1. Mix six-teaspoon petroleum jelly, two-teaspoon glycerin and two-teaspoon lemon juice. Apply this moisturizing lotion at slightest twice a week if you have dry and flaky, arms and legs.
2. Peel and grate a cucumber. press the juice to this, mix half-a-teaspoon glycerin and half-a-teaspoon rose water. Apply this on sunburns, go it for some time. 3. If you have cracked heels, melt paraffin wax; mix it with little mustard oil and apply on the affected area. Leave it overnight. After 10 or 15 days, your heels will become smooth. 4. Massage your body with a mix of coconut oil and any of your favourite scented oils like lavender or rosemary. 5. For rough palms, use a mixture of glycerin and limejuice in equal proportion.
Eye care:
1. Dip wads of cotton in a chilled mixture of cucumber and potato juice. Keep this on your eyelids for 15 to 20 minutes and softly cleanse it off. Apply a little baby oil. 2. For long eyelashes.., apply a thin wool of castor oil every night. It strengthens lashes and cools your eyes. 3. Massage a few drops of coconut oil around the eyes to get rid off murky circles. 4. To reduce puffiness of your eyes, vex a potato; tie in a cloth and place the cloth over your eyes for about 15 minutes. 5. Add a small touch of salt in water and wash for bright and sparkling eyes. 6. Mix tomato juice and lemon juice in like quantity and apply around the eyes. After 30 minutes wash it off with cold and hot water alternatively. 7. Make a paste of sandal wood and nutmeg. Apply the paste around the eyes before sleeping and clean it off in the sunrise. 8. Crush a cucumber and take the juice. Add a little rose water and apply about the eyes and wash it after 30 minutes. 9. Place cotton wool swabs dipped in cold milk on closed eyes for removing dark circles.
Lip care:
1. You can mix one-tablespoon cranberry paste juice with two tablespoons vaseline for a delectable home made lip balm. 2. Apply the juice of lemon covering for avoiding black colour of lips 3. Massage your lips by coriander leaf juice for soft and rosy lips.
1. The skin on your hand is thin and weak; therefore take unique care of them.
2. Moisturize your hands at least four times a day.
For dry hands after washing your hands with soap, wet them again. Pour salt on your hands and then clean them under water. Dry hands and apply moisturizer on them.
3. Never remove cuticles. There presence protects your nails from infection. Nails are sometimes so soft that they frequently break. In such a case, it is recommended to soak the nails in warm olive oil for about twenty minutes each alternate day to make them hard and strong.
4. Keep patting your hands dry regularly. It would put off the evaporation from drying out water or fungal infections from developing.
5. Use once a week your face night cream as well on your hands before you go to sleep.
6. If the skin of your hands is dry and flaky—you can press a little petroleum jelly on your hands prior to you go to bed at night. After you do this, you may wear thin cotton gloves. Wake up in the morning and like the soft feel of your hands.
Summer requires a particular skin care regimen and
Extra protection as of the sun's harmful UV rays.
Follow these 10 steps to beautiful, healthy, moisturized summer skin.
When you're in the center of battling parched winter skin, it's simple to forget that summer presents its own skin challenges. Summer offers a pardon from forced dry heat and lack of inside humidity, but skin faces a different challenge during the summer. Exposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun can wreck life-threatening havoc in totaling to causing skin to age too early.
Spring offers the very best environment for skin. Its reasonable temperature range and the high humidity from April showers can lull you into complacent neglect toward skin care. Spring's optimal conditions give your skin with a welcome rest between struggling to keep moisture through the arid winter months and the assault of the summer sun. When the temperature heats up and you start costs more time outdoors, it's time to rev up your skin care regimen again.
As the dog days of summer advance, the key to beauty from the inside out is to lighten up. As your mood lightens from extended daylight hours, it's time to lighten up on work, clothing, food and beverage, and lotions and potions. Follow our tips below, and pay special attention to the sun prevention tips and tricks.
1. Beauty begins on the inside. During the summer months, trade your weighty stews and soups for lighter fare, including grilled fish and fruit salads. Retire the hot chocolate in favor of iced green tea, and say goodbye to the hot spiced rum for a few months, replacing it with a cool, refreshing wine sprinter or frozen fruit daiquiri.
2. Summer signals the beginning of increased action, which causes you to lose moisture through perspiration. Drink water before you feel thirsty. Once you feel thirst, you're already slightly dehydrated. Carry water with you everywhere, to eliminate the possibility of drinking tap water.
3. Chlorine doesn't play nice with skin, hair and nails; it leaves them dry, brittle and flakey. It adds an additional load to your body-another chemical for your body to assimilate and reduce. Wash off chlorine as soon as you step out of the pool or hot tub. Add a water filter to your shower to trap chlorine and other chemicals. You'll notice a difference in your skin within a few days.
4. Apply creams and lotions with a high Sun Protection Factor (SPF). Lightweight summer clothes don't completely block the sun's injurious ultraviolet rays. In fact, lightweight clothing offers very small SPF—usually around 8. When you spend concentrated time in the sun, apply a water-resistant or waterproof sun block, and use a sun block with zinc on your face. Reapply often. Even with sun block, you'll get some color in the summer. Until you do, fake it with one of the many self-tanning lotions on the market. Whatever you do, don't attempt to get a suntan the old-fashioned way. Wear a wide-brimmed hat to protect your hair from the sun and to provide extra protection to your face.
5. If you work in the garden, relate protection against insects, and reapply as necessary. Not only will you avoid unsightly bite marks and annoying itching, but you might also avoid debilitating illness. Don't take unnecessary chances. If the thought of applying DEET to your body makes you shudder, apply one of the natural insect repellants containing citronella and other natural essential oils. When you get bitten, avoid the urge to scratch. Scratching only intensify the itching sensation, and it can lead to infection and scarring.
6. Grow an aloe plant. They're not possible to kill, even if you have a brown thumb. Having immediate way in to an Aloe plant is like having a drugstore in your backyard. Break off a leaf and apply the gel on the inside to provide instant relief from sunburn, insect bites, burns from outdoor grilling, and minor skin irritations. Keep another plant in the kitchen for burns. Nothing works as quickly as Aloe to stop the pain.
7. Lighten up on your facial moisturizing routine. Instead of dry flakes, your skin faces eruptions from clogged pores during the summer. Clean your face meticulously, several times each day if necessary. Switch to a lighter moisturizer with fewer emollients. Consider a tinted moisturizer to eliminate the extra layer of make-up foundation. If you have good skin, show it off during the summer in place of hiding it under layers of concealed, foundation and powder. Allow your natural radiant skin to shine through without obstruction.
8. Hands and feet require special care in the summer. Keep nails short to enjoy summer sports activities. You don't want to interrupt a set of tennis to repair a broken nail. You may get calluses from gardening and racquet sports. Exfoliate hands and feet regularly, and don't lighten up on rich, emollient hand and foot creams, because parts of the hands and feet have no oil glands. If you visit the beach, take a long walk on the beach. No manmade treatment equals the exfoliation power of feet pounding against sand. Walk long enough, and your feet will sport a baby soft finish.
9. With your legs exposed during the summer, you may tire of daily shaving. Consider one of the sugar-based wax formulations. It may take several applications to master the system, but after a few false starts, the efforts are worth the learning curve. The advertisements will entice you with a month or more of hair-free soft, baby skin. If you get two weeks of silky smooth skin, consider yourself lucky. Follow-up each waxing meeting with a moisturizer containing aloe to avoid skin bumps.
10. If your winter lip balm didn't contain sun protection, make sure that your summer lip balm does. Chapped lips are annoying, but sunburned lips are painful! Reapply often, particularly when you're on the water in an open boat or riding in a convertible. Wind is just as damaging as sun, and the two as one ensure a bad burn for unprotected skin. Ur summer lip balm does. Chapped lips are annoying, but sunburned lips are painful! Reapply often, mainly when you're on the water in an open boat or riding in a convertible. Wind is just as damaging as sun, and the two together ensure a bad burn for defenseless skin.
