tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28155712713527190742023-11-15T10:12:53.167-07:00Fancy Face NaturalsWelcome! I am so excited about Fancy Face Naturals. Our desire is for everyone to share in my passion for these natural luxurious products. They are handmade in Colorado! FREE from: SLS, lead, parabens, alcohol, petroleum-bases & phthalates!Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-23198280964834777042011-10-11T10:54:00.001-06:002011-10-12T00:26:26.305-06:00Certain scents can help memory, mood, energy, and libido<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They say that Certain scents/fragrances can help memory, mood, energy, and libido.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Resist a Snack Attack</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Green apple or another favorite scent</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;">In an Austrian study, researchers wafted the smell of oranges before some participants and lavender groups felt less anxious, more positive, and calmer</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Calm Down</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Orange</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> or Lavender</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"> In an Austrian study, researchers wafted the smell of oranges before some participants and lavender before others. The two groups felt less anxious, more positive, and calmer, compared with participants who were exposed to no fragrance at all.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Learn Something New</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Rosemary</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;">Researchers at the University of Northumbria in the United Kingdom found she was on to something. After exposure to rosemary oil, 48 college students outperformed a control group on memory tests and felt more alert throughout.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Fight Pain</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Lavender or Peppermint</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;">Looking for ways to use less pain medication, doctors at New York University Medical Center exposed patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery to lavender oil (applied to the anesthesiology face masks they wore during surgery). Those patients required substantially less morphine and needed fewer analgesics afterward. Peppermint helps too. After a review of several studies, a Wheeling Jesuit University researcher concluded that it can ease headache pain, and German headache researchers report that the brisk smell is as effective as acetaminophen.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Soothe Menstrual Cramps</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Essential Oils</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"> A 2006 study in Korea divided women with intense menstrual cramps into three groups. One group received a daily 15-minute abdominal massage with essential oils for 1 week before their periods, another group got the same massages without fragrance, and the last group received no therapy. Those in the aromatherapy group reported that their discomfort decreased by half. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Rev Your Libido</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Baby Powder</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;">This, along with cucumber and licorice, has been shown to turn women on, increasing blood flow to certain areas by 13%. Pumpkin pie and lavender increase blood flow by 11%.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Feel Younger</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Pink Grapefruit</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"> This fresh citrus smell can influence perceptions of age. When volunteers viewed photographs of 20 models after being exposed to the smell of pink grapefruit, they perceived the models as being 3 years younger than did people who judged the photos while smelling nothing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Crank Up Your Workout</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sniff: Peppermint</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"> In a study at Wheeling Jesuit University, peppermint vapors gave college basketball players more motivation, energy, speed, and confidence. Some athletes use peppermint inhalers, and at one time Reebok even built a peppermint smell into some sports bras.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To Sleep More Deeply Lavender</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"> There's a reason people have been filling pillows with lavender flowers for centuries: Earlier research demonstrated that lavender increases deep slow-wave sleep, and recent studies from England and Korea show that the flower also helps people with mild insomnia.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d;">Fancy Face Naturals and Hunters Creek Naturals do not provide medical or any other health care advice, diagnosis or treatment. Services are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be, or serve as a substitute for, professional medical advice, examination, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of information you accessed on or through any portion of this Blog. Medical information may change rapidly and Fancy Face Naturals and/or its Content providers cannot verify the accuracy or timeliness of any of this information.</div><div style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-47952322047590338582011-09-28T23:05:00.002-06:002011-09-28T23:13:26.775-06:00What Shampoos Can Not Do (cont’d) Final<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #4c1130;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: blue;"> Note: The first installment starts at the bottom of the blog:</span></b></div><b>Ideally, a shampoo should smooth down the cuticle and cover it with a clean coating of a sebum-like material. The smoothing effect is readily achieved by the inclusion of other ingredients such as </b><b>glycerol or </b><b>propylene glycol, which are related to the active >ingredients in antifreeze for radiators. The latter in particular is a highly toxic substances and a cause of a significant number of reactions and a primary irritant to the skin even in low levels of concentrations.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Some of its adverse effects include:</b></div><ul style="color: #4c1130;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Dermatitis, </b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Kidney and liver abnormalities</b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Inhibit skin cell growth </b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Damaged cell membranes causing rashes, dry skin and surface damage to the skin.</b></li>
</ul><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Because of the many unhealthy side-effects of the chemical shampoos a number of companies realized that “natural” had a good ring to it and it has become a buzzword used by the companies trying to exploit the niche market of natural products.’ Natural’ implies wholesomeness and environmental friendliness. Yet, major companies anxious to tap into the natural products market are now scrambling to produce “natural” shampoos, hair dyes, and skincare products. These so-called “natural” products are primarily composed of synthetic chemicals mixed with some natural ingredients.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>It is very likely that the ingredients list of the “natural” shampoo will contain one of the following three chemical additives, [as do all other regular chemical shampoos], as one of its top three ingredients: </b><b>DEA or Diethanolamine, Propylene Glycol, SLS or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, and SLES or Sodium Laureth Sulfate.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Diethanolamine or DEA is a common ingredient in shampoos and in bath products. DEA and any combinations of DEA, including the widely used </b><b>Cocamide DEA has been found to pose a serious health risk to consumers.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>The dangers of DEA were reported on a few years ago on CBS, in which Dr. Samuel Epstein, M.D. of the University of Illinois and one of the world’s foremost toxicologists, testified about the results of his study in which he found that DEA is” a potential carcinogen” and that in even small doses, repeated use of DEA increases the </b><b>risk of cancer.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>The result is that many shampoos, including so-called “natural” shampoos, sold today, are not good for the body, skin, and hair. Your best chances of protecting yourself today are to educate yourself about the products you use, to keep informed, and especially to </b><b>READ LABELS and ingredient lists.</b></div><div style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://fancyface-naturals.com/category_5/Shampoo-Conditioner.htm">http://fancyface-naturals.com/category_5/Shampoo-Conditioner.htm</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-63779276707979204922011-09-21T02:04:00.003-06:002011-09-21T02:06:02.752-06:00What Shampoos Can Not Do (cont’d)<div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Sodium lauryl sulfate is known to most that have looked at the label of their shampoo bottle; <span class="fbunderline">it is a rather harsh detergent</span>, meaning that it removes sebum very effectively. Since sebum protects the hair from drying out and conditions its surface, using SLS alone as a surfactant would lead to dry, fly-away hair. SLS is found in 90% of all shampoos and toothpastes. </b><b>It is harmful if inhaled, ingested, left on skin too long, and it poses dangers to the eyes as it can accumulate in the tissues of the eye causing possible cataracts.</b></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>SLS is not very soluble in cold water and so cannot be used to make shampoos that look “clear”, so other related compounds such as ammonium lauryl sulfate or triethanolamine lauryl sulfate that are much more soluble are typically used in shampoos for dry or damaged hair. <span class="fbunderline">Sodium lauryl and sodium laureth sulfate are some of the ingredients said to aid in causing ailment such as cancer and other degenerative diseases.</span></b></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>But chemical Shampoos contain far more components than surfactants:</b></div><ul style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>There are thickeners (</b><b>xanthan gum), </b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>preservatives (</b><b>parabens), </b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>emulsifiers (</b><b>glycol distearate), </b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b>Color additives and foam boosters (</b><b>cocamide monoethanolamine).</b></li>
</ul><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>In some cases, a residue may accumulate, referred to in the trade as “buildup.” This has resulted in introduction of specialty shampoos claiming to eliminate the social horror of limp, sticky and dull hair.</b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-91488959768547828082011-09-19T10:26:00.002-06:002011-09-19T10:28:46.406-06:00What shampoos CAN NOT do<div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>First things first, shampoos do not feed, resuscitate, enliven or revive hair. They can’t, for the simple reason that <span class="fbunderline">hair is not alive</span>. It is a shaft of dead proteins, notably including a tough fibrous material called keratin that also shows up in fingernails.</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what CAN shampoos do?</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They can clean hair, a task not too difficult. All that is required is removal of the thin layer of oily material known as </b><b>sebum. Produced by sebaceous glands in the skin, it coats and protects the hair. Unfortunately, sebum also acts as a virtual magnet for dirt and residue from hair treatment products.</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Common to most synthetic chemical shampoos is an ingredient called a </b><b>surfactant, that is the same used in your washing-up liquid, and it has the ability to reduce surface tension of water so that a droplet of water will spread out rather than stay in the raised dome shape, i.e. it makes water wet. Other surfactants are repelled by water, but show great attraction for oily substances. The result is that as the hair is rinsed, the soiled sebum is washed away.</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lathering of a chemical shampoo also is the result of the activity of surfactants. Foam is nothing more than dispersion of a gas, in this case air, in a liquid. There is no clear link between a surfactant’s ability to clean and to produce foam. Indeed, a very effective shampoo that does not lather well can be formulated. But would you buy one?</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We are used to linking suds and cleaning as belonging together. So most manufactures incorporate surfactants with strong lathering properties although they may not be ideal in terms of conditioning or irritant potential.</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="color: #073763; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The word shampoo was coined from “shampoo,” a Hindi word meaning to massage or knead, and before the advent of synthetic detergents we used soap, and the first shampoos were just solutions of soap prepared from water, soap and soda (sodium carbonate).</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.fancyface-naturals.com/">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</a></b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-91805122697592790272011-09-12T16:31:00.000-06:002011-09-12T16:31:55.417-06:00Fancy Face Naturals: Welcome!<a href="http://fancyfacenaturals.blogspot.com/2011/09/welcome.html?spref=bl">Fancy Face Naturals: Welcome!</a>: Welcome! We are so excited about Fancy Face Naturals. Our desire is for everyone to share in our passion for these natural luxurious produ...<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-52561778945441889682011-09-12T16:26:00.000-06:002011-09-12T16:26:02.718-06:00Welcome!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style>
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</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #76a5af; font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Most people are really unaware of the dangers associated with the use of many cosmetics, soaps, face creams, conditioners, body creams, body butters and shampoos.<span> </span>Our Natural handmade do not contain these harsh and sometimes dangerous ingredients. </b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2815571271352719074.post-57217924902782715572011-07-21T23:34:00.000-06:002011-07-21T17:26:16.347-06:00WelcomeWelcome to Fancy Face Naturals...<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://www.fancyface-naturals.com</div>Fancy Face Naturalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00215605839275382454noreply@blogger.com0