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“This is the year I throw out my cosmetics and follow organic beautify treatments. \u00a0Not organic cosmetics, but organic foods used the way I have been using cosmetics.<\/i>
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\nI was part of a fantastic breakfast conversation at one of the Bettina Network bed and breakfasts which talked about – basically – only using on your face, skin and hair, those products that you would eat because within seconds what you put on your skin shows up in your blood stream.<\/i>
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\nI was the one denying this and talking about the block your skin has from products getting any further than just on the surface – certainly not getting as far as your blood stream. \u00a0And then, when I got home I looked up what we were talking about and realized folks must have thought me really ignorant because I didn’t really know anything about the topic. \u00a0I didn’t let that stop me from spreading ignorance. \u00a0I don’t normally act like that, but these are emotional topics and everyone thinks they are experts. \u00a0I thought I knew everything there was to know about cosmetics, etc. because I spent a few thousand dollars a year on cosmetics and here I could have had better results spending only a couple hundred for everything.<\/i>
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\nI’ve gone over Bettina’s Blog and found some of the things talked about and have tried a few. \u00a0The one that has produced the best result for me is the virgin organic coconut oil. \u00a0That is the one I objected to over breakfast because over the years, everything I heard about coconut oil was telling me to stay away from it because it was bad for your health. \u00a0Imagine my amazement to hear folks talking about how great it was over breakfast and their experiences with it. \u00a0And just think how uninformed I was and sounded, especially since I insisted I knew what I was talking about.<\/i>
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\nThis letter is my way of ‘eating crow’ from my bad behavior at breakfast. I hope you will share it by putting it in Bettina’s Blog. \u00a0If you don’t I will thoroughly understand. \u00a0Also feel free to edit it anyway you feel necessary, in case you have space requirements.<\/i>
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\nThe woman whose beauty regimen I have been following, was very quiet at breakfast, \u00a0but she did describe how she uses coconut oil all the time. She looked stunning. \u00a0She is not a great beauty – sorry – but she had this aura around her, which apparently comes from her beauty regimen. \u00a0She uses coconut oil as an all over massage after her bath (yes, Virginia, she takes a bath – that freaked me out) – who in this day and age takes a bath. <\/i>
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\nOnce I got over her bathing instead of showering – I could hear her again – she massages with coconut oil and uses it to give her scalp and hair a real good massage as well. \u00a0Another quiet person around the table suggested coconut oil was being touted as being good for Alzheimer’s and for thyroid problems. \u00a0Since I am at that change of life stage, the thyroid sounded good to me. \u00a0I don’t have a thyroid problem, but I am at the age where that is possible, so I massage my neck every day with the coconut oil – hitting the spots where I think my thyroid lives. \u00a0I know about thyroids thanks to Dr. Oz.<\/i>
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\nI’ve been using it for a few months and feel great, – I look much better – and my skin and especially my face have taken on the brightness and healthy look of the woman who I admired. I love the soft sheen her face had and that is what I’ve been trying for. \u00a0Some of the other stuff talked about I haven’t yet tried. \u00a0The use of beta carotene on your lips instead of lipstick struck me as really great, but so far I have been going without lipstick. \u00a0Once I get the coconut oil down, I will move on to the beta carotene and then the aloe vera as an alternate massage to coconut oil.<\/i>
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\nThere is so much I heard around that breakfast table that today sounds really great to me – I really regret getting up on my high horse of knowing it all and not really listening. \u00a0I could have learned so much more.<\/i>
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\nThank you for providing this forum. \u00a0I’ve added a lot of good habits to my daily life which I had no knowledge about before staying at your bed and breakfast. \u00a0Do all of your homes have this kind of breakfast? \u00a0If so, I will never travel another way. \u00a0To visit friends and pick up good habits which will last a lifetime and make me look really good, what more could I ask. \u00a0Thanks also for putting up with me – I wasn’t the best breakfast conversationalist. \u00a0a bit too pushy, but I am really nice deep down. \u00a0When I’ve made a nute of myself I always apologize. \u00a0In this case, please accept my apologies and my thanks for what I took away from your bed and breakfast.”<\/i><\/p>\n
Ed Note<\/b>: \u00a0We published the letter we received in its entirety with no edits.<\/p>\n