It’s always great when an exotic acne-clearing herb is discovered in distant corners of the world, when an explorer staggers out of a rainforest with a machete in one hand and a strange purple root clutched in the other. But the acne cures closer to home are equally interesting, because they’re so easy to add […]
Thai black ginger is an ancient remedy found in southeast Asia, mainly in northern and central Thailand. This is the underground root rhizome of the Kaempferia parviflora plant, which is dried and evaporated then ground into a fine powder. It’s part of the same Zingiberaceae family as regular ginger (which actually has 1600 species), but rather
Lutein is an antioxidant found in low levels in a vast variety of plant foods, and high levels in an exclusive handful (spinach, kale). It’s part of the 600-member carotenoid antioxidant family alongside beta-carotene, but unlike that compound, lutein cannot be converted to vitamin A. One of its claims to fame is providing the yellow
Alcohol is an indulgence which you can easily maintain in a skin-friendly diet with a few modifications. Some strategies are more secretive, like eating broccoli and cucumber (which enhance your detoxifying enzymes), while others are simple things which you can implement into your life then completely forget about, like swallowing a magnesium capsule each day.
At one point, even MSM was an obscure acne remedy. This sulphurous molecule is formed when dimethyl sulfide, which creates the sea’s classic smell, evaporates with water and mixes with ozone in the atmosphere, eventually raining back to Earth and infiltrating everything. Not only was this ocean-surfing molecule not on store shelves in capsule form,
