Dr Danny Siegenthaler

This 6-week course is designed to answer questions you may have about Natural Therapies. It unravels the often confusing and misleading alternative health care information commonly available and aims to increase understanding and insight into the health benefits Natural Medicine has to offer.

For many years now we have seen a move away from skin care products that contain chemicals which are potentially harmful to the skin. Consumers have begun to demand natural skin care products. That is, they demand products, that instead of containing potentially harmful, synthetic and/or artificial ingredients contain natural ones. This is a step in the right direction, but it is not the whole story.

You've read and hear the advertisements all the time - 'Use this product and your skin will look 10 years younger in 7 days' or something along these lines. You buy the cream and hey, it actually seems to work. You have found the fountain of youth, or have you?

Now there is skin care and there is skin care... well, we all (hopefully) wash our body (skin) every day and we may even rub some body cream on and that is pretty much that. Women (most) go one step further when they make-up their face. Often using a cleanser and then a moisturiser before applying make-up. But is that really skin care?

Diets don’t work for all people and there are some very good reasons for this. It’s very much like anything else - what works for one person may not necessarily work for someone else. So here are some basic step-by-step how to's anyone can follow and get good results.

According to a recent interview with Stacy Malkan, the co-founder of The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, young women use around 12 or more products a day and in doing so, are exposing themselves to over hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals.

Herbal medicine is the use of plant materials to enhance well being and treat disease. Today, people all over the world are still using herbal remedies, which have been past down through the generations, which increasingly, scientific research is validating.

A British lobby group has issued a warning that the average woman applies more than 175 chemical compounds to her face and body every day.

People are having adverse reactions from their skin care products and our bodies are getting bombarded with potentially toxic substances it can not eliminate.

Your skin's characteristics are a result of your cultural traits and inherited genes. We all have genetic influences which are reflected in the type of skin we have.