I too was perturbed by the ignorant remarkes of the author identified only as “The BeautyBrains”! I read all of the comments and just wanted to add what has worked for me. First, I’d like to say a little about my particular situation: I am in my fourties, having fought health battles my entire life. Many which affected my physical body to the point as I grew towards independence from childhood, I grew increasingly afraid I would be turned away from work, housing, education and in general society due to the severe eczema I suffered from since early childhood. Many years later, I found out I carry a Sickle Cell Anemia trait which doctor’s fail to recognize contributes to the body not promoting a 100% ability to manifest a healthy immune system. Therefor, I’ve spent a lifetime learning how to heal my own body (which actually means I had to learn how to allow and encourage my body to heal itself) because the outward signs I experienced really were meer reflections of the inner instability of organs and poor immune responses.

I’ve used a book written by a physician and his nutritionist wife (now divorced with each having their own publication/version of the same influence) entitled: “Prescription for Nutritional Healing”. An expanded edition is released each and every year. The book’s remedies and approaches to WHOLE-istic (holistic) health can be credited with saving my life twice! it is my Health Bible.

This book and other’s like it, are great resources to have on hand because the most beneficial remedies will be found in a REGIMENTED process because life does not come in a bottle and cannot be fixed with a pill. For example: to regain health in the late 1990′s from a benign cycst the oncologist (for those of you who don’t know, like I didn’t know at the time, it means “cancer doctor”) was “keeping an eye on”, hence, waiting for it to turn to cancer so he could make his money, I decided to go doctor free. To do this, I returned home and read the book stated above. I followed its methods in every section, not just the section on the disease of cancer itself, but also the therapeutic section to help cleanse my body of toxins. For example, I changed my diet according to the book while at the same time adding therapies such as daily enemas for start and stop weeks. I meditated, lived in a stress reduced environment enhanced with decoratives to help me heal (such as the garden fountain and clerestory windows which I slept beneath, basking in the healing element of moon glow while sleeping and dreaming via the toning and cleansing sounds of falling water) and changed my emotional outlook.

After my body healed during this second healing (the 1st was with a dermatologist who was the only doctor I ever actually did a healing with. He used ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT to heal the severe case of eczema all the many, many specialist could not find a solution for) my mind was far more educated as to what the “body” actually is, what it can do and what ROLE I play in participating in assisting my body to HEAL ITSELF!

Since then many things have happened which the doctors are only able to give “medicine” for but not HEALINGS. Each time, I’ve thrown out the medicine, researched (the Internet is a miracle in itself, lol!) the systems, interactions and specifically created a manifestation of healing in my own body, utilizing my body’s natural pathways and systems to actually HEAL myself.

Now please understand, I believe the world NEEDS doctors! Yet, I also think we need to TEACH and SHARE amongst ourselves the value of having a knowledge of our own individual bodies and take an interest in the health, wellness and ability of our bodies. That is, if we want to. That would be what I’d think a site like this would be for.

Here are my other favorite things I believe are beauty related, but only as a reflection of overall health because I would not want to have beautiful hair just to lay in a casket, lol! Still, if you practice and take interest in outer beauty, I would hope it would help us understand what makes our inner physiology work too…one would hope.

Hair: Yogurt…add for softness and suppleness.
Face/Acne…The author above blatantly lies to confuse and misguide – yogurt contains GOOD bacteria which fights the bad/yeast-based bacteria. That would be a hood fight of L. Bacillus and Acidolpholous against the nasty Candida Albicans, a slow systemic killer! Can you put yogurt on your face and change it’s appearance? I did and in one hour released my face’s discolored marks from the surface, reduced a nasty, yeast based bacterial infection I had been fighting for three years! The pure hydroxy acids (there are alpha and beta types in different foods or food combinations), in this case, lactic acid in the yogurt, helps to exfoliate the top layer of dermis without the aggression of scrubs or the expense of store products. Check out this link to discover more: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/210608/homemade_alpha_hydroxy_acids_and_beta.html?cat=69.

For me the salvation of my outer beauty came when I learned of the beautifying effects of CASTOR OIL! My hair was falling with an attack which my eczema days could not even compare. Constantly itching in the scalp and around the surface of my eyelids, left me with patches of hair missing, scabbed upper and lower lids and failing eyesight from the pressure of my hands-turned-claws on my lids. At my wits end, a friend’s mother suggested I try castor oil as she recalled her mother using it for an ointment and solution for everything. I tried it. It worked!

I originally put an entire bottle into my frizzy, broken hair. My hair had lost its sheen, was thin in all the areas it felt I had been attacked in. It repaired it. IMMEDIATELY! I could not believe my eyes, as my once beautiful hair’s sheen and texture returned! I’ve done hot oil treatments with it, straightened my hair with it, conditioned and finally learned after two weeks, that a bottle of only a few ounces, will last my very, very thick hair at least 4 to 6 months! It only costs $2 – $4 at any drug store, including the Wally Marts! When you purchase a retail item with this product as an ingredient, the retail price quickly jumps $15 to a few hundred!

This product’s softening and abilities as a thick protective layer is what gives it its remarkability. Had it not been for that, my eyesight would be devestated after 4 emergency room trips, 6 non-working-making-the-problem-worse prescriptions and countless weekly doctor’s visits and two specialists. All, who could not HEAL! A $2 bottle of Castor Oil and monthly upkeep, the problem disappeared because the Castor Oil penetrated the dermis and allowed the body to complete its own healing process. Wow!

Don’t believe everything a beauty consultant writes. After all, like doctors, they just want to get paid. You and I? We just want what works and any one person can have that answer. The TRUTH is not owned by the beauty industry, pharmaceutical companies or doctors! Keep searching and sharing folks and please remember: When needed, a good doctor is worth his/her weight in gold!

there is still so much more like carcinogens in our make-up and even in our sunscreen and toothpaste. Don’t listen to these silly doctors with there beauty blogs. It was even stated that he didn’t know what a ph is. By the way have you looked at doctors? They not only don;t practice what they preach but are some of the most overweight, un atractive and un healthy looking people you will see. Go natural ladies we are all beautiful without makeup and why do we need society to tell us that laugh lines an natural hair are atrocious. Be different start looking naturally beautiful. It would be a refreshing look for the world.