Sea Buckthorn Oil: If It’s Good Enough for the Tibetans….
Recently while strolling through Whole Foods with my mother we both complained about how dry our skin is this time of year. Not to mention that I’ve been plagued with black heads again and I felt like it was related to my lotion. The helpful lady in the skin section overheard my mom mention that she uses Pond’s and made a noise that sounded a lot like pearl clutching. She expressed that with all of the petro-chemicals that she would never put anything like that on her face. I whole-heartedly agreed and she then made us some lovely samples of face products to try. Some cream for my mother’s face and some oil for me. She also indicated that a woman should never moisturize at night. Something about your face going through a cleaning cycle, etc… For my overly sensitive and uber oily acne prone skin she recommended Sea Buckthorn oil. She said that oil counteracts oil and would clear my skin right up. Having tried the olive oil experiment before and deciding that for my skin it really is best used only as eye make-up remover and under eye moisturizer due to the clogged pores that quickly developed I expressed my concern. She reassured me and noted that Dr. Oz said it’s just fine. She gave me a sample and I tried it out. The first day or two it did seem to make my skin soft, smooth and moisturized. However, again the build up began. Within a week I had oily clogged pores all over my face. Then the irritated white heads grew. My pores increased in size and my face powder began to look dirty and feel like sludge by noon. So, after three weeks I have given up. It wasn’t a costly experiment (only about $13 for a bottle), but unfortunately another failed attempt at using oil as moisturizer. I’m sure for some women this is just the natural product they’ve been looking for, but for my skin it just doesn’t work. I love that it’s cruelty-free, organic and natural, but none of that matters if it doesn’t work. I’ve given the bottle to my husband to use on his painful eczema as the Sea Buckthorn Berry has been traditionally used on many skin conditions throughout the Himalayas. I’ll report back on whether or not he has any better experiences with this wonder fruit. Have you tried the newest organic cosmetic sensation? If so, what was your experience?
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I’ve been in numerous debates with friends and family over offshore drilling ever since Sara Palin uttered that famous “Drill Baby, Drill!” during her campaign speech. Unfortunately my argument can be easily illustrated just by reading any of the recent headlines about the recent BP drilling disaster in the Gulf Coast. What’s most concerning is that we pushed humanity’s technological capabilities and now we have no known way to stop this “spill” from potentially destroying all of Earth’s oceans. In fact, I think we should stop using the word spill because to me a spill is something that is done and over and we can begin cleaning up; not the case with the current flood of petroleum continually blasting into the Gulf of Mexico. If you look to my new GreenPeace widget on the right-hand side of my blog you can actually watch it tick out the gallons of oil being spilled off the coast of the United States as I type this. Pictures of the disaster are everywhere and show just how enormous this crisis has become. Some interesting calculations that I’ve come across indicate that one (1) gallon of oil can ruin about one (1) million gallons of water. We know that there are about 31 gallons of oil in a barrel. That’s 31 million gallons of water ruined per barrel. The hole drilled deep into the Earth’s crust that is uncontrollably shooting 5,000 barrels of pressurized oil into the Gulf of Mexico is destroying a terrifyingly vast swath of our environment each day since April 20, 2010. Worse yet, our technology to drill seems to have outpaced our ability to recover from this disaster. We are all in far more danger than is currently being reported and IF, that’s a very big if, we can stop this environmental catastrophe in time to stop the demise of the entire planet we have got to do more as individuals to reduce our reliance on petroleum immediately. We also have to stand up and say no to more offshore drilling. Even if we manage to survive this cataclysmic event, the repercussions of extending our capabilities without understanding the implications or providing sufficient safeguards will be felt for generations to come.
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