October 26th, 2010 | 
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Tea for Your Hair
The last time you relaxed and enjoyed a good cup of tea, you probably did not consider the fact that what fills your tea cup could be as good for your hair as it is for your mind state. It is as easy as steeping a simple cup to give your hair a quick herbal treatment. Sometimes your hair needs a break from the harsh chemicals of commercial hair products. Tea for your hair is the perfect solution to be able to give your hair a break, while also giving it a powerful natural beauty treatment. The next time you are brewing up a cup of tea for yourself, consider one of these varieties for your hair, and enjoy the benefits of tea twice over.
Chamomile Highlighting Hair Rinse
This rinse works especially well on blonde hair. Steep 1/3 cup dried chamomile flowers in one quart of hot water until cool. Strain, and pour repeatedly over hair. Leave on for 15 minutes. Rinse. Chamomile also has a soothing effect on the skin and eyes, making the rinse beneficial for your whole head!
Sage Tea Darkening Treatment
This treatment can be used to naturally darken the hair. Make an infusion of 1/2 cup of dry sage leaves in 2 cups of water, and steep for 2 hours. Strain, and pour over hair. Leave tea on hair for ½ hour, and rinse. This treatment is an ideal natural treatment to help cover grey hair. Use daily for best results, and utilize weekly for maintenance. Sage is an astringent, and is also used in facial steams and skin conditioners.
Rosemary Growth Rinse
Rosemary is known to stimulate hair growth. A rinse made up of 1/4 cup of dried rosemary steeped in 2 cups of boiling water until tepid can be used as a treatment for thinning hair. Rosemary is also used to battle against dandruff.
Sage & Rosemary Tea Colorant
For an even stronger, more effective color treatment, combine ¼ cup of sage with ¼ cup of rosemary and steep in 1 cup of water for 10 minutes. Strain, and use the liquid as a colorant for grey, or to darken brown hair. You will get the benefits of hair softening sage and dandruff fighting rosemary, while also stimulating hair growth.
Lovely Lavender Hair Treatment
For healthy, glossy, beautiful smelling hair try simmering ¼ cup of dried lavender in 2 cups of water and rinsing. Leave on for 15 minutes and rinse for a fragrant and effective dandruff treatment.
The Five Most Important Powers Mid-life Women Must Use to Stay Young
Gerontologists say that 70 percent of the aging process is controllable with the right lifestyle choices. Anti-aging expert Barbara Morris agrees, and has written a hot new book, Put Old on Hold that explains how and why at 75, she feels and functions as a 50-year old. She says, “It’s easy when you start early to make anti-aging lifestyle and attitude adjustments. If I can do it, others can do it too. The traditional aging process that our society has adopted unnecessarily relegates middle age people to early decline. There is a better way.”
In Put Old on Hold, Barbara Morris, who works full time as a pharmacist, offers plenty of “what works for me” advice. Here are five of her “power tools” for smart women (and men, when they are not too stubborn to listen!) to help control the aging process:
1. Take control.
Aging is inevitable but getting old is strictly an option. Smart women don’t buy into society’s outdated model for aging; instead, they constantly grow and improve, defying convention and horse-and-buggy traditions and customs. If you don’t take charge of your life, and you just let life happen life will just happen, and the result will be typical, fossilized old age we accept as normal.
Bottom line: Smart women decide how old they are going to be no matter how old they actually are.
2. Inventory and monitor youthful characteristics.
Observe old people. What is it about their “oldness” you would like to avoid? How strong and flexible are you, mentally and physically? Can you bend and touch your toes? Can you walk up stairs without becoming out of breath? Keep and improve what you can, while you can! Youth makes us arrogant. Every day we see a seemingly unchanging image in the mirror that slips away even as we admire what we see.
Bottom line: Smart women stay aware of what they have and work to keep it.
3. Plan your future.
By age 50, smart women have a plan for a healthy, productive second life at retirement age because they know they will probably live to 100 or more. In 1950, there were a mere 2,300 centenarians. Today, there are over 40,000. By 2050 close to a million people will be 100 or more.
Bottom line: Smart women maximize their future by protecting and building their health, and visualizing their future.
4. Avoid the ultimate social disease.
No, it’s not sexually transmitted, it’s worse than that it’s self-inflicted, and it’s called retirement. Once you internalize that you are no longer productive, that you no longer have goals, decline sets in rapidly. Everything slows movement, reaction time, thinking, walking, talking. The mind and body go into a shutdown mode in preparation for the final event — death.
Bottom line: Smart women rewire instead of retire.
5. Manage and fix correctable symptoms of aging.
For example, a slow shuffling gait, poor posture, unattractive teeth, and uncorrected hearing loss. Invest time, effort, and money where it matters: Buy a treadmill and use it daily to maintain a youthful gait, cardiovascular fitness and weight control. Get on an anti-aging diet, and do weight-bearing exercise daily to stay strong and upright. Do regular Microdermabrasion treatments along with Foot Detox as well a LED Light Therapy all 3 of these services can be found at Renew Hair and Skin Center in Bingham Farms Michigan.. This combination will keep you looking your best and reduce the need for makeup.
Bottom line: Smart women manage how they change with age.