Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Fresh, Healthy-Looking Eyes
A tip from a guest - sent via mail to the Bettina Network, inc.
Thanks for Bettina's Blog. I enjoy reading it and followed your suggestion of saving it for Sunday morning. It is more fun than the newspapers I read on Sundays and informative in ways no one else tells us. My experience at breakfast in the Bettina Home where I stayed was fascinating. I learned an enormous amount and was very impressed with the intellectual level of your guests.
My tip doesn't begin to meet those lofty levels, but it was astounding to me and I would like to pass it along to others.
I read your post about keeping your skin beautiful with vitamins A, E and organic powdered milk and have been using it religiously. It has done wonders for my wrinkled skin, which is smoothing out and has taken on a fantastic sheen. My husband tells me I have taken on a "glow."
I've taken your post one step further to increase the good results I get. When I rinse my face with water from my cupped hands the ten splashes you suggest, I don't dry around the eyes. I dry the rest of my face because I don't like the feeling of water dripping off my face as I wait for the water to dry, but not wiping around the eyes has done wonders for me. The skin around my eyes was puffy and wrinkly. For several months now I have not touched around the eyes, only did the ten times water splashes to my face without drying my eyes and I can't believe the difference. Imagine dewey eyes at my age.
A nurse I know said it happens because whenever you dry around your eyes you are compressing the veins and the thin skin and that is what's happening. Don't know if that's true or not and don't know if I am remembering exactly what she said, but it was something like that.
I really don't care why, I care about the results from the ten splashes and not wiping the eye area - I look well rested. I send this tip to you in exchange for your tip about what clipping the vitamins has done for the rest of my face.
ed:Note - the Blog to which the reader refers is "Bettina's Premier Beauty Secret" published in March, 2008
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Thanks for Bettina's Blog. I enjoy reading it and followed your suggestion of saving it for Sunday morning. It is more fun than the newspapers I read on Sundays and informative in ways no one else tells us. My experience at breakfast in the Bettina Home where I stayed was fascinating. I learned an enormous amount and was very impressed with the intellectual level of your guests.
My tip doesn't begin to meet those lofty levels, but it was astounding to me and I would like to pass it along to others.
I read your post about keeping your skin beautiful with vitamins A, E and organic powdered milk and have been using it religiously. It has done wonders for my wrinkled skin, which is smoothing out and has taken on a fantastic sheen. My husband tells me I have taken on a "glow."
I've taken your post one step further to increase the good results I get. When I rinse my face with water from my cupped hands the ten splashes you suggest, I don't dry around the eyes. I dry the rest of my face because I don't like the feeling of water dripping off my face as I wait for the water to dry, but not wiping around the eyes has done wonders for me. The skin around my eyes was puffy and wrinkly. For several months now I have not touched around the eyes, only did the ten times water splashes to my face without drying my eyes and I can't believe the difference. Imagine dewey eyes at my age.
A nurse I know said it happens because whenever you dry around your eyes you are compressing the veins and the thin skin and that is what's happening. Don't know if that's true or not and don't know if I am remembering exactly what she said, but it was something like that.
I really don't care why, I care about the results from the ten splashes and not wiping the eye area - I look well rested. I send this tip to you in exchange for your tip about what clipping the vitamins has done for the rest of my face.
ed:Note - the Blog to which the reader refers is "Bettina's Premier Beauty Secret" published in March, 2008
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Labels: Guest comments, Health and Beauty, Making Connections, Reader Feedback
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Lipstick
Sent to us in an email from Dr. Robert Perry ON 3/20/2009:
THIS BLOG HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN - EITHER TEMPORARILY, PERMANENTLY OR WILL BE REPLACED WITH OTHER INFORMATION!
We received an email from a reader who said the following "There is no such doctor at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital - this has been debunked over and over. This has been circulating since May 2003 and just keeps going and going like that dumb bunny. Each time it shows up, someone changes the doctor's name or hospital but if you Google and doctors' name you will get lots of hits."
We thank the reader for drawing this to our attention. The email on lipstick was sent to us by a medical doctor who is well known and has practiced medicine for many years. It is also from someone who we have known for many years so we were confident of his information. Because of this new information from a reader, we have hired a consultant to research the issue of Lipstick and Lead and have taken the blog out of line until this research is complete. We want to make sure we have the best possible information because we are discovering that many people read Bettina's Blog and as my grandmother used to say - the only thing you have in the end is your character and we want to keep ours in the best possible shape.
Thank you for reading - and for your emails. They help to keep us going. As soon as we can we will return with whatever information is found on this issue.
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Labels: Health, Health and Beauty
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
A BEAUTY SECRET told around the Breakfast Table
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We discovered what we consider another sensational beauty and health aid.
One of our guests was talking about her beauty regimen in the mornings. She was sharing because when she arrived she asked if she could put her Aloe Vera Gel and Aloe Vera Juice in the refrigerator. She was carrying it in one of those lined bags in which you can keep things cold. Because we are curious, over breakfast, we asked what she did with her bottles. She is the first person to arrive carrying her own Aloe Vera and we were all ears with lots of questions about her answer.
She uses the Aloe Vera Gel in the mornings after her shower to give herself an all-over massage - she said for health reasons, but her skin was glowing. After she gives herself a massage she waits a few minutes for the Aloe Vera to be absorbed into her skin and then gets dressed for the day. Many questions followed.
What does it do? She didn't know, but if it is good for burns, etc. she decided it must be good for wrinkles and general health and she feels and looks good after her morning shower. She brought the bottles out of the refrigerator and we were impressed that the Gel and Juice contained nothing but the Aloe Vera plant.
A couple years ago, I remember a guest from Australia telling me she used Aloe Vera Gel after bathing the way other people use lotion. It didn't register at the time. Maybe the second telling by another person helped open our ears.
I've tried it for about a month now and it is GREAT! I tried her way - which was to alternate between using the Gel and the Juice, but I made such a mess with the juice we had to shampoo the rugs in the bedroom and give the bathroom a good cleaning. I've decided to stick to the Gel and alternate it with milk baths, milk facials and Vitamin A and E facials and massages. I don't want my skin to get used to one thing and then have that stop working after a while. Variety is a great beautifier.
The Gel - after a couple weeks - gave my skin a softness and a glow which it hasn't had for a lot of years. Another guest is trying it and she has promised to let me know if it does anything special for her. She is 83 years old and has lots of wrinkles so she should be a great test case. I hope she doesn't take offense, but if it works on her and smoothes the wrinkles and improves her health, it should work on those much younger.
I might add that we pass these ideas along that we've heard about and that we try and friends and other guests try, but they and you do so at their and your own risk.
Since we are talking about organic food (yes, the Aloe Vera Gel and Juice must be organic), there should be no harm done, but just in case, don't go off trying something because we talk about it on this blog. From the writing on the Aloe Vera Gel bottle, the company apparently assumes you bought it to drink. We haven't gone that far - although we know anything you put on your skin is in your bloodstream in seconds.
Before we use any beauty products, we make sure we can, at least, pronounce and know the names of all ingredients in any and everything we put on our skin - or use to wash our hair. Since we have a long acquaintance with the Aloe Vera Plant we didn't have any hesitation trying either the Aloe Vera Gel or the Aloe Vera Juice.
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Labels: Health and Beauty
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Bettina's Premier Beauty Secret
copyright 1984-2008 by Marceline Donaldson
A caveat with these beauty secrets - they are a bit magical because they only work for those who use the Bettina Network! Others can try them, but their efficacy will be greatly diminished.
To have flawless skin without makeup or foundation try the following:
a. Throw out your soap. A beautiful person NEVER uses soap.
b. Wash your face, without a towel or wash rag, by splashing it with warm water using your hands as a cup for at least 10 splashes.
c. Pour a bit of dry milk into the palms of your hands and use this to clean your face. Rub it all over the face until the milk granules become liquid milk.
d. If you have time, lie down with your feet up (without rinsing off the milk). The milk will dry and tighten your skin - a nice treatment for those pores. And yes this can be done by male or female - it works equally well for both. Guys, if you don't tell anyone why your face starts to look dramatically younger and healthier, we won't either.
e. After about 10-15 minutes, rinse your face by splashing water on it from your cupped hands, until all the milk is gone.
f. Clip open a vitamin A capsule (fish oil, not beta carotene - unless you want a very red face), squeeze the oil into the palm of your hand and gently rub this oil into the skin on your face. If you are super careful, you can also gently pat it around your eyes. We find this to be a great eye oil.
g. Clip a Vitamin E capsule, squeeze the oil from this capsule into the palm of your hand and gently rub this oil into the skin of your face. You can also gently pat this around your eyes. You will find the Vitamin A oil to be thin and easy to rub into your skin. The Vitamin E oil feels and acts more like glue. It is a preservative of the A and you get more out of everything by ending with the Vitamin E.
h. After half an hour or so - or anytime after that - rinse your face with cool water. Do this by splashing the cool water onto your face using your hands cupped together and keep splashing - for at least 10 times.
i. Using a soft towel, pat your face dry.
Enjoy the day with beautiful skin. - OR - you could go through this regimen at night before going to bed. The next morning you need only rinse your face - 10 times - with cupped hands and very cool water before running out to work, shop, breakfast or a meeting!
You will see amazing results after about two weeks. Each day, your face will glow a little longer until the result is constant and you have all the time beautiful skin. And then throw out all those cosmetics you paid so much money for which probably really don't work.
FINISHING TOUCH: This regimen will give your skin a glowing sheen. If you want a mat finish (no sheen), use a cotton ball or tissue on which you put dry milk - no powder please, you will ruin all your hard work. Pat and very lightly rub this dry milk all over your face and brush off the excess. In a minute or so the oil on your skin will take away the powdery look and you will have a mat finish all day. To refresh your look, splash cold water on your face for, yes, 10 times.
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Labels: Health and Beauty
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Republican Women Unite
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It is time for a revolution! And for some basic change!!!!!!
I've noticed as the hair turns grey, many of you get on the "blue" band wagon and put the traditional laundry bluing in your hair.
It is beautiful, with the silvery blue look that it takes on - however - you have been cast as being "red" - from "red" states and all of that. So take your political assignment seriously and start to look the part. (Society has made an interesting symbolic choice for you, especially given the fact that when we were young, "red" had a different meaning. If you were from a "red" state, McCarthy would probably have called you up before his House on UnAmerican Activities Committee).
So it is time to change your hair and publicly acknowledge your party affiliation. Not in a hat wearing, banner waving, slogan yelling way, but far more subtle and much more sophisticated. Political Correctness is important in this modern world, so instead of the laundry bluing, which is really more characteristic of Democratic women with their "blue state" origins than it is of you, get out your bottle of beta carotene - the vitamin A capsules from carrots in oil - and let us start a politically motivated health and beauty change.
This is also very healthy and good for your hair, unlike the bluing, which dries it out - or the hair dye, which is probably the cause of so much cancer in women - the beta carotene costs only pennies. You can give the money you save to charity.
For the few pennies this costs we could convert many women to Republicanism from welfare, the homeless, from the lower-middle-income category. This is also an excellent plank to add, under the diversity section, to the National Republican Party Platform when it is drawn up.
How to achieve "Republican Hair"?
1. Wash your hair - any good organic shampoo will do.
2. Wipe it with a towel to get the excess water out. Don't dry it, just sort of wring it out.
3. Clip the tip of a capsule of beta carotene - making sure you have the kind with the oil inside.
4. Squeeze the contents of the capsule into the palm of your hand. This will turn your palms orange for a little while, but ignore that, it is healthy for your hands as well as your hair. If you really get carried away you can clip another capsule to put on your face. You will have to rinse your face with lots of water before going out to avoid stares, but your wrinkles will be gone! Well sort of gone!!!!!
5. Lightly and gently rub your palms together and then put the beta carotene oil in your hair. Rubbing your hands over your hair the way you would with any oil. You want to make sure you have a good, but not excessive application.
6. If your hair is shoulder length or longer you will probably need two capsules. If you add the facial you will need three!
7. Don't blow dry your hair. This will defeat the purpose as the heat from the blow drying will get rid of the color. It will also probably get rid of the vitamins which you want to feed your hair on the way to making you politically correct.
8. This works best if you set your hair on rollers and let it dry naturally. After a few treatments with beta carotene, drying will be quick because your hair won't hold all that water after washing - a plus for our side. Younger Republican Women won't understand this since they have this wash and wear hair. They could reach political correctness if they put the beta carotene in their hair and instead of blow drying before leaving home, they went about their business with their hair still wet from the shower - as many do. (And we wonder why the number of people with pneumonia has skyrocketed of late.)
The rollers are well understood by that upper-middle-aged generation, which the young and haughty will join soon enough.
SOME CAUTIONS:
A. This hair treatment will help you understand why our female ancestors wore those frilly, dainty, lacy, shower-cap-like
contraptions to bed. If you don't do the same, your pillow case will be orange in the morning! Although mine washed out just fine, yours might or might not.
B. The red color will last two or three days at most. The Vitamin A benefits continue much longer, but the color fades. It doesn't exactly disappear, but it just sort of fades leaving your original hair color, with its grey looking as though it has a blond overcast. To make the color go away completely, simply wash your hair - and then start over again.
A PERSONAL NOTE: My hair color faded at breakfast in the midst of an exciting conversation. Folks around the table were a little awestruck as they watched my hair fade from carrot red with darker red streaks to its original dark brown with grey streaks. Although the color didn't entirely disappear. It just sort of faded, leaving my original hair color with a blond twinge.
The health benefit? My hair has never been healthier. With all the other thngs I try, this one definitely helped old hair turn young.
Enjoy!
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It is time for a revolution! And for some basic change!!!!!!
I've noticed as the hair turns grey, many of you get on the "blue" band wagon and put the traditional laundry bluing in your hair.
It is beautiful, with the silvery blue look that it takes on - however - you have been cast as being "red" - from "red" states and all of that. So take your political assignment seriously and start to look the part. (Society has made an interesting symbolic choice for you, especially given the fact that when we were young, "red" had a different meaning. If you were from a "red" state, McCarthy would probably have called you up before his House on UnAmerican Activities Committee).
So it is time to change your hair and publicly acknowledge your party affiliation. Not in a hat wearing, banner waving, slogan yelling way, but far more subtle and much more sophisticated. Political Correctness is important in this modern world, so instead of the laundry bluing, which is really more characteristic of Democratic women with their "blue state" origins than it is of you, get out your bottle of beta carotene - the vitamin A capsules from carrots in oil - and let us start a politically motivated health and beauty change.
This is also very healthy and good for your hair, unlike the bluing, which dries it out - or the hair dye, which is probably the cause of so much cancer in women - the beta carotene costs only pennies. You can give the money you save to charity.
For the few pennies this costs we could convert many women to Republicanism from welfare, the homeless, from the lower-middle-income category. This is also an excellent plank to add, under the diversity section, to the National Republican Party Platform when it is drawn up.
How to achieve "Republican Hair"?
1. Wash your hair - any good organic shampoo will do.
2. Wipe it with a towel to get the excess water out. Don't dry it, just sort of wring it out.
3. Clip the tip of a capsule of beta carotene - making sure you have the kind with the oil inside.
4. Squeeze the contents of the capsule into the palm of your hand. This will turn your palms orange for a little while, but ignore that, it is healthy for your hands as well as your hair. If you really get carried away you can clip another capsule to put on your face. You will have to rinse your face with lots of water before going out to avoid stares, but your wrinkles will be gone! Well sort of gone!!!!!
5. Lightly and gently rub your palms together and then put the beta carotene oil in your hair. Rubbing your hands over your hair the way you would with any oil. You want to make sure you have a good, but not excessive application.
6. If your hair is shoulder length or longer you will probably need two capsules. If you add the facial you will need three!
7. Don't blow dry your hair. This will defeat the purpose as the heat from the blow drying will get rid of the color. It will also probably get rid of the vitamins which you want to feed your hair on the way to making you politically correct.
8. This works best if you set your hair on rollers and let it dry naturally. After a few treatments with beta carotene, drying will be quick because your hair won't hold all that water after washing - a plus for our side. Younger Republican Women won't understand this since they have this wash and wear hair. They could reach political correctness if they put the beta carotene in their hair and instead of blow drying before leaving home, they went about their business with their hair still wet from the shower - as many do. (And we wonder why the number of people with pneumonia has skyrocketed of late.)
The rollers are well understood by that upper-middle-aged generation, which the young and haughty will join soon enough.
SOME CAUTIONS:
A. This hair treatment will help you understand why our female ancestors wore those frilly, dainty, lacy, shower-cap-like
contraptions to bed. If you don't do the same, your pillow case will be orange in the morning! Although mine washed out just fine, yours might or might not.
B. The red color will last two or three days at most. The Vitamin A benefits continue much longer, but the color fades. It doesn't exactly disappear, but it just sort of fades leaving your original hair color, with its grey looking as though it has a blond overcast. To make the color go away completely, simply wash your hair - and then start over again.
A PERSONAL NOTE: My hair color faded at breakfast in the midst of an exciting conversation. Folks around the table were a little awestruck as they watched my hair fade from carrot red with darker red streaks to its original dark brown with grey streaks. Although the color didn't entirely disappear. It just sort of faded, leaving my original hair color with a blond twinge.
The health benefit? My hair has never been healthier. With all the other thngs I try, this one definitely helped old hair turn young.
Enjoy!
when asked to give our names and a paragraph about our bed and breakfast, we declined. Normally, we wouldn't hesitate, but this being a political year with a highly heated campaign going on, we weren't sure folks could read this in the tongue-in-cheek manner in which we wrote it. So if there is any flack coming from this incredible piece of writing, we will let the editors of the blog take it while we duct under the cover of anonymity.
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