Thursday, November 12, 2009

A Not so good Recipe

If I served you on a Wedgewood dinner plate a meal made of cetyl alcohol, octyl methoxycinnamate, disodium EDTA, BHT, red dye #17, phenoxyethanol and isopropyl myristate, would you eat it? Well most of us eat this meal regularly as they are standard ingredients in brand name skincare and soaps.

Our skin eats whatever we feed it. When we put creams and lotions onto our skin, it bypasses our digestive process and goes directly into our bloodstream. This become ama ( toxic waste).
Image using these products day in day out for twenty to thirty years....how much ama would be accumulated? Maybe enough to fuel the dis- ease process..

In my late teens when I was to studying Beauty Therapy and working for major Skincare Company, I developed a rash while using one of the products that I was selling.
Obvious distress! my mother made a turmeric , sandalwood and milk mask , after applying it for a few days the rash had completely cleared leaving my face with a beautiful glow...- now that's an ayurvedic beauty lesson straight from my mum.

As Pratima Raichur said-" Think of your beauty products not as cosmetics, but as food. If you cannot eat it, do not use it on your skin. This is the Ayurvedic standard for pure and natural."

So next time when buying skincare , makeup or perfume try looking at the ingredients...or even better look for an ayurvedic skin care range ..like Ayurda Skin care
ayurda

Love and Peace Fez

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Ayurvedic Beauty

“Every person is born perfect. Inferiority is a mistake of the mind, a cloud covering the light. Dissolve the clouds by observing a balanced life with healthy habits. Nourish your mind and body. Connect with your own inner self. Celebrate your own magnificence and your beauty will always shine through.” - Dr. Rama Kant Mishra, renowned Ayurvedic physician and dermatologist.