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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Herbal Beauty Tips-Straight from the Kitchen!


Every woman craves to have flawless, smooth and soft skin. But not everyone can afford to spend oodles of money on buying expensive cosmetics. Maybe some people can but are simply too lazy to go about cosmetic shopping.
In such cases kitchen comes most handy in fixing some of the expected skin and hair related issues. So take a quick leap to your kitchen to pick, mix and apply !


Apply a mixture of castor oil mixed with lemon juice and honey. Keep it for 10-15 minutes then wash off with a mild face wash.

Apply a mixture of Almond Oil (5-7 drops), honey and milk cream as a face pack after thoroughly cleansing your face.

For extremely damaged to aged skin- Take any good cocoa butter cream, add jojoba oil (6-8 drops) as well as almond oil (6-8 drops). For fragrance you can also add a little sandalwood oil. Use this as an overnight cream. Every night before retiring to bed, cleanse your face, dab some rose water let it dry then apply this cream and massage lightly for a minute.

Homemade butter is one of the best options to fight dryness not only for face but for your entire body. Take few scoops of it, add olive oil and few drops of lemon in it. Now massage this mixture all over the body. Let it stay for half an hour then have a regular bath. Do this atleast twice a week during winters.
Always keep some coconut oil handy in case there is nothing else just apply it directly or add 3-4 spoons of it the bath water.

Honey is one of the best moisturizers. Take 2 teaspoons of honey, mix 2 tea spoons of milk powder, add few drops of lemon juice and pour some rose water to make a thick paste. Apply this face pack every day for glowing and clear skin.

Sugar granules, olive oil and lemon juice make a great body scrub. Massage this slowly before bath for 10 minutes then apply a pack of chickpea (besan)powder, milk and turmeric and keep it for 10 minutes. Now wash off and feel the soft renewed skin beneath. Do not step out of the house with applying a good sunscreen after this procedure. Apply sunscreen atleast half an hour before going out in the sun.