Hibiscus for herbs, beauty, and medication

March 5, 2009 by · 3 Comments
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White Hibiscus
White Hibiscus

Hibiscus, or rosemallow, is a large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants that is in native to warm temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Many species are grown for their showy flowers or used as landscape shrubs.

Hibiscus is also a primary ingredient in many herbal teas and medication.

Not only that, Hibiscus has been so close to ancient cultures and society.

  • One species of Hibiscus, known as Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), is extensively used in paper making.
  • Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is used as a vegetable and to make herbal teas and jams (especially in the Caribbean). In Latin America, the drink is known as Jamaica and is quite popular. It is made from calyces of the roselle plant. In Egypt and Sudan, Roselle petals make a tea named after the plant, karkade.
  • In Polynesia these fibers (fau, purau) are used for making grass skirts. They have also been known to be used to make wigs.
  • In India, the Hibiscus is used as an offering to Goddess Kali and Lord Ganesha in Hindu worship.
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Tight Suit and Skin Spot

November 17, 2008 by · 1 Comment
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tight jeansRealized or not, some habits we do in our daily can sometimes detriment our skin condition. Wearing a too-tight suit and the habit abstracting body’s hair will cause our body’s or skin’s fold get darker. Some specific area like tight-fold, bikini lines, or under-arm/armpit will look darker or blacken or sometimes in spots. This change might not seen directly, but in some long period of time.

Like for example dark lines on belly’s skin surface which is caused by skin’s contact with our tight suit, and lead to small body-injury or small scratches. Those sheer injury or scratch is un-perfectly flakes and thus brownie dots will appear and make lines.

Now girls, how will you act ? it is up to you to decide :)

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Hair Paint, Coloration, And Its Danger

November 15, 2008 by · 1 Comment
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hair coloringSelecting hair paint in the market, is not easy sometimes. Mostly, hair paint that circulates contains chemicals. While by a wish to come up our style with hair sparkle, we also want a healthy hair. Some research in West has mentioned that there is strong ties between hair coloration and increasing risk of contaminating cancer.

For example, research that conducted by American Cancer Society and FDA in 1994, it was said that woman that use black hair colorant during more than 20 years, has risked her self from Hodgkins lymphoma (lymphoma Hodgkins) disease and multiple myeloma (disease that marked with ferocious tumor spreading in so many bone at body), as does leukemia disease.

Dr. Samuel Epstein and David Steinman, book writer of “The Safe Shopper’s’Bible’ also underlined the existence of dependability between the duration of permanent usage, and semi permanent hair colorant, at the height of limpfoma Hodgkins and leukemia patients.

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