Re: Silica/DE for cellulite Re: Silica/DE for cellulite
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Re: Silica/DE for cellulite Molly Bloom
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Re: Silica/DE for cellulite Hveragerthi
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Easy does it, and no more than twice a week and gentle. Exfoliation should be done very sparingly, but it's such an important regime...am I right?
Yes, and you are also right about gently. Rough exfoliation can damage the skin and the capillaries. Have you tried using rice bran as an exfoliant? Not the satabilized rice bran, which has the oil removed, but the standard rice bran powder. The oil and gamma oryzanol help to nourish the skin while exfoliating. I also recommend adding a little ginger powder for the digestive enzymes and anti-inflammatory effects. Just add a little water to the mix and gently rub it on the skin for a few minutes then rinse off.
I've made a concoction for my arms and chest that has Vit E oil and this:
http://www.skinactives.com/product/detail.aspx?prodID=7
They should have left the rosehip seed oil out. It is extremely unstable. The vitamin E helps a lot, but I would still have chosen a more stable oil to combine.
This has done amazing things for my scaly arms, along with the DE I'm taking.
Did you know that Jojoba oil is as close to human's natural sebum as any oil out there?
Yep, and did you also know that it is not really an oil? Jojoba is actually a liquid wax.
It's an incredible oil, and can be used on the face without fear of clogging the pores. I use it to take makeup off.
I love the beauty products ladies. Anything to stave off the marching years. Too bad I'll never look like my avatar of 26 years ago!! Oh well.
Remember, like a fine wine you are getting better with age
Great idea. So it isn't too harsh for your face then?
I sometimes use the mag salts you put in bath as a body scrub but that can be scratchy, i certainly wouldn't use it on face neck or chest.
vit e oil maybe would be good to mix the DE in. I'll have to experiment.
What fun!
The DE is so fine it is like polishing your face unlike the magnesium salts that will sandpaper your face. I would still add a little acid to the DE and then a little water to make a paste. You can then add a little oil if you want, but I would go with either unrefined avocado oil or unrefined sunflower oil. Both are more penetrating and nourishing for the skin. Or use rice bran in place of the DE. The rice bran also contains a substantial amount of silica, and the rice bran oil with its gamma oryzanol is excellent for the skin.
Great info. Scrubs normally irritate my skin, so have to be careful what i use. Avocado oil sounds good.
Where do i get the malic acid? Do i buy supps and open up capsule or something. Just enough to make a paste?
Does that work a bit like an acid peel? A very mild form of course.
Malic acid can be purchased from beer/winemaking supply companies locally or on line. It is only around $4 a pound. And you will only use very small amounts. It is an alpha hydroxy acid, so too much can burn the skin. Best thing to do would be to dissolve the acid in the water first. A quarter teaspoon to 16 ounces of water. Then use this water to make the mix. That way you know the acid is sufficiently before use.
The grit in the DE is fine grain that I think it would be great for you skin.
If you are going to use DE for an exfoliant I would mix in a little citric or malic acid. The acids will help increase the conversion of the silica in to orthosilicic acid.
Re: Whoops I just pushed an alert bu... Hveragerthi
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Alert button, i'm imagining bells, and buzzers being set off! lol
I picture the robot in Lost in Space. "Danger, danger Will Robinson, danger!"
Re: Whoops I just pushed an alert bu... Hveragerthi
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I certainly hope I pushed "Agree".....
Looks like you hit the "ban this person button". Just kidding.
Not to belabor this long wonderful thread, I was going to ask you about the citric acids. I was wondering if adding a bit of lemon juice to the mix would be the thing to do.
The reason I prefer malic or citric acid is because lemon juice lightens the skin. This is not always a desirable trait.
They do have good acids at the skin actives site I go on, so I'm going to check them out to add to my DE mixture I use, unless a bit of lemon juice will do it.
My husband and I have been adding a squeeze of lemon or lime to our silica water to hedge our bets on drinking this amazing stuff. I'm hoping the process of change happens once we do this, or are we in La La land??
This will help convert more of the silica in to orthosilicic acid. But it is not a good idea to add the lemon juice to your primary water container as this can cause molding. If you are adding silica to your glass though this will help. I actually use silicon citrate for my water so it has already been reacted with an acid. And it does not cause the molding. I got a sample of it from one of my raw material suppliers. And like DE a little goes a long way.
I love how you are playing along with all this discussion about skin. As great as it is working on our insides, there is a great deal of interest on working from the outside in also.
I don't mind discussing skin care at all. Actually I satrted working on a wrinkle cream about 11 years ago. It took me several years to figure out how to get it to go together and another 6 months to figure out how to stabilize it. I don't use any waxes or polymers in the formula, which is why it was so hard to put together. The final product was miraculous though. It dimished the wrinkles immediately, and did wonders for the skin. I would apply it once to my knuckles where they would dry out and crack and they would not dry back out for 3 days, even with all the washing. And a guy who used it for his leathery sun damaged skin said his skin was back to normal after 2 weeks of use. I had a lot of test subjects wanting to market it for me, but I finally dropped the project because it was too hard to make. It would take me about 4 hours just to make a few ounces. And because how it has to go together it cannot be done on a large scale. Now that I understand how everything works in the formula I want to eventually get back to trying it again, but use different binding methods. Using a wax or polymer, such as dimethicone, would quickly solve the problem, but both just sit on the skin and plug the pores. What I came up with penetrates immediately with no greasy look or feel. And all but two ingredients are 100% natural. Just got to find the time to get to it, which is really hard to do with such a long too do list
