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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Foods and Vitamins to Beautify Your Skin







Foods and Vitamins to Beautify Your Skin

Vitamins and Minerals

 

Here are some of the best minerals and vitamins for healthy skin. Including these skin rejuvenating vitamins in your diet will help keep your skin looking healthy and free from problems.

VITAMIN  A

 

Vitamin A is a very good vitamin for healthy skin. It helps strengthen the skin and repair tissues. It can be taken in foods, as a supplement or as a topical cream. Vitamin A can help prevent dry skin and acne. It can also be used to treat wrinkles.

VITAMIN E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that can help prevent free radical damage to the skin. Vitamin E is a good vitamin to take when your skin is suffering some damage from the sun or other factors.

VITAMIN C

 

 Vitamin C helps with healing wounds and other damage to the skin. There is some evidence to suggest it may rejuvenate the skin. Vitamin C will also help the immune system fight off illnesses.

VITAMIN D

 

Vitamin D is an antioxidant that may play a role in skin pigmentation.

VITAMIN B

 

Vitamin B helps keep your skin tone healthy. It is also a good vitamin for relieving stress, and so it may prevent some of the skin problems (like eczema) that can be caused by stress. There are a number of different vitamins in the vitamin B group.
  • Vitamin B1 is an antioxidant that helps rid the body of toxins. It can also assist circulation.
  • Vitamin B2 helps keep the skin healthy. It can also help prevent acne.
  • Vitamin B3 improves circulation.
  • Vitamin B5 helps reduce stress.
  • Vitamin B6 helps keep the immune system healthy.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Hair coloring

Is Brown Right:  
If at least two of the following apply to you, you are probably best brunette:
·  You're mousy brown now. Your natural color lacks the vibrancy of richer browns and virtually begs to be deepened.
·  You want a low-maintenance regimen. Unless you are naturally very blonde, the upkeep for brown hair is fairly easy — and at-home coloring is close to goof-proof, says Julia Youssef, executive director of L'OrĂ©al Paris's Hair Color Technical Center and Product Evaluation.
·  Your hair is damaged and dull. Dark hair color reflects light best, hides breakage, and minimizes the flaws of abused tresses.
How to be the best brunette:
1. Match your brown to your haircut. To maximize the impact of your chocolaty color, go deeper and monotone if your hair is nearly all one length. If it's shorter or very layered, make the ends slightly lighter, and weave in high- and lowlights to emphasize the texture of the cut, says Marie Robinson, a colorist at the Sally Hershberger Salon in New York City (clients include Natalie Portman).
2. Go to the extreme. The most striking brunettes today are very dark or quite light, says Robinson. If your hair color is medium in tone, you blend — in a bad way.
3. Coloring at home? Go half-and-half. One of the most common at-home hair coloring errors, is a brown that's gone orangey, often the result of applying a dye that's too "warm." If it's golden brown you're after, buy one box of golden brown and one box of neutral brown. Mix the two, then use the combo on your hair.
4. Steer clear of hairspray, if possible. Nothing takes the sheen off shiny brunette strands faster than dousing them with hairspray. If you must shellac, follow with a spritz of shine serum.
5. Beware of black. If you want to deepen your brown to anything beyond dark chocolate, visit a professional, says Yourself. Once you go blue-black, there's almost no going back. The only way to lighten up is with a pricey salon procedure that involves lots of damage — to your hair and wallet


Monday, April 4, 2011

Sun screen Lotion

Spearmint Sun screen Lotion:

  • Ingredients required
    • 4 Fluid of ounce of distilled water
    • 10-12 drops of lavender
    • 3-4 drops of spearmint oil
    • 3-4 drops of peppermint drops.
Preparation

  1. Take distilled water and add lavender to it.
  2. Add spearmint oil and peppermint oil together to form a uniform mixture.
  3. Shake well.
  4. Store in a clean, airtight jar and refrigerate.

Aloe Vera Sunscreen Lotion
  • Ingredients required
    • 10 ounces non-medicated lotion
    • 7 drops clove oil
    • 7 drops peppermint oil
    • 8-9 tablespoons aloe vera gel
Preparation


  1. Take lotion in a pan.
  2. Add clove oil and peppermint oil in the pan.
  3. Blend mix thoroughly and add aloe vera gel to it.
  4. Mix well and store in a clean, airtight jar and refrigerate.
Note: If you are suffering from any kind of skin diseases or skin allergies do not use these remedies.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Removal of Dark spots


  • Make a mixture of 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice and glycerin and apply it on the spots
  • Grind betel leaf and add a little coconut oil and apply it on the spots.
  • Make a paste of saffron and add some honey , apply it on the face to remove black spots.
  • To remove black spots apply a paste of turmeric and basil.
  • Whenever you wash your face, wash your neck too. If you use a foundation or a loose powder on your face, remember to apply it to your neck 
  • Apply sunscreen before stepping out and avoid exposure to the sun as the black marks may darken further.
  • Apply cucumber juice on your neck to lighten the black marks.
  • Make a paste of saffron powder with milk. Apply it on the balck spots. Allow it to dry and then wash.
     

Face care

 Home Facial



Cleanse your skin: Cleansers help to get rid of dirt and make up without any traces. With the help of a milk cleanser clean the skin gently in a circular motion. Apply the cleanser to your face and throat, and use upward circular motions. After a fine massage, rinse well with warm water and pat it dry.

Exfoliate : Exfoliate your face with a gentle face scrub.  Concentrate on the areas around your nose and forehead. For a combination skin, work harder on the areas that are more oily. Make sure to use scrubs that don't dry your face. Rinse it with lukewarm water.

Steaming time: Steaming is essential as it opens the pores and increases circulation on the skin's surface.  Pour hot steamy water in a large bowl and bring it to the place you are going to do the facial. Lean your face over the bowl about a foot away and cover your head and the bowl to preserve the steam. If you feel a burning sensation then stop for few seconds and repeat it. Keep the steam going for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Tonic: As the pores are open, your skin is in ideal state for maximum absorption. So, gently massage a regenerating serum or tonic at this stage.

Face masks : envelop your skin with a face masks that suits your skin to enhance the skin care treatment . To replenish the pores apply toner by misting or cotton pad.

Moisturizer: smooth on a soft moisturizer according to your skin type. Apply the lotion all over the face and neck avoiding the area around the eyes. Apply an eye cream all around the eyes.

Better to do it once in a week.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Hair Care

Home Remedies for Dandruff

  • Add 1 teaspoon of camphor to half a cup of coconut or neem oil. Store it in glass container. Massage this oil into the scalp before bed.
  • Mix 1 teaspoon of castor, mustard and coconut oil each and massage into the scalp.
  • Mix one part of lemon juice with two parts of coconut oil. Massage into the roots of the hair regularly. 
  • Wash with warm water after three to four hours or leave overnight. 

Home Remedies For Hair Loss
  • Massage the scalp gently with coconut or almond oil daily for 10 to 15 minutes.
  • Boil neem leaves in water. Cool, strain and rinse hair with it.
  • Increase green leafy vegetables, salads, milk, fruits and sprouts in the diet. Take more proteins, milk, buttermilk, yeast, wheat germ, soya beans, whole grains and nuts. 
Natural Conditioners 
  • Henna is a herbal treatment with good conditioning abilities.
  • Egg white is a good conditioner for hair. 
  • Deep condition with curd, beer and egg. 
  • Mix a little vinegar in warm water and rinse your hair with this solution. This will add bounce to dull and lifeless hair.

 Home Remedies for Premature Graying of Hairs
  •  Apply a paste made from 2-Tsp. henna powder, 1-tsp. curd, 1-tsp. fenugreek seed powder, 1 tbsp. coffee, 2-tbsp. mint juice and 2-tbsp. basil juice. Apply this paste to the hair for two hours. For a darker color, leave this paste in for 3 to 4 hours. Wash hair with any natural shampoo.
  • Grate some fresh ginger. Mix with honey and place it in a jar. Eat 1 tea spoon everyday. 

Tips to increase the body weight


Tips to increase weight:

      1.Take to a diet for three to four days.
      2.Take 100 to 150 grams of bran with the fruits. The best way will be   
          to mix bran with a fruit like papaya. It will increase appetite, improve  
          the digestion and remove costiveness, if any. One will tend  
          to eat more and the capacity to assimilate food will be increased.
      3.Foods like flour, rice honey, raisins, figs, dates, butter, and etc. can 
          help increase weight. 
      4.Sweat substances can increase weight than fatty foods.
      5. To increase their weight should become pure vegetarians and eat fruits, rice, flour, fresh vegetables,  
          bananas, dry fruits, butter, and milk.
      6.Germinated wheat is also extremely beneficial if taken in the form of gruel mixed with hot milk.
      7.Take plenty of water & exercise.

Tips to reduce the body weight

    Diet  food
   600 calorie per day : 
 
   1. Early Morning: One glass of warm water with 1 tsp of lemon juice.
   2.Morning Breakfast : Any one or two of the following items :
           1.One cup of tea or coffee with a little milk (use artificial sweetness instead of sugar).
           2.Any small fruit (except banana or mango).
           3.Two or three small tomatoes or cucumbers.
           4.Non-vegetarians can take an egg.
   3.Mid-Day Meal :
          1. Two or three small tomatoes or cucumbers :
          2. One small chapati.
          3. Half bowl of any calorie vegetable.
          4. Half bowl of moong soup.
          5. Non-vegetarians can take a small piece of meat(fatless) or fish.
   4.Afternoon tea/early evening: As per the morning breakfast.
   5. Supper : As per the mid-day meal, except for the fact that a small bowlful of rice or khichree can be                    taken instead of rice.

 1,200 calorie food per day :

     1. Early Morning: One glass of warm water with 1 tsp of lemon juice.
     2.Morning Breakfast : Take any one or two of the following items :
               1. One cup of milk or one cup of tea or coffee with a little milk (use artificial sweetener instead of 
                    sugar).
               2. One small fruit.
               3. One slice of bread.
               4. One egg.
               5. Two or three small tomatoes or cucumbers.
   3. Mid-day Meal:
              1. Vegetable or non-vegetarian soup of your liking (Flour should not beUsed for preparing any
                 soup)
             2.Four or five tomatoes or two or three cucumbers.
             3.One small bowl of vegetable.
             4.Two small chapatis or a slice of bread.
             5.One small bowl of moong or any other similar cereal.
             6.Non-vegetarians can take some meat (fatless) or a fish.
    4.Afternoon/Early evening: As per the morning breakfast.
    5. Supper: As per the mid-day meal except for the fact that one small bowl of khichree or rice can be
        taken as a substitute for chapattis or bread.

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