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Have you heard of the newly released movie, Food, Inc.? It’s a documentary on our over-processed, chemically-ridden, corrupt food system. It’s only out in select theaters, but you can see dates and places of release here. I’m seeing it tomorrow in Cambridge, MA, and if it’s playing near you, I strongly encourage you to go see it! It wouldn’t hurt to bring a friend who’s not so enlightened about just how unnatural the American food system is. I’m very excited to see it, and if you do, let me know what you thought!
-Emily
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The Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors Association (ICMAD), Palatine, IL, recognized nine member companies for their innovative products, package designs and marketing ideas at the association’s sixth annual CITY Awards for Cosmetic Innovators of The Year, held June 11, 2009 in New York City.
On presenting the awards, ICMAD President David Schieffelin of ybf, llc, said, “The CITY Awards represent dedication, effort and creativity by members of ICMAD and recognizes the innovations that independent companies bring to the beauty industry. For me, the CITY Awards represent everything that makes our business so dynamic.”
The CITY Awards, companies and the representatives accepting the awards are:
- CITY Award for Personal Care Product: MY YOUTHFUL SMILE by It Cosmetics, Seattle, WA.
- CITY Award for Color Cosmetic Product: ZAP&HIDE, by Iredale Mineral Cosmetics, Ltd., Great Barrington, MA.
- CITY Award for Professional Skin Care Product: SUKISPA PROFESSIONAL BIO-RESURFACING FACIAL PEEL, by Suki, Inc., Northampton, MA.
- CITY Award for Mass Skin Care Product: LINDI FACE WASH, by Lindi Skin, Ardmore, PA.
- CITY Award for Personal Care Package Design: NUMBER 4 HIGH PERFORMANCE HAIR CARE, by Bureau Number Four, Carson, CA.
- CITY Award for Color Cosmetic Package Design: LASH CONTROL, by U. Control Packaging, LLC, White Plains, NY.
- CITY Award for Skin Care Package Design: CELL CEUTICALS SKIN TREATMENTS SYSTEM KIT, by CellCeuticals Skin Care, Inc., Los Angeles, CA.
- CITY Award for Print Advertisement–Trade or Consumer: “GLIDE LINER SAMPLE” AD, by Xtreme Lashes, Spring, TX.
- CITY Award for Website Innovation: www.AskELF.com, by J.A. Cosmetics (e.l.f. - eyes, lips, face), New York, NY.
ICMAD, founded in 1974, is a trade association of independent cosmetic manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of services and components to the cosmetic industry. Approximately 90% of ICMAD’s 700 member companies are small, entrepreneurial businesses in the highly creative and competitive cosmetic, toiletry and fragrance field. ICMAD provides a powerful voice for its members to the FDA, in Congress and with consumer groups and the media. Visit www.icmad.org for more information.
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Acai (pronounced Ah-Sigh-Ee) berries are a small royal purple coloured berry from the Brazilian Amazon which boast a range of nutritional, health and beauty benefits so amazing that they stand in a nutritional class of their own! This product is oftern referred to as “Nature’s perfect health and beauty formula”.
Their bounty of benefits has been enjoyed by native Amazonians for decades, but it was not until the late nineties that it was introduced to the rest of the world. Since then, interest and enthusiasm for Acai has increased dramatically taking it from strength to strength. This is due to the rising amount of nutritional and scientific evidence which supports the long-held Amazonian belief that the berry endows energy, vitality, beauty and good health.
New - RioLife 100% Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai
The berry in newly released RioLife Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai is wild harvested in the Brazilian rainforest from an Amazon palm, often referred to by locals as the ‘tree of life’. The certified organic berry is pureed and then freeze dried, leaving a residual powder containing the essence of the Acai fruit in a health food supplement - nothing more, nothing less. The powder tastes like a unique blend of berries and chocolate and, when incorporated into a daily diet, offers a variety of health food and beauty benefits almost too good to be true.
RioLife 100% Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai Berries can be bought online - click here
Acai Beauty Benefits
For those worried about the visible signs of aging, RioLife Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai berries boost skin with a bounty of essential nutrients, antioxidants and vitamins including; omegas 3, 6 and 9, vitamin E, iron, calcium and magnesium. The combination of these extremely beneficial properties provides all the support and protection that is needed for skin to be healthy, thus looking and feeling great.
RioLife Freeze Dried Acai berries can be consumed internally as a food, or used as an ingredient in beauty products for external application. When used externally, straight out of the package, the berry powder is naturally moisturising and its unaffected fibres instantly exfoliate away dead skin cells whilst essential fatty acids assist in maintaining a dewy and glowing appearance. Rich in antioxidants and vitamin E, this super fruit in an ideal aid for skin problems, grazes, blemishes and scars.
Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai berries can be used in virtually every recipe imaginable as a health food supplement - whether it is a home-made beauty formula, or it is incorporated into fruit salads, yoghurt, smoothies, cocktails and more…
Enjoy a fun night in with the girls by holding a RioLife acai berry beauty party with some RioLife acai berry cocktails and let skin enjoy the rewards from the inside-out and the outside-in.
RIOLIFE RELAX Acai berry FACE MASQUE: A luxurious creamy face masque that naturally hydrates and soothes, leaving skin feeling soft and looking radiant. This masque includes three of natures best beauty ingredients; Acai, Avocado and Honey- Easy, inexpensive and effective. Remember to always use certified organic ingredients so that skin is not absorbing any chemical toxins.
Ingredients:
1 Scoop RioLife Organic Freeze Dried Acai berries
¼ Mashed ripe Avocado
1 Tablespoon Manuka Honey
Directions: Mix well, apply liberally to a clean face and avoid the delicate eye area. Lie back and relax (AAH-sigh-EE) for 10-20 minutes with a RioLife Cocktail. Rinse off with warm water and pat the skin dry.
Click here and head to the recipes section to find more fantastic RioLife acai berry health food supplement recipes
RioLife Acai berry Health Food Benefits
For those on the go, RioLife Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai berries are a great tasting powder packed full of nutrients essential to a healthy balanced diet. Its natural combination of antioxidants, dietary fibres, carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, amino acids, phytosterols, vitamins and minerals work together to help the body function better, process food easier, and burn fat more efficiently.
RioLife Freeze Dried Acai berry key health benefits:
- Provides a powerful source of antioxidants to fight free radicals and boost the immune system
- Contains dietary fibres and essential fatty acids to assist in controlling blood sugar levels and promote healthy bowel functions
- Is a heart-friendly fruit with a Low Glycaemic load
- Contains numerous vitamins and minerals crucial to optimum health including; omega 3, 6 and 9, vitamin E, iron, calcium and magnesium
- Boosts the body with immediate and sustained energy
For more nutritional information about RioLIfe Organic Acai berry powder click here
A RioLife smoothie or cocktail containing Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai berries will provide the body with the goodness of a well balanced breakfast ready to take on the day or a pick me up in the afternoon.
RIOLIFE Acai CRUSH SMOOTHIE
Ingredients:
1 cup apple & mango juice (or skim/soy milk)
1 Scoop RioLife Freeze Dried Acai berries
1/2 Cup Mixed Berries
RIOLIFE Acai LUSH COCKTAIL
Ingredients:
1 cup apple & mango juice
1 scoop RioLife Freeze Dried Acai berry
1 cup mixed fruit including pineapple,
papaya or mango and watermelon
Directions:
Pick a cocktail or smoothie recipe, blend ingredients together until combined and drink immediately.
RioLife Certified Organic Freeze Dried Acai - New Health food supplement
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FPL: Female Pattern Hair Loss
The most common cause of hair loss in women is “androgenetic alopecia” which basically means FPHL or Female Pattern Hair Loss, the “chicks” version of: aging/hormones/genetics affecting hair loss. It has been fairly well established that hair loss issues between the sexes is completely different. Not only does male pattern baldness ‘reveal’ differently, scientists believe the solutions are also down a different path than mens.
The men already have a quick-fix pill that works very well (Propecia), while the women still only have Minoxidil (Rogaine) as the only FDA approved drug to combat hair loss. I don’t even include minoxidil in the 10,000HEADS Protocol, although clients are more than welcome to use it. My work & research at Killer Strands is focused mainly on the issue of Womens hair loss as is this blog, I do see & help young men at the clinic, but my focus has been forced to narrow lately.
Killer Strands would like to introduce you to a new way of understanding the female hair loss plaguing America today. By recent estimates 40 million women are suffering from one form or another of hair loss and the numbers continue to rise. In order for women to understand why the 10 steps of this program work, I have found it helps to educate and explain the “HAIR GROWTH CYCLE” in a little different method, one that is clear – simple – and concise . When I take the time to explain the whole process at the clinic, I can just see light bulbs going on over heads.
Every person is born with every single hair follicle they will have for their lifetime, on the body, at birth. As a tiny baby you are born with 5 million hair follicles throughout your entire body, with 1 million on the head and 100,000 on the scalp. There are 2 types of hairs within those, vellus and terminal…vellus are the short fuzzy, soft ones that do not grow, while the “terminal” hairs are just that, terminal.
Think about that, as that is what will help you understand the reason behind alopecia, the hairs on your scalp have a life-span: they sprout, grow, shed, rest, then begin the process all over again.
Now there are technical names for all of these stages which you can see on the chart, but what is important here, is that each and every single hair on your head sprouts, grows, sheds & rests. . . shedding is a mandatory part of new hair growth. One hair remains in its growth phase for approx. 4 years (fluctuates by person) – at the end of the growth phase it is shed {hair fall}; three months later another grows in its place. When the hair is shed there is the period of awaiting cell regeneration … which begins another new hair… and ‘that’ is where the diminishing numbers come from and the noticeable hair loss begins. As we age the hair that once grew for 4 years – the next time it may only grow for 3 1/2 years, the next time for 3 years and so on.
Therefore, if you had 50,000 hairs growing for 4 years when you were 20 years old and then every 4-5 years the amount went down another 2-3,000…you can see fairly well how thinning happens and that when it does happen it has been happening for months that you were not even aware of. The result: an even…all-over or “DIFFUSE” pattern of hair loss which explains WPHL or women’s pattern hair loss occurs. I believe that the hair SHIFT term that I coined is the result of 10 years accumulation of changes within the body (for one reason or another)resulting in a distinct and noticeable change in a womans hair.
Every single hair on your head sheds, that is the completely normal process within the normal growth cycle of each and every hair. In order for a new hair to grow in - - - the old one MUST shed, so the “cycle” can continue along its merry way! Many people panic about hair shedding, 95% of the time it is within the normal range, it has just been combined with a persons aging & hormones, so it seems more severe, which is understandable.
Compare the hair to the eyes to make it easier to understand. The eyesight of a 20 year old is at its peak, with many having 20/20 vision, move forward 20 years – and reading a menu all of a sudden becomes difficult & blurry, people panic 95% of the time its just age. Same thing with your hair, it was at its peak when you are about 20, from there it begins its retreat until one day the combination of your aging and some abnormal shedding just seems to hit you around about the same week When you are about 30, you will notice your first or second hairSHIFT. Many women are having babies around this age, and having a baby can do both make your hair thicker or make it thinner….there is just not one way it will go. If you were to implement the entire 10,000heads program, religiously you have a very good chance the hairSHIFT you have will be a ‘good” one. That is one fact we are absolutely sure of.
Each individual hair is formed inside a hair bulb deep in the hair follicle. The follicle is a tiny but powerful factory, which throughout many people’s lifetime hardly ever stops working. From birth to sometimes as much as a century in some people, the follicle continues to produce hairs! Each hair grows for years, it is shampooed, conditioned, cut, blown dry, coloured, bleached, permed…none of these treatments affects the growth of the hair in the hair bulb, even though some may radically damage the hair shaft. Finally the hair falls out, rests for a little while then produces yet another new hair! That is the HAIR GROWTH CYCLE, the cell regeneration that goes on in the hair follicle is the most prolific on the body, coming in second is the spine.
PHASES of the hair GROWTH cycle
Anagen 1000 days
Catagen 10 days
Telogen 100 days
Hair grows ½ inch per month, and faster in the Spring. Mens anagen phase is shorter than womens so genetically they are already pre-disposed to shorter hair then women.
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