Have you ever found yourself scratching your scalp to try and relieve the itch and found white flakes all over your scalp, head and shoulders? Then you are probably suffering from dandruff. What is dandruff? Dandruff is a skin condition that mainly affects the scalp, causing itchiness and flaking. Your skin starts ...
A new trend is redefining the global fashion industry and this time it is not related to seasons or colors. Instead, the industry is turning to environmentally friendly, sustainable fashion! Currently, the fashion industry is one of the largest industrial polluters in the world, second only to the oil industry. ...
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals (GNFC) has been awarded the Porter Prize in the category of “Creating Shared Value”, a prestigious award from the Institute of Competitiveness in affiliation with Harvard Business School, for their Neem Project. So far, this project has directly worked with over 225,000 ...
When you wash your hair, your hands, or pour old make up or skin care products down the drain….what happens to them? Are those chemicals taken out of the system or do they end up in our rivers, lakes, oceans, and drinking water? Let’s look at a bottle of toner. You’ve finished half of it, but the other half is old ...
One of the best natural ingredients for your skin, neem products (like neem leaves, neem flowers, neem oil, and neem extract), contain amazing and unique properties that leave your skin feeling hydrated, clean, and clear! Neem is often used in Ayurvedic medicine as it calms pitta, producing a cleansing, cooling ...
Every year, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tests thousands of food products for pesticides and other toxins so that consumers can be informed about general food toxicity. They test food for herbicides, pesticides, and other toxins to ensure that the levels are not surpassing the “maximum residue ...
Despite recommendation from its own scientists, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen to approve chlorpyrifos, a synthetic chemical used in pesticides across the United States that is linked to brain damage in children and sold under the name Losban by Dow Chemical. In November, the EPA released a ...
Our world has jumped in population by billions since hitting the one billion mark in the early 1800s. Though necessary for population growth, we have begun to see the dire health and environmental consequences of our conventional food system that has prioritized productivity over responsibility. What does this mean to ...
One of the most common and effective synthetic insect repellents, DEET, is surrounded by controversy. As more and more scientific research has been done on DEET, consumers still worry about unknown health effects that the man-made chemical could cause. There have been many documented health impacts and developmental ...
The influenza virus is an extremely dangerous, rapidly transmitted virus with a high mortality rate. Each season, the influenza virus kills an estimated 50,000 people, causes 200,000 hospitalizations, and incurs costs of up to $10 billion in medical care in the United States. The influenza virus genome, due to ...
