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19 Toxins To Avoid In Common Beauty Products. If you're trying to buy non-toxic personal care products, navigating store aisles can be difficult. That's why Environmental Working Group researchers have evaluated hundreds of safety studies and thousands of ingredient labels to bring you our top tips for what not to buy. EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database is an online guide with safety ratings for more than 78,000 cosmetics and other personal care products and more than 2,500 brands. It was launched in 2004 to help people find safer products with fewer ingredients that are hazardous or haven't been thoroughly tested. And now you can access EWG’s online guide to more than 78,000 personal care products as an App for the iPhone and Android. And it’s free! Simply scan the product’s bar code with your smart phone, and the app will give you EWG’s score for the item you’re thinking of buying.

Below are a few examples of what NOT to buy when shopping for personal care products. Oil Giant Citgo Gets Off Easy in Criminal Case. A foreign oil company convicted of polluting a Texas community's air with dangerous chemicals has gotten off easy in a criminal case that could undercut the prosecution of environmental crimes in the United States.

The case revolves around Venezuelan-owned Citgo Petroleum’s decade-long violation of the federal Clean Air Act at its refinery in Corpus Christi. In 2007, the Citgo refinery became the first to be criminally convicted of violating the Clean Air Act by a U.S. jury. The refinery had spent a decade illegally operating two giant oil-water separator tanks without any emission controls. Every day for 10 years, nearby residents breathed noxious fumes emitted from the roofless tanks, including the carcinogen benzene. It took another seven years, until February, before the judge in the case finally sentenced the company. U.S. District Judge John D. On April 30, people who had been awaiting a decision for years finally found out what they would receive from Citgo: absolutely nothing.

America’s most popular prescription sleep medication linked to mass shootings. Sea Salt and Baking Soda Best All NaturalRemedy For Curing Radiation Exposure and Cancer. If you have been exposed to any form of radiation, either for medical diagnostic purposes (fluoroscopy / mammography / other medical x-ray exams) or in the course of radiotherapy treatment, or if you are otherwise concerned by excessive radiation exposure, overload or poisoning (such as living near a nuclear reactor facility, working with diagnostic radiological equipment / in the nuclear processing industries / uranium mining / uranium or plutonium processing), or if you have been exposed to radioactive particles or higher ionizing radiation doses stemming from other sources such as depleted uranium (DU), testing of atomic weapons, frequent flights in higher altitudes, a nuclear disaster (radiation fallout from the Japan nuclear power plants) etc., If you are having any kind of radiation treatments, macrobiotic is the cure.

Macrobiotics is very effective in curing radiation sickness and cancer. Exposure to radiation causes a cascade offree radicals that wreak havoc on the body. Dr. Neurosurgeon Explains How You can Detox Chemtrail Poisons. Have you looked up into the chemtrail skies lately? These aerial sprayings are slowly making people sick with their puffy white chemical soup. Neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock recently talked openly about chemtrails and what they are doing to our health, but also how to detox them on this video. Whether the pilots on huge C130’s know what they are doing, or are practicing the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil tactics encouraged by our US military (commanded by a corrupt government) they are dumping all kinds of chemicals on us at an alarmingly increasing rate. (There are plenty of amazing service-people who have even been whistle-blowers on chemtrails) .

It doesn’t matter if you believe chemtrails are a ‘conspiracy theory,’ though even though the US government coined the term ‘chemtrails’ before any blogger ever did; people will still get sick from their existence. Dr. Here is the list of things you can do to reduce the inflammatory response that is caused by some of these chemicals: Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis. Gulf ecosystem in crisis after BP spill - Features. New Orleans, US - Hundreds of kilograms of oily debris on beaches, declining seafood catches, and other troubling signs point towards an ecosystem in crisis in the wake of BP's 2010 oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. "It's disturbing what we're seeing," Louisiana Oyster Task Force member Brad Robin told Al Jazeera.

"We don't have any more baby crabs, which is a bad sign. We're seeing things we've never seen before. " Robin, a commercial oyster fisherman who is also a member of the Louisiana Government Advisory Board, said that of the sea ground where he has harvested oysters in the past, only 30 percent of it is productive now. "We're seeing crabs with holes in their shells, other seafood deformities. The state of Louisiana oyster season opened on October 15, and we can't find any production out there yet. There is no life out there. " According to Robin, entire sectors of the Louisiana oyster harvest areas are "dead or mostly dead". 'Everything is down' A decades-long recovery More oil found.

In Photos: The Oil Spill North Dakota Tried to Keep Secret. On September 29th, Steve Jensen, a farmer in northwest North Dakota, discovered crude oil "spewing and bubbling 6 inches high" out on his field while he was harvesting wheat. The spewing oil came from a break in Tesoro Corporation's underground pipeline which carries crude oil from Bakken shale formation (fracking for oil) to Columbus, North Dakota.

By the time clean up crews made it out to Jensen's field, over 20,000 barrels of oil had spilled, making this one of the largest spills in state history. It took nearly two weeks after Jensen first reported the spill for the state to finally make the news public, and as you can see from the exclusive Greenpeace photos below, the damage is extensive. North Dakota and Bakken have become coveted areas for oil executives bent on getting the most extreme and remote fossil fuels out of the ground now that the "easy" reserves are on the decline. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

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Scientists Turn HIV Against Itself, A Possible Step Towards a Cure. By turning HIV against itself, researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research have demonstrated the ability to stop HIV replication in a laboratory environment. A Queensland Institute of Medical Research scientist has developed a way to use HIV to beat HIV in the laboratory. Associate Professor David Harrich, from QIMR’s Molecular Virology Laboratory, has determined how to modify a protein in the virus, so that it instead provides strong, lasting protection from infection.

“This is like fighting fire with fire,” Associate Professor Harrich said. “If this research continues down its strong path, and bear in mind there are a many hurdles to clear, we’re looking at a cure for AIDS.” Associate Professor Harrich runs the only research laboratory and containment facilities in Queensland working with the HIV virus. He invented the “Nullbasic” protein by mutating an existing HIV protein. It’s shown remarkable abilities to stop the virus replicating in a lab environment. How To Deal With People Who Drain Your Energy. It's extremely important to protect yourself from negativity, to prevent it from influencing your mood, energy levels, health and behavior. If you find your mood changes immediately and you instantly become someone else in the presence of certain people, this is a good indication that you have handed your power over to them and have given up taking responsibility for yourself.

The best thing to do is simply be yourself, be true to who you are and what you believe in, and be positive and sincere. Maybe, just maybe, your behavior and energy will produce a more positive experience for everyone and create a whole new experience. You never know — you might be able to help a negative person alter their way of thinking in the direction of a better way of living. Those who are ready for you to show up in their lives will sit up and take notice, and those who aren’t, won’t.

A negative attitude can be highly contagious, but a positive attitude can be infectious too. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com. Natural Wound Care. Cuts and scrapes happen every day. While most don’t need a doctor’s attention, there are some very basic first aid remedies that should be applied so cuts don’t get infected. If the cut is bleeding, use a clean cloth, and apply pressure. Then clean out the cut to avoid infection. Here are a few alternative remedies to antibiotic creams you may want to try: Garlic has been used for years when treating cuts.

No garlic? Apply lavender essential oil to the cut. Place raw honey on the cut, and then cover it with a bandage. Get white vinegar from your kitchen counter, and mix it with a pint of water. Aloe can be used with almost all types of skin problems, including cuts. If the cut is deep, won’t stop bleeding, or was caused by stepping on something rusty, a doctor’s attention should be sought. 7 Natural Ways To Get Rid Of Acne. 7 images Moving to another country can be a very stressful event in your life. Adjusting to a new community, new habits and new food can clearly impact your health. That’s what happened to me three years ago, when I moved from Barcelona, my home town, to the United States. I gained weight, and acne suddenly broke out all over my face for the first time, even though I was in my early 20s! I'd always had porcelain skin in my teens; there was never a pimple or even a freckle on my face, so I felt kind of desperate. I visited general doctors and dermatologists, and tried many over-the-counter gels and prescribed lotions, which never worked.

I finally decided to find the solution within myself, because I realized I'd neglected to listen to my body. I decided to incorporate new habits into my daily routine, and I made some changes in my diet. Here are some of my tips for you: Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com.