ayurvedic body care from nature & herbs

hair1 ayurvedic body care from nature & herbs Body Care:- Body care is essential part of our daily health and beauty regime. Body care means taking care of each and every part of our body and skin. Skin is the most sensitive part of our body so one must be very conscious while selecting any product. Our body care starts with our skin and using just only a moisturizer is not sufficient. Skin varies from person to person so for the dry skin one must use moisturizer at least thrice in a day and should eat lots of fruit and water. All of us want have a perfect body, though it is not possible to achieve as perfect are not the bodies; it is our attitude towards body that sees problems in body. There are real problems too like dry, flaky skin, ingrown nail, extra weight and more. We can do away with these problems with positive attitude, daily routine care and patience. Taking care of our body does not take much of our time; it becomes our lifestyle.
Having robust health is the most important part of body care. To achieve good health, you should follow healthy living. Healthy living is comprised of many elements like taking healthy and balanced diet, daily exercising, practicing yoga, meditation, taking care of your skin and different parts of your body. A healthy body has ability to fight minor and some major diseases by its immune system. Do not pay much importance to minor ailments as our body is competent enough to ward off such problems.
The human body is the focal point of existence. Not only is it a complex operational system, it is the hub of daily interactions. The aging process has an inevitable impact on a person’s body shape. A woman’s sex hormone levels will affect the fat distribution on her body. Concentrations of estrogen will influence where body fat is stored. Before puberty both males and females have a similar waist-hip ratio. At puberty, a girl’s sex hormones, mainly estrogen, will promote breast development, and until menopause a woman’s estrogen levels will cause her body to store excess fat in the buttocks, hips and thighs, but generally not around her waist, which will remain about the same size as it was before puberty. These factors result in women’s WHR (Waist Hip Ratio) being lower than for males.

over weight:-

over weight person apart from looking unattractive, may face a number of other problems too.

Being overweight can actually be due to some internal disease, most commonly this is hormonal diabetes, adrenal gland problems and abnormalities of the ovaries.

People who are overweight have an increased chance of developing skin infections, especially fungal infections.

High blood pressure & heart attacks are more frequent in the obese. So not only for looking good but also for feeling and being fit, it’s necessary for you to lose excess weight.

Body odour:-

Every region of the human body has a different odour some times the odour is so distinctive so as to allow immediate identification of its origin. For instance, scalp & feet odors are easily recognized.

There are three important factors increasing odours in your body:

The pattern & type of secretory glands of the skin surface.

The positioning of the skin itself. The armpits for example make it very difficult for sweat to evaporate and so produce a characteristic odor.

The concentration of bacteria; the skins surface provides nutrients for the growth of bacteria. The number of bacteria are variable in different parts of the body being maximum in parts like the scalp, axilla, genital areas & the feet.

There are three types of secretary glands on the skin. Sweat glands are most widely spread. Some two to three million such glands are present in the skin. The most important function of the sweat glands is temperature regulation. The brain, depending on the temperature of the blood which is bathing the brain, controls the activity of the sweat glands. The average person loses at least half a liter of sweat everyday, though this figure can rise to something like two liters during physical exercise in hot conditions. Sweat glands also respond to emotional stimuli. Anxious people perspire more than others do.Sweat has a slightly acrid smell but this is not particularly heavy in most areas. Because sweat provides little in the way of food to the bacteria to thrive. Areas like feet pose a problem because socks & shoes trap the sweat. The heavy odor associated with the armpits is partly because the sweat can not evaporate easily and also because there are two other glands the apocrine glands & the sebaceous glands at work in this area.

The apocrine glands are also a type of sweat glands but they have a limited distribution in the armpits, genital area, nipples & eyelids. Apocrine sweat is released in spurt, short intervals. This release is not directly under control on the nervous system but is dependent on the sex hormone levels. Even so and can be triggered off by mental & physical exertion.Apocrine sweat is odorless when it is produced. It is rich in fats, proteins, and many other organic materials so it is a rich food for bacteria. The bacteria decompose the sweat to produce the characteristic body odor. The human apocrine sweat is closely related to the musk that many animals secrete to attract their mates. So whether we realise it or not, apocrine secretions probably act as strong aphrodisiacs. So using deodorants does not necessarily make you more appealing.

The third type of secretary glands is the sebaceous glands. They are distributed all over the body with the exception of the palms and soles their largest concentration is on the scalp & the face. These glands are also sensitive to hormones and to other stimuli such as stress, anxiety & sexual excitement. Sebaceous glands secrete on oily lubricant known as sebum which contains cholesterol, fatty acids, waxes & proteins. Sebum, by itself is odorless but it does easily attract bacteria & these can produce strong odors, particularly around the scalp.The distribution of glands across the body has a great deal to do with how strongly you smell. Some parts like armpits & genitals have a heavy smell because they are richly endowed with all types of glands. Further these parts are covered, so water can not evaporate. All these conditions eventually lead to the production of offensive body odors.

Apart from these secretions, the dead skin itself also forms nutritive food for the bacteria. The skin is in a state of continuos change. The old cells at the surface, being replaced by new ones, coming from the lower layer. So, there is always a certain amount of dead matter lying on the surface of the body. It is this dead matter which provides additional nutrition for the bacteria. The bacteria are very pivotal for the production of body odor. There are millions of bacteria living & multiplying on the skin surface. However, much you scrub yourself in the bath, a few million bacteria will survive the on-slaughter and these then rapidly multiply and colonies the skin again. So nor bacteria, neither sweating can be stopped.

But the way to counter body odor is to use unani herbal preparations to minimize body odors and even eliminate body odors by activating the body mechanism to counter the body odors.