• Hair Care

    How To Deal With Sweaty Hair After Workout?

    This post is for people who can’t wash their hair right away after working out. Pre-workout: Apply some dry shampoo before the workout, this will help absorb some of that sweat. Add a bit of oil to your ends (avoid applying it to the scalp). The oil will help prevent breakage and split ends. Post-workout: You can use a scalp serum if you can’t shower right after sweating. The serum will soothe the scalp, reduce irritation, and unclogs hair follicles which in turn helps in reducing hair shedding. Once you actually wash your hair, choose a clarifying shampoo or a sulfate-containing shampoo to really cleanse and ensure there is no…

  • Skincare Active Ingredients

    Shiaqga Mushroom – Benefits for skin

    Shiaqga is a medicinal mushroom used by the Native American tribes that lived in the Columbia River Basin for thousands of years. Benefits of using Shiaqga Mushroom: It contains beta-glucans and germanium: beta-glucans can help to boost immunity, fight infections, and prevent cancer. The germanium in shiaqga mushroom acts as an antioxidant, boosts the immune system, increases the number of antibody cells in the body, increases the oxygen uptake in the cells, and stimulates the production of interferon (killer cells).  Reduces inflammation, improves physical endurance, and promotes stem cell activation

  • Skincare Active Ingredients

    Illipe Butter for skin

    Illipe butter is made from the nuts of the endangered Shorea Stenoptera tree, which only grows in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra. This butter is traditionally used e.g. to heal sores and sunburn, moisturize the skin, and as a flavor enhancer for traditional dishes. Illipe butter has a higher melting point than cocoa or shea butter. Benefits of using Illipe butter: It moisturizes and prevents drying of the skin. It is used in sunscreen products as it will protect our skin against sunburns. Heals mouth and sore ulcers It can help with dry and damaged hair. Does Illipe butter clog pores? Illipe butter may clog pores because it contains…

  • Skincare Active Ingredients

    Wolfiporia Extensa – Benefits for skin

    Wolfiporia extensa is a fungus in the family Polyporaceae and is also used as a medicinal mushroom in Chinese medicine. Common names include tuckahoe, hoelen, poria, China root, matsuhodo, and fu ling. Benefits of using Wolfiporia Extensa: It promotes urination Strengths the spleen function (i.e., digestive function), and calms the mind It contains pachymic acid which has anti-cancer properties.

  • Makeup

    Bowenoid Actinic Keratosis and Bowen’s disease – Is it Treatable?

    So, basically, there are two case studies here: One with Bowenoid Actinic Keratosis and Second with Bowen’s Disease. Both of these cases were treated with Ingenol mebutate (IM), a topical pharmacotherapy approved in Switzerland in 2012 for treating non-hyperkeratotic and non-hypertrophic actinic keratosis (AK). The first case of bowenoid AK was treated with 150 μg IM for 3 continuous days with an almost complete decrease in the lesion. The second case of Bowen’s disease was treated with 500 μg IM for 2 continuous days leading to a complete decrease in the lesion. Case 1: The first case was a 78-year-old female patient who was confirmed with bowenoid AK at the…

  • Skincare Active Ingredients

    Bacuri Butter for skin

    Bacuri butter (Platonia insignis) is native to the state of Pará, where the highest concentrations are found in the Bragantina, Salgado, and Marajó island regions. Benefits of using Bacuri butter: It can be used as a moisturizer: Bacuri butter has a high absorption rate because it contains a high level of tripalmitin (50 to 55%), which penetrates the skin quickly. It also has 5% of the fatty palmitoleic acid, which is very high when compared with other oils that have not more than 0.5 to 1.5%, which qualifies the bacuri butter as a fantastic emollient that can also be used as a moisturizing agent. It gives a golden tone to…

  • Drugs

    YONDELIS for Treatment of Liposarcoma and Leiomyosarcoma

    What is YONDELIS? YONDELIS is a prescription medicine used to treat people with liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma that:• has spread to other areas of the body, or cannot be treated with surgery, and• who has received treatment with other certain medicines. It is not known if YONDELIS is safe and effective in children. What are the ingredients in YONDELIS? Active ingredient: trabectedinInactive ingredients: potassium dihydrogen phosphate, sucrose, potassium hydroxide, and phosphoric acid. How should I store YONDELIS? Store YONDELIS vials in a refrigerator at 2°C to 8°C (36°F to 46°F). YONDELIS is a cytotoxic drug (handle with care). Who should not receive YONDELIS? You will not receive YONDELIS if you have…

  • Skincare Oils

    Pracaxi Oil for skin and hair

    Pracaxi oil is obtained from the seed oil of the pracaxi tree or Pentaclethara macroloba tree. The pracaxi tree grows in the parts of northern Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad, and parts of Central America. It may sometimes be found in wetlands, and are resistant to water logging. Pracaxi seed oil includes the highest concentration of behenic acid (about 20%) in vegetable fat, more than six times higher than in peanut oil, and also includes 35% of oleic acid. In some cases. The oleic acid and lauric acid in pracaxi oil are effective vehicles for delivering drugs through the skin. Benefits of using Pracaxi oil: Pracaxi oil has anti-aging, antioxidant, antiseptic, antifungal,…

  • Skincare Active Ingredients

    CARNAÚBA in Cosmetics

    The carnauba palm (Copernicia Prunifera) is mainly found in the states of Ceará, Piauí, and Rio Grande do Norte. The leaves of this plan are covered with a layer of wax which protects it against heavy droughts by reducing the loss of water by evapotranspiration. The wax powder is extracted from the leaves without attacking and preserving the integrity of the palms. The leaves are then dried in the sun and then beat to separate the wax from the leaves. Carnauba wax is a natural wax and consists mainly of esters and long-chain saturated fatty acids such as carnauba acid, ceratin, and saturated hydrocarbons. How is CARNAÚBA used in cosmetics…

  • Skincare Oils

    Breu-Branco essential oil in Skincare

    Breu-Branco resin (Protium heptaphyllum) is a tree that occurs in dry forests and is native to most of Brazil. The resin consists of large concentrations of monoterpenes, such as α-pyrene, α-phellandrene, limonene, and terpinolene. Limonene is the main component in fragrances and essences. Benefits of using Breu-Branco resin: It has antioxidant, anticonvulsant, deodorant, antibacterial, antiviral, antiasthmatic, decongestant, antiseptic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, healing, cellular regenerator, carminative, and antispasmodic properties.  It has psychological properties like anti-melancholic, neurosedative, antidepressant, refreshing, soothing, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing, toning, and balancing. It may help with insomnia, mood swings, cough, asthmatic bronchitis, snoring, nervous excitement, stress, anxiety, anguish, irritability (frustration), headaches, migraine, colds, flu, sore throats; bug bite It…