Monday, February 14, 2011

Homemade--Natural Body Wash

     If you are looking for an Earth-and-Budget friendly body wash that uses natural ingredients, your best bet is to whip up your own batch at home.  Body wash is essentially just liquid soap.  To create a natural, homemade body wash, all you need is some sort of soap or soap you can turn into a liquid.
     However, the cheapest, easiest and most effective choice is Castile soap.  Traditional Castile soap is created from olive oil and comes in flake, bar, or liquid form.  Using olive oil means the soap is both natural and moisturizing, making it perfect for natural, homemade body wash.  You can use a variety of oils and butters to increase the moisturizing properties of your body wash.
     You can use cocoa butter, shea butter, avacado oil, almond oil, or jojoba oil.  You can use natural essential oils to add the perfect scent, as long as you make sure any essential oils you add are safe for skin use.  Natural vegetable-based food coloring can be used to add a little color to you own recipe.
      For an easy and lightly scented body wash, stir together 1 cup liquid Castile soap, 3 tablespoon coconut oil, 5 drops lavender essential oil, 3 drops rose essential oil in a small bowl.  Mix well and pour into a clean, plastic container. Shake well before each use.  You can alter the type of oil or essential oil in the recipe to suit your needs.  For example, instead of 3 tablespoons coconut oil, use 3 tablespoons almond oil.  Instead of 5 drops lavender and 3 drops rose essential oil, try 4 drops sandlewood and 4 drops vanilla essential oil.

Container, your best choice is plastic.  Glass, wood,or stone are not appropriate choices they are much too fragile or water prone containers. 

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Third Stage--Alzheimer's Disease

                                             Severe Alzheimer's Disease
     In the advanced stage if Alzheimer's disease damage to the brain's nerve cells is wide spread.  At this point full-time care is typically required.  For friends, family and alzheimer's caregivers this can be the most difficult stage.  People with severe Alzheimer's disease may have difficulty walking and they may often suffer from complications from other illnesses, such as pneumonia.

     Signs of severe alzheimer's disease may include:

               1)   Vocalizations such as groaning, screaming, mumbling or speaking gibberish.
               2)    Behavorial symptoms
                      * refuses to eat out of fear of (choking)
                      * inapproiately cries out when they realize they are alone
     
      Failure to recognize family or faces
      Difficulty with all essential activities of  daily living.

IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS ANY OF THESE SINGS , OR SYMPTOMS "PLEASE SEE A MEDICAL PHYSICIAN"

Second Stage-- Alzeheimer's Disease

                                                Moderate Alzheimer's Disease

     In moderate Alzheimer's disease, the damaging processes occuring in the brain worsen and spread to other areas that control language, reasoning, sensory processing, and thought in this stage symptoms and signs of Alzheimer's sisease becomes more pronounced and behaviorial problems may become more obvious.  Signs and symptoms of moderate alzheimer's disease may include:

       1)   Forgetting old facts:
                 * continnually repeats old stories and/or asks the same questions over and over
                  * makes up stories when they can't remember

       2)   Difficulty preforming tasks:
                 *followingwritten notes
                 * using the shower and toilet
                
         3)  Common behavioral symptoms:           
                 * restlessness, repetitive movements
                 * wondering around confused
                 * paranoia, delusions, hallucinations
In my experience they see people from their past that have passed on.

         4)  Falls short in intellect and reasoning
         5)  lack of concern for appearance, hygiene and sleeps a great deal more.