Happy Humors: Dry Brushing, Lymph-love and Cellulite

Do you know

• What organ receives one third of all circulating blood?
• When the liver is stagnant and a backflow of waste fills the blood, which organ bears the burden?
• What organ is the last in line for needed nutrients and the first to announce bodily imbalances and deficiencies?

We tend to take our skin for granted, trespassing and compromising its health with indiscriminating choices: lethal lotions and polluted potions, fake food and tainted tap water, chemical crèmes and synthetic sun-screens. In lieu of this, let’s take a moment to attune ourselves to our amazing skin.

The ancient Greek and Romans thought highly of the skin; their legendary baths are monuments to the importance of skin care for good health. The bathing ritual was luxurious and relaxing, consisting of soaks in hot and frigid pools and saunas. The very first stop for a bather was the strigling room. A strigil is a metal spoon-like tool that was coated in oil and brushed across every inch of skin. This process cleaned the skin and readied it for the rest of the baths.

Get the Fluids Flowing

Dry brushing is so worth the 2 minutes it takes before a bath or shower. It is a time-tested technique of keeping the humours happy, and it may be the best defense against sluggishness and slowing down. The dry, stiff bristles of a brush gently sweeping across the skin are just what the body needs to restore your verve and vigor.

Botanical oils are an awesome way to enhance dry brushing. Living Libations Verve Tonic fortifies your flow and venerates your vitality. The reviving essential oils in this rousing elixir quicken and clarify so that you may launch into the play of your day.

Laurel essential oil is the vital vivifier in Verve Tonic. In Advanced Aromatherapy, Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt states, “rubbing a few drops of bay laurel on swollen lymph nodes may have an immediate, noticeable effect. The positive and pleasant effect of this oil is so distinct and strong that one application will normally suffice to convince the most hardened skeptic to use it.”

Simply pour 1-2 drops of the oils on the palm of your hand, and then glide a dry brush across your palm coating the bristles. Then gently, brush your body starting with your toes all the way up to your head. Remember to always brush toward the heart.

If cellulite is a concern, I highly recommend that your first step is to bless your body by shunning beauty magazines, cosmetics ads, and products that motivate you to stare or poke disapprovingly at any part of your body. Over-night cellulite-banishing lotions are marketing tools developed to separate you from your body, and the results are less than promised. There are no quick fixes for complex issues like cellulite.

Even so, there are things you can do to minimize its appearance. One of those steps is dry brushing.

We have crafted a CelluLight Formula that is a cogent combination of botanical essences that tone the skin and help to improve the appearance cellulite. Carrot seed is a powerful skin-toner, and seabuckthorn berry is nutrient-rich and especially regenerative to the skin. Fennel, juniper, and geranium purify the skin and pare puffiness. Rosemary and grapefruit are toning; they shield skin from exposure to environmental elements, lift sagging tissue, improve the texture of the skin, and give a smoother appearance to the skin. Coffee and lemon stimulate and energize the skin and get the fluids flowing.

CelluLight Formula can be used as a dry-brushing oil or it can be massaged directly on to cellulite prone areas; focus on those areas for 4-6 weeks.

The Best Brushes Ever

Regular brushing of the skin including the toenails and fingernails is an extremely effective aid to cleanse the whole body and care for it.

Over the years, we have tested a variety of brushes, and we have finally located the three best body brushes ever.

The Facial Brush
The Facial Brush has soft bristles suitable for gentle brushing the face, neck, and décolleté.

Natural Body Brush
This body brush is made of Beech plywood and has very hard hair for the whole body with a firm skin.
This body brush can be used dry and wet.
– Hair of wild boar (Chunking).

The Body and Breast Brush
The Body and Breast Brush is the perfect size and texture to dry-brush the body and more delicate breasts.

Natural Hair Brush
The natural bristles of this hairbrush are fine and strong which enables the brush to grip the hair and clean it smoothly and gently.

Professional Hair Brush (High-Quality)
The high-quality Professional Hair Brush from P. Jentschura gives you a natural shine to your hair and prevent your hair from dry, brittle tips.
Made for hair care and salon professionals.

The Energy Brush
The Energy Brush has fine bronze bristles made of copper and zinc. Due to the molecular structure of the bristles they have a negative ion charge. When brushed on the skin, the negatively charged oxygen ions important for our material and energetic wellbeing are generated right on the skin.

Professional Massage Brush
The Professional Massage Brush is only for dry brushing

Anti Cellulite Massage Brush
The Anti Cellulite Massage Brush is designed to activate your blood and lymphatic circulation, stimulate tissue drainage and decrease cellulite, improving its appearance.

Nailbrush
This natural nailbrush is especially suitable for caring for your hands and nails. It is a healthy habit to brush fingernails and toenails each day.

Sauna afterwards
Squeeze all of the benefits of dry-brushing by bathing or taking a sauna afterwards. For the perfect finish, apply the Best Skin Ever to lubricate every inch of skin. Your skin will glow with good health.

∼ Nadine Artemis