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Marceline’s Beauty/anti-aging Secrets

Friday, May 27th, 2022

We have published this somewhere in this blog on a previous date. Recently, however, we have been besieged with requests on what is it she does to look the way she does at 84 years old. We decided to republish -and it took quite a bit to get her acquiescence because she does not like to see her name in public places.

Firstly, she uses no soap. I can hear the scandalized cries on that one. She believes that soap dries out and strips you of everything natural to your body. Yes, that includes showers and baths.

Take a soak in the tub in organic apple cider vinegar. The next time take a soak in the tub in Epsom Salt.

Once upon a time she could afford a massage with Aloe Vera Whole Leaf Gel. Today, it is what she puts on her face after rinsing it those required ten times in plain water. Let the Gel (organic, of course) stay the morning until you are going out and then rinse it off and go your way. Yes – no make up.

Sometimes mix Organic Aloe Vera Whole Leaf Gel with organic powdered milk and put that on your face in the mornings. You will feel your skin tightening and that is a good thing.

Realize – none of this works overnight. It is a natural way to keep away wrinkles as long as possible so it takes a few weeks to see any really good results.

When you have time, after rinsing your face with whatever tightening agent you used, clip open a Vitamin A capsule and rub that on your skin. If you have lots of time, clip open a Vitamin E capsule and put that over the Vitamin A – it acts as a preservative and makes the Vitamin A last longer.

Rinse your face required 10 times before drying and going out.

No lipstick, ever. She believes lipstick has dangerous ingredients that can, overtime, possibly cause cancer. She also believes it looks horrible. Once upon a time only prostitutes wore lipstick and other kinds of make-up until the marketeers discovered they could sell billions of dollars of product convincing women they looked incredibly great wearing chemicals.

That’s it – with the addition of the occasional foot soak in warm water and Epsom Salts or Organic Apple Cider Vinegar. Except for the hair – controllable with Organic Avocado Oil. Daily put a small amount of the oil in the palm of your hand and massage it through your hair. Brush the oil into your hair and out the door you go.

Questions?

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Hair Color – Organic/Beautiful/Changeable!

Sunday, June 24th, 2018

Many breakfast table conversations move into the areas of health and beauty. We have heard just about everything people do to enhance their natural looks and we have tried everything talked about. We don’t put everything out for you to try or know about because we want to make sure someone in the Network has tried it and thinks it is marvelous.

As you get older your hair ages just as your skin, your bones and everything else. So trying to “fix it”, “stop it”, “shape it up”, “strengthen it” and in this case “keep my beautiful locks” can become a constant pre-occupation. A fun pre-occupation, but time consuming – so, expecting great results goes along with the staying beautiful and always at my peak of perfection. My grandmother used to say “when you step out of that front door you should look as though you just stepped out of a band box.” During those years I knew what she meant. Today, I often wonder just what is a “band box”?

Entering into this discussion comes “Henna” – a hundreds of years old solution to all kinds of hair problems. One not so popular today because it is simply a plant which has been mashed and ground to a powder.

Several of us have been using Henna in different ways for several years and it has turned out to be fantastic. It has taken all those years to learn how to get the best results but it was worth the trial and error and the gnashing of teeth. My hair has never been so beautiful and we are 20 times (4) years old, or maybe its is 20 times (2) years old or maybe it is something else?

The Henna we found most usable is the kind which is pure organically grown Henna. No chemicals of any kind added; no preservatives; no anything else – just the crushed leaves of the Henna plant. If you are going to try Henna, make sure it is real and not a part of a mixture of other things.

Now to – how to use Henna for your hair:

First: Wash your hair with a good shampoo. The Henna we settled on advises that you wash your hair with a shampoo without essential oils. I use an organic shampoo with lavender essential oil and it seems to do fine although it is possible that the Henna would last longer if I listened to the experts.

Second: Decide with what you want to mix your Henna. We’ve tried eggs, organic apple cider vinegar, tea, coffee, yogurt and much more. I found eggs and organic apple cider vinegar works best in my hair which is naturally curly and can look unruly if it gets dry – which can be often.

Don’t try eggs and organic apple cider vinegar at the same time. Try one and next time try the other. Inbetween applying Henna I now use a raw egg in my hair after I shampoo. Crack the egg, beat it to mix yolk and white, cover your hair with the raw egg and make sure your all hair is covered while you sit with your hair and head wrapped in something like Saranwrap or a shower cap and wrapping a towel around my head for 1/2 hour or more depending upon what else I have to do. This is the same process I use for the Henna. If I mixed Henna with organic apple cider vinegar. then when I wash my hair in-between Henna applications I go back to using the egg as a conditioner.

I was totally amazed at what the raw egg did for my hair. At first I thought it was the Henna, but after many tries I realized it was the raw egg. My hair comes out softly curled in spite of my doing nothing to it after the egg application except drying the hair with a towel and putting on a bit of organic Avocado Oil to keep it from drying out. I know the effect has not come from the Avocado Oil because I used that before I started with Henna and eggs and after a day or two my hair dried out and looked as though it was breaking off and out of control. With the egg and Avocado Oil my hair lasts looking great for about a week before it needs to be re-washed.

I don’t use organic apple cider vinegar in-between Henna-ing my hair because I didn’t see what good it did. When I use it combined with the Henna the color seems brighter and shinier.

Third: Ready to apply Henna to freshly washed hair – mix the Henna powder (which is ONLY Henna leaves pounded into a powder) with one or two raw eggs which you have whipped before adding and then add enough water to this mixture to end up with something the consistency of a thick, wonderful yogurt – which, by the way, is something you can also add to Henna.(Instead of the egg or apple cider vinegar).

Those who used tea and coffee didn’t see any observable results. Their hair didn’t change in any way neither for the good nor the bad. It didn’t seem to affect the color nor did it seem to contribute to how long the Henna results lasted.

My results last for about two months. After that it is time to try again. It lasts two months not because the color changes or leaves the hair, but because the grey grows back in and I have that color line between the new growth which is grey and the Henna’d hair. What I really like is the new growth once I put in Henna, comes out a bit lighter than the old hair and it sort of mimics the grey and dark brown of my original hair. The lighter color around my face has a softening effect.

I also like the fact that my hair looks as though I have had it streaked as the grey throughout comes out lighter than the hair which is still dark brown and that is also an effect I love.

You have to experiment to finally get the results you like and if you enjoy variety you won’t stop there, but keep on going so each time you step out you have a new look. Not a drastic new look, but one of which you are aware. Friends notice how nice you look. It isn’t dramatic enough to notice and be able to see what the changes really have been.

Fourth: Once you have the Henna mixed the way you would like – making sure the water you add is very hot – apply Henna to your scalp and hair until you have used it all up and have a thick coating with every hair strand covered well down to the scalp and root.

Fifth: Wrap your head and hair with something like Saran Wrap or other material which will hold heat. If you have a salon type hair dryer – where you put your head in the bubble and turn on the heat; or a hand held dryer with the cap attached to the hose that is great. Go ahead with either of them.

If you use the Saran Wrap or a plastic shower cap – the ones you used to get from the airlines when you travel are great for this – after you have covered your hair completely then wrap a towel around your head to keep in the heat. If you have the salon dryer or cap style dryer turn them on for at least 1/2 hour. The darker your hair the longer you need to keep the Henna covered and heated.

Sixth: Once the time has passed – I keep Henna on my hair for one hour for best results for me (you have to decide your best time through trying different times) – rinse your hair thoroughly with very warm water until the Henna has all washed out. Be very thorough in this wash.

Seventh: After rinsing the Henna out of your hair completely, shampoo as usual, towel dry your hair, and add a bit of organic Avocado oil.

Eighth: After all of the above go about life as normal. If you set your hair on huge rollers, do that. If you shake your head, do nothing and go about your business do that also. If you comb and arrange your hair the way you would like it to look when dry and then put on a netting to keep your hair in place while it dries – do that also.

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Weight loss – Health – Beauty

Tuesday, November 14th, 2017

by: Marceline Donaldson

Those of you who know me know I am almost passionate about organic everything – especially food. It is a rare day to come into my home and find food that is not organic. Yes, it cost more initially – but yes it has benefits which justify the cost and which, in the long run actually show you it costs much less, over the long term, to eat organically and surround yourself with a total organic life. Your benefits include better health.

A few of us have just finished a short, but very productive experiment. We worked together to get everything out of our lives that was not organic – food, cleaning products, cosmetics, etc………….The result? We lost weight – have more energy – feel better – and our looks, well, let me not brag, but we look sensational!

Now being at that age where hair turns grey – that is where I started. A couple years ago I started using hair dye. All during that time I worried and imagined what that was doing to my health and sure enough the literature was showing me horrible possibilities that I could hardly contemplate. It is not for nothing that it is suggested that pregnant women refrain from dying their hair. None of those possibilities pointed squarely at the hair dye, but they came awfully close. So, I recently changed to using Henna and other natural herbal possibilities. It struck me that these are probably what our ancestors used in the dim historic times before the oligarch’s took over this world to make themselves ultra rich and me and those like me ultra poor.

Lots of “I’s” in the above paragraph because “I” am the only one who did the hair thing. Everyone else continued on with their hair dye.

It has taken a few months to get this Henna thing straight, but I am amazed at the results. Henna, for those of you who don’t know, is an herb which is commonly used in the middle-east and other places for hair, body decorations, etc.

The first time I tried henna nothing happened. My hair looked nice, but the color didn’t change. The next time I poured lost of Apple Cider Vinegar into the Henna 1/4 cup – 1/2 cup Apple Cider Vinegar made the color work beautifully. About six weeks later, as the grey started to peep through I used Henna with the addition of a couple of organic eggs. The results were even better. I had an uneven hair color which looked sensational. The ends of my hair were lighter than the rest and all through were these little bits of light.

The third time I used Henna was with the addition of very strong organic chamomile tea and my hair is now multi colors. Would not have gone for that on purpose, but this accident is incredibly beautiful. (Sorry, I have never been known for my modesty). I totally didn’t know what I was doing, but experiment was on the table. I was trying to eliminate as much of the red as possible and looking for a yellow gold brown combination. I didn’t get that, but what I did get I like better. Accidents can be wonderful.

One of our small group got rid of all eggs, milk, butter unless they were from grass-fed cows and organic. Yogurt was added – but yogurt from goats. And then the organic coconut oil used as an all over massage oil. But someone else used Grapeseed oil as a massage oil – and yet someone else used Avocado oil. Can’t believe how good we look.

I have become addicted to splashing organic whole plant Aloe Vera on my face first thing in the morning and leaving it on adding liquid Vitamin C and Vitamins A and E during the day. Sometimes I add vitamin B in different forms when I feel stressed out. Can’t let old age creep in too quickly – and bless you, it is working. Don’t think I look old. I think I look about 50 years old. And isn’t that the age cosmetic people advertise as “old age”? When I was actually 50 I wasn’t worried about wrinkling, etc. I was still busy “striving”. Didn’t think I looked old then and neither would those models advertising how 50 is the new 30. With our regimen 80 is the new 40 and much cheaper.

A side benefit that we all found is the weight loss from this change to organic everything. We did not set out to lose weight. That was far from our thoughts although we all needed to lose quite a bit of weight. There is now no need to go on special diets – no need to eat special “diet foods” – no need to receive those meals from all over the globe to keep your weight down. Simply make sure that the meat, milk, vegetables, etc. are all organically grown. And, dessert fits right in. Nothing like an apple tart made with apples on top of a custard base to make afternoon tea special and weight loss possible if all the ingredients, especially the flour for the tart crust, is organic whole wheat flour. the story of what sent me from white non-organic flour to organic whole wheat flour is elsewhere in the Bettina Network Blog. But, be careful, not all organic whole wheat flour is equal. Some cheat. That is one problems with organic everything, you have to be conscious of what you eat, cook and give to others because all organics are not equal, some reach that line and barely squeak pass – and they squeak pass only because there are the billionaires who want more and let their greed cheat us out of good, organically grown food. Aren’t processed foods that which made millionaires by the tens of thousands and dramatically increased the ranks of both the billionaires and the homeless?

The big secret to weight control that we’ve found is starting the day with a very healthy and substantial breakfast. As we see more and more people we are beginning to be appalled at what today passes for ‘breakfast’. A sweet roll out of the worst kind of flour and the most over processed sugar on the globe. However, some aren’t even made of sugar – the processed food people have discovered that fructose corn syrup is cheaper than sugar and goes further and that is what is now used – could over processed and over refined white sugar one day become a ‘health food’ or a ‘historic food’ from the distant past as this trend continues and we become sicker as a world? And indeed it is a world wide phenomena as copy cats come into existence picking up and producing all of the worst products for our health, but the most financially lucrative. Is that what is driving the health crisis we are facing and trying to ignore and deny?

Follow our “Health” and “Health and Beauty” blogs and we believe you will be wealthier, wiser and healthier. A side affect will be your increase in beauty. You will be wiser because you have to take control and know what you are eating and putting on your skin. – Following the advice of the marketing/advertising people is not an option. They have a vested interested and not in your health and beauty. Those healthy and beautiful looking models have had their pictures air brushed and god knows what else has been done to them. It is no accident that models are now in their early teen years. The models of old had to be at least 35 to be considered because clothes and other things didn’t look good on you until you reached that point. Today you are considered old at 40 and many people look the part. Ask them their lifestyle habits and you will see why.

Going to bed with the birds and getting up with the birds is not a bad habit to cultivate.

In the beginning of your journey into health and fitness being suspicious of even processed foods which look healthy is also not a bad habit to cultivate. Learn where your food is grown and by who? Learn the politics behind the foods you are being offered – which means if a particular food is brought to your awareness many times first look to see if a political reason is behind that promoting! You will be surprised.

We did not always have so many hospitals nor did we have so many people sick and dying. That is a modern phenomena! We did not have children’s hospitals because there were not enough sick children to justify such. The elderly died – they didn’t waste away with awful diseases – and people lived into old age with old age not being into their 40’s and 50’s but into their 80’s, 90’s and beyond. How do I know? I lived a life in which I saw all of that and I have seen the development of this new health industry where we are all sick and being sent on a regular basis to the doctor. We have just discovered the way we sent women to get x-rays to determine if they have breast cancer has helped to cause some women to develop breast cancer. Take your life and your health into your own hands and stop being led by those who profit from your bodies.

Just as fear created and grew the insurance industry – fear is feeding and growing the “health industry”.

Take a look at the products you use to clean your house! Lethal – with off gases that could take down an ox! We don’t even know what other kind of ‘products’ we could use to do a better job and which would keep our home clean and its environment healthy. We have lost that knowledge because we have cut off our family’s advice – we look to those trying to sell us something for advice. Or we look to our peers who look to those marketing experts. We need to get out and share with each other what we know that is real. That knowledge from past generations has all but disappeared so look for those who still have a bit and try it.

One thing wrong with immigrants – some still have that knowledge and it could kill this killer society’s profits. Try making friends with those who have recently come from other countries, especially if they’ve come from outlying areas rather than overcrowded cities trying to develop western ways.

And more to come from our little band of beauties.

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How to Look 50 at 80 years old!

Sunday, May 28th, 2017

We took advantage of Bettina Network Hedge Schools and stayed at a house where we wanted to know the wife’s beauty secrets. We’ve seen her for years and thought she was at most 60 years old. When we discovered she was actually 79 we almost flipped out so we immediately made reservations and said in the process that we wanted to spend time talking with her about her lifestyle.

We didn’t say we were going to share it and didn’t intend to, but it was so ‘out there’ that we just couldn’t resist. And, sharing on Bettina’s Blog information about a Bettina family should not be forbidden.

The first thing we discovered is that she uses no soap and thinks soap is what makes wrinkles. Well, we asked how do you stay clean? By showering or soaking in a tub of hot water. What else do you need? God created water to wash you clean. Man created soap to take away your money. Why would you follow that? There are side affects to what man makes – and the side affect of soap is wrinkles. Well, with that I knew this was going to be an incredible three days. What does she use when dirt won’t be washed away by plain water? Well, organic powdered milk, of course, and to my amazement it works beautifully. – And listen people, I discovered she does have “correct” language and when she says “man” she means “man”. That is not a sexist ‘men’ being a term which is inclusive of everyone on the planet. If she didn’t mean “man” she would have said “human” or some other word in that politically correct lexicon of hers.

2. OK! Recovering from that we wanted to know more so we rose early – something difficult for us – and discovered she’d been up for hours. Well, whatever affect that has we just left it alone because no beauty or youthful look is worth getting up at 3:30-4am. She doesn’t say “youthful looking” by the way. It is “looking healthy”. Ageism, you know.

3. The first thing she does is have a cup of one organic lemon with the juice squeezed into a cup of very warm water and drinks it down like medicine. I thought that was great and I could modify it a bit with the addition of sugar, but that was forbidden so I tried straight lemon juice. Not bad, but it takes a lot of getting used to.

4. Then things got a bit rough. No smoking – we don’t smoke so that’s alright. No alcohol of any kind. Well, what is wrong with alcohol, I protested. It causes wrinkles, she said. Well – this is not going to be the walk in the park I anticipated.

5. I searched the refrigerator and the food cabinets and found only organic foods. No nothing else – even the spices and coffees and teas were organic – everything was organic. Water was in a pitcher with a filter and she apologized because she didn’t know how to get purer water.

This is going to take time – especially since that means also – no prepared foods even if they say organic and no gluten free prepared foods – they are just as bad as everything else. So as I re-searched the refrigerator – looking at things on a different level, everything was food – real, unprocessed, food “the way it comes from its creator”.

Now that to me was impossible, there must be cheating someplace here, so I watched closely and they ate only those real foods. Milk, eggs, butter, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers (which were actually there for beauty reasons rather than food for eating) chicken, beef, lamb – all organic products. Oh, this is going to be hard. Her response was – this has to be a lifestyle that you feel is good, right and easy. Oh, and the bread – organic whole wheat flour and home baked – if they haven’t had time to bake bread, you get fresh out of the oven biscuits. One day we even had croissants. Those were several days in the making because she doesn’t have that much time to bake croissants straight through.

I was amazed – this was better eating than I’d done in years and watching a cake being made while breakfast was being prepared was amazing. The cake took maybe ten minutes total to be prepared to put in the oven. More time processing – for example – she put sugar (organic turbinado) in the mixer with organic butter and let it beat for what seemed like forever. She ignored it until she had time to add the rest of the ingredients with a little more beating and then into the prepared pans for baking. I am going to try this because it is 1-2-3-4 and even I can remember those ingredients. Even when I can’t remember what is one cup and what is three cups – common sense gets into the mix and I know one cup must be butter because we want butter to be the least of the ingredients and two cups must be sugar because we want medium sweet and three cups must be flour and four must be eggs.

6. Exercise is a part of her day. But – and this is a big but – I exercise daily, jog, etc. but that is not a part of this exercise regime. She exercises parts of the body I don’t even think need exercising – your eyes for example (and she wears no glasses at 79 years old), and your toes, and your fingers. No jogging, she’s never liked that and the incredible exercises I do she thinks is a waste of time and energy. She suggested I wash the walls, or shampoo the rug or do some gardening outside in the sun without sunscreen.

7. Make-up doesn’t exist. Vitamins are the skin care products – vitamin A, E, liquid C and for those aches and pains a good soaking in organic apple cider vinegar switched off with epsom salts.

I could go on because that is the tip of the ice berg. However, I should say, since I left I understand this is not hard at all. It takes re-doing your lifestyle and ignoring what the cosmetic and other marketeers have trained us to think is absolute, essential and all the money spent on such is going to result in results.’ I knew that last part wasn’t true – I spend about $200/ month on cosmetics and at 57 I look older than my host family looks spending money only on foods.

Her biggest health purifier comes from the fact that she hasn’t been to a doctor in over 50 years and doesn’t expect to see one any time soon. Right thinking – giving to others – being aware of the messages your body gives out – those are the things important in that Bettina Hedge School.

Totally the reverse of everything I was ever taught.

Thanks for the experience. It is one I will never forget.

Bettina Hedge Schools rock. I am not sure where I am going next, but I think living with a classical pianist for a few days while I go to meetings, etc. to give her time to do her thing without me hanging around, sounds like a good deal for both of us.

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Makeup? – Never

Saturday, February 11th, 2017

I love best those ‘girlie’ breakfast conversations where everything is laid bare. Free of all the things one does in the mornings to become the person you want to be – a reflection of all those make-up ads which show you women who are unreachable because their pictures have been blown, photo-shopped, with bumps and lumps removed and skin retouched.

Amazingly, this conversation included a stray male. What he was doing in the middle of this conversation is unfathomable, but there he was, quite excited to be included in what he thought was going to be women revealing their innermost secrets – and to him. Normally, he would be expected to smile politely and leave as soon as he could get away without being rude. This guy loved every minute.

Color took center stage.

I thought I understood what part color played in this makeup business, but this breakfast ‘seminar’ changed that understanding completely.

Even though they were staying at a Bettina Network Hedge School, which is notorious for organic everything – no chemicals in the mix – no artificiality in anything – every woman at the table had on makeup. All store bought and kept in a makeup case carried wherever they travelled.

What they wanted was re-enforcement that their makeup – as they applied it – looked natural and they did not look “made-up. For me, that was astounding. Raised in a family where the last thing in the world you wanted to do was apply make-up to your face and wind up looking like Godzilla’s wife full of pasty stuff on top of even more pasty looking stuff and a face where one could not smile without that makeup breaking into lines and cracking, we were very far apart. I don’t think I have worn lipstick more than two or three times in life and I am now quite old. So, there we were with stereotypes, but at two ends of the spectrum, very far apart. As it turns out I was into as much make-up as everyone else at the table, only a different kind and applied at different times.

If you notice these things – as you age, your skin changes. If you have light brown skin your face becomes a rather dull looking white with eyebrows that turn white, no matter their natural color when you were young, and that whitish dull skin does you no good. I was very proud of my light brown skin. I felt I looked healthier than most because of it. I certainly didn’t have that so-called “white” skin which dried out and became very wrinkly as one aged, nor did I have that darker brown skin which sagged from maintaining its natural oils even as one grew older. And here I was, about to reveal that my beautiful light brown skin, with its touch of a pinkish/red/orange color was not entirely natural, no matter how it looked.

When you are young, your face is blotchy with break-outs all over and what you long for is that beautiful even-toned unachievable skin that is advertised in almost every cosmetic ad from the beginning of creation.

The women brought their make-up to the table and we examined it all very closely. Amazingly, even the expensive stuff looked pretty similar to the stuff that came from CVS, Walgreens, and other such places. Even more amazing was the ingredients – we could not pronounce any of them when ingredients were on the labels. We could only conjecture what was in those bottles and jars which did not reveal their ingredients. We didn’t find any ingredients we knew and when we did they were in minuscule amounts.

When these different ingredients were put on your face, we couldn’t detect differences between the stuff that cost a fortune and the stuff that came from the pharmacy stores. Thy all seemed to give the same look. The difference in the make-up on the table was the amount of disposable income different women at the table had to be able to spend on cosmetics. One spent a couple hundred dollars a month and we gasped, in awe.

My ‘cosmetics’ that morning were Grapeseed Oil, AloeVera Gel and Beta Carotene tablets in oil in a capsule – all organic. I had a lot more, but I wasn’t going to reveal all in one morning and I certainly was not going to reveal anything bringing me close to a couple hundred dollars spent in one month. If I spent that kind of money on my face I would be super-thin, because I wouldn’t have money left to spend on food.

The first thing that left the table was the stuff used to take make-up off at night. With all it was supposed to do, my grape seed oil did better. The next thing out were the ‘astringents’. My Aloe Vera Gel was better suited, did not have chemicals or preservatives of any kind, although it did need to be kept in the refrigerator and used quickly. Not only was it a good astringent, but it also tightened into a mask.

The Bettina Beauty treatment for the face is a Bettina Blog written some time long past, but it is still among the Bettina Network Blogs so I won’t go over it here, but it is necessary to do on a two to three times a week basis to keep your face from sagging, crinkling, becoming pasty white and wrinkly and more. This mornings beauty regimen helps, but does need to be supplemented with other organic treatments.

That Bettina Network Beauty regimen makes all the rest possible.

After we put on the Aloe Vera Gel, we had a few minutes conversation about what it does, allowing it to tighten into a mask. We then rinsed it off with the requisite ten splashes of water and moved on to the Beta Carotene tablets.

I clipped one to put on my face after it was rinsed of its Aloe Vera Gel and there were gasps all around. I looked like something out of a cowboy and Indian movie and I was clearly the Indian – very red of skin and oily of face with the Beta Carotene oil going into my hairline – deliberately.

I should say here that my hairline was showing the grey line around my face where the rest of my hair was beautifully colored, but the hairline was growing in and it was a mixed grey and black, but mostly grey. My eyebrows were also a mixed grey and black, giving me a rather older look, so they took received an extra rubbing into them of the Beta Carotene capsule.

The women couldn’t wait to get to their bathrooms to put on their department store makeup to go out for the day. I cleared the dining room and was left with my red face, dirty dishes and the one male person at the table. He helped me with the dishes, but not before he used the beta carotene on his face. Looking at him, I saw just how ridiculous I looked, but he was confident this was going to solve his problem. He wanted instructions for the day on how to handle this, but I had none. I just go about my day. Rinse my face with ten splashed each rinse whenever I use the bathroom for other purposes. So he left declaring he would do the same.

The next morning we all appeared at breakfast. The women without makeup and their makeup on the table, as we agreed to the morning before. Me and the one male with no makeup bottles or jars in front of us because we didn’t have any to put there. And who do you think looked stunning? The two of us did. By then, the red had been absorbed into the skin and the constant rinses after having gone to the bathroom several times helped remove the excess Beta Carotene color. Our skin glowed.

No grey around the face from hair growing out and our eye brows were a beautiful mixed color of dark, medium and lighter brownish red. And you know, the most delicate and dangerous thing you can do when having your hair dyed or dying it yourself, is trying to match your eyebrow color. That dye will put your eyes out if it goes to the wrong place and will probably also fool with your ability to see even if it is only absorbed a bit through the skin – which has to be absorbed through a bit of your eyelid to make the eyebrows look great.

I looked 20 years younger – with a face that looked slightly flushed, like younger skin looks when you are excited and the rest a beautiful even color. The whitish grey look was gone and in its place a bronze look which almost approximated a day in the sun. I looked very sun-tanned and almost as if I was blushing. He looked the same.

Our one male person had been concerned about his eyebrows and mustache turning grey, but didn’t know what to do about it – and this was a middle to upper level business executive who felt he needed to keep a fairly young appearance to keep his job.

The women were flabbergasted because the only thing we did that morning was to rinse our faces with the ten splashes of warm water. I followed my splashes of warm water with ten splashes of cold water just to look a bit more flushed – only that didn’t last. The Beta Carotene created color lasts about two to three days. On some people it will last a week through many splashed of water. No soap, however. We never use soap, ever, at all.

The women left their make-up on the table and used the beta-carotene capsules on their faces. I don’t know how they faced the day because it takes, generally, putting it on overnight and letting it absorb with a morning rinse before starting out for the day – or – putting it on in the morning and leaving it on all day with several splashes of water rinses throughout the day for the color to become ideal. It will then last two or three days before you need to reapply the beta carotene, but that didn’t seem to bother anyone. They thought the results were good enough to make due and get together a new lifestyle routine to accommodate this new make-up regimen. I would like to have followed their red faces around with a camera as they went about their day, but the dirty dishes were calling.

Whatever they did, the next morning they were all beautiful and ecstatic. One mentioned the difference in cost between what she used and one capsule of beta-carotene, but I had to remind her that the cost added up to more than that because she did need to do constant upkeep with products like organic Aloe Vera gel, all of the oils we talked about and the Bettina Beauty regimen with Vitamin C, D, etc. That didn’t matter to her. Those oils last a couple months and so does the rest of what is needed so she was off to the organic store to supply her make-up case with everything new.

We all wondered how she would get through airport security. They are accustomed to women’s make-up cases, but not those with oils and organic ingredients which are normally thought of as food. We imagined her being put into detention for days while airport security checked and re-checked her ‘new’ makeup for some new kind of terrorist plot.

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Thursday, December 1st, 2016

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Ghanaian and Columbian Skin Care

Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

We have not had enough time to test this out on several people over a long period of time, however, for a few days on about 3 people it has had stunning results.

A previous blog was about Pineapple Skins for Skin care – an old Ghanaian treatment. In conversation over breakfast about that blog we had a Columbian guest who made an addition to that recipe. So, of course, we had to try it and love the results.

In addition to the steam treatment with Pineapple Skins – add Papaya skins to the water before steaming and let the Papaya Skins and the Pineapple Skins simmer together until steam rises. Follow the same method – put a large towel over your head and your head over the steaming pot of water and skins and let the steam from all of the ingredients get into your skin for several minutes. You can do this however you are most comfortable – either over the stove with the water simmering or move the pot off the stove and put it on a nearby counter. If you want to continue and the steam dies down -put the pot back on the stove until the steam comes up again and continue. We chose five minutes because that was all we could handle standing over a steaming pot. Someone else was able to try 10 minutes. The results were spectacular. I would think once or twice a week – depending upon your age and the condition of your skin – would work beautifully. Once-a-week if you are young and your skin shows no damage from age or the over use of cosmetics. Twice a week if you are aging and your skin needs work.

Follow this facial steam bath with lots of splashes of cold water on your face and pat dry with a soft towel.

Then – if you are retiring for the night – use nothing. If you are getting ready for the day out and about, use a capsule of Vitamin A on your skin to add to the results from the Pineapple and Papaya Skin Steam treatment. Actually, I found it takes four capsules – clipped and used one at a time to cover my face. I use 25,000 IU’s. Whatever you use would be up to your judgment. I use this immediately upon rising in the morning and after at least 20 minutes with the Vitamin A on my face I rinse it again with cold splashes of water, pat dry and I am ready for work. If I am staying home, I let the Vitamin A stay until I remember to splash the cold water. Using the Vitamin A, including on my eyelids and under my eyes can cause a bit of a discomfort while it is on. I ignore it and keep going. The result seems to be an increase in my ability to see without the use of glasses. That might be genetic, but everyone before me had glasses by the time they were 55. I am way past that and only need glasses when I read a lot. During the day, I can refresh my face with more splashes of cold water when I go to the bathroom for other reasons. That is such a rejuvenation and a perk-me-up that my face instantly responds and looks as good as it looked with the first splash in the morning.

If you try this, we would appreciate your feedback as to how it worked for you.

We chose the Vitamin A after the facial steam bath because we read the Bettina Network Blog – a long time ago – about the Vitamin A – dry milk – Vitamin E treatment which is also fantastic so we only need to use the steam – probably once a week – maybe not even.

I don’t even use powder on my face anymore. If I have a grease spot or the weather has caused a particularly greasy face, I simply use powdered milk. It is super fantastic.

God bless Alicia Keyes. Hope others will join her in her dedication to no cosmetics. She simply appears the way God made her and she looks like a fresh flower in the middle of plastic replications. I hope she is ready for the attacks of jealousy which are definitely coming from this stance. So many people so very threatened.

Isn’t it great what sharing can do? The need to be better than has caused us to have to live with cancer, obesity, heart disease, diabetes and all the rest because we can’t give credit to possible cures and improvements that other societies use on a regular basis. We must be the continuing Colonials whose way is the only and the best way. I think this collaboration between Ghanaian and Columbian is what it is all about.

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Pineapple Skins for Health and Beauty

Thursday, September 15th, 2016

A suggestion we picked up from a guest from Ghana on using the skins of a pineapple to help cure a fever.

This is something Hillary Clinton could have used to deal with the fever which apparently caused her trouble at the 9/11 Memorial. A little steam infused with pineapple skins before going to the Memorial might have eliminated her problems.

Take the skins of two pineapples – I chose two for very arbitrary reasons. We had fresh organic pineapple for breakfast and used two pineapples.

Fill a large soup pot with water, add the skins from the two pineapples and bring to a boil.

Let this boil for about 20 minutes.

Put your face over the soup pot while it is boiling and make a tent over your head with a large towel to trap the steam. Let the steam get into your pores. Keep your head covered with the tent and over the pot for about five minutes.

This should take care of your fever and in addition, your face will look fantastic as the nutrients from the pineapple skin get into your skin as you let the steam get into your pores.

It will also give you a great hairdo. The steam will make your hair look as though it has increased four fold.

This is an old recipe from Ghana to cure the fever. We added the side beauty treatment to remove wrinkles, produce a beautiful gleam to your skin and do a little feeding of the skin in the process.

We could take this one step further and suggest you use the pineapple skins to make tea. It is done the same way. However, for tea, we suggest you take it to the next level and add fresh organic ginger before boiling the pineapple skins – skin and slice the ginger, add it to the pineapple skins with either honey, maple syrup or organic turbinado sugar to taste. You will have a wonderful tea to put in glass jars until you want to either heat and serve this as a proper tea – or drink it cold. Either way it is exceptionally good.

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Women, Get Back into those Constraints!!!

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Women, girls, ladies, transgenders, your life is about to change. The fashionistas amongst you are going to really suffer for the next decade. For those of you old enough who were fashionable in the 1950’s and 1960’s this will be a historical return to a very unhappy and uncomfortable time. For those of you young enough to look at this as an adventure, you are in for a rude awakening.

The young Hadid followers are looking at getting you back into those horrible girdles. There are comments and rumors that the girdles and corsets and other things that push your innards together making them scream for air and relief are making a return. All during the time you were so constrained and constricted and felt this breath of fresh air when that all went away, that relief is going away and those straight jackets, stomach pinchers, breast-shape changers are returning. Some of the neglige’s and other night wear is also coming with constraints so look at this as a possible 24/7 phenomena.

It was nice being able to go out and about without all of those underpinnings. Look at the work women have been able to do without waistlines pinched in and stomach almost touching one’s back. Well, that scared a lot of menfolk and after a little conference – the higher up machismos decided it was time to bring back one of the little mores that led to inequality and men performing their jobs better than women – men didn’t have those corseted constraints.

There have been periods in history of constraint and freedom. Look at the flowing robes of the Greeks and the tightly laced up underclothes of the Victorians. The freedom side of fashion only lasted a fraction of the time the constraints were in place. Freedom had to come or all women would have the diseases and struggles and depressions and staying home all the time attitudes that used to exist when they had to stay in those body reshaping undergarments for such long periods of time.

I was one of those and know how painful and full of stress it was to walk around smiling with your kidneys, lungs, stomach and other assorted organs in the body being pushed into one another. How I survived is nothing short of a miracle. I think it was the feminist revolution that was my salvation and is the reason for any achievements I have been able to make since then. Burning the bra – with some of us burning the girdles at the same time was no cutesy thing, it was crucial to the success of the movement. I remember being at work wondering how I was going to get to the end of the day without keeling over and feeling a great sympathy and simpatico with Japanese women who had heavy constraints and the Chinese women who had their feet bound. My feet weren’t bound, but they were as constricted as they were when I used to dance in toe shoes. Toe shoes are those dance shoes that make a ballerina, when she walks around with no shoes on, look great from her ankles up and like a candidate for surgery from her ankles to the tips of her toes.

Panti-hose were a god send. But even those began to be made as girdle tops and stocking legs. I even complained about those because my freedom made those feel like a constraining garment. Some women – but not me – ran around with a beautifully made shift and nothing else. They were free of bras, girdles, pantyhose and it was an enslaved persons dream. Well, women made great strides under those circumstances. You looked great – and men drooled – but now, those who regulate such things have been constantly appalled that the strides women made were too great and it is time to move you back into the dark age of girdleship.

I remember feeling so sorry for those Victorian women who needed help to get dressed because first they had to be laced up in that girdle to give them an owl glass shape. I don’t know what these new girdles will produce because the fashionistas don’t have any meat on their bones to push in and their organs are crying out for food. Maybe constraining them through these new girdles will make them so pushed together their organs will start yelling for more space; for some freedom; and will forget about food. That will help those of us who couldn’t pull off the starvation diets to wear those size o clothes. Girdles certainly do control weight, but they demand a heavy price.

Maybe its time for women to demand constant ongoing freedom. Don’t spend your money on your own oppression. Opt for freedom of body, mind and spirit. It is the only way to go and those underpinnings coming down the road deliver slavery, not freedom.

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More on the Weight Blog

Thursday, April 14th, 2016

I am happy the person wrote to you about not using soap. I haven’t used soap for years. He uses Apple Cider Vinegar when he gets really dirty in places. That’s fine – I do that also, but I also use organic dried milk to clean up. A little in the hand and then rub it onto the wet areas needing to be cleaned beyond just water. I assume the person writing is a ‘he’ since he talked about shaving.

You have a blog – from years past – which I picked up on, which is where I got the dried milk idea. You put it out for a facial. Wet your face, wash it with dried milk, let the milk stay on your face and lie down for about 20 minutes. The dried milk rubbed all over your face dries and gives you a skin tightening experience like no other. Rinse lots after your 20 minute rest, dry your face and add moisturizer – not the commercial kind, but clip a vitamin A capsule and rub it all over your face – followed by a vitamin E capsule, to make the A last longer. Before you go out for the day, rinse your face with cold water and pat dry. You will look stunning. If you have a problem with oily skin, use the powdered milk as a powder to keep down the shine and you are good to go. I don’t use the powdered milk as a powder, I have dry skin.

If I weren’t lazy I would give you the particulars of that facial in this blog, but you can look it up for yourselves. As I recall it was one of your first blogs way back when and I have been a devoted follower ever since. Keep on keeping on! And thanks! This is one place I know I can come to and not have to worry about marketing and advertising people selling me something in the guise of giving me information and knowledge.

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Weight, Beauty, Looking Young – always!

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

We have had much correspondence and many breakfasts around the topic of food, gaining weight, losing weight, looking beautiful, how to stay young, etc. – both at Bettina Homes and elsewhere.

We have gathered up all of our notes and this is the result.

Many breakfast discussions have centered around exercise, food choices, weight gain and/or loss and what do these things have to do with looking and feeling fit.

The consensus we have found is the best way to look young may have little to do with all that is discussed in the media and in lots of advertisements, but the biggy for looking young for many decades when all of your friends are clearly aging is to – 1) drink no alcohol and of course, no drugs of any kind, 2) eat organic foods and in moderation, 3) take a brisk walk each day to let the sunshine hit your body and the fresh air circulate all over, around and through you, 4) if you drink coffee and/or tea, make it organic. There are now several organic coffees on the market and there have always been organic herbs over which you can pour hot water for a great cup of tea.

We have noticed that the obesity figures are sky rocketing and wonder if that has more to do with what weights are considered obese. For example, for women it is getting ridiculous. A size 8 is now considered a ‘plus’ size. That is one way to drive the weight industry into making a zillion dollars. And those companies selling exercise equipment. If a woman’s size 8 is a “plus” size, can you imagine the money women are going to spend getting down below that so they won’t be considered ‘fat’ – or a plus size – or obese?

What is very sad is how women look who are now within the range of ‘ looking good in your clothes’? Most I have seen look as though they have just been through a very stringent course of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and have not yet recovered from the ravages of those treatments. Women models have make-up on their eyes which makes them look sunken and sick. A size 14 used to be considered normal and anyone wearing a size 14 looked pretty good. Healthy, beautiful, with lots of energy. I don’t understand how anyone can have energy – without some kind of ‘uppers’ when they eat a salad or less a day. Where is all of this headed?

All of this was brought to the forefront for us when we had breakfast with a model. She was lovely. She was there for the conversation and the breakfast seminar during which everything and anything is discussed. She had black coffee and a piece of very hard bread which she took out of a wrapper in her pocket book. We had fresh organic fruit – several kinds mixed together; a slice of organic bread with cheese on top and a sunny-side up egg on top of that with a side of beautifully cooked asparagus. For dessert we had a New Orleans-style bread pudding with hard sauce without the rum. I don’t know how she was able to have her breakfast with us eating away at the above, but what we were eating didn’t seem to bother her. I guess she has had lots of experience not eating while others enjoy a lavish meal.

From breakfast she had a very stressful day planned. I wondered how she was going to make it through such a strenuous day, especially since she had been exercising – doing her regular morning workout – for about an hour before she came to breakfast. I asked several times what keeps her going given her schedule and her diet. She kind of ignored me, explained she would have a small salad for lunch – without dressing of any kind, and a piece of chicken with a vegetable for dinner. That is her normal kind of eating day.

We wondered about the example this sets for young girls. But we were corrected and told to wonder about the example this set for young girls and young boys since both now had role models who were skin and bones and nothing else.

Thanks for the platform, Bettina people. I have a blog, but you have so many more people visiting your blog that I think I will send you articles I have written from time to time. Loved the house where we stayed. It was super elegant and breakfast was beyond a five star hotel breakfast. What we learned that morning was invaluable and would not have been available, except from the people around the table. They were very special.

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Your 2016 Clothes Regimen

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

With your beauty regimen taken care of – unless someone else has another version – it is time to tackle your clothes.

Advice is coming from all over, at this time of year, on what to do in your closet – New Year’s resolutions to make – and more, all around your clothes closet.

We have very strong advice – ignore all of it.

The worst advice being given out is for you to go into your closet and ‘clean it out’ of all those things you don’t wear. Some say throw out clothes you haven’t worn for a year. Others have guidelines for throwing away your clothes which are just as ridiculous.

We are a throw away society, but somehow our clothes have not come into the discussion. Our advice is – whatever clothes you buy look at them as having to last a lifetime and then some, because you want to keep your clothes in such condition that you can pass them along to your children and grandchildren.

Clothes are not to be thrown away anymore than all those other things that we use and toss should be throw aways.

I have clothes from my childhood and in my closets are clothes that belonged to my mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother and I wear them all. It is a glorious time getting dressed because I put on the armor of the ages – my history on my back. It is amazing how that helps when you get into something that is not quite pleasant or into controversy of some kind or into a very pleasant time which adds to the memories and becomes entwined in the threads which make up your outfit.

That used to be easy to do because the materials used for clothes were long lasting. The silks wore like iron. The cottons lent themselves to many transformations as the generations passed. All you have to do is to be aware and take care of your clothes. That means not throwing them on the floor, but being disciplined enough to take care of them when you take them off. Put them in a dryer on ‘air only’ to make sure you don’t take little animals into your closets and use things like organic essential oil of lavender to keep the moths away from your woolens and other kinds of materials on which they like to feast.

Clothes don’t go out of style. With a little skill with the needle, thread and scissors you can transform and re-create your clothes into something the material never dreamed it would become. Hems go up and hems come down – your widen and then you shrink and then you widen again. You don’t have to wear everything within the same year for it to be relevant and/or something you need to toss.

Those who recommend you ‘clean your closet’ are really cleaning out your pocketbook. Making sure you are ready to be marketed to with this seasons’ styles – just make sure when you do buy clothes you buy timeless items and not the trendy kind. The trend is not your friend. It is what keeps many women broke trying to keep up and look like this year’s models – spending tons of money to look like those 13 and 14 year olds.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a model. I wound up on a few billboards and in a couple places, but what I could do was limited. Why? Because to really model the top clothes you had to be at least 35 years old or older. Why? Because it was deemed you had not lived long enough and didn’t look mature enough to be able to elegantly carry off the clothes being designed. Today, if you are 18 years old you are practically over-the-hill as a model. Those 13 and 14 year olds are who we look to as our style icons. Now there is a sick society. How have we let this happen? Why would I want to wear clothes that look great on my grandchildren? And it is people my age that have the money to spend. My grandchildren have what they are given by their parents and grandparents or what they work to earn at less than minimum wage – so what is gained by using this age group to market the latest fashion trends?

If you keep your clothes in good shape and wear them every few years, they will keep you looking good for as long as you want to look good. I am amazed at how up-to-date and forward looking are some of the clothes made for me as a very young person.

Today, I am searching the estate sales for coats, furs, shawls, scarves, matching hats, etc. No one wants them and they are being tossed out of closets at break-neck speed. I bought a beautiful green sheared beaver long coat for $50. It is so in style that the comments I get are – ‘where did you get that coat’ – ‘I want one of those’ – ‘that looks fantastic’. And I will have it for many years to come. Where did I get that coat? From someone cleaning out their closet who didn’t want that old thing because she didn’t wear it more than once every two or three years and all the advice put into her was that those items are items you toss.

I have a gorgeous pair of gold and black satin dress shoes which belonged to my grandmother. She looked fantastic when she wore them because her legs were her best feature and those shoes showed off her legs beautifully. I didn’t inherit those legs – that part of the gene pool went to someone else, but every time I wear those shoes I remember the times I saw her in them and she becomes closer to me. I inherited many of her values and for that I am grateful. Wearing those shoes or just playing with them in my closets renews many of the things she taught me growing up. Not the least was – ‘waste not, want not” – a saying this society finds foreign. A concept we need to re-discover and to use it in every part of our lives.

My grandmother was a modiste. She designed and made clothes and in her teen years apprenticed to a Parisian designer by the name of Mrs. Wolf. I wish I knew more about Mrs. Wolf or Wolfe, but I don’t. Maybe someone will recognize the name and give me some history of this woman who set my grandmother’s life on the path it took until she died. I also wish I paid more attention to and learned some of her sewing and design techniques. What I learned was through osmosis, mainly, but my head does turn at a well made outfit. I do tend to look at the seams and the way something is made before I take it into my wardrobe and I can wield a needle with a little proficiency. Can’t say the same about my daughters, but I can brag about my granddaughters proficiency at design and sewing. So that talent will carry on – not as their main vocation, but it will run, skip and hop alongside whatever else they do. Hopefully, they will also ignore the marketing and advertising which encourages them to throw away and clean out their closets on a yearly basis so they will have room to add more.

One article advised that you clean out your closet with a well disciplined friend who will not let you ‘get away with’ keeping those things you don’t currently wear. How awful to so mislead the public into an activity which hurts all of us. I just turned a wedding gown into a beautiful ‘dress-up’ outfit. The gown was lace – and the kind you can’t get today. Not the synthetic lace, but the real thing. It was white so I dumped it into a large pot of tea and now it is a beautiful color. Since I didn’t know what I was doing, the color came out blotched and uneven. That only added to the elegance of the newly evolved dress. I saved the scraps remaining. Who knows what they will become, maybe even years from now. The lace will certainly last.

My suggested New Years’ Resolution for you is to avoid those who are telling you to ‘clean out your closet’ and think about the environment, the sacrifices made by those who created the outfit, made the materials, and in some cases the animals whose lives were taken for what you are wearing. Protect your clothes, take care of them and gradually you will come to see a new outfit from an older one, a refresher turn in the dryer, and learn to clean your own clothes so the materials which destroy us and what we wear will not take hold in your household or in your family.

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A Better New Year’s Beauty Regimen!

Monday, January 18th, 2016

Now, Marceline, I am not competing with you – heaven forbid, I couldn’t stand the fallout – but I think I have a better regimen. Based on your work, however.

Follow the regimen set forth in the preceding blog but add the following:

First thing in the morning – have an organic lemon squeezed into warm water and drink it down.

Use the liquid vitamin C and the whole plant aloe vera, but add to it Vitamin D3 which you get by clipping and squeezing a capsule onto your fingers and massaging it into your skin after you have applied the liquid Vitamin C and the organic whole plant aloe vera. Let all three stay on your skin for at least 1/2 hour, but most of the day or night if you can. If you have a little bit of money try this on your face. If you have more money give yourself an all over massage before going to bed – in cotton pajamas.

It is transformative.

You might not want to print in the blog what follows, however, if you do –

I have a problem which probably stemmed from my bad diet as a child. It caused constipation and lots of gas and now I have what I think are hemorrhoids and couldn’t go many places until I discovered a sort of cure –

I can go out in public by using a Vitamin D3 capsule, clipping it open and inserting the oil – you know where – and I am good for the day.

I’ve tried everything and nothing worked. This does. I should add – this works for me, I don’t know if it will work for you.

That lemon juice in warm water has helped me control the foods I eat. It starts my day off by cleansing my digestive tract and making me feel as though I just had a great meal.

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The Beauty Regimen of the Year

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

We have experimented with lots of ingredients to attempt to get the best beauty result over the years. The one that stands out from 2015 is a combination of liquid Vitamin C and Organic Aloe Vera – the whole plant.

They are an amazing combination and from our experience have given the most healthy looking results.

Mix half-and-half in a cup – half liquid Vitamin C with half organic whole plant Aloe Vera.

After your shower give yourself an all over massage with the half liquid Vitamin C and half Organic Aloe Vera mixture

Then you can do one of two things –

1) Put on cotton pajamas and cotton socks – if you are really into this you should also put on white cotton gloves and go to bed.

In the morning, take a shower -because the mixture will be sticky and all over. After your shower give yourself a massage with either Avocado Oil or Coconut Oil – try alternating the two. And then you are ready for the day. You will feel your energy level at high pitch.

2) If you prefer doing this in the morning – after a shower or very warm soak in the tub – give yourself a massage with the half-and-half mixture – put on your work clothes, for work around the house – and after an hour or so take another shower to rinse off the mixture.

And again – give yourself a massage with Avocado or Coconut oil and you are set to get dressed for the day.

Your energy level and beauty/health look will be fantastic.

Whether you use One (1) or Two (2) depends on whether you like to do your beauty regimen in the morning or at night.

We prefer the liquid vitamin C which is in the orange bottle. Some people tried the liquid C in the smaller dark brown bottle. The problem we had with that C is the fact that it seemed to us to be full of sugar, although the ingredients did not list sugar.

Two to three times a week will be great – less is alright, but does not produce the same results.

Inbetween times, take a long 1/2 hour soak in the tub. Put a quart of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar in the tub with you and just enjoy. Eventually, your aches, pains, will go away and if your experience is like ours you will find yourself free from the colds, and other things that those around you seem to constantly suffer.

You will find yourself craving oranges or lemons if you stop this regimen so be prepared. We think your body becomes accustomed to the vitamin C.

One New Years resolution – don’t put anything on your skin that you would not eat. They say you have a barrier which prevents stuff from getting into your body, however, we have discovered that what you put on your skin shows up in your blood stream in minutes.

P. S. When you shower, never – ever use anything except clear, warm water. No soap or anything else. It will ruin the goodness of the above beauty and health treatments and do nothing except pollute the water going down the drain in the shower. Created by Satan is that thing called soap. It destroys your body’s natural oils, which are very protective of you, and it actually does nothing that could be called good for you. The marketing and advertising people have created the need for soap over the generations and have been very good at their job – just as they have created the need for your house to smell like chemicals. Truth has been missing in all of the marketing and advertising. They have gotten us to believe a really foul odor created by chemicals, is actually “clean smelling.”

Be extra vigilant in 2016 of every ingredient in everything you buy and use.

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A New Year’s Suggestion for Better Health!

Friday, January 1st, 2016

We would like to start the New Year by wishing you the happiest and healthiest of days which will extend to the entire year.

We also wish you a year of the kind of work and play that will keep you healthy and will also help change the world. Take care of and empathize with those with whom you share this earth – not just humans, but animals and all the other creatures. Too often we think only humans matter and we generally can also eliminate some of them from our care and concern.

An example of what one man did with a small part of his life during a very difficult time in the United States: “Dr. Paul Bragg opened in NYC, Macfadden’s 7 famous “Penny Restaurants” during big Depression Era. They fed millions of hungry people with healthy vegetarian meals for only a penny! Inspirational music and literature was given out to inspire and guide them.”

To pass along to you something else from the Bragg family – their motto – ” “You are what you Eat, Drink, Breathe, Think, Say, & Do!”

Sometimes, or should we say most times, we act as though what we Eat, Drink, Breathe, Think, Say and Do has no affect on us whatsoever when in reality that is the sum total of who we are.

Finally, we recommend that you subscribe to the Bragg family newsletter. It is free and always full of sage advice. To subscribe you will find a box on the first page of their web site, which can be found by clicking on this link – www.bragg.com – fill in your email address and you are set to receive their monthly newsletters.

Excerpts from their JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2016 newsletter follows:

T. Colin Campbell launched a revolution when he published his breakthrough book, THE CHINA STUDY. Dr. Campbell spent 40 years researching nutrition around the world. What he found consistently and repeatedly is that too much animal protein in the diet – anything that comes from an animal like beef, chicken, fish, dairy, eggs – causes not only cancer, but heart disease, and a long list of other diseases. Doctors and Scientists everywhere are corroborating his findings. Legions of medical and lifestyle experts are joining the chorus: the Epidemic of Disease that is currently plaguing the United States is in large part due to the American Diet. We’ve been brainwashed by advertising, and tempted by low-cost, government subsidized industries to eat too much meat and dairy. Not only that, much of the commercial food in our country is now tainted with pesticides, GMOs, growth hormones, and other cancer-causing toxins! Want to stay healthy? Eat more fresh, organic fruits & vegetables, and Dr. Campbell recommends eliminating animal protein or cutting back to 5%. Your body will love being healthy and the planet needs you too!

January — New Year Resolutions for a Healthy New 2016

Don’t be part of World’s Health Crisis, be part of the Solution! 2016 is the perfect time to begin your new lifestyle: switch to a plant-based diet for you and your family; create a workout schedule and stick with it; learn yoga, meditation, or just plain deep breathing to help eliminate stress. What we eat today is walking and talking tomorrow. Exercise enhances circulation which is critical for elimination, and delivery of oxygen and nutrients to your cells. Stress is negative energy that can build up in your system and ultimately cause your immune system to collapse. Most people can stay healthy by making these simple, lifestyle improvements. Here’s to healthy 2016!

February is “American Heart Month”

Heart Disease is STILL the Leading Cause of Death of Men and Women in America. But did you know that heart disease is not only preventable, but reversible? And in many cases without surgery? Our country has a handful of brave, pioneer medical doctors like Dr. Dean Ornish, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who are standing up against the “system,” and curing heart disease by putting their patients on plant-based diets! And, as mentioned above, exercise and stress management is also important as well as abstinence from tobacco and alcohol! Learn more from the Bragg “Healthy Heart” book and other publications on www.Bragg.com.

ENJOY BRISK WALKS DAILY & HEALTHY Stationary Jogging

Do while watching TV, talking on phone, or at work breaks. It gives your 70 trillion cells a great massage that promotes healthy circulation! TRY IT! You can truly walk your worries away!
Dr. Paul Bragg opened in NYC, Macfadden’s 7 famous “Penny Restaurants” during big Depression Era. They fed millions of hungry people with healthy vegetarian meals for only a penny! Inspirational music and literature was given out to inspire and guide them.

Dr. Patricia Pays Tribute to her dear friend, publishing guru, Dan Poynter

Many years ago, Dan Poynter was an avid hang glider. Wanting to learn more about the sport, but discovering there were no books on the subject, he decided to write his own. The book became an instant Best Seller in the self-publishing world. Since then, Dan wrote over 130 books, became the go-to authority on self-publishing, and lectured around the world. He was Patricia’s friend and consultant for over 40 years! Dan passed away recently, an accident took his life. He will be fondly remembered in a Memorial Service at the Bragg Organic Farm in Santa Barabara, California.

Dr. Patricia Recognized on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars!

Celebrities, V.I.P.‘s, and throngs of Bragg Followers flocked to Palm Springs recently to honor Dr. Patricia for her life as a Health Crusader. A “Star” engraved with Paul and Patricia Bragg’s names was instated for all perpetuity. Patricia also gave health lectures at several Palm Springs venues, including the Palm Springs Health and Fitness Expo where she spoke to standing-room-only crowds!

“You are what you Eat, Drink, Breathe, Think, Say, & Do!” Patricia Bragg, ND, PhD

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Those Eyes are Beautiful Because?

Sunday, August 30th, 2015

I love those beauty seminars at a Bettina Network Hedge School. New to me, but fantastic.

I could only stay one night, but what I took with me will last for years – I hope!

We had a demonstration, after a great breakfast conversation on your eyes. I tried it at home and am going to do this every night until my eyes look fantastic.

We took one small cucumber – organic. Put it in a blender until it was chopped up fine with liquid.

The person demonstrating stretched out on the floor and put a handful of the ground cucumber over each tightly closed eye. The liquid dripped off her face so she had a towel under her head and neck. The remaining cucumber she massaged into the rest of her face – first the liquid and then the chopped up parts and let it stay for about 1/2 hour while we talked about our beauty secrets. There were not many and mine came from commercial products which have cost me a fortune over the years, which is why I was traveling this time to a BN Hedge School.

When she rinse her face – in the Bettina Network’s way of splashing cool water on your face until the cucumber has been washed off method – she looked fantastic. Something happened to the color of her skin although I can’t tell you what – I just know it was different and much more attractive. She talked about how great her eyes felt. “They feel clear and unclouded – like they just had a great bath or a long shower.”

We were told to check Bettina Network’s Blog under “Health and Beauty” for more such beauty tips. I think my cosmetic bill is going down dramatically and soon.

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Coconut Oil Toothpaste?

Saturday, April 25th, 2015

A new kind of toothpaste?

Just when you think you know everything about a food along comes Dr. Mercola and mercola.com with something new.

If you have not subscribed to the mercola.com newsletter, we suggest you do so as soon as possible.

Their latest entry is “6 Reasons to Start Using Coconut Oil as Toothpaste”. To subscribe go to www.mercola.com and enter your email address where it says “subscribe now.” In the search box put “Coconut Oil as Toothpaste.” You won’t be sorry and you will be challenged to think and be conscious about your choices in food and other things.

Coconut oil to inhibit growth of bacteria responsible for tooth decay is a new one on even Bettina Network’s Blog. We use it to clean and oil furniture; to put on the hair after washing it; using it instead of Olive Oil for cooking – we still use Olive Oil for salads where it is hard to beat – and we still use Peanut Oil for frying; and occasionally for an all over massage, but It has taken a little bit of daring to use it for toothpaste. We will give it the Old School try and see what happens.

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Water – Water – Everywhere!

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

From a New Orleans group of folks comes the following advice:

– (we haven’t tested it, only pass it along for your use and feedback. As you can tell, folks added what they knew as this email on water went from person to person, hope you will do the same. We could exhaust human knowledge on water as a health promoter if we all joined our knowledge together in one place. All kinds of knowledge – passed down through the family; picked up someplace traveling; gems to be collected and kept before our supply of water becomes too polluted to be of any help to continue life; old wives tales, etc. Not facts from encyclopedia’s, but knowledge from the storehouse you have picked up from living – your experience.)

“Drinking Water

I suppose if we all drank the suggested amount of water a day, we’d be okay. I need to do better. Starbucks doesn’t count.

How many folks do you know who say they don’t want to drink anything before going to bed because they’ll have to get up during the night!!
Heart Attack and Water – I never knew all of this ! Interesting…….

Something else I didn’t know … I asked my Doctor why do people need to urinate so much at night time. Answer from my Cardiac Doctor –
Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. This then ties in with the last statement!
I knew you need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me.

Correct time to drink water… Very Important. >From A Cardiac Specialist!

Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body: 2 glasses of water after waking up – helps activate internal organs

1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal – helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath – helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed – avoids stroke or heart attack

I can also add to this… My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.

A Cardiologist has stated that if each person after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life could be saved!

I have already shared this information. What about you?

Do forward this message. It may save lives!

“Life is a one time gift”

Enjoy life NOW, it has an expiration date!”

From Bettina Network, inc. we will add – organic lemons squeezed into your water does wonderful things as do limes. We tried to drink the limes straight, but needed water to get the juice down. We looked 10 years younger after a few days of mainstreaming this Vitamin C.

“Overindulge in sugar? Drink lots of water to dilute the affect.”

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Bettina’s Weight Control

Sunday, December 14th, 2014

From a Bettina Network Lifestyle Community Member:

“Well I read through the blogs for the diet but did not find one. ”

However, I did find some great tips. I am drinking lime juice now….. It almost instantaneously curbed my hunger. This was so on time with this being my day of clear liquids and the gad between now and my last meal of an egg sandwich right before midnight. Thanks for this, I will be using up my limes today.

In the spirit of giving back: before you squeeze the lime or lemon, peel it thinly, hang it to dry out. In a couple of weeks, take it, break it apart, throw it in a processor and grind it. You will end up with two consistencies, the more coarse consistency on the top. I separate the coarse pieces and set them aside to use: to make tea; for seasoning sea food; for baking; making marmalades; to garnish certain foods or desserts. The finer consistency I store in a vial and place on the shelf with my baking spices. A 1.5 oz bottle of lemon peel goes for roughly $10 and up , with organic coming in higher.

In baking I use the peel of approximately 1/2 a lime in the eggs, it helps to cut the fresh smell. I remove the fresh peel before baking. The dry peels I add as an ingredient and those go through the fire. I have gotten creative in making cranberry orange muffins. It is quite delightful to bite into tidbits of orange peel.

Lime/ lemon peel tea is great for sore throats, cold or flu. ”

By: CN

Ed Note: Thanks for those tips. We are certainly ready for anything to cut colds or flu – especially if it does not have to be injected into our bodies at Drug Stores. Oops! Sorry – you can tell my age by that slip-up. They changed the name of those stores for this current generation. They are now called the Pharmacy.

Ed Note: We do not believe in diets and you won’t find the traditional kind in Bettina Network’s Blog – if you are talking about the listing of menus giving you what to eat at which meal on a particular day. We believe that has developed to shore up the Diet Industry that is growing by leaps and bounds and making some people lots of money but getting the rest of us into an obese condition. That kind of diet justifies those company‘s where you send for your meals by the week and still don’t lose weight, except for the weight loss by the lightness of your pocketbook. A diet for us is to squeeze an organic lemon into a cup of warm water and drink this when you first wake up in the mornings. AND about 4pm squeeze four organic limes into a cup and drink it before you go off eating everything in sight.

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Victoria Secret’s Beauty Tips We Beat!

Thursday, December 11th, 2014

Fresh from a very successful showing of their night clothes, articles are out about how to look like a Victoria Secret model:) That is far from possible for most of us, not because we can’t improve but because the cost is prohibitive and we either don’t have the money or don’t want to spend the money we do have on a collection of chemicals.

If you are in that camp, we have a few family suggestions to achieve what we believe is better, longer lasting, and much more natural looking.

I saw a woman yesterday, who I talked to very briefly, because I couldn’t stop staring at her face. The make-up was practically peeling off, or running down, she had on so much. Unfortunately, she couldn’t see herself as others see her – especially in bright sunlight – because she is over 70 and her eyes are failing. She sees a much lovelier person than is seen by the general public. So for her and others in the same boat, we suggest the following:

1) For that beautiful, rosy underneath complexion – one that looks natural, makes you seem to glow from the inside out, and feeds and nourishes your skin at the same time so eventually that look becomes you without the additional help, we suggest you use Vitamin A Beta Carotene. Clip a capsule and squeeze out the oil. It cannot be a pill – it has to be the Vitamin A Beta Carotene in oil.

Squeeze the oil into your hand. Rub it all over your face and give yourself a little massage.

Don’t freak out when you look in the mirror because your face will be a bright orange/red. It wears off. It is best to do this when you are alone and don’t expect visitors for a couple hours. We don’t suggest you try this on days when you have to be out and about. Unless you don’t mind stares and in that case, just smile sweetly. You know you are going to look fabulous shortly so the stares won’t bother you.

Amazingly, wrinkles will soften and the orangey/red color will begin to fade away. We try this at least once a week.

After about an hour, rinse your face thoroughly splashing it with water at least 20 times and wipe it dry. Whatever you use to dry your face, make it a rag you won’t mind losing because the rag will be stained the same color as your face.

Or, you can rinse your face and let it air dry – much preferable. But if you go this route, you will have to rinse your face several times during the day. Gradually most of the red color will have faded and by the next morning you will be ready to face the public. Put an old pillow case on your pillows because if you haven’t removed all of the Vitamin A with Beta Carotene your pillows will begin to turn a blushing pink. Your face will go from bright orangey/red to a bit ruddy complexioned, but that is the idea. As time passes the ruddy complexion will be less and that rosy glow will come to the forefront.

Search Bettina Network’s Blog for the rest under “Health and Beauty”.

When you finish with our beauty regimen – liquid vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin D, milk and more – you will be a stunning beauty and will have used not one chemical on your face. In addition, all that you do using these ingredients will begin to heal the damage your have done to your skin using all of those chemicals and you will glow from your natural beauty.

We hope you realize that whatever you put on your skin shows up in your blood stream in seconds. The common conception is that the skin barrier will keep all of those chemicals at bay. However, they don’t get into your body through your skin, but through your blood stream. At least that is what we have been told.

Have a great time dropping 20 years off your face and putting those Victoria Secret Models to shame.

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