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Your Somatologist Sharon Honman Btech

Registered with the allied health counsil for theraputic reflexology - A10312-TR

Monday, January 7, 2013

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You’ve taken down your holiday decorations, but your home isn’t the only thing experiencing a New Year’s makeover.  That’s right, it’s time to spring into the New Year with a new pamper routine.
 

Bodytique, has created some packages to help you look and feel great from month to month at a reasonable rate. Oh yes if the packages don’t suite your needs Shaz will customize a package to suite your needs.


Bodytique goals for 2013:

 

·         To focus on the holistic you (mind, body and soul) in every treatment.

 

·         To help maintain, improve and make you feel better about yourself.

Detoxing your skin


After the festive season our skin takes a little bit of a betting, and yes it’s true that your skin, says much more about you than just how beautiful you are. Clear, radiant skin can be a sign of healthiness and a toxin-free body.
So I came up with 4 easy and not too costly skin-detox tips to help detox your skin. It is not a one-time thing, but instead we should adopt these tips as part of our habits. One should notice an improvement in your skin, just a week.
1.      Flush Out the Toxins
 
Water is the key to detoxifying, and without enough water to help the body flush out the wastes, the body is basically like a pool of poisons, resulting in many kinds of skin problems. On should have 6 – 8 glasses of water a day.
 
2.      Start Your Day with an Antioxidant Drink
A drink? Antioxidants are the knights in shining armour that defeat the attack of free radicals in the body, the harmful molecules that damage cells and procure aging and disease. Though antioxidants are produced naturally in the body, and decline with age, hence there is an increasing need to acquire them from the foods in our diet.
Thus are highly beneficial to the skin, as they help protect the skin from environmental damage and prevent premature aging. So have a berry drink either in morning or evening – berry drinks to have are:

Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, pears, cherries, pomegranates and plums.

 Berry juices

 
1.Put a cup of orange juice, 4 or more ice cubes into a blender. Add ripe or frozen berries of your choices.
 
2.Cover tightly and blend until fully blended. Check it after a few seconds. The consistency should be thick.

3.Pour into tall glasses, garnish with a whole berry floating on top,or for color.

4.Add a straw, whipped cream, and serve.But if you would like a healthier or simpler one don't use whip cream.


3. Sweat it out

 

Exercise for at least 30 minutes every day, the main idea is to increase your blood circulation, relax your muscles and most importantly, get rid of excess toxins through sweating.

 

4. Detoxifying Bath

 

Have a detox bath once a week to eliminate toxins and pamper your skin. Just add the following to warm bath water: ½ cup baking soda (to help neutralize the acids in the toxins).

 

5. Detox facial mask

 

Your complexion needs the same attention as your body when it comes to toxins, by doing a mask every once in a while will help flush out the harmful agents from your pores with the help of these natural and soothing treatments.

 
First of all, cleanse your skin gently to prepare your pores for detoxification.
Banana Detox Facial
·         Free your pores from the oil and dirty excess
Method:
·         Mash a banana and mix it with 1 tsp of honey.
 Apply the facial on your skin and make sure you leave out the area around the eyes. Leave the mask on for 10-15 minutes and finally rinse it off with lukewarm water.
Parsley Detox Facial
·         Use this herb to create a cleansing treatment for your pores and help you flush out the toxins from the deeper skin layers
 
Method:
·         Use the natural ingredient and chopped parsley (1tsp) into a cup of boiling water. Cover the bowl for 15 minutes, then strain the parsley.
·         Let the herbs cool down.
 
Apply the facial on your skin and make sure you leave out the area around the eyes. Leave the mask on for 10-15 minutes and finally rinse it off with lukewarm water.

Importance of diabetic foot care


Foot care amongst diabetics is incredibly important, due to the fact that even small ulcers on the foot can represent a serious risk: they may heal extremely slowly and need rigorous treatment to cure. Ulcers can develop into serious lower body infections.

Due to diabetics your nervous system is even slightly damaged, the extremities of the body can become numb. For this reason, you may not be able to feel foot problems until they have developed. So It is key to ensure you have regular foot examinations.

Your therapist will keep accurate records of your feet thus being able to detect problems that arise. As well as will do test to monitor the following:

·         Testing the feeling in your feet

·         Testing for hot and cold sensations

·         Testing for blood circulation

Not only does our diabetic foot care treatment include examinations, foot treatment care (pedicure) but also reflexology treatment. Reflexology will not cure diabetes it will however, help with the symptoms and improve blood glucose levels.

Bodytique offers diabetic foot care treatment for R 200.00 or Diabetic care monthly program ( full body massage,pedicure and reflexology) R500.00 per month.