The use of chemical composition to change the skin from one colour to another (especially from dark skin to light skin) is referred to as skin bleaching.
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How To Treat Skin Reactions Using Essential Oils
It’s definitely that time of the year for all things jolly and beautiful. Skin reactions are not the glaring traits you want to rock in your holiday pictures.
Essential oils can be obtained by extracting a plant’s compounds. Do you know by using the right essential oils you can get rid of skin reaction before the events of the holidays unfolds?
Below are helpful tips to get your glow back:
Peppermint essential oil
This essential oil helps in treating skin rashes because it has cooling and anti-inflammatory properties. Add peppermint essential oil to your bath water to help provide skin relief or add the peppermint oil to a carrier oil then rub on the affected skin area.
A Carrier oil is used to dilute essential oils before they are applied to the skin.
Lavender essential oil
Research has shown that lavender essential oil is effective to treat allergic skin reactions. It can naturally treat skin allergic reactions like bed bug rashes and insect bites as it has anti-inflammatory properties.
Chamomile essential oil
This oil has relaxing properties and which provides quick relief from itchy rashes from allergic reactions. Mix up chamomile essential oil in a carrier oil to get rid of eczema. Apply the oil on the affected area daily.
Tea tree essential oil
Tea tree essential oil helps to reduce inflammation which makes it a very effective remedy for allergic skin reactions. Mix the tea oil in a carrier oil to treat skin reaction and eczema.
Take a cotton wool and soak it in the mixed oil and apply the soaked wool to the affected skin area.
Take a cotton wool and soak it in the mixed oil and apply the soaked wool to the affected skin area.
Geranium essential oil
This oil helps to soothe itchy skin caused by an allergic reaction especially bug bites. Add the geranium oil to a carrier oil and apply to the affected area daily.
‘Women risk mental disorder if they don’t have regular sex’ – Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist identified as Dr Maymunah Kadiri on Saturday advised married women to have regular sex with their spouses in order to prevent depression and gain happiness.
Yam validated to treat cancer, diabetes, pain, bone loss, others
Water yam (Dioscorea alata)… inset are the leaves of English lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)
Can extracts of the tubers and leaves of some species of yam be used to beat cancer, diabetes, pain, arthritis, bone loss, and premenopausal syndrome?
Women who give birth to boys much more likely to have postnatal depression
PHOTO: HuffPost
A University of Kent study into postnatal depression (PND) found the odds of developing this condition increased by 79 per cent when mothers had baby boys compared to baby girls.
Moi-moi leaf plant prevents kidney, liver damage
Moi moi leaf plant (Thaumatococcus daniellii)
Nigerian researchers have demonstrated how Moi moi leaf plant (Thaumatococcus danielli) protects against the complications of diabetes such as kidney damage as well as liver failure.
Sperm passes dad’s trauma, poor diet to kids
Credit: Chemistry World
*Pioneering new procedure could help infertile men become fathers, study finds
*Fathers who smoke raise grandchildren’s risk of developing attention disorder
*New self-lubricating condoms ‘can withstand 1,000 thrusts, makes sex better’
Scientists have shown how a father’s poor diet, lifestyle and trauma is passed onto his children.Sperm carries ‘epigenetic’ marks that inform how the baby’s germ cells develop, researchers at University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, United States (U.S.), have shown.
Lack of access to WASH facilities raises risk of disease outbreaks
Toyin Ojora-Saraki, is a healthcare advocacy champion.
*Treat sources of water in affected rural communities to stop cholera epidemic
Worried by the lack of access to Water Sanitation and Health (WASH) facilities, Wife of the Senate President, Toyin Ojora Saraki has stated that Nigeria’s generation to come will be devastated if the government fails to provide the necessary investment in WASH facilities and honour its recent promises.
Countries At War: Miss Earth Lebanon Stripped Of Title For Posing With Miss Earth Israel
Who would have taught that a harmless photo of two beauty queens posing together and making the peace signs will result in one of them getting stripped of her title? Miss Earth Lebanon, Salwa Akar has been stripped of her title after a photograph of her posing with Miss Earth Israel, Dana Zreik during the international pageant in the Philippines surfaced online.
Simple food rules for healthy living
Let me give you something to think about, and this is very important… if we took away modern society and plopped you on a deserted island, what is the #1 most important thing in your life at that point? That’s right – FOOD! What will I eat to survive and thrive? At that point, you can forget about careers, technology, video games, television, nightlife, mobile phones, and just about every other aspect of modern life. The single most important thing you need to focus on at that point is what to eat.
Expert links consumption of western foods to kidney failure among Nigerian
Kidney PHOTO: google.com/search
New DNA tool predicts height, assesses risk of serious illness
PHOTO: AFP
A new Deoxy ribonucleic Acid (DNA)/genetic material tool created by Michigan State University (MSU), United States (U.S.), can accurately predict people’s height, and more importantly, could potentially assess their risk for serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer.
Coffee and male fertility
Coffee as widely known is a brewed drink processed from roasted coffee beans. It is gotten from a genus of plants known as coffea. Research shows that coffee is grown in more than 70 countries around the world having its origin in Ethiopia and Sudan. It comes in different colours such as black, dark brown and light brown. Coffee is one of the world most popular drinks best taken in the morning or evening.
11 Tea-Length Wedding Dresses for the Modern Bride
Tired of your run-of-the-mill wedding dresses on the market today? Go for a clean, classic and totally modern tea length style instead!
‘Excess Sugar Not Caused by Fruit Juice’
Contrary to the perception, much of the excess sugar in the body is caused by sweetened foods and not pure fruit juice.
Reasons Why You Should Wear Sunglasses More Often
Beyonce wearing sunglasses Photo Pinterest
The eyes are sensitive and a prolonged exposure to direct sunlight can result in several ailments that can be painful and deadly serious.
10 Homemade Skin Treatments
Practices For Healthy Teeth
Do
you know that your day is never complete without a smile? A good smile catches
the attention of everyone and increases your face value. However, your smile
looks more beautiful if you have sparkling white set of teeth. Tips On Lips Care
A beautiful smile ignites one to start a new day. Many people are uncomfortable when not smiling. A beautiful smile makes your face more
beautiful, charming and also lively.Your lips are one of the most important
and exquisitely sensitive part of your body. And therefore you have to take
special care of your lips.
