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The beauty of the skin depends on the care they provided. Baths are prepared to comfort the body is an excellent technical, economical and practical.

An excellent complement to the bubble bath and salts are household products, designed to improve skin and body care.

Oil baths

Essential oils trigger different effects on the body. These include: relaxation, good circulation, toning and even prevention of certain pain. Vapors emanating from the water, along with the active properties of the oils enter the body through the airways.

Bath oils are available in pharmacies, drugstores and beauty shops in the industry. To implement them, then fill the tub with hot water should be added about 15 to 20 drops of oil. It is advisable to relax and enjoy this bath for 10 minutes.

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Skin Care in Winter

The winter complexion sometimes abused more than during the summer. The cold can cause deep tissue dehydration and changes in temperature and humidity interfere with the maintenance of the balance of the skin. This deserves special care during the cold days to avoid the feelings of tension, irritation and dryness.

During the winter months the skin is exposed to various aggressive factors: cold, wind, heat and heavy pollution may hurt the long term. Although it is a reflection of our image abroad, you can not forget that skin hydration is a function of internal organs. We must therefore carefully protect not only to maintain a younger face, but also for health.

Measures to help combat the effects of winter

* Give special attention to hydration: the use of creams and masks can combat the dehydrating effects of the cold season, which makes the skin more sensitive for a period more lenient.
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Sweating is an essential function for the organism. It regulates our temperature, maintained constant within margins and also helps remove wastes and toxins.

Two types of glands in our body are responsible for the secretion of sweat:
The eccrine glands small thermoregulatory, and apocrine, larger and located in the armpits, whose activity is closely related to the nervous and hormonal systems.

Daily cleaning is not enough to combat the natural secretion of perspiration. So the deodorant has become a commodity, not of beauty but of health.

Antiperspirants are presented in three large families: the bactericidal, recommended for normal perspiration and to attack bacteria that are installed on the surface of the skin absorbs them-smell, ideal for skin with little sweat, and antiperspirants, for people who sweat profusely as they regulate perspiration without actually blocking it, which would be harmful to the body.

When our dermis has been released from dead cells surface comes time to apply moisturizers. Hydrated skin is distinguished by a smooth, satiny smooth, firm but elastic. Since the skin acts as a bulwark against external aggression hydrolipid his film deteriorates and over time have less water in the surface layer of the epidermis.

If the skin of our body is thirsty, dryness symptoms appear soon in the form of roughness and wrinkles, the skin then loses flexibility and becomes a shade off. Dermatologists recommend that the use of body moisturizers is becoming a habit since adolescence. Although at this age our skin still retains much water causes the simple daily shower that we lose our protective film.

After bathing or showering, when skin is still warm and moist, is the best time to apply moisturizer using gentle massage that extend upward from the feet to the torso. The choice of product depends on consumer tastes and the market offers different formulations moisturizing creams, oils, lotions, milks and even gel with water elements incorporated.

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Exfoliation is a natural phenomenon. Our cells begin in the dermis and then rise to the surface to die and be eliminated. The body ends gradual peeling a layer of dead cells on the skin that prevents them from entering the active ingredients of any cosmetic treatment that we implement it.

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The shower is most desirable to produce a greater tone of the blood system and skin. If you use cold water will be stimulating effect if the water is warm, relaxing. The bathroom, meanwhile, increased perspiration and loosens the muscles.

Hygiene is the most appropriate method for combining with essential oils, dissolved in water, act both by diffusion through the skin and inhalation. Above 40 degrees, however, loses its therapeutic bath and dehydrates the skin.

For an invigorating bath it is best to dissolve in water essences of peppermint, lavender, rosemary, sage and pine. If what we seek is a relaxing effect will use essences of eucalyptus, chamomile, lime, orange and verbena. And if we wish to enhance their therapeutic properties we chose the Dead Sea minerals including magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium and silicon.

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Sensitive Body
Food allergies are a common cause, these reactions occur because of excessive body’s sensitivity to certain food proteins, and these are an essential part of human nutrition. This reaction is repeated every time we eat the food in question.

Children are much more prone to allergies because their immune system is not fully developed yet, so food is being introduced gradually, until the food is readily assimilated.
There is a different concept called food intolerance, such as milk, gluten etc … which is not caused by an allergic reaction but is caused by a deficiency in certain enzymes involved in digestion of that food.

The most common allergens are:

* Serious Allergens: Peanuts
* Strong Allergens: Cereals containing gluten (oats, wheat, barley, rye), shellfish, eggs, fish, soy, milk proteins, nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, walnuts, pine nuts etc …)
* Mild Allergens: Celery, stone fruits (apricots, cherries, peaches and plums).

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Pseudo Cereal
Using this pseudo cereal has since time immemorial and its use by the prehispanic people in food makes it very important, so that was regarded as sacred among these cultures. Today, returns to the fray as a very positive for the nutrition of people.

One such case is that of quinoa cereal pseudo today returns to the menus of some Chilean households – far more resources take priority – after having been one of the main foods in the diet of indigenous peoples. His extraordinary qualities are necessary for this product adoption increases among our population.

Clinical Nutritionist Supervisor Gloria Davila Rebolledo, note that the scientific name of this food is Chenopodium quinoa will, but is known by other names as “sacred ground cereal or mother,” kinwa or quinoa.

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A curable disease and very contagious

Leprosy is a chronic disease of bacterial origin caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium leprae and discovered in 1873 by Norwegian scientist Hansen. Can occur in both adults and children and both sexes equally, and although the incubation period is between 3-5 years, the symptoms may be delayed up to 20 years. Moreover, there is no vaccine or diagnostic test to detect it.

Contrary to popular belief, leprosy is curable and very contagious. It is transmitted via droplets from the nose and mouth. In addition to its contagion must be in close contact with the patient, together with hygiene and poor nutrition. Leprosy is also a notifiable disease.

This infection primarily affects the skin and nerves. Early symptoms include mottling with dry skin anywhere, who have no feeling or itching or pain and tenderness loss and heat. If left untreated, can cause progressive and permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes, causing paralysis and disability.

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Introduction
The health benefits of many plants have been known since antiquity and, indeed, many drugs, including aspirin, are derived from them. The problem with this use is that these types of drugs are difficult to dose and in excessive amounts can be harmful.

Thus, infusions are alternative ways to manage these functions beneficial for the body and can be found in herbalists, whose activities and products should always be checked by experts. The most commonly known teas in our culture are not drugs, but also have some beneficial properties.

Each country or culture has developed in different ways using different teas and herbs. Even the few traditions have been used for a purpose magic. In Western culture there are countries like Britain, where such beverages are more common, although generally not known many of them, and how they should prepare themselves or their purposes.

Among the broader benefits must stress the fact that you can make at home, which guarantees its purity and have no gas, an element not beneficial to the digestive system. Furthermore, there are teas that should be taken hot, so it can replace the usual coffee and in summer you can take cold, providing a fresh healthier than most sodas.

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