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I want to talk about castor oil and what it can do for your face.
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It's definitely nature's natural Botox.
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It's really stood the test of time.
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It's been around for thousands of years.
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Egyptians used it.
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The Romans used it.
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Many other civilizations used it for certain healing properties.
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Most importantly, should we be concerned about the toxin ricin in castor oil?
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It's actually 6 ,000 times more poisonous than cyanide.
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This compound is 12 ,000 times more poisonous than rattlesnake venom.
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Let's dive right in and talk about castor oil.
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It can give your skin that soft, glowing, elastic, and firm look.
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Whether you have these little fine wrinkles or bigger wrinkles or dry skin, you need to use castor oil.
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The main phytochemical that's behind all these amazing effects is called ricinoleic acid.
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It's a deep penetrating moisturizer.
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Kind of traps the water in there and it keeps you super hydrated.
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This is why a lot of people actually put this oil on their face at night.
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And then when they wake up in the morning, they're like, wow, my skin looks significantly different.
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You can also put this on your hair.
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And I'm going to show you how to apply it on the hair in a little bit, as well as on your scalp.
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If you have split ends or you have dried out hair, you can definitely see a huge change very quick.
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This plant -based chemical also has very powerful anti -inflammatory effects.
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Applying castor oil onto a face that's inflamed, it's a very effective remedy.
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Castor oil also has an antimicrobial effect too.
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You have to understand that there is an entire microbial life on the surface of all of your skin.
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Those microbes are there to protect you against all sorts of bad things.
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You have to realize that there's a lot of skin -related problems
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that are an overgrowth of either bacteria or yeast or even of fungus.
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Castor oil is the perfect antidote to that.
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There's also a bacterial component to acne.
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Castor oil also has a good amount of vitamin E.
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Vitamin E can give you protection against things like UV radiation and pollution.
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Some of the properties in castor oil, you can put on a wound to heal it.
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It also has other properties of fading the darker spots on the skin as well.
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This can overall give you a nice even complexion.
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In castor oil, there's a vitamin A precursors, beta carotene, which can help support the skin.
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You also have a good amount of magnesium and potassium, which the skin could benefit from as well.
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And there's even some evidence that castor oil can help stimulate collagen synthesis,
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which is actually very important in the anti -aging process to keep that collagen as full as possible.
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You would definitely want to apply castor oil to any scars
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that you have acne scars scars from stretch marks
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which happen to be in your abdomen any scars in the
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body you want to routinely rub a few drops into a
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scar for a period of maybe 30 seconds as far as
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the potency of this anti -inflammatory effect it can be comparable
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to something like ibuprofen how do we apply it a lot
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of people cut it with other oils coconut oil olive oil
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and there's hundreds of different types of oils you can also cut it with other people don't cut it.
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They use it as is because one of the challenges with this oil, it's thick and a little bit sticky.
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You simply take a couple drops, put it on your fingertips and rub it into your face in areas that are dry, wrinkled or reddened or irritated.
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You just apply a little bit more of that into those areas.
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If we're talking about a couple drops, we're talking about like three cents a day it's going to cost you to create these effects.
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I recommend applying this before you go to bed.
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When you wake up, it has a chance to really penetrate and soak into the tissues.
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I would be careful putting it around your abdomen or pelvis area
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if you're pregnant and you're not ready to deliver because it could induce labor.
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Another application is some women use it to take off makeup from their face.
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They might mix it in with other types of lotions as a makeup remover as well
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because it gives you some additional benefits.
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If you're going to put it in your hair, What I would recommend, especially if you have hair loss, is to rub it deep into the scalp.
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What it could potentially do is stimulate the growth of hair, especially if you have alopecia.
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You really want to rub it deeply and really scrub into the scalp any areas where you want to grow hair.
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I'd also put like four drops into your fingertips
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and run it through your entire hair as well before you go to bed.
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That way, when you wake up, you're going to notice that your hair is just so hydrated.
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As far as the type of castor oil I would recommend, I would definitely spend the extra money for something cold pressed, something without hexane.
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That's a solvent.
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You want organic, they use hexane and a lot of the seed oils to extract certain things as well.
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So if you're consuming soy oil, canola, cottonseed, corn oil, you're getting potentially some hexane.
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And a lot of people use the Jamaican black castor oil.
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It seems to have some amazing properties that are even better than the regular castor oil in other parts of the world.
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If you want to grow your eyelashes.
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Castor oil is a great remedy.
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Just on a daily basis, rub just a little bit into the roots of the eyelashes
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and watch things start to change in a positive way.
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Lastly, what about this toxin in castor oil?
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You don't have to worry about it.
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That specific toxin is eliminated in the production of creating this oil.
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The manufacturer companies that make this know about this poison, and so it's tested to make sure there's no poison in there. Of course,
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if anyone is exposed to this unfortunately there's not a simple
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antidote you just need to go to the hospital to see what they can do
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and if you have certain amounts
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which is not a lot you have like 36 to 72 hours before you die can be very dangerous
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but of course you do not have to worry about that
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if you're using the oil it's quite a paradox to have something
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so poisonous to be also be so therapeutic to
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so many parts of your body it's quite fascinating thanks for watching
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and if you haven't seen my video on the number one nutrient deficiency behind all types of skin disorders, okay, and we're talking about dermatitis and a lot of other skin problems.
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If you haven't seen the video, you might want to watch it.
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I'll put it up right here.
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Check it out.

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Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Castor Oil for Your Face”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: oil, castor, skin, hair, scar. Questo video contiene 91 frasi e 1176 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 6:10. Chi parla va veloce, circa 191 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Solo il 81% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
scar sostantivo/skɑɹ/cicatrice
vitamin sostantivo/ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/vitamina
poisonous aggettivo/ˈpɔɪzənəs/velenifero, velenoso
potentially avverbio/pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/potenzialmente
heal verbo/ˈhiːl/guarire, sanare
poison sostantivo/ˈpɔɪ.zən/veleno
remedy sostantivo/ˈɹɛmədi/rimedio
inflammatory aggettivo/ɪnˈflæmət(ə)ɹi/infiammatorio
stimulate verbo/ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/stimolare
acne sostantivo/ˈækni/acne
abdomen sostantivo/ˈæb.də.mən/addome
penetrate verbo/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/penetrare
thick aggettivo/θɪk/spesso
acid sostantivo/ˈæsɪd/acido
deeply avverbio/ˈdi(ː)pli/in profondità, estremamente

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/svegliarsi
take off verbotogliere

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Let's dive right in and talk about castor oil.
  • You don't have to worry about it.
  • I'll put it up right here.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoIt's been · have split · haven't seen
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais called · is eliminated · is exposed

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 18 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come you're, we're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

  • I suoni “th”: thick /θɪk/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, synthesis /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/
  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, tissue /ˈtɪʃ.(j)u/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, pollution /pəˈluʃən/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, inflammatory /ɪnˈflæmət(ə)ɹi/, radiation /ˌɹeɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/, manufacturer /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: heal /ˈhiːl/, hexane /ˈhɛkseɪn/, hydrate /haɪˈdɹeɪt/
  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: poisonous /ˈpɔɪzənəs/, stimulate /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/, penetrate /ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/, thick /θɪk/, acid /ˈæsɪd/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: inflammatory /ɪnˈflæmət(ə)ɹi/, acne /ˈækni/, abdomen /ˈæb.də.mən/, acid /ˈæsɪd/, organic /ɔːˈɡænɪk/

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  2. Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come scar, vitamin, poisonous.

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