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Are you poisoning yourself – daily transdermally – through the soap, shampoo, and body wash you use? Commercial soaps and cleaning products use chemical ingredients such as: synthetic scents and c0lors, additives, preservatives – that are extremely toxic, and even more so because we use them daily.

Our skin is the largest ORGAN of our body. It is a living, “breathing,” organic complex structure made up of different tissues that work together to perform specific functions. It not only covers the entire surface of the body, it also protects the body from external harm such as: UV and other radiation; injury; and infections. The skin regulates our body temperature and adapts it to the environment. It also enables the senses of touch and the experience of pleasure or pain, and pressure. We receive more environmental information through our skin than any other sense organ! But the reverse is also true! Did you know that a true and skilled vaidya – one who knows how to harness the laws of nature – can also tell A LOT about your overall health just by looking at your skin? Perhaps that is why Vaidya’s ancestors were renowned skin experts. They were experts in healing ALL conditions plus ALL skin conditions. That is why Lord Krishna invited their family over to India to cure his son Shambh’s leprosy. When they succeeded he asked them to stay.

We learn from their tradition that synthetic chemicals that are used in modern cleaning products are considered a special kind of toxin called “garavisha” – slow poison. You may not experience discomfort immediately, they work slowly and silently penetrating and damaging the different layers of the skin and eventually going deeper into the blood and deeper tissues.

What’s the most immediate thing that happens when you use chemical synthetic cleansers? You deplete the friendly bacteria of your skin. The first thing you may experience is dryness: toxic chemical products strip your skin of its natural oil balance, dry it out, depopulating the colonies of friendly bacteria. The product may contain synthetic oils and chemical elements to compensate for this but the bacteria still die off. After this initial damage, things go deeper. Chemical synthetic products loaded with colors, preservatives, and fragrances – are transdermally instantly absorbed into your blood stream and delivered and circulated to your entire physiology within seconds!

The majority of soaps on the market carry toxic foaming agents (SLS), or preservatives (Parabens), or many more coloring and aromatizing synthetic chemicals that deplete the natural layers of the skin with regular use.

The skin is governed by 3 ayurvedic principles: shleshak kapha, vyana vata, and bhrajak pitta. Shleshak kapha helps maintain moisture levels and keep the skin lubricated; Vyana vata keeps the balance of friendly bacteria and nutrients of the skin well distributed; and Bhrajak pitta – the agneya or metabolic principle – protects the skin by warding off unwanted particles and molecules from entering and going into the blood stream, while it invites and takes in all good molecules that are applied on the skin. Just like we take extra measures not to imbalance the 3 doshas in our stomach or whole body and mind, just so we need to pay attention and take care of not aggravating the doshas governing the skin. When you use soaps and cleaning products with chemicals, you disrupt the balance established by these 3 ayurvedic one after another, and you may eventually develop chronic skin imbalances. For example, regular soap bars dry your skin – this means shleshak kapha goes low. When Shelshak kapha is off, then vyana vata goes high automatically, and this eventually brings down bhrajak pitta – the skin loses its intelligence as to what to absorb and what to reject. Using a drying synthetic soap bar for prolonged periods of time may eventually invite deeper imbalances.

Vaidya’s unique soaps are not only made with the best organic Shea Butter, packed with the goodness of flower and plant essences, to achieve optimal therapeutic benefits, but they are also aroma therapeutic! If you need to help slow down your physiology at night before bed, use the Soma Nidra Soap bar; if you are feeling sad and out of joints, use the Ashoka or Rose soap; if you need to detox, then use the Turmeric or Detox soap… There are so many wonderful soaps to discover here AND bath pouches that will cool you off inside-out and restore you to your calm and composed self despite the Summer heat!

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