Health for life

The word lexology is probably most commonly known for stress reduction, or the healing of aching bones - but a recent Telegraph article has reported on the use of the treatment to reduce a scar on a womans cheek.

Caroline Boucher was left with a large facial scar after undergoing several surgergies and a skin graft to remove and treat malignant melanoma - but after eight months of weekly lexology treatments, the scar is now far less prominent.This has the potential to bring new uses to the treatment, which has a mixed reception in the medical world - with some praising and some dismissing the usefullness of lexology.Often thought of as an alternative therapy, lots of private health insurance providers are now offering lexology for conditions like frozen shoulder. So what is it? And is it any good?

Reflexology is a treatment which involves massaging hands, feet and ears with specific parts of the hands and fingers - to treat other areas of the body through corresponding lex areas.The treatment dates back thousands of years, having first been practised (albeit in a slightly different way) in ancient China and Egypt.

This BBC health video on lexology is quite interesting, and explains the benefits and background of the treatment well. what do you think about lexology?

Homemade Facial Scrub

Scrubbing in beauty and cosmetology is a technique of exfoliating the skin by gently massaging a scrubbing medium aka. scrub on the face.

Homemade Facial Scrub Recipes Benefits:

Scrub removes dead skin from the surface of the skin.
Scrubbing opens up the clogged pores of face.
After completing the facial scrub procedure the skin becomes fresh and it absorbs all the goodness and nutrition of the facial pack applied after scrubbing.

The most commonly used Ready made facial scrubs are :
Apricot Scrub
Walnut Scrub
Combination scrub with both apricot and walnut.

The most widely use Homemade facial scrubs are
Lemon sugar face scrub
Almond Scrub
Oatmeal Scrub

 Homemade Facial Scrub Recipe

Homemade Sugar Face Scrub

SUGAR makes a great scrub for exfoliating the skin at home.  Mix granulated sugar with almond oil in 2:1 ration respectively. Wet your skin and apply the scrub on the face and scrub it in circular motion. Remember you have to be very gentle while scrubbing your facial skin. 

Make your own Almond Facial Scrub: 

Grind almond and mix it with mayonnaise to make a paste. Use this paste as scrub. after scrubbing leave this for another 10 mins then rinse off. 

Homemade Oatmeal Face Scrub Recipe : 

Grind Oatmeal, Corn meal and few sunflower seeds together, to the powder add few drops of essential oils and use water as base to make paste out of all ingredients. Use this as a facial scrub. Mix oatmeal and baking soda in 2:1 ratio. gently scrub your face with this mixture in circular motion. Mix 1 tsp of honey with ground almond to make a thin consistency paste. Dampen your face and start scrubbing the almond honey paste on the paste. Rinse off once done. Facial scrubbing should be done 5-10 mins doing it for longer period may hurt the skin and can cause redness too.

Home made Lemon and sugar face exfoliator video tutorial