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SwiftCraftyMonkey There’s been a lively discussion about ingredients banned by Whole Foods in this post, so I thought I’d create a post for that topic here. (Here’s a link to Tony Dweck’s argument as to why many of these ingredients shouldn’t be banned.) I have been unable to find any rationale for why they ban these ingredients,...
Sarah wrote in this post: I’ve seen your posts on co-washing, but wonder about the washing of hair with baking soda and then rinsing with vinegar… seems to be all the rave in blogland. Huh? Seriously? Really? What the heck is this all about? The idea is that you wash your hair with baking soda – pH...
Some people would have you believe that everything can penetrate the upper layers of your skin – the epidermis – and make it into your bloodstream, creating all kinds of problems and “poisoning us from the inside out”. They will argue that nicotine and estrogen patches prove their case that things that go on our...
Aquaglyceroporins are “membrane proteins that form water channels over cell membranes. They faciliate transport of water and solutes like glycerol or urea.” (This document, p. 78) In other words, aquaporins regulate the water flux in our skin (specifically in our epidermis, or outer layer of our skin). They are embedded in our cell membranes to help...
I’ve updated this post with interesting things I’ve learned in the past two years. The original post can be found here. Your skin is composed of three layers – the epidermis, the dermis, and the hypodermis or subcutis. Our main focus will be the epidermis or the outer layer of our skin. I find it interesting...