Welcome to The Herbal Soap Works!
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Products include Herbal Soaps, Cleansing Bars, Olive Oil Soap, Olive Oil Herbal Soap, Vegetable Oil Herbal Soap, Vegetable Oil Soap, Bath Salts and Body Oils, Vegan Olive Oil Soap, Body Oil, Massage Oils, Body and Massage Oils, Bath Salts, Herbal Salt Scrub and other aromatherapy products. Herbal Soap Works specializes in all natural soap. Austin Herbal Soap. Texas Herbal Soap.
We would like to wish you a warm welcome. If you are visiting us for the first time, please know that we believe our soaps and body care products are the finest available. If you are one of our many repeat customers, you already know this. Chances are your skin is softer, smoother, and best of all less dry. Hats off to you! We appreciate your support and loyalty. If you have never indulged in our products, we invite you to do so now. You have nothing to lose, and we bet your skin will be back for more!
What makes our products so unique? It's simple, we don't cut corners. We carefully handcraft each of our products in limited quantities using only all natural ingredients. In our products you will find no harsh detergents, animal fats, synthetic fragrances or artificial colorants. Our all natural soaps are created using only the finest vegetable oils; olive for smooth soft skin, coconut for an exceptionally rich lather, and palm for a harder longer lasting bar. Our Texas herbal soaps are loaded with moisturizing natural vegetable glycerine, actually created in the soapmaking process. We scent all of our products with pure 100% plant derived essential oils, so not only do they smell heavenly, they have topical and aromatherapy benefits as well. Products include Herbal Soaps, Cleansing Bars, Olive Oil Soap, Olive Oil Herbal Soap, Vegetable Oil Herbal Soap, Vegetable Oil Soap, Bath Salts and Body Oils, Vegan Olive Oil Soap, Body Oil, Massage Oils, Body and Massage Oils, Bath Salts, Herbal Salt Scrub and other aromatherapy products. Herbal Soap Works specializes in all natural soap. Austin Herbal Soap. Texas Herbal Soap.
The following is a quick overview of the delicious olive oil soaps, dusting powders, herbal salt scrubs, bath salts, body and massage oils and other aromatherapy products we have to offer:
* Herbal Soaps
Body and facial herbal vegan olive oil soaps. All natural cleansing bars scented with 100% pure essential oils. These glycerin-loaded, olive oil herbal soap cleansing bars are long lasting, and have a wonderful dense rich lather that leaves the skin exhilaratingly clean, soft and supple. Great for all ages and skin types.
* Herbal Salt Scrub
Exfoliating salt scrubs: Delightful moisturizing herbal salt scrubs packaged in a wide mouth jar with it's own shell scoop. Created by saturating blended mineral salts and crushed botanicals with an emollient, high protein blend of sweet almond, sunflower and vitamin E oil. Use once a week in lieu of soap for the softest smoothest skin ever! Also great for rough trouble spots like feet, elbows, and knees.
* Silken Dusting Powders
A luxuriously silky and absorbent dusting powder packaged in a sleek recyclable aluminum decanter. This talc free formula is a blend of corn starch, French green clay, and kaolin clay; fragranced with pure essential oils. Sprinkle between sheets on a balmy summer evening, or dust on after shower or bath. Also great for keeping baby's sensitive skin soft and dry.
* Bath Oil, Body Oil & Massage Oils
We use a blend of sweet almond, sunflower and vitamin E oils to create the base for all of our body and massage oils. They are scented with pure essential oils.
* Bath Salts
Our bath salts are created by blending mineral salts and pure essential oils.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Amazing Healing
Report
Courtesy by: Dale Kiefer
With their toothsome maws and machine-like killing efficiency, the primitive creatures known as sharks have long inspired fear and commanded respect. But does this ancient family of boneless fish harbor a secret weapon against some of the most dreaded cancers afflicting humans?
Centuries ago, Scandinavian practitioners of folk medicine adopted the habit of consuming shark liver oil as a general health tonic. In recent decades, scientists have observed that tumors are remarkably rare in sharks, and that these predatory fish are notoriously resistant to infections.1 This amazing imperviousness to disease doubtless inspired the folk remedy.
Admittedly, fighting disease with shark oil sounds far-fetched. The very notion evokes unsavory images of cure-all tonics and unscrupulous charlatans from centuries past. But in 1952, Dr. Astrid Brohult stumbled upon remarkable proof that shark oil actually works. The fascinating story of her discovery, related by some of her colleagues in the book Shark Liver Oil: Nature’s Amazing Healer,2 provides a glimpse at the happy serendipity that occasionally results when science and intuition mix.
A Hunch Pays Off
Dr. Brohult was a young Swedish oncologist working with leukemia patients in a children’s hospital. Leukemia is a potentially deadly cancer that affects white blood cells, or leukocytes, which are the immune system’s front-line defensive players, manufactured in the bone marrow. When leukemia strikes, leukocyte production runs amok.
To stop the disease, patients are exposed to enough radiation to kill the cells in the bone marrow that give rise to both red and white blood cells. This drastic treatment is usually effective, but occasionally may be worse than the disease itself. With fewer red blood cells to carry oxygen and remove wastes, and few leukocytes left to fight infection and marshal other defenses, patients are rendered weak, deathly ill, and prone to infection.
In an effort to stimulate her patients’ bone marrow to resume normal function, Dr. Brohult administered calve’s marrow to the children in her care. She was operating on little more than a hunch. Parents in Scandinavia have long served bone marrow soup to their children in winter, in the belief that it builds strength. Dr. Brohult reasoned that healthy bone marrow from calves might trigger a resumption of healthy function in humans.
Her hope—and desperation—paid off. Although the results were inconsistent, some of her patients quickly experienced remarkable improvements, including a normalization of white blood cell counts and a striking return of energy.2,3 While exhilarated, Dr. Brohult immediately faced the problem of isolating the active component in the marrow in order to devise a more palatable source of the wondrous substance.
Getting to the Source
It took another decade before a team led by Dr. Brohult’s husband, a research biochemist, isolated the active ingredient in calve’s marrow that normalizes white blood cell production. The chemical was actually a group of compounds, now known as alkylglycerols, or AKGs. Chemically speaking, AKGs are glyceryl ether lipids. Principal alkylglycerols are chimyl, batyl, and selachyl alcohols.1 Ironically, two Japanese scientists, who evidently did not appreciate the importance of their discovery, had discovered AKGs in deep-water sharks as early as 1922.
AKGs occur naturally in various mammalian tissues, including most organs responsible for producing blood cells, such as the bone marrow and spleen. Interestingly enough, AKGs are also found in human breast milk, and are now thought to contribute significantly to an infant’s immunity, especially while the immature immune system is at its most vulnerable. In fact, human breast milk contains up to 10 times more AKGs than does cow’s milk.4
Coming full circle, Dr. Brohult’s team eventually determined that none other than the Greenland shark—found off the shores of their native Sweden—is a perfect source of concentrated AKGs. We now know that AKGs occur naturally in the human body, albeit in far smaller amounts than are found in shark liver. The reason for sharks’ abundant supply has to do with an ancient evolutionary adaptation to a literally crushing problem: how to maintain buoyancy at extreme depths of 5,000 feet or more.
Primitive sharks evolved an ingenious ballast system: a specialized liver that allows them to maintain neutral buoyancy at a range of crushing depths. Sharks’ livers are unusually large, bulging with a carefully orchestrated mixture of complex lipids. Known collectively as shark liver oil, this cocktail of compounds allows the shark to rise and fall throughout the depths with relative ease.
A Potent Antioxidant
Dr. Brohult and other scientists continued to study AKGs and quickly discovered that they inhibit cancer proliferation1 and prevent radiation sickness.5 The latter finding is especially significant. Radiation slices through cells like hot knives through butter, damaging the cells at the molecular level and generating free radicals that propagate destruction in a kind of chain reaction. Most antioxidants do a good job of neutralizing free radicals in the bloodstream and within the tissues, but few are capable of penetrating the cell membrane to enter individual cells. AKGs appear to act within individual cells, as suggested by clinical studies of patients receiving AKGs in combination with ionizing radiation.5-8
The ability of AKGs to protect people against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation was discovered more or less by accident. At about the time Dr. Brohult first began experimenting with AKGs on the children’s cancer ward, a nurse in Stockholm was accidentally exposed to radium, receiving a dangerously high dose of radiation. Her white blood cell count plummeted to unhealthy levels, and for more than a year she struggled with numerous infections. After receiving supplemental AKGs, her white blood cell count returned to normal and remained stable thereafter.9
In subsequent research, doctors found that administering shark liver oil orally before, during, and after radiation treatment for cervical cancer reduced the incidence of radiation-induced injuries by about 50% compared to control patients who received radiation alone.5,6,8 While such injuries are an often-unavoidable consequence of aggressive radiation treatment, most do not affect survival. So-called complex injuries due to the combination of tumor growth and radiation, however, are another story. Mortality for these patients ranges from 90% to 100% at five years, depending on tumor stage. Compared to control patients, the incidence of these complex injuries in patients supplementing with shark liver oil was significantly reduced, by about one third.5,6,8
Powerful Anti-Tumor Effects
Dr. Brohult’s team was surprised to discover that when AKGs were given to cervical cancer patients, tumors regressed even before radiation treatment began, a finding that was soon replicated by others.10,11 More recently, scientists have determined that AKGs probably accomplish this feat by directly interfering with cancer cell sig-naling, which is crucial to tumor growth and metastasis.12-14
In a 1986 Swedish study, re-searchers divided women with cancer of the uterine cervix into two groups. One group of 284 women received shark liver oil before, during, and up to six months after high-voltage radiation treatment. A second group of 525 women with the same disease-stage profile received only radiation treatment.15
One-year survival among patients in the AKG group was 88%, versus 82% among radiation-only patients. While this difference is small, survival rates at the five-year milestone were dramatically higher among AKG patients. Sixty-five percent of women who had taken shark liver oil were still alive after five years, versus just 51% of women in the control group. Researchers concluded that treatment with AKG-rich shark liver oil reduced mortality significantly compared to control patients, an effect especially pronounced among patients younger than 60.15
While the mechanism by which AKGs reduce radiation side effects is not exactly clear, they appear to penetrate cell membranes and mop up free radicals.2 AKGs also amplify platelet-activating factor synthesis, which might help reduce radiation-induced bleeding by promoting platelet aggregation.2,16 But their benefits do not end there. Recent research indicates that AKGs inhibit activation of protein kinase C, which is essential for the runaway cell proliferation that is a hallmark of cancer.17,18 AKGs also directly boost the immune system by stimulating production of white blood cells called neutrophils and by activating macrophages.1,19 Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that plays a pivotal role in protecting against bacterial and fungal invaders. Thus, AKGs may help boost the immune system and help fight infections.2
Laboratory research on several types of colon cancer cells indicates that AKGs inhibit tumor growth and render existing cancer cells less likely to invade new tissue.20 In 2003, Swedish researchers published a report detailing the effects of shark liver oil on five types of human tumor cells, including ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer cells. They concluded that a commercially available form of shark liver oil from Norway, containing a standardized concentration of AKGs and their methoxy derivates, prompted all types of cancer cells to commit cellular suicide or to be halted in their tracks, thus dying without reproducing. As noted in their report, “the prostate cells . . . showed a dramatic reduction in the colony number even after relatively small doses . . .”1
The vascular networks supplying vital nutrients that help fuel tumor growth have long been a target of anti-cancer research. Shark oil has been reported to starve tumors by interfering with the development of this blood supply. Recently, researchers reported that this effect is likely mediated by the presence of AKGs in shark liver oil.21,22
Squalene Also Counters Cancer
Squalene is another major component of shark liver oil. Common in nature, squalene is a hydrocarbon that makes up a significant portion of the oily secretions that preserve the integrity of our outer layers of skin. It is also found in olive oil, and is believed to be responsible for some of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, which, according to epidemiological studies, include a significantly lower incidence of cancer and heart disease.23,24
In Greece, for instance, women with a high olive oil intake have a breast cancer rate that is only one third that of American women. It is estimated that some individuals may consume up to 400 mg of squalene per day in countries where olives and olive oil play an indispensable role in the diet.24,25 Laboratory research on animals and human cancer cells confirms squalene’s cancer-fighting effects.26-31
Courtesy by: Dale Kiefer
With their toothsome maws and machine-like killing efficiency, the primitive creatures known as sharks have long inspired fear and commanded respect. But does this ancient family of boneless fish harbor a secret weapon against some of the most dreaded cancers afflicting humans?
Centuries ago, Scandinavian practitioners of folk medicine adopted the habit of consuming shark liver oil as a general health tonic. In recent decades, scientists have observed that tumors are remarkably rare in sharks, and that these predatory fish are notoriously resistant to infections.1 This amazing imperviousness to disease doubtless inspired the folk remedy.
Admittedly, fighting disease with shark oil sounds far-fetched. The very notion evokes unsavory images of cure-all tonics and unscrupulous charlatans from centuries past. But in 1952, Dr. Astrid Brohult stumbled upon remarkable proof that shark oil actually works. The fascinating story of her discovery, related by some of her colleagues in the book Shark Liver Oil: Nature’s Amazing Healer,2 provides a glimpse at the happy serendipity that occasionally results when science and intuition mix.
A Hunch Pays Off
Dr. Brohult was a young Swedish oncologist working with leukemia patients in a children’s hospital. Leukemia is a potentially deadly cancer that affects white blood cells, or leukocytes, which are the immune system’s front-line defensive players, manufactured in the bone marrow. When leukemia strikes, leukocyte production runs amok.
To stop the disease, patients are exposed to enough radiation to kill the cells in the bone marrow that give rise to both red and white blood cells. This drastic treatment is usually effective, but occasionally may be worse than the disease itself. With fewer red blood cells to carry oxygen and remove wastes, and few leukocytes left to fight infection and marshal other defenses, patients are rendered weak, deathly ill, and prone to infection.
In an effort to stimulate her patients’ bone marrow to resume normal function, Dr. Brohult administered calve’s marrow to the children in her care. She was operating on little more than a hunch. Parents in Scandinavia have long served bone marrow soup to their children in winter, in the belief that it builds strength. Dr. Brohult reasoned that healthy bone marrow from calves might trigger a resumption of healthy function in humans.
Her hope—and desperation—paid off. Although the results were inconsistent, some of her patients quickly experienced remarkable improvements, including a normalization of white blood cell counts and a striking return of energy.2,3 While exhilarated, Dr. Brohult immediately faced the problem of isolating the active component in the marrow in order to devise a more palatable source of the wondrous substance.
Getting to the Source
It took another decade before a team led by Dr. Brohult’s husband, a research biochemist, isolated the active ingredient in calve’s marrow that normalizes white blood cell production. The chemical was actually a group of compounds, now known as alkylglycerols, or AKGs. Chemically speaking, AKGs are glyceryl ether lipids. Principal alkylglycerols are chimyl, batyl, and selachyl alcohols.1 Ironically, two Japanese scientists, who evidently did not appreciate the importance of their discovery, had discovered AKGs in deep-water sharks as early as 1922.
AKGs occur naturally in various mammalian tissues, including most organs responsible for producing blood cells, such as the bone marrow and spleen. Interestingly enough, AKGs are also found in human breast milk, and are now thought to contribute significantly to an infant’s immunity, especially while the immature immune system is at its most vulnerable. In fact, human breast milk contains up to 10 times more AKGs than does cow’s milk.4
Coming full circle, Dr. Brohult’s team eventually determined that none other than the Greenland shark—found off the shores of their native Sweden—is a perfect source of concentrated AKGs. We now know that AKGs occur naturally in the human body, albeit in far smaller amounts than are found in shark liver. The reason for sharks’ abundant supply has to do with an ancient evolutionary adaptation to a literally crushing problem: how to maintain buoyancy at extreme depths of 5,000 feet or more.
Primitive sharks evolved an ingenious ballast system: a specialized liver that allows them to maintain neutral buoyancy at a range of crushing depths. Sharks’ livers are unusually large, bulging with a carefully orchestrated mixture of complex lipids. Known collectively as shark liver oil, this cocktail of compounds allows the shark to rise and fall throughout the depths with relative ease.
A Potent Antioxidant
Dr. Brohult and other scientists continued to study AKGs and quickly discovered that they inhibit cancer proliferation1 and prevent radiation sickness.5 The latter finding is especially significant. Radiation slices through cells like hot knives through butter, damaging the cells at the molecular level and generating free radicals that propagate destruction in a kind of chain reaction. Most antioxidants do a good job of neutralizing free radicals in the bloodstream and within the tissues, but few are capable of penetrating the cell membrane to enter individual cells. AKGs appear to act within individual cells, as suggested by clinical studies of patients receiving AKGs in combination with ionizing radiation.5-8
The ability of AKGs to protect people against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation was discovered more or less by accident. At about the time Dr. Brohult first began experimenting with AKGs on the children’s cancer ward, a nurse in Stockholm was accidentally exposed to radium, receiving a dangerously high dose of radiation. Her white blood cell count plummeted to unhealthy levels, and for more than a year she struggled with numerous infections. After receiving supplemental AKGs, her white blood cell count returned to normal and remained stable thereafter.9
In subsequent research, doctors found that administering shark liver oil orally before, during, and after radiation treatment for cervical cancer reduced the incidence of radiation-induced injuries by about 50% compared to control patients who received radiation alone.5,6,8 While such injuries are an often-unavoidable consequence of aggressive radiation treatment, most do not affect survival. So-called complex injuries due to the combination of tumor growth and radiation, however, are another story. Mortality for these patients ranges from 90% to 100% at five years, depending on tumor stage. Compared to control patients, the incidence of these complex injuries in patients supplementing with shark liver oil was significantly reduced, by about one third.5,6,8
Powerful Anti-Tumor Effects
Dr. Brohult’s team was surprised to discover that when AKGs were given to cervical cancer patients, tumors regressed even before radiation treatment began, a finding that was soon replicated by others.10,11 More recently, scientists have determined that AKGs probably accomplish this feat by directly interfering with cancer cell sig-naling, which is crucial to tumor growth and metastasis.12-14
In a 1986 Swedish study, re-searchers divided women with cancer of the uterine cervix into two groups. One group of 284 women received shark liver oil before, during, and up to six months after high-voltage radiation treatment. A second group of 525 women with the same disease-stage profile received only radiation treatment.15
One-year survival among patients in the AKG group was 88%, versus 82% among radiation-only patients. While this difference is small, survival rates at the five-year milestone were dramatically higher among AKG patients. Sixty-five percent of women who had taken shark liver oil were still alive after five years, versus just 51% of women in the control group. Researchers concluded that treatment with AKG-rich shark liver oil reduced mortality significantly compared to control patients, an effect especially pronounced among patients younger than 60.15
While the mechanism by which AKGs reduce radiation side effects is not exactly clear, they appear to penetrate cell membranes and mop up free radicals.2 AKGs also amplify platelet-activating factor synthesis, which might help reduce radiation-induced bleeding by promoting platelet aggregation.2,16 But their benefits do not end there. Recent research indicates that AKGs inhibit activation of protein kinase C, which is essential for the runaway cell proliferation that is a hallmark of cancer.17,18 AKGs also directly boost the immune system by stimulating production of white blood cells called neutrophils and by activating macrophages.1,19 Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that plays a pivotal role in protecting against bacterial and fungal invaders. Thus, AKGs may help boost the immune system and help fight infections.2
Laboratory research on several types of colon cancer cells indicates that AKGs inhibit tumor growth and render existing cancer cells less likely to invade new tissue.20 In 2003, Swedish researchers published a report detailing the effects of shark liver oil on five types of human tumor cells, including ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer cells. They concluded that a commercially available form of shark liver oil from Norway, containing a standardized concentration of AKGs and their methoxy derivates, prompted all types of cancer cells to commit cellular suicide or to be halted in their tracks, thus dying without reproducing. As noted in their report, “the prostate cells . . . showed a dramatic reduction in the colony number even after relatively small doses . . .”1
The vascular networks supplying vital nutrients that help fuel tumor growth have long been a target of anti-cancer research. Shark oil has been reported to starve tumors by interfering with the development of this blood supply. Recently, researchers reported that this effect is likely mediated by the presence of AKGs in shark liver oil.21,22
Squalene Also Counters Cancer
Squalene is another major component of shark liver oil. Common in nature, squalene is a hydrocarbon that makes up a significant portion of the oily secretions that preserve the integrity of our outer layers of skin. It is also found in olive oil, and is believed to be responsible for some of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, which, according to epidemiological studies, include a significantly lower incidence of cancer and heart disease.23,24
In Greece, for instance, women with a high olive oil intake have a breast cancer rate that is only one third that of American women. It is estimated that some individuals may consume up to 400 mg of squalene per day in countries where olives and olive oil play an indispensable role in the diet.24,25 Laboratory research on animals and human cancer cells confirms squalene’s cancer-fighting effects.26-31
Thursday, July 2, 2009
For Highblood
Comfrey:
Scientific name: Symphytum officinate.
The seared leaves of the comfrey is good
The seared root of the comfrey is good
If my cough can take comfrey juice its okay for you
and solve your problem..
If you unhealthy body? drink comfrey juice and solve your problem.
In other hand: the plants of comfrey is better for ashma,reumatiesm,highblood,vomiting
blood,
unsleep, anemia, ulser, nervous and etc.
The comfrey is high protien,vitamin A,C,E,Iron,Calcium and phosphorus,but do not use
consestaint
Scientific name: Symphytum officinate.
The seared leaves of the comfrey is good
The seared root of the comfrey is good
If my cough can take comfrey juice its okay for you
and solve your problem..
If you unhealthy body? drink comfrey juice and solve your problem.
In other hand: the plants of comfrey is better for ashma,reumatiesm,highblood,vomiting
blood,
unsleep, anemia, ulser, nervous and etc.
The comfrey is high protien,vitamin A,C,E,Iron,Calcium and phosphorus,but do not use
consestaint
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