What does Witch Hazel actually do, and what is it used for most?
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Witch hazel is an astringent, It is the base of face toners and cleaners.  So it will clean your face as well or better than Sea Breeze or products like that.  When you purchase stuff like that you're buying the name.  Why not just use the base ingredient.\n\nUnsolicited info:  I use glycerin instead of lotion.  Look at the ingredients of almost all the lotions on the market: glycerin.  \n\n+ into: hydrogen peroxide is excellent stuff also.
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It's to stop vaginal dryness.  You only need to use a small amount.
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Once in the morning and once at night.\n\nIf you have manzanita plants in your area, pick a few leaves and boil them in water.  Then dab the liquid on the rash.  It dries up poison oak within a couple of days.  I hope it works on poison ivy.
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What is this stuff, anyway?\n\nEar wax is a sticky liquid secreted by cerumen glands. It isn't really wax in the 'candle wax' sense (paraffin). Skin contains many tiny glands whose sole purpose is to secrete a variety of substances. Sebaceous glands, for example, secrete sebum, which gives skin its greasy quality. Sweat is also produced by microscopic glands. Cerumen glands are found only in the skin of the ear canals\n.\nWhat good is it?\n\nEar wax, sticky stuff that it is, traps anything foreign that flies, crawls, or is blown into the ear canals. Dirt, tiny bits of plant material, small insects, bacteria, and so forth are immobilized by wax. Think of wax as the sticky stuff on a No Pest Strip. The primary purpose of ear wax is to protect your ear canal and ear drum from such foreign materia
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The best product for this is one that is all natural and is called Crystal Clear Neutralizer.  I have used it for redness in the eyes and it has worked instantly most of the time. You can get it at this website: www.urimembers.com/ID17926   ..... It even took away a stye for me.  It comes in a fairly large size because people use it for a lot of different reasons such as detoxing and many other problems....including itchiness and alleries.  I think there is a contact on the site if you want to know more.
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Aloe. Try a lotion that is mostly aloe. I had a really bad sunburn, REALLY bad from head to toe when I was 14, kept me up for like 2 days straight. Didn't get any relief until I put aloe all over my body. Instant relief and it went away and healed SO quick I was amazed. Buy an aloe plant too. They are good for when you get a burn on your finger or a cut, you can break the leave in half and inside it's full of pure aloe, and it's pretty cool. It has pretty cool healing powers.
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I use St.Ives peach scrub(medicated),it works pretty well.but another thing to try would be proactive that seems like a good product.
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Capsaicin cream or ointment. Capsaicin is the chemical in red pepper responsible for heat \nCayenne or red pepper is not the only "herbal" remedy which appears to be somewhat effective. The homeopathic remedies developed for Shingles are numerous. For example, Arsenicum album can be taken if the pain of the blisters seems to be relieved by heat and if the pain is worse at night. Iris versicolor is often helpful with shingles infection that is accompanied by gastro-intestinal problems and bumps which appear on the abdomen. If the patient is restless and the rash is itchy rather than burns, Rhus Toxicodendron can be taken in a low potency. All three of these remedies, though many claim to have found them helpful, have never been clinically tested. These remedies are probably best used in conjunction with other types of treatment\n\n\nA tea or hot compress can be made from Saint Johns Wort and Lavender, both of which are thought to be good restoratives for the nervous system . The reason that Saint Johns Wort is thought to help is that it contains compounds that act as manomire-oxidase enzyme inhibitors. A warm lotion made from the flowers and leaves may also relieve the burning of the Shingles blisters
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Medicinally, its bark has been used for pain relief - much as other kinds of willow bark.  (Essentially, its natural aspirin.)\n\nMagically, it is generally associated with fertility, grief, death, rebirth, emotion, the subconscious, divination, cats, goats.  It can be used in bindings and banishings as well.
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it restores the oils...aloe vera has a high content of oil which is good for very dry hair and dry skin
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aloe, american cranesbill, balsam or peru, bee pollen, bilberry, bistort, burdock, butcher's broom, chamomile, horse chestnut, indigo, lungwort, myrhh, oak, St. john's wort, Stoneroot, vervain, witch hazel.\n\nI think I would try applying witch hazel, followed by aloe...
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You can't cure it but you can apply calamine lotion (it is in a pink bottle and the lotion is pink). The lotion should help out and it also helps when you have came into contact with poison ivy.
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Mary Kay actually makes a couple good ones. Also, Oil of Olay Regenerist eye. There are a lot more expensive ones you can get at the dermatologist or a beauty supply, but they aren't necessarily better.
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Only ones i know of are the ones placed in a pot on the stove in the kitchen...in France.\n\nAlso be aware that many ingredients associated with Witchcraft (Eye of newt etc) were names of herbs used for medicines or associated with chakras, energies or spirits, very rarely were they exactly what they sounded like, herbal knowledge was considered not only sacred but also secretive and such names helped stop people dabbling in things they didn't understand
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I think if you mean sunburn then i use Noxzema.....after it soaks into your skin squirt with water and it cools it again....i also wet towels then place them in the freezer until frozen and put on top.....i have 2 little girls and this is what i have always done...when the burn is better i use aloe vera to keep it from peeling but the Noxzema plus stuff keeps it from peeling anyway......this is the same remedy my grandma used on my momma yrs ago....try it..the only downfall is the Noxzema smell but my girls don't seem to mind it.....now if the burn is more serious then a bad sunburn,don't use the Noxzema!!!!
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Poison ivy: Treatment \n\nIf the rash is widespread or results in a large number of blisters, your doctor may prescribe corticosteroids. Antibiotics also may be prescribed if secondary infection occurs.\n\nPoison ivy is a form of contact dermatitis. When your skin touches the leaves of a poison ivy plant, it absorbs a small amount of an oily substance (urushiol) made by the plant. If you're allergic to this oil, your skin reacts with redness, itching, swelling and blisters.\n\nThis reaction can last up to three weeks even with treatment. In severe cases, new areas of rash may break out several days or even longer after initial exposure. This may give the appearance that the rash is spreading from its initial site. However, skin must come in direct contact with the oil from the plant in order to be affected. Scratching affected areas does not spread the rash.\n\nPrevention is the best medicine with poison ivy. Know what the plant looks like and where it's found in your area. You can also get poison ivy indirectly from contact with firewood or the fur of a pet that has the oil on it.\n\nAs soon as you have known contact with poison ivy, it may help to remove any exposed clothing as soon as possible. Then shower with soap and water to remove any excess oil on your skin from the plant. Wash your clothes before wearing them again. Reactions similar to those from poison ivy may also occur on contact with poison oak and poison sumac
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The component taken from the snail secretions is called ALANTOINE, a chemical that can regenerate their old and worn body tissue (I am talking about the snails, I dont know if it works on humans). A very small percentage of it is dosed in the skin care cream (5%), the rest is just a simple base for any cream.\nYou can get sufficient ALANTOINE from just one adult male snail for the pot.