Natural and Organic Skincare - Why Mainstream Cosmetics Are So Dangerous

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"Cosmetics are the least regulated products under the Federal Food, Drug, andCosmetic Act (FFDCA). The FFDCA does not require pre-market safety testing, review, or approval for cosmetics." - The Cancer Prevention Coalition

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Your skin is the largest organ in your body. While most people do not consider skincare to be a major factor in their health and well-being, you would be quite surprised at just how major a role it plays. As your body's regulator, the skin maintains your internal temperature, controls the balance of fluids, vents harmful toxins from blood, and is the first line of defense to unwanted substances and bacteria. Even something as small as a pimple can allow a multitude of invaders into your skin, thus into your blood. You can see how important it is to maintain healthy, fresh skin to protect you and your loved ones. So why would you rub harmful chemicals into your skin, thus into your body?

Natural and Organic Skincare - Why Mainstream Cosmetics Are So Dangerous

The US Institute of Occupational Health and Safety conducted a study on mainstream cosmetics and toiletries, and found that over the course of just one year, woman absorb up to 2 kilograms of toxins and chemicals into their body from using these products. They found 884 chemicals used in these cosmetics that are known toxins, many of which are known to cause cancer. Not to mention the products used on infants and toddlers, products used in your clothing, products used to clean the things you touch every day.

"In 1990, there were some 38,000 cosmetic related injuries that required medical treatment in the U.S. That figure does not include the many people who use cosmetics and suffer from allergies, irritation, and photosensitization yet accept these uncomfortable complications as the normal cost of grooming. They never visit their doctor or a hospital emergency room, and they rarely connect their allergies or irritated eyes to the cosmetics they use." - The Cancer Prevention Coalition

This isn't some paranoid, holistic hype just to sell a different kind of product, its common sense. You wouldn't knowingly take something toxic, and gulp it down would you? Then why put it on your skin - on your children's skin? Let it absorb into your blood stream? The fact is, supermarket/drugstore skincare companies have created many cheap, synthetic components to their products to lower the price and increase the rate of production. They slap a nice label on it, promote its effects on your skin, and assume no one will know the extremely long ingredient names. But let's face it, it's easy. It's easy to run down to the local store, grab a facial cleanser or lotion, and carry on with your life. Do us a favor, go look on the back of that cleanser, acne treatment, exfoliate, or moisturizer. See those big long words? Type them into your Internet search engine, and see how they really affect your skin and health.

One you're most likely to find is the current "Holy Grail" of treating acne related skin conditions, Benzoyl Peroxide. This chemical is well known for its ability to eliminate bacteria on the skin, and reduce the appearance of acne, but what they don't tell you is exactly how it happens. Have you ever heard that it's actually bad to repeatedly put Hydrogen Peroxide on a cut or wound? This is because it inhibits the healing process. It's actually toxic to skin cells, and kills the newly formed cells trying to heal the wound. It is meant to sterilize a wound ONCE, and then you seal the wound to prevent contamination. The same is true with Benzoyl Peroxide. It is such a strong chemical, not only does it kill bacteria, but it begins to kill skin cells as well. Drying out your skin, and destroying layer after layer. In most cases, pores shrink so small that you have oil and toxin buildup underneath the tough layer of skin, thus forming cystic acne. So yes, the visible acne is mostly gone, leaving a dry, sore, flaky layer of skin with acne growing underneath it.

We haven't even touched on the most detrimental aspect of Benzoyl Peroxide, and one it has in-common with far too many skincare ingredients. Benzoyl Peroxide releases free radicals into your skin. If you don't know exactly what a free radical is, here are the basics: Essentially a free radical is just an extra electron used in the bonding of atoms and molecules. For the most part, skin cells are a relatively stable environment. The molecules which make up the enzymes and components are stable and carry out their normal functions. However, when you introduce free radicals, electrons that aren't supposed to be there, they can promote abnormal bonding of molecules and substances, causing a mutation. Cancer is nothing more than a mutation of cells, causing rapid, uncontrolled growth of more mutated cells, eventually forming a tumor. Benzoyl Peroxide was formally rated a Class 1 substance by the FDA, however, enlight of these new findings, it has been changed to a Class 3, meaning its effects on your health are unknown. Just as high school chemistry students in the past were allowed to experiment with and touch Mercury, until it was found to be an extremely harmful carcinogen. Lead paint, Asbestos, we never really know what these chemicals do to our body until someone suffers from the side effects.

"A U. S. General Accounting Office report notes that the FDA has committed no resources for assessing the safety problems of those chemicals which have been found to cause genetic damage, biological mutations, and cancer. Because of minimal regulation, products plainly dangerous to your health can be, and are being, sold." - The Cancer Prevention Coalition

Choosing a natural skincare product ensures you will not be absorbing any of these chemicals into your body. Choose a brand that's handmade, no chemical cutters or fillers, and one that plainly displays every single ingredient so that you know your skin, your body, your children's skin, your children's bodies are safe and healthy. Not to mention BEAUTIFUL!

Natural and Organic Skincare - Why Mainstream Cosmetics Are So Dangerous

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Top 10 Inspirational Biographies

A philosopher once claimed that "we can see the future better if we stand on the shoulders of giants." We are not the first to walk this planet, and we can learn from past legends how to plan a more successful future.

Here's a list of popular biographies that have meant something to me.

Top 10

1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Few persons throughout history have succeeded in so many fields. This printer-writer-inventor-scientist-philosopher-statesman takes us on an unforgettable tour of his early struggles and eventual successes.

Top 10 Inspirational Biographies

2. Davy Crockett: His Own Story - Here's another autobiography of a legendary pioneer, written only two years before he died. His growth and outlook parallels that of many explorers of 19th century America.

3. Mark Twain by Ron Powers - This recent work is my favorite on the life of Samuel L. Clemens, perhaps America's finest writer. Twain's books continue to live and sell well nearly 100 years after his death.

4. Lincoln by David Herbert Donald - There are many books about the celebrated 16h President, and this is a superb one.

5. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

6. Truman by David McCullough - This amazing story of Harry Truman - a vice-president suddenly asked to assume the Presidency only 12 weeks after FDR began his fourth term - discusses the life of a good man who made some of the 20th century's most critical decisions.

7. Dale Carnegie: The Man Who Influenced Millions by Giles Kemp - Mr. Carnegie wrote one of the best-selling books of all time: How to Win Friends and Influence People. This book tells the story of a writer who has influenced thousands of people in many industries.

8. Eisenhower by Stephen E. Ambrose - This is a great book about the Allied Supreme Commander in World War II and the American President during the 1950's.

9. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose - This book vividly describes the war years of 1972 Presidential candidate George McGovern and his brave crew. It also discusses other flyers like the Tuskegee Airmen.

10. What Every American Should Know About American History by Dr. Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips - This fascinating book offers a look at "200 events that shaped the nation."

Top 10 Inspirational Biographies

RIX QUINN wrote the book about effective short writing “Words That Stick.” For more details, link to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Rix Quinn

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Corrlinks - The New Inmate Emailing System

There was a time not too long ago where if you wanted to contact a loved one that had been incarcerated you would have to send them a letter. The whole processes of writing a letter, posting it and then waiting for a response could take weeks depending on where the prison was that you were sending the letter to. As you now know the days of snail mail as it is called is in the past and the prison system has caught up with the times.

Corrlinks is an inmate emailing system that allows inmates to receive and send electronic messages to the outside world. The whole process takes as little as one hour from the time the email has been sent to the time it is received by the inmate.

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Obviously there are restrictions on what can be sent for example pictures cannot be sent and all emails are screened by the prison to make sure that they comply with the guidelines that are put in place. As you will probably expect, this service is not free and there is a charge for each email that is sent.

Corrlinks - The New Inmate Emailing System

The good news is that the charge is minimal; the cost is around 5 cents per email. This service for some people is a God send as it cut down the time that it takes for an incarcerated love one to receive a message, instead of weeks it take hours.

For you to benefit from the Corrlinks emailing system you have to setup an account with them. This is very easy to set up and before you know it you will be sending and receiving emails in no time at all.

Corrlinks - The New Inmate Emailing System

If you want more information on Corrlinks and how to use it you can go to my website Corrlinks Email

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Third Grade Science Fair Projects

Primary children are the best age group for a teacher to handle. They are small and curious to know and learn a lot. They are still simple, loving and obedient. If the teacher makes her class interesting by giving them third grade science fair projects, they understand very well and the concept becomes crystal clear in their minds.

A third grade science fair project for body parts - Make them place their palm and fingers on a piece of thick paper and trace the outline of all the fingers, the children can color the same, they can label the names of the different fingers and some children are innovative, they even decorate the ring finger by drawing a ring and paste shiny beads to depict a ring, some of them color the nails with nail polish.

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Houses for human beings made with thick card board, huts with dried leaves, nest with twigs, cotton etc. The teacher can teach how the house protects us from heat, cold, rain, enemies etc.

Third Grade Science Fair Projects

How to keep the house clean can be an extension of the previous topic. The children should be taught to put waste paper or any other waste item in the dust bin. Make a dustbin without spending money with the concept of "Handwork out of Waste".

Animals, birds and their young ones -- cut pictures of big animals with their young one and make a third grade science fair project or a scrap book.

Plants need air, sunlight, and water to grow. Take two plants and make them grow in different pots - one pot is placed outside whereas the other pot inside a cardboard box. Cut a small hole in any one side so that the sunlight can come through that hole. Observe after few days.

Does the amount of fertilizers given to a plant affect the growth? Take three plants, first one give only water, for the second one water plus little fertilizer and the third one water plus more of fertilizer, watch the plants, you will be surprised the one with only water is the best, so don't give too much of fertilizer to the young plant, once in a while one can give little bit.

Different kinds of soil can be made in small transparent pouches and pasted in the main chart.

Food, balanced diet can be done in a pyramid form, so that the children know which food is more important for the body. Eating healthy food and being healthy can be depicted as ladders, and the diseases one can get can be depicted as snakes and make a Snakes and Ladder project. The third grade science fair projects are easy to make, easy to explain and easy to understand for the children. Once a child makes or sees a third grade science fair project, he/she will never forget the scientific concept they learned from it.

Third Grade Science Fair Projects

Jordan Matthews is a High School Math and Science teacher who has worked as a judge and a coordinator of many science fairs. Check his Science Fair Project ideas website for some more ideas and information about experiments for all ages.

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