Note: Some of these have been tried and tested, and some may be complied in from other sites for your convenience
The results may vary from person to person , also in case you are allergic to any of the ingredients / are trying it for the first time, please try a patch test before applying it all over
To lighten Underarms
Add 1 tsp of turmeric powder and 1 tsp lemon juice and leave it for 10 minutes. Wash it with cold water.
Doing this every day will lighten the darker underarms light
Olive Oil
Cuticles and nails: If your cuticles are ragged and your nails brittle and dry, olive oil can help! Soak nails for 30 minutes in a small cup of olive oil.
Hands: Smooth on a generous amount of olive oil before bed, put on white cotton gloves, and go to sleep. Your hands will be softer and smoother in the morning!
Lips: To soothe and smoothe dry, chapped lips, dab on a little olive oil.
Hair treatment: This helps repair split ends, heals dandruff, and makes your hair shiny, silky, and lustrous. Massage a few tablespoons of olive oil into scalp and hair. Cover hair with a plastic bathing cap and leave on for 30 minutes or more, then shampoo as usual.
Skin: Massage a small amount of olive oil into skin whenever you need softening and moisturizing. Apply extra oil to rough or cracked areas.
Bath: Add several tablespoons of olive oil to your bath, along with a few drops of your favorite essential oil, to soothe and nourish your skin
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/olive-oil-kitchen-cupboard-beauty.html#ixzz1Tc8ukpS5
Facial Masks
Face mask for dry skin
1. Take 1 tbsp olive oil and mix with 2 tbsp of fresh cream, leave it on the face for 10 minutes and then wash your face with warm water.
2. Mix 1 tbsp of honey with 15 drops of orange juice and 1 tbsp of fuller’s earth and add 1 tbsp of rose water. Mix well and apply on the face, wash off after 10 miuntes.
Face mask for oily skin
1. Mix a tbsp of honey with 1 egg white and apply thickly on the face and neck. Leave for 10 minutes and wash off.
2. Mix 2 tbsp of papaya pulp with 10 drops of lemon juice and leave it for 20 minutes and then rinse well.
3. Take fresh juice of any of the fruits (orange, sweet lime, watermelon or papaya) and apply on the face as a mask. This is very relaxing, it cleanses the skin, closes pores and stimulates blood circulation.
Carrot Facial Mask
Ingredients Needed:
2-3 large carrots
4 1/2 tablespoons honey
Directions:
Cook carrots, then mash. Mix with honey. Apply gently to the skin, wait 10 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.
Glowing Facial Mask
You will love your radiant skin after using this recipe...
All you need is:
1 tbsp fuller's earth or multani mitti
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp mashed papaya
Mix and put on face for 20 minutes then rinse off.
Honey Facial Mask
Perhaps the best facial mask is honey.
Place a cloth in warm water and apply to your face to open the pores. Smear on honey, and leave on for 15 to 30 minutes.
Rinse off with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores.
Use once a week.
Orange Yogurt Mask
Ingredients Needed:
* 1 tsp plain yogurt
* the juice of 1/4 of an orange
Stir to mix and then dip fingers into mixture and smooth onto face. The sensation is both cool and relaxing. Leave on for a five minutes and then rinse. If you are feeling sluggish, this is the perfect mask for you.
* Yogurt will cleanse and nourish your skin
* The orange is full of Vitamin C and AHA's
TEA
Tea and especially green tea or chamomile tea is another great kitchen beauty tip. It works fine against swollen eyes. Either let two teabags cool and put them on your eyelids for about ten minutes. Or soak two small pieces of cloth with tea and do the same thing. Green tea can also be used for foot baths. Combine green tea, peppermint, bath salt and maybe some eucalyptus oil and voila! You’ve made your own foot bath product.
Tips from Shahnaz Husain
To Remove TAN:
"One can also remove a tan using a whole lot of homemade remedies. For the face, one can mix equal quantities of lemon juice and cucumber juice, apply it on the face and leave it for 20 minutes before washing it off with cold water.
"Alternatively, one can mix a pinch of turmeric to yoghurt and apply it on their face, neck and arms regularly for 30 minutes or put cucumber pulp with yoghurt and then wash it off to remove a tan," Husain says.
To remove a tan from the hands she suggests applying a paste of sunflower oil, lemon juice and sugar, while soaking one's feet in water containing lemon juice cleans, de-tans and perks up the feet.
Besides externally taking care of one's skin and hair, experts also stress that one should be careful about the diet during the sultry months.
Skin Care
Skin is a water proof which needs to be well protected from heavy wind and hot sun. Before dwelling into the subject deeply, let us move on with the various methods for maintaining healthy skin.
Skin Cleansing: This method removes acne's from your face. Just before going to bed if one have a mild face wash as he could make his skin healthier as rinsing would allow your skin to breath, avoid irritation, removes dirt's, clog, makeup and prevent erosion of oil which is the secret way to make your skin young.
Grandma's tips
Normal skin - With 1 cup of milk add any of these oil (sandalwood oil, rose oil neroli oil, lavender oil) which help in skin cleansing for a normal skin.
Dry skin - For dry skin, add a cup of milk to ylang-ylang or rose oil or camomile or geranium.
Combination skin - In case of combination skin add milk either to lavender or geranium that would produce the best output.
Skin Toning: The second step following the former is toning of skin. Cleansing process may leave some remnants that could be possible through skin toning. But it should be free from alcohol, as it dry the skin. It closes the skin pores and tighten the skin, makes it cool, nourishes, hydrates and freshen the skin.
Grandma's tips
Dilute the finely chopped cucumber slice with half cup of yoghurt and keep it for ten to fifteen minutes. Then rinse it well you could feel the difference. Rose water and tomato juice are highly recommendable . For dry skin you can use wheat oil and vitamin E.
Skin Exfoliating: It makes the skin younger, shed off the dead cells and removes fine lines and wrinkles from the face. The very sensitive area around eye which is thin need not be exfoliated.
Grandma's tips
Create a paste using aloe vera and baking soda and then rinse, apply on your face to get the one you desire
You can also try with paste created from one tbs of honey and one tbs of salt with a little drop of patchauli oil which aid one in skin exfoliating.
Normal Sugar with a drop of water / olive oil also works well
Skin moisturizing Now the skin after exfoliating will be drier so it needs hydration. Good moisturizer is the need of the hour to restore the danger in your skin. Moisturising oil can be applied gently on your face to make it moist and soft
Grandma's Tips
Glow moisture
Lime juice (1 cup)
Boiled milk (half cup)
Olive oil (1 tbs)
mix well and apply gently on the face.
Hydrating moisturizer
Cooked oat meal (1cup)
Honey ( 1tbs)
Aloe vera leaf extract from one large leaf
mix all the ingredients make a thin paste and apply it.
Moisturizing oil
Coconut oil
Castor oil
Sesame oil
Almond oil
Grape seed oil
Apply this oil to make your skin soft.
Remedy For Wrinkles And Aging
Wrinkles and aging can be easily cured, if one adopt nine measures properly.The following nine method as listed below should be followed to make the skin younger free from wrinkles and aging, as it is the sign of beautiful skin with glow in it.
1 To make your skin soft and beautiful apply a mixture of tomato and lemon juice on your face.
2 Massage your face from neck to forehead which increase blood circulation in your face which help you to restore your beauty.
3 Apply white egg on the wrinkles, dry it to and the wash off.
4 Apply coconut oil or olive oil or Castor oil that will help you in keeping glow.
5 Cut the green seedless grapes into halve and apply it .Leave it for 20 minutes and then wipe it off
6 Apply ripe papaya on your face . Let it dry for 15 minutes which makes you fair and free from wrinkles.
7 Turmeric powder with sugar cane juice help you to prevent from aging.
8 If one intake half a cup of carrot juice it would give the desired result.
9 Green vegetables and fruits in diet help to restore youth and beauty.
Cure For Acne's And Blackheads
Home based cure for acne's and blackheads are discussed in the following list.
1. Create a paste of fenugreek seed and apply it on your face before going to bed and then rinse it in the morning to get rid of acne's and black heads.
2. Intake of garlic seed purifies your blood which help you to stay away from acnes and rubbing of garlic on your face also aid you in it.
3. A cucumber paste helps you in getting rid of acne's and blackheads when apply it on your face.
4. Mix lemon juice with rose water and apply gently on your face.
5. Take yeast mix well with lemon juice and apply gently on your face, let it for few minutes you will get the desired output It makes the skin younger, shed off the dead cells and removes fine lines and wrinkles from the face. The very sensitive area around eye which is thin need not be exfoliated.
DANDRUFF - http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4662238957744657734#editor/target=page;pageID=5922308173467338337
TOMATOES - Remedies from Tomatoes - http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4662238957744657734#editor/target=page;pageID=5922308173467338337
The results may vary from person to person , also in case you are allergic to any of the ingredients / are trying it for the first time, please try a patch test before applying it all over
To lighten Underarms
Add 1 tsp of turmeric powder and 1 tsp lemon juice and leave it for 10 minutes. Wash it with cold water.
Doing this every day will lighten the darker underarms light
Olive Oil
Cuticles and nails: If your cuticles are ragged and your nails brittle and dry, olive oil can help! Soak nails for 30 minutes in a small cup of olive oil.
Hands: Smooth on a generous amount of olive oil before bed, put on white cotton gloves, and go to sleep. Your hands will be softer and smoother in the morning!
Lips: To soothe and smoothe dry, chapped lips, dab on a little olive oil.
Hair treatment: This helps repair split ends, heals dandruff, and makes your hair shiny, silky, and lustrous. Massage a few tablespoons of olive oil into scalp and hair. Cover hair with a plastic bathing cap and leave on for 30 minutes or more, then shampoo as usual.
Skin: Massage a small amount of olive oil into skin whenever you need softening and moisturizing. Apply extra oil to rough or cracked areas.
Bath: Add several tablespoons of olive oil to your bath, along with a few drops of your favorite essential oil, to soothe and nourish your skin
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/olive-oil-kitchen-cupboard-beauty.html#ixzz1Tc8ukpS5
Facial Masks
Face mask for dry skin
1. Take 1 tbsp olive oil and mix with 2 tbsp of fresh cream, leave it on the face for 10 minutes and then wash your face with warm water.
2. Mix 1 tbsp of honey with 15 drops of orange juice and 1 tbsp of fuller’s earth and add 1 tbsp of rose water. Mix well and apply on the face, wash off after 10 miuntes.
Face mask for oily skin
1. Mix a tbsp of honey with 1 egg white and apply thickly on the face and neck. Leave for 10 minutes and wash off.
2. Mix 2 tbsp of papaya pulp with 10 drops of lemon juice and leave it for 20 minutes and then rinse well.
3. Take fresh juice of any of the fruits (orange, sweet lime, watermelon or papaya) and apply on the face as a mask. This is very relaxing, it cleanses the skin, closes pores and stimulates blood circulation.
Carrot Facial Mask
Ingredients Needed:
2-3 large carrots
4 1/2 tablespoons honey
Directions:
Cook carrots, then mash. Mix with honey. Apply gently to the skin, wait 10 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.
Glowing Facial Mask
You will love your radiant skin after using this recipe...
All you need is:
1 tbsp fuller's earth or multani mitti
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp mashed papaya
Mix and put on face for 20 minutes then rinse off.
Honey Facial Mask
Perhaps the best facial mask is honey.
Place a cloth in warm water and apply to your face to open the pores. Smear on honey, and leave on for 15 to 30 minutes.
Rinse off with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores.
Use once a week.
Orange Yogurt Mask
Ingredients Needed:
* 1 tsp plain yogurt
* the juice of 1/4 of an orange
Stir to mix and then dip fingers into mixture and smooth onto face. The sensation is both cool and relaxing. Leave on for a five minutes and then rinse. If you are feeling sluggish, this is the perfect mask for you.
* Yogurt will cleanse and nourish your skin
* The orange is full of Vitamin C and AHA's
TEA
Tea and especially green tea or chamomile tea is another great kitchen beauty tip. It works fine against swollen eyes. Either let two teabags cool and put them on your eyelids for about ten minutes. Or soak two small pieces of cloth with tea and do the same thing. Green tea can also be used for foot baths. Combine green tea, peppermint, bath salt and maybe some eucalyptus oil and voila! You’ve made your own foot bath product.
Tips from Shahnaz Husain
To Remove TAN:
"One can also remove a tan using a whole lot of homemade remedies. For the face, one can mix equal quantities of lemon juice and cucumber juice, apply it on the face and leave it for 20 minutes before washing it off with cold water.
"Alternatively, one can mix a pinch of turmeric to yoghurt and apply it on their face, neck and arms regularly for 30 minutes or put cucumber pulp with yoghurt and then wash it off to remove a tan," Husain says.
To remove a tan from the hands she suggests applying a paste of sunflower oil, lemon juice and sugar, while soaking one's feet in water containing lemon juice cleans, de-tans and perks up the feet.
Besides externally taking care of one's skin and hair, experts also stress that one should be careful about the diet during the sultry months.
Skin Care
Skin is a water proof which needs to be well protected from heavy wind and hot sun. Before dwelling into the subject deeply, let us move on with the various methods for maintaining healthy skin.
Skin Cleansing: This method removes acne's from your face. Just before going to bed if one have a mild face wash as he could make his skin healthier as rinsing would allow your skin to breath, avoid irritation, removes dirt's, clog, makeup and prevent erosion of oil which is the secret way to make your skin young.
Grandma's tips
Normal skin - With 1 cup of milk add any of these oil (sandalwood oil, rose oil neroli oil, lavender oil) which help in skin cleansing for a normal skin.
Dry skin - For dry skin, add a cup of milk to ylang-ylang or rose oil or camomile or geranium.
Combination skin - In case of combination skin add milk either to lavender or geranium that would produce the best output.
Skin Toning: The second step following the former is toning of skin. Cleansing process may leave some remnants that could be possible through skin toning. But it should be free from alcohol, as it dry the skin. It closes the skin pores and tighten the skin, makes it cool, nourishes, hydrates and freshen the skin.
Grandma's tips
Dilute the finely chopped cucumber slice with half cup of yoghurt and keep it for ten to fifteen minutes. Then rinse it well you could feel the difference. Rose water and tomato juice are highly recommendable . For dry skin you can use wheat oil and vitamin E.
Skin Exfoliating: It makes the skin younger, shed off the dead cells and removes fine lines and wrinkles from the face. The very sensitive area around eye which is thin need not be exfoliated.
Grandma's tips
Create a paste using aloe vera and baking soda and then rinse, apply on your face to get the one you desire
You can also try with paste created from one tbs of honey and one tbs of salt with a little drop of patchauli oil which aid one in skin exfoliating.
Normal Sugar with a drop of water / olive oil also works well
Skin moisturizing Now the skin after exfoliating will be drier so it needs hydration. Good moisturizer is the need of the hour to restore the danger in your skin. Moisturising oil can be applied gently on your face to make it moist and soft
Grandma's Tips
Glow moisture
Lime juice (1 cup)
Boiled milk (half cup)
Olive oil (1 tbs)
mix well and apply gently on the face.
Hydrating moisturizer
Cooked oat meal (1cup)
Honey ( 1tbs)
Aloe vera leaf extract from one large leaf
mix all the ingredients make a thin paste and apply it.
Moisturizing oil
Coconut oil
Castor oil
Sesame oil
Almond oil
Grape seed oil
Apply this oil to make your skin soft.
Remedy For Wrinkles And Aging
Wrinkles and aging can be easily cured, if one adopt nine measures properly.The following nine method as listed below should be followed to make the skin younger free from wrinkles and aging, as it is the sign of beautiful skin with glow in it.
1 To make your skin soft and beautiful apply a mixture of tomato and lemon juice on your face.
2 Massage your face from neck to forehead which increase blood circulation in your face which help you to restore your beauty.
3 Apply white egg on the wrinkles, dry it to and the wash off.
4 Apply coconut oil or olive oil or Castor oil that will help you in keeping glow.
5 Cut the green seedless grapes into halve and apply it .Leave it for 20 minutes and then wipe it off
6 Apply ripe papaya on your face . Let it dry for 15 minutes which makes you fair and free from wrinkles.
7 Turmeric powder with sugar cane juice help you to prevent from aging.
8 If one intake half a cup of carrot juice it would give the desired result.
9 Green vegetables and fruits in diet help to restore youth and beauty.
Cure For Acne's And Blackheads
Home based cure for acne's and blackheads are discussed in the following list.
1. Create a paste of fenugreek seed and apply it on your face before going to bed and then rinse it in the morning to get rid of acne's and black heads.
2. Intake of garlic seed purifies your blood which help you to stay away from acnes and rubbing of garlic on your face also aid you in it.
3. A cucumber paste helps you in getting rid of acne's and blackheads when apply it on your face.
4. Mix lemon juice with rose water and apply gently on your face.
5. Take yeast mix well with lemon juice and apply gently on your face, let it for few minutes you will get the desired output It makes the skin younger, shed off the dead cells and removes fine lines and wrinkles from the face. The very sensitive area around eye which is thin need not be exfoliated.
DANDRUFF - http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4662238957744657734#editor/target=page;pageID=5922308173467338337
TOMATOES - Remedies from Tomatoes - http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4662238957744657734#editor/target=page;pageID=5922308173467338337
