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The personal skin care market based on natural products has shown strong growth. [7] Clinical and laboratory studies have identified activities in many natural ingredients that have potential beneficial activities for personal skin care, [2] [3] but there is a shortage of convincing evidence for natural product efficacy in medical problems. [8 ...
The Pomo, Kashaya, Tolowa and Yurok of Northern California boil the leaves of western Labrador tea similarly, to make a medicinal herbal tea to help with coughs and colds. [2] Botanical extracts from the leaves have been used to create natural skin care products by companies in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The plants can also be made into types of special soaps or used in other skin care products (see natural skin care). [19] Numerous cultivars with mixed or uncertain parentage are grown. Of these, Aloe 'Lizard Lips' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [20]
Water-plantain Used for the urinary tract. [11] Allium sativum: Garlic: Purported use to lower blood cholesterol and high blood pressure. [12] Aloe vera: Aloe vera: Leaves are widely used to heal burns, wounds and other skin ailments. [13] Althaea officinalis: Marsh-mallow: Used historically as both a food and a medicine. [2] Amorphophallus ...
There are many products containing aloe vera's acemannan, including skin lotions, cosmetics, ointments and gels for minor burns, skin abrasions, insect bites, and windburn. [ 8 ] Oral ingestion of aloe vera extracts can be dangerous, because it causes reactions which are not yet fully understood.
The finely hairy, upright, unbranched, stems grow to 15–50 centimetres (6– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) tall. [5] Fertile plants have a single stem with two palmately lobed leaves. [6] Flowering plants produce a single terminal flower with no petals and three sepals and 12 or more conspicuous white pistils; flowering occurs for a short time in ...
Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver and khus, is a perennial bunchgrass of the family Poaceae.. Vetiver is most closely related to Sorghum while sharing many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus, C. winterianus), and palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii).
The company claims that the naturally derived plant salt is effective in treating high blood pressure and fatty liver disease [22] by reducing sodium intake. [23] The company has also developed a desalted Salicornia powder containing antioxidative and antithrombus polyphenols , claimed to be effective in treating obesity and arteriosclerosis ...