Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 They impart an almond fragrance to preparations they are used in, such as jam, stewed fruit, and wine. The leaves are often added to soups. The Shakers used this herb in beer brewing, as its natural sweetness enabled them to use less sugar.
Other Uses
The entire aboveground plant was used as a strewing herb during the time of Elizabeth I. The oil from the flower buds is used in perfume. The flowers themselves were once soaked in rainwater to create complexion water and are sometimes included in potpourri. They have also seen occasional use as paintbrushes for large surfaces. |
| It is a helpful fragrance in a birthing room, as it can help calm the laboring woman, and also in a death room, where it helps calm all present.
The dried leaves of the plant are sometimes included in smoking mixtures. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The aptly named fragrance made by Christian Dior contained four different types of phthalates.
Poison was the product the ad designers chose to highlight in a full-page ad in the New York Times. "Sexy for her. For baby, it could really be poison," said the headline over the full-page photo of a pretty young pregnant woman sniffing a bottle of perfume. The Times insisted on air-brushing the product name off the photo, but many women nevertheless recognized the contoured shape of the Poison bottle. The ad listed the names of all the phthalate-containing products. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| It is an evergreen shrub, from 15 to 20 feet high, with opposite, sessile, leathery leaves that have a lemony fragrance. Each leaf is about 2 inches long and become reddish brown when dried. The flowers are light yellow and about V2 inch long. The fruit is orangish green and contains a single seed.
BONESET
Botanical Name
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy Family) Etymology
The name boneset comes from the time when this plant was used to treat the flu, known as break-bone fever for the bone pain it caused, in the early part of the twentieth century. |
Mike Adams
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| Make sure you avoid mercury and aluminum by avoiding toxic chemicals in personal care products such as deodorants and shampoos that are made with toxic fragrance chemicals. This also includes laundry detergents and anti-static dryer sheets that are loaded with fragrance chemicals.
Foods for your brain and bones
You can also give yourself outstanding brain nutrition by eating avocados, eggs, fresh berries and various raw vegetables. For avoiding osteoporosis, you need to get a large amount of calcium into your diet, but drinking milk is not the way to do that. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They shampoo with toxic fragrance chemicals. They drink the coffee, which depletes adrenals, and they smoke a cigarette. They suck car exhaust commuting to work. This burden is daily, and they do not take nutrition. How are they even alive?
Dr. Liers: I do think the body has some wisdom in terms of compartmentalization. There is probably a hierarchy in the body of: "We need to have this or we will not be alive. We will throw heavy metals into bone. We can get away with that. We can throw pesticides into adipose tissue, and at least it is sequestered for a while. |
Marshall Editions
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 Shampoo: Wash your hair every day, or even several times a day, with a non-toxic shampoo that does not contain fragrance or chemicals. This will take some of the excess oils off your hair.
Hormone evaluation: Greasy hair is hormonally derived. You should have your estrogen, testosterone, and thyroid hormones evaluated.
HOMEOPATHY
Like healthy skin, healthy hair should show signs of an optimum balance by looking neither too dry nor too greasy. |
| Neroli oil has a light, sweet floral fragrance. It has a balancing tonic effect on the nervous system and can be relaxing and uplifting. It is great for treating anxiety, nervous tension, and depression. Jasmine's heady aroma is considered emotionally warming and is very useful for relieving sexual anxiety and fear.
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TIP: USE FULL SPECTRUM LIGHT BULBS
Place full spectrum light bulbs all over your house and if possible in your work area. Full spectrum light mimics sunlight and assists your body in the synthesis of serotonin. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 And with deodorants, avoid phtha-lates, which are plastics used to help the fragrance stay on our skin and block endocrine function, especially in the male fetus. Parabens, which are used as preservatives in these products, should also be avoided since they could be linked to breast cancer.
Avoid air fresheners, which have gaseous chemicals like those found in moth balls, and the hockey-puck-shaped deodorants in urinals (for those readers lucky enough to frequent the male restroom). They can become toxic when combined with the ozone. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 THE HARDER THE HONEY, THE BETTER
The type of plants bees forage on determines the color of the honey, the level of nutrients, the fragrance, and the taste. Honey from extremely cold regions is lighter in color than honey from the tropics. According to the Web site of Tropical Traditions, one very reliable company that I particularly like, the strength of crystallization (hardness) determines the level of live-state nutrients and heat-sensitive enzymes. The harder the honey, the better. |
| Besides being used widely as a culinary herb, rosemary frequently lends its distinctive fragrance to soaps and cosmetics. Aromatherapists use rosemary oil in baths and massage lotions and consider it to have an enlivening quality that promotes healing and happiness.
WORTH KNOWING
No health hazards or side effects are known with proper use. On rare occasion, a contact allergy has been observed. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Family
Lamiaceae (Mint Family) Etymology
The genus name, Lavandula, and common name lavender derive from the Latin lavare, "to wash," as this herb was added to baths for its therapeutic properties and delightful fragrance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember: This natural soap isn't going to foam up like phoney cleaning products made by chemical companies, and it sure doesn't smell like fragrance chemicals. So don't expect it to look or smell like the products you might have been using. However, soap nuts get things really clean. The soap works so well that it's actually being studied right now as a way to decontaminate soils from exposure to toxic chemicals. How's that for a natural solution? Nature's soap can save the planet from man's soap. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 CAUSE cancer: (in no particular order)
Smoking cigarettes
Mammography radiation - see articles on mammograms
Chemotherapy and radiation
Perfumes and fragrance products
Cosmetics and personal care products - see articles on personal care products
Home cleaning products, including laundry detergent, dryer sheets, etc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's why fresh produce sold at grocery stores sometimes tastes like soap, or why water sold in cheap plastic jugs easily soaks up fragrance chemicals and tastes like Bounce dryer sheets. Any food item you buy from a retailer that sells toxic cleaning products is, itself, slightly toxic.
Right now, nobody is talking about this. This risk of chemical cross-contamination hasn't even been admitted to by mainstream scientists, the FDA, the EPA or any government agency. |
| Oh, and here's another huge "Wow" realization that, I guarantee you, nobody else is talking about these days: Many of these toxic fragrance chemicals escape from their product bottles, circulate in the air at grocery stores, and get absorbed by other food products sold in the same store.
I'm not kidding: That's why the peaches I once bought at Costco smell like Tide laundry detergent. It's because the peaches have soaked up some chemicals from the Tide! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health. A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com
14. Flame retardant chemicals
Did you know that new mattresses for infants and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame retardant chemicals? |
| Dryer sheets
Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners altogether.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 My main goal here is spreading knowledge about this product and getting more consumers switched over so they stop using toxic laundry detergent products filled with synthetic chemicals and fragrance.
Soap berry co-op summary
Email us at soap@newstarget.com to tell us how many kilos of soap berries you want to reserve. (No obligation. It's just an estimate.) Please include:
1) How many KILOs of soap berries would you be interested in purchasing.
2) Your first and last name.
3) The city, state and country in which you live. |
| Readers were thrilled to find a natural soap product that worked so well and yet contained no synthetic chemicals or toxic fragrance additives. But we also received complaints about the price of the product. It was just too expensive, people told us, and they wanted something that was more competitive with the popular laundry detergents sold in stores. They were also concerned about the large amount of packaging used with the soap nuts, and they wanted something more eco-friendly that doesn't use such expensive packaging with color printing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I put no personal care products on my skin whatsoever: No deodorants, no fragrance, no skin creams, no cosmetics and no sunscreen. This alone saves me from exposure to hundreds of cancer-causing toxic chemicals added to personal care products. I refuse to use chemical laundry detergent and, instead, use natural laundry soap that grows on trees: Natural soap berries that we sell as a replacement for chemical laundry detergents.
Corporate-controlled U.S. government doesn't want to prevent cancer
The U.S. government doesn't want the population to be free of cancer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Every passenger on that plane was then treated to a three hour long "fragrance endurance test" by the Durian fruit. Ever since that experience, I have not been able to enjoy Durian fruit, but your own experience might be different...
What I really do like, however, is their Chocolate Coated Wild Ice Cream & Apple Bananas. Now, before you go ape nuts crazy over how great this name sounds, please remember that there's no ice cream here. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| No synthetic chemicals, no fragrance chemicals, no foaming agents or other toxins. Just nut shells grown by nature. (See the resources section at the end of this article to learn where you can buy these nuts in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland and elsewhere...)
Soap nuts can replace all brand-name detergents
Even though these soap nuts have been used for hundreds of years in India and Indonesia, they're barely known in the western world where brand-name chemical detergents are heavily marketed to consumers through advertising, coupons and in-store displays. |
| And many of the so-called "natural" laundry products are still made with fragrance chemicals, anyway.
When I first saw these soap nuts, I got really excited about the possibility of publicizing an eco-friendly solution that could replace all the manufactured laundry products currently being bought by consumers. So I decided to financially support the Maggie's Soap Nuts company by buying a large number of her soap nut products and stocking them in our Phoenix fulfillment center. They're now available for you to purchase (at a very reasonable price, by the way) at www.BetterLifeGoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They have products that contain triclosan, deodorants that contain aluminum (absorbed right through your skin), shampoos that have toxic fragrance chemicals and hair coloring products that contain cancer-causing chemicals. There are perfumes and colognes that people just slather on like they are taking a bath in them. Their senses get dulled, and soon they can't even smell the stuff anymore.
People also put on clothes that have been washed in detergent loaded with fragrance chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| For added fragrance, add a few drops of you favorite essential oil on the cotton sack. For a refreshing wash, Maggie likes to use geranium, coriander, or neroli.
Do I need to use fabric softener?
Nope. Maggie's Soap Nuts naturally soften and add body to your clothes! In fact, Soap Nuts are used commercially to give body and sheen to expensive silks! You'll love how your clothes feel after washing with Maggie's Soap Nuts.
Are Maggie's Soap Nuts safe for my delicate washables?
Yes! Soap Nuts are ideal for gently cleaning delicate fibers like wool and silk! |
Stacy Malkan
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| The CIR panel is funded and run by the cosmetics industry through its trade association, the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and fragrance Association. The panel has seven voting members, with nonvoting memberships for the trade association, the FDA and a consumer group.
Charlotte and Jane were about to get a good look at how this system works. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Helps in the relief of the common cold and a stuffy nose (inhale the fragrance at nighttime).
Helps to reduce signs of swelling and muscle inflammation.
Assists in the reduction of stiffness in the joints.
Helps to stimulate peripheral blood circulation
The manufacturer is based in Australia, and looking for a distributor in the US for this unique product. Contact: www.theherbalist-shop.com
Full disclosure: We earn nothing from the sale of products or companies mentioned here and received no money to write about this product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That was the irony of the whole experience: A room full of Americans viewing the livers and organs of dead bodies, all while wearing toxic personal fragrance products that are destroying their OWN livers, and causing cancer in their OWN bodies. I thought to myself, gee, maybe all these people walking around here should look in the mirror. Look at your own body and try to save yourself before you end up plasticized and propped up for others to see all the tumors you grew on your own liver. |
| I'm not talking about the dead bodies, mind you, I'm referring to all the visitors wearing their noxious perfumes, body lotions and fragrance products while trouncing around in the enclosed exhibit space. The dead people didn't stink at all. It was the live ones who practically caused me to flee through an emergency exit to catch some fresh air. If chemical perfumes dulled the sense of vision to the same degree that they dull the sense of smell in people, the average consumer would be walking around 90 percent blind... |
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