The Lemon & Honey Cure

There are so many things online to read about, learn and absorb – one has to wonder what the percentage of truths there are compared to the fibs others are telling. Either can run rampant as a trend – it doesn’t even have to hold water at first, someone will run with it.

Example: The ‘put a cut onion by your bed at night when you are sick to eliminate germs in the room and wake refreshed, alert and virus or bacteria free – they are all trapped in the onion.

B…….S.

In my book, The Fat Girl Now 50% Lighter, I talk about the time I tried this night time myth. As I stood in my kitchen hacking an onion in half at bedtime, I thought to myself, 'I'm smarter than this.' At that moment, no one would have thought so, but if the DIY germ sucking onion had actually worked, this would be a whole different blog.

It didn’t work for me….the onion.....either times I tried it. This means that when I woke up the day after cutting an onion and putting it next to me in a room, hoping to awaken to a germ filled onion and self-cure and it didn’t happen, I did it again just to be sure.

This theory has been tested and I can tell you that two out of two attempts failed miserable – and yes, I have considered that I may have been using the wrong type of onion *wink wink*. I maintain what I say in that it doesn’t work, but if someone can send me a photo of a blackened onion due to germs, I’d love to see it!

 

I did find this on Snopes.com

 

So, now that you have a cure that I've found doesn't work, let me share one that I have tested and know that it does work…..

I call it the amazing lemon and honey facial cure. I saw it online somewhere, perhaps Pinterest – but I sliced up a lemon and added the required 5-6drops of unpasteurized honey to it.

After realizing that it may sting like a bee, I gritted my teeth and massaged the lemon into my face. The honey gets all soaked into the lemon juice, but it feels really nice! I recommend doing this in the tub – you wait 5 minutes while this lemon and honey cure soaks into your face, cleansing and bringing brighter skin.

Y’see, the honey and lemon combo are full of incredible goodies that make our skin free of the yuck that causes  blackheads, acne, dryness, oiliness…..all of it.

Honey is a natural healer – it also never goes bad (it was found in Egyptian tombs, still edible today). Couple that healing power with the astringent and healing properties of lemon and you have a duo nothing can fight.

After 5 minutes, I rinse my face and pat it dry with a towel. What is left is a terrific feeling! It heals acne too – the next day skin feels clear and clean! It even helps to lighten those dark areas.

If I were to offer any suggestions, one would be not to get the juice in your eye. It seems so common sense, but don’t squeeze too hard on that lemon slice! Also, I did notice a lemon seed on my forehead once, so watch where they land. My daughter thought it was hilarious so there was the whole entertainment aspect of the experience. I’m always happy to oblige.

The lemon and honey face mask is a great way to see immediate results. A brighter face happens right before your eyes! Skin issues disappear in a couple of days when using this treatment. Hubby even decided to test it out after he saw it too!

So, the onion in your bedroom is out….but the lemon and honey cure? It’s fabulous!

 

How White Vinegar Will Save You This Summer

There is a trick I discovered years ago that I often pass on to others when summer rolls around and the burns start. Sunburns are no fun, and although I tend not to burn, I have used this technique on my family with incredible results.
If you find yourself with a nasty sunburn, don’t panic!

Simply follow these steps:


1.> Locate a facecloth and run it under the water. Squeeze out and place in your freezer. That is correct - your freezer.


2.> Wait for approximately half an hour – for the cloth to get really cold – brrrrr!!

3.> Remove cloth from freezer and head to the sink.

4.> Grab the white vinegar and soak the frozen cloth.

5.> Quickly apply the wet cloth to the sunburn by placing it (open) on the skin.

6.> Leave cloth for about 30 seconds. You will be able to feel the burn being drawn out of the skin.

7.> Squeeze cloth out and repeat as needed. The redness will disappear and the burny feeling will be gone.

Works every time.

 

Got Warts? Natural Remedies Exist.

For the record, I have tried to locate and show a photograph of typical 'warts' - those little white rough looking bumps on our fingers people sometimes get. I'm not talking about any other kind of warts here - but I still couldn't find a photo I wanted to use. Warts are ugly. We all know what they look like - and we don't need a reminder here. Alright....moving forward....or back, however you perceive the next sentence....

When I was a kid, I developed a wart on my hand. I’m not sure how it got there, or what we did to treat it at the time – but it went away and life carried on as usual.

My next experience with warts came when my daughter got one on her thumb – we treated it with one of those chemical soaked disks and within a few days it went away. It returned a few months later, and we treated it again. We haven’t seen it since.

Since then, I have learned a couple of new and totally natural ways to treat warts that I wanted to share;

CASTOR OIL: I have seen this work! A drop of castor oil on a wart, covered with a band-aid is a miracle in action.

Someone I know had a wart on his hand for years. It wasn’t bothersome, but gone is better. He applied castor oil to his wart and covered it. A short time later (approximately one week) the wart was gone. The castor oil helped the body heal itself. That’s what natural products do. Not only that, but the man who used the castor oil to remove a wart also discovered one amazing ‘side effect’ he hadn’t counted on.

He had a ropey scar on his arm – it had been there for years. The castor oil, applied to his skin, seemed to become a systemic (throughout the entire body system) healer – the ropey scar smoothed out and almost all but disappeared. I’ll have to check on how healed up the scar is these days. Stay tuned.....

The second product that rids the body of warts is one that not many people would think about. It is usually considered a nasty annoyance in the summertime, yet we are all sitting (almost literally) on a goldmine of healing products....

DANDELION MILK: Simply pluck a dandelion from its mooring to the earth (ooOOo....that was eloquent, wasn’t it?) and split or break the stem. The white, milky inside is what you apply to your wart. Cover with a band-aid and wait for the magic to happen.

These remedies have not been tested by me, and I know there is a warning to those on blood thinners about using castor oil. Do your research – awareness is key.

Do you have another natural wart treatment you’d like to share? Please add it to the comment section – thanks!