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"The great skin cream con Skin creams and lotions are also a con. Nearly every skin cream product on the market contains highly toxic chemicals, including artificial fragrance and petroleum byproducts. These products may temporarily enhance the feel of skin, but the only way to truly have healthy skin is through nutrition. Healthy skin comes from the inside, not from skin creams. If your skin tone is poor, it's a direct indication of the poor health of your internal organs, most notably the liver and heart. If you have a suppressed liver, it's going to show up in your skin." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Even mercury fumes that collect in jars of skin cream or in tubes of mascara, and are inhaled when the containers are opened, add to the cumulative body burden. Placing mercury directly on exposed skin, as with eyeliners and skin creams, heightens the absorption. In late 2007 Minnesota became the first state to ban mercury in cosmetics, with fines for retailers who knowingly sell mercury-laden cosmetics and penalties of up to $10,000 levied on manufacturers that fail to disclose mercury additives on product labels." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Better yet, switch to a hormone skin cream or lotion. Because the hormones are absorbed through your skin, they bypass your liver and don't cause a high rise in SHBG. Timing of Tests Your body makes some hormones at certain times of day only; some hormone production even depends on your activities. Cortisol peaks in the morning. Thyroid hormones become more active when you are more active. Melatonin and growth hormones peak in the middle of the night. Estrogen varies with your menstrual cycle, highest from mid-cycle onward and lowest during menstruation." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "If you are trying to determine if a hormone is too high or is being absorbed from your skin cream, measure it between doses. Which Test Is Best? Blood, urine, and saliva testing all have their place among the tools you need to measure your hormones. Measuring hormones can be confusing because there are so many ways to do it. Certainly, blood testing is the most common and widely accepted method of measuring hormone levels. However, as you've seen, it is not always the most reliable or the most cost-effective." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "I prefer using topical progesterone skin cream or lotion because it also promotes a good night's sleep and tends to have fewer side effects. Side effects are not common with natural progesterone compared with synthetic progesterone, but some women become depressed or irritable on it. These potential side effects are more common with oral forms. Very rarely, women show "paradoxical" symptoms—that is, they become more excited or their insomnia worsens on progesterone because their body converts it into Cortisol, a stimulating hormone. (I have only seen this happen once." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Estradiol is available by prescription as a compounded or FDA-approved transdermal skin cream, lotion, gel, patch, vaginal cream, vaginal pellet, vaginal ring insert, and topical mist. I recommend using compounded skin lotion for the following reasons: • Compounded products allow your hormones to be put in a paraben-free base. • Compounded products can vary the concentration so that small amounts (around 1 ml or less) are needed. • Using lotion is easier, faster, and less messy to apply. • The most important reason: you are able to adjust the dose to your symptoms." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Many general hygiene products—such as skin cream, lotion, soap, shampoo, perfume, hair spray, and room deodorizers—contain petrochemicals. These compounds often have chemical structures similar to estrogen and therefore act like estrogen when introduced into the body. Industrial solvents are another source of xenoestrogens and are commonly found in cosmetics, fingernail polish, fingernail polish remover, glue, paint, varnish, cleaning products, carpet, fiberboard, and other processed woods. Synthetic hormone replacement drugs and birth control pills." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Add a teaspoon of tincture to a mild, unscented lotion for a medicated skin cream. Apply the cream a few times a day to the affected area. (To simplify the treatment, you may be able to buy the tincture pre-made at herb shops.) Does Massage Help the Skin? Perhaps it was coincidental, but when some eczema sufferers recently underwent massage therapy in addition to standard emollient or anti-inflammatory treatments, they reported less redness, scaling and hardness of the skin than did patients who underwent standard dermatological care." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Nearly every skin cream product on the market contains highly toxic chemicals, including artificial fragrance and petroleum byproducts. These products may temporarily enhance the feel of skin, but the only way to truly have healthy skin is through nutrition. Healthy skin comes from the inside, not from skin creams. If your skin tone is poor, it's a direct indication of the poor health of your internal organs, most notably the liver and heart. If you have a suppressed liver, it's going to show up in your skin. That's why skin spots are called liver spots." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"In Baltimore, a pharmacist created a skin cream called Dr. Bunting's Sunburn Remedy, later known as Noxema. A marriage between celebrity status and public perceptions about the desirability of using cosmetics took firm root in the late nineteenth century with the spreading popularity of photography, and then later with the advent of motion pictures. Women who had previously shunned adorning their faces with cosmetics began to request their application when they sat for portraits in photography studios." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "As Synthetics Multiplied, So Did Health Problems As use of synthetic chemicals grew, the impacts on human health became impossible to ignore. A skin cream called Koremlu, sold through department stores, contained thallium acetate, which was also used as a rodent poison. Reports began surfacing from hospitals and physicians in 1930 that users of one cream were developing paralysis, abdominal pain, blindness, and other severe symptoms. Only after injured consumers filed lawsuits against the manufacturer was the cream removed from the market in 1932, though in some areas of the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"It is best utilized by the body when administeted transdermally with a skin cream that contains approximately 500 milligtams per ounce of natural progesterone and offers the following potential health benefits. • According to Dr. John R. Lee, the author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, natural progesterone may significantly improve bone formation—by as much as 15%-35%. (Understand, this is unique to natural progesterone. Esttogen supplementation does not increase bone formation; it merely slows the rate of loss for a 5-year period around the time of menopause." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Pennyroyal tincture can be mixed with a skin cream and applied topically to repel insects, though it is unknown whether this is effective due to a lack of scientific study. The tincture and volatile oil are not recommended for internal use. Are there any side effects or interactions? Used internally in the amounts stated above, pennyroyal is generally safe, though an occasional person may experience intestinal upset or temporary dizziness.6 Pulegone and its toxic metabolites, particularly menthofuran, damage the liver and nerves if taken in sufficiently large quantities." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"While progesterone is available in sublingual (under-thetongue) drops and capsules, using a progesterone skin cream or oil is best. Applying progesterone to the skin allows it to be absorbed into fat beneath the skin, where it can be taken up by the blood as needed. If taken in a capsule form, it is more difficult for the body to regulate the amount of progesterone entering the blood. Natural progesterone can be manufactured in the laboratory from a substance called diosgenin, which is found in wild yam or soybeans." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"After sunning, add these antioxidants to whatever skin cream you use for added protection and to aid in preventing wrinkles. • Don't neglect your lips. The lips also are susceptible to sunburn. Use a sun protection product designed for the lips as well as a sunscreen for your face and body. Choose a formula containing natural ingredients such as aloe vera and vitamin E. Your health food store should carry such products in handy stick form. • Do not rely on the weather to judge how strong the sun is." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Cocoa butter is a good skin cream and is not expensive. It also helps reduce skin wrinkling. Keep it in the refrigerator after opening. Q A deficiency of vitamin A can result in scaly skin, particularly on the hands and feet. Cod liver oil is a good source of vitamins A and D. Q GH3 cream from Gero Vita International, applied topically, is good for the prevention of wrinkles and can help with discoloration of the skin. Q Kinetin, a manufactured version of a plant hormone that prevents plants from withering, is proving effective in the treatment of fine facial lines." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "It usually feels "tight" and uncomfortable after washing unless some type of moisturizer or skin cream is applied. Chapping and cracking are signs of extremely dry, dehydrated skin. Dry skin is most common on areas of the body that are exposed to the elements, such as the face and hands, but it also can be a whole-body problem, especially in winter. Dry skin can be caused (or aggravated) by a poor diet and by environmental factors such as exposure to sun, wind, cold, chemicals, or cosmetics, or excessive bathing with harsh soaps." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Her primary care physician prescribed a skin cream that Laura later discovered was a topical steroid. While the drug initially improved the sensitivity, the redness problem kept getting worse. She kept using more skin products to try to cover up the problem — cleansers, toners, scrubs and defoliators along with her usual four hair products and full-face makeup. "It became a vicious cycle where my skin was ruddy and uneven looking and so I used more makeup to cover up the irritation that the products were causing." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"It is the most wonderful skin cream and has the added benefit of being completely natural and additive-free. A word of caution—if you want to lose weight, don't eat more than one avocado per day. If, on the other hand, you are trying to gain some weight, try to eat at least three avocados every day. Here is a recipe for our favorite salad (which contains avocado, of course). We adapt it in a number of ways and I have included the variations below." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"Procter & Gamble, like hundreds of other cosmetic companies operating in Europe, was for the first time compelled to prepare "safety portfolios," to be made available on demand to European health authorities, for the ingredients in its mascara, lipstick, hair dye, shampoo, shaving cream, skin cream, perfume, deodorants, nail polish, tanning lotion, and other products. Every quarter, a committee of toxicologists drawn from universities and laboratories across Europe, known as the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products, convenes in Brussels to review those ingredients." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"If I put this makeup on my face or put this skin cream on my skin, then I will appear youthful, people will like me more and I will be accepted. As I mentioned earlier, what's most interesting about this mythology is that it's partially true. Thus, it's not entirely a myth, but the myth component is that it will alter you internally and make you into a different person based on your outward appearance. It is not a myth, however, that you might get a better job, or higher pay, or people will like you more if you look better. That's absolutely true, as frustrating as it may be." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Patients with liver disease should take DHEA sublingually or in a skin cream, so less DHEA passes through the liver. Obviously, liver function should be regularly monitored. The most effective way to reverse aging is with growth hormone. This converts fat to muscle, increases stamina and improves sexual performance. Unfortunately this is expensive but less so with secretagogue therapy than the use of intra-muscular injections of growth hormone. We recommend a trial of daily use of Young Again." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Joint Bone Spine 72: 202-06, 2005] Even a low-dose estrogen patch or estrogen skin cream has been found to be helpful. [Journal Urology 169: 1735-37, 2003] Men with prostate cancer placed on hormone deprivation exhibit immediate and delayed memory skills. [Journal Urology 175: 130-35, 2006] One wonders how informed consent for treatment can adequately be obtained from these patients. Hormone treatment for prostate cancer increases the incidence of diabetes, heart attacks and sudden-death heart attack." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"If you have access to DHEA skin cream, by all means use it instead of capsules or tablets, but follow the accompanying instructions carefully. Much lower doses are typically needed with transdermal creams (see "Using Natural Hormones" in this chapter). The Myth of Androstenedione Androstenedione or "andro" is an over-the-counter product that has a bad reputation due to its misuse by many athletes and body builders. It is produced in the body from DHEA and is a direct precursor to both estrogen and testosterone." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"Progesterone can be given in the form of a skin cream or as a vaginal or rectal suppository. Although several research studies have failed to confirm the effectiveness of progesterone, the results in our clinics are so obvious in many cases, that we are convinced the negative tesearch was in some way flawed. Possible explanations for these conflicting observations are that the doses of progesterone used in the "negative" studies were too low, or that the failure to restrict dietary sugar may have somehow prevented progesterone from doing its job properly." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Wash hands at least five times a day. 4. Skin cream: These soaps contain their own un-equaled moisturizer. For best results do not use any skin cream. If necessary, we recommend sunflower or corn oil. 5. Face washing: Massage the soap into the skin, lather, then rinse. For those with acne or other skin problems, use frequently. The facial dip is explained below. 6. Bath/shower: Use the sponge supplied. Wet both body and the sponge. Then turn off water and create a rich lather using the sponge and soap. Rinse. 7." - Larry Clapp, Prostate Health in 90 Days (Get the book.)

"Fresh aloe gel applied topically may be the greatest skin cream on the planet earth. The yellow bitter part of the plant leaf is a proven laxative that has brought relief to many of my patients. And whole leaf extracts have the ability to gear up the immune system, reduce swelling, improve healing, kill bacteria and vimses, and improve commimication between cells (intercellular) and within the cell (intracellular). Of the 300 species of aloe, it is aloe vera that has received the most attention. Aloe certainly typifies the complexity of understanding the healing properties of plants." - Patrick Quillin, Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Today in Peru, it is a gift given to the parents of a bride; placed under house cornerstones; a source of Vitamins; estimated use by 8 mi 1 lion persons in tea of Coca sold in most supermarkets, toothpaste, skin cream, gum, and wine. In America it is legal ly used only in Novocaine, and in flavoring for Coca-Cola caffeine drink. In 1590 Jesuit missionary Father de Acosta, in Peru, wrote "I think it works and gives force and courage to the Indians, for we see the effects which cannot be attributed to imagination, so as to go some days without meat, but only a handful of Coca." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "Based on Tomira Yellow skin cream, and Echinacea, Goldenseal, Red Clover, Chamomile, Figwort, Cleavers, and more. Transpacific Health Products' GyuHwa Tea with Flos Chrysanthemum and Cassia Tora seeds (rids excess heat and moisture from the liver, to sharpen vision and focus). *, Health Center For Better Living's Eyebright, Rosemary, Chickweed, Fennel. Sarsaparilla, Sassafras, Angelica root, Wintergreen, Yellow Dock, and Tansy. Dr. David Young's Living Essential Oils Lemongrass. Cypress, Eucalyptus with V6 mixing oil (for 10-14 days). Dr." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.) "PABA skin cream. Bathe in Sunlight; oruse full-spectrum light (Environmental Lighting Concepts, 3923 Coconut Palm Drive, Tampa, Florida 33619, 800-842-8848), with doctor's consent, if one is not allergic to sunlight. Cod liveroil (poultice if superficial). Quinine. 6 parts Comfrey root, 6 p. Oak bark, 3 p. Gravel Root, 3 p. Mullein, 1 p. Lobelia, 3 p. Marshmallow, 1 p. Skullcap, and 3 parts Walnut bark in a hot soak, 1 cup to a gallon of distilled water, overthe entire spine and skull for 6 nights a week. Yucca, Chaparral. Buckthorn bark, Black Cohosh root, Slippery Elm bark, Lobelia." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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