Showing posts with label Skin Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skin Care. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

Plants good for skin care

The skin care requires continuous work and perseverance. Besides cosmetics, facial gymnastics and other maintenance practices, plants can contribute much to its natural properties. In the article you will see three good proposals.


Plants have great properties to contribute to skin care. Simply use appropriate to each case, always looking for the best option according to the benefits they confer. While there are alternatives to rage, have chosen three that might meet your needs.


These are three good plants for skin care:  


Aloe vera




No doubt, this could be considered one of the best plants for skin care. It's good to moisturize, softness and much more, it is practically universal for any skin type. In addition, enough to have a aloe plant at home to have a great ally in the beauty of the skin.
 


Avocado 



This fruit is great for the skin, and that gives it elasticity and moisturizes the great way, thanks to its high quality natural fats. It also provides vitamins. Of course, if you already have oily skin, it may not be the best alternative.

 
Calendula


This is a great plant for the skin, which is usually not as valued. And it should, because its properties are actually good for those suffering from dryness, cracks, stains, healing problems and even fungus or warts. Please include your regenerative and anti-inflammatory properties. 


Saturday, October 20, 2012

Treatment of Acne and Comedones (Blackheads) at home - Ten Simple Recipes

Most of the home remedies to treat acne red and black on the structure resemble a mask to cleanse the skin. These masks will not require high material costs, a lot of time cooking and finding the necessary ingredients. All that you may need, you can easily find in your kitchen or at the nearest store.
 
Acne - a rather unpleasant phenomenon, familiar to both men and women. Public inquiries and the results of statistical studies have shown that every year people spend huge amounts of money trying to find ways of getting rid of unaesthetic and painful rash on her face. However, before you lay out a tidy sum for the next "miracle" means, it is easier to turn to a simple and quite effective homemade recipes that do not have side effects and contribute to the goals of treatment in addition to diet, mitigate and improve the appearance of the skin in general.

Humidification 

        Adequate hydration - a basic condition of a clean and beautiful skin. 
        Water - a great detoxifying and purifying agent, but in spite of this, many of us prefer carbonated beverages with caffeine. Drink six to eight glasses of water a day, and you have some time you will notice an improvement of complexion and skin condition in general. 

        Make a mixture of equal parts lemon juice and rose water. Apply to the affected acne skin with a cotton swab. Leave the mixture on your face for an hour, then rinse with lukewarm water.

        Boil water in a kettle and pour the boiling water in a bowl. Bent low over the steam, after covering your head with a towel. Try to keep the steam is not coming out. Hold your face over the steam for ten to fifteen minutes, then take a break and repeat. Contaminated steam opens the pores. After this procedure, avoid skin contact with cold water. After some time, a good dry skin with a towel. Steam baths are well cleaned pores, allowing the skin to breathe, after a while you'll definitely notice the changes, acne will be much less or they disappear altogether.

        To prevent inflammation and swelling, apply a small amount of toothpaste directly to the pimple. In the morning you will notice significant improvement. 

        If you normally think of the smell of garlic, try this remedy. Mash a few cloves of garlic and apply slurry to the face. Garlic has antibacterial and astringent properties. Garlic cleanses the pores of accumulated impurities and allows the skin to breathe. Garlic is also very good for the prevention of acne. 

        Several times a day, wet the affected area with rose water. This tool not only reduces the appearance of acne and blackheads, but also helps to cleanse the skin, giving it a fresh groomed appearance. Rose water can also be mixed with sandalwood powder, apply as a normal mask.

        Excessive secretion of the sebaceous glands - the main cause of acne and blackheads. Daily wipe areas with acne lemon juice, over time, the black dots disappear.
   
        Make a paste of orange peel and a little water. Apply for a few minutes on the skin, then rinse with water.
        Aloe vera has known medicinal properties, which works equally well in the home and at the external use. Cleanses and moisturizes the skin with products containing aloe extract. Within a month, you will notice a tangible result. 

        If you have an abundant acne, inflammation and swelling, get wrapped in a thin towel or handkerchief ice cube and light pat wipe swollen skin. Do not press too hard. Repeat this procedure at bedtime and in the morning, swelling significantly reduced.
The above home remedies - this is not a panacea and there are many other ways to get rid of acne, but do not forget that sometimes the simple and affordable tools can have a much greater effect than the complex chemical formulas. 

 

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Whitening face masks: The beauty of materials at hand

In pigmented skin has many causes - and effects of the sun, resulting in the skin appear small freckles, and the inevitable aging of the skin, accompanied by the appearance of so-called age spots, and a violation of melanin - the pigment responsible for skin color.

Whatever the reason, in most cases, the problem with pigmented skin can be resolved - and a variety of ways. Although in severe cases, especially for solving the problem of excess skin pigmentation requires drastic methods such as deep chemical peels or laser skin resurfacing, in most cases, spots can be made less noticeable, and at home - just having prepared whitening face mask.


Recipes whitening facial masks set, and their composition depends only on the imagination of women taking over the preparation of cosmetics at home. However, in reality products are known for their effective lightening properties, not so much so in the whitening mask for the face must be the following products - in different proportions and combinations:


*      Lemon pulp or lemon juice


*      Dairy products - yogurt, buttermilk, yogurt


*      Parsley


*      Cucumber pulp or cucumber juice (have a mild bleaching properties, less 

        effective than, for example, lemon juice)

*      Grapefruit


*      Egg white


*      Dandelion juice


Most of these products can be used in its pure form - for example, wipe face clean with lemon juice or the juice of cucumber, make compresses of grapefruit pulp or yogurt.


Recipes whitening facial masks


Effectively lighten skin at home and make the spots less apparent is quick and easy - it is not necessary to spend a lot of time preparing complicated whitening masks with a variety of ingredients. For example, if your daily skin care, there is very little time to lighten age spots, you can use the juice of parsley or parsley infusion of alcohol, which you just wipe your face. In addition, great help and a mixture of parsley juice and lemon juice.


No less a quick and easy way to deal with pigmentation - cooking easy to clean lotion based on lemon juice. Recipe of the lotion more than simple - pigmented areas of skin should be cleaned daily dissolved in a hundred milliliters of water a tablespoon of lemon juice. In addition, a little lemon juice can be added in the usual moisturizer - the resulting mixture is applied to the skin for fifteen to twenty minutes.


If freckles or age spots are barely visible, to help get rid of them can cucumber juice or cucumber pulp - for example, compress an ordinary gauze soaked in cucumber juice, which must be kept on the face for twenty minutes. Since cucumber juice to the skin is completely harmless and has a fairly mild effects, such packs can be done several times a day. Similarly, a mild effect on the skin are different and dairy products - such as buttermilk or yogurt, which can be simply applied to the skin as an independent whitening mask.


Excellent whitening effect has a mask for the skin of the cucumber and lemon juice. For the preparation of such a mask, mix the pulp with half a cucumber peeled juice of half a lemon and two tablespoons of aloe vera juice. In the ready-mix, you can add one or two tablespoons of honey, a tablespoon of milk, yogurt, or egg white, and white clay powder, stirring until the mixture is still not gain the consistency of thick paste. The resulting mask should be applied to the skin for fifteen to twenty minutes with the exception of parts of the delicate skin around the eyes. This mask not only effectively whitens the skin, making the spots less noticeable, but differs healing, soothing and refreshing effects due to anti-inflammatory, healing properties of honey and aloe vera. A white clay effectively clears clogged pores, making skin softer and smoother.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Hair removal with sugar: Sweet beauty treatment

Hair removal with sugar - a very ancient method of removing unwanted hair from the body, which appeared a few millennium ago in ancient Egypt. Hair removal procedure itself is extremely simple and involves the removal of hair with the hair follicles on the skin by applying a special paste on sugar.

"Sugar" epilation


Hair removal with sugar suitable for removing unwanted hair from any part of the body - sugar can remove hair on the legs, arms, back, chest, abdomen, in the bikini area, armpits, upper lip. Hair removal with sugar is simple: first, the skin is applied with a spatula special warm, at room temperature, the paste on sugar-based, "enveloping" the hairs, then, on top of pasta - strips of cloth, stick to the cooling sugar paste. After a few seconds tear strip a sharp movement in the opposite direction of hair growth - as a result of unwanted hair removed with a paste. The optimal length of hairs removed - about six millimeters. Before sugar epilation the skin should be thoroughly cleaned, dry and sprinkle with talcum powder. Smoothness of the skin after hair removal with sugar is stored for four to six weeks. If you do hair removal sugar regularly, over time, the procedure weakens the hair follicles, allowing removal of unwanted hair is getting easier and easier.


Hair removal with sugar at home
 

One of the advantages of sugar hair removal is that it can perform even on their own, at home, cooking the sugar paste improvised. To prepare, you'll need the most basic ingredients - half a lemon, one cup of sugar and a quarter cup of honey: mix the lemon juice and sugar, add honey and mix thoroughly until a uniform paste. Then Put mixture into a container for a microwave oven and heat the pasta in the microwave for one minute. The consistency of paste is ready for hair removal should be similar to a thick honey (before application to the skin, make sure the pasta is not too hot - it should be at room temperature).

Advantages and disadvantages
 

As with any other method of removing unwanted hair from the body, the hair removal sugar has its advantages and some disadvantages. One major advantage of hair removal sugar - its relative cheapness: the procedure can be performed even at home, cooking the sugar paste to remove hair from the ingredients that are always on hand and are very cheap. In addition, sugar hair removal is suitable for removing hair from any part of the body regardless of its size - with the help of this method of hair removal, you can quickly delete a large amount of hair. The effectiveness of hair removal with sugar does not depend on skin type or hair color from. Finally, in contrast to another popular type of hair removal, waxing, hair removal with sugar is very fast and simple, but remains easy to paste with skin wash off with plain water.

The number of deficiencies sugar hair removal is minimal: mainly the risk of incomplete removal of the hair (hair may break, causing the hair follicle remains, and the removed quickly there is a new hair) and skin irritation.
 

Wax or sugar?
 

The procedure for removing unwanted hair from your body with sugar is very similar to waxing, but at the same time, has several key advantages. First and foremost it is important to know that the sugar paste, with which the hairs are removed, adheres only to hair, but not to the skin - but the hot wax sticks to the skin, so when you try to remove the wax strips have further pain. In addition, the procedure is applied to the skin of sugar is accompanied by much less discomfort than waxing procedure - the sugar paste is applied to the skin with warm, not hot like wax. Preparations for hair removal with sugar contain only natural ingredients, mild to the skin, while preparations for waxing can cause skin irritation. And finally, the usual sugar with skin wash off much easier than wax remaining on skin after hair removal.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Detox: Seven steps to beautiful skin

What is beauty? Good looks, perfect figure, regular features, flawless skin or a reflection of inner peace? Whatever it was, the skin actually reflects our "inner world", in the most literal sense. Clear, glowing skin - a sign of health, evidence that the body is not loaded with toxins. Flushed or pale, rough skin with visible pores, pimples or acne suggests that you have digestive problems that your body can not function normally because of the toxins.

The Internet is full of tips on how to quickly and almost effortlessly to give skin a healthy glow. Some techniques are very simple, others - terribly complicated and confusing, and some are worth a fortune. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford to regularly visit a beauty salon, where for your skin will take care of experienced professionals. If you work in an office, where he spent the whole day from nine in the morning until six in the evening, and so five days a week, you will most likely dull skin that does not fit to support. Use our tips to clean the skin, not from outside but from within. This program is designed to cleanse a long period. It is desirable that these procedures are included habit you have, then you will forget about the problems with the skin. The first noticeable improvement within a week.


There is no magic bullet that instantly make your skin healthy, beautiful and radiant (and do not believe those who convinces the reverse). A truly healthy skin - a reflection of general health and the result is a healthy lifestyle.


Clean the body of toxins
Water - the secret of detoxification. Water not only provides cells with nutrients and supports normal kidney function, but also helps to flush out body toxins. Nutritionists and experts on healthy living water called "enemy of the toxins." Lack of water makes the body a chance to get rid of toxins, and it becomes a reservoir for toxins, which can lead to various health problems, including skin. The skin to be radiant and healthy, you should drink at least six to eight glasses of water each day. Yes, it is pure water, tasteless water, mineral or boiled. Do not diet cola or energy drinks. Not juice or green tea. Many people believe that does not matter what it is to drink, as long as it was a liquid, but it's cola or mineral water - not so important. But it is not. Our body needs it in the water. And this is the basic rule of all detox programs. If you drink enough water throughout the day, the other tips in this article will not help you.


Start your day with a cocktail of antioxidant berry


Antioxidants - substances that neutralize free radicals that have deleterious effects on the skin and other body organs. Antioxidants protect the skin against the environment, solar radiation, and slow down the aging process. Every morning drink a berry antioxidant cocktail to provide the body with essential antioxidants. Try to use more than one type of berry, berry or a fruit plate. It is also important to drink contains no artificial sweeteners or preservatives. For a cocktail suit blueberry, raspberry, strawberry, pear, cherry, pomegranate and plum.


More sweat


Every day, do fitness at least thirty minutes. Exercise - at your discretion. All that you like: running, walking, dancing, biking, outdoor sports, even housework and gardening. In short, any moderate exercise. Fitness goal is to improve circulation, relax muscles, and most importantly, together with then excrete the toxins. For those with busy work schedule, suitable training simulator at home, for example, on a stationary bike. If you buy an exercise bike or treadmill or finances do not allow the square footage, still find the ability to sweat.


Clean the dead skin cells


Skin - the largest organ of the body, through which the body of toxins and waste products, but sometimes the pores may be clogged. Why? For several reasons. For example, they can close dead skin cells that can be removed with a scrub. The use of moisturizers on the mineral oil-based or wearing tight clothing can also lead to blockage of pores. Because of this, the skin looks lifeless, dull and coarse.


To clear the dead skin cells of the epidermis, use a dry brush. After this procedure, the pores can breathe normally, but will be more effective detoxification. Cleanse the skin with a dry brush is recommended in the morning, but if you prefer, you can perform this procedure and at the end of the day, before bedtime. Time does not matter.


Use a brush with vegetable fibers, preferably with a long handle to reach the most remote areas on the back. Massaging in a circular motion with a small brush pressure, spend the whole body (except chest and face) for ten minutes until the skin is completely dry. Do not rub too hard, so that the skin is not red. Click on the brush just enough skin to become clean and shiny. Then take a warm shower or bath. Make sure that the water was not too hot, because hot water dries the skin, especially in cold weather.

Monday, December 5, 2011

The main sources of amino acids, omega-3: Pay attention to the nuts

Today, most know that fish is rich in amino acids, omega-3, which have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system, skin and whole body. But the fish - not the only source of omega-3, there are many products that are useful amino acids. Enriching your daily diet such foods can significantly improve your diet and improve health.

Cod-liver


Cod liver oil is rich in omega-3, and for this reason that it had previously been used in small doses for recreation and restorative effect. Periodically, allow yourself to have cod liver oil, but in moderate doses. Moreover, in addition to benefits that are very tasty.


Rape oil


In rapeseed oil ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 approximately 1:2, whereas the recommended ratio - 1:5. If pure canola oil to go overboard, it can be mixed with other fatty oils, such as olive, which is usually regarded as neutral and useful. This combination of oils is perfect, and it is better to use it than oils rich in omega-6, such as sunflower oil, groundnut, maize, palm oil.


Linseed oil


Flaxseed oil contains enough omega-3, but not resort to it as often because of the difficulty of storage, because it is rapidly oxidized oil. And he in that case prefer flax seeds. The seeds are more convenient to use - you can add a variety of dishes, for example, in salads or in baked goods.


Fish


Oily fish is known as the basic and most common source of amino acids, omega-3. They contain salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines, tuna, trout, eel, anchovies, halibut, catfish, perch, swordfish - and this is not an exhaustive list. In addition to such fish, a good source of amino acids are omega-3 and seafood.


But there are other varieties of fish, which are lean, and they are more suitable for dietary purposes. If you want to lose weight and you do not need to increase the volume of omega-3, we will help you the following names: blue whiting, cod, flounder, sea bream, haddock, cod, perch, pike, walleye pollock, sea trout, haddock, red fish, flounder, mullet.


Nuts


Hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios - a high-calorie foods, but they are rich in good fats, healthy omega-3. A handful of nuts a few times a week - it's a good habit, which can be replaced by the sweet pastries.


Soybean oil, nuts and wheat germ


Peanut oil, soybean oil and wheat germ oil - it's wonderful products that help the body rich in omega-3 amino acids, but not peregrinate its omega-6, since it there are very few.


Eggs from chickens that are grown in free amino acids sources of omega-3


Chickens are not always helpful eggs, and most rich in omega-3 eggs from hens that are raised are not under the influence of artificial light in factory conditions, but on the air. It must be borne in mind when buying eggs.


The same goes for meat animals. Those animals that are grown under conditions of free content, eating fresh grass, alfalfa, meat will be more rich in omega-3.


Vegetables


Vegetables are a rich source of amino acids, but their regular intake allows the body to absorb omega-3s, which come with other products. We should pay particular attention to the following products: purslane, spinach, watercress, lettuce, avocado.


Be careful


Amino acids are the omega-3 and omega-6 - is unsaturated fatty acids that are essential for any man. But often the number one and other types of amino acids outnumber the other. If consumed omega-6 in ten, or forty times greater than omega-3, there is an imbalance. Normally, the omega-3 should be consumed in greater volume than omega-6. And if you decide to revise their diets in order to enrich its amino acid omega-3, for example, eat canola oil, then you should not at this time to consume foods rich in omega-6 oils such as sunflower seeds and peanuts.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Skin Care Neck: Compromise with age

Saying that there is nothing that gives a woman's age, her neck, continues to deliver the anxiety around the fairer sex. If in the twentieth century beauty is not always paid due attention to it, concentrating their efforts on care for face, then later on they become more competent in such matters. Perhaps, thanks for this mod to say the deep alluring neckline - it unsightly neck could spoil the good impression of what lies below.

In order for muscles anywhere in the body was in good shape, they need regular load. If, for example, talk about hands, they always do some physical work, and problems maintaining the tone they have. A major neck muscle receives the necessary load only in cases where a person takes a so-called royal posture. In everyday life, it happens very often, because the neck is too early becomes flabby and groomed appearance.


Dry and sensitive


Many women use skin care products are the same neck lotions, tonics, creams and masks, with which they are used to clean up your face. But the structure of the facial skin and neck skin is often quite dissimilar. In the first case, it is divided into four types, including oily, normal, dry, combination, then applied to the neck is almost always the only dry and sensitive.


Bold and rich variety of oils, creams, in care of the neck is not recommended. The skin on her too thin and almost devoid of sebaceous glands. It requires a delicate means of water-based, providing additional moisture.


Maintaining the tone


The habit of keeping your back straight neck reliably insure against the formation of excessive wrinkles and folds. Enough to control the position of the chin - it should not "hang loose" and fall on his chest. It is useful to do special exercises for the neck, including a set of daily morning exercises. These include tilting the head back and forth from a standing position, the rotation of the head in different directions in the back straight and shoulders lowered the maximum.


Youth and beauty neck largely depend on the correct choice of pillows for sleeping. Preference is given to small and harsh instances. Too high a pillow provokes bending the neck and the premature formation of wrinkles in it.



Moisturize skin and Nutrition neck

Wipe the neck by the same moisturizing lotions and tonics that are used in the care of a person who is not forbidden. The ideal would be those which contain extracts of chamomile, calendula, aloe vera, roses and other medicinal plants, providing a soft and gentle effect on skin tissue.


For the preparation of efficient nourishing masks, anti-aging skin of the neck, at home, you can use cosmetic clay, honey, sour cream, olive oil, pulp, bananas, oranges, egg whites, saturated solutions of black and green tea.


Massage


Beneficial effects on the skin of the neck and hand massage. To conduct need not possess special skills, all the movements are very simple. Neck massage can be performed in parallel with applying the cream, lightly tapping the surface back sides of fingers.


Massage with a damp towel, twisted several times, also produced by the method of pats. It improves blood circulation. With the same purpose useful to wipe your face and neck cosmetic pieces of ice.


The benefits of paraffin


From ancient times, wax is one of the most effective anti-aging tools. True, to prevent contact with skin should not commercial paraffin used to produce candles and refined beauty - it is usually sold in pharmacies. It is heated in a water bath until, until it becomes a liquid state, and then with a soft brush is applied to the skin of the neck. Thickness of the layer of paraffin on the skin can reach two inches. Mass within a few minutes to cool and harden, and it is recommended to remove about half an hour, using a spatula.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Hygiene means: In the name of purity

The higher the level of human culture, the more attention he pays to comply with the rules of hygiene, trying to preserve every situation a feeling of cleanliness and comfort. In the XXI century hygiene market has become one of the most rewarding, and almost every year it appears the regular news. Especially popular are the products that help people not only care for themselves, but also save at the same time.

Conventionally, all personal care products can be divided into several categories. This means the oral care, and cotton products such as rods and disks cosmetics, and various tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, as well as means of female and feminine hygiene, baby diapers and diaper rash remedy for and more.


Hygiene products for oral

 
Everybody knows that brushing for the full program relies, at least twice a day - morning and evening. The principal means of caring for them are toothbrushes and toothpaste: nothing better than mankind has not invented. Thanks to aggressive advertising, many people have become accustomed to the idea that the most useful are the fluorine-containing toothpastes, because they allegedly use reduces the risk of caries. In fact, the use of such pastes is very desirable for those who must daily consume water with high fluorine content - this element turns into a surplus of development of such diseases as dental fluorosis.


Toothbrushes are classified according to degree of hardness of the bristles: the stiffer hairs, the more removed the remnants of food from the teeth. Soft brushes are designed for those cases where the sensitivity of the oral cavity is increased. The additional hygiene for the mouth include dental floss, mouthwash and fresheners, toothpicks and brushes, and tools for cleaning dentures.


Intimate hygiene means personal hygiene
 
This category primarily include specialized gels and creams. They replaced the usual soap, which was previously used for such delicate goals. The advantage of gels is weakly alkaline pH, preventing the spread of bacteria, but at the same time does not cause irritation delicate and sensitive skin.


According to the manufacturer, in creams for intimate care needs, first of all, women over forty years. These tools help them to recover all the same correct pH, because the skin dries out much stronger, and solve all its problems only use a cleansing gel is not possible.


Hygiene products for women


When it comes to purely feminine hygiene accessories, it's referring to a "mini-convenience" for the critical days - it pads, tampons and the so-called menstrual capacitor. They also include sanitary napkins, and for everyday use. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. But fate decreed that the most popular at the fair sex were laying their various kinds. In Europe, the most in demand products companies Celltex (mark «Ola!»), Procter & Gamble (mark «Alldays», «Always», «Naturella», «Tampax»), SCA Hyciene Product (Brand «Libresse»), Bella TZMO (mark " Bella »). The second line of the rating took swabs, and only a third were tightly adjacent to the body of menstrual capacitor made of silicone, which were invented in the thirties of the twentieth century, but are still considered somewhat exotic.