Xenna Corporation Reports 25% Sales Growth for their Natural Curlaway® Curl Relaxing Gel: Brand offers the Retail Ethnic Hair Care Market a Chemical-F
Xenna Corporation's Curlaway Curl Relaxer, a non-alkaline gel, relaxes hair gradually without the brittleness or breakage that can result from chemical relaxers. Product sales grew 25% in the past year versus year-ago and the company feels that the consumer is now "comfortable" with the product as a safe and effective entry to the retail category. Semi-permanent Curlaway transforms unmanageable, kinky hair into soft, looser, full curls in a one-step process that requires no neutralization. User comments, such as this one, on the product's website ( www.curlaway.com) report their hair is easier to manage, smoother and softer.
Treating Your Skin With Great Natural Soap
If you like your soap natural, you are not alone. While there are many mass-produced soaps out there, natural soap is a nice departure from all of that. All natural can smell just as great as those manufactured soaps, but they are better for your skin as they usually are not nearly as drying or as irritating to your sensitive skin. Handmade natural soap can be purchased for those that want natural soap because they have sensitive skin or because they just don?t want to treat their skin with chemicals, which is what a lot of the mass produced soaps contain.
Publisher of Natural Golfer Magazine Acquires Natural Golf
Natural Golf has been acquired by an investor group led by Peter Lineal, CEO of Plum Grove Printers, Publisher of Natural Golfer Magazine since 1999. The acquisition serves to strengthen Natural Golf's platform as the simplest swing in golf.
A Heartburn Cure - How Natural Remedies Fit In
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Natural Area Rugs Launches New Online, Realistic Image Display System
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Is There An Natural Acne Cure?
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Serengeti - One Of The Most Exhilarating Natural Spectacles On Earth
When the skies finally clear, and the plains once again assume their scorched, golden hues and the grasses become crisp and crackle underfoot, the whole of the Serengeti seems to take to the road.
Natural Environmental Systems Sets Sights on Commercial and Industrial Algae Control
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Hyaluronic Acid - The Natural Face Lift?
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A Natural Hair Loss Remedy
A natural hair loss remedy has now been developed from the true cause of androgenetic alopecia - Skull Expansion. This article explains how Skull Expansion was discovered and how simple self-help techniques completely reversed my own hair loss.
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Do Natural Breast Enlargement Pills Really Work?
Both men and women prefer bigger breasts, that?s no longer an issue. Unfortunately, many women are unsatisfied with the breasts they currently have. The issue that is facing them now is, how can a woman enlarge her breasts without painful and risky surgery? which leads us to the question, ?Do natural breast enlargement pills really work??
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Kung Fu Power Comes From Your Feet: The Importance of Stance In Martial Arts
I give the same talk every class to new martial arts students, about how the key to good martial arts comes from your stances. It's hard to get into good kung fu stances, because they are so different from what normally passes for posture in our world.
Good kung fu stances keep your weight centered over the balls of your feet, to give you maximum range of motion in the full circle engagement area. You have to be able to shift weight from one foot to the other quickly, so you need to learn to keep your stance balanced.
Something I learned in the Science of the Punch, and which makes a lot of sense, is that the force of a punch starts from your feet and is transferred through your abdomen and core. Major direction comes from the upper torso, but most of the force comes from moving your entire body behind the strike. I've discovered, since watching that show on National Geographic, that I'm focusing a lot more on my stances, kung fu in particular.
Because I'm a multi-stylist, sometimes it's hard to keep stances 'pure' ? for example, the more upright Shaolin kung fu stance tends to mingle with the lower, more fluid Wing Chun stances, and my dabbling in Tae Kwon Do means that when I step in a certain way, muscle memory takes over, and what should end a form with a horse stance ends up in a side stance, ready to kick someone's kidneys out their back. This makes it difficult to teach at times, because I have to tell my students "Do as I say, not as I do?"
So, since I've got a Wing Chun influenced Kung Fu class coming up that I'll be teaching, I've been spending a lot of time with Kung Fu instructional DVDs, and working in front of a mirror. I watch the video, stepping through it at 1/16th speed, and try to hold each posture, checking my own posture in the mirror as I do it, just so I can re-train my muscle memory to do it the way it needs to be taught. It's a humbling experience at times, let me tell you. Even minor little things like how my feet get placed get examined for this ? are they exactly shoulder width apart, or are they going wider than they should? Am I exactly at three quarters profile, or have I slipped into a sloppy "T" stance with my lead toe pointed at the bag, as if I'm aiming for a kick? When I come out of a form and I edge on to the bag, so that I have the minimum surface area to cover with a parry or block?
Getting good form down for Kung Fu takes practice, as I'm slowly relearning in order to teach my next class.
Yoshi I Kundagawa is a freelance journalist. He covers themixed martial arts industry. For a free report on kung fu stances, please visit his blog at: http://blog.martialarts3000.com
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