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Organic Makeup Brands



Organic makeup brands are very important when caring for your skin. Kahlil Gibran said that beauty is a light in the heart. While this may seem cliché it is absolutely true. It is healthy to want to look good. Organic makeup can help you achieve your best look without harming your skin. The natural makeup market is still evolving so you will not always find 100% natural ingredients. But you can still find products that are mostly all natural.

Here are a few organic makeup brands to check out:

Nvey Eco Organic Makeup

Organic Makeup Brands

Organic Makeup Brands

Nvey Eco is one of the best organic makeup brands. It doesn’t contain any harmful ingredients that will adversely affect your skin. They offer a wide variety of products including blush, powders, mascara, lipstick and others. Plus this company really loves colors. Their eyeshades and lipsticks come in many different shades. You can be funky, cool or sexy.

Sephora Organic Makeup

Sephora has a natural line of makeup. The ingredients included in their natural line of makeup consist of essential oils, antioxidants, fruit extracts, minerals and vitamins. They also exclude most of the harmful chemicals such as genetically modified organisms, petrochemicals, parabens, sulfates, and synthetic dyes and fragrances.

SukiColor Organic Makeup

Suki Skin Care was created by Suki who has dedicated her life to ensuring her products are the best in the industry. The Suki science behind her products is what makes them unique. The science of Suki revolves around four standards; 100% pure base, high potency botanic concentrates, extracts an organic actives, and cosmeceutical ingredients. You can find luscious lip colors, tinted moisturizers, and brush sets.

Earth’s Beauty Organic Makeup

Earth’s Beauty has a huge line of natural makeup. They claim it is the purest makeup you will find. They use ingredients such as iron oxides and arrowroot. They do not use any nano particles in any of their products. You can find mineral powders, eye shadows, eye liners, blushes, mascara, and more.

Give these brands a try. To find more organic makeup brands, you can easily perform a search online.

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Drinking Green Drinks



With summer in full swing, I am thinking about drinking green drinks. I’ve turned to juicing expert and founder of Juice Generation in NYC and Cooler Cleanse, Eric Helms, for the best ways to drink your greens and have them taste great. Packed with essential vitamins, nutrients, incorporating “green drinks” into your diet will keep you feeling and looking great this summer.

The Benefits of Drinking Green Drinks

Drinking Green Drinks

Drinking Green Drinks

Dark green vegetables contain a rainbow of vitamins and minerals essential for the cleansing functions of the kidneys and liver. Dark, leafy greens also give the system loads of water-soluble fiber to sweep toxins out. These greens are highly alkalizing to your cells—countering the damage done by the corrosive acidic waste products from meat, sugar, dairy and other common foods.

Helms says, “Customers are typically intimidated by the idea of a green drink” and that he and his team are constantly thinking of new ways to encourage customers to give green a chance.

Green Drink Recipes

Hale To Kale– from the menu at Juice Generation’s new Equinox location in NYC

Ingredients of Hale to Kale

  • 2 handfuls of kale
  • 1 apple
  • 1/4 lemon
  • 8oz watermelon juice

Instructions for Hale to Kale

Bunch up kale and push through juicer with apple.  Follow with watermelon and lemon. Scrape off the foam and serve over ice. Makes 12oz serving.

 

Supa Dupa Greens

  • Handful (3 oz) spinach
  • 2 medium stalks (3 oz) of celery
  • Small handful (1/2 oz) parsley, long stems removed
  • 3 medium stalks (3 oz) green kale
  • 2 Bartlett pears, cored and quartered
  • 1 lemon, cut and peeled
  • 1 cucumber, cut into pieces small enough to fit through a juicer

Instructions for Supa Dupa Greens

Process all the ingredients through the juicer. Run any wet pulp back through the juicer. Scrape off the foam and serve over ice. For variation, add dandelion greens or watercress.

Drinking green drinks this summer is a great way to supplement your diet with lots of micronutrients.

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Using Copper to Cut Down on Hospital Infections? | Antimicrobial Copper Study



Early results from a comprehensive multi-site clinical trial demonstrated that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms resulted in a 97 percent reduction of bacteria that cause hospital acquired infections.  This particular study also found a 40 percent reduction in the risk of acquiring an infection. Study results are to be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for review and approval.

Antimicrobial Copper Study

Using Copper to Cut Down on Hospital Infections?

Antimicrobial Copper Study

Initial study results were presented at the World Health Organization’s 1st International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC) in Geneva, Switzerland on July 1, 2011.

The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, was designed to determine the efficacy of antimicrobial copper in reducing the level of pathogens in hospital rooms, and whether such a reduction would translate into a lower risk of infection.

Researchers at the three hospitals involved in the trial, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, both in Charleston, replaced commonly touched items, such as bed rails, overbed tray tables, nurse call buttons and IV poles, with antimicrobial copper versions.

Results of  Antimicrobial Copper Study

The reduction rate demonstrated on antimicrobial copper surfaces is the same as that achieved by “terminal” cleaning, the regimen conducted after each patient vacates a room.

Dr. Michael Schmidt, Professor and Vice Chairman of Microbiology and Immunology at MUSC, who presented the results at ICPIC, said, “Bacteria present on ICU room surfaces are probably responsible for up to 80 percent of patient infections, demonstrating how critical it is to keep hospitals clean. The copper objects used in the clinical trial lowered microbial levels and supplemented cleaning protocols.”

Hospital patients have a 1:20 chance of developing an infection, and those who do have a 1:20 chance of dying as a result. The CDC estimates that in the U.S., hospital acquired infections kill 100,000 people and cost $45 billion annually.

Independent laboratory testing has demonstrated that when cleaned regularly, antimicrobial copper products kill greater than 99.9% of the following bacteria within two hours of exposure:  MRSA, VRE, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and E. coli O157:H7.  For a complete listing of approved EPA public health claims for antimicrobial copper, please visit www.antimicrobialcopper.com. Clinical trial results are preliminary and under review; claims related to clinical trials have not been approved or reviewed by the U.S. EPA. Because many factors contribute to the risk of infection, individual results may vary.