Skin Health
The skin is our largest organ, and includes nervous, hormonal, excretory, signaling, and temperature regulation functions, to name a few.
What gives skin it's beautiful elasticity, suppleness, and tone is collagen. You may have seen creams that contain collagen- I will not comment on it as a cream ingredient, since I do not know enough about it's use in a cream.
Collagen
How do you optimise your own internal production of collagen? Good to know, because as you produce more and better collagen, your skin will look younger!
Collagen production in your body requires vitamin C, and silica (Si), as essential nutrients. Millet and oats are very good sources of silica.
A yoga master that I know began using 5ooomg of vit. C per day, on my advice, and reported to me that his crow's feet were smoother and less visible, after a few weeks of "high C" therapy!
The skin is our largest organ, and includes nervous, hormonal, excretory, signaling, and temperature regulation functions, to name a few.
What gives skin it's beautiful elasticity, suppleness, and tone is collagen. You may have seen creams that contain collagen- I will not comment on it as a cream ingredient, since I do not know enough about it's use in a cream.
Collagen
How do you optimise your own internal production of collagen? Good to know, because as you produce more and better collagen, your skin will look younger!
Collagen production in your body requires vitamin C, and silica (Si), as essential nutrients. Millet and oats are very good sources of silica.
A yoga master that I know began using 5ooomg of vit. C per day, on my advice, and reported to me that his crow's feet were smoother and less visible, after a few weeks of "high C" therapy!
Silica is well sourced from Silicea gel, a German product widely sold in Canadian health food stores. Swallow a couple of tablespoons per day for a good health boosting and skin boosting supplement!
Maximising your collagen production is also very good for your joints, including your back. All cartilage, ligaments and tendons are very high in collagen; it's what gives them strength and integrity. So expect improvements, if you have joint or back pains and strains and begin taking good doses of vitamin C and silica.
Maximising your collagen production is also very good for your joints, including your back. All cartilage, ligaments and tendons are very high in collagen; it's what gives them strength and integrity. So expect improvements, if you have joint or back pains and strains and begin taking good doses of vitamin C and silica.
Detoxify - Cleanse from the Inside
Do you want your skin to GLOW? Do you want to truly look younger and fresher? Then detoxify! Your liver and skin are intimately connected. Acne means your liver is asking for help- it is in distress! Women especially look more glowing and beautiful after a good liver flush. Read how to do it quickly, effectively and easily in my detox section, under 'detox yourself'. Detoxing the body is a major and beneficial step towards healthy skin, even with severe skin problems. The body is a whole unit. To cure the skin, we need to look at blood quality, the colon and the liver especially fro answers.
Good Fats = Clear, Glowing Skin
Avoid bad fats if you want to improve your skin! Unfortunately, there is a lot of hype for bad fats and propaganda against good fats. Knowing really what are good vs bad fats is a minefield of misinformation. For example, Canadian canola, which is pretty much banned from Europe, is heavily promoted as good for us. It is toxic, and using it will show up badly in the skin!
Take a good look at the "fats" page on my site. Live by it. Your skin will look a lot nicer for it, and you will be healthier overall. I guarantee you, if you do a liver flush (see detox page) and eat only good fats, your skin will totally look more clear and beautiful! Amen.
Lotions, Potions, Creams, and Dreams
Please, for the sake of your skin, read this carefully; Only use edible skin products!
Why should you only use edible skin products? Well, intimacy factors aside, consider that your skin absorbs. It really does. If you put sliced garlic under your foot, in a few minutes you will have garlic breath! Try it, and you will be a believer.
Would you put Keri lotion on your salad? Would you put Vaseline on your toast? Body Shop butter on your bagel? If you love your skin, do NOT use toxic junk on it.
ALL large commercial brands of bodycare suck. What about baby products, you ask, say, baby shampoo for example; by Johnson & Johnson. A group called Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tested it, and found that like many other shampoos it was contaminated with deadly toxins that were not on the label... and that's in addition to the deadly toxins that are on the label, as if they weren't enough to worry about already! So the shampoo was analysed in an independent lab, and found to contain 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde. Would you rub that on a baby's head? I wouldn't. Nor on me! Mind you with my lack of hair, bar soap is the only 'shampoo' I need, lol.
Do you want your skin to GLOW? Do you want to truly look younger and fresher? Then detoxify! Your liver and skin are intimately connected. Acne means your liver is asking for help- it is in distress! Women especially look more glowing and beautiful after a good liver flush. Read how to do it quickly, effectively and easily in my detox section, under 'detox yourself'. Detoxing the body is a major and beneficial step towards healthy skin, even with severe skin problems. The body is a whole unit. To cure the skin, we need to look at blood quality, the colon and the liver especially fro answers.
Good Fats = Clear, Glowing Skin
Avoid bad fats if you want to improve your skin! Unfortunately, there is a lot of hype for bad fats and propaganda against good fats. Knowing really what are good vs bad fats is a minefield of misinformation. For example, Canadian canola, which is pretty much banned from Europe, is heavily promoted as good for us. It is toxic, and using it will show up badly in the skin!
Take a good look at the "fats" page on my site. Live by it. Your skin will look a lot nicer for it, and you will be healthier overall. I guarantee you, if you do a liver flush (see detox page) and eat only good fats, your skin will totally look more clear and beautiful! Amen.
Lotions, Potions, Creams, and Dreams
Please, for the sake of your skin, read this carefully; Only use edible skin products!
Why should you only use edible skin products? Well, intimacy factors aside, consider that your skin absorbs. It really does. If you put sliced garlic under your foot, in a few minutes you will have garlic breath! Try it, and you will be a believer.
Would you put Keri lotion on your salad? Would you put Vaseline on your toast? Body Shop butter on your bagel? If you love your skin, do NOT use toxic junk on it.
ALL large commercial brands of bodycare suck. What about baby products, you ask, say, baby shampoo for example; by Johnson & Johnson. A group called Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tested it, and found that like many other shampoos it was contaminated with deadly toxins that were not on the label... and that's in addition to the deadly toxins that are on the label, as if they weren't enough to worry about already! So the shampoo was analysed in an independent lab, and found to contain 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde. Would you rub that on a baby's head? I wouldn't. Nor on me! Mind you with my lack of hair, bar soap is the only 'shampoo' I need, lol.
Healthy, Safe Skin Lotions and Creams
Almond oil, raw, unprocessed. Try a health food store, in the healthy cooking oil section. The finest oil you can put on your skin, if you want to pamper your self, is Rosa Mosqueta oil. Rosa Mosqueta is pressed from the seeds of roses, and is miraculous for scars, especially if you add in lots of vitamin E. I use a burst vitamin E capsule + rosa mosqueta mixed together for scars and healing. Works very well.
You can definitely use sesame oil, if you don't mind being attacked by hungry squirrels who think you are hummous, or even olive oil. Any edible, quality oil is fine for your skin. Coconut oil is liked by some. I find it too greasy, but nice for tanning.
Shea butter, from Africa is great for problem areas, like dry hands. It is very rich, and healing. I wash my hands very frequently, and shea butter keeps them wonderfully moist and healthy. I purchased an over-priced one from l'Occitane, and now get fresher and cheaper from Kedar Waterman, reachable at [email protected] or from a wonderful store; Genesis One, in Kensington market. Both are wonderfully high quality, fresh and very well priced! I find Kedar's to be the best, though. Genesis One is on St Andrew St., tel 416.913.9470. Great African centered store with cool clothes and very hard to find books and CD's.
Take a minute after your shower. Spread on a rich, natural healthy oil, being sparing if your skin is naturally moist, and more generous if you have drier skin. If you like, add a few drops of natural essential oils from a health store, like say, rose oil, ylang-ylang flower, lemon, lavender, or any other herbal oil extract that you think will make you irresistible! Get the highest quality essential oils available, and be very sparing with them. A little goes a long long way. Men may want to try adding some essential oils of tea-tree, for that Mr. Clean smell, or possibly frankincense oil, for that fresh Messiah scent!
Personally, I like rose oil plus frankincense. Heavenly!
Almond oil, raw, unprocessed. Try a health food store, in the healthy cooking oil section. The finest oil you can put on your skin, if you want to pamper your self, is Rosa Mosqueta oil. Rosa Mosqueta is pressed from the seeds of roses, and is miraculous for scars, especially if you add in lots of vitamin E. I use a burst vitamin E capsule + rosa mosqueta mixed together for scars and healing. Works very well.
You can definitely use sesame oil, if you don't mind being attacked by hungry squirrels who think you are hummous, or even olive oil. Any edible, quality oil is fine for your skin. Coconut oil is liked by some. I find it too greasy, but nice for tanning.
Shea butter, from Africa is great for problem areas, like dry hands. It is very rich, and healing. I wash my hands very frequently, and shea butter keeps them wonderfully moist and healthy. I purchased an over-priced one from l'Occitane, and now get fresher and cheaper from Kedar Waterman, reachable at [email protected] or from a wonderful store; Genesis One, in Kensington market. Both are wonderfully high quality, fresh and very well priced! I find Kedar's to be the best, though. Genesis One is on St Andrew St., tel 416.913.9470. Great African centered store with cool clothes and very hard to find books and CD's.
Take a minute after your shower. Spread on a rich, natural healthy oil, being sparing if your skin is naturally moist, and more generous if you have drier skin. If you like, add a few drops of natural essential oils from a health store, like say, rose oil, ylang-ylang flower, lemon, lavender, or any other herbal oil extract that you think will make you irresistible! Get the highest quality essential oils available, and be very sparing with them. A little goes a long long way. Men may want to try adding some essential oils of tea-tree, for that Mr. Clean smell, or possibly frankincense oil, for that fresh Messiah scent!
Personally, I like rose oil plus frankincense. Heavenly!
Wait a few minutes and the oils will be drunk in by your grateful skin. Then get dressed, knowing you have nourished your skin with wonderful essential oils which will help it glow and shine.
Natural, local and edible skin care
CinnamonRose is a cool local small scale, all-by-hand, high quality bodycare set up. They have a number of wonderful, decadent smelling (but never overdone or perfume-y) lotions. Natural essential oils, only high quality edible base fats including shea, coconut, and cocoa. Many other brands of more expensive lotions include cheaper oils like sunflower and peanut which are unstable and inferior. This stuff is good and fairly priced, and local, made right here in Toronto. Their store is at www.etsy.com/shop/CinnamonRoseShop
For other truly healthy and natural skin care products, I highly recommend visiting Noah's or the Big Carrot, who have very good body-care sections. Steer clear of Shoppers or any commercial store; natural there is mostly an empty toxic promise. Brands that I really like; Evan Healy. Noah's has her stuff. Check out more info at evanhealy.com; organic, farmer-connected, visionary products. Also good are (in no particular order); Aubrey, Green Beaver, NewCo, Druide, SoapWorks and Dr Bronner. (not Dr Boner, lol)
In the Shower
No liquid soaps! They all (except for Dr Bronner's) contain toxic-for-your-skin sodium lauryl sulfate, or some related compound. Stay away from all of that perfumed, toxic garbage, and use a pure bar soap. Again, check with your health store for a pure, no chemicals added bar soap. Old school here is really best!
Chlorine is a real skin and health harmer. If you want a healthy shower, getting a screw-on 30 dollar chlorine filter is a very good investment, that lasts about a year.
Helpful Nutrients for Skin
Vitamin A (retinol), vitamin B complex, vitamin E, zinc, selenium, copper, silica, and water. Being well hydrated is a massive skin issue. If you are dehydrated, your skin will feel shrivelly. And over time, it will look more shrivelly too, if you neglect water intake! Vitamin A and zinc are the real heavy hitters for skin health.
Skin Conditions; Psoriasis
Just ask John Hadzi (on my Anthony + Friends page) if psoriasis is curable. Him and I made a game plan of detoxification (see my detox pages), a rotation diet (see Allergy Free for Everyone page), and a few nutrient supplements for his debilitating psoriasis.
After about 2-3 months, it was gone.
I mean GONE; no more bleeding, painful, "incurable" psoriasis. Do you think a skin Dr. (Dermatologist) gets trained in this drugless, effective, harmless holistic approach? Not as long as big pharma has the medical schools in their pocket!!
Acne
The skin cells in severe acne cases show a glucose intolerance. In other words, think of acne as a sugar overdose poisoning of the skin. Remove all sugars, except for fresh, raw fruit, and raw unpasteurised honey. No other sugars!
Then, consume healthy fats only. Read the fats page on this site to become an expert at eating healthy fats.
Finally, detoxify the liver, and expect to see big improvements in the beauty of your skin (if you also follow the sugar and fats advice).
By the way, supplementing with 50mg of zinc if you are a young man will definitely help. Use 20mg if you are female. Adding in 500mcg of chromium for sugar control is also a good idea for both sexes. Always take zinc with food.
If I had acne I would take;
Eczema
I had a student with a fairly bad case, in George Brown where I teach various nutrition courses. She casually asked me for some advice and i said she may want to follow a low allergen diet and added that if I were her, I would get on vitamin A and zinc, mentioned above as helpful skin nutrients. She went on vit A and Zn and told me that in one week, she saw a big improvement! She added that 6 months in the care of her dermatologist did not help her nearly as much as one week on some supplements. I did not keep in touch with that student, and don't know if she went on a low allergen diet; she never became a client. I am guessing she was satisfied enough with her improvement and didn't bother going further.
Why Does Medicine Suck?
Too bad the Rockefellers took over medical training in the 1920's, and medicine has been hopelessly Pharma-compromised since then. Yes, I'm ranting; the only reason I'd need medicine is for an all-out emergency. If I want a check up, I go to a TCM drugless Dr. listed on my Anthony + Friends page.
Natural, local and edible skin care
CinnamonRose is a cool local small scale, all-by-hand, high quality bodycare set up. They have a number of wonderful, decadent smelling (but never overdone or perfume-y) lotions. Natural essential oils, only high quality edible base fats including shea, coconut, and cocoa. Many other brands of more expensive lotions include cheaper oils like sunflower and peanut which are unstable and inferior. This stuff is good and fairly priced, and local, made right here in Toronto. Their store is at www.etsy.com/shop/CinnamonRoseShop
For other truly healthy and natural skin care products, I highly recommend visiting Noah's or the Big Carrot, who have very good body-care sections. Steer clear of Shoppers or any commercial store; natural there is mostly an empty toxic promise. Brands that I really like; Evan Healy. Noah's has her stuff. Check out more info at evanhealy.com; organic, farmer-connected, visionary products. Also good are (in no particular order); Aubrey, Green Beaver, NewCo, Druide, SoapWorks and Dr Bronner. (not Dr Boner, lol)
In the Shower
No liquid soaps! They all (except for Dr Bronner's) contain toxic-for-your-skin sodium lauryl sulfate, or some related compound. Stay away from all of that perfumed, toxic garbage, and use a pure bar soap. Again, check with your health store for a pure, no chemicals added bar soap. Old school here is really best!
Chlorine is a real skin and health harmer. If you want a healthy shower, getting a screw-on 30 dollar chlorine filter is a very good investment, that lasts about a year.
Helpful Nutrients for Skin
Vitamin A (retinol), vitamin B complex, vitamin E, zinc, selenium, copper, silica, and water. Being well hydrated is a massive skin issue. If you are dehydrated, your skin will feel shrivelly. And over time, it will look more shrivelly too, if you neglect water intake! Vitamin A and zinc are the real heavy hitters for skin health.
Skin Conditions; Psoriasis
Just ask John Hadzi (on my Anthony + Friends page) if psoriasis is curable. Him and I made a game plan of detoxification (see my detox pages), a rotation diet (see Allergy Free for Everyone page), and a few nutrient supplements for his debilitating psoriasis.
After about 2-3 months, it was gone.
I mean GONE; no more bleeding, painful, "incurable" psoriasis. Do you think a skin Dr. (Dermatologist) gets trained in this drugless, effective, harmless holistic approach? Not as long as big pharma has the medical schools in their pocket!!
Acne
The skin cells in severe acne cases show a glucose intolerance. In other words, think of acne as a sugar overdose poisoning of the skin. Remove all sugars, except for fresh, raw fruit, and raw unpasteurised honey. No other sugars!
Then, consume healthy fats only. Read the fats page on this site to become an expert at eating healthy fats.
Finally, detoxify the liver, and expect to see big improvements in the beauty of your skin (if you also follow the sugar and fats advice).
By the way, supplementing with 50mg of zinc if you are a young man will definitely help. Use 20mg if you are female. Adding in 500mcg of chromium for sugar control is also a good idea for both sexes. Always take zinc with food.
If I had acne I would take;
- 500mcg chromium, yeast based, from Swiss Herbal
- 5- 10 pills a day of Super Halibut Liver Oil, from Swiss Herbal or Natural Factors
- 30- 50 mg of Zinc from Trophic
Eczema
I had a student with a fairly bad case, in George Brown where I teach various nutrition courses. She casually asked me for some advice and i said she may want to follow a low allergen diet and added that if I were her, I would get on vitamin A and zinc, mentioned above as helpful skin nutrients. She went on vit A and Zn and told me that in one week, she saw a big improvement! She added that 6 months in the care of her dermatologist did not help her nearly as much as one week on some supplements. I did not keep in touch with that student, and don't know if she went on a low allergen diet; she never became a client. I am guessing she was satisfied enough with her improvement and didn't bother going further.
Why Does Medicine Suck?
Too bad the Rockefellers took over medical training in the 1920's, and medicine has been hopelessly Pharma-compromised since then. Yes, I'm ranting; the only reason I'd need medicine is for an all-out emergency. If I want a check up, I go to a TCM drugless Dr. listed on my Anthony + Friends page.
