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Spring tips for smooth, soft skin

• Exfoliate

Whether you use a natural fiber wash cloth, body brush, loofah or a body polish or in conjunction with each other be consistent and use the above methods at least 3 times a week to achieve your desired results.

• Use a moisturizing quality soap or body wash

Read the labels. You want to stray away from harsh detergents or sudsing agents like Sodium Lauryl or Lauryth Sulfate and petroleum products like mineral oil, petrolatum or even propylene glycol. Which can cause dry skin in the long run and from long term use.

• Follow up with a body balm, body lotion or high quality organic oil

Again read the labels and stay away from harsh ingredients and especially mineral oil that acts as a barrier, clogs pores and does not absorb into your skin. Apply when your skin is moist and allow it to absorb into your skin before dressing.

• Drink plenty of water

Water naturally hydrates your body and helps hydrate your skin. If you get thirsty, or your lips and eyes seem dry especially in a moist climate you are definitely not drinking enough water.

• Essential fatty acids

Make sure you are consuming and applying enough essential fatty acids omega 3’s especially and GLA’s. Hemp seed oil, borage, marula, baobab, almond oil, rosehip oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, watermelon seed oil just to name a few. Fish oils, hemps seed oil, grape seed oil and borage are a few that may be taken orally.

• Soak in the tub with high quality bath oil

If you have very dry skin, and you still are not seeing results with the above ideas, try soaking in the bathtub with bath oil, whether it is sweet almond oil, or another quality natural oil it absorbs in the skin easily with the warmth of warm water. Pat dry or let yourself air dry in drier climates.

• Where natural material like cotton

Consider the clothes you are wearing and the material it is made of. Most synthetic materials do not let our skin breathe, can cause a heat rash, our pores to clog causing little red bumps usually found on the back of our arms, or small bumps on our hips from our sythetic under garments, sometimes even chafing which is like a rug burn. Cotton & hemp let your skin breathe. Try it to see if it makes a difference for you. This also works for childeren too.

At Green Woman, we focus on quality ingredients that nourish, hydrate and soothe the skin. We do not use any artificial synthetic ingredients. Our mission has always been to offer products where every ingredient is beneficial for your skin.

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Essential Oils

Even twenty years back essential oils were seldom heard of – they were mostly used in alternative healing by Eastern medication practitioners from India, China and other such places. And they have been using essential oils for generations, providing a variety of therapeutic benefits to all those looking for healing. However over the last few years, essential oils have crossed this barrier, and today an increasing number of people are accepting the fact that essential oils do indeed offer several healing effects.

What are Essential Oils?

Essential oils are actually plant extracts that are obtained from the roots, buds, leaves, bark, resin, seeds, flowers, twigs, rhizomes, heartwood and fruits of the plant. Though some oils are extracted by pressing, but mostly the oils are distilled through the process of steaming the plant. The temperature in steaming is high enough to open the pouches but not that high to damage the plant and burn the oil. When steaming is over, the water content is separated from the extracted essential oil.

Natural Wart Treatment

Essential oils are now being used as well for natural wart treatment. Warts through not fatal can still cause a lot of problems and embarrassments. Also, since they cannot be ever eliminated completely, they keep coming back if not controlled. Natural wart treatment can eradicate all strains of warts, and there are no skin irritations or scarring as well. Since these treatments are carried out using natural products, they have no side effects and are anti-infective, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. Natural wart treatment will not burn, irritate or scar the skin. And the process of removing the wart will be painless unlike the surgeries some prescribe.

Essential Oils and Natural Wart Treatment

Essential oils for warts are made from the following plants and their parts…

Cinnamon Bark: The essential oil that is developed from the bark of the Cinnamon tree is used to clean the warts. Non-toxic, this powerful oil is used to prevent infectious and contagious diseases.

Tea Tree: Antiviral, antiseptic and antibiotic, oil developed from the Tea tree strengthens the immune system of the body and enables it to fight infectious diseases. The fungicidal properties of these essential oils cure genital infections including warts. In fact, the Aborigines have used oil extracted from the Tea tree to cure warts for centuries.

Cedar Wood: The oils developed from this can normalize gland functions.

Calendula Oil: Antiseptic and anti-oxidizing effects of such oils are great for any infection.

Onion and Garlic: Oils extracted from onion and garlic has also been known to cure warts.

Lavender Oil: These oils also improve the natural immunity of the body and also have a calming and normalizing effect. The Lavender oil also fights bacteria and fungal infections.

How Essential Oils Work to Cure Warts

As discussed earlier, warts cannot be completely eradicated from the human system. It might seem that they have gone but a slight trigger can bring them back. The triggers are usually other health issues. The only way a wart remover can fight is by strengthening the natural immune system so that the health issues are not triggered off. Essential oils do just this. On the one hand, they work to cure the wart, and on the other, these oils strengthen the immune system so that the warts cannot reappear.

Conclusion

To conclude, there is now a new hope in the treatment of warts. And the answer is with essential oils. An effective wart remover can indeed solve the problem naturally.

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Feb 2007 GWH Newsletter

Hello Friends,

Hope you all are enjoying 2007 so far and off to a great start!

Here at Green Woman Herbs we are beginning the New Year with change. Change is good. It changes the energy flow, which is much needed here and long overdue. I wanted to give you a heads up with our changes before we started to implement them.

Prices

*We will be increasing our prices on some of our product starting around February 10, which includes the Rose Toner, Chamomile Hydrosol Blend, Neroli Mist, Body Balms, Sensual Sandalwood Soap, Horse Chestnut Liniment, Dead Sea Salt, Allergy Aid and Echinacea Glycerites, Shampoo/Body Wash, some Gift Baskets and possibly more very small increases.

Discontinued Product

*It is very hard for us to discontinue some of the product and departments we have and have taken into consideration all of our customers requests and suggestions. We cannot compete with some of the big herb suppliers and still stay in business. We have to face the facts.

We will be discontinuing The Bulk Herbs Department, Create Your Own Massage Blends, Jes’s Baby Wash and Diaper Rash Salve, some Gift Ideas (baskets).

Create Your Own Massage Blends and Bulk Herbs will be available to existing customers on special request only with the herbs and other ingredients that we have on hand in small quantities i.e. 1 oz of Lavender Flowers, 2 oz of Echinacea Root or a Body/Massage Oil with just Eucalyptus and Almond Oil.

What’s New!

Herbal Shampoo & Body Wash available in 4 aroma blends 8oz bottle for $5.75 sale $6.50 regular price at:

Shampoo Body Wash

• Hannah (great for babies and super sensitive skin, very refreshing clean scent with Sweet Orange, Lavender, Ylang and more)
• Zanzibar (Lemon, Sandalwood & Vanilla essential oils)
• Lavender & Rosemary
• Blooming Citrus (Bergamot, Grapefruit and a touch of Neroli)

Truly all natural with no SLS, alcohol or harsh preservatives lathers really well, you only need a small amount to be effective leaves hair shiny, silky and full of body.

NEW! Detox Tea for $5.75 sale price $6.00 regular price at Detox Tea

Typically cleansing the liver, blood and intestines once or twice a year is an excellent way to promote vibrant health. It is an age-old practice. I remember my grandmother fasting with the first day of cleansing with broth and drinking plenty of water and doing a cleanse for 2 weeks. She said it helped her keep her figure and good health. Later on I found out she used herbs which cleansed the blood, liver and intestines.

This tea can help sweep away the toxins, away from tissues and into the blood stream by supporting your lymphatic system, which helps purify the blood through the largest lymph tissue the spleen. The spleen fights infection and destroys worn out red blood cells.

When to cleanse:

If you have fatty deposits, or even cellulite, have aches and pains, fatigue, feeling bloated, puffy eyes, prone to lumps or abnormal growths in your body, acne or pimples, getting a cold or flu more than twice a year, dull hair, eating unhealthy & feeling foggy or simply to help keep you healthy and vibrant.

**Please seek advice from your health care practitioner if you are pregnant, lactating, have a serious illness like diabetes or are on medication before doing any internal cleansing or drinking our Detox Tea**

Raspberry Rooibos Tea 40 teabags for $6.50 sale price at:

Raspberry Rooibos Tea

Vanilla Rooibos Tea 40 teabags for $6.50 sale price at:

Vanilla Rooibos Tea

Rooibos, The RED TEA is naturally caffeine free, calms the nerves and stomach and is very high in anti-oxidants. Both flavors are great hot or iced.

**Current prices are good while supplies through FEB 10th**

Shipping is only $4.25 per order. Free shipping for orders of $30.00 or more not including gift baskets, more than one dead sea salt or body polish or special orders shipped out from the warehouse.

Email:info@greenwomanherbs.com

Call: Toll free 877-590-4897 or 303-457-0205

Please leave a message if we are not able to answer the phone, we are either on the other line or busy making product. Your call is very important to us. In most cases we will call back within the hour.

**Please seek advice from your health care practitioner if you are pregnant, lactating, have a serious illness like diabetes or are on medication before doing any internal cleansing or drinking our Detox Tea**