Breathable Memory Foam

Essentia offers the world’s only natural memory foam mattress. The benefit to natural ingredients, other than being green and helping to save the planet, is superior breath-ability. The natural memory foam uses no petrochemicals and eliminates the hot and sticky nights sleep that other leading memory foam mattresses offer. Essentia memory foam mattresses are 80% more breathable than other memory foam mattresses.

Made from Natural Materials

Another advantage to using only natural materials and eliminating petrochemicals is that Essentia mattresses do not off-gas and emit toxic fumes. Normal mattresses that include petrochemicals and plastics will release toxic fumes that fill the air. Sleepers, their families, and their pets all breathe these fumes that can cause headaches, migraines, eye irritation, and skin irritation. These fumes can also worsen respiratory symptoms. Health care professionals have recommended that people with respiratory problems avoid mattresses and other products that off-gas. Wouldn’t healthy people also benefit?

Comfort and Support

No matter how green a mattress is, it still has to be comfortable and offer proper support. Comfort is dependent on pressure relief, so there is a way to test mattresses for pressure relief. Essentia out-performs the leading memory foam mattress-maker in this test. When sleeping on an Essentia mattress, pressure points are eliminated so there is no need to toss and turn to get comfortable. The result is a restful night’s sleep. Spinal alignment will improve with an Essentia mattress, as you are able to sleep in proper alignment because you are always comfortable. Proper spinal alignment is important for disc re-hydration, blood circulation, and ability to sleep deeply.

Toxic Adhesive-free

All memory foam mattresses are made up of a few different layers, to offer the proper support. In most mattresses, these layers are glued together. These adhesives can include dangerous chemicals that off-gas for 2-3 years. Essentia avoids the need for chemical adhesives because they use a patented molding technology that molds the layers together to create a permanent bond. The result is a more flexible and comfortable mattresses that does not off-gas. Any adhesives used by Essentia are completely safe and non-toxic VOC-free natural liquid latex and acrylic resin adhesive.

Non-toxic Fire Retardant

All mattresses sold in the US need to pass a fire retardant test. Essentia uses a Kevlar based product that contains no toxic chemicals and exceeds safety standards. Toxic fire-retardants used in other memory foam mattresses have been linked to cancer and heart, lung, and kidney damage.

Green Business Practices

These amazing mattresses produce 88% less waste during manufacturing than most other mattresses. Essentia uses natural latex, essential oils, plant extracts, and water in the manufacturing of their memory foam mattresses so no toxic chemical leach into the environment during the manufacturing process. Essentia’s memory foam is derived from renewable resources and are 100% biodegradable. The company also is a member of 1% for the planet and donates 1% of its gross earnings to worthy environmental causes.

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You know what I am talking about. The winter sun just isn’t strong enough, so only half your plant gets enough sun to stay healthy and green. If you want to the other side to continue to stay healthy you have to rotate the pot a couple times a week. This may not sound that difficult but some of us have huge houseplants with very heavy pots. The thought of muscling the pot every couple days not only sounds like a workout, but also sounds like a backache.

What’s a girl to do? Check out what I found. It is a handy turntable for those great, big pots. I am expecting to receive mine in the mail any day now. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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A Healthy Diet

The first ingredient necessary for healthy hair is a healthy diet. If you are consuming too much processed, chemical-laden food and not enough fresh vegetables, fruits, and grains, your hair is going to suffer. It might get thin, it might fall out altogether, or it might just get dry and listless, but it will suffer to some degree. In the absence of a genetic history predisposing to early hair loss, a healthy scalp will grow healthy hair…and an unhealthy scalp will go bald pretty quick.

What Makes A Healthy Diet?

What can you do to combat hair loss? Eat a healthy diet, drink plenty of water, and take a daily vitamin rich in Omega 3 Fatty acids. Also important is eating sufficient protein and consuming regular quantities of silica, a nutrient most easily gained from oats, rice, sunflower seeds, and green cabbage. Biotin, a nutrient found in high levels in eggs, salmon, and sardines, is also essential for strong hair that will not break easily or fall out due to weak roots. All of these combined might serve you much better than Rogaine by actually addressing the problems causing your hair loss rather than trying to force hair growth from an unhealthy scalp.

In the end, genetics has a lot to do with hair loss and whether an individual loses their hair at a young age. But following these simple steps can help to preserve your hair if all else is in order.

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Treat Your Skin Gently

First, remember to treat your skin gently. Harsh chemicals and painful scrubbing just aren’t necessary to cleanse the skin, especially the sensitive skin of your face. A mild cleanser is usually all that is needed, with a few extras thrown in to bring out that inner glow.

Exfoliate Your Skin

Second, exfoliate your skin regularly. A good idea is to use a gentle exfolient at night when you are not going to be applying cosmetics or other products to your face, then follow up with a mild astringent to tighten your skin and close your pores. Let the skin rest for a few minutes before applying moisturizer. Cleanse your face in the morning with mild soap and re-moisturize before applying makeup.

Use A Monthly Cleansing Mask

Lastly, treat yourself to a monthly cleansing mask to remove debris form your pores and tighten the skin. Avoid masks containing harsh chemicals, and go instead with a mild mud mask perhaps with nourishing salts included. Always follow a mud mask with a good moisturizer and a tall glass of water, as the mask will draw quite a bit of the natural oils from your skin. Using a spritzer made from lemon juice, honey, and filtered water is also soothing to the skin following a deep cleansing.

Putting your best face forward doesn’t have to be difficult or painful. It is just a matter of cleaning up your skin, nourishing it with the essential elements it needs, and being careful not to over-strip it of its natural oils and moisture. The glow within will show right through as you follow these simple steps.

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Well Balanced Diet

First, remember that true beauty really does begin on the inside and emanates from a healthy and well-nourished body. Feeding yourself properly is the first step toward natural radiance, and staying well-hydrated is equally important. Water cleanses toxins from the body and keeps the skin resilient and youthful, so it makes sense that inadequate water intake will only lead to prematurely aging skin. Adding honey and lemon to your daily diet, whether in warm tea or a n icy cold drink, will also help to cleanse the body and provide essential nutrients such a Vitamins B and C. Honey and lemon juice can also be used directly as a facial cleanser and is quite effective in nourishing the skin while at the same time removing excess oils and reducing surface bacteria that can lead to blemishes.

Essential Nutrients

It is also a good idea to consume generous quantities of cruciferous vegetables, those form the cabbage family. Brussel sprouts, green cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy and broccoli are all high in fiber high in essential nutrients, and are perfectly suited to nourish the female endocrine system. Supporting well-balanced hormones brings energy to all facets of your life, as well as enhancing your mood and sense of positive well-being.

Protect Your Skin

By the same token, making salmon and other oily fish a regular part of your diet boosts your intake of Omega 3 fatty acids, which are beneficial to everything from your heart to your skin. The Omega 3 oils help to protect the skin from sun damage, hold off premature drying and wrinkling, and bring a natural vibrancy to your face.

In the end, being beautiful does not require trips to the doctor or spending thousands of dollars at the make-up counter. All women can be beautiful and vibrant when they ca for their bodies well and project the health and vitality that begins when they care for themselves from the inside out.

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Steps To Protect Pandas

Conservationists have been aware of the Panda problem for decades, and have taken steps to protect the Pandas from being killed as well as attempting to breed more Pandas in captivity in order to keep the species alive. To date, only 180 Giant Pandas have ever been bred in captivity, which makes captive breeding a less than likely solution to the species’ current desperate situation. Yet, in the wild they are being denied the ability to freely migrate and find mates in order to produce young on their own.

Solutions To Prevent Extinction

Authorities for the World Wildlife Fund in Beijing are also aware of the precarious position of the giant Pandas and are working hard to find a solution. Unfortunately, when human progress and animal rights clash, human beings tend to take precedence no matter how many species become extinct. Ideally, a solution would be found wherein the Pandas get to keep their natural home and China gets to develop its land and resources unhindered. Hopefully that will indeed be the case, and hopefully it will happen soon…for the Giant Pandas simply do not have much time left.

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Various Possibilities

One possibility is that a marine parasite may have infected the sockeye population as they leave the river, swimming past commercial fish hatcheries where sea lice can be a problem. This could reduce the population drastically before the sockeye ever reach adulthood and return to the river to spawn.

Another possibility is that the rising temperature of the river may have weakened the fish, causing a massive die-off. This raises eyebrows in the conservative community who recognize that the documented temperature of the Fraser River has only risen by one degree Fahrenheit over the last half of a century. It seems unlikely that this gradual change would cause the sudden death of nine million fish.

Also up for consideration is the possibility that climate changes in the river and the ocean have reduced the Sockeye’s natural food supply, which also seems like a very gradual change causing a rather sudden shift in the salmon population.

Essentially, no one really knows why the Sockeye population is only one tenth what it is assumed it should be, in spite of efforts to protect the salmon and ensure their ongoing health and reproduction in the Fraser River. Hopefully the mystery will be solved before the Sockeye disappear altogether.

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