Natural home-made skin care tips-random
The most common and effective natural beauty aids are lemon, potato, carrot, cucumber and tomato.
For oily skin lemon is effective. Add a small quantity of milk and lemon juice in oat flour. Apply this mixture on the face, leave it for 20 min. wash off with lukewarm water.
(lemon juice is an effective conditioner for hair. If you have oily hair, rinse with water mixed with lemon juice after shampooing)
For black spots and shadow, lemon juice mixed with fresh milk cream can be applied before retiring to bed.
Potato also keeps the skin clean and fresh.
Carrot juice can be used as lotion. An effective lotion can be made by chopping carrot into small pieces, boil these in water, mash and apply on the face for 1/2 hour.
For cleaning clogged pores, tomato juice and lemon juice can be mixed in equal quantity and be applied.
Cucumber juice is good as eye-drops in summer. Also cucumber piece can be placed on eyes and rubbed on the face as a beauty-aid.
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Natural Homemade Nourishing Cream
Home-made nourishing cream can be prepared at home. Vitamin E and A are the ingredients for enhancing the beauty. This will give nourishment to skin and skin attains a special glow because of these. A cream full of vitamin E can be prepared in the following way:
ingredients to make nourishing cream:
1tsp bees wax
1tsp emulsifying wax
1tsp lanolin
3tsp carrot oil (rich in vit.A)
3tsp wheatgerm oil (rich in vit-E)
6tsp distilled water
2drops tincture benzoin
a little orange flower oil
Melt all these ingredients in a medium heat. Now take a separate container and heat water and borax powder till it is completely dissolved. Now remove both the containers from heat and mix together. Keep stirring till it gets cold. While getting it cold, add a few drops of tincture benzoin. When the thick paste gets cold fill it in a bottle. Sometimes carrot oil and wheatgerm oil is not easily available. In such a case use five tsp of almond oil, 3capsules of vitamin E and 3 vitamin A capsules.
ingredients to make nourishing cream:
1tsp bees wax
1tsp emulsifying wax
1tsp lanolin
3tsp carrot oil (rich in vit.A)
3tsp wheatgerm oil (rich in vit-E)
6tsp distilled water
2drops tincture benzoin
a little orange flower oil
Melt all these ingredients in a medium heat. Now take a separate container and heat water and borax powder till it is completely dissolved. Now remove both the containers from heat and mix together. Keep stirring till it gets cold. While getting it cold, add a few drops of tincture benzoin. When the thick paste gets cold fill it in a bottle. Sometimes carrot oil and wheatgerm oil is not easily available. In such a case use five tsp of almond oil, 3capsules of vitamin E and 3 vitamin A capsules.
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