I’ve noted before that I’ve somehow gotten on a lot of Christian PR email lists. I have no idea how. The latest pitch I got is another ridiculous religious scam. Did you know that that the Bible is the key to having glowing, radiant skin? I didn’t either.
Hi Ed,
Many skincare regimens are nothing more than passing fads, but some have stood the test of time. In fact, caring for your skin naturally, from the inside out can be traced all the way back to Biblical times.
Women in the Bible, such as Queen Esther, Rachel, Rebekah, and Sarah, are described to have been phenomenally beautiful. It has been reported that they even turned heads at the age of 100! These women were known to have used five common skincare practices that Jesus Daily and Healthy Directions Physician Research, Dr. Aaron Tabor highly recommends today. By incorporating Dr. Tabor’s five beauty basics into your daily skincare routine, you can reap the same benefits as those “Bible Beauties”.
Live an active lifestyle. Women in the ancient world worked hard every day. They carried water, made all of their food from scratch, gardened, bore and cared for children, and had to walk everywhere they wanted to go. They were strong and physically fit, and that fitness contributed to a lean muscle tone that helped prevent sagging skin and the formation of wrinkles. While life today is not as physically demanding, exercising on a daily basis for at least 30 minutes and being as active as you can throughout the rest of the day (taking the stairs instead of the elevator, walking the dog often, riding your bike instead of driving to the store) will help produce the muscle tone necessary to blunt the effects of aging.
Use purified water to wash. The women of Biblical times understood cleanliness to be both an outward expression of their faith as well as a good beauty practice. The Bible talks a great deal about washing, ideally using naturally running water, such as that from springs or rivers. Consequently, these women had only pure water touch their skin. They did not wash with contaminated water, such as the kind that flows directly from our taps today. Installing a high-quality water filtration system that will provide purified water throughout your home is a good present-day solution.
Eliminate emulsifiers. Although certain forms of soaps existed centuries ago, people did not put them on their bodies or faces because they were simply too harsh. Today, we are rediscovering that even mild soaps can damage our skin. That’s because most soap products contain emulsifiers that linger on the skin, disrupting the skin’s natural pH and leading to a whole host of skin problems including acne, rosacea, and premature signs of aging. Seeing the words emulsifying wax, polysorbate, stearate, steareth, cetearyl, and ceteareth on a product’s ingredients list means it contains emulsifiers.
Opt for oils. Both men and women of Biblical times put oil on their faces and, possibly, in their hair. Most often the oil of choice was olive oil, but it may, at times, have been infused with plants, herbs, or flowers. Sometimes olive oil was replaced with what we today call essential oil. For instance, resin from trees in the Middle East was transformed into specialty oils known as frankincense and myrrh. Today, we know that both of these oils have many positive health benefits, with frankincense oil in particular promoting skin healing and skin health. Oil alone helps to lubricate and moisturize the skin. Applying oil after washing, as is described in the Bible, helps to lock in skin moisture. I always recommend that moisturizers be applied to damp skin for this reason.
Eat a wholesome diet. The women of the Bible ate whole foods, consuming the fruits, nuts, oils, vegetables, and meats that their households produced. With few ways to store foods, these women ate fresh produce in season. Sugar was unknown in Biblical times. If foods were sweetened at all, it was by using honey. There was no such thing as soft drinks, white flour, artificial sweeteners, or hydrogenated trans fats, all of which can cause damage to the skin. Eating a wholesome diet that was naturally high in antioxidants protected skin from the effects of aging and allowed the women of the Bible to eat freely without fussing about calorie counts.
Would you love if you could share these tips with your readers! Dr. Tabor is also available for interviews but for more tips or to check out his new line of safe beauty products, please visit www.HealthyDirections.com.
Thanks!
Leslie
Leslie is Leslie Norden of Krupps Communication, which apparently spends no time at all curating their email lists. I own an atheist blog site, for crying out loud. Do they really think I’d respond to this with anything but derision?
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daved
May 22, 2012 at 10:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, the dietary advice and the recommendation to exercise is fine.
Much of the rest of it is nonsense.
democommie
May 22, 2012 at 10:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Jesus Loves Healthy Skin”
Particularly on the eternally damned. The weals, bruises and infinithird degree bunrs look soooooooooooooooo much more delicious that way.
Doug Little
May 22, 2012 at 10:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ha HA HA hA haaaa ha Aha aah AH aaah AHah… what they aren’t joking, Oh.
footface
May 22, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s all there in Emollients 3:2.
Doug Little
May 22, 2012 at 10:50 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This,
coupled with this,
is all you need to know.
Now whether the women in biblical times actually ate a wholesome diet or lived active lives is debatable.
d cwilson
May 22, 2012 at 10:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, Jeebus did heal the lepers, so obviously he wants us all to have great skin.
dingojack
May 22, 2012 at 10:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Women in the Bible, such as Queen Esther, Rachel, Rebekah, and Sarah, are described to have been phenomenally beautiful“.
Ah yes, was their faces that launched a thousand ships? I don’t think so. Besides any corroborating evidence? Nothing? How surprising!
“Live an active lifestyle. Women in the ancient world worked hard every day. They carried water, made all of their food from scratch, gardened, bore and cared for children, and had to walk everywhere they wanted to go”.
Queen Ester did all these things? Citation required!
“The Bible talks a great deal about washing, ideally using naturally running water, such as that from springs or rivers. Consequently, these women had only pure water touch their skin”.
Firstly, the babble also talks about breeding striped cattle by having them see stripes, does the babble reference make it any less idiotic? Secondly that the babble talks about washing in no way tells us anything about the water they washed in. Thirdly, they didn’t know about germ theory, it could be that washing in a weak solution of faecal bacterium improved their skin. Wanna try selling that idea? Fourthly, two words: dissolved salts; nickel, cadmium, lead, arsenic, maganese, thallium and the like, yeah pure water. @@
“Eating a wholesome diet that was naturally high in antioxidants protected skin from the effects of aging and allowed the women of the Bible to eat freely without fussing about calorie counts“.
There is absolutely no evidence to show that ‘antioxidants’ have the slightest effect on aging. The average life span during that period was under 40 years. Yep must be all that healthy diets, exercise and basting themselves in oil and going into the hot middle-eastern sun that allowed them to die some 40 years younger than we do at present.
Maroons!
Dingo
anandine
May 22, 2012 at 11:12 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, Dingo, Socrates died at age 70, 400 years before Jesus, and, while he was an old man, he wasn’t so old that anybody expressed surprise at how old he was. The lower life expectancy at birth (not life span, which probably hasn’t changed since we became H. sap. sap.) was mainly because of high infant mortality. Once somebody reached 3 or 4 years of age, many lived pretty much as long as we do now.
fastlane
May 22, 2012 at 11:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You know what else is good for your skin…..?
…yeah, I went there.
dingojack
May 22, 2012 at 11:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And I once knew a guy who claimed he could sprint 100m in 10.9 seconds – so clearly we all can.
Dingo
fifthdentist
May 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m sure Jesus loves healthy white skin. But the other colors, not so much.
Chris from Europe
May 22, 2012 at 3:08 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So after using it, you will look like a Mormon vampire …
Chaos Engineer
May 23, 2012 at 12:01 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That’s not Biblical advice! That’s just generic Early Iron Age lifestyle advice; all the pagans did pretty much the same thing.
Honestly, if you want Biblical skin care advice, it’s right there in Leviticus 13-14. I’d write something like:
“‘If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease, the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed. Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water…’ (Lev. 14:3-6)
“That was probably one of the passages that’s been overridden by the New Testament, but just in case, you should invite a religious leader (such as the author of this article) over to your house and treat him to a free chicken dinner.”
Ichthyic
May 23, 2012 at 1:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
wait, there’s actually a company called “Jesus Daily”?
LOL