Aroma Therapy
Aroma Therapy
Is it okay to wash your face with an aroma therapy shower gel?
What can I wash my face with that’s cheaper than a cleanser?
Shower gel could really dry out your face, and fragrances tend to be irritants, using it could cause your face to be red and blotchy, i wouldn’t recommend using it.
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Do you believe in natural healing alternatives like aroma therapy, herbal teas and meditation?
Do you think they can have real health benifits?
No.
I think seeing an alternative practitioner, and getting the time and undivided attention you pay for and the opportunity to talk about yourself and your problem(s) can make you feel more relaxed, and happy that someone is taking you seriously, and all that makes you feel better.
Similarly treating yourself to aromatherapy baths etc makes you feel more relaxed and less stressed. So does meditation.
And for very minor ailments, sometimes teas and other natural ‘treatments’ can make you feel better, and are in any case harmless
But I’m strongly against advocating alternative ‘healing’ for genuine illnesses. In this context alternative is another word for unproven. If any alternative medicine had been proven to work, it would no longer be alternative medicine, it would just be medicine.
I use the YA Cancer forum a lot, and every day people with no experience or knowledge of cancer post advising terrified, desperate and highly vulnerable people to abandon conventional treatment and go with untested, unproven, ineffective and sometimes dangerous alternatives.
People who fear for their lives are advised to rely on herbs, juices, water (!), apricot kernels, shark cartilage, cottage cheese, restrictive diets, teas, vitamin C. hydrogen peroxide, electrical devices, mistletoe and other hocus pocus.
I am deeply concerned that there are people who might decide to abandon treatment that would give them a chance of cure or remission and invest money, hope and – most dangerous of all – time on these ineffective ‘treatments’.
I was actually something of an alternatives enthusiast myself until I got cancer and did an enormous amount of research into possible alternatives and discovered the ruthless charlatanism of the muti-million pound ‘alternative cancer industry’ and that anyone with any understanding of the biology of cancer couldn’t possibly believe in such rubbish.
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