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I’m sure it’s allowed!
If you make them properly and label them correctly — with the list of ingredients and a ‘warning’ that it’s homemade.
People do it all the time on e-bay, and I think that’s a good place to sell them. Make sure you include (if you should sell on e-bay) information about the book you got the recipie from.

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Just key into google “aromatherapy”. There are hundreds of sites to choose from. They all have recipes for anything you want. They explain notes and/or families that go well together. More than I can type here.

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It depends on the type of pain relief you are looking for i.e. Headache, muscle pain, joint pain etc but I tend to use the following recipe for an “all purpose” pain relief massage oil:

500ml sweet almond carrier oil
25 drops rosemary essential oil
25 drops eucalyptus essential oil
25 drops peppermint essential oil
25 drops white camphor essential oil

If you are taking any “conventional” medication, are pregnant, trying to become pregnant or nursing, remember to check with your GP before using essential oils. Never apply essential oils directly to skin, always blend them with a carrier oil.

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You can technically make your own essential oils, but I would advise buying them from suppliers, especially when first getting into aromatherapy. Unless you have acres and acres of each particular flower/tree/fruit that you want to harvest (and there are hundreds of oils used in aromatherapy) you won’t get much oil. For example, it takes about 7 and a half tonnes of the Melissa flower to make one pound of the oil, not to mention you have to make sure the crops don’t get eaten by pests and hurt my nature and also you will have some years where harvests just suck. I haven’t read about creating your own carrier oils, but I imagine the process would be very painstakingly similar.

The general guideline is to never use aromatherapy on pets. Essential oils are so concentrated that they are used in very limited amount on humans (a couple of drops when applied topically), and the reason we can stand them is because our liver has the capability to process the oils out. Pets are generally much, much smaller and don’t have the capability. On amazon.com, I saw a review for an aromatherapy book that had a section for usage on animals. A reviewer complained that after using the remedy on her cat, the animal died. For humans, most aromatherapy oils can be used, but they should never be ingested by someone who has not run the idea by their doctor. Eucalyptus, for example, is great when used diluted on the skin, but toxic when taken internally.

You will generally find essential oils and carrier oils in most health food kind of stores. However, I would refrain from buying from these places as their oils are not always 100% pure- they can be diluted with carrier oils and sold as pure, or in case of expensive oils they can be diluted by a cheaper essential oil which smells similar. There are many good retailers online, so check them out. Also, I find hydrolats are easier to find online as well, since they’re not very popular with people who are not familiar with aromatherapy.

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Try this one -
10 drops lavender
5 drops cajeput
5 drops lemon
in 50ml sweet almond oil

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Your own body is very efficient at doing this on it’s own. Detox diets, flushes and cleanses are scams, not without risks.

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Anyone interested in detoxifying their body might think about paying a little more attention to their body and less attention to the people trying to get their money. The body already has nature’s most effective detoxification system. It’s called the liver. The liver changes the chemical structure of foreign compounds so they can be filtered out of the blood by the kidneys, which then excrete them in the urine.

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Wow…medicines have an active life and I would suggest helping stay healthy by keeping hydrated and resting. Baths might help alleviate some of it. There are alternative medicine suggestions for detoxing like teas at health food stores that may help.

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To detoxify one’s body of drug use, it takes time. First, the drug use has to stop. Secondly, one has to wait until nature rids the body of remnants of the drugs in one’s system. Drink a lot of water to purify the body. Cranberry juice can also help cleanse the kidneys of infection.

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Its been 3 days now so you have prob gotten through your plateau. One thing that kills people is salt, it makes you retain a lot of water which can throw you off. Don’t worry about the small spikes, if you stay on the plan it is 100% water weight you are gaining, stick it out and you will be in for some BIG loss days after you shed the water. Keep Going!

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Morgan, if you are taking homeopathic HCG drops, there is no reason for you to stop taking them while you are on your period. You should continue your drops right away.

Having a stall in losses during your period is normal. Frustrating, yes…but, nothing to be concerned with, the losses WILL continue.

It is also quite normal for you period to be a bit irregular while taking HCG. Again, this is nothing to be concerned with.

Continue taking your drops and following VLCD. Your losses will continue.

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A 500 calorie diet is dangerous because your body needs more than 500 calories to maintain itself for normal functions.

If you are a sedentary woman who weighs 200 lbs, then to maintain that weight you would need about 2400 calories a day. To lose weight safely you should eat less calories than that, but according to “Lose It For Life,” by Stephen Arterburn, M.Ed., and Dr. Linda Mintle, “you should NEVER go below 1,500 calories per day unless under the supervision of a doctor.”

Losing so much weight so quickly can actually hurt your body. I don’t know the difference between the two diets you mentioned, but you shouldn’t have to hurt your body to lose weight, and the safest way to lose weight is to do so slowly. Because you aren’t very tall and do weigh over 200 lbs, you will probably lose weight faster than someone like me, who is 6 inches taller and closer to 30 lbs overweight, because proportionally you have more to lose. That’s not my way of bragging, I’m just letting you know that you will probably lose weight pretty quickly at first on a healthy diet that your doctor approves. This will probably slow down after a while, and you’ll certainly need to add physical activity to the mix.

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I looked up the ingredients in that mascara for you (link in sources) and there doesn’t appear to be anything in them that would potentially interfere with your HCG diet.

When looking at personal care products, starting with “oil free” products is a good start – but you need to go a bit deeper than that and actually look at the ingredients in the product. You want to avoid products with any type of oil/fat/lard in them as well as the following ingredients:

sorbitol, lanolin, petroleum jelly, propelyne glycol, petrolatum, and sodium lauryl sulfate.

To help you find personal care products, I’ve also put a link to a handy PDF that has several VLCD safe options for you.

Best of luck in your weight loss journey!

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Maybe the food that person ate was salty or sugary – both retain water in the tissues.

Forget HCG…
“500-calories per day is severely restrictive! In fact, it is not enough calories to support normal brain function. Your body will compensate by using stores of glycogen, protein (muscle) and some fat, which lowers your resting metabolism. Before you can lose true weight, you will be so irritable, lightheaded, and cranky that you’ll reach for whatever food you can get your hands on and have a field day.

There is no scientific evidence supporting HCG as a weight loss strategy. The FDA has required all marketing and advertising of HCG to state the following: “HCG has not been demonstrated to be effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of obesity. There is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or ‘normal’ distribution of fat, or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restricted diets.”

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I like both Milk Thistle and Oil of Oregano.. Plus a tablespoon of psyllium fiber once a day

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Detox teas (found in health food stores)
Hot lemon water
excercise
massage therapy
body wrap of detoxifying parafin or body mud

oh and goldenseal (natural herb)

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I take maximum liver clense its vegetarian capsules, to keep my liver an blood healthy its a supplement training systems.try it ,it works

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How to Remove Toxins by Detoxifying
http://remove-toxins.blogspot.com/

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Hello,

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HCG was banned by the FDA last month as a fraudulent product for weight loss.
It doesn’t matter which brand, they are all out there just to take your money so it doesn’t matter which lotion you use.

Http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/01/26/20110126fda-warnings-about-diet-drugs.html

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According to the “protocol” for this diet you are supposed to do minimal exercise with such a low caloric intake.
A 500 calorie per day diet is considered anorexic. Mix it with a hormone from pregnant women’s urine and you get a miracle diet!
All over the counter hcg products were announced as illegal and fraudulent by the FDA on January 24, 2011. Testing concluded that all over the counter oral and injection products on the market have little to no real hcg in them but most a similar synthetic hormone. I was in GNC two weks ago. They carry three brands of hcg drops and not one of them has any hcg in them. The well trained salesman even admitted it when I mentioned it. They contained “similar hormones” or amino acids.
Anyone that lost weight especially with the drops did it because they ate fewer calories than they burned. The hcg acted as the placebo to help them lose the weight.
The only approved use for hcg is to increase fertility in both men and women.
Next year will mark 60 years since this fraudulent science was started.
The doctors exploiting this benign hormone with the ability to prescribe injections can’t even agree on how it works. Some say it releases stored fat calories into the system. Others say it acts as an appetite suppressant.
Neither explanation justifies the weight loss in the individuals taking the oral drops with NO hcg in them that still lost weight. I am confident the hcg diet has a 95% failure rate just like every other controversial diet plan out there.
By the way, the expensive “clinical injections” are not covered by insurance since it is not FDA approved. What doctor wouldn’t want to get an “all cash” practice going?
Check out these clips before going further. Just aired a few months ago.

Http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/weight-loss-controversy-hcg-diet-pt-1

So the question is are you willing to risk your health with an extreme diet treatment based on testimonial evidence as opposed to clinical research evidence, and the statements from doctors in this all cash business?

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Why are you drinking soda if you are diabetic?
Please throw the bogus HCG drops out thank you.

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I’m doing the HCG diet right now following the 21 Day program from http://prohcgdiet.com As per the instruction I got, you can use lotion and make up during the HCG protocol. With all of your personal care and beauty products, you need to check the ingredients and avoid any products the contain food oils. Most solid deodorants contain castor oil, which is not allowed…. Currently I am using Pantene products for the hair. I changed my lotion to Neutrgena oil free face lotion but use this for hand and body lotion as well. I changed my soap to liquid Zest. I did not change my shave gel either. No issues that I can see and I get all products at Wal-Mart.

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Better no to waste your money.
“500-calories per day is severely restrictive! In fact, it is not enough calories to support normal brain function. Your body will compensate by using stores of glycogen, protein (muscle) and some fat, which lowers your resting metabolism. Before you can lose true weight, you will be so irritable, lightheaded, and cranky that you’ll reach for whatever food you can get your hands on and have a field day.

There is no scientific evidence supporting HCG as a weight loss strategy. The FDA has required all marketing and advertising of HCG to state the following: “HCG has not been demonstrated to be effective adjunctive therapy in the treatment of obesity. There is no substantial evidence that it increases weight loss beyond that resulting from caloric restriction, that it causes a more attractive or ‘normal’ distribution of fat, or that it decreases the hunger and discomfort associated with calorie-restricted diets.”