I make this healing balm from natural ingredients and it is great for healing and restoring dry skin. It's good for chapped lips, but also any dry or irritated skin. It clears up my husband's eczema on his hands. It heals that dry, crusty skin on your nose after a cold. I use it on cracked, dry knuckles during the winter or on my feet. It's just all around great skin care. It's not very greasy, so it works even on your hands or face, but it also produces a sort of protective layer that helps keep skin from drying out again.
Healing Lip Balm
2.4 oz (70g) cocoa butter
2.4 oz (68g) beeswax
1.2 oz (33g) shea butter
1.5 oz (42g) coconut oil
6 capsules vitamin E or 6-8 drops liquid tocopherols
In a double boiler, melt the cocoa butter, beeswax, and shea butter until just melted. Turn off the heat and add the coconut oil. Stir until melted and combined. Open the vitamin E capsules with scissors and squeeze the oil into the mixture or add liquid tocopherols. Stir gently.
While the lip balm is still warm and liquid, pour into lip balm tubes or a small jar. Allow to cool completely before disturbing.
This recipe fills about 50 0.15oz lip balm tubes.
Hey I have a question. Are there toxic chemicals really in like hair care product or cleaning or even in plastic ? And also I want to as you about vaccines I am not anti vax nor my family but I want to inform me and is there some we dont need cause I know some have fetal tissue or something like that.
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as a "toxic chemical." Every chemical is toxic in a high enough dose (even water). Every chemical is non-toxic in a small enough dose. So to find out whether a chemical is toxic, you have to know the dose you receive.
DeleteThere certainly are some chemicals that are of concern in various items we use like plastics or cleaning products. The concern is that they may cause harm in fairly small doses and that they may build up in the body over time with prolonged use. This is a valid concern and something to be careful about.
Vaccines are generally good and useful inventions that prevent disease with very minimal risks. Those risks are not zero, but nothing in this life is without risk. You take a risk every time you take a bath, but the benefit is much greater than the risk. It is the same with vaccines, generally speaking.
There are vaccines which are produced by growing viruses in human cell cultures that began with fetal tissue from an aborted baby. This is not all vaccines, but just a few of them. The babies were not aborted in order to make tissue cultures. The cultures themselves are no longer part of a human body and are just cell cultures. We should not contribute to the demand for more abortions, but using these vaccines does not do so. Thus, receiving such a vaccine does not make us guilty of the child's death. However, where we have ethical alternatives that do not have this connection to abortion, we should prefer them. This is the reason, for example, that I recommend the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 over the Johnson&Johnson version. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines do not produce the vaccine by using fetal cell cultures. The J&J vaccine does, so it is a less ethical choice.
Thank you for your response . And how to know which are those chemicals that are concern and which not ? And really I have some others questions so could you help me with them? I mean they are a lot of views and sometimes is overwhelming
ReplyDeleteYou have to do some research on the chemicals in question. There's not really a shortcut. The good news is that the vast majority of the chemicals people are worried about are present in such tiny doses in everyday products that they are not harmful. For example, people often make a big deal about pesticide residues on produce, yet when tested (and they have to be tested), the levels are consistently, not only well below established harmful values, but usually less than 1% of the level that you could eat safely every day.
DeleteThe chemicals I do think we need to be careful of are estrogen mimics and other hormone disrupters. These chemicals are not toxic in the doses we receive from everyday items, but they don't have to be toxic in order to cause harm because they mimic hormones in the body and hormones act at extremely low doses. So the mechanism isn't toxicity. It's changing the body slightly through hormone-like effects. They can collectively influence sex and reproduction, especially for the sensitive or those with higher exposure. There is some indication, for example, that declining testosterone levels in young men may be at least partially due to these chemicals.
One way to reduce exposure is to avoid heating foods in plastics. Most plastics contain these hormone-like chemicals and heating them releases those chemicals into any food in them. Heat food in glass or ceramics, not plastics. In some areas, public water supplies have estrogens in them from birth control pills, and filtration with a good carbon filter may help remove them. Certain cleaning and beauty products may contain some of these estrogen mimics like parabens. Doing a little research on the ingredients in your products can help identify whether they are a problem.
Now, I don't think we need to live in fear. Most just ignore this issue and they live long lives anyway. But for some people, especially if they are dealing with a chronic health condition or infertility, taking a look at the chemicals in their environment and making some changes may allow them to improve their symptoms.
Thanks for your response!
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