Acne Home Remedies

Here are a few acne home remedies that are said to be helpful:

• Apply lemon juice, let set for 30 seconds, wash with cool water, and pat dry with a clean towel.
  
• Apply cucumber juice, let set for 30 seconds, wash with cool water, and pat dry with a clean towel.
  
• Orange peel pounded well with water and applied to affected areas has been reported as being helpful.
• Drink plenty of pure water each day to impart a healthy glow to the skin.

Dr. Ben Kim has a natural approach to curing acne. Click here to read his excellent article.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
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Healthy Hair Tips

Here are four tips for healthy hair that anyone can do.

Lifeless Hair

If using a body building gel or mousse, don't use it on wet hair because it will make your hair go limp. Water will dilute the active ingredients in most volumizers. To use a gel or mousse properly, first towel dry your hair to remove excess moisture, and then massage the volumizer into your hair and style as usual.

Fading Hair Color

To lock in color, try using a shampoo that has a slightly acidic Ph. All shampoos designed to clarify, thicken, or control dandruff contain harsh, color-dimming ingredients and should thus be avoided.

Hair Breakage

Your hair is fragile when wet, so comb it properly. Here's how to do that.

• Always use a wide-tooth comb for detangling.
  
• Begin at ends and work through gently.
  
• Then go back and comb through from scalp.

Enrich Your Dark Hair Color Naturally

Brew a strong cup of espresso. Let it cool completely. Once it's cool, pour on your dry hair and leave on for 20 minutes. Rinse.

I think you'll find these four healthy hair tips quite useful.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com

Vitamin Supplements: Synthetic vs. Natural

Today, let's examine the controversy in the health world about the human body’s reaction to synthetic vs. natural vitamin supplements.

Many authorities argue that the small chemical differences between synthetic and natural vitamin supplements are of no consequence.

However, a number of studies suggest that the human body recognizes the difference and that the body more easily absorbs and assimilates natural forms of vitamins (including A, B-complex, C, D, and E). Thus, the natural forms provide many more benefits where deficiencies and disease are concerned than synthetics.

It just makes common sense that synthetic vitamins wouldn't be as healthy as the real thing, doesn't it?

Not only are synthetic vitamins highly processed, but the "vitamins" coming out of the laboratory no longer contain the micronutrients that accompany them naturally in whole foods.

The synthesized pills lack many important co-factors, including minerals, enzymes, co-enzymes, trace elements, amino acids, proteins, essential fatty acids, and phytonutrients.

Without the important co-factors, can synthetic vitamins possibly have the synergistic, nutritional, and positive health effects of vitamins derived from whole foods?

I think the answer to that one is obvious, don't you?

Get your vitamins from whole, unprocessed foods.

Chet Day
Editor, The Health Circus
http://chetday.com

P.S. Click here to read an interesting article about the three B-complex vitamins. Learn which is the worst dressed, best dressed, and fairest of them all.