For a mustard footbath, take 1 tsp. yellow powder mustard and one of household soda (if you have hard water) and put them in a deep basin with some water as hot as you can stand. Keep your feet and lower legs in for about ten minutes, topping bath up with fresh hot (not boling) water. Dry off, put on thick socks and climb into a freshly warmed bed, earlier better.

If you love eating wild things and food for medicine you'll enjoy Simon Mitchell's new ebook: 'Mother Nature's First Aid Kit'.

You optimize your oil secretion by understanding and controlling your response to hormonal, nutritional, environmental and/or psychological changes.

If we upset balance of bacteria in our bodies by taking antibiotics, our resident flora is upset and this enables harmful bacteria (such as Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii) to colonize on our skin. In short, using antibiotics on bacteria is a battle amongst intelligent parties involving bacteria, body and human mind.

If we fail to appreciate bacteria as bodily maintenance workers and continue dousing them with antibiotics or antibacterial soaps bacteria just become more resistant to our antidotes. The bacteria are practiced at playing dead as a tactic for survival.

Even people who have used strongest acne drug on market, Accutane, have witnessed cunning behavior of bacteria as zits reappear some months after using this course of acne treatment.

These people have discovered that bacteria do not die; they silently and strategically multiply. If you do not want your bacteria out of balance, do not provide them an environment conducive to acne.

It’s true that bacteria have managed to wipe out entire populations of people. Now, Hollywood comforts us with knowing that even aliens will fall prey to ever-plotting or is it ever-knowing bacteria. I’ll just leave you with this thought: Is that anti-bacterial soap making p acnes smarter?