Home Made Remedies for Complexion Whitening

With home remidies one can make ones complexion clear and fairer, with the following home remedies 

• A paste made out of sandal wood and rose water may be applied every day.

• Turmeric paste combined with sandal wood paste makes your skin noticeably fairer

• Cucumber juice is considered to be an excellent whitener.

• Coconut milk combined with equal quantities of cucumber juice may be applied as often as possible.

• Gently massage coconut water all over face and neck to lighten skin tone.

• De seed and mash grapes, it may be applied liberally over face and neck. This helps to make your skin fairer

• Almonds ground to a paste using rose water or milk is said to make your skin fairer.

• Make a paste using red sandal wood and rose water. This preparation not only whitens your complexion but also helps to fade away scars and blemishes on the skin's surface.
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Few Tips to Postpone Wrinkles

• Wash face with warm water, apply a thin coat of oil, smooth it out with a splash of cold water and blot it with soft cloth.

• Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice into some egg white, beat up the mixture thoroughly. Apply the mixture all over the face, let it dry thoroughly and then rinse it off.

• Daily application of a couple of banana slices to the face and neck will also prevent wrinkles.

• Coat your face thinly with honey and keep it on for 15 minutes. Remove with cotton pads and warm water.

• To protect yourself against harmful and cancer -causing ultra -violet rays of a blazing sun, grind a handful of sesame seeds with some water in a blender, add enough water to cover and blend till you get a milky lotion. Strain this through a piece of gauze and rub the lotion into your skin before going out.

• Onion juice could be very effective against wrinkles. Use the juice of and onion and one teaspoon of honey. Avoid a greasy diet and lastly, avoid stress. But this is the hardest to do. 'Happiness is the best ingredient for keeping young longer'.

Uses of Yoghurt in Beauty treatments

• Yoghurt may be combined with other ingredients to make excellent facial masks.

• Yoghurt is an excellent cleansing, softening as well binding agent. Yoghurt is suitable for all skin types. Hence you can combine yoghurt or buttermilk with other ingredients.

• Yoghurt combined with tomato pulp serves as a good astringent

• Yoghurt with mashed cucumber has a toning and freshing effect.

• When yoghurt is combined with crushed parsley leaves it makes an excellent mask for combination skin.

• Yoghurt mixed with honey, helps dry skin.

• Yoghurt with egg white softens the skin.

• Yoghurt can be combined with equal parts of fuller's earth and diluted with mint juice, and apply as a face mask, and wash it off with warm water after 20 minutes and splash off with cold water.

• All yoghurt based masks, must be first washed off with warm water and finished off with a splash of cold water.

Home made face cleansers

Cleansers can be made at home with out using any chemicals.  Few of the home made face cleansers are mentioned below :
1) Unboiled milk
 The simplest way to clean your skin is by unboiled milk


2)Yogurt and egg mask (cleansing mask)

• One egg white
• 3-5 tblpsn of yohurt

Beat white of egg until stiff, add yoghurt and mix well. Apply and wipe clean using a muslin cloth dipped in hot water followed by the muslin cloth saturated in cold water.
For dry skin add one tspn of honey to the paste

3) Turmeric cleanser mask

• 1 1/2 tspn turmeric powder
• 1 1/2 tblspn of lemon juice

Combine both to make a paste, apply on face and wash of after 10 minutes to 15 minutes

4) Oatmeal cleanser

• 1 Tblspn cucumber juice
• 1 Tblspn oatmeal

Make a paste and apply on face and leave it for 15 minutes. Rinse it off after 15 minutes with cold water.

5) Oatmeal cleanser mask

• 1 tblspn oatmeal
• 1 egg yolk
• Milk

Mix oatmeal with enough milk to make a paste. Beat the egg yolk and blend it with the paste. Apply on the skin for 15 minutes and rinse of with tipid water.
The egg yolk softens the skin and oatmeal helps to cleanse and nourish the skin. For dry skin add a tspn of honey.

6) Kaolin cleanser

• 2 tblspn kaolin
• 2 tblspn cucumber juice

Mix kaolin and cucumber juice and apply on face and wash after 10 to 15 minutes

NOTE : For all the cleansing creams you may add a few drops of perfume of your choice once to mixture has cooled down

Amla in hair care

The health and the growth of hair, texture and glow is governed bye the internal system of our body. Proper care is essential for healthy hair. The quality of your hair depends on your general health.
Following are few tips to prevent or to slow down of grey hair and falling hair.

• Amla is very good not only for your hair but for over all health.
• Amla paste rubbed into scalp and massage for few minutes works wonders to cure or slow down of grey hair and falling hair. Frequently it reverses the process of greying or falling off of hair..
• Shampoo your hair with reetha, shikakai, and amla powder.
• To encourage growth of hair and make it dark, soak a few amlas in a little milk for a couple hours, then drain and grind to a smooth paste along with a handful of henna leaves, mix well and rub into the roots of hair an hour before you shampoo hair.

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