turn your
Apply a night treatment product absorbed for a few minutes The other cause of caking and face into the perfect can-
before you go to bed for a and then apply a primer. A blotchiness can be due to the vas every day!
vibrant and well rested com- primer will give your skin a application of cream based
plexion ready for morning good base to work with and will products on top of powder
enhance the staying power of based products- ie a cream
make-up application.
your make-up. blush on top of your bronzer or
NOTE: If you don‟t apply mois- powder. Always stick to using
turizer in the morning, then just products with the same base to
Beauty Exposé Page 3

4. Medical Science and Alternative Therapies.
- The Natural Guru 2010
Many people have not health issues nor the only intent and result. If there is
heard of the term proven means of sustaining no faith in the drug, regard-
'Iatrogenic Disease', not health and addressing less of where it came from,
surprisingly, as it is a term health related problems. the power of the mind
Physicians would prefer Alternative therapies and based on the belief that it
you did not learn. The term medication developed from will not work procures a
is a reference to disease natures bountiful array of result equal to the power of
caused by medical inter- supplies have been used the lack of belief.
vention of a health problem since the beginning of man-
by a physician and/or medi- kind and, indeed, many
cation prescribed. Most formulated scientific drugs In conclusion;
people would recognize the are based on elements Why should it matter if
term more if I said 'adverse from natures medicine someone has more faith in
reactions' or 'side effects'. chest. and thus gravitates towards
If we look at iatrogenic dis- natural (alternative) thera-
ease caused by medication pies for their health issues?
Why medical scientists feel If they find relief or cure for
we are describing illness or threatened or alarmed
ill health in varying degrees their problem through these
enough to produce such a forms of help it should be of
as a direct result of taking programme proclaiming
medicine prescribed for a no consequence to anyone
their drugs are better and else.
specific complaint. An ex- should be trusted more is
ample would be the devel- beyond my comprehension. I believe it is time for sci-
opment of thrush in a per- I feel that scientists and ence, and those practicing
son as a result of ingesting medical professionals in this field, to realize that
anti-biotics. should be more open with they are not alone in their
regards to alternative thera- ability to provide relief, help
pies and their benefits for or cure for health issues.
A recent television pro- Science is not perfect and
gramme that compared some people. Perhaps
learning to work along with its belief in how you must
alternative therapies/ prove everything before it is
medicine to scientific drugs rather than against natural
therapies should be prac- viable or true needs to be
caused me to be alarmed reconsidered. It cannot
A Doctor’s Hippocratic by the bias and the fact that ticed.
prove how we homosapians
the host, a professor at a came into being yet here
oath states “First do no prestigious university, and a The host of the television we are! Scientists and or-
scientist himself, concluded show did try some alterna- thodox medical practitio-
harm” that people should trust the tive therapies but made it ners also need to allow
scientific drugs created by quite clear from his com- other people to believe in
scientists as it proved it's ments that he believed it what they wish without
worth through having to was all hocus pocus non- prejudice and trying to
undergo double blind test- sense. It was quite obvious change their ideas and ide-
ing to ensure it's safety and that his intention was not to als to be the same as
viability. No-where in the be open minded to the al- theirs. We are all different
programme did the host ternative treatments but and, as such, what is right
mention that many deaths rather to find fault with them for one may not be so for
and many more suffer ill due to his lack of faith or another. Let us learn to live
health, caused by these belief in them. with that rather than trying
scientific drugs and their to make everyone conform
'iatrogenic disease'. Neither to one ideal.
was it mentioned that many In my opinion faith or belief
drugs that have undergone in any form of help for
the double blind testing are health related issues will
removed from use due to have a bearing on the out-
the dangers of serious dis- come of results. This is
ease or death after having quite clear when you take
been on the market for a the fact that during double
period of time. blind testing of scientific
drugs patients given noth-
ing more than a „sugar pill‟
Medical science has indeed find cure or relief from their
come a long way in terms illness being 'treated'. Their
of developing medication belief that they are actually
which can provide relief being given the real drug
from health problems, how- enables the power of the
ever, it is not the only form mind to procure the healing
of relief to be found for
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5. Aromatherapy— using essential oils around the home. Part 1
- The Natural Guru 2010
Essential oils are the life force of the others in and around her life will re- therapeutic value but are to be
plant from which they come and are call her when that aroma is smelled seen as of a lesser quality than the
highly concentrated so care needs to even if she is not in their presence. purest oils not set to any standard
be taken when using them. There are With this in mind you can burn a spe- other than what Mother Nature de-
many essential oils available on the cific oil or oil blend at special occa- livered.
market with each having its own varia- sions Christmas, Mothers day, Birth- Please note: It is vitally important
tion of properties that can be employed days, etc.) and begin the process of you purchase your essential oils
to aid the mind and body during times creating memories for those who at- from a reputable supplier as there
of stress, dis-ease or injury and these tend the occasions. are some unscrupulous people who
beautiful oils can be used at any time to adulterate their oils simply to make
create an atmosphere or simply create more money. Ask questions about
a wonderful aroma around the home. Fragrant oils or Essential oils?
the supplier's oils, where they come
Essential oils and fragrant oils are
from and their process for purity
two entirely different things. Fragrant
assurance. If they are not forthcom-
oils are synthetic smells created to
ing with their answers or cannot
mimic pleasant smells from nature.
give you assurances then look for
They are uniformly cheap and readily
another supplier.
available from many stores ($2 stores
There are several ways in which the right through to high class depart-
aromatic oils can be delivered to the ment stores) but they have no thera- Storage of your essential oils
mind and body; through massage in a peutic values, they simply smell nice. Essential oils have a shelf life and
massage medium, through evaporation These synthetic fragrances can should be used before this date.
in an oil burner, room sprays, bath, or a cause sensitivity to the nasal pas- This shelf life can be lessened if the
medium such as body lotions or creams sages and sinuses and some people essential oils are not stored cor-
and shower soaps etc. Once the oils experience headaches when they are rectly as light, heat and oxidation
have been dispersed onto the body or used as well as develop skin sensitiv- can destroy their properties. The
inhaled through breathing the evapo- ity or rashing if used in a medium and correct storage conditions are:
rated oil/s they deliver results according delivered to the skin.
to their properties. Some oils can be
 In a coloured (amber or cobalt
ingested but should never be adminis- blue) glass bottle
Essential oils on the other hand vary
tered in this manner unless advised by in price from oil to oil but even at the  Away from direct sunlight
a qualified aromatherapist. lower end of their price range are
Oils that have been administered more expensive than fragrant oils.
 Away from a direct heat source
through a medium (shower gel/soap, a They also smell differently from their  Below 30 degrees centigrade
lotion or cream or in a carrier oil) begin synthetic nemesis (try smelling a syn- (optimum temperature is 16 de-
to be absorbed through the skin and thetic fragrance and the real thing, grees centigrade)
eventually find their way into the blood the difference will be notable) and are
where they can circulate through the available through chemists, health  Do not refrigerate
internal body and deliver their proper- stores and shops/stores that sell al-  Ensure caps are screwed on
ties as required. The essential oil/s or ternative therapy items. All essential
correctly after using
components unused in procuring a re- oils should have a use by date on the
sult are simply eliminated from the body bottle, the Latin and common name
via exhalation, sweat, urination or defe- of the oil, storage instructions and the
cation. term '100% pure essential oil'.
Oils inhaled are taken into the brain, Just to confuse things a little more,
where they can initiate hormonal re- there are essential oils that are of
lease responses and into the nasal pas- B.P. Standard. These oils are still
sages, sinuses, throat and lungs, where 100% pure but can be made from
they can immediately procure result; different species and harvests of the
Use of a storage box for essential
from here they also find passage into plant and may have undergone fur-
oils is recommended as it will help
the blood stream and initiate responses ther processing so that a specific
to keep light out and maintain a
as they circulate throughout the entire standard (set by the British Pharma-
cooler temperature.
body. This form of administration works copeia) is obtained. In such oils there
well for sinus and lung congestion as is no variation as it conforms to the If you follow the correct storage
well as for things such as depression standard and thus remains constant, conditions for these precious oils
and fatigue and is the perfect way to whereas in essential oils that are not they will remain viable for use until
create a specific atmosphere within the of B.P. Standard there can be varia- their expiry date arrives.
home. Certain memories can be in- tions depending on that year‟s har-
voked when specific aromas are vest, where the plant was grown and In our next Beauty Exposé we will
smelled, e.g. when a woman wears a how and when it was harvested. B.P. look at choosing and blending es-
particular perfume for a period of time Standard oils are fine to use for the sential oils.
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