Gushing About Green Tea

Lately I have found myself fixed on Green Tea products. Everything from Teas to Masks and Exfoliates line my shelves. The wonderful things about picking an organic herbal substance to be fixated on are the extensive health benefits. It's difficult not to gush about green tea. While there is more than a decade's worth of research about green tea's health benefits, particularly its potential to fight heart disease has been more than intriguing. Some of the studies about green tea's role in lowering cholesterol, burning fat, preventing diabetes and stroke, and staving off dementia are over looked, BUT not by this girl. When I heard of its body balancing and weight control I had to have it all!  My first venture into the botanical world of Green Tea was a weekly mud mask. I am pleased to say it softens and purifies skin!  Because clay is one of the oldest and frequently available natural materials on earth its ability to heal was so obviously meant to use for beauty! Green Tea has the exceptional ability to draw impacted impurities to the surface, and to deeply cleanse and purify pores. The second approach I took to green tea was a body scrub. My favorite weekly ritual, especially in the winter! This organic botanical based scrub has a calming aroma and awakening property. When you step away from your shower not only will you feel soft and supple but like the moisture is permanent. The specific scrub I used contains coffee that stimulates skin cells to tone and reduce the signs of aging, while the sugar cane polishes skin with natural alpha hydroxy acid. The sign of a great scrub is its list of pure ingredients. This product includes Organic Raw Sugar Cane (Saccharun Officinarum), Coffee (Coffea Arabica), Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii) Fruit, Green Tea (Camellia Sinensis) Leaf, Safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius) Oil, Soybean (Glycine Soja) Oil, Silica (Silicon Dioxide), Vitamin E (Tocopheryl Acetate). The benefits of organics are endless. Instead of drinking green tea, some people apply green tea bags to their skin to soothe sunburn and prevent skin cancer due to sun exposure. Green tea bags are also used to decrease puffiness under the eyes, as a compress for tired eyes or headache, and to stop gums from bleeding after a tooth is pulled. So when you pass a box of green tea on the shelves at the market ... don’t just think “yum that would go great with sushi!” but “Yum that’s good for my body!”