Important Principle for Producing Self-Made Bath Soap

Making soaps itself is the best way to get soap with desirable composition and to prevent unbeneficial things to our skin health. The above mentioned materials are still controversial, that efforts to pick out proper and secure raw materials are still considered (debatable). This article more and less can be your first milestone in searching more complete references and infos for producing self-made soap. Man seeks unlimited source to fulfill their needs. Tey require great supports fro the nature and the living environment. The greater the requirement, the larger the impacts that may occur.

Nevertheless, anyone should realize that bad management on enviromental impacts would be a boomerang for the lifes of human, animals, plants, and their nature.

A house is a place where people settle, live, and building families. Therefore, everything related with human activities in fulfilling their needs are expected to be managed properly. So, negative impact of dangerous wates, particalarly soaps and detergent in households, should be managed carefully. Everybody has similar right on the good and healthy nature.

Soaps

The soap as we know today was found for the first time by the arabs in 19th century. Basically, it is made by mixing caustic soda with vegetable oil or animal oil. Since its raw materials are natural, most of the users do not find any difficulties or problems such as allergy or skin damage. Soaps in form of liquids or solids are used for bathing, laundery, or for cleaning househould furnishings and tools.

Massive industrial demand on cheap product, soaps in the market consist of SLS (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate) as its basic material. SLS become the main material for making detergent. SLS is also named surfactant (cleaner agent).

Detergent

As a cleaner, detergent may be the fruit of technology development utilizing chemicals as the side products of oil refinery, and added with other chemical substance such as phosphate, silicate, coloring, and perfumes. Around 1960’s, the first generation of detergent appeared by using Alkyl Benzene Sulfonat (ABS) as surfactant that is able to produce foam. But since the property of ABS which is hard to be decomposized by land-surface microorganism, finally it is subtitued with "Linear Alkyl Sulfonat (LAS) which is believed to be nature-friendly.

In many countries in the world, the use of ABS has been prohibited and alternated with LAS. In Indonesia, regulation concerning the prohibition of the ABS doesn’t exist. Several reasons for the use of ABS in detergent are: its low price, stability in form of cream/pasta and abundant foam.

Chemical Contents In Detergent

Compared to soaps, detergent has superiority for its better washing capacity and stability on betel lime condition of the water. In general, detergent has materials as follows:

Surfactant. Surfactant (surface active agent) is an active substance that has 2 different tips: hydrophyl (water-like) and hydrofob (fat-like). Surfactant is classified as organic chemicals. It has a chemical chain that hardly degraded by the nature. This active material is able to lower water surface tension and to take off dirts sticked in clothes. Technically, it functions as emulsifier. This chemical is toxic if inhaled (by nose), absorbed (by the skin) or swelled (orally). In general, there are 4 categories of surfactant:

• Anionic :

• Alkyl Benzene Sulfonate (ABS)

• Linear Alkyl Benzene Sulfonate (LAS)

• Alpha Olein Sulfonate (AOS)

• Cationic : Ammonium Salt

• Non ionic : Nonyl phenol polyethoxyle

• Amphoteric : Acyl Ethylenediamines

Builder. Builder (former) functions for upgrading the efficiency of the washer from surfactant by non-active minerals that cause betel lime condition of the water.

• Phosphate : Sodium Tri Poly Phosphate (STPP)
• Acetate
• Nitril Tri Acetate (NTA)
• Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetate (EDTA)
• Silicate: Zeolit
• citrate : Citrate acid
Filler. Filler is additional materials for the detergent that dosent have the ability to increase laundery-power, but raise the quantity. For example: Sodium sulphate.

Additives. Additives are suplementary / additional materials to make products more attractive, such as perfumes, solution, whitener, coloring, etc, they don’t have direct relationhip with washing capacity of the detergent. Additives are added for commercial purpose, for examples: Enzymes, Borax, Sodium chloride, Carboxy Methyl Cellulose (CMC)

Soaps and Detergent

Soaps as cleaner dissolved with water in mountaineous area or ex-swamp settlement often cannot produce foam. Because, the nature of soap itself can not produce foam when fused in betel lime water (water that contains certain metal materials or calcium). But, in most cases, the use of detergent and betel lime water can still produce abundant foam.

Both soaps and detergent dissolved in the water in washing will form emulsion with dirts wasted when rinsing. There is a false argument saying that the more abundant the foam the cleaner the laundery. Foam with its wide surface may absorb dust, but since there is surfactant, cleaning is already done without tanpa perlu adanya busa.

Opinion saying that exaggerated foam indicates higher effectivity of the detergent is misleading. Thus, washing process doesn’t depend on the amount of the foam. Cleaning power of the detergent can be improved if washing heated cucian dipanaskan karena daya kerja enzim dan pemutih akan efektif. But, washing with hot water causes the color of clother faded. So for colored clothes, hot water is not recommended.

The use of detergent often raises new problem, especially for those who are sensitive. Detergent users may have skin irritation, itchy, or feeling hot after using detergent.

Usually anionic detergent is added with other aditives (builders) like:

• Ammonium quartener group (alkyldimetihylbenzyl-ammonium chloride, diethanolamine/DEA). We must first realize that, these chemicals are frequently used for cleaner products for body treatment to maintain acidity (pH) formula. The group may cause allergy, eye irritation, dryness, and toxic if used for long period. Carsinogenic substance is already prohibited in Europe but still found in cosmetics formula.

• Chlorinated trisodium phospate (chlorinated TSP). This chemical has carsinogenic nature.

• Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). This substance may transform immunity system and cause damages on the eyes, digestion system, neurons, lungs and skin. Generally, SLS was found in effervescent products for body treatment. SLS is probably registered as component of semi natural products claimed to have been made of coconut oil.

• Sodium laureth sulfate (SLES). When combined with other substances, SLES forms nitrosamine with carsinogenic effects on the body. A scrutinized treatment is required toward semi natural products made from coconut oil.

• Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate (LAS). This chemical substance is carsinogenic too.

The Impacts of Soap and Detergent To Health and Environment

• The groups of ammonium quartener are able to form nitrosamine compound. Nitrosamine was known to have carsinogenic property, thay may trigger cancer.

• Chemical compounds sucah as SLS, SLES or LAS are asily react with ammonium quartener compound group, such as DEA and forming nitrosamine. Moreover, SLS was identified to cause irritation on human skin, slowing healing period and causing cataract in the eyes of adults.

• LAS is relatively easy to degrade biologically rather than ABS. LAS may be degraded up to 90%. But the problems don’t stop till here. LAS also needs processes. Thus, the tip of its chemical chain should be broken. Its omega ties must be broken off and beta-oxydated. So, it really takes time.

• According to an experiment, it takes 9 days for the nature to decomposize LAS. And it maximally reaches only 50%. Because of many households are just wasting their laundry wastes without previously process it, nature is expected to be able to handle this job.

• Before being wasted and mixed with clean water material, laundry wastes require a complex management. In order to decompize detergent compounds, wastes have to be gazed with sufficient ultraviolet ray and precipitated for about three weeks. That is why countries permitting LAS mostly have feasible water management system.

• The decomposition of detergent would produce benzena residues. These residues, when react with chlor, would form the very dangerous chlorobenzene. The contact between benzene and chlor is very possible in the manufacturing of drinking water, as chlorine were used extensively (where chlor is the main material). Chlorine functions as bactericidal in chlorination.

• Presently, water installation belongs to The National Drinking Water Company (PAM) and industrial wastes installation stil don’t have proper technology that is capable of processing detergents perfectly.

• The application of phosphate as builder in detergent needs to be reviewed, concerning that this compound may become one cause of eutrophycation (the enrichment of excessive substances) in rivers/lakes characterized by vast growth of algae and eceng gondoks, which in turn contributes to the shallowing river, a death signal for the life of the river inhabitants.

• In some European countries, the application of phosphates has been forbidden and replaced with substitutional compound which is relatively environmental friendly.

• The application of detergents has brought risks for human health and the environment. The most minor risk is iritation (hot feeling, itchy, and pelling off skin) mainly in the area that has direct contact with the product.

• This is caused by the high level of acidity. In a condition of being irritated or wounded, softener products that contain perfumes would only make the irritation become worse.

• Bath soap produces too many foam. The formula of detergent and soda ash was recognized as powerful to lift dirts on body skin. But if you apply this soap on your face, your facial natural oil would be removed also. Moreover, it leaves some drying residues on the surface of your face. And this may quicken wrinkles faster than it should.

Tips

Our green environment needs to be cleaned, why we care about the ecology, but in the same time let our own houses in a mess? The reason is that the materials are dangerous instead of environment friendly.

Keep in mind that you always have to put attention on the composition of the detergent, your soap, and other cleaner products to ensure that your product is safe. Keep looking for information on chemical substances that may damage your health and the environment, and spread these infos to others.

Truly yours and have a nice work
Sapto T Poedjanarto
Program & IT Officer
Demak Lantern Indonesia

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THE BENEFITS OF SOYBEAN FIBER FOR HEALTH

To some people, food dregs are only assumed as unbeneficial energy source. Some studies showed that fiber or dregs are good for health, prevents constipation, cancer, colonal infection, lowering cholesterol, controlling sugar level in blood, prevents haemorroids, lowering bodyweight (as diet products), etc. Dregs and fibers are good both for health maintenance, disease prevention and therapy. There are some diseases associated with the lack of food fiber: obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, aterosklerosis, diabetes, gall stone problem, diverticulosis, haemorroids, hiatal hernia, colon cancer, toothache and etc. Approximately two third of hypertension cases are caused by obesity or overweight problem.There are some reasons why food fiber may prevent obesity. First, fiberless food contains much more energy compared to those which is fibric. Fiber raises chewing intensity, slows down eating process, and impedes the velocity of food digestion. Fiber-rich diet may increase fat excretion and nitrogen through defecation. Consuming fibric food gives longer sated feeling than non-fibric ones.
In 5 BC, Hipprocrates suggested that bread is better made of crude flour. The vital role of fibric food is its capability in bending water, cellulose and pectine. With fiber food remnants are excreted faster from digestional system. Without the help of fiber, faeces with low water content will stay longer in the intestine and has some difficulties caused by slower peristaltic movement. More fiber absorbs more water that consistency of the faeces is softer with larger volume.
Fiber is necessary for human body. Therefore, we are suggested to consume sufficient everyday. Some benefits of healthy fiber are: normalizing cholesterol level, reulating and stabilizing blood sugar level and body energy, reducing colon cancer, constipation and haemorroids, helping those suffering insulin resistency, smoothing defectaion and particularly those with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), retaining normal bodyweight.
The bodyweight becomes normal because fiber makes stomach feels sated and this is caused by soluble liquids that helps stabilizing blood sugar levels and cholesterol levels on diabetes sufferers.
Some food containing high fiber are vegetables, fruits and soybean. A research in America proved that high fibric diets –approximately 25 gram/day may improve blood sugar levels, lowering exaggerated insulinin blod and minimizing blood fat levels.
The most obvious benefit of food fiber is to prevent constipation (defecate difficulties). Difficulties you had probably are caused by your bad eating pattern which neglects fibric foods, so that you’ll have longer transit time when defecating, maybe only once for 2-3 days. Longer transit time brings greater chance for bacterions and disease agents to activate themselves in human body.
Conversely, shorter transit time is better for much more fiber absorbed in the body. This way, disease agents do not have time to be active. They go out altogether with faeces. This way again, risks for cancer and malignancy will be reduced in the bottom part of digestion channels, for example colon cancer.
Many researches proved that food fiber in the colon would make the transit period of food passing through the gastrointestine become more controlable. Fiber also helps reducing high level of blood cholesterol and stabilizes sugar level in blood also.
Phytofiber is a group of chemicals with anti digestional enzyme property thus unbreakable. Since it is undigestable, the excrement is thus become easier.
Some types of diseases that may be prevented with fiber consumption are:
1. Constipation
High fiber food consumption would produce larger faeces, thus stimulating the peristaltics of large intestine. In addition, fiber also forms smoother and slippery faeces thus not causing pain.
2.Hemorrhoids
Fiber is useful for smoothing and big faeces, thus the work of colon may be minimized. Hard texture faeces makes the person strain his/her muscles harder everytime he defecates and weakens his/her colon at once. Thus, there is the risk for hemorrhoids or blood channel enlargement in the anus.

3. Intestinal Problems, Diverticulosis
Some adults with more than 45 years old of age commonly suffers from diverticulosis. This condition takes place for intestinal surpress that cause abnormal kerns in the wall of large intestine in some kind of ulcers. These ulcers bend faeces and stimulating painful inflammation. Food fiber may push faeces to be went off easily, so that these ulcers may become smaller and eventually lost in some periods of time. Though it is doesn’t bring any remedial effects, fibers may help preventing diverticulosis.
4. Obesity
High fibric food usually has low chalory. High chalory content is the source for obesity when not being balanced with equal energy burning. In addition, soluble fiber is able to slowing down the absorption of sugar and fat in the bloodand giving longer sated feeling and delaying appetite to eat.
5. Diabetes
Not only sugars, carbohydrates in the body will be transformed into dengan enzim pencernaan tertentu. Kenaikan kadar gula darah dapat ditekan jika karbohidrat dikonsumsi bersama serat makanan khususnya yang serat larut air. Ini akan sangat bermanfaat bagi penderita diabetes, baik tipe I maupun tipe II.
6. High cholesterol and coronary heart complication
Coronary heart disease is the main cause for death in almost every country in the world. A research showed that there is direct relationship between the concentration of blood cholesterol with coronary heart disease. This kind of fiber is water soluble and believed to be effective in lowering bad cholesterol in the blood up to 5% for its ability to trap fats and throw them away through faeces.

7. Cancer
When food comes at large intestine, some microbes would decomposize them in form of toxic residuals. If contacts with intestinal mucose takes place, in certain period, for example chronic constipation, this toxic compound may trigger cancer in large intestine or colon. The case of death because of colon cancer took place is number 4, the second as highest cause for death cases of cancer. Suficient fiber consumption speeds up faeces transit in the intestine; that the contact between inmtestine wall and carsinogenic substances brought in food are much shorter, thus minimizing chances for cancer. Consuming fiber rich food would reduce rsik of oral cancer and throat cancer tenggorokan to 50%.
8. Raising Body Immunity
In our large intestine there are many bacterias both useful for health and body immunity to resist bad bacterias brought by consumed food.
Fibers, especially the soluble ones, are probiotics and food for “good” bacteria. Fiber fermentation in large intestine increases the growth of lactate acid (bacteria producers), which help preventing toxin accumulations and pathogenic bacteria that cause diseases.
Most of world health organizations suggest that to maintain health, adult people must consume food fibers as much as 20 to 35 grams per day. While children under 10 years of age need 5 to 10 grams fiber per day. Children 10 years of age should consume 15 to 20 gram fiber per day. Consuming 30-40 gram fiber per day can minimize the opportunity of chlorectum diseases such as diverticulitis and cancer.
To raise fibric food consumption one may pick out fruits, vegetables, and soybean products.
Consuming fiber extract or fiber-rich supplement in form of pils, tablets or powders are less recommended for they cause constipation, particularly when the person had lack of water consumption. Consuming calomels is less recommended also since it causes irritation on intestine especially when the doze is excessive. Consuming fibers coming from food directly is better than consuming in form of supplement.

Don’t be senile in your productive ages
Actually the brain never lost its memories. It works and records all things like a computer. Senility occurs since we don’t practice things we’ve memorized and try –time after time- to recalling informations. This what makes we lost our memorizing ability. Brain is just alike with any part of the body which needs physical and mental exercises simultaneously and requires nutrition too. Some steps recommended to maintain our memorizing ability are as follows:

Soybean Consumption
According to Professor Sandra File from Guy’s Hospital, London, soybean has isoflavon content acting as estrogen reseptor in human brain mainly hyppocampus asa important area for memory so that making new neural connection to be more ready.

Iron
An experiment in Kings College, London and University of Rochester, New York showed that decreasing consumption of iron may hace detrimental impact on IQ level and cognitive function since iron plays important role in transforming brain signals.

Mental Exercise
This study showed that mental stimulations can preserve the brain to stay healthy and may raise memory capability. Person with good memorizing ability tends to give quick response to mental exercise challenges.

Physical Exercise
A half hour exercise three times a week has effects on brain strength since bodywork may improve heart performance to pump the blood more effectively.

Gingko biloba consumption.
This herbal is used as memory intensifier for ages. According to Dr George Lewith, gingko may improve blood circulation to the brain by sirkulasi darah ke otak by enlarging blood channels (intravena) thus raising oxygen supply.

Fish Oil.
Fish oil has Omega 3, an important component of brain cell membrant and may improve memory capacity.
Vitamin B.
Vitamin B supplies the brain with oxygen and protects it from damages. It sharpens and raises memory capacity. Vitamin B is needed to help the body in forming acetycholine, a chemical matter that is vital for raising memory capacity. Niacin or B3 is good for strengthening the brain. B6 is pivotal for the neurotransmitter production and mending one’s mood. B12 is good for brain health in general. (Natural Magazine 02.2005)

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ROSELLE

This plant is known with the name Roselle (Hibiscus Sabdariffa L) coming from India. Other said that it comes from western Africa. This plant can be easily found in many places in Indonesia with various local names: asam paya, asam kumbang, and asam susur. In western India it is called Jamaican Sorrel. Roselle grows generatively (by seedlings) or vegetatively, with height up to 3-5 meters and flowers throughout the ear in each armpit after reaching the age of 45-60 days. Flower is the part of the plant often made for medicine and for food materials such as jam, candy, red tea, and juice. In addition, roselle is used for tonic for its important substances to the body, on eof the important is vitamin C.Substance and Nutrition
Roselle has high anticyanin and acid within it, thus the extract of Roselle flowers spout reddish and violet-like liquid with the main acid taste consist of citric acid and maliec acid.
Amino Acid is also contained in this plant mainly as arginine and lysine. When these elements go together in synergy with other types of amino acids such as glutamic acid, then it will become powerful to move body hormones that resist aging process. Its ascorbit acid and vitamin C are also high than in any other plants lain. A research found that each 100 gram of Roselle flowers has 224.4 mg of vitamin C compared to 100 gr papaya 71 mg Vit C, strafruit 25,8 Vit C and orange 49 mg Vit C.
Several analyses held in Guatemala showed that this roselle flowers had: carotin 0,029 mg, thiamin 0,117 mg, ribovalvin 0,277 mg, niacin 3,765 mg.
Other contents cover polyphenol in form of tea which is very good as anti oxydant and useful to neutralize free radicals that trigger generative diseases. The flowers and the fruits has flavanoid which functions as antibiotic, and filtering toxins in the body.
Glucose hubiscin is also believed to be useful for regulating sugar levels in blood for diabetes mellitus sufferer.
Roselle flowers contains gossy, anthocyanin that has diuretic effects and choleric effects, easifies wee-wee process, reducing heartburn, increasing the performance of intestine and lowering hypertension, while high content of Vitamin C is useful for raising body immunity.
This flowers are also used as raw material for cosmetic cream for its betakaroten and high Vitamin E.

The Benefits of Roselle Plants
Traditionally, Roselle flowers are used as raw material for meals, drinks and herbal medicines. In Guinea, Roselle leaves are used as diuretics, lowering body temperature and pain reducer. Its fruits are useful for curing scorbuts. Its flower stew are used as preventor for gall disease (though this method is not suggested because stewing lowers its content). Gossypetin, anthocyanin, and glucose hibiscin had diuretical and choleretical effects, thinning blood, preventing hypertension, and improving intestinal performance.
In Taiwan Roselle was used as diuretics, calomel, and tonic (aphrodisiac). In Philiphine Roselle was used as aperitive and tonic. The people of Angola used its saps for emollient. African people used its leaves for skin wounds and Roselle seeds are eaten fot its oil content. Sudanesse used processed Roselle as their national and traditional drink. They named it Karkadeh.
PT Demaco Indotama, located in East Java processes Roselle as red tea Hibiscus with different basic material and more peculiar property more than ordinary tea.
According to A Naufal Ag Putra, Roselle flowers made as tea are proved has anti-hypertenson effect, cramps, and bactericidal. A study found that Roselle tea extract reduced the bad effects of alcohol in our body, preventing renal problem, and slowing the growth of fungi/bacteria/paracytes that cause high fever. Roselle flowers are known to be able to help smoothing blood circulation and lowering blood viscosity level, this happens for organic acid, polysacharydes, and flavanoids contained in the sheath of roselle flowers. (Natural Magazine 06.2005)
We provide you both crude and powder of simplicia violet Roselles. Click here to order.

The benefits of soybean to health.
Soybean is one species of beans with the Latin name Glycine max (L) mer. Soybeans are widely cultivated in rice field area after harvest time. Among people soybean was popularly known as consisted of 2 varieties: yellow and black, besides these two we may find green soybean also. Green soybean is less popular and rarely cultivated, sme of the people know nothing about this species at all.
Soybean contains protein, iron, calsium, Vitamin A and B higher than other types 0of beans. Other contents are unsaturated fat, linoleat, oleat and acrahydrate functions as lippotropicum: a substance that may prevent fat stacking in the body. Its also has high fiber content, helps metabolism and minimizes cholesterol level in the blood, it has mutagenics, anti cancer, and genestein, phytoesterogen compounds in soybean may retain the growth of tumor and cancer cells. Other diseases that may be prevented or neutralized with soybean are diabetes, cough, edema, renal problem, rheumatics, anemia, anti-hypertension, avoids heart attack, hepatitis, diare, and stomachache. Soybean contains isoflavons: compounds similar with estrogen (estrogen like) and has potential as Selective Estrogen Reseptor Modulator with positive effects to bones, just like raloxifene, since it comes from plants we named it phyto-estrogen. Many researches suggest us to consume natural estrogen, such as isoflavon cause it doesn’t have any negative side effects.
Isoflavon is of flavonoids, polyphenolic compound that mainly found in fruits, vegetables, seeds, including genistin, daidzin, genistein, and daidzein. Soybean is the most prominent plant containing daidzein as much as 10,5-85 and genestein 26,8-120,5 mg/100g dried weight.
Bahram H Arjmandi and its collegues from Departement of Nutritional Sciences, Oklahoma State Univesity reported that post-menopause women consuming 40 gram soybean protein everyday for 3 months, significantly had their deoxypiridinoline (Dpd) excretion lowered in their urin. Whereas, Dpd is specific signal for bone cells resorpsion. There are two reasons why soybean raise bone forming: first, soybean isoflavons stimulates osteoblasti activity (bone cell forming) through estrogen reseptors activity. Secondly, soybean isvoflavon may increase the production of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1).
Several studies held by Susan M Potter et.al (Departement of Food Science and Human Nutrition Illinois University) had also indicated that as preventor or neutralizer for diseases, soybean protein supplementation containing 56 mg and 90 mg/day isoflavon for six months to 66 post-menopouse women. The results showed that its density of bone minerals in 90 mg/day group was increased, while in the group 56 mg/day group no changes took place.
The Japanese consume soybean approximately 35-200mg/day, this sems to be related with the small number of osteoporosis cases in Japanesse women. But in Indonesia, people consume more than 40mg/day isoflavon or equal with 13,3 soybean/day. This consumption rate may be able to help reaching the peak of bone mass but is too small to retain bone mass loses on women with more than 40 years of age, post-menopause women and the elderly.
Experts in China said that by consuming soybean rich food may reduce cancer risk kanker in woman’s stomach. An experiment on 1700 women held by The cancer Instuitute of Shanghai said that the greater the amount of soybean consumption, the smaller the risk to have cancer. This experiment took data from 832 Sanghai women with 30-69 years of age. They are positively diagnosed to have cervix cancer and tomach cancer during 1997-2001, while 846 healthy women with the same age group, after five years evaluating the levels of their soybean consumption, found that women suffering stomach cancer and consuming soyben less than healthy women. Therefore the phenomenon of stomach cancer in among Asian women is smaller thanthose living in western countries. There is a large probability that soybean consumption such as tempeh and tofu is higher in Asian countries. Isoflavon consumed by asian women is 25 times larger than women living in western countries. (Natural Magazine 06.2005)

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SOME TIPS TO CHOOSE HONEY

Honey is natural liquid with sweet taste produced by honeybees. It comes from floral nectar or other parts of flowers (extra floral nectar) or insect excression. Nowadays, many types of honey we easily find in the market with various trademarks and packings. Thus, we need to be careful when choosing honey, concerning its originality. Most of honey producers are courageous to give guarantee for their products, apart form the fact that their products are truly pure and original. Therefore we need a technique to gain evidence. Because it doesn’t guarantee us if we buy honey directly from the producers or the breeders then it means we buy the pure ones. Since there are too many bad guys out there, mixing the pure with sugar or chemicals or essences, anytime, anywhere.We may say that the honey is pure and original if from the beginning of production process till finishing or packaging, there is no mixing with any other liquids except the natural ones of the bees.
The purity can be analyzed through the contents which modern scientific methods had identified some of them, and some others can not be identified by science. The quality of the honey in Indonesia is regulated with Standar Nasional Indonesia (SNI No. 01-3545-2004). Thus honeybee products with SNI standards are the most secure and safe product to consume.
Nowadays, we can still meet persons who are hesitate of the ability of honey in medication and health maintenance, though Allah Azza Wa Jalla has given His recommendation. And reality and human experience have proved its effectiveness in medication.
The truth about the efficacy of honey has been mentioned in the Qur`an (An-Nahl: 68-69) and some hadith. The moslems agreed that honey is the best supplementary drinks. A moslem who is not sure about the truth of Quranic verses is hesitated as a “real” believer. How can a moslem rejects what his or her God said in Soora An-Nahl: 68-69, and all the hadith that explain about the efficacy of honey? What is his reason to reject his God’s revelation that honey is medicine for all diseases? (for example: some people prohibit diabetes sufferer to consume honey for its sugar content. It should be known that sugar contained in honey is not similar with that in sugarcane, etc, the fact shows the opposite: many diabetes sufferers have been cured or healed after consuming honey ruotinely).
Empirical evidences aso proved that honey is powerful as medicine. The most usual honey utilization is by drinking it regularly to maintain health (preventive) or for remedial purposes (curative). Honey also can be used effectively for curing external wounds by scrubbing it directly to the wounded body part.

What makes honey as medicine?
The truth about this is mentioned in the Quran. The holy book says that the benefits of this drink is eternal till the end of the time and will not be replaced by the opinion of some scholars who say that it is not good for health. Some scientific evidences had also shown its medical function: it has anti-microbial property for its high sugar content (most of them are fructose), low level water content (microorganisms need water to grow up), acidity, dan hydrogenperoxyde appear as a result of glucose reactions of the honey with the water. Hydrogen peroxyde is the main killer for microorganisms (anti-septic). Honey also had a unique nature as antioxydant (pinocembrin) & flavonoid that functions as anti-bacterial agent (bactericidal).

Can Honey Cure All Diseases?
In the Qur’an honey is mentioned to have medical function, as medicine for human (An-Nahl: 69) without any quotation that it only cure certain diseases. Therefore there is a likelihood that honey is suitable to all diseases, including modern ones which the medic still cannot identify the medicine. We feel certain about how powerful honey as medicine since the news revealed from God (Al-Qur’an and hadith) dan demikian juga banyaknya zat yang terkandung dalam madu yang belum sepenuhnya bisa didefinisikan oleh manusia modern, memberikan harapan madulah sebagai jawaban atas problem kesehatan kita sekarang dan di masa yang akan datang. Beberapa hasil penelitian yang sudah ada madu dapat digunakan untuk pengobatan sakit perut, pengobatan pankreatitis akut, pengobatan kanker, pengobatan tumor, pengobatan luka pada penderita diabetes, dan sebagai anti biotik untuk segala macam penyakit. Demikian juga madu cocok untuk pengobatan penyakit sederhana seperti; bisul, jerawat, dan sejenisnya melalui proses osmosis yaitu madu menyerap nanah atau cairan yang terdapat dalam bisul dan sejenisnya. Sebuah studi penggunaan madu untuk 104 pasien luka bakar setelah 1 minggu, 91% pasien bebas infeksi dan sembuh lebih cepat, dibanding obat konvensional hanya 7% yang bebas infeksi. Studi lain pada pasien bedah caesar juga membuktikan keampuhan madu sebagai salep dibanding pemakaian alkohol dan iodine. Madu membuat pasien bebas infeksi & sembuh lebih cepat.

All Honey Had The Same Merit?
Since honey is produced by bees from different flower nectar so that the composition in one honey can be very far different with others. Thus it is natural if one type of honey is more suitable to certain diseases while the others are not. But, generally remedial substances are contained in most of honey type as long as these honeys are pure. The efficacy depends on its quality. The processing may damage its phytonutrient with its anti cancer and anti tumor properties. Bad processing makes bactericidal component, anti virus, and anti fungi become perishable.

How to Choose Good Quality Honey?
Honey with good quality is that in accord with national standards in a country. In Indonesia, SNI gives the criterion 22% of water content. The lower the water content, the longer the durability (finding in Egyptian pyramids indicated years) juga akan lebih efektif khasiatnya untuk pengobatan.

Is Honey Safe For Diabetes Sufferer?
Diabetes sufferers usually have problems in their insulin production. Insulin is necessary for breaking off sugars (particularly suchrose, disacharydes type) in order to make them absorbable to the body. Sweet taste in honey is of different type of sugars (particularly fructose, monosacharydes type) which is absorbable to the body without any aid of enzymes. A research on the effects of honey on diabetes sufferer type 2 found that pure honey does not increase sugar level in the blood. Honey is “so natural” that is safe for diabetes sufferers. Scientifically, there are some strong evidences that honey is very effective for curing wounds caused by diabetes (Dr. Jamal Burhan, University of Alexandria, Egypt).

Can Honey Lower The Cholesterol?
A study held by some Russian scholars found that 75% patients had their cholesterol lowered after carrying out honey therapy for 3-6 months. Other study regarding the effects of pure honey on high level cholesterol patients found that this dangerous body substance may be lowered to 8%, LDL decreased to 11%, and reactive protein C (risk factor for cardiovascular disease) fall to 75%.

Can You Have Honey For Diet?
Honey is the source of energy and chalory consisted of simple sugars (fructose), proteins, and a few complex sugars. One tablespoon of honey contains +65 chalories. If we have 2 tablespoon of honey in the morning, it’s equal with +130 chalories for 2-3 hours activity. For you who want to get lower body height may consume 3-4 tablespoon in the morning and you may add other 1-2 tablespoon around 10 o’clock in the morning, this way you’ll not be starving in the noon, because you still have sufficient energy. In the night you may have another 2 tablespoon before dinner. With this diet pattern your appetite will be reduced because you get your energy from honey, therefore other food consumption can be surpressed. (Dr. Yusuf Abbas dari Malaysia).

Proper Doze For The Healthy and The Sick
As prevention, healthy people may consume honey for maintaining health and stamina; 1-2X a day 1 tablespoon is already feasible. For curative purpose, 3-4 X a day 1 tablespoon.
Some faults regarding honey we often find in the society is caused by the lack of their knowledge on this product, these wrong assumptions for example are:
* Pure honey blows when we open the bottle cup.
In fact this kind of honey indicates its poor quality, for its exaggerated water content which triggers fermentation and gas.
* Pure honey is always being crowded by ants.
Honey contains sugar or sweets that attract ants. But the kind of sugar contained in honey is different with sugar we usually use in our kitchen, so it doesn’t guarantee that if honey is crowded by ants then it is pure and original.
* Crystalizing is the sign of purity.
Some types of honey like rubber tree honey crystalizes, but it can be liquefied through heating and still safe to be consumed.
* Pure honey is honey with clear and complete information regarding its acquirement (line from the first party who produces honey/ breeder/hunters till distribution).
The line is not an absolute guarantee also. Actually we need to bring the honey to the laboratory in order to ensure its purity. Laboratory tests would prove whether it contains saccharine or excessive water.
Super Honey is pure honey with heating and chemical processes, free from additives thus safe to consume.
Super Honey is the best choice for you who needs honey with standards determined by the authorized organization (Standar Nasional Indonesia, SNI) for honey quality with water content less than 22%.
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SKIN TREATMENT WITH SELF-MADE COSMETICS CREAM

This recipe was truly inspired by a skin care product -in form of cream- sold in supermarkets and stores. This newly found product has been tested and used with satisfying result. The benefits of this cream are to reduce wrinkles, and lift the death skin, fining and smoothing the skin and make it looks brighter. Previously, to omit wrinkles in the face we have tried using eggs whites (quail eggs are recomended, coz we only use eggs whites for one time, if you use chicken eggs there’ll be too much being wasted). Unfortunately, eggs whites are not effective because it’s wasteful (we have to throw away the yellows anyway). We have tried drying up some materials for producing natural skin cream and, praise be to Allah, we’ve succeeded. This finding is based on our personal experience, and previously we use it only for personal use. But now we present the recipe to you.1. Face cleaner cream with scrubs.

Ingredients:

Rice, rice flour, curcuma (temulawak), avocado, betel vine leaves or binahong. You make your own composition, some of these ingredients can be substituted, it is up to you, but in general we use .

How to make it:

1. Soak the rice in the water for a few minutes up to 1 hour, wait until they are soft enough to be blended.
2. Mash them using blender or other devices, curcuma, avocado, and leaves as you favor (temulawak and leaves are squeezed), blender the already soaked rice till fine, you may adjust according to your favor whether totally fine or a bit coarse.
3. Mix all the ingredients with rice flour till it become dough. Don’t let it too flabby. You may add perfume as you please
4. Mash the dough in form of granules and dry it up under the sun. Long-period drying is not recommended, use 2 stoves-heated woks, gas-fueled stoves are recommended.
The bottom part of the wok should have a contact with the fire directly, while the second layer of the wok only get heat conducted from the first wok. Roast these ingredients till they dried and become flour (powder). This drying method needs some exercises as we need some times to have some experiments. Keep it in a closed container. The durability of this product depends on how dried it is. The dryer the product the longer the durability and is able to be used anytime you want. Green Soybean Flour contained leticin that helps curing skin diseases and skin regeneration. For complete information, read the article regarding the benefits of green soybean flour.

Direction for use
Take your self made cream according to your needs and if you want, mix it with honey and water, till it become dough. The addition of honey is needed in order to gain its benefits to make the skin feels smoother and softer.

Wipe it to all parts of your face, wait for some minutes till it become a bit dried and scrub your face slowly with messages or press it from the inside (in the middle of the face, rubdown or press it).

Notes: If you worry that your skin would be scratched because of the brush of the grains, you may just leave the scrub and not using it.

1. Body Cream.
Initially this recipe is not particularly made for body treatment, though you can use for this also, for we apply this cream only when the body has a fever. After using this cream, skin feels smoother, more flexible, cleaner, and lighter, feels like we have had a massage. Fine-mashed rice grains give the effects of small pressures on the meridian of acupuncture points entirely in all parts of the body.

Ingredients:
Rice, kencur (galingale), avocado, Javanese tamarind, betel vine leaves.

The Benefits:
Rice has function as a scrub that lift dead skin and soften the skin, galingale stimulates heat, widen the pores and smoothen blood circulation.
Fruits as skin nutrition have smoothing effects when scrubbed to the body and safe, without any scratching effects.
Betel vine leaves functions as natural anti-biotics for skin.

How To Make It:
After being shortaged, soak the materials, mainly the rice till it soft enough to be blended.
Blend all ingredients except the rice until fine, later fill in the rice and blend once more and wait until these rice grains become a bit coarse. Add some honey for better result.
Direction for use:
Scrub and distribute evenly to the body, start from the right side. In the front side of the body you may start from the lower part following the blood stream, from the feet up to the chest, and goes up to the hands.
In the back side of the body, you may start from the tips of the backhand goes up to the back and goes down once again to the feet.
Make a light message on your palm of hands and feet coz in these areas there are some message points (reflexes) that connect to internal body organs. In the back side of the body these “reflexes” are found along the backbone line.
Scrub again and again, after that rinse them with warm water till clean.
Subsequently, drink the tonic made of cabe jawa (javanesse chilipepper), lempuyang, temulawak, turmeric, white or red ginger, the tuber of the leaves of daun dewa, tapak liman, brown sugar or honey. If you cannot find all, you may take some of them. The most important are cabe-lempuyang, temulawak, turmeric, ginger, brown sugar or honey. Do this in the afternoon and wait till the next day, Insya Allah, your body feels fitter and lighter.

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ORGANIC FOOD IS THE BEST MEDICATION

Modern men had many mistaken beliefs regarding medication and surgical techniques. They assumed that having a surgery and consuming drugs without any cause will create a condition where “those who consume drugs” hold that “consuming drugs is the only way for maintaining health”. Most of the people today do not realize the true basics of human health itself. Anyone that has knowledge about medicines and medical processes should realize that basically all drugs (chemicals) today are toxic in some sense, for they cause side effects. Most of these drugs probably are able to refresh our bodies tentatively, but in certain period they could also weaken us. This was caused by the increasing and long-time continuing chemical stimulations.
If modern medication is the true answer for our health problems today, then the society must have been always referring to pharmacies and drug stores all the time, since all these chemicals are available everywhere.
In modern society, we can find hypertension, diabetes, heart complications, stroke, cancers, liver problems, etc. The fact is that these “modern” drugs can only cure our illnesses temporarily. The true basic of our health, the best way to cure our illnesses, obviously is to “return to the nature.”
Thus, we can maintain our health by referring to our ancestors’ medication methods, that is: “the naturophaty or remedy from the inside.” The utilization of natural self-protection provides our body significant medication they need. Drugs and surgery should have been the latest priority, for the best medication is natural and pollution-free food consumption.
Some of our health problems come from our daily food consumption: foods which contain toxins and dangerous chemicals such as food addition, MSG, and artificial coloring, preservation, antibiotics, pesticides, etc. All of these are giving rise to the toxin level in our body.
If these toxins remain for a long period in the blood, they will make our blood channels become harder and harder, and in turn cause heart problems too. If they stay in the liver, they’ll cause liver hardening and liver problems. If they stay in lungs they’ll cause slimes and astmathic symptoms. Whenever our body protection system does not work well, and the toxins are still there, their secretion through the skin will also cause skin problems. In short, these toxins cause troubles everywhere in all parts of our body.
The best medication method is to throw away these toxins naturally from the body, not by consuming drugs. Pollution free food consumption (organic food), fasting and intestinal wash have been proved scientifically to have remedial effects on many of modern human health problems.
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said that: “The source of all illnesses is the stomach, stomach is the warehouse for all health troubles and fasting is the remedy.” (HR. Muslim)
Dr. Victorion, USA: “Wash your intestine! You’ll feel 20 years younger! If everyone is just washing their intestines, 95% clinics would be closed since there are no patients any longer”.
Dr. Norman Walker, Dsc, Phd. USA: “Intestinal wash would cure constipation, fatigue, digestion problem, rheumatic, back ache, stomachache, diabetes, and so on”.
Sir Arburthnot Lane, MD. London: “I’ve experienced so many surgical cases which most of them may be handled only by washing the patients’ intestines, since 90% of health problems recently are caused by abnormal and dirty human intestines”.
Mal Nikoff, a pathologist a Nobel Prize winner: “Clogged up food toxifies the body, it invites diseases dan speeds up aging processes”.
Dr. Robert Gray. USA: “Paracytes proliferate in a dirty stomach environment/digestional system”.
Dr. Barlev Lenson, Jakarta: Consuming pollution-free food helps the body to:
 Launch natural detoxification.
 Strengthen its immunity system.
 Balance our living pattern.
 Provide aids and assistance for body cells regeneration, and slowing down aging processes simultaneously.
Henry B Beley, an American doctor, had made 4 conclusions from his 55 years practice experience in medication:
1. Bacterions are not the main source of human illness, it is the toxins coming from the daily food consumption-- that cause the problems. These toxins cause damages on cellular tissues and eventually open the way for bacterions to make further damages.
2. In many cases, drug uses caused side effects that lead to the death.
3. Organic food is the best choice for curing illness and strengthening the body.
4. Naturophaty combines theoretical and practical understandings towards natural medication, that men become ill because of toxins contained in the body.
In short, toxins toxify the body, and their origins are unhealthy food. Toxins clogged up secretion and natural detoxification for there is a stacking of food remnants on intestine wall.

What Is Clogged Up Excrement?
Clogged up excrement is the factory of all diseases. A research held by some of Japanese researchers shown that the average weight of clogged up excrement in the body of a man/woman reaches 2-4 kg. They are food remnants left in our intestines. They stack on the intestine wall and are absorbed by mucose surface and directly go to the liver and cause:
1. troubles in body excretion and detoxification
2. blocking of metabolism process
3. Toxification
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