Simple Skincare & Beauty Tips ~ Just for You!
Green living is a great way that few people have discovered to help planet Earth from the high-speed approaching disaster. Eco-friendly living is an outstanding way to live that many people are choosing nowadays as it helps to slow down various destroying processes. Green living means buying and using “green products” that are eco-friendly, along with several endeavors helping to save environment.
Here are 5 green living strategies that one can implement to experience or enjoy instant results:-
1. Finding Right Livelihood- A mixture of resources like outdoor work or any other green career like social work helps to go green. Try to find the best job and lifestyle suiting one’s talents, location and interests and make it eco-friendly.
2. Play Outside- Have a free time, go out off the home to play and enjoy the greeneries of parks and gardens. Take a dog to walk, go to the nearby beach or get all friends for a picnic. One will definitely feel healthier, happier and more powerful and start sensing good things for planet Earth.
3. Eat Right and Marry Well- One should adopt a healthy lifestyle with proper diet as it helps one to stay away from deadly diseases. Try to have a perfect match or a good community; this will help one to become emotionally strong.
4. Eco-friendly Home- Home is the most important place where people spend most of their time. Check whether it is nurturing and nourishing or not. If not, this is the right time to make some changes, use some greenery inside and outside the home. This will spread a positive energy everywhere leading to positive way to think and see this world.
5. Think globally- There are lots of global problems which need a thought to improve the situation. If one thinks globally but acts locally, this will certainly help in finding some effective solution and increases one’s influence, sophistication and accuracy.
Green Living means taking a fresh start and feeling good by contributing something to save Earth.
What have you done today, that was helpful for mother earth?
Obesity is really widespread
~ Joseph O. Kern II
To save money these days many are turning back the clock so to speak, to the times of their mother, grandmothers, great grandmothers. Back to the time when skincare began in the kitchen.
Here are 6 do it yourself recipes for natural kitchen you can whip together with ingredients found in most modern kitchens.
Almond Honey Face Masque
Beat the yolk of 4 eggs with 1 cup of honey. Then mix in 1 cup sweet almond oil with 4 ounces blanched and ground almond to make a thick paste. Massage into your skin leave on 30 minutes. Wash off with warm water and pat dry.
For the whole body Black Tea Body Masque
1 ¼ cups water
2 black tea bags
1 tablespoon chopped sage leaves
1 tablespoon thyme leaves
½ packet unflavored gelatin
½ teaspoon honey
¼ teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon peppermint extract
Bring the water to boil in a saucepan, add the tea bags, sage, thyme. Reduce the heat and simmer for 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Stir in gelatin, honey and almond & peppermint extracts. Let sit in the refrigerator for 8 to 12 hours or until firm. It should have a gelatinous consistency. Apply to the body, smoothing mixture evenly over skin. Double the recipe to do the whole body. It makes about 1 cup. Leave on for 15 minutes then rinse with warm water. After you rinse your body will feel toned, refreshed with a smoother, tighter appearance.
The next recipe is remove dead skin cells from your skin. It’s a scrub with pineapple. Did you know that pineapple is a natural gentle exfoliant and a anti-inflammatory?
Tropical Fruit Masque
½ cup chopped fresh pineapple
1 whole apple(cored and chopped leaving skin on)
¼ cup finely ground almonds
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon lime juice
½ banana
1 teaspoon almond extract
½ packet unflavored gelatin
In a blender, mix all the ingredients except gelatin on medium speed for 20 seconds. Add gelatin and blend for another 20 seconds. Let the mixture sit for at least 10 minutes giving the gelatin to set slightly. Apply evenly to the entire face and neck area. Leave on for 15 to 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water. May be used twice a week as needed. Makes 1 cup
Cucumber Toner
Take 1/2 cucumber and cut it up into rounds after peeling it, place in a bowl with enough lemon or lime juice. Let it sit for about 10 minutes. Remove from bowl and gently rub cucumber all over your face. Be sure to not get it anywhere near your eyes. Leave on for 30 minutes. Wash off with warm water. This treatment will leave your skin tighter, and soft and smooth.
Apricot Milk Bath
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 tablespoons olive oil. Mix together and let it sit for about 1 hour.
Then mix in:
1 teaspoon cider apple vinegar
2 tablespoons witch hazel
and the juice of 3 apricots, put together in a blender with a small carton of unflavored yogurt.
Stir in 2 beaten eggs, and ½ pint of milk and put it all through the blender. Blend a minute or so and add the another ½ pint of milk. Pour into a plastic bottle and keep in the refrigerator till bath time. Add about one cup per bath, this should last you 6 baths.
Nail treatments
To strengthen your nails, soak them daily for 5 minutes in warm almond or olive oil. Discolored? Clean them in lemon juice and scrub them in white vinegar.
Before trying these recipes do a patch test to be sure you do react to any of the ingredients used.
To do a patch test, create the recipe and apply a small amount to the skin on the inside of your arm and wait 24 hours. Always remember you are the one responsible for making the product and you are responsible for one’s safely.
Copyright 2009 Kim Snyder Owner of Overallbeauty.com Your online beauty store!
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Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it
~ Josh Billings
When you are dealing with dry skin, finding the right dry skin remedy becomes vitally important. Luckily, there are a wide variety of different home remedies for you to choose from when it comes to remedying dry skin.
The following is a brief selection of some of the options you have available for you in terms of dry skin remedies.
If you want to get the most out of your skin care regimen, then you need to be willing to combine different dry skin remedies until you find the combination that is driving the best possible results.
Determine whether or not hydration issues are playing a role in your dry skin issues. If you are dehydrated, then you are going to have problems relating to dry skin as well. If you are not dehydrated but you are dealing with dry skin, then drinking more water is not likely going to help you.
If you’re not already drinking between 7 and 8 glasses of water a day, now is the time to start.
If your skin is dehydrated, then one of the most natural dry skin remedies is to soak your skin in water. You can soak your skin in lukewarm water for a period of fifteen minutes. Avoid hot water, and stay toward the room-temperature end of things. You should not be doing this every day however as the rule of thumb about soaking your body is to bathe less and use water that is cooler in order to remedy dry skin.
Another home skin care remedy for dry skin is to follow every bath by applying moisturizer in order to lubricate your skin properly. The moisture that you soak into your skin tends to evaporate. If you bathe a lot, then using a moisturizing product is going to be even more important because the moisturizing product is going to help you keep the water in.
The reason for applying a moisturizer product is not simply to put oils back into the skin. Instead, you should understand that dryness on the skin is a function of loss of water rather than necessarily loss of oil. Think about how much easier it is to exfoliate or cut your fingernails or toenails following a bath. This is an excellent example of what happens to your skin when you’ve bathed. When you apply a moisturizer after you take a bath, you can keep the water in your skin rather than letting it evaporate, and this will prevent skin dryness.
Combining these and other dry skin remedies is the best way to overcome your dry skin. Returning your skin to its former health and beauty will take work, but it’ll be worth the effort in the end when your skin is properly healthy and nourished and looking beautiful and looking young. Keep the aforementioned tips in mind and you can and will achieve better, healthier and better nourished skin.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools
~ Spanish Proverb quotes
Your skin is your greatest asset but people tend to take it for granted. In order to retain your youthful skin it is necessary to take care of it from day one. Unfortunately many people put their skin through so much abuse that they look prematurely old by their 40’s and 50’s. Wrinkles are a part of growing old gracefully but you can do a lot to reduce them and prevent your skin from aging.
Weather: the sun and wind are great enemies of your skin and will create all sorts of wrinkles and crevices in your skin, but you can do something about it.
• When you go out you should use a natural sunscreen to protect your skin against harmful UV rays.
• Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes and stop you from squinting against the sun. When you crease up your eyes you will get those crows feet. You can also wear a broad brim hat.
Other tips to keep your skin looking younger:
Check out the rest of these article here: How to Care For Your Skin- Anti-Aging Skincare Tips
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond
~ Mae West
There is no way to count how many kinds of skincare creams and lotions are on the market. Name an ailment, and you will find hundreds of skincare creams, lotions and other types products that work along with it. As a result of ongoing research and due to ever increasing demand, the number of skincare products seems to be on the increase. Skincare lotions and skincare creams are the most popular forms in which these products are available, and there always seems to be a debate on which form is better?
Well, really there is no definitive answer to this. It seems to come down to a matter of personal choice. However, greasy creams are surely less popular as compared to the non-greasy (or less greasy) ones. Not all creams are greasy, it will always depend on the brand of choice. Since the application of skincare lotions is easier, they could be seem to be preferred (over creams). Most creams come in a jar where as lotions come usually in a bottle with a pump.
Creams are known to be most effective in keeping skin moist; hence, the most popular form of skincare creams is moisturisers. Due to the same reason, a lot of people tend to associate skincare creams with caring for one’s skin. One of the problems that creams in a jar have that lotions to due not is application, you are sticking your fingers into the jar each time you use it, and in doing so you are putting whatever is on your fingers into the jar. That is why many high price brands will give you a spoon of some type to get the cream out of the jar with. That way you don’t put anything into the jar that isn’t clean. It helps also with getting you just enough to apply to your skin.
Lotions come with a pump most often. Making it easier to get it out of the bottle and you don’t put your fingers into it. A good example is The Skin Society skincare moisturisers.
Skincare lotions are also used for products that cater to skin disorders especially for disorders that require the application of product over a small localised area. This is again due to the fact that skincare lotions are easier to apply (without wastage) on the affected area.
Eye creams and anti-aging creams are other examples where skincare cream is preferred over its lotion counterpart.
Mostly due to the ingredients used and the factor of cost.
Whatever your choice be (cream or lotion), knowing how to use it effectively, is more important than anything else.
You do live longer with bran but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet
~ Alan King
