We have received several inquiries related to the difference between the organic-based products and the ones that are conventional which you can find in every store. First of all, thank you for your interest and your questions. We could talk and write about this topic in great detail but we shall briefly show you that difference in one example.
The petals of our organic calendula (Figure) are dependable raw material for many products of ours. However, we make macerate out of them by sinking them down into domestic extra virgin olive oil, which we procure from local oil producers in Neretva region. Still, this time we used petals for something else.
Namely, it is proved that the calendula tea cleanses very efficiently the blood from toxins, among other things, and it cleanses blood vessels, relaxes them and lowers down the level of cholesterol and fats. It has the therapeutic effect on the work of liver and secretion of bile, and it also helps at stomach ache. It also regulates the blood pressure.
Although this is a scientifically proved fact, we „tested“ it in our family. The test results of our grandmother showed an extremely high cholesterol and fat in blood. The doctor told her that she would have to repeat the tests and if they were similar, he would have to prescribe certain medicines. We recommended her to drink the calendula tea. We already had the petals ready, so we prepared the tea from the petals, but the whole flowers could be also used as being mixed with leaves.
Guess what?! After just ten days or so after drinking the tea, the test results showed a reduced cholesterol and fat to the large extent, so that even the doctor showed a great surprise, saying that the medicines are not necessary for the time being and that the grandmother can continue drinking the tea.
Why do we tell you this? Because we want to point out that our body is not fed only via mouth and digestive system, but the absorption of healthy and therapeutic (as well as poisonous) substances is carried out via skin as well. So, for example, the same effect that the calendula has on the improvement of the blood features after drinking the tea, is when you put it on the skin via creams or similar products (of course, if they are prepared upon strictly defined standards of organic cosmetics) because in this way it effects directly the skin cells, their immunity and metabolism. The skin is nurtured from outside and becomes considerably more resistant to the extraneous impacts such as smoke, weather conditions or oxidation stress. On the other hand, conventional products contain in themselves, among other things, also parabens, sulphates, petroleum derivatives such as paraffin, propylene glycol, ethylene glycol or petrolatum, as well as cyclomethicones, siloxane etc. that work exclusively on the elimination of symptoms.
One of the probably most famous researchers of the effects of harmful substances from conventional cosmetics on the health – a British, Philippa Darbre, Ph.D., proved the connection between the substances such as paraben and cancer diseases. She described in its researches the difference between the natural and the conventional cosmetics as the difference between the healthy nutrition and „junk food“. Natural nutrition nurtures the whole body and has the effects on metabolism, while junk food has the effects exclusively on the sense of having a full stomach, without any healthy nutritive values, because of which they make also a kind of addiction. Likewise, organic cosmetic preparations have not the effects on the symptoms but they work on the natural metabolism as to have the body strengthened by itself and any possible anomalies on the skin healed and as to have the healthy condition maintained on a long-term basis from the prevention of some future discomforts. There lies the main and basic difference between conventional, widely spread cosmetic products and the organic-based ones that we produce. Conventional cosmetics work exclusively on the symptoms, while the problem is not resolved in its basis. Just like the difference between the healthy nutrition and „junk food“.
Imagine now in front of you, instead of having a lunch on your table, for example, a bowl full of sticky petroleum jelly, obtained by oxidation of petroleum, and instead of having a glass of wine – you have a glass of antifreeze. Distillation of that jelly gives petrolatum, and at higher temperatures of 400 degrees – propylene glycol. Ethylene glycol, which you can also find in the conventional preparations, is an integral part of the antifreeze. All of that are the ingredients, which make more than 50% of conventional cosmetic products. Add parabens and all other artificially obtained ingredients and you will get everything that you use to nurture your body via skin by using the conventional cosmetic preparations. Scientific researches proved also a direct connection between the use of conventional cosmetic products with hormonal disorders, changes in the cell membranes and cancer diseases.
That is why today the scientific community increasingly recommends exclusively the products obtained from natural organic ingredients. Next time when you use conventional cosmetics, read the ingredients and take a few minutes to research one by one what they mean and how we get them. We hope that you are satisfied with our answer. Please feel free to continue sending us your inquiries related to our products and we would be very glad to answer them!
Until then, we shall make a cup of the calendula tea for ourselves. Grandma’s order!
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