Take care of your feet at home

• Remove old nail polish completely. Using cotton balls leaves traces of cotton on your nails try using cotton bands instead. Soak the cotton band with acetone remover and remove the old polish. If the color is not coming off the press the cotton on to the nail and let it soak for a while.
• It is always best to use high quality clippers to cut your toenails. Cut your nails straight across, leaving about 1/9' of length. Do not let your nail extend over the tip of your toe.
• For a soft square shape, file the nail around the corners in one direction. Use emory boards and not metal files, as metal files rip nails. The smoother surface is for smoothing the nail edge while the coarser surface is for shortening and shaping nails.
• Fill a big bowl with warm water. Add bath salts, aromatherapy oils and let your feet soak for 2 to 3 minutes. The more calloused your feet are the longer they need to stay soaked. Add about quarter cup of milk to the warm water. Lactic acid in the milk loosens dead skin.
• Apply cuticle remove to the base of each nail and rub in. Wait for a minute and then using an orangewood stick, slowly push the skin back where it meets the nail.
• Use cuticle nippers to trim loose skin. Do not cut your toe flesh.
• Use an exfoliating body or foot scrub and a foot file or a wet pumice stone and remove the dead on the balls and heels of your feet. The idea is the smooth and not the remove. If your foot is turning bright red then stop. This means that you are scrubbing too hard.
• Dry your feet thoroughly including between the toes and apply nourishing foot cream. Rub the feet and rehydrate cuticles by rubbing a little cuticle oil.
• Use an acetone remover to get rid of the extra oils on the nails. Apply a thin base coat and using three strokes, one down the middle and one on each side. Do not paint cuticles. Apply three coats totally and then apply a thin topcoat. Use orangewood stick wrapped in cotton dipped in nail polish remover to remove excess nail polish.
• Let your nails dry completely .
  

Fruits and beauty

The beauty of this is that you can have your own beauty products from the stuff you can find in your kitchen, fridge and garden.

Some very healthy fruits for your skin:

Apple apple juice makes an excellent remedy for fine wrinkles, cracked skin, itching and inflammation. Apples can be used as great conditioner and toner. They have been used for centuries for their skin-healing powers. Add a cup of apple juice to your bath to cleanse and soften your skin. The juice of apple can be used as breath freshener. Apple juice when applied to your hair scalp can prevent dandruff. Use as a final rinse after shampooing your hair.

Apricots fresh juice of apricots is good for sunburn, itching and eczema.

Avocado can be used as an effective facial mask.

Banana can be made into an effective and inexpensive facial mask.

Cucumber is good for treating skin eruptions and bulges and for whitening skin. It can also prevent pimples, wrinkles, blackheads and dryness of the face.

Guava boiled leaves can be used as natural antiseptic.

Lemons a classic home beauty ingredient, lemons are used to cleanse and freshen the skin and hair. Use lemon slices to soften rough skin spots such as elbows and heels. Lemon slices also help deodorize and mix a few teaspoons of lemon juice in your bath and you will feel fresh the whole day. Lemon juice can be added to your favorite cleanser or shampoo to refresh and tone your scalp. It also helps prevent dandruff.

Lime Juice is very important natural aid for beautiful skin. This treatment will help you to look young and beautiful. It will also help cure pimples. It is also known to help in controlling oily skin, improve a dull and greasy complexion, improve rough and dry skin, relieve tired eyes and remove freckles

Mango leaves can be boiled and be used as antiseptic.

Orange orange juice paste can be is an effective remedy for pimples and acne. It can also be used for scar and blemish removal.

How to choose skin care product

Beautiful looking skin and good skin health is very important to every one of us. The skin is a very visible part of the body and often is associated with attractiveness and health. It is no wonder that finding a skin care product that performs as advertised is important, whether it is to cure a skin problem or disease or simply for daily skin maintenance.

Manufacturers of skin care products will always advertise that they have the best skin care product, the most effective product, the product with the best ingredients, etc. Can you blame them? The skin care industry is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. With the aging baby boomer population, the skin care industry is experiencing additional growth in many areas. There is a lot of money to be made.

In light of this, can manufacturer’s claims of having the best skin care product be trusted? For the most part, the answer is yes. A producer of skin care products wants the repeat business and so they strive for a good quality product that is supposed to do what is was meant to do. However, there is a definite difference in quality between products. As a general rule, more expensive products are better, but this is not always the case. The best skin care product may still be reasonably priced and contain effective ingredients.

The best advice for consumers of skin care products is to follow a regime of trial and error. Focus on a product line that you require, for example, products for dry skin. Within that product line, choose a reasonably priced product. Try it for a couple of weeks or up to a month. If it performs well then you can continue to use it or try something else. Too often we become familiar or comfortable with a product and refuse to try an alternative. We are too fearful of changing products and risking a relapse of the skin care problem. Because of this fear we often do not find the best skin care product and settle for average results at best.

Below are submissions from visitors to this website that are posted in order to help alleviate the fear of change. The submissions are intended to help individuals make intelligent choices for finding the best skin care product and help reduce some of the uncertainty in skin product selection. These submissions can also confirm what a manufacturer is saying about their product. Recommendations and the experiences from people who have actually used certain skin care products are very helpful and compliment manufacturer’s advertising literature well.

http://www.healthy-skincare.com/best-skin-care-product.html

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Lemon can do wonders

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Lemon juice is said to give a glow to the skin.


6. A few drops of lemon juice in hot water is believed to clear the digestive system and purify liver as well.


7. The skin of lemon dried under the sun and then ground to make powder can be applied to the hair for a few minutes before bath which relieves head ache and cools the body.


8. Applying lemon juice to acne dries the existing ones and prevents from getting more.


9. Lemon juice acts as a natural hair lightner and skin bleach which reduces the pigment melanin and prevents the risk of chemical allergic reactions which is common with hair dyes and bleaches.


10.Lemon juice is given to relieve gingivitis, stomatitis, and inflammation of the tongue.


11.Lemon juice is given to prevent common cold.


12.Lemon juice is given to prevent or treat urinary tract infection and gonorrhoea.


13.lemon juice is applied to the sites of bites and stings of certain insects to relieve its poison and pain.


14.Lemon juice relieves colic pain and gastric problems.


15.Lemon juice soothes the dry skin when applied with little glygerine.


16.Lemon juice used for marinating seafood or meat kills bacteria and other organisms present in them, thereby prevents many gastro-intestinal tract infections.


17.Lemon juice with a pinch of salt (warm) every morning lowers cholesterol levels and bring down your weight.


18.Lemon juice is the best drink to prevent dehydration and shock in case of diarrhoea.



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For dull complexion

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Apply mashed apricot on the face for instant shine.

• Mash leaves of spearmint with little water. Apply on the face both morning and evening. Face starts glowing within a week.

• Apply gram pulse flour in the morning. It will make even rough skin soft and the color becomes fair.

• Immerse four almonds in water in the morning. Peel in the evening and grind with two teaspoonfuls of milk to form a paste. Apply on the face at night and wash the face with cold water in the morning. Use for 15 days and the complexion will become fair.

• Daily application of fresh cow or buffalo’s milk also makes the skin fair.

• Add two teaspoonfuls of raw milk in one teaspoonful of flour of gram pulse. Do not wash the face with soap. Apply this paste for 15-20 minutes and then wash it. Do this twice or thrice a week.

• Eat fibre rich diet. Also take green leafy vegetables to retain youth and freshness.

• Drink 8-10 glasses of water daily. It is also very effective natural cure for dull complexion and other skin ailments.

Even morning walk, yoga or meditation also contributes a lot to improve your beauty and complexion.

Try out.
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