What’s in a Scent?
Do you know that scents can invigorate your senses to invoke positivity and energy? The nose is the strongest of all senses and is able to influence brain activity.
Here are a few scents that is recommended for boosting your mood and productivity at work.
Cherry Blossom – This scent is made from a beautiful flower that holds a significance in Japan. Extremely rich in antioxidants, this pure and pleasing scent allows one to have their senses restored and calmed.
Sweet Ginger – A herb that aids in facilitating the elimination of toxins, boosting digestion and clearing the respiratory tract. With the ability to reduce appetite and cravings, sweet ginger can elevate your mood whilst promoting positivity.
White Tea – The pleasing aroma of this clean scent is comforting for tiredness and fatigue. For this scent, there is an old Chinese belief that this scent is the elixir of youth and vitality.
Orange – One of the most popular citrus scents due to its amazing benefits for health, this scent act like a mood booster due to its natural anti-depressant properties.
Bamboo – A clean and fresh scent that helps relieves headaches and migraines, this therapeutic scent can relieve headaches and migraines to reduce insomnia whilst improving the immune system.
Olive – Indulge your space into a Mediterranean delight with a scent that helps regulate the antioxidant levels in your body to fend free radicals. This scent can also awaken mental alertness and help reduce blood sugar levels.
Bergamot – Highly touted for its soothing properties, Bergamot is mainly used to soothe the nerves and reduce tension, anxiety.
Rosemary – The scent of rosemary can help improve memory retention. It also has the natural stimulating properties to fight physical exhaustion, headaches and mental fatigue.
Peppermint – A natural energy booster, peppermint can invigorate the mind and promote concentration to stimulate clear thinking which calls for lesser errors and mistakes at work.
Don’t Be Afraid to Eat More Bacteria
Here’s everything you need to know about incorporating probiotics.
1. Myth: Bacteria is bad for you.
Not all bacteria cause us harm. Our body naturally has good bacteria and they live in our digestive system. Consuming probiotics can aid in decreasing the harmful bacteria in our gut flora. Germs, on the other hand, are the cause of stomach discomfort and infection leading to certain diseases.
2. Taking pills is the only way to feed your body with probiotics.
Probiotics come in different forms – dietary supplement, beverages, and probiotic rich foods. Some probiotic rich foods include kefir, yogurt, pickles, kimchi, miso, sauerkraut.
3. Myth: Probiotics aren’t natural
There are researches that suggest that probiotics are already in us before we are born. Having probiotics in our flora guy can fend those germs that make us sick. Our digestive health reflects on our health and if you are constantly sick, it can be safe to say – the probiotics in your stomach isn’t enough.
4. Myth: Taking too much probiotics can upset our gut health.
Do you know that an imbalance of good bacteria can cause inflammation and weight gain? A lack of good nutrients, the use of antibiotics and a lack of fibre causes an unhealthy gut. Having a poor gut health can also elevate the risk of developing diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease.
5. Myth: Probiotics can be found in every food.
There is a reason why we are strongly advised to cut down on processed food in our diet as well. Processed food, especially if they are highly processed, destroys live bacteria long before they make it to the supermarket or grocery shelves.
6. Myth: It doesn’t matter how you store your probiotics.
Even bacteria are living organisms and all living organisms only survive under certain conditions. A good exemplification will be a yogurt filled with probiotics. If the yogurt lacks the cold temperature that is needed from the fridge, the live cultures die off.
7. Myth: All probiotics are the same.
Not all probiotics are the same as the good bacteria contained in the tab contains different strains. We cannot expect to treat every digestive issue with the same product. The different strain contained in each probiotic is known to treat different digestive problems.
8. Myth: Probiotics is only needed for a healthy gut.
As much as probiotics are an excellent resource for improving our digestive health, it is also important for vaginal health. Consuming probiotics can prevent the recurrence of urinary tract infections and yeast infections.
9. Myth: Probiotics does not help chronic digestive problems.
Probiotics can help treat or soothe certain chronic digestive disorders such as Chron’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis. When the intestinal gut undergoes significant stress, research has suggested that taking probiotics can help relieve the stressors in your intestinal gut.
10. Myth: Prebiotics and probiotics are the same thing.
Both prebiotics and probiotics are actually very different. Prebiotics contains fibre to “feed” the probiotic bacteria. Yes, good bacteria need their food too in order to be at its healthiest.
7 Benefits of Adding a Serum to Your Skincare Routine
We are all aware of the basic skincare commandments but some of us have not implemented the complexion mandate that the team at QUEST strongly believes in. And that is: a serum.
1. They work.
Most serums contain a much higher concentration of active ingredients that you can get without a prescription. Serums that are found in pharmacies or beauty stores can contain up to 25% of active ingredients. This translates to results, whether you are looking to even out or brighten your skin tone, or soften those fine lines and wrinkles.
2. Zero fillers.
As serums are designed specifically to be delivery systems, they usually do not contain any pore clogging ingredients. Serums are made to ensure that the fancy active ingredients such as peptides, stem cells, vitamins or any other beneficial minerals get past the outer layer of our skin and deliver the goodness deep down.
3. Fewer breakouts.
For those with acne prone skin, you can rejoice now. Unlike traditional moisturizers that may cause a pore blocking layer atop the skin, serums often have a watery consistency. Another point to add is, many serums and essences are, in fact, water based instead of oil based.
4. Preventing excess sebum.
Most of us used to or have this practice: when our skin gets oily, we avoid moisturizing to add more fuel to the grease fire. What we all don’t know is that when our sebaceous glands go bonkers, our skin naturally tries to overproduce oil to compensate for what it feels like is chronic dryness. Hence, the attempts of saving our skin to make it less oily just get oiler.
5. Versatility.
Try this beauty hack: Mix a drop of two of serum with your liquid foundation or BB Cream. Trust us, you will be able to recreate the dewy and hydrated finish Song Hye-kyo has. Apply with a beauty blender to penetrate into the skin further – we don’t want to waste that precious serum you combined with your foundation!
6. Solving multiple skin problems at once.
As serums are so penetrable and easily absorbed, we can layer serums on our skin, with the serum which has the lightest consistency first. For serums with almost the same consistency, look at the back of ingredients and go with the serum we want our skin to get the most of.
7. You save money.
Think: Would you rather spend money on: five cheaper products that take up space on your shelf and do nothing for your skin, or one product that does amazing things and costs a little more. Trust us: once you find your perfect serum, you’ll never waste your dollars on anything else again because a great serum is going to give you the results you want.