Easy Scrubs @ home!

Do you think to remove tan only tan removal packs have to be used? not really we can use home made scrubs to get rid of tan and dead skin!!

Makes 400ml (12oz)

1/2 cup olive oil*
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tbsp honey
a few drops of your choice of essential oil (optional)**

Put the sugar into a bowl and add the olive oil and honey. Work it all together until it is evenly combined. It will be like wet sand. If you want to add some essential oil (I used peppermint), add it a few drops at a time and stir it in and check if it smells how you want.

Put into an airtight jar, ideally with a wide mouth so you can scoop a bit out with your hands when you need it.

You Can prepare some scrubs @ home itself like:-

1.)    Take some cream which you have at home mix sugar with it and apply on face and scrub.

2.)    Green tea water(2 bags green tea) add sugar 1 sppon and honey 1 spoon to it and scrub

3.)    Coconut water, sugar and lime a gud scrub.

P.S:- Before scrub always clean your face with cleansing milk(or normal Milk) after scrub wipe off with luke warm water.

Things TO DO!!

Some things which you should never forget!!

1Ø  Wash your face with clean and cold water daily first thing in the morning, and say today will be the best day ever.

Ø  Take 3 glasses of warm water to get rid of gastritis (1 glass add lime and cinnamon). Try with 1 glass initially and increase it to 3.

Ø  Drink 8 Oz of liquid per day (Juices exclude sugar).

Ø  Walk in a park where you can get more of oxygen, rather walking in a gym.(try once you can make difference yourself.

Ø  Do not skip your breakfast; eat carbs and protein as Breakfast.

Ø  Have habit of tea? Try ginger tea rather normal tea or green tea.

Ø  Prepare bf @ home rather buying it, be organic.

Ø  Do not use plastics much, reduce the usageof plastic,

Ø  Wash your hair alternative days, and let it dry naturally do not use dryer.

Ø  Pack your lunch from home, rather buying it, eat fat carbs for lunch.

Ø  After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile. Follow this.

Ø  After breakfast before lunch have a fruit.

Ø  Do not drink sodas.

Ø  Sandwich lovers? Replace your bread to brown/wholegrain bread.

Ø  Reduce coffee, go rich on green tea

Ø  Evening snack on a fruit.

Ø  Go for a walk with team evenings.

Ø  Do not stick to your chair.

Ø  Computer users after every 30 mins look at far distance for 10 secs.

Ø  Sit in dark room for 15 mins every day

Ø  Do not take pills for sleep.

Ø  Enjoy the sleep, get rid of your smart phone at this time.

Small Changes, but will make lot of difference try them out.

Hobbies

Does this word Hobby, looks familiar to you?

Do you have any hobbies?

Lets first understand why we need to have hobbies....

1. Improves concentration:- wondering why? as our stress levels are more these days we are not able to give time for our-self. just try engaging your self in your favorite hobby. this keeps your mind happy and you can improve your concentration too.
2. Indulges your free time:- Indulging your free time in your favorite pass time, will really be a happy day for you
3. Peace of mind:- Obviously when we are happy with our hobbies in our free time we tend to find peace of mind

There are many kind of hobbies which are lost in transit, just enhance your hobbies back and you can find lot of change in your life!!

Some of them are

Painting, listening to music, book reading, Pottery, music....

Also these days kids, i do not find them getting engaged in hobbies, which isn't good.

please get back the old concepts and engage your kids in any of there favorite hobbies!!

Hair Conditioners @ home!!

After a hair wash, when i look @ conditioner i really get scared to use my conditioner. because many conditioners once i use i have lot of hair fall instantaneously!!

So i tried some home made conditioners which are really quick and results are just awesome.
Some of them are as below.

• Conditioner #1:-

1tsp honey

1 fresh lemon juice

1/4 warm water

After finishing shampooing, simply pour through hair, let it dry!

Note:-No need to rinse!! 

• Conditioner #2:-

Henna
lemonjuice(11/2tbsp)
thick curd/beat well apply for 40min.
Shampooing after that.

• Conditioner #3:-

2tbsp-honey

Henna

Ripe & crushed banana

Make a fine paste and coat to the hair top to bottom, to get silky & life hair), allow to sit for 40 minutes.

Shampooing later.

• Conditioner #4:-

Beat 1 cup of curd/yogurt

add henna

1/2 lemon juice

tea/coffee decoction.

Mix well and allow to keep overnight in a iron bowl.

Apply to the hair on the next day, cover with a plastic cover and let it work for 35-40 min. Shampoo it & rinse well.

Preferably once a month.

• Conditioner #5:-

Apply the juice of beetroot to the hair, wait for ten minutes and rinse with warm water.!

• Conditioner #6:-

1-Banana

1/4cupHoney

Henna3 tbsp

Mix them together to a smooth paste and apply to the hair, let it dry. leave it for 20-25 min. Rinse well

• Conditioner #7:-

At least apply once a week with apple cider vinegar, after taking head bath for  shining & leafy hair.

All these Conditioners, doesn't have any chemicals in them and are good for hair and avoids hair falls.

Try them out!!

you can see some more hair care tips here

Dry Skin Face Masks @ home!!

Hey all,

I know how dry skin acts weird, and it is not that tough to get it back at least to normal.
some of the packs which can be done at home and give good results(which i have personally tried)

1.) Egg & honey.

Ingredients:

Eggs
Honey
Olive Oil

• Take egg white mix it well, later add half spoon honey half spoon olive oil .
  
• Cleanse ur face with milk, and wipe with wet cotton.
• and apply this pack to face and leave it till dry and wipe it with warm water.

2.) Banana & Yogurt Mask.

Ingredients:

Ripe banana

Honey

Yogurt

• Take Ripe Banana and add honey 1/2 spoon and 1/2 spoon yogurt
• After cleansing your face apply this to your face and leave it untill dry.

3.) Avocado & honey Mask.

Ingredients:

½ very ripe, soft avocado
¼ cup honey

Mix both of them in a bowl and apply to face, a very good mask for extreme dry skin.

4.) Milk layer & honey mask

Ingredients:

Milk Layer

Honey

Turmeric

Mix all these ingredients apply on the face and massage for some time. Later leave it on face for 10 mins

All these masks can be done with ingrdents easily available @ home and just takes 15 mins of you time!!

Hope this helps you!!

Home made easy body scrubbing & Massage!!

Hey all,

When i was kid, i remember my grand mom and mom used to run behind me at least monthly once...
wondering why? guesses??
the biggest punishment for me when i was kid was oil massage and head bath...
it used to be so complicated stuff phewwwww.
Now after grown up as shampoos are here and people do not have time for body massage and scrubbing which can be easily made @ home.

The disadvantage of this is:-
Dead skin is not removed from body.
Blood circulation will be increased after body massage, which isn't good.

At least once in a month this is a MANDATORY task,please make sure you do it!!

Steps in getting oil massage @ home:-

• Take either olive oil or mustard oil for this massage, apply firmly from toes to neck spend 30 mins in massaging. near all joints make a firm massage. by adding 2 spoons salt to this oil u can easily use it for body scrubbing, which also helps in body relaxing and blood circulation.
• This also removes dead skin from body, i have seen lot of difference after this!
• Once this is done use a cotton cloth and dip in lukewarm water and wipe it off, let there not be too much water, once wiped use a dry cloth and wipe off the wetness.
• Now take oil and start massaging, because after earlier step which is scrubbing, your body now will loose moisturizer from body so use oil to retain it back.
• After properly massaging, u can take steam if available, if not take hot water and a turkey towel, dip the towel in water squeeze water and use this for steaming.
• You can find very good relaxation.
• After this u can use gram floor and turmeric as a paste with 1 spoon honey and appy to body and leave for 5 mins and scrub it.
• now take hot water bath!!! you are done

Yes, i agree tedious process, but the result is extremely good!!

you can get a cool sleep after this, you will definetly feel in the appearance of your skin, no chemicals!!

Hope you liked this!!

Do leave me a message on how you feel this!!

some other massage can be made @ home:-
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Hair Care @ home!! our basics

Hey all,

Lets talk about our hair care @ home today!! hair is so important to gals, it makes us look even more beautiful!! isn't it?

I see now a days, many of us have hair loss reasons could be many
Example:- Hormonal imbalance, pollution, stress........

But these all have solutions, it is just that we should have little more patience for our selves, rather eating 3 tablets which has sooo many side effects, dnt you think spending some time on us makes lot of difference?
Yay Yay? think about it if your answer is Yes then please continue reading :) these might help you gals!!

Try and understand your hair and scalp!!
I know ppl will say i have this long hair i see daily what is there to understand...

but try differentiating

• Dry or oil or normal hair
• Dandruff?
• Splits?
• Hair falling?

Once you are done with this!! lets think about past was there a single day were we went to our schools with out mom oiling our hair?

How many days in a week we used to shampoo our hair?

When basics are so important in our life, why are we forgetting/ignoring them?

i understand now pollution is more so we shampoo our hair more, but with out oiling hair shampooing is like killing hair!!

So the basic step is Oiling your hair frequently....
1.) Use coconut, castrol, mustard or olive oil heat it and massage it to your scalp this will increase blood circulation to head and will open up pores.
2.) Apply oil with cotton rather with hair it will equally help in spreading the oil on scalp.
3.) Wrap a warm towel to your hair or use steam. let the oil sit on your head for 1 or maximum 2 hours
4.) shampoo it, do u remember soapnuts? try them monthly once!! does really clear off your dandruff
5.) if you have dry hair use soap nuts with hibiscus leaves(4 to 5)
6.) dry hair properly not under fan or hair dryer, these spoil the quality of the hair :(

Some basic hair packs:-

• Soak two spoons methi overnight morning grind it to paste and apply to hair(reduces hair loss, moisturizes hair, helps in hair re growth)
• After oiling before 10 mins to head bath, apply egg white and leave it untill it dries.(Protein for hair)
• Try banana ripe one, good conditioner
• Apply hair pack 15 days once which comprises of Amarnath leaves, green leaves, betroot, mehndi leaves, egg full, and tea decotion. leave it for 2 hrs and apply to hair and leave it till dry wash your hair once dry, apply coconut oil and next day morning shampoo it!! u will defnetly love it

Eat greens and veggies more include 3 to 4 fruit servings!!

Exercise do yoga (shirsasana, haalasana)

Almonds are too good for hair and complete body have them!

Ask your grandparents what they used to do!!

Do not forget our basics :)

Some more Hair related topics you can find here http://ideasuandme.blogspot.sg/search/label/hair
Hair Spa @ home:-http://ideasuandme.blogspot.sg/search/label/hair%20oil

Pedicure!! @ home

Hey all,

Did we ever think pedicure can be done @ home? rather in parlours?

which can save money and make you explore yourself. if we do it @ home, we can do it monthly 3 times which is actually good for legs.

let me take you through easy steps to do pedicure @ home!

Requirements:-

• Nail polish remover
• Baby shampoo
• Detol
• Olive oil 1 spoon
• Rock Salt
• moisturizer

Steps:-

• Remove nail polish, prepare a tub with warm water and mix baby shampoo, detol, olive oil and rock salt. You can add some fresh flower petals or oils like lavenders

how does ingredients help?

1. rock salt helps in removing the dead skin on feet.
2. Olive oil helps to retain moisturizer.
3. shampoo removes dirt from legs.
4. detol helps in healing cracks and wounds.

• place your feet and let it be in for 10 to 15 mins, those who have more cracked heels or dead skin soak for more time.
• remove the feet out and now start using the brush shown above which will help in removing the dead skin, and brush your feet completely so that it removes dead skin above feet too.
• use shampoo on feet while using brush so that it would not hurt.
• now remove the legs out and wipe completly and apply moisturiizer , this is a must after pedicure as it helps in retaining the moisturizer back.
• Apply nail polish and you are done :).

Home Made facial steps

Facial @ parlours are little tough these days, because our skin is gettng reacted to many of the so called chemicals.
i have a quick question, even our ancisters had the same skin what we have.
so does this means, they have the same facials and beauty saloon?

Not really, but yes a parlour is grown up from the house itself. ancient ladies used to use there home as parlour as there are soooooooo many things which can pamper your skin and get the glow....

lets see how easy it is to get a facial @ home!!

Steps include:-

• Cleansing
• Steaming
• Scrubbing
• Massaging
• Face mask
• Moisturizing

How to cleanse face @ home?

Did you know we many tyms say cleansing milk? which means normal milk also can be used as a cleanser.
Yes, you heard it correctly take a cup of milk and a cotton apply this milk clock wise and anti clock wise for 5 mins and wipe off with the cotton.

Tip:- apply this milk to neck and back as well this will help in removing ALL the dust from your face and milk is a self moisturizer so dsnt harm your skin :)

How to steam your face @ home?

After cleansing is complete wipe the face off! now steam the skin to open the pores out
Steaming can be wither done with steamer, those who do not have steamer boil water in a bowl and dip the turky hand towel in it and cover the face with it leaving the nose open.
this allows the pores to open

Tip:- always steam face for 10 to 15 mins as it helps in opening the pores and lets the dead skin out

How to scrub your face @ home?

Did you ever try sugar and olive oil as scrub? you will never regret use it!! also u can add honey instead of olive oil a very gud scrub for all Skin types!

Tip:- Do clease face for 10 min in circular motion to remove the black heads and keep skin fresh.

How to massage face @ home?

Now lets talk something about skin types:-

Dry :- Banana& honey, Papaya, layer of milk & turmeric & honey
Oil :-Fruits like apple or banana
Normal: all above

take the ingredents available in your house and start massaging clock wise and anti clock wise for 15 mins. initially lil tough but trust me once you get used to it very easy!!

How to get face pack @ home?

lets answer this question before we go further,
Why do we need a mask

• Tighten skin
• Glow
• remove small marks

Yes, mask is used to perform the above actions
Egg white can be used as mask
Papaya
Banana
Gram flour mixed with milk and turmeric

all the above can b used as pack kp it on face for 10 mins cover you eyes with cotton pads with rose water or cucumber pieces

and rinse this off

Last but not least now we have pampered our face, to conclude we have to always apply moisturizer. this is normal one which u have at home

You are done with the facial, to get gud affect do not apply any checmicals like soap or face wash over night!!

next day morning it is all set, you will have a glowing face :)