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Reviewed By Ray Spotts Most things that taste good turn out to be guilty pleasures. Sugar tastes good, for example, but there's an increasing body of evidence demonstrating that sugar may be to blame for everything from weight gain to liver damage. Salt also tastes good, but most Westerners get too much refined table salt in their diet, leading to high blood pressure and other health problems.

Reviewed By Ray Spotts Even if you are well versed in the many oils available for your different skin, hair and health needs, you may feel like switching it up a bit. There's nothing wrong with having a plethora of options when it comes to what you use, what works best and how. Because of this, we enjoy nothing more than expanding your knowledge and providing you with needed information about the latest and greatest - and sometimes unknown oils. Today our dissection includes an oil with some impressive qualities: candlenut oil also known in many spaces as kukui nut oil. Here are some of the most noteworthy.

Reviewed by Ray Spotts When it comes to butters of the natural variety, you are likely much more familiar with cocoa butter or shea butter, the butters that replenish and nourish skin impressively. Just like oils, there are different types of butters - some much lesser known and they do different things. Illipe is a plant butter that isn't as popular or well-known, yet it packs a powerful punch - especially on hair. Here are all the reasons that this impressive butter should be added to your must-try list. 

Reviewed By Ray Spotts Essential oils are aromatic compounds produced naturally by plants. James Cook University scientists recently discovered a technique to apply natural plant extracts such as tea tree oil as a coating for medical devices. This process could prevent millions of infections every year.

Reviewed by Ray Spotts In recent years the tonka bean and its impressive properties have gained international acclaim for all the ways that it can help. Not only does the bean have a natural pleasant aroma, similar to that of vanilla, it has a whole host of other advantages that go far beyond aromatherapy. Tonka bean is an oil that is an amber color and typically very thick in consistency. Much like coconut oil, tonka bean oil will solidify at lower temperatures. Here are some key ways in which this oil can be utilized. 

Reviewed By Ray Spotts A very common tree that can be found in various parts of the world like North America, Europe and Asia, is the beech tree. It produces a nut that is incredibly effective in a myriad of ways. Even though this tree is common, the ways in which it can help shouldn't be diminished. The tree also has other more fundamental uses, like that of firewood or as construction material. The nuts that come from the tree are the focus today. Here are some ways to use the oil that comes from a beech nut tree.

Try to treat your affected skin with a mixture of poppy seed oil and coconut oil. Using the coconut oil as a carrier, add a few drops of poppy seed oil into it and combine. Apply the mixture to your symptomatic skin twice a day.

Reviewed by Ray Spotts. With so many different oils on the market, some are more easily located and purchased than others. While some would like to experiment with the types of oils that they cook with, an oil that can be used in a whole host of ways, such as rice bran, is ideal. There are many more reasons why rice bran oil should have a permanent spot in both your kitchen pantry and your bathroom medicine cabinet.

What's more is that this plant is available in oil form and can be used on many different types of inflammation. If you suffer from external pain or soreness, try rubbing some of this oil into the areas that give you discomfort. If you suffer from some type of arthritis or rheumatism, this oil could prove to be a real beacon of hope for you and lessen the pain you experience on a very real level. To exist within your life in a semi or even constant state of pain can control and diminish how you spend your days. Opt for brucea javanica oil as a way to control the inflammation you constantly suffer with.

Reviewed By Ray Spotts Bitter gourd - also known as Karela or bitter melon - is relatively well known in many cultural circles as a fruit that is used in various ways. This fruit, despite its odd shape and texture, is incredibly full and dense with vitamins, antioxidants and minerals that the body needs and thrives off of. This fruit can be used in a number of ways to the betterment of not just your internal health, but your hair and skin as well. Here are some ways that bitter gourd oil can be used.