When I am looking for the best colon cleansing product I strongly suggest that first you look at the track record of the products you are considering.

- Is it long-established?
- Is it among the best quality in the market?
- Does it provide good product support?

Then think to yourself; "Will I really complete this course through to the end?"

After all, it's a waste of time and money starting only to give up half way. Be sure you are completely committed.

The most common reasons to use a bowel cleanse product are:
1. To help detox the body - for example in the New Year, or
2. Because of suffering from constipation.

1. To Help Detox The Body
Many people have irregular bowel habits.

The healthiest frequency of bowel movements is to have 2-3 bowel movements a day. This is as often as a meal is eaten.

If you do not go 2-3 times a day, then your bowel is storing excessive food waste - it is holding on to your waste matter. It is much healthier to 'get rid of it' as soon after the meal as you can. This is why 2-3 bowel movements a day is healthiest.

The best bowel cleanse product will help to encourage this healthy frequency of bowel movement.

2. If Constipation Is Present
A person is constipated any time there are difficult bowel movements; when the movements are hard or dry or difficult to pass or when it takes a long time to do so for any reason.

A good bowel cleanse product will usually have a fantastic effect in cases like this. Keep the treatment up for long enough and your slow bowels will be a thing of the past.

It is best to continue with a bowel cleanse product for at least 3-6 months, perhaps longer - depending on how long you have had slow bowels.

Diet and Exercise
Your lifestyle also helps decide how well your bowel behaves - especially your diet and exercise regime. Vegetables and fruit are essential to good bowel function because of the large amount of healthy fibre they contain. And exercise affecting the lower abdomen is excellent for stimulating the bowel - in a healthy way.

The Best Herbal Cleanser
Sacred bark also known as Cascara Sagrada is a wonderful colon cleanser and one of the best in the herbal kingdom for getting the colon into good habits.

Many years ago one dose would be taken before bed to produce a bowel movement next morning.

Now, we use Cascara in a gentler, more curative way; by taking it 3 times daily in a lower dose, and combined with other herbs, to produce a cure of slow bowels.

This happens because Cascara has the great property of 're-training' bowel muscle which has got lazy. In just about every sufferer, the bowel eventually starts to work for itself, in time, and the herbs are no longer needed.

The cascara has caused the bowel to work as it should do - to produce 2-3 bowel movements daily.

For many people with slow bowels this seems like magic - and is almost unimaginable! However, it is what we find in practice.

Psyllium Husks and Bowel Flora
Ideally, the cascara-containing formulation is combined with two other products; Psyllium Husks - which provide extra fibre for the bowel to grip onto; and a bowel flora product, which increases the healthy bacteria in the bowel.

Used all together as one programme, these three products make up the best bowel cleanse product for most people.

The Best Colon Cleansing Product
These three great components are ideal if combined together in a health programme over several months or more. In this way, the body is helped to detox, and slow bowels will be diminished or completely eliminated.

This bowel cleanse product is a fantastic way to start improving health.

Author's Bio: 

Robert Ralph is a herbalist, naturopath and iridologist. He has been treating patients with alternative therapy for 25 years. He spends a lot of his time teaching and writing. Sign up for his FREE EZINE at www.Alternative-Healthzine.com and you will get 6 FREE HEALTH REPORTS. Subscribers also receive free unlimited health advice.