Thursday, August 2, 2012

Skin care


Every one wishes to shine their skin, In fact most of the people look for some skin care products for skin shining. But most of them are avoiding that our Traditional Indian Herbs gave us very valuable and beneficial remedy tips to shine our skin.
If you know what are they, am sure you will never look for any skin products for any purpose. Here are the useful tips to learn skin shining with natural herbs and their ingredients.

Mix the same quantity of milk, amudham and do a massage gently will helps to shine your skin instantly. This is very natural and traditional treatment for skin shining, which was used by our elders from centuries. Even today also its most popular in Ayurveda.

Take a cup of curd, add bari powder to it and make a fine form of paste. Now apply this paste on a face, neck, etc.. Wait for fifteen to twenty minutes and wash with lukewarm water. This treatment will helps to whiten and smoother your skin. This is one of the very beneficial skin shining treatment.

Hair care tips


Exposure to excess cosmetics or chemicals, hormonal imbalances, poor diet, stress, anxiety and illness are few common reasons for hair loss.
  • Massage scalp with warm almond oil or coconut oil regularly for ten minutes.
    Neem leaves can be boiled in water, and the strained solution can be used to rinse hair.
  • A high-protein diet with green leafy vegetables, fruits, salads, sprouts, soya beans, whole grains, nuts, yeast etc are recommended.
  • Cleansing hair should be done with herbal shampoo or natural shampoo preferably.
  • For washing hair use Shikakai or amla.
  • Massaging the scalp regularly with luke warm oil promotes hair growth
  • An Ayurvedic preparation made of Amla, Corals, Bhringraj and sesame seeds helps inpreventing pre-mature greying, apart from increasing hair growth.
  • Drinking a mixture of spinach juice and lettuce helps in hair growth.
  • Application of coconut oil with lime juice helps in hair growth.
  • Washing hair with a paste of fenugreek and Urad dhal thrice a week is considered beneficial.
  • Saw Palmetto oil is a good treatment for individuals with benign prostate hyperplasia.
  • Three drops each of Rosemary, Thyme, Lavender and Cedarwood essential oils can be mixed with 1/8th cup each of Jojoba oil and Grapeseed oil. Mix the ingredients together and message into the scalp gently. This has been effective in promoting hair growth.
  • Ayurvedic herbs Amla and Ashwagandha are also effective in promoting hair growth.

Simple beauty tips!


1.       Easy & Quick Solution to Dandruff

Dissolve 2 aspirins in any dandruff shampoo and then wash your hair. Results are amazing.

2.           Make Your Own Herbal Hair Oil

(For dandruff & strong hair)
  • Take a bunch of mehendi leaves along with amla pieces (either fresh or dried ones which have been soaked overnight).
  • Grind these coarsely together.
  • Now take about 150 ml of coconut oil in a cooking vessel (kadai) and add the paste to it.
  • Simmer on low flame till all moisture evaporates.
  • Cool and strain use regularly.
  • Keeps dandruff away and also makes hair roots strong.


3.           For a Glowing Face

Make a paste of 2 table spoons of cream (malai), 1½ table spoons of Ata (wheat flour ) and few drops of lime juice. Daily apply this paste on your face for 5 minutes, then remove it and wash.
[Note : For oily skin use besan (gram flour) instead of Ata.]
Try to think positive, take proper sleep and drink lots of water certainly no one can look more charming.

4.           For Chicken Pox Marks

Kachha  doodh with chiraunji  (bheegi hui) mix it well and make a paste, apply it on chicken pox marks, they will disappear in few days.

5.           For Best Hair

Massage hair with warm coconut oil an hour before washing. Take some petals of hibiscus and grind it in the mixer. Apply this paste to your hair and then rinse it. For better result you can boil a few hibiscus flowers in coconut oil. Filter this oil and use it to control hair loss and thinning, you can also use Jaborandi oil which is again an extract of hibiscus flower.

6.           Tomato Wrap

Make a puree of 4 tomatoes. Soak some rice for 30 minutes and grind it coarsely. Add this to the pureed tomatoes. Apply this mixture all over the body and leave it on for about 15 minutes. Bathe with warm water; this is a good scrub recipe for oily skin.

7.           Hair Care

Problem: Excessive hair loss or getting early grey hairs.

Remedy: Soak some methi seeds in night and in the morning make the paste of the seeds and apply it to your scalp. After 1½ - 2 hrs rinse it with plane water. This will strengthen your hair and make them dark and shiny.

8.           Skin care

Problem: If your face is dry and rough.

Remedy: Take equal amount each of Melon, Pumpkin, Cucumber and Watermelon and make a paste of these. Then blend it with milk cream and apply it on your. After 1 hr rinse your face with plane water.

Problem: Sunburn.

Remedy: Mix 1 teaspoon of Besan with 2 teaspoon of curd and apply it on your face. Let it remain on the face for ½ hrs. Rinse with plane water. Helps in curing sunburns.


9.           Skin Tips

Improve your complexion

Mix equal amounts of Cucumber juice and Lime juice and apply them to your face before taking bath; wait for at least 10 mins.  Your complexion will improve.


10.       Household Tips for your skins– Using Tomatoes

Tomatoes are Anti-Oxidant hence including tomatoes in your daily diet will make your skin Wrinkle Free. And using the paste of one day old curd with a tomato and applying it to your skin soft. Also, if you skin is oily then applying the its pulp on your face for 15 min. then rinse your face with warm water. This will absorb extra oil from your skin and improve your complexion.


11.       Beauty Tips

a. After the Mehendi dries, remove it and apply some Vicks Rub on your hands, let it be there for 5-6 hours. The color of your Mehendi will darken.

b.      Remedy: Mix 1 teaspoon of Besan with 2 teaspoon of curd and apply it on your face. Let it remain on the face for ½ hrs. Rinse with plane water. Helps us during sunburns.

c.       After removing the skin of the Cucumber and making a paste of the cucumber with raw milk and applying it on your skin will improve your complexion.