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Tips for looking gorgeous 24/7

January 31st, 2008

Glowing smooth skin, nice silky hair, luscious lips …compliments women would love to hear, right? But how do you maintain and keep it beautiful everyday having such busy schedules? Well, here is a time table which will take only a couple of minutes of your day. Stick to this time table at least for a month and before you know, it will become a routine in your life.

These home made recipes will keep it natural, save your time rushing to the beauty parlor and most importantly, keeps you beautiful 24/7.

Sunday: Mix one teaspoon of tomato puree, carrot puree, cabbage puree and neem oil and apply all over your body. Wash it off after 10 minutes. After your bath, don’t forget to apply some Aloe Vera cream on your skin.

Monday: Massage your hair with slightly warm olive oil or a mixture of coconut oil and lime juice for 20 minutes. Wash it off with a mild shampoo.

Tuesday: Mix one egg, half teaspoon vinegar, half teaspoon olive oil, some glycerin and apply it as a hair pack.

Wednesday: Mix lime juice, tomato puree, egg white, and honey in equal quantities with one tablespoon of gram flour and apply the mixture on your face. You may wash it off after 20 minutes

Thursday: Take some potato puree and black tea in equal proportion. Soak cotton in the mixture and place it on both eyes. Relax for ten minutes

Friday: Apply a mixture of glycerin and lime juice on your lips. Wash it off when it dries up.

Saturday: Take half teaspoon shampoo, half teaspoon of dettol (also called parachlorometaxylenol or PCMX) and bit of salt and mix it up in slightly warm water. Soak your feet in the water for 15 minutes. After removing nail polish and shaping your nails, clean it up using a toothbrush. You can massage your hands and legs using baby oil.

This might seem a bit difficult but you cannot maintain your beauty without working for it, can you? Guess not ! Hope you will give it a try.

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Alternative remedies for acne!

January 31st, 2008

Acne can really difficult to treat and the problem is compounded by doctors who don’t really have a definite remedy for it.Most of them keep experimenting with a whole new group of mdicines in process of trial and error till they succeed. Here are a few natural tips to help you out with controlling the spread of acne,

  1.  make sure you wash the area twice a day with mild soaps like Dove, or a specialty anti-acne one with benzoyl peroxide like Oxy-5. Wash as many times as required to keep the area clean. Avoid scrubs but so steam your face once a week.
  2. You can use an over-the-counter anti-acne lotions which have substances like benzoyl peroxide or salicyclic acid. Start with the mildest one  and apply once a day about half an hour after washing. It may take several weeks to work.
  3. Black currant seed oil or evening primrose oil capsules contain a large amount  of omega-3 and Omega-6 which have  good effect on skin to be taken once daily for three months or until your acne clears up.
  4. Drinking a tea of combination  nettles and cleavers tincture may be effective for acne.
  5. Chinese herbs cnidium seed and honeysuckle flower are also pretty useful
  6. Up your intake of multivitamins daily.
  7. And please dont pick!

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Acne treatments for the soul!

January 29th, 2008

For any one who has suffered from acne you do know how difficult it can be to cure it.People can run from pillar to post searching for desperate cures for a steadily worsening situation. And thats not all some people get into the nervous habit of picking these unsightly pimples to get rid them of them as soon as possible which is not really a good idea!

Although I can’t really guarantee it these herbal remedies do seem to play an active part in suppressing the redness and swelling of pimples.Try them what have you got to lose?

  •  Tea tree oil is a powerful antiseptic and it seems to kill the bacterial infections found in skin pimples to lessen the swelling and pain.
  • Zinc tablets also seem to reduce the inflammation to keep the redness and swelling under control.
  • Make an infusion of thyme leaves and steep overnight. Then dip a cloth in the solution warm it and apply to your face as an alternative to a facial stem. This helps to open up pores as well as reduce the swelling  pimples.
  • Popping a pimple is not the solution for the long run. Although this drains out the pus it allows it to get in contact with the surrounding skin to infect more pores and of cause more pimples.

Have a little patience!

Good things come to people who wait! 

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Negative calorie foods: do they really exist?

January 23rd, 2008

OK, I’ll be really frank. One of the biggest reasons people fail to complete a diet is because of the food deprivation. When you are constantly bombarded with images of food and food–related products, it becomes a little difficult to stick to a diet of veggies and unpalatable veggies at that!

So when a close friend of mine started raving about the negative-calorie foods diet, I wasn’t really impressed.

Been there, done that, didn’t work, was my attitude.

But imagine my surprise, when she actually managed to stick to the negative calorie foods diet and lose weight in the bargain. I thought, its time to take a peek at this. A diet which promises to allow you to eat unlimited amounts of selected food so that you can lose weight while eating only those foods, sounded boring. But anything to lose a few pounds!

I did do a little research and here’s what I found,

All foods have calories and they have to be broken down to provide energy to the human body. No food is actually without calories. But according to nutritionists a few foods have calories so tightly tied up that the body expends more calories then the food actually contains to break down the food. So the energy used by the body to digest the negative calorie food is more energy than the food actually contains! The logic being, more the food you eat, more energy utilized by the body and concurrently more weight loss by burning calories.

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Your own home salon!

January 17th, 2008

If you have the time to take a bath,you should have the time to take care of your skin, after all it takes just a few minutes . And it’s not necessary for you to buy expensive moisturizers and creams to keep your skin in great shape here are a few things you should have just lying around in yoru in your kitchen ,

  • Mix one egg, a half cup of full fat mayonnaise and a half cup of olive oil to use as a conditioner for your hair. Leave on for half and hour and you are guaranteed super soft shiny hair conditioned to a tee.
  • Mix powdered almonds with raw potato puree and a capsule of Vitamin E to form a great eye mask to use on your black under eye circles. Keep on for half an hour and wash off.
  • Raw potato is also an excellent alternative as a toner or a face pack for oily skin. Mix raw potato puree, lemon juice,oatmeal, milk and fuller’s earth to make a great cleansing pack.
  • Rub your skin with slices of raw tomato which has enzymes to soften the dead cells on the top layer of skin.Instant shine!
  • Instead of using a chemical cleanser, use a papaya pack for fifteen and you’ll notice the difference.

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