Skin Food: Organic cosmetics for skin, hair and body from home
Edible cosmetics: what are they and how do they impact health?
A course by Ximena de la Serna, Nutritional therapist and educator in ancestral health
Joined November 2022
Joined November 2022
About the video: Edible cosmetics: what are they and how do they impact health?
Overview
“Here you'll discover what edible cosmetics are and why you shouldn't put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat. I'll explain how the skin, being a living and permeable organ, absorbs everything we put on it, and why the accumulation of toxic ingredients in conventional cosmetics can affect your hormones, your thyroid, and your overall health. I'll also tell you which are the most harmful ingredients you should avoid and invite you to move from fast-acting cosmetics to slow cosmetics: one that doesn't seek instant results, but real changes that glow from within.”
In this video lesson Ximena de la Serna addresses the topic: Edible cosmetics: what are they and how do they impact health?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Skin Food: Organic cosmetics for skin, hair and body from home. Create natural and nourishing edible cosmetics for skin, hair and body with safe and effective homemade ingredients.
Partial transcription of the video
“The idea of cosmetics that are safe to eat originates from the belief that we should avoid applying anything to our skin that we wouldn't consider And this is because the skin is a living. permeable organ. unlike dead elements such as nails or hair. The skin's nature as an organ makes it dynamic and interactive with its environment. The skin is dynamic. always absorbing external elements. Thus. anything you put on your skin is it interacts with your body. to some degree. will enter your bloodstream and ultimately reside within your body. Thus. the idea of cosmetics emerges from this underst...”
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Course summary for: Skin Food: Organic cosmetics for skin, hair and body from home
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Ximena de la Serna
A course by Ximena de la Serna
Communicator, certified nutritional therapist, biohacker, and educator in ancestral health
Ximena de la Serna is a Communications graduate and certified nutritional therapist, and the creator of the "5 Ancestral Pillars" method, a philosophy of life that brings together rest, movement, nutrition, conscious relationships, and connection with the natural cycles of light and darkness.
For more than 14 years, she has been sharing content on YouTube and through online courses and trainings, where she researches and teaches how to reclaim the health, beauty, and vitality that are ours by nature.
Her work is an invitation to stop outsourcing our wellbeing to external systems and return to the essentials: caring for ourselves with our own hands, trusting the body's wisdom, and reconnecting with who we are.
For her, health isn't a privilege but a form of personal sovereignty. She is convinced that, through ancestral knowledge, science, and the simplicity of what is made at home, we can transform everything.
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