Top 3 Home Remedies for Fast Hair Growth

Many of us think that maintaining long hair is a tough task but we never realize that long and healthy hair adds beauty to women. Some people suffer from hair loss and the others face hair problems like dandruff, thin hair, split ends etc. These hair issues block our hair growth and gives a bad hair. To grow long and strong hair as in the below picture you should follow simple hair rules and home remedies which I am going to list for you now. If you follow these tips and maintain your hair regularly you can get a awesome beautiful looking hair within months. All you have to need is patience and proper maintenance of your precious hair.

Listen friends, I got the following homemade herbal hair care tips from my mom whose hair is really very beautiful even at the age of 54. Do you believe? But it's the truth! Even I feel really jealous of her hair. I took a snap and including it here..!! Take a look below.

(I clicked this today without her knowledge and sorry for the bad quality of pic :D 
She will shout at me if she gets to know that I uploaded it here :P ha ha)

Now let's move on to the tips. Read each and every home remedy carefully and follow them without fail to achieve beautiful looking hair.

Tip 1: Hot Oil Massage

There's nothing better than oiling your hair, which gives nourishment and strengthens your hair. But few people really don't like to oil their hair as same as me :) I feel uncomfortable to go out with oil in my hair as it attracts dust, pollution and also gives a bad oily face look. When I fail to oil, I really get a bad brush like hair. You can do HOT OIL MASSAGE at home once or twice in a week to prevent hair from breaking, drying and thinning. This is a very simple procedure of heating oils like coconut oil, castor oil or even olive oil and gently massaging your scalp and hair with this. After massaging we should wash our hair with a good herbal shampoo. This procedure, when followed regularly, improves the blood circulation in the scalp and promotes faster hair growth.

Tip 2: Herbal Hair Massage (After oil massage)

For extra nourishing and thickening of hair, hair pack should be applied at least once in 15 days, especially after the oil massage (Thus the pack penetrates well). It removes the dead follicles and adds volume to your hair. Usually I use an herbal hair pack every week which gives good results in removing dandruff, preventing hair loss and promoting hair growth. This pack is suggested by my mom and I recommend everyone to follow this home treatment for fast growth growth and peacock feather like soft hair.

Things you will need:

1.Tripala

2.Brahmi

3.Tulsi powder

4.Neem powder (Optional)

Preparation Method:

• Grind Tripala and Brahmi. These herbs are easily available in herbal shops and super markets.
• Mix Tulsi powder and Neem powder with this paste. Add little water to this mixture to form a smooth hair pack paste.
• Now apply this paste allover your hair and scalp and wrap hair with a shower cap. Allow this mixture to work on your scalp for at least 40 minutes.
• Now wash your hair with clean water and mild herbal shampoo.

3. Hair Growth Supplements:

• Daily intake of Biotin and folic acid pills strengthens hair and adds volume to it, thus the hair would be free from split ends and grow longer. (Consulting your physician is a must before planning to take your supplements)
• You can also take Vitamin A, C and E for smooth, silky and healthy hair.
• Add spinach, egg whites, proteins and carrots in your daily diet to see visible faster hair growth.

Hope you all liked this post. Share your feedback and love below!

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Get Fair Complexion in Ten Days

In countries like India, fair skin has become a huge craze among people and everybody wants to get fair. It cannot be done overnight but it is possible gradually with some home remedies. You need to follow a good skin care regime, diet and fitness exercise routine to achieve that clear glowing skin! Just don't run behind fairness creams and lotions filled with chemicals and preservatives because all you get is a bleached and ugly looking skin. Most of the fairness creams cannot provide your skin a natural glow at all. Go to your kitchen and find some natural ingredients that can help your skin to become more bright and clear! Use them everyday as advised and you can notice results gradually. Other than these fairness remedies, some preventive measures should also be taken in order to prevent your new glowing skin. If you follow the rules perfectly, glowing fair complexion is all yours! Today, I will be giving some ideas and tips to improve your skin complexion,especially for brides. Note them down, follow them and let us know how it works. It might not show dramatic results on your skin, but it is sure you can notice a good difference on your skin texture and complexion within ten days.

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The More Sun - The More Sunscreen

What does it means? It is not that you need to apply sunscreen only on  hot summer days. Don't allow those clouds to fool you, sunscreen is also important in cloudy days. The more you be out in sun, the more sunscreen with a good  SPF is needed. Make sure to choose a sunscreen with high SPF, so that you get a longer protection. It is recommended to reapply your sunscreen lotion once in every four hours. This is the first step when it comes to the treatment of getting fair skin, because you need to prevent your new fair skin. Alright! This is the very important step, so don't skip it.

Fairness Bath Body Pack

How many times do you bath everyday? Hope it is twice because of this hot sun nowadays. It is best to bath once in the morning and once in the evening, soon after returning home from your work/study place. Leave the morning session, because you would be in hurry of getting ready. Let us have a relaxing bath in the evening. Open your refrigerator and take some tomatoes and a lemon. In a blender, add a cup of besan (Gram flour), few tomatoes, 2 teaspoons of lemon juice. This mixture should be blended well to a smooth paste by adding required rose water. You can also add some green gram flour if available, though it's just optional. Now collect this smooth paste in a bowl and go to bath. Use your daily soap/body wash to have a mild bath, using a loofah and scrubbing skin gently would be much better. After you cleanse up the body skin, apply this fairness body pack on your wet skin. Leave on for 15 to 20 minutes. Now wash away this pack with plenty of fresh water and towel dry the skin. That's it! This body pack natural whitens skin, removes tan and eliminate those dead skin cells naturally. This should be followed everyday for ten days, in order to see astonishing results. However, you can make it in alternate days as per your convenience. 

Leisure Time Facial Skin Foods

So what can you do to improve your complexion in your leisure time? Is your skin oily? Mix equal amounts of rose water, lemon juice and potato juice. Using a cotton ball, gently apply this over your face and neck and allow it to dry. You can do your own works like watching tv, or cooking meanwhile. After it dries, splash fresh water and wash away. For dry skinned people, a mixture of milk on honey can be applied to improve the skin. A face mask made with almond paste can also be applied everyday on your face for dramatic results!  By these simple tit bits, you are helping your skin get out of tan and become bright faster.

Water.. Water.. Water!

Water is everything! When your body is dehydrated, you can do nothing on your skin. No topical treatments work  when you have inner health issues. Drink at least 3 liters of water everyday to notice extraordinary results on your skin complexion and texture. Water is an all rounder remedy when it comes to skin. Not whole month or a year, just try this for 10 days. After that you will stick to drinking water and recommend your friends to do this. Not only inside, your skin needs water too. So whenever possible, especially after sun exposure, splash fresh cold water on your skin to heal and calm it.

Hot Oil Body Massage

Resting in weekends? Here is a task for you. Select a base oil of your wish. (Eg. coconut oil or olive oil). Crush some Neem and Tulsi leaves and add them to this oil and heat it. When the mixture is warm, switch off the stove and apply this oil all over your body and start massaging. You can also ask someone to do this. This hot oil massage can be followed twice in a week to achieve fairer complexion. Do you know how this helps? This improves overall body blood circulation and removes old tan. Thus, your body skin glows like a diamond! This really works, don't skip this too. In our ten days fairness skin routine, follow it for at least four times.

Moisturize Daily

Last but not least, a good moisturizer is important to make all the above things work. Wondering how? I will tell you. Whatever you do for your skin, moisturization is important to retain moisture and keep skin soft and glowing! Have you ever noticed your skin after bath, those white patches or some dryness? if you use your finger nails to draw a line on your skin, those white lines would be visible. You should never ever allow this thing happen if you want glowing beautiful skin. Moisturization is needed for extremely oily skin types too, however it should be light. So, use a good face and body lotion after every bath or face wash to retain skin's moisture. This would not show you overnight results, but the results are just fabulous if followed regularly. So keep the word "Moisturization". Never skip it!

That's all. These are the things you need to perform these 10 days. Of course this is not a get fair quick routine, but it really works if you follow in a proper way. You can notice the brightened and softened effect on your skin after these ten days. This routine will be very helpful for brides, so take a challenge, follow it for ten days and let us know how it works!

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2 Quick Home Remedies to Lighten Your Skin Complexion

Guest Post by Vandana
Weekend Fun Giveaway July Week 2 Giveaway Entry #11
 
Here are some very easy tips to improve your complexion and to reduce dark spots on your face. Check them out, try at your home and do let me know how it works.

Remedy 1:

Cucumber Overnight Fairness Pack

If you think that no face pack can make your your skin fair then you are wrong. I have tried a home made paste which really worked. Just follow these simple steps and your skin will look more fairer and spot free.

Things required to make a paste are:

• Cucumber
• Rosewater 
• Glycerine

Firstly take out the cucumber juice by using mixer. Now add rosewater and glycerine in equal quantities to the cucumber juice. Make sure that the paste should neither be thin nor too thick. Now apply it over your face at night time before going to sleep.
       In the morning, wash your face with clean water and pat dry. After some days you will see amazing change in the complexion of your skin and even the dark spots will lighten.

Tip: If you feel lazy making this everyday then you can make this paste for 3 days and you can keep it fridge and use it everyday.


Remedy 2:
Banana Glow Face Pack

To give instant glow to your face before going to a party or something, you can try a banana face pack. To make this pack you don't have to make any effort. You just have to peel banana and take out its pulp and crush it to make a smooth paste. You can make this paste using mixer as well. Now apply this banana paste on your face and leave it for 10-15 minutes. Later, remove it with clean water and pat dry.

Results? You will see that yourself. You will notice that your skin is glowing and you will feel a new softness and smoothness on your skin!

                      Hope you liked these fairness home remedies! Share your comments below
                                    And do you have any special skin lightening DIY recipe girls?

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Ten Home Remedies for Winter Dry Skin

Guest Post by Radha of My Noble Secrets

Hello Friends, This is my first post on MABH and I am excited to share it with you all.
                    
                     Winter going to come and the main worry of all of us is DRY SKIN. Winter gives us no sweating but the dry cool wind becomes the enemy of our skin's moisture often. So, we have to take care of our skin more carefully in order to prevent skin dryness and tightness. First of all, we have to concentrate on our diet well. This kind of moisture balancing skin care diet should be started earlier to the winter to maintain young glowing winter skin. Make your diet rich in Omega-3-fatty acids and low fat milk with oats or cereals. This will make wonder changes on your skin. Reduce the intake of coffee and tea that makes skin more dry by reducing important vitamins and minerals from the body. Take Green Tea which has lot of Anti-oxidants that repairs and keeps the skin younger forever. Staying hydrated with drinking 2 to 3  liters water everyday will wash away toxins from your body. Vitamin A, C and E helps to lock moisture in your skin. Hence, try to include fruits and vegetables rich in these vitamins. Avoid oily and greasy foods that give you bad skin. Consumption of nuts such as almonds and peanuts provides you vitamins and good fat; thus helping to prevent skin's natural moisture in winters.

                  
Now let us move on to the external maintenance part of skin in winter. Note down these ten effective dry skin home remedies and make use of them in a natural way to make your dry skin beautiful in winter.

• Mash a well ripen banana and mix it with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Apply this mixture on your facial skin for 30 minutes  Wash it off with cold water. This method will give you soft and supple skin with a natural tightening effect.
   
• Massaging your skin with plain malai and a pinch of turmeric powder will also moisturize your skin the natural way.
  
  
• Use cold compressed castor oil to massage your skin to keep wrinkles caused due to dryness at bay.
  
  
• Give you face and body skin a honey massage ten minutes before bath.
  
  
• Egg yolk gives you skin wonderful moisture hence you can try this if you can tolerate the smell.
   
• Curd is also a good moisturizing agent. Just rub it on your skin for half an hour before bath.
   
• Aloe vera is a very good and natural moisturizer for your skin, It is good to have a plant in your home. Take out the flesh part of the plant wash it and just apply it on your skin. Use it on night because, it has photo sensitivity nature.
   
• Vitamin E oil massage also does wonder on dry skin.
  
  
• Coconut milk is a good moisturizer. Applying coconut milk on your dry skin gives you shine.
   
• Use glycerin and rose water mixture as your skin toner. Mix equal quantity of these two ingredients and store it in a tightly closed bottle. Refrigerate and use as your winter skin toner.

Hope you liked my natural home remedies for dry skin. Do share your comments below!

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10 Essential Hairfall Rescue Tips

Guest Post by Shruti Lakshman

Weekend Fun Giveaway July Week 2 Giveaway Entry #4

Hiee!! You can call me a late bloomer!! What I mean to say is that I got introduced to the fascinating world of skin care, hair care and makeup very recently.:) I am a software engineer from Mumbai but now based in Chennai. I spend a considerable amount of my time in office looking at beauty blogs and that's when I came across this blog ;). I love the fact that you review goodies which are affordable and the tips you give me are quite useful. I love writing and its been a long time since I wrote something apart from software codes!! I also love animals (be it fluffy, four legged or 3 legged). This is my 1st article on anything related to beauty and hope you all like it!!
 

Given the stressful lives we all live nowadays, I am not surprised to see everybody complaining of 1 thing! Yes, I am talking about hair loss. The crowning glory on which we, not just women but men too nowadays, spend a lot of time taking care of. I live in a humid city where no matter how many times I wash my face, I start looking like an overflowing oil can. I find time to wash my face but not my hair often (Yes you can imagine its state then!!!). So here are certain things I follow to ensure that I don’t end up looking like Mogambo ( if you havn’t seen Mr India , go watch it)

• First and foremost, never comb wet hair. It’s something we all do when we are pressed for time (guilty). But wet hair equals fragile hair which easily tends to break. Let it dry naturally.

• Always use a wide toothed comb. People say its difficult to comb with it but trust me. It’s easier than it looks.

• Towel drying is another issue.  Picture this. A piece of cloth being washed on the stone by beating it repeatedly on the stone. Now replace the stone with your hair. Get it? Just gently rub the towel on your hair.

• ALWAYS COVER your hair with something when you travel. Use old dupattas.

• Use shampoos which do not have SLS, SLES and parabens.

• Do not use conditioner every time you shampoo. Restrict it to once a week or 2.

• Essential oils like Rosemary, Clary Sage and Basil are very good for combating hair fall. Add a couple of drops to coconut, olive or almond oil and apply it to your scalp. Worked wonders for me!!

• Do not tie up your hair too tightly. It makes hair vulnerable. Also gives a headache.

• Every night comb your hair atleast once to remove knots.

• AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL- Do not stress too much about hair fall. You stress, your hair stresses. It’s a vicious cycle.

I hope these small tips help you guys. Stay stress free and have a good hair day!!

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How to Cure Eyebrow Dandruff Fast?

Dandruff is known as dry skin flakes found mostly on the scalp of a person. There are several manufacturers producing dandruff clearing shampoos, lotions and creams today due to the increases dandruff problem among people around the world. Scalp dandruff is something familiar with me but I never heard about 'dandruff in eye brows' until I met my cousin experiencing this problem. She was 16 year old that time and was suffering from eyebrow dandruff severely. Eyebrow dandruff might be embarrassing and difficult to handle. How uneasy it would be to maintain a itchy eyebrow skin and dandruff flakes falling into our eye causing irritation? Today, we are going to check the causes, natural home treatments and some preventing ideas of this eyebrow dandruff problem among men, women and children.

Causes and Symptoms of Eyebrow Dandruff

Dandruff in eyebrows is caused for a no new reason, it is all because of dry skin first of all like how scalp dandruff occurs. If you have extremely dry skin, it gets itchy, dry and produces the flaky dead skin cells. These are called 'Eyebrow dandruff'. On the other hand, a condition called Seborrheic dermatitis could also cause eyebrow dandruff. In that case, the skin below your eyebrows look greasy with yellow dandruff flakes, and also with a red itchy skin. If you experience itchiness in eyebrows and see flakes around them, you can confirm that you have eyebrow dandruff. Before preferring any medicinal treatments, you can try some nautral home remedies to treat them. If your eyebrow dandruff is just at the starting stage or caused just by excess dryness or sebum production, it can be cured at home easily. For severe conditions, do consult your dermatologist in time.

Home Treatments to Cure Eyebrow Dandruff

• Get a good branded exfoliating facial cleanser. It is much more better if it is mild and herbal. Cleanse your eyebrows with this before starting any other treatment because using a exfoliator in eyebrow skin removes the dry flaky dead skin which causes dandruff. Follow up with a natural leaf serum treatment.

• Add half a cup of cleaned Neem leaves and basil leaves to one cup of distilled water. Bring this mixture to a boil and simmer the stove. After 10-15 minutes switch off the stove, close the lid and allow the mixture to cool down. Now strain the leaf extract using a strainer and fill it up in a clean sterilized bottle. After cleansing your eyebrow skin with a mild face wash, apply there this leaf serum over your eyebrows using a cotton pad. Leave on for 20-30 minutes before washing off. This treatment naturally prevents eyebrow dandruff by calming down the skin and controlling any bacterial infection. Store the remaining serum in refrigerator and use it within a week.

• Keep your scalp clean and free from dandruff and always use a good dandruff clearing shampoo. Scalp dandruff might also be the reason for causing dandruff in eyebrows.  Dry skin in eyebrows doesn't mean we shouldn't moisturize it. A weekly hot oil massage in eyebrows followed by a warm water wash helps controlling eyebrow dandruff up to a great extent. You can use castor, coconut or almond oils for this.

Preventing Eyebrow Dandruff after Curing

• Wash your eyebrows twice with clean cold water and a mild herbal face wash everyday. 
• Exfoliate your eyebrows once a week with a mild exfoliating face wash to get rid of dry dead skin flakes.
• Apply water based baby lotion or a soothing gel on your eyebrow skin before going to bed every night.
• Follow hot oil eyebrow massage every weekend.
• Eat healthy fats and avoid junk foods to control excess sebum production on the skin.

Hope these natural eyebrow dandruff treatment ideas help. Share your comments below!

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Top Two Acne Scar Removal Treatments at Home

At Home Acne Scar Removal - Does it Really Work?

Does acne scar removal home remedies really work? This would be the popping question in your mind right now. Acne scars usually develop after the occurrence of acne bumps. When we suffer from acne, the acne bump irritates us a lot both physically and mentally. It develops irritation in the acne developed area and of course it lowers our self esteem and confidence if we are about to step out of our home for a party or an occasion. Moreover, these acne leave UGLY marks on face which are called the acne scars. Practically speaking, we cannot remove these acne scars overnight with home remedies, like the laser acne scar removal treatments do, but yes we can actually speed up the FADING PROCESS. You got it? Acne scars naturally fades day by day and using these at home acne scar removal treatments speeds up the process.

Facial Acne Scar Removal - Why is our face affected by acne often?

Our facial skin is the main area which is affected by acne and leftover acne scars, hence we need to take extra attention to our face if we want to get rid of these ugly looking acne scars. One may also experience body acne and back acne, which can be cured by regular exfoliation and other natural remedies. Our facial skin is delicate, sensitive and usually oilier than our body skin and this becomes the main reason for the appearance of acne. Maintaining our facial skin clean, clear and dirt free is very essential when it comes to preventing acne scars.

Top Two Acne Scar Removal Treatments at Home

Lemon Juice Acne Scar Removal Treatment:

• Cut a lemon and squeeze the juice from this. Dilute this raw lemon extract with 1/2 parts of pure rose water.
• After cleansing your face, dip a cotton pad in the lemon juice and dab your acne spots with this cotton pad. 
• You can either dab this juice overall your face for an instant brightening effect or just dab your acne scars with it to fade them. This is one of the most heard popular acne scar removal treatment at home, but hence it helps a lot in clearing out those ugly acne scars. 
• The citrus extracts helps bleaching the dark brown or red acne scars naturally while the rose water balances the acidity of the lemon juice to protect our skin from any harm. After leaving the juice in your facial skin for 15-20 minutes, wash off face with clean cold water. Pat dry and moisturize. Do this everyday for a faster fading of acne scars.
  
   

 

Chickpea Flour Acne Scar Clearing Face Pack Treatment:

• Chickpea powder helps in cleansing skin deeper which actually helps in fading the dark acne scars. Take a small bowl and add 2 teaspoons of chickpea flour, a teaspoon of orange juice, a pinch of turmeric, few drops of glycerin and required rose water to it. 
• Blend this mixture well to make a creamy paste. If required, add few more drops of rose water but make sure not to make the pack too thin.
• After cleansing your face, apply this face pack evenly over your facial skin concentrating on the acne scar affected areas well and leave on for 10-15 minutes.
• After 10-15 minutes, splash cold water and wash off this pack from your facial skin without leaving any residue. This pack can be used up to thrice a week for maximum benefits. If you have dry skin, add milk instead of rose water to this recipe.
  

Follow the below recipes without fail as instructed. Do the lemon juice acne scar removal treatment everyday or every other day and follow the chickpea flour acne scar clearing face pack treatment atleast twice in a week. This will double up the speed of the natural acne fading process and the result is your clearer glowing face!

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Post Acne Scar Removal - Must Follow Ideas

Removing your acne scars is a just not enough, you need to prevent the future acne bumps from occurring. By now you would have realized the hardness of removing acne scars. It is actually better to remove the acne before it leaves a scar isn't it? It is even more better to PREVENT acne first of all right? Hence, maintain a good eating habit and avoid excess oily snacks. Avoiding junk foods is the first rule when it comes to post acne scar removal tips. Maintain your skin clean, moisturized and healthy to avoid further popping of acne bumps and that is what all you want to say goodbye to acne scars in future!

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Home Remedies to Cure Summer Acne

Summer gives joy and is considered as a happy warmer season in cold Northern countries but in hot countries like India, it is of course a tough task for people to face summer without getting their skin getting damaged. In winter,. we do face some skin issues such as dryness and roughness but summer gives us harsh those UV rays, sweat, rashes, tan, sun burns and several heat bumps especially on the areas around mouth, forehead, neck and back. It is really a big headache treating these acne bumps because they itch and leave marks on our skin. What if this continues every summer? Your skin would be covered up with ugly looking spots everywhere.
         Taking care of your skin in summer is a very essential part in your summer skincare routine, to maintain a clearer beautiful skin. Now I am going to share with you all some simple and natural ideas to vanish away those ugly summer acne bumps and also to prevent them leaving dark marks on your beautiful skin!

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• Read: Parachute Advansed Summer Fresh Body Lotion Review

 
Natural Home Remedies to Fight Summer Acne & Heat Bumps

• A bunch of fresh neem leaves should be collected and boiled in half a litre of fresh water. Allow this mixture to boil in simmer stove for about 20 minutes or until the colour changes. Switch off the stove and allow the neem serum to cool down. Filter and apply this neem serum over the summer acne affected places and leave on for 20 minutes. Wash away with cold water and pat dry. Neem acts as a natural medicine to cure heat acne and also helps in preventing bacterial infections.

• Freeze rose water to make some ice cubes. These ice cubes can be rubbed over the acne to soothe the skin and cure summer acne as fast as possible. Rose water has healing properties which can also give your skin a nice relaxing sensation. 

• Go for raw milk! There is nothing purer than raw milk to treat your skin naturally. Dip a cotton pad in cold raw milk and apply over the affected areas. If done daily, your heat bumps and acne will vanish without any trace. Some might be allergic to milk, they can avoid this and go for the rose water treatment.

• A very cooling and herbal natural treatment can be done at home to say goodbye to these summer acne bumps in no time. Collect some fresh basil leaves (Tulsi) and make them a paste. Use this basil paste as a face or body pack to cool down the body and eliminate heat bumps. If followed twice in a week, this natural treatment not only cures heat bumps and acne bumps, it also prevent them from leaving dark marks on your skin.

• Lazy to treat your acne prone skin? Leave your worries. Add a bunch of crushed neem leaves and 2 teaspoons of turmeric powder to a bucket of water everynight night. Bath with this water next morning to see visible results on your skin. Neem and turmeric are two natural ingredients that improves skin and prevents acne and bacterial infections.

Have you suffered from Summer Acne? How do you treat it?

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Exfoliate at Home For Brighter Complexion

Even toned healthy skin is the key to flawless beautiful face. But even world beauties needs some makeup and touch ups to cover their uneven skin. Uneven skin is caused due to improper maintenance, unhealthy diet and mainly because of the hyper pigmentation. Melanin is a pigment that our skin cells contain as the colouring substance, less counting in some areas and concentrated in some areas of the skin. For example, dark people's skin contain more melanin pigments while comparing to the pale ones. It is not that pale people are beautiful than the dark ones. Dark beauties with a flawless glowing skin beats white dull skins. Whatever your skin type may be, it must be clear to be beautiful. Due to some unhealthy practices and the main enemy sun, the skin color differs which causes uneven skin tone and dullness. As skin is the largest organ of our body, it is much exposed to sun, dirt and other pollution. Harmful UV rays damages your skin and increases the uneven melanin production. In this post, let us discuss about some natural exfoliating scrub recipes that can even out skin and brighten your complexion.

Why to Exfoliate?

The first thing you should go for is exfoliation when it comes to getting clear and beautiful skin. Regular exposure to sun, dirt and pollution, improper skin maintenance causes uneven dull skin. A layer of dead cells covers the surface of your skin and makes it look lifeless and dull. Dark or pale, a uneven skin is not beautiful at all. A perfect skin should be smooth, shiny and glowing, not the one covered up with dead cells, scars and bumps. Hence, exfoliation the first step when it comes to beautiful brighter skin. You can use some natural exfoliating scrubs from the kitchen! Yes. your own kitchen. You may or may not realize, but some natural ingredients from your kitchen can remove all your dead cells. I will list you few recipes as per your skin type. Choose wisely and say goodbye to those dead cells.

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Exfoliating Scrub Recipes from your Kitchen

 

For Oily Skin

1. Rice flour mixed with butter milk can act as an excellent facial exfoliating scrub. This removes all the dead skin cells, as well as the extra oiliness. Mix both to form a cream, apply it over your facial skin and scrub gently with your finger tips. After 3-4 minutes, wash off your face with clean and cold water. Pat dry.
2. You can also replace grounded oats for the rice powder. Add some diluted lime juice and butter milk to the oats. Blend well. A quick 2 minute scrub is ready now!
3. Take 2 teaspoons of orange peel powder, mix rosewater to make a paste. Workout on your face with your finger tips scrubbing gently. Splash fresh water and wash off. This scrub not only removes the dead skin cells but also improves the complexion.

For Dry Skin

Unlike the oily skin types, dry skins should be exfoliated in a very gentle way. Dry skins are easily prone to loose excess moisture and so, no moisture removing exfoliating scrubs should be used on your skin. 

1. Almond should be grounded, not to a thin paste, the mixture should be granulated for the exfoliating effect. With this almond granules mix some milk cream and start scrubbing your cleansed face. After 5 minutes, wash off your face with cold water and moisturize. 
2. Grounded oats mixed with honey and olive oil can also be used as an excellent dry skin exfoliater.
3. Khus Khus is an excellent source of Vitamin E, a skin friendly vitamin. Mix this with honey and rose water to prepare your exfoliating scrub in seconds. This can be used in alternate days to achieve even and brighter skin tone.

Normal to Oily and Normal to Dry skins should make some adjustments in these scrubbing recipes. As you observe, ingredients like milk, honey and oils are for dry skin types and the rice flour, lime juice are for oily skinned beauties. For exfoliating the body skin, get the loofah! So adjust your exfoliating scrub recipes and use it to get that parlour effect! A clean and clear skin is totally yours if you take a resolution to scrub gently twice every week.

Cure Acne Overnight With Neem

Cure acne overnight
Neem is an excellent home remedy which cures acne or pimples overnight. Every time I get an acne bump, I simply apply Neem powder paste to my acne before going to bed at night. It does really dries out the acne and make it almost disappear by the next morning. Neem is an easily available herb which can be found everywhere.

 

How to make Neem powder?
All you have to do is, collect some neem leaves, wash them and allow them to dry in sun till there are crisp. Finely powder it in mixer and store it in an air tight container. This powder is really a magical powder which can be used in many beauty recipes.

Cooling face pack with Neem

Mix a teaspoon of Neem powder with little fullers earth (Multani Mitti) and rose water to make a thick paste. Cleanse your face and apply this paste over your face and neck. Dip a cotton pad in rose water and place it over your eyelids to calm down your eyes. Wash this pack after 20 minutes and moisturize your skin.Regular usage of this packs prevents pimples and bacterial infection. It also helps in fading the dark spots and improving overall complexion of the skin.

 

Tidbit: Use your homemade Neem powder within 4-6 weeks of preparation. This would ensure the freshness and effectiveness of the recipe; preparing a new batch later wouldn't be that tough task for you we guess. Enjoy the skin benefits of Neem and share your experience with us.