YOU TOO CAN FLOURISH FROM RUBBISH;  FACIAL RECOVERY WITH GARBAGE

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Rice has emollient, exfoliating, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It’s also fantastic for controlling shine on the skin as it, like potatoes, contains starch (an astringent) which absorbs sebum (oil produced by the skin).

If you want to spice up this recipe a bit you can add one (or both) of the following ingredients.

Bicarbonate of Soda

It is an antiseptic perfect for gentle exfoliation, however it can be quite drying so if you have dry skin avoid adding this ingredient.

Lemon Juice

It contains; skin  alpha-hydroxyl acids, citric-acid, vita C and is anti-bacterial. Over time lemon slowly reduces hyper pigmentation and scars owing to its mild bleaching properties. It is also a mild natural exfoliant and good for (slow removing blackheads. Some people don’t react too well to the citric acid in Lemons so I really wouldn’t recommend more than a few drops per scrub use. I highly recommend that (if you can) to use brown rice as white rice has both the bran layer and the germ layer removed which means a lot of the nutritional benefits are lost such as magnesium, iron, vitamin B1 and B3 and the natural oil in the bran is also lost with white rice.

If kept in powder form and away from moisture you can keep this for up to 6 months. Don’t over exfoliate! Even though rice powder is very gentle once or twice a week is enough.

Just because something is ‘natural’ does not mean that you can’t  have a reaction to it, if your skin reacts negatively to any of the ingredients mentioned or if you have an allergy then DO NOT use this recipe.

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Contact lens wearers - ever wondered why you are more likely to experience eye infections than your contacts-less friends? Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City think they may have found the answer, in a study that used high-precision genetic tests to map the human microbiome.

Presenting their work at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology on May 31st in New Orleans, LA, the NYU Langone researchers report that micro-organisms residing in the eyes of people who wear contact lenses daily more closely resemble micro-organisms residing in eyelid skin than the bacteria usually found in the eyes of people who do not wear contacts.
The researchers took hundreds of swabs of different parts of the eye, including the skin directly beneath the eye. Genetic analysis of swabs and used contact lenses allowed the team to identify which bacteria were present.
Comparing nine contact lens wearers with 11 non-contacts users, the team found three times the usual proportion of the bacteria Methylobacterium, Lactobacillus, Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas on the eye surfaces (conjunctiva) of contact lens wearers than on the eye surfaces of the control group.
Examining the bacterial diversity using a plotted graph, the team observed that the eye microbiome of contact lens wearers is more similar in composition to the microbiome of their skin than the eye microbiome of non-lens wearers.
Interestingly, the researchers say, Staphylococcus bacteria was found in greater amounts in the eyes of non-lens wearers. Staphylococcus is linked with eye infections, but is usually more prominent on the skin. However, the researchers are unable to explain why non-lens wearers have greater amounts of this bacteria, despite this group traditionally having fewer eye infections than people who wear contacts.
Next, the team will investigate whether or not changes in the eye microbiome of people who wear contacts are caused by the direct pressure of the lens altering the immune system in the eye and hope to identify in greater detail which bacteria thrive or are suppressed in this environment.

Putting a foreign object on the eye 'is not a neutral act'

Study author Dr. Jack Dodick, professor and chair of ophthalmology at NYU Langone, says:
"Our research clearly shows that putting a foreign object, such as a contact lens, on the eye is not a neutral act," says senior study investigator and NYU Langone microbiologist Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD.
"These findings should help scientists better understand the longstanding problem of why contact-lens wearers are more prone to eye infections than non-lens wearers," she adds.
Last year, Medical News Today looked at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report on keratitis - a painful eye condition that occurs when the cornea is infected with bacteria, fungi and other microbes - that suggested improper contact lens care boosts risk of this condition and potentially blindness.

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