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Share Social WordPress Plugin – FREE Social Share Plugin

Social-PluginSocial sharing options are pretty much a must for any blog.

You want to make it easy for your visitors to share what you’ve written with their social networks so that others can discover your content.

And the best way to do that is to include a button or two that puts the idea of sharing front and center, and makes it incredibly simple for your users to post your link to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or elsewhere.

Below are ten great social sharing plugins for your WordPress blog. Most are free and all have sharing options for multiple platforms. Some even include upwards of a hundred or more services you can implement.

1. Sharebar

Rail-style sharing icons have quickly risen to be one of the most popular styles seen on WP blogs today. Sharebar is arguably one of the most attractive plugins in this list, and one of the most usable. Its location to the side of posts, rather than at the top or bottom, improves visibility for those reading posts, especially since it moves with the viewport as you scroll. The only downside to Sharebar is that it only supports a limited number of services: Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Buzz, and Email.

2. AddToAny

AddToAny is a button-based sharing plugin that’s un-intrusive and easy to use, both from the perspective of the blog owner and the visitor sharing content. It includes a ton of services, from the most popular to ones you may never have heard of, though they’re arranged so that only the most popular show up on initial hover, with an additional click required to show the rest. It also includes bookmarking and email options.

AddToAny also includes an options panel that lets you customize which services you want to include, how the button will look (including color scheme), and more. This makes is much more friendly to users who want to fully integrate it into their site without having to dive into the code.

3. ShareThis

ShareThis is one of the most versatile plugins on this list. You can configure it to display share buttons in a variety of ways, including a single icon, a series of icons or buttons, or a series of widgets with the number of shares or retweets displayed. Registered ShareThis publishers get access to various tracking reports to see how much their content is being shared.

In addition to the main sharing options above, ShareThis is also testing a ShareBar for the bottom of your pages, and a HoveringButtons bar for including share buttons in a rail style along the side of the page.

4. Sociable Pro

Sociable Pro is the premium version ($9.99) of the popular free Sociable plugin. The Pro version adds a number of functionality improvements over the free version, as well as some additional options. One of the biggest reasons Sociable Pro is worth paying for, though, is the ability to use your own custom icons. This alone makes it a much more attractive plugin, and makes it easier to integrate directly with your site while maintaining the ease of using a plugin.

5. AddThis

AddThis includes both sharing tools and robust analytics so you know how your content is being shared. It includes dynamic personalization options, so users see the right options at the right times. It has a huge directory of services to choose from (more than 300), and there’s deep Twitter and Facebook integration. It also includes automatic translation to more than 70 languages. You can use AddThis without registering, but then you miss out on the analytics options.

6. Socialize

Socialize creates sharing buttons that include sharing counts. It works with Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and other services. The fact that the buttons can be placed either within your post, in the footer, or elsewhere is a big advantage for Socialize.

7. I Love Social Bookmarking

I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple plugin that’s based on a single icon that displays various subscription, social bookmarking, and sharing options when hovered on. It’s small and unobtrusive, and has a number of more advanced administrator options, including automatic or manual display, background colors, font face and size, link target, list title and style, and the ability to select which social media services are included.

9. Light Social

Light Social is a simple plugin that places sharing icons at the bottom of your posts. Services supported include Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Delicious, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Buzz, and more. It’s implemented with lightweight HTML code for minimal impact on your blog’s file sizes and load time. You can enable or disable each individual service, but other than that there aren’t really any options.

10. SocioFluid

SocioFluid is another stylized social sharing plugin that uses icons. The icons in this case zoom slightly when hovered over, and the name of the service is displayed (similar to the way the Dock works on Mac OS X). If your blog has the right kind of design, it’s a neat plugin. It’s MIT and GPL licensed, and can be used completely for free. The icons are from Icondock and the plugin uses jQuery for the effects.

How To Change Your Permalinks Structure In WordPress

permalinksPermalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.

Most of the time I tell people to change their WordPress permalink structure, it’s to get rid of the dates in their permalink structure. If their content is “timeless”, it just shouldn’t be there. In my opinion, the only type of site that should have dates in their permalink structure is a news site. All other sites should strive to write content that is “timeless”.

There are two steps in changing your WordPress permalink structure. The first is simple, go to Settings -> Permalinks and select Post name:

If you don’t have the post name option yet, you’re not on WordPress 3.3, the release of which is imminent. You could wait a bit for the update, or you could just add /%postname%/ as a custom permalink structure.

The second step is to redirect your old permalinks to your new ones. To do that, you have to add redirects to your .htaccess file, I have created a little tool that generates these redirects for you based on your domain and your old permalink structure. To use this tool, click the button:

There you have it! If you copied the redirect into your .htaccess, you should test whether it’s working. If it’s not, chances are you’re not allowed to use RedirectMatch, which makes changing your WordPress Permalink Structure a bit harder and not something I can easily cover in this post.

Let me know whether the turtorial works for you and what you’ve done to your permalinks!

How To Create New Blog Posts

Image1. Access /wp-admin/
To access the WordPress Login panel, go to http://www.%5Byour-domain-name.com%5D/wp-admin/

2. Enter your username and password
When the page loads, you’ll see a page that will ask for your login details. From here, login with your username and password. If someone else made your site and you don’t know what your login information is, contact them and request the username and password.

If your site was designed by Domainshive and you don’t know this information, email us with your domain name, first & last name (this will be your username), and phone number.

3. Add New Post
From the Dashboard, place the mouse on “Posts” on the left and select “Add New”.

Writing And Formatting

1. Basic: Visual
The basic way to write a new blog post in WordPress is in “Visual” mode. For the most part, you can see how your post will look once it’s published.

To format your text, just highlight and select b for bold or i for italic. Same for lists, adding links, and everything else.

2. Advanced: HTML
The advanced way to write your blog post is in “HTML” mode. This is the way we publish content at Domainshive. Even though you still take the same steps when formatting your content (just highlight and select b for bold or i for italic, etc), there are advantages.

For example: You might notice that “Visual” mode creates extra spaces between paragraphs. If you see this happen, just switch over to HTML mode, find the <p> and </p> tags and delete them.

Be careful in “HTML” mode – if you’re not familiar with basic html formatting, I suggest steering clear.

Categories And Pictures

1. Post Categories
It’s really important that you get your post into the right category. You’ll probably see “Blog” and “Uncategorized” in your list if your site was designed by Domainshive. In almost every case, we’ve set up your website’s blog to be under the category “Blog”, so be sure that’s selected.

2. Pictures
To upload an image, select the option above your content box. A popup will appear, telling you to drag or upload your media.

Once you’ve selected how you would like your photo positioned, select “Insert into post”.

Publishing

Preview, then Publish
Always “Preview” your post before publishing. Your preview will open in a new tab or window, allowing you to easily edit anything you missed without having to navigate all the way back to your draft.

Once you publish, make sure you go to your blog (either http://www.[your-domain-name.com]/blog/ or http://www.[your-domain-name.com]/category/blog/) to see how the post looks. If you’ve attached an image or do any funky code, this page could end up looking pretty weird.

Don’t see your post? Usually this means you’ve posted it in the wrong category. Just edit the post, change the category, and “update” (this will be the option you’ll have instead of “publish”).

Look at your published post. Everything good? Start sharing!

How To Create New Pages In WordPress

new pagesIn WordPress, you can write either posts or Pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts, in a default setup, appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages are for content such as “About,” “Contact,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present timeless information about yourself or your site — information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any content.

In addition to the generally required “About” and “Contact” Pages, other examples of common pages include Copyright, Disclosure, Legal Information, Reprint Permissions, Company Information, and Accessibility Statement.

In general, Pages are very similar to Posts in that they both have Titles and Content and can use your WordPress Theme templates files to maintain a consistent look throughout your site. Pages, though, have several key distinctions that make them quite different from Posts.

Creating Pages

To create a new Page, log in to your WordPress installation with sufficient admin privileges to create new articles. Select the Administration > Pages > Add New option to begin writing a new Page.

The Pages Add New Screen allows you to add new Pages.

Title
The title of your page. You can use any words or phrases. Avoid using the same title twice as that will cause problems. You can use commas, apostrophes, quotes, hypens/dashes, and other typical symbols in the page like “About My Site – Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid.” WordPress will clean it up for the link to the page, called the slug.

Page Editing Area
The blank box where you enter your writing, links, links to images, and any information you want to display on your site. You can use either the Visual or the HTML view to compose your pages.

Preview button
Allows you to view the page before officially publishing it.

Publish box
Contains buttons that control the state of your page. The main states are Published, Pending Review, and Draft. A Published status means the page has been published on your blog for all to see. Pending Review means the draft is waiting for review by an editor prior to publication. Draft means the page has not been published and remains a draft for you. If you select a specific publish status and click the update page or Publish button, that status is applied to the page. For example, to save a page in the Pending Review status, select Pending Review from the Publish Status drop-down box, and click Save As Pending. (You will see all pages organized by status by going to Pages > Edit). To schedule a page for publication on a future time or date, click “Edit” in the Publish area next to the words “Publish immediately”. You can also change the publish date to a date in the past to back-date pages. Change the settings to the desired time and date. You must also hit the “Publish” button when you have completed the page to publish at the desired time and date.

Publish box
Visibility – This determines how your page appears to the world. Public pages will be visible by all website visitors once published. Password Protected pages are published to all, but visitors must know the password to view the page content. Private pages are visible only to you (and to other editors or admins within your site)

Permalink
After you save your page, the Permalink below the title shows the potential URL for the page, as long as you have permalinks enabled. (To enable permalinks, go to Settings > Permalinks.) The URL is generated from your title. In previous versions of WordPress, this was referred to as the “page-slug.” The commas, quotes, apostrophes, and other non-HTML favorable characters are changed and a dash is put between each word. If your title is “My Site – Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid”, it will be cleaned up to be “my-site-heres-lookin-at-you-kid” as the title. You can manually change this, maybe shortening it to “my-site-lookin-at-you-kid”.

Save
Allows you to save your page as a draft / pending review rather than immediately publishing it. To return to your drafts later, visit Pages > Edit in the menu bar, then select your page from the list.

Publish
Publishes your page on the site. You can edit the time when the page is published by clicking the Edit link above the Publish button and specifying the time you want the page to be published. By default, at the time the page is first auto-saved, that will be the date and time of the page within the database.

Parent
Parent page controls how deep your page hierarchy goes.

Template
Page Template to use for presenting this Page.

Order
Page order to sort the list of Pages

How To Insert And Format Images

wpimageOverview

When creating or editing a WordPress page or blog post, you can easily add images at any time using the WordPress Media Uploader tool. Here’s how to add an image, step-by-step, using the media uploader:

Step 1 – Placing your cursor

In order to add an image to your page or post, you must first insert your cursor in the place in the text where you want the image to appear. By placing your cursor within your text, you can add images inline with your content. You can also place your cursor on a blank line if you want the image to appear by itself instead.

Tip: It’s a good idea to place your cursor on the left margin of your text, even if you want the image to appear on the right. That’s because there is a special setting called Alignment that allows you to control whether the image appears on the right or the left side of the text. It even controls how text flows around the image automatically.

Step 2 – Click the Add Media button

Once you’ve placed your cursor on the line where you want your image to appear, click on the Add Media button to launch the media uploader interface, and then select the Insert Media option from the list of actions in the left side of the media uploader window.

Step 3 – Add or Select Your Image

You can add or select the image you want to add to your page or post by choosing from either of the following options in the center of the media uploader window:

Upload Files: Upload the image you want to use from your computer by dragging it into the upload area.

Media Library: Select from any previously uploaded images in the media library by clicking on the one you wish to add to your page or post.

Once you have selected or uploaded the image you want to add, You will see a checkbox next to the thumbnail confirming your selection, and see information about it displayed in the Attachment Details pane on the right hand side of the media uploader interface.

Step 4 – Attachment Details

The Attachment Details pane displays a small un-cropped thumbnail of the image, as well as important information such as the filename, date uploaded, and image dimensions in pixels.

There are also action links that allow you to Edit Image, which takes you to the Edit Image page, or to Delete Permanently to remove the image from your site.

In addition, you can edit the following media information:

Title: The title of this media.
Caption: The caption for this image. The text you enter here will be displayed below the image.
Alternate Text: Enter the Alt text for the image, e.g. “The Mona Lisa” to describe the media.
Description: A description for this particular media.

Step 5 – Attachment Display Settings

The Attachment Display Settings pane controls how the image is displayed when viewed on the site.

You have options to set how you would like the image aligned on the page (in relation to the text and margins) and what the link behavior of the image will be, In addition you can set what size image you would like to display on your page.

Image Alignment

The Alignment setting allows you to determine where you would like the image to appear in your content area and how it interacts with any text on the page. You have the following image alignment options to choose from:

Left: Aligns the image on the left hand margin, and any text that is on the page wraps (or flows) around the image to the available space on the right.
Right: Aligns the image on the right hand margin, and any text that is on the page wraps (or flows) around the image to the available space on the left.
Center: Aligns the image to the center of the page, with no text displayed around it.
None: Inserts the image in to the page with no alignment.

Image Link

The Link To settings determine the URL/web address to which the image will be linked when clicked on by a visitor to your site. You can specify the following image link settings:

Attachment Page: Links your inserted image to its WordPress media attachment page.
Media File: Links your inserted image directly to the original, full-size version of the file.
Custom URL: Allows you to set a custom link URL for your inserted image to link to when clicked.
None: This setting will remove the link completely, rendering the image “un-clickable”.

Image Size

The Size settings determine the size of the image you are adding to your site. By default WordPress creates a range of four image size for you to choose from:

Thumbnail: Displays a small thumbnail-sized version of your image on the page/post. Note, by default the Thumbnail size is a square, so some cropping of your original image may occur.
Medium: Displays a medium-sized version of your image on the page/post. This is a good size to use with Left/Right alignments, as it leaves sufficient space for legible text to either side.
Large: Displays a large-sized version of your image on the page/post. Note: WordPress will determine the width of the content column of your theme, and display the largest possible image for that space.
Full Size: Displays a full-sized version of your image on the page/post. Note: WordPress will determine the width of the content column of your theme, and display the largest possible image for that space. If your original image is larger than this column width, the full size of the image may not be displayed.

Step 6 – Inserting the image

Once you have determined your image settings, click on the blue Insert into post or Insert into page button, to add the image to your page or post. After the image uploader window closes, you will see the image in the text editor window, including a preview of the alignment of the image, if you have specified an image alignment.

At any time, you can edit the image settings by clicking on the Edit Image button in the upper left hand corner. You can remove the image from your page/post by clicking on the Remove Image button.

How To Upgrade Or Delete Plugins Automatically

wp pluginsCheck Requirements

Whatever the reason for updating, before getting started it is best to check the current minimum requirements page first to make sure that your web host has the required versions of PHP and MySQL. (If you are not sure, then your hosting provider should be able to tell you.)

Take a Backup

The next thing to do is to take a backup of your database. All your Posts and Pages are stored in the database, so you will need to have a copy of it in case, for whatever reason, you change your mind after upgrading and need to go back. If you are not sure how to backup your database, then complete instructions can be found in the WordPress Backups section of the Codex.

Disable Plugins

The final preparation step is to disable plugins. Now, you don’t have to do this, but every now and again a plugin hasn’t been updated to work with the latest version of WordPress, and causes a problem after the upgrade. So, it’s best to try and avoid that, yes? You can easily disable your plugins by heading to the Manage Plugins page in the Dashboard, changing the “Bulk Actions” pull down menu to “Deactivate” and clicking “Apply”.

Now that you’ve checked that you’re ready to update, you’ve turned off your plugins and you’ve got your backup, it’s time to get started.

There are two methods for updating – the easiest is the Automatic Update, which will work for most people.

Automatic Update

Current versions of WordPress (2.7+) feature an Automatic Update. You can launch the automatic Update by clicking the link in the new version banner (if it’s there) or by going to the Tools -> Upgrade (or Update for version 3) menu. Once you are on the “Update WordPress” page, click the button “Update Automatically” to start the process off. You shouldn’t need to do anything else and, once it’s finished, you will be up-to-date.

For Automatic Update to work, at least two criteria must be satisfied:

(a) file ownership: all of your WordPress files must be owned by the user under which your web server executes. In other words, the owner of your WordPress files must match the user under which your web server executes. The web server user (named “apache”, “web”, “www”, “nobody”, or some such) is not necessarily the owner of your WordPress files. Typically, WordPress files are owned by the ftp user which uploaded the original files. If there is no match between the owner of your WordPress files and the user under which your web server executes, you will receive a dialog box asking for “connection information”, and you will find that no matter what you enter in that dialog box, you won’t be able to update automatically.

(b) file permissions: all of your WordPress files must be either owner writable by, or group writable by, the user under which your Apache server executes.

On shared hosts, WordPress files should specifically NOT be owned by the web server. If more then one user owns different files in the install (because of edits made by deleting and re-uploading of files via different accounts, for example), the file permissions need to be group writable (for example, 775 and 664 rather then the default 755 and 644). File permissions (in general) should be adjusted as appropriate for the server environment (the shared host RackSpace CloudSites for example recommends 700 and 600 for a single ftp user, or 770 and 660 for multiple ftp users). See the file permission section for more (some files and folders require stricter permissions).

Automatic update has been known to fail if you’re not using PHP5. If you see the message indicating that the update is downloading the zip file and then nothing else happens, it may be because you are not running PHP5. Many hosts offer both PHP4 and PHP5, and switching is usually very easy, often a simple entry in your .htaccess file. If you can’t switch to PHP5, and experience this problem, use the manual update below.

If you have customized the TwentyTwelve or TwentyEleven theme, you should not use the automatic upgrade, as it will overwrite your changes – you should use a manual update instead.

If you see a “failed update” nag message, delete the file .maintenance from your WordPress directory using FTP. This will remove the “failed update” nag message.

How To Install WordPress Plugins

pluginsThis guide is another in the Inside WordPress series and will show you how to install a WordPress plugin. While this is a relatively simple task it is one of fundamental importance to WordPress and is often overlooked. As such it is a potential cause of problems to beginners, and not being able to successfully install plugins will prevent you from accessing the very large world of WordPress plugins

There are three ways of installing a WordPress plugin:

Automatically through WordPress – easiest, some server setup
Manually uploading a plugin through WordPress – medium, some server setup
Manually uploading a plugin via FTP – more complicated, no server setup

AUTOMATICALLY INSTALLING A PLUGIN

This is by far the easiest method but it does require that your server is setup in such a way as to allow modifications to the plugin directory. This is beyond the scope of this guide, but it involves giving group/other write permissions to the wp-content/plugins directory. Once setup you will be able to press on the Add New plugin menu option:

On the Install Plugin screen you can then simply enter the name of the plugin into the search field and perform the search:

The search results should then show the plugin. Clicking on install will automatically download and install the plugin onto your blog.

When finished you can then activate the plugin – everything is done and dusted!

MANUALLY INSTALLING A PLUGIN

Downloading a Plugin

WordPress plugins are usually distributed as zip files. A zip file is a special file that allows you to store and compress many files together, resulting in a single file that is small and fast to download. Downloading a plugin consists of clicking the download link from the appropriate website and allowing the browser to store the file somewhere on your computer:

Installing a downloaded plugin via WordPress

From the WordPress plugin menu click on Add New:

Instead of searching for a plugin you can directly upload your plugin zip file by clicking on Upload:

Use the browse button to select the plugin zip file that was downloaded, then click on Install Now. The plugin will be uploaded to your blog and installed. It can then be activated (see Automatically Installing a Plugin).

Installing a downloaded plugin via FTP

Once downloaded the file needs to be unzipped, a term that refers to the de-compressing and restoring to normal of a zip file. Depending what kind of computer you are using this is either a very simple stage, or one that requires additional software. Recent versions of Windows already understand zip files, as will OS X. If they don’t then you will need to download and install something like 7-Zip, Winzip, or StuffIt.

When ready, unzip the plugin:

Now you will need to upload the plugin to your site using FTP. Before you continue you should have your FTP username and password available (these are the same details provided to you by your web host) and have installed an FTP client. For Windows you can use FileZilla, for Mac OS X you can use Cyberduck. Once you have the FTP software installed you should start it and open a new connection. Enter your FTP address, followed by your username and password:

After a few moments (if the address, username, and password are correct) you will be connected to your website and will see a directory listing.

Navigate through this directory to where WordPress is installed. The exact location of this will change depending on your web host, but typically it will be inside a directory called public_html.

Now navigate through WordPress to where the plugins are located: wp-content/plugins/

Now you can upload the plugin. Be aware that you need to upload the plugin directory as well as all files. Certain unzip applications will create a surrounding directory for you, which should not be uploaded.

When uploaded you need to activate the plugin.

ACTIVATING & DEACTIVATING PLUGINS

When a plugin is installed it can be activated and deactivated quickly from the Installed Plugins menu:

You will be presented with a list of plugins. Locate your plugin and press activate or deactive. Simple!

UPGRADING A PLUGIN

When an update for a plugin is available you will see a red indicator in the plugins menu:

Clicking on this and then navigating to the Upgrade Available menu will display a list of plugins that can be updated. If this can be achieved automatically then selecting the upgrade automatically link will do this for you. If you want to manually update the plugin then you will need to follow the instructions above and re-upload the new version of the plugin. If you are using FTP then you are advised to delete the old plugin directory first – unless you have made modifications to the plugin files then all your settings and data will be retained.

Shampoo Ginger

ginger1It’s easy to overlook this somewhat ordinary-looking plant. The “shampoo ginger” is a short, herbaceous plant belonging to the ginger family.

It looks much like other relatives of the family, with leafy stems that grow from horizontally creeping rhizomes (underground stems). Its scientific name, Zingiber zerumbet, refers to the spreading, antler-like appearance of the stems.

In the summer, the plants that have largely gone unnoticed since the previous winter suddenly perk up. New leafy stems emerge from ground level and grow to be about 2 to 3 feet tall. Leaves are followed by the emergence of flowering shoots, also from ground level.

About 1 to 2 feet tall, the flowering shoots develop expanded tips that look like pine cones. The swollen flowering tops actually are composed of modified, overlapping leaves called bracts.

From between the bracts, white to yellowish flowers emerge, a few at a time. Even the 1- to 2-inch-long flowers are easy to overlook, blending into the surrounding greenery.

After several weeks, most of the flowers wither into barely visible dried threads. But the flowering heads gradually turn a bright, eye-catching red. The shampoo ginger then gets a lot of attention!

Squeeze the bulbous flowering heads and out gushes a gingery-fragrant, watery sap. The slightly slippery liquid has long been used by Polynesians as a natural shampoo. It also was used as a refreshing drink.

Thought to be native to India and widespread in Southeast Asia, the shampoo ginger, or ‘awapuhi kuahiwi‘, was introduced to Hawai’i by early Polynesians. They found many other uses for the versatile plant. Dried and powdered rhizomes were put between kapa, or bark cloth, for storage. Leaves were used as flavoring for foods.

Rhizomes and leaves also were used medicinally to treat cuts and sores, toothaches and headaches, and upset stomachs. Fresh rhizomes were ground, placed in cloth and tied to a sprained limb to give relief.

Modern chemistry has given a name to this anti-inflammatory oil of the shampoo ginger: zerumbone.

Today, the shampoo ginger is an important ingredient of some popular commercial shampoos and soaps. It also makes an attractive addition to a floral arrangement.

The shampoo ginger is a seasonal plant. After flowering, it dries up and becomes dormant. The following year, the cycle is repeated.

For first-time growers, propagation is by division of the rhizomes. Plants do best when grown in slightly acidic soil in a partly shady, evenly moist area.

This plant spreads quickly, so be sure to allow for enough room in your garden!

The Aloe Ice Crystal Series

aloe1HISTORY OF ALOE

The use of aloe vera can be traced all the way back to the ancient Egyptians. The glamorous Cleopatra regarded aloe vera as her beauty secret. Aloe was held in such reverence in Egypt that it was considered to be the “Plant of Immortality”. Alexander the Great conquered the island of Socotra in order to have the Aloe for his army. At the heart of many of the Aztec cures, it is known that Aloe Vera was the effective agent. Ancient Greeks used it to heal numerous internal and external ailments. Ancient Chinese doctors considered Aloe Vera to be one of the plants with major therapeutic properties and called it the ‘harmonic remedy’. In America Aloe Vera is known as ‘the silent healer’. The Russians call Aloe Vera the ‘elixir of longevity’.

BENEFITS:

Aloe Vera:

Nourishes, moisturizes and softens skin
Delays the signs of aging
Kills bacteria, reduces inflammation
Protects against the aging effects and free radical damage from the sun
Reduces external scarring
Helps heal sunburn, scratches, cuts
Aids in growing new tissue and accelerating the healing of injured surfaces
Pearl:

Renews the skin
Activates the skin cells
Smoothes the skin and minimizes the pores
Reduces wrinkles
Active Gold:

Activates the skin cells,
Moisturizes the skin
Improves microcirculation of the skin.
Removes old cells and renews aging cells.
Helps clear away dry rough skin, so the nutrition will be easy to absorb
UNIQUE FEATURES:

The combination of these three ingredients is unique:

Active gold removes old cells, preparing the skin for optimal absorption of nutrients

Hydrolyzed pearl activates and renews skin cells; It is enriched with calcium, zinc and other trace elements. The absorption rate for hydrolyzed pearl is 95%.

Aloe contains more than 200 active ingredients including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, saponins, lignin, anthraquinones which are now easily absorbed into the skin.

Aloe Powder – concentrated nutrients

Aloe Vera gel is the product that is squeezed from the leaves of the aloe plant. The gel has a thick consistency for a short time, but after a few minutes, an enzyme reaction occurs and the product becomes a liquid. This product is freeze dried to preserve its properties. The resulting product is Aloe Powder, which is a powdered concentrate of the liquid Aloe gel. The Aloe powder has over 200 active ingredients in a concentrated form, freeze dried, to ensure all the benefits are realized.

Peculiarity of Product
• To care, moisten, and smoothen skin.
• To increase the level of protein and water in the skin.
• To supply the skin with nutrient maximum on face.
• To tarnish black pigments and acne scars.
• To take off dead skin cells.
• To maintain the elasticity and brightness of facial skin.
• To decelerate early ageing.

FOR NORMAL SKIN.

Natural Ingredients

Aloe vera: to renew skin collagen, to protect skin from sunlight UV; anti-bacteria; to smoothen, moisten and soften the skin.
Choleisterin: to increase the degree of protein and water in the skin (for night cream and eye cream).
Pearl powder: to soften and improve pigmentation; to tarnish acne scars, and to make skin clean, bright and soft.
Active gold liquid: to promote blood circulation on face, to help regenerating dead cells, to accelerate nutrient absorption, and to soften and beautify the skin.
Use stage

1. Cleaning
2. Toning
3. Repairing (eye cream and essence)
4. Moisturizing(day cream/night cream)