Rose water is a scented and pink liquid made from distilling rose flower petals into water. It’s approximately 10-50% rose oil by weight, but that oil itself contains countless active compounds, including geraniol, and phenylethyl alcohol, which provides the rose taste and fragrance. Supposedly, it takes 50,000 rose flowers to make just a single ounce […]
The herb thyme, most commonly used in pasta, has an extremely interesting medicinal history. In the European Middle Ages, people often placed thyme beneath pillows to improve sleep and ward off nightmares. During the Roman Empire’s peak, women would give thyme to knights and warriors, believing it to provide courage and strength. Thyme itself is
With the current popularity of folklore remedies, one old foodstuff has been catapulted to elite status – apple cider vinegar. It all started around 5000 years ago, with the earliest recorded usage by Ancient Egyptian and the Babylonians. By 400BC Ancient Greece, the father of modern medicine Hippocrates (or maybe grandfather by now) prescribed apple
Cocoa butter, also known as oil of theobroma, is widely acknowledged as one of best natural moisturisers around. Many chocolate loving societies like the Aztecs and Mayans used cocoa butter for improving skin tone, as far back as 1000BC. Apparently beauty obsessed celebrities in Ghana are recommending cocoa butter left, right and centre, so
There’s a new theory in the acne world that we’ve all been foolish by focussing on bacteria. Instead we should be controlling infestations of demodex mites – tiny microbial insects that live in the skin of nearly every adult human. According to one alternative medicine website, 90% of teenage acne is triggered by demodex mites
