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Hair Dying Exclusive: Lead Acetate

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Okay Earth’s Enrichers, it’s Easter this weekend—let’s talk about the dye! Not for your eggs this year but for your hair. That’s right, maybe this year you may swap out the eggs for the hair on your dome and still end up making beautiful masterpieces. And we mean masterpieces that are also safe and healthy for your hair.

You guys know the steps for dying your hair, don’tcha? Like say for instance you used an All You Need Deep Cleansing Shampoo bar to cleanse your hair before dying, right? *buzzer noise* Wrong! You actually want to dye your hair before washing it or getting it wet. It helps the color stick! Then rinse gently until excess color is gone. Then, when you are tired of the color, if it is temporary, you can wash it out with the All You Need hair care products.

We at EE inspire you to be creative while sharing with you important facts to do so safely. So, what’s lead acetate?

Lead acetate is a detrimental crystal-like compound that, when ingested, produces a sugary taste. It can be found in sweeteners that substitute sugar and cosmetics like hair dye/coloring. Some of the side effects that lead acetate can produce are below:
• Irritation to the eyes
• Respiratory tract issues
• Headache
• Nausea and vomiting
• Colic
• Constipation
• Dizziness
• Loss of consciousness
• Depression
…For more information go to CBS News.

There are some that have determined that if the FDA allowed it to be in certain cosmetics like hair dye on such a minor scale, that it may not be dangerous if used properly. If you concur with the skeptics, please take precaution. Only use the product on hair (externally) and make sure that it does not seep into your blood stream via scrape or open sore on the head. We don’t recommend using products with lead acetate—why take the risk?—it is important to play it safe and careful.

Needless to say, we recommend that you pay close attention when dying your “Easter Egg” (for some of you who didn’t get that we meant hair ^-^). Feel free to express yourself but do so by supporting products that care about your health or won’t risk it, use safe/organic/all-natural ingredients, and who don’t use skeptical ingredients.

The EE 411: The History of Lead Acetate

Lead acetate has actually played an interesting role in our history:
 Pope Clement II, who died in October 1047, was rumored to have been poisoned. Later, toxicology reports (mid-20th century) confirm this possible truth.
 Albert Christoph, a German painter, composer, and biographer; inadvertently swallowed a bit of lead acetate and never fully recovered.
 Another rumor, this time about the infamous Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven may have died from minute concentrations of lead acetate in contaminated wine—the mystery remains.

In all seriousness and history, lead acetate has played many roles in cosmetics, in mysterious deaths, and, even, medicine and industry. To better understand lead acetate, its history, and how to avoid it; we invite you to do scrupulous research.

As always, we here at EE want the best for you, your hair/skin care, and your health. You deserve the best without risk!

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Organic Health – Go Nuts

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Excitement is in the air, especially as we approach the World Series. Speaking of the Baseball, do you remember singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” when you were out at the baseball game?

We believe there was one special line in that song that everybody remembers, “just buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks; I don’t care if I never get back.” Well, Earth’s Enrichers were Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer on to something? What are the health benefits of peanuts or the health benefits of certain nuts in general?

 We hope to answer those questions today. Believe or not, nuts provide great health benefits and better snacking options. However, just like every good thing, it comes with limits. We will be looking at several different types of nuts today, but let’s first look at the overall good and bad of eating nuts.

 When selecting your favorite brand of nuts there are a few things to consider. For instance, look for brands that use natural flavoring like sweeteners. You don’t want to ruin the nut’s natural benefits by coating it with unhealthy amounts of artificial sweeteners and sugars. Also, pay close attention to packaging and buy them in portioned individual packaging. This way you are not overeating the recommended amount of the selected nuts.

 There is one more important fact about selecting your brands of nuts, look out for your salt intake. Although salt pairs well with a majority of different types of nuts, be careful. Look for lightly salted nuts so that you don’t end up overpowering the nuts or overdoing sodium.

 For those of you that are not in to eating nuts by themselves, there are some great and healthy ways to pair nuts with your food. Naturally honey roasted nuts can go great with yogurt. Also, they can be sprinkled on salad, chicken, and pastas/noodles (like Pad Thai). Peanut butter or other kinds of nut made butter can be spread on toast or fruit.

 Following these simple parameters when looking for your favorite types of nuts will help you determine how to get the full benefits. Avoiding unnatural flavoring, large amounts of salt, and looking for prepackaged portions will keep you from overdoing it and help you benefit from what nuts have to offer. Also, don’t be afraid to try new things. Try pairing your favorite nut with anything; it may bring excitement to your dish.

The EE 411: Nuts for What

Walnuts

  • Good for the heart
  • Has protein, magnesium, and fiber.

 Almonds

  • Lower Cholesterol
  • Fiber
  • Calcium
  • Vitamin E

Peanuts

  • Good for the brain
  • Is actually a bean, not a nut.

 Cashews

  • Iron
  • Folate and Vitamin K which is good for the bones and normal blood clotting.
  • Zinc

Macadamia nuts

  • Good for the heart (monounsaturated fat), this helps the nervous system.

Brazil Nuts

  • Good for the thyroid
  • Has selenium, which boosts immunity

Pecans

  • Good for the prostate
  • Lowers cholesterol

Chestnuts

  • Low in fat
  • Low in Calories
  • Has Vitamin B and B6

Pistachios

  • Lutein, which is great for vision and skin.
  • Potassium

Share with Us:  What is your favorite kind of nut?

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Health and Living – Social Health

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It doesn’t seem like summer is ready to come to its end yet. So do not stop having fun yet. There is plenty of time to meet new people and establish new relationships. Let us elaborate on what we mean by relationships. We mean friendships, meeting new people, or maybe even possibly meeting someone you want to get to know on a deeper level. Not like that! Instead, we mean taking the time to initiate meaningful relationships. This can be done in old relationships with friends, family, or spouse. This can also help you determine how to make meaningful relationships with new people.

The topic this week is social health, ladies and gentlemen. Social health is the making and conservation of meaningful interpersonal relationships. It is a way of networking through your social life where you analyze what relationships are beneficial and not destructive. It helps you build confidence about your interactions and gives you a better support system. This, of course, means you have to be there for your friends too. It is only right to return the favor if they support you.   An even balance of work, family, friends, and self can bring you happiness.   Just do not overwhelm yourself, so know your limits.

When it comes to relationships, we’d like to talk to you about quality over quantity. The number of friends or stable relationships you have does not matter. It is the quality of those relationships that matters. An individual can literally only have two friends and have a better quality relationship with them than an individual who may have ten friends. Now, you can have ten friends and have a  great quality relationship with them. The main point is to not focus on the numbers. Instead, focus on the relationship.

We have a key to helping you create better quality relationships and it’s not even a secret. The key is communication. It seems simple, right? Believe it or not, communication is a skill that needs plenty of practice to maintain and hone. With practice comes better ways to communicate and share your ideas, experiences, and feelings without obstructing a relationship. The trick is not to think too much, while at the same time trusting yourself and your friends. Feel free to ask if they are okay with something or ask their point of view. Questions like these open channels to communicate more deeply and make more connections.

Practicing communication will help you move one step closer to creating a stable social network and maintaining better quality relationships. Having a more stable social network made of family, spouse, and friends helps you build a better support system, which gives you more confidence in everyday interactions. With the mastering of communication skills, you can become a professional at making friends and having a great social life. You deserve it!

The EE 411: Social Health

With the creation of new technology and more efficient ways of getting in touch comes greater responsibility. There is nothing wrong with having relationships (friendships, etc.) with individuals online (as long as you know who they are) but do not let those online relationships take away from in person, face-to-face relationships. Remember, balance is the key to happiness.

Ways to help or open communication in relationships:

  • Play twenty-one questions where you can ask them 21 questions about themselves and make your own rules. Make it fun!
  • If you know that your friends like to have spa days or massages, how about you all find a time when you are free and meet up. Or you could have your own Spa parties at each other’s places and interchange. (We recommend Calming Spa Seaweed body bar, sea salt, sugar, and body balm for the theme.)
  • Find something that all of your friends like to do whether it’s shopping, going out dancing or for dinner, playing your favorite sports game, even getting together and watching your favorite sports game.
  • If you are too busy for friends, make time! Having a break every now and again can help you think clearly. It also benefits your relationships.
  • Having a game night or dinner party is a great way to get friends and family together.

Share with Us:  What do you do to maintain your social life?

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Health and Living – Emotional Health

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There are six principles that develop a well-rounded, healthy life. These principles are physical health, intellectual health (mind), spiritual health, emotional health, social health and environmental health. In the past few weeks, we have covered physical, intellectual, and spiritual health. For each one of those principles we have explained what they entail and how they can easily be included into the healthy life that you deserve.

For this week we will be talking about emotional health. Of course, the majority of you are able to guess what this principle means. To elaborate, emotional health has a lot to do with how you feel about yourself and others. It incorporates your ability to maintain and create social and interpersonal relationships.

Analyze this for a second:  what does it take to build a relationship? Or rather, what does it take for you to build a relationship? This should be thought about in a personal way because not everyone is as good at being social as others. It depends on how outgoing you are or how much self-esteem you have. This is why emotional health is important.

Emotional health is the ability to cope with stress and achieve/maintain self-esteem. The main objective is to have emotional stability. For instance, patience (a virtue that can be hard to come by) is achieved when one is able to effectively deal with unforeseen events and not let stressful situations get overwhelming. This means staying calm when things get crazy and coming up with a solution.

The inability to handle day-to-day issues on a sustained basis can be a sign of poor emotional health or (if diagnosed by a professional) a sign of mental health illnesses.  We’re not addressing these more severe instances, but more minor irritations.  Day-to-day issues usually tend to be minor in scale like dealing with traffic, spilling a drink, or even dealing with difficult co-workers. If you deal with situations equivalent to these on a normal basis and all of a sudden they begin to get to you more than usual, perhaps it’s time to come up with a de-stressing hobby.

Now, sometimes emotional stability can be hard to maintain; after a while things that are deemed trivial could get on your nerves especially when you have more pressing issues to attend. If that begins to happen, try new means of relaxation. For instance, if you often do not take relaxing bubble baths, perhaps now may be a time to start. Or you could even start joining a fitness club to work out the stress. Burning energy is a great way to deal with stress and relaxing in a nice refreshing bath can help you detox.

Venting or expressing one’s emotions can also be a good way to balance your emotional health. This can be done verbally or can be written down. If something is bothering you, it’s okay to calmly talk to that individual about it. If you cannot talk to that individual, try coming home and discussing it with your loved ones or people you trust. Another way to deal with it is with an “angry letter.” This is something your write but you don’t send. It helps you vent in a way that doesn’t hurt someone else’s feelings and is best kept in a private place like a journal.

It’s important to not let your emotions get the best of you. If you are able to control them and maintain a calm demeanor when things go wrong, then you are at optimal emotional health. Everyone gets mad and makes mistakes’, we are all human. So when we do get mad, it’s best to find healthy ways to release those emotions. Doing this helps you build better relationships and better deal with your environment.

The EE 411: Stress Relievers and Emotional Cleansers 

Here are a few tips for stress relief:

  1. Counting to ten
  2. Taking deep breaths
  3. Keeping a Journal
  4. Venting in a healthy way
  5. Kick boxing or any physical activity like running
  6. Painting
  7. Playing or listening to Music
  8. Hanging out with friends or family
  9. Forgiveness (sometimes it’s easier to move on)
  10. Relaxing bath (Calming Spa Seaweed bath salts would be perfect for this! You can detox your mind, body, and soul)
  11. Meditating is basically good for everything

Emotional Cleansers:

  1. Treat yourself: have your favorite treat (dessert, food or even treat yourself by shopping). It’s okay to treat yourself to get your mind off it, just don’t overdo it.
  2. Reach out to someone and tell them how you feel whether it’s a friend, loved one, or a professional.
  3. Laughing is good for the soul.  If you have had a bad day, turn on your favorite comedy and cheer yourself up.
  4. Forgiveness: try to let things go and move on. Consider how things could have been done differently and do it better next time.
  5. Have an intense music session. If you must, sing to the top of your lungs, play air guitar, and dance your troubles away. You will soon be too exhausted to remember them anyway.

Share with Us: How do you deal with your emotions? What sort of outlets do you have?

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Health and Living – Spirituality

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When you think of spirituality, what exactly comes to mind? Spirituality is very important for human health. Spirituality is the foundation of fundamentals that create the basis of human purpose. This means spirituality gives an individual a feeling of purpose, a sense of meaning in their lives.

With religion, spirituality is defined in many different ways. In health, it has more of a universal definition. Spiritual health simply wishes you to answer this question: do you feel you have a purpose or greater meaning in life? Spiritual health is less linked to a deity and more linked to the idea of building your confidence and improving your inner (mental) health. In other words, do you feel you are connected to this world for a reason?

Look at your life, accomplishments, and future goals. Discover your next move in life and how you can better reach your goals.

Take long walks and get in touch with yourself, reflect on what has happened in your life both good and bad. When was the last time you took time out of your busy day and cherished your good ol’ memories? To live in the past isn’t healthy, but to reminisce every now and again is perfectly fine.

This principle also focuses on establishing personal values. These personal values should help you with your emotional health, physical, and social life. These values can range from philosophical—do unto others, as you would have them do unto you—to physical like practicing fitness to counteract daily stress that could affect your social life.

Spiritual health encourages you to think out of the box by thinking inside of the box. Its purpose is to inspire you to look inside yourself and discover who you are, what makes you a better person and what makes you happy.

It encourages you to challenge yourself and the only way to do that is to know who you are (to know your limits). It stimulates you to enjoy yourself and love yourself. So, take the time out of your day to enjoy life and enjoy being alive. This is something you definitely deserve!

The EE 411: A Better Way To Get In Touch

One major aspect of spiritual health is the ability to get in touch with yourself, to basically understand your ultimate purpose in life. This simply means being able to experience love, pain, peace, joy, grief, and responsibility and admiration for all living beings.

Of course you have felt all of these and they are everyday aspects of life. They cannot be avoided because these feelings are a part of life. However, optimal spiritual health helps you navigate these emotions.

Meditation is a great way to achieve spiritual health.  Just in case you don’t know what meditation is, it is basically a time where you are quiet and you can deeply reflect.  The classic way to meditate is to find a quiet place to isolate yourself with the option of calming music to guide you.  This way you are undisturbed and are free to roam your thoughts as you please. Meditation does not have to be limited to sitting in isolation and it works best when you relax.  It can be done in any environment and doing any activity.  A leisurely stroll through a park or simply walking your dog could be a great time to reflect and admire the planet you live on.

We say a great way to relax and think about your day and reflect is in an awesome, warm, soothing bath. This allows you to slowly drift into long musing without disturbance. We recommend Lavender of the Valley to help you relax. Perhaps, a little soak in our bath salts to create a soothing aromatherapy, which is great for relaxing. Treat yourself and help balance your spiritual health.

Share with Us: What are ways that you get in touch with yourself?

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Health and Living – Intellectual Health

 silhouette of a man's head with a glowing light bulb, and gears.Hey Earth’s Enrichers

There are six principles that develop a well-rounded, healthy life. These principles are physical health, intellectual health (mind), spiritual health, emotional health, social health and environmental health. In the next few weeks, we will feature each one of these principles and explain what exactly they entail and how they can easily be included into the healthy life that you deserve.

This week we will focus on intellectual health, which represents the mind’s health. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, that’s why your intellect is another important factor of your health. Your brain is a muscle that requires exercise just like any other muscle in the body. If you work out often, you understand that if you want your toned muscles to stick around you must continue to exercise and keep up with your diet/fitness plan. The same goes for the brain.

The brain likes to be challenged and engaged. The mere process of receiving new information  challenges the brain and increases its capacity to grow.  Be sure to input beneficial information, you know what they say “garbage in, garbage out.”   Balance the information you receive on a daily basis.  Yes, definitely watch the news and stay informed, but make a point to also expose your brain to positive information too.  Listen to stories that have happy endings.  Stay tuned in for the news segment that highlights triumph and inspiration. Then unplug the television altogether.  Too much television can actually affect the health of your prefrontal cortex.

Instead pick up a good book. For those of you who have been out of school for a while, what do you do to keep your brain active? Just like when children are out of school for the summer, assign yourself some “summer” reading.

Everyone is always online,  but when connected to the web, challenge yourself to practice media literacy.  It may not be enough to just “Google it”. Challenge yourself and your brain to discover whether the information is accurate and constructive.  Cross reference your findings,  be skeptical and discover other answers for yourself.  Practicing media literacy will increase your knowledge base and sharpen your intellectual health for certain.

What does all this information input matter, if you are not having fun?  Have you tried out some logic games?    Intellectual exercises can be a blast Once you are at your desk for lunch, try  beating a Sudoku puzzle while you eat. Logic games are a perfect way to challenge yourself. It helps your mind expand the way it thinks and creates better problem solving skills. They make all sorts of logic games that can be played with your friends and family. Also, joining clubs or taking a few classes could help you maintain your intellectual capacity and boost your social life. 🙂

If you can’t join a class, all you really have to do to boost and enhance your intellectual health is participate in intellectual conversation. Keep up with current events, and when you do, discuss them with others and expand your point of view. When you’re on your way home listen to radio stations like NPR or simply listen to your favorite audio book. Friendly debate, reading online, and picking a book series that you like to follow are all simple, fun, and easy ways to increase your intellectual health. Have fun and enjoy yourself! You deserve it!! 

The EE 411: 

What is Intellectual Health?

  • Keeping your mind active
  • Maintaining your intellect

How to keep up and maintain intellectual health?

  • Logic games (board games or apps)
  • Keeping up with current events
  • Friendly debates
  • Taking up a class
  • Joining a club like maybe a book or film club
  • Reading or audiobooks
  • Even drawing and sketching

When engaging in intellectual activity there are a few fun facts that aid in brain stimulation:

  • Many aroma therapists  believe that lemongrass works to stimulate the left brain.  That’s not necessarily what Earth’s Enrichments had in mind when we developed our Lemon Fresh Shea   Body Balm, Sugar Scrub and Bath Salts, but great.  It is certainly worth a try.  Fruity scents are usually great at revitalization and stimulation.
  • Maintaining your brain activity, exercising, proper nutrition, a healthy social life, appropriate sleep, and proper maintenance of stress can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
  • Brain Foods:

o   Blueberries (Berries in general)

o   Salmon (sardines, oily fish)

o   Nuts and seeds (almonds, flax seeds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, cashews, walnuts, etc.)

o   Avocados

o   Whole grains

o   Coffee, brewed tea, pomegranate Juice, and water

o   Dark Chocolate

o   Olive oil

o   Spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, and beets

o   Garlic, sage

To help stimulate your senses and to help prepare for your day you might want to try our Fresh Ground Java, Lemon Fresh Shea (body balm too), Chai La Tea, or Honey Granola body bars. It could be the extra boost you need in the morning or evening.

Share with Us: What are your favorite logic games?

(This post was brought to you by Earth’s Enrichments.  Similar posts can be found by visiting our Blog.  More information about our  company and products (USDA Certified Organic Soaps, Organic Bath Salts, Organic Sugar Scrubs, Organic Body Balms and Organic Lip Balms) can be found on our Website. Thank you Earth’s Enricher!)