Top Five Home Remedies for Fast Hair Growth

Top Five Home Remedies for Fast Hair Growth (My Mom's Own Hair Secrets)

Hello Everyone!
Today, I have come up with a hair care post for all of you who are longing to grow your hair long and strong. I had a knee length hair when I was 12 but eventually, I lost interest in maintaining my long hair and had cuts many times. My long hair at childhood not only gifted me lots of compliments from neighbors, friends and family but it also had made me get punishments in my school for being late everyday :P On my fourteens and fifteens I hardly bothered about my hair.
           Even last year, I had not wanted a long hair at all. I maintained that waist length hair (It is not considered long in my family :( sob sob!) till last year and now finally, I am 17 and a huge love on LONG HAIR has been developed inside my heart! I have no clue why I am loving to have a long hair. But I am sure I dream about long hair many times a day. I have even worried that why I had cut my hair so many times in these hairs :( and if encase I hadn't done that, I would have been blessed with Rapunzel hair now. Alright! Past is past; so hereafter, I am not getting a hair cut at all, at least for the next four eyes. (Don't include the split ends trims once in 12 weeks!) I am going to jump into the hair growth challenge and maintain my hair like anything to achieve that knee long hair back (Greedy me!). I am not sure whether I will win the challenge or not but I am sure I will take necessary steps for that. Okay without further blabbering, let us move on to the post :P I don't wanna bore you all with my hair story.

My Mommy's Long Hair!

This is my mom's hair :D She is 55 now! and never died her hair or went to salon even once in these 55 years. She doesn't know what a hair mask or what a hair conditioner is! She swears by plain coconut oil and Shikakai. She had even longer and thicker hair before long years and this post is ofcourse compiled with her secrets!. :)

My Mom's Beautiful Hair! :)

Now, let me share 5 amazing tips & remedies to grow your hair longer in a shorter time. No! We cannot fasten the hair growth but we can prevent split ends, breakage, hair fall and that's all. Healthy hair grows longer without any obstacles. Don't you agree? 


        'Your hair grows anytime at the same rate of speed but the trick is how you care for it and prevent it'  This is my mom's hair growth theory :D

1.Maintain Your Hair Clean

Maintaining your hair clean everyday is very essential when it comes to faster hair growth. Unclean hair and scalp leads to allergies, dandruff and such kinda hair problems thus resulting in heavy hair loss. So even though when you hair grows at a good speed, you are losing lots of hair strands at a better speed. Can you get what I am saying?

• Home Remedy for Faster Hair Growth 1: Shikakai mixed with curd acts as a great natural hair cleanser to clean hair and scalp. This shikakai home remedy for hair cleansing better than many other shampoos available in today's market loaded with SLS and parabens.

2. Moisturize Scalp and Hair Strands

My mom has a hip length hair now at the age of 55 and guess what? She does not have a single gray hair! I have always been jealous of my mom's hair beauty and her secret is 'Moisturizing hair' regularly. Yes! She oils her hair thrice every week to prevent scalp dryness and split ends. I personally don't like that oily feel on my scalp and hence I skip oiling at day time and go for a overnight oiling routine. Try using oils like coconut oil, olive oil and castor oil on your hair regularly; and you will definitely see the difference in weeks.

• Home Remedy for Faster Hair Growth 2:  Mix coconut oil and olive oil together (Equal parts) Take a teaspoon of dried curry leaves powder and dried fenugreek powder each and put them into the oil mixture. Shake well and store it in dry place for one week. Now filter this oil and use it as your regular hair oil! See the magic withing 3 months of usage. My mom swears by this hair oil recipe for faster hair growth!

3. Wear Loose Braids

Tight braids and pony tails may damage your hair in long run. Avoid wearing tight hair bands and clips on your hair to prevent unwanted hair breakage and weakening of hair. Once a beautician told me, wearing tight pony tails often may result in front balding of hair :O Be aware girls! And wearing loose braids helps in better air circulation on your scalp, thus resulting in less sweat - less allergies and less hair fall. Where there is less hair fall, it is equal to fast hair growth automatically :) If you want long and strong hair, first know to save your hair! That is the best trick ever.

• Home Remedy for Faster Hair Growth 3: Fill up a spray bottle with 100 ml of rose water and pour in two teaspoons of almond oil. Shake well and refrigerate. Use this hair spray after you rinse your hair to make your hair smooth, manageable and frizz free instantly. Using this hair spray help you make braids easily without any tangles! This also improves the texture and health of your hair, resulting in longer and stronger hair faster without any dry hair/combing breakage.

4. Get Good Sleep & Water

This might be one of the most heard tips, but still it is one of the best tips too. Get a proper good night sleep of 8 hours and drink atleast 10 glasses of water a day. This would regularize your metabolic activities and prevents hair loss due to stress and dehydration. Going to hair salons, using masks and other topical treatments alone won't work; if you want longer hair, you want to maintain your health  :) So don't forget this sleep and water trick anytime. Drinking tender coconut every morning helps too. This controls hair fall due to heat and provides mineral salts for your hair health.

• Home Remedy for Faster Hair Growth 4: Excessive body heat causes bad damage to the hair though we follow all the other hair care regimes the right way. To control this, crush some fresh tulsi leaves and put them into your drinking water everyday. Tulsi cools down the body, relieves stress and vanishes hair fall caused due to body heat. Thus your hair grows long without any over heat obstacle!

5. Hair Growth Supplements

Are you losing much hair everyday? Is your hair not growing long anymore? You might be suffering from some nutrition deficiency. Consult your physician and discuss with him/her about the intake of hair care supplements. They might prescribe you biotin, iron or zinc etc depending on your deficiency problem. I am taking 5mg biotin everyday at present and it is giving me good results. It has reduced my hair fall to 90% and my hair is getting down to my waist :) Keep in mind; do NOT take any supplement without consulting your doctor.

• Home Remedy for Faster Hair Growth 5: My mom tells me often that eating egg whites, whole nuts, spinach and cheese everyday increases the hair growth speed :) Soya bean helps too! Why don't you try them?

Did you liked the post? Follow these Five home remedies and fasten your hair growth naturally at home!

Do you have any tip for faster hair growth? If yes, do share below!

My Bed Time Beauty Routine to Wake Up Beautiful!

My Bed Time Beauty Routine - Steps and Tips

Hey Everyone!
What do you do before you go to bed at night? Watch television or go for a walk.. or munch something? Alright! what do you do to your skin and hair to wake up beautiful the next morning? Have your ever wondered about your bed-time beauty care? Fine, cool. I am not getting sleep now so came here to share my bed time beauty routine with you all. I have been waiting to make this post since long but missed it every time. Check below the steps of my beauty routine; these are what I do before I go to my soft bed every night :) This routine really helps me wake up fresh, energetic and ofcourse confident. I have been following this routine for more than 2 yrs now and my skin and hair have been improved a lot after that. No long steps; these are just the normal ones which we can follow at our home easily. Let us move on to the steps now?

• Read: My Step by Step Facial Skincare Routine Before Diwali

Brush Teeth & Clean Mouth

Brushing my teeth is the first thing I do every morning after I wake up from sleep and also before going to bed every night. I just can't live without brushing my teeth at least twice a day. It is essential to keep our mouth clean in order to maintain good health and to avoid bad odour. So before going to bed at night, I brush my teeth with a mint toothpaste and goggle with a refreshing mouth wash following by the tongue cleaner usage. Get a baby tooth brush and keep it in your tooth brush stand. Once you are done with brushing your teeth, gently scrub your lips with the baby brush and wash away with cold water. This will make your lips baby soft!

•  Read: Early Morning Skincare Routine for Glowing Skin

 

Warm Water Bath

However tired you might be, just have a warm water bath with your favorite fruity smelling shower gel. This will lift up your mood and make you energetic in minutes leaving all the dullness and tiredness behind. I usually have my night bath around 10 pm in lukewarm water. If you are afraid of getting cold, make it a quick warm shower. Having a relaxing warm bath at night relieves stress and refreshes you for a better sleep. Do you have those 'slippery feel giving' shower gels and bars unused, those will take ages to get washed away from skin completely? They may raise your temper in busy mornings; hence spare them for night baths! I love having my night bath with strawberry, pomegranate or citrus shower gels depending on my mood.

Tidbits: 

• While having your bath, soak your feet in hot water (in bearable heat) for 5-10 minutes and scrub gently with a foot scrubber or a loofah pad. This will ensure the removal of dead skin cells and softens feet.I don't do it everyday due to laziness :P but at least twice a week is really good.
• Use a good makeup removing cleanser to remove all the makeup, dust and pollution from your facial skin. Removing make up is a must before you go to bed every night.
  

• Read: Chandra Body Care Detox Bath Salt Review
  
  

Moisturize Face and Body Skin

Okay we had a warm bath now to refresh the body, senses and to remove the impurities, sweat and dirt from the skin. What next? The warm water with cleanser would have taken most of the moisture from our skin. To combat moisture loss, I put on my body lotion and face moisturizer soon after I come out of my bathroom. Wipe your skin with a soft towel and apply the moisturizers evenly over your face and body skin. Never ever use creams those others simply recommend because it works on them; everyone's skin is different and you need the apt one for your skin. Heavy moisturizers are good for night usage as you need to keep your skin moisturized for next 8-12 hours (Do you sleep for twelve hours? :P I do many times!).

Tidbits: 

• Before putting on your facial moisturizer, spray some rose water or a skin toner over your face to tighten pores and remove the leftover dirt from your skin.
• If you find any particular moisturizer that suits your skin the best, but still you can't use that due to the 'No SPF' factor, spare it for night usage. I find few of my good working moisturizers turn dewy on my normal-oily skin after 2 hours of application and hence I don't dare to put them for day use; but you see, they fit perfectly as my night cream.
• Do not forget to apply your foot cream while moisturizing your face and body.

• Read: Can You Use Body Lotion On Your Face?

Apply Lip Balm or Lip Butter

Our lips turn dry when we fail to moisturizer them. We are needing our lip balm many times in a day but many of us fail to think about the nights our lips face. We need to moisturize our lips heavily at nights, especially in winters if we want to wake up with soft lips instead of the dried and chapped ones. Soon after I moisturize my face, body and feet, the next thing that my hand searches for is a 'lip balm'. I apply a thick coat of my lip balm or lip butter every night to ensure my lips won't turn chapped. As it is night, try to skip the tinted ones and go for flavored ones to refresh your senses! How about a sweet vanilla or sheabutter one?

• Read: Himalaya Herbals Natural Moisturizing Lip Butter Review
  
  

Comb & Detangle Hair

This is one of the main steps of my bed time beauty (hair) care routine. I gently detangle my hair with a wide toothed comb and apply some oil on my scalp if in case I am planning to wash my hair the next day morning. It is highly risky to sleep with ponytails as they may result in thinning of hair or even alopecia in long run. So never ever sleep with tight braids or pony tails. Just detangle your hair and wear loose braids before you go to bed. If you havea  really short hair, then you can sleep with loose hair but in case if you have a lengthy hair, it is better to wear loose braids as the natural oils of your hair can cause pimples if comes to contact with the skin.

• Read: 10 Essential Hairfall Rescue Tips
  
  

Pillow Cover & Blanket - Are they Clean?

Yes, I do check this every night. Most of the people, even if they follow a good skin care routine, experience pimples due to sleeping in pillows without making sure the cover is clean. They won't be having a clue why they are getting pimples whatever anti-acne cream they use. Hence, it is better to wash pillow covers twice every week; this avoids skin problems, acne breakouts and other skin allergies. I always make sure that both my pillow cover and bedsheet are clean before falling asleep! Do you have this habit? If not, cultivate it for your skin sake from today itself.

• Read: Acne Scar Removal at Home
  
  

Relax Eyes with Cold Cotton Pads

Be it cucumber juice or rose water,  I always have any one of these chilled and ready in my refrigerator. Once I am done with all the other steps of my night time beauty routine, I dip two clean cotton pads into rose water or cucumber juice, squeeze them and put them over my eyelids. Wow! What a relaxing feel it is! This method treats my tired eyes which works on computer for long hours everyday. Why don't you try it too?

• Read: Choosing Products for Eye Makeup and Eye Care

 

Close Eyes and Sleep Well

Now I am done with everything! :D It's time to get deep into the good night sleep. Whatever problems, worries, tensions I have, I just throw them away, take a big breathe and sleep calmly. Once you are done with the above mentioned skincare/haircare steps, automatically you will be getting a happy refreshed sleep.
         
And in the morning..?? Someone is going to wake up with gorgeous skin and hair :) If followed every night, you can visibly see changes on your skin and hair appearance.

Did you like my bed time beauty routine? What is yours? Share below!

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5 Best Winter Beauty Fixes at Home

5 Best Winter Beauty Fixes at Home [Do it Yourself]

Hello everyone!
Are you enjoying the chillness in the air? It is the turn of winter now and we need to make some changes in our skin and hair care routines to stay beautiful. It is not that though actually; all we need to do is to choose skincare, hair and makeup products which suits our skin type. Not just the over the counter products, if we go for a kitchen raid in our home, we can find many skin friendly ingredients to use in our winter beauty care regime. Today, I am going to share with you five best beauty fixes at home to make use of this winter.

• Read: Ten Home Remedies for Winter Dry Skin

•  Read: Winter Fairness Face Packs for All Skin Types
  
  

1. Vaseline for Chapped Lips

Vaseline has been widely used by people for ages to cure chapped lips. This remedy is well known already but still I am mentioning here; a small tub of petroleum jelly can save your lips from winter damage very effectively. So next time when you go for shopping, pick 5-6 small tubs and give one to each in your family. You can carry petroleum jelly in your handbag whenever you step out as this may help you a lot when you forget to carry your lip balm.

• Read: VLCC Daily Protect Honey Lip Balm Review
  
  

2. Hot Oil Spa Bath for Dry Skin

Take half a cup of olive oil and heat it in a double boiler. Wear a bath towel or some short dress and apply this warm olive oil all over your face and body. Massage skin with gentle circular motion for 5-10 minutes. Now have a relaxing bath in lukewarm water. If preferred, crush some rose and tulsi petals and put them into your bathing water along with few drops of sandalwood oil. This hot oil massage come spa bath every weekend beautifies your skin like anything in winter! Olive oil help you say goodbye to winter skin dryness where as the other ingredients in this DIY spa make your skin smell fresh throughout the day.

• Read: Winter Skincare Recipes for Dry Flaky Skin

3. Moisturizing Rose Body Mist

Fill up a clean old spray bottle with 1 cup of rose water. Pour in 2 teaspoons of sweet almond oil and some crushed rose petals. Shake well and store the bottle in refrigerator (not in freezer) Soon after you finish your bath or soon after you return back home from work, when your skin craves for moisture, spray this calming body mist all over, including your face if you wish. This DIY rose body mist instantly soothes the skin and provides moisture without any harsh chemicals.

• Read: The Nature's Co Passion Fruit Pineapple Body Mist Review

4. Butter as Hand & Foot Cream

Yes! Butter works great as a heavy moisturizer. Before you go to the bed every night, wash your hands and feet with warm water and a gentle cleanser. Take a scoop of butter and massage your palms and feet well for 5 minutes. Now put on your cotton gloves and go to sleep. Wake up early in the morning to see your magically soft palms and feet! Butter is a great skin friendly ingredient to challenge winter dryness.

•  Read: Nourishing Winter Pedicure at Home

5. Mixture of Oils for Dry Scalp

Dry scalp causes several head aches such as dandruff, flaky skin, hair fall and itchiness in winter. To combat this problem, mix equal amounts of coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil and castor oil together. Pour this oil mixture in a clean container. Now take 5-6 vitamin E capsules and poke them to extract the thick vitamin E oil. Pour this oil into the already prepared oil mixture and shake well. Store this DIY winter hair oil in a cool dry place. Use this oil to massage your scalp twice to thrice a week and leave it on overnight. This oil usage will bring dramatic changes to the health and texture of your hair in weeks. So winter? It can never damage your hair with this powerful home made nourishing hair oil.

•  Read: Parachute Advansed Ayurvedic Hair Oil Review

Did you find these 5 Easy Winter Beauty Fixes useful? 

Which one did you like the most?

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How to Be Beautiful? 5 Really Working Ways

Every woman in this world wants to look beautiful. Isn't it?. Whether she is short or tall, thin or thick, dark or pale, every girl wants to look her best anytime. We girls are always concerned about the way we look. From head to foot we take care of all the parts and beautify them in order to look neat and stylish. Different shampoos, different conditioners and different hair products; what not we try to make our hair look more softer and shinier? We jump into the trial of using different creams and lotions to get that model-like glowing skin isn't it? Even for our feet - we get are numerous luxury pedicures get done in parlours. Fine, let us come to the point. This post is specially dedicated to you sweet girls! Go ahead and read the effective ways to be beautiful :D

1. Belief is the Key

Yes! The first thing you should do to 'be or become' beautiful is to believe that you're beautiful. No one is ugly in this world. Everyone has their unique features, talent, voice and such. *(Are you skinny? Call yourself a model. Are you fat? You're a bubbly beauty then :) Is your skin too pale? You're a vanilla ice cream and are you dark? You're a dark chocolate.) No one is less compared to anyone in this world so once you believe that you have your unique beautify, you will automatically look beautiful from inside! You will get that confidence and shine as a star among your friends and family no matter how your appearance is. So grab your first key, the belief. There is no one in this world with the same lips, eyes and facial structure as yours isn't it? You're your original and beautiful copy :) Appreciate yourself for being beautiful; spend 5 minutes in front of mirror everyday and tell yourself that you are beautiful to grow your confidence. This way, you can break all the inferior feelings those created by such idiot people (Jealous may be?) around you.

2. Health Matters a Lot in Beauty

Taking care of your inner health is double important when it comes to beautifying yourself. Let us have a test now. Get some high ended makeup products. Pick your most beautiful outfit and wear your favorite footwear, but on the day when you are SICK. How would you look? Beautiful? Not at all!. So concentrate more on improving your health and thus it will add beauty to your skin and face. To develop your health, as the first rule, drink 3 liters of water everyday. This process will regulate your blood circulation and flush out the toxins from your blood, resulting in super radiant skin. You need to try this to believe this. I have myself experienced with this water trick and found out great results on my skin. Eat lots of veggies, fruits, buts and greens everyday. And last but not the least, wear the most important beautifying ornament SMILE on your face. A happy smiling face wins lots of makeup products you know!

3. Add Some Style

Is your life boring? Don't you feel bored with the same kind of look and appearance you maintain? Go for a hair cut and change your dressing style. I personally felt more confident about my appearance after getting my side bangs done. They are absolutely beautiful! You can also change your dressing style, apparels and such for a different look. Don't always restrict and keep yourself inside a circle. Wear sunglasses, wear tank tops, skirts and grab that style! You will look and feel beautiful.

4. Take Care of Your Skin and Hair

I will list out some great working celebrity skin and hair care practices below which my beautician told me.

Skincare Musts to Become Beautiful

• Bath twice a day in lukewarm water.
• Say no to soaps; Go for soap free shower gels/body washes and face washes for face.
• Body lotion is compulsory after bath to moisturize body skin.
• Moisturizing face is a must even if you have oily skin.
• High SPF sunscreen is compulsory if stepping out of home (Even on winters)
• A weekend body scrub followed by hot oil massage does extra good to soften skin.
• Wash face twice a day with a gentle facial cleanser and two or more times with fresh plain water.
• Wash your feet with warm water and apply cold cream before going to bed every night.
• Ger a pedicure done at your home or parlor once in two weeks.
• Use your hand cream to prevent hands from getting rough
• Your lip balm must be in your handbag anytime! Use it many times a day to prevent chapped lips
• Pay extra attention to dry knees and elbows while moisturizing.

Haircare Musts to Become Beautiful

• Rinse hair thrice a week if you're a field worker and at least twice if you are a homemaker.
• You paraben free mild hair products; herbal ones are much better.
• Don't comb wet hair and use a wide comb to detangle your hair.
• Conditioning is must after shampooing.
• Massage your scalp applying hot oil one hour before every hair wash.
• Follow a deep nourishing hair mask treatment every weekend.
• Avoid using heat equipments such as straighteners, dryers and curlers on hair very often.
• Do not tie your hair with tight bands. 
• Cover your hair with an hat or your shawl when you're under hot sun. 
• Do not get wet in rain and if you do so, rinse your hair immediately after reaching home.
• Wash your comb everyday and wash your pillow cover everyday. 

5. Get Outfit/Makeup Suggestions from Your Friends

Discuss with your trustworthy friends about your outfits and makeup. Read carefully, they should be trustworthy. If you choose a wrong person to suggest you, they might mislead you in jealously lol :P Okay no jokes. Ask your friends whether you look good in a jean or kurta, or something like that. Always go for minimal makeup. This will not only look natural, but also neat and professional if you're a working woman. Shift your glittery shimmery makeu products to your night /party makeup case. Choose the right shade of your foundation/concealer and always go for blushes and eyeshadow that would compliment your skin tone well. You should also be careful while choosing your skincare products depending on your skin type whether it is oily, dry, normal, combination or sensitive.


Hope you enjoyed the above ideas to be beautiful! Don't stress much thinking about your appearance all the time. Just chill and enjoy your life :) You're always beautiful if you are happy and if you have good thoughts! Keep smiling beauties. Share your comments and feedback below!

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Cure Under Eye Dark Circles in 30 Days

Hello beauties! Next to the skin lighting remedies, this is the one which is most asked for in our reader queries section. Many of you asked me for under eye dark circle removing home remedies and some other asked for under eye dark circle removal cream suggestions. My mailbox is flooded with this same type of query. I have luckily got dark circle free eyes (Can't judge about future! I am just 17 now) and hence I wasn't able suggest you home remedies for dark circles before. But just specially for you all, I made a visit to my beautician's house last week and discussed with her about the home remedies and other skincare ideas to control, prevent and cure dark circles fast other than the usage for dark circle removing creams. As one of our post named 'Fair Skin in 30 days' was made a huge hit by worldwide readers, I am here up with the next 30 days series. These remedies might work perfectly for you if you follow them in a right manner. Though genetic and health issues can also give you under eye dark circles and for that you MUST consult your physician rather than believing in cure from simple topical home remedies.

Three Must Follow Remedies to Cure Under Eye Dark Circles

• Get 8 hours of good night sleep. Read the previous line carefully, you need 8 hours of good NIGHT sleep. Hence untimely sleeping  is not going to help you even if you sleep for 8 or more hours. Regularize your sleeping habits as the first step. 

• Wash your eyes thrice a day with fresh water. This trick helps like a miracle in curing your bulged, dark, ugly looking under eye circles fast. Just simply splash some water over your eyes gently and that's it. Once in the morning while bath, once in the evening after returning home from work and once before going to bed every night is a best routine.

• Soon after returning home from college or workplace, get some cold water in a bowl. Dip two cotton pads in the cold water, squeeze a bit and place it over your closed eyelids. Relax for 10-15 minutes and then continue your other work. This should be followed everyday in order to calm down stressed eyes.

Five DIY Home Remedies to Cure Under Eye Dark Circles

• This is a very common remedy but it really works if followed everyday without expecting overnight results. Squeeze juice from grated cucumber and apply it over your dark cirlces. Leave on for 10-20 minutes and and wash away. This can be followed daily for best results.

• Potato juice acts a natural bleaching agent to lighten the dark skin around your eyes. Hence apply potato juice over your dark circles twice a week but not everyday. This would gradually remove the darkness and yes, you can see visible results in under eye dark circles reduction within one month if followed with patience. 

• Drop pure rose water on your eyes before going to bed at night. This would calm down eyes and reduce the heat to prevent and fade dark circles caused due to excess heat.

• Banana peels can be cut into thin squares and stored in refrigerator to use as your anytime relaxing fruit eye pads. Just place the cold peel strips above your eyelids and voila! You're ready to enjoy the super calming sensation which not only feels good but also helps a lot with the healing of your under eye circles problem.

• Last but not the least, this is the very important step that you should follow regularly to reduce dark circles in 30 days. Grind almonds to smooth powder and add milk to this powder to make a smooth eye mask. Apply this over your eyelids and below your eyes. Leave on for 10-15 minutes and rinse. This should be followed at least once every week to ensure the fast removal of darkness around your eyes. My beautician highly recommend this DIY dark cirlce removing eye pack.

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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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How to Make Exfoliating Body Scrub with Chickpeas? [Photo Tutorial]

Hello sweet ladies!
Now we are going to check an amazing exfoliating body scrub made of chickpeas and few other kitchen available ingredients to give your skincare routine a twist. This natural exfoliating body scrub has numerous benefits such as tan removal, skin softening and deep pore cleansing. I swear by this body scrub and this one definitely wins most of the store bought body scrubs. Come let us check the recipe with a photo tutorial.

Things you will need:

• Dried Chickpeas, 2 tablespoons
• Dried Mung beans, 1 tablespoon (Optional)
• Sandalwood, 1 tablespoon
• Rice Powder, 1 tablespoon
• Milk, Required

Preparation Method:

1. Grind the chickpeas and mung beans together coarsely. Mung bean is nothing but the green gram (Pachai Payiru in tamil). Collect the powder in a small bowl. Add sandalwood powder and rice powder to this powered mixture and mixture everything together well with a spoon.

2. Add required milk to the scrub powder that we prepared in the first step.

3. Blend well and ensure that the scrub is in the right consistency. The scrub should be neither too thick nor too runny. That's it. Your own body scrub made of chickpeas is all ready to use now!

Usage Directions:
After having a shower with your shower gel or after a bath, on your wet skin, apply this chickpea exfoliating body scrub. Apply the body scrub over entire body skin and start scriubbing gently with your fingers and palms. Do not use this exfoliating body scrub on your facial skin as this would be a little rough compared to the facial scrubs. However, if you wish grind the ingredients more finely and store it seperately to use as your facial scrub.
       While scrubbing your body skin, concentrate more on the rougher parts such as knees and elbows. After 5-10 minutes of scrubbing, wash off the scrub from your body skin completely without leaving any residue. Use every weekend to maintain soft, glowing and tan free skin. This can also be used twice a week on your body.



Ingredient Benefits:

• Chickpeas : Removes dark patches and pigmentation from the skin.
• Mung beans: Softens the skin and makes it wrinkle-free. Green gram powder (Mung beans powder) is a great alternative for soaps as well.
• Sandalwood: Improves complexion, calms down skin and reduces excessive body heat
• Rice Powder: Helps removing tan by performing the exfoliation part in an effective manner.
• Milk: Softens skin and prevents it from drying due to exfoliation. If you have extra dry skin, pour in few drops of olive oil to this body scrub recipe.

Do you have any such natural DIY body scrub recipe which you swear by?

How to Get Rid of Oily Skin on Face Naturally?

Just don't blame the summer alone; even this monsoon weather is giving us lots of trouble. I expected my skin to act normal after Mr.Summer took leave but it turned even more worse unexpectedly. I am enjoying monsoon with rains and spicy hot cuisines. I am loving the cool breeze but my skin? my T zone? It is getting more oilier than it was in summer. This irregular climate is giving my skin zits, breakouts and such due to excessive skin greasiness. So what to do naturally when your facial skin turns excessively oily and greasy? How to say goodbye to those pimple breakouts, zits and blackheads? We cannot always put on store bought products on our face isn't it? So sip a coffee and note down these natural oily skin curing ideas to prevent and control that oily sheen on your facial skin, especially on your T zone.

Proper Face Washing Routine

Wash your face compulsorily for twice a day if you have oily facial skin. Use a good oil clearing face wash which is gentle, preferably herbal and clears out the excess oil from your skin. Remember, the face wash you are choosing shouldn't be over drying on your skin as it might end up in giving you premature wrinkles and stretchy skin. I highly recommend Himalaya Herbals Oil Control Lemon Face Wash for moderate-oily skin and Clean and Clear Foaming Facial Wash for extra oily skin. Not just these two times, wash your face 2-3 more times but this time only with WATER and not your face wash. So totally, you are going to wash your face twice with a good oil clearing face wash and 2-3 times with plain cold water. This is the first step which cures 90% of your oily facial skin problem.

• Read: Lakme Perfect Radiance Fairness Face Wash Review

Scrub Twice A Week

Oily skin usually attracts more dust, dirt and other impurities from the environment. These impurities settle down and forms as a layer on the surface of your facial skin. To remove this dirt layer, one surely needs exfoliation. Oily skin types can exfoliate their facial skin twice a week to get rid of dead skin cells, dirt and other impurities. Go for a good branded oil clearing scrub or make your own at home. Simply grind 2 teaspoons of oats coarsely. Combine it with some fresh Aloe gel. Your 2 minute oily skin scrub is all ready to use!

• Read: Vedic Line Papaya Scrub Review

Oil Balancing Pack After Scrub

Soon after scrubbing your face, when your pores are open, you can layer your face with a calming face pack. On the other hand, this should be an oil balancing face pack too which would control excess sebum production. Use a good branded mud based face pack after scrubbing to tighten your skin and control excess oiliness. Alternatively you can use the mixture of besan and buttermilk as your natural oil balancing face pack.

• Read: Instant Skin Brightening Face Pack with Grapes

Toner & Moisturizer

After washing your face, don't skip toner anytime if you have oily skin. Tone your skin with a green tea or rose water toner and moisturizer your skin with a water-based moisturizer. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't moisture if you have oily skin. All skin types need moisturization; so go and pick a water-based, light moisturizer.

• Read: Forest Essentials Facial Toner Panchpushp

Note: Don't worry all the time for having extra oily skin. There is a sweet news for you oily skinned damsels. Oily skin ages slower when compared to the dry ones! So chill. Follow these above ideas, prevent excess oiliness and enjoy showing your beautiful oil-free face to the word.


So, which is your favorite natural tip to get rid of oily face? Share below!

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6 Amazing Skincare Recipes with Coconut Milk

Coconut Milk has been used in several skincare products for ages because of its goodness on skin. We can include coconut milk in our homemade DIY skin treatments as well, to naturally cleanse, moisturize and beautify skin. It acts effectively in cleansing, moisturizing and repairing sun damaged skin. Check out these 6 simple coconut milk skincare recipes below and make use of them.

Coconut Milk Moisturizer
Is your skin dry, tight or stretchy all the time, especially in winters? Mix equal amounts of fresh coconut milk and honey. Add two drops of almond oil to this mixture if your skin is extra dry. Smooth this over your face and let it sit there for 10-20 minutes. Later, wash off with clean cold water and pat dry. No more stretchy feeling and no more dry patches; All you will see now is your soft, moisturized skin.

• Read: Iraya Almond Nutrifying Skin Food Review

Coconut Milk Facial Cleanser
At times we run out of our cleansing milk and this is one recipe which can naturally cleanse and balance the moisture of your facial skin. Mix a teaspoon of creamy yogurt with few drops of concentrated coconut milk and spread this mixture evenly on your face. Leave on for 5 minutes and wipe off with a wet cloth of cotton. Splash cold water over face and wash off!


Makeup Remover with Coconut Milk
It's not that a hard procedure! We all know that olive oil acts as a natural makeup remover and even removes stubborn eye makeup. Simple mix 1/2 parts of coconut milk with 1 part of olive oil and use it as your regular makeup remover. You will feel that your skin has become more clean and softer than before.

Coconut Milk Skin Brightening Face Pack
Add required coconut milk to a teaspoon of sandalwood powder. Put in few saffron strands and few drops of honey to this mixture and use this as your skin brightening face pack. This would do wonders on your skin by brightening it in a natural way!

• Read: Vedic Line Papaya Face Pack Review

Wrinkle Cure Cream with Coconut Milk
Soak 6-8 almonds in water overnight. Peel off their skins in morning and grind them too smooth paste. Extract oil from 2-3 vitamin E capsules. Add few drops of thick coconut milk and the extracted vitamin E oil to the almond paste and blend well. Your wrinkle cure cream is all ready to use now! This will not bring you dramatic results on your skin but with regular usage, it will definitely help tightening skin, thus reducing wrinkles and fine lines. After cleansing face every night, apply this cream evenly over your skin and go to sleep. Wash off face in the morning to see the soft skin magic.

Coconut Milk Spray for Sunburns
Add 1/2 parts of rose water to one part of coconut milk and fill this up in a clean spray bottle. Refrigerate. Soon after returning home from outside, when your skin is burnt due to over sun exposure, spray this liquid over the affected parts and relax for half an hour. The coconut milk extracts and rose water will calm down and sooth the redness caused due to sun exposure. This spray will also remove tanning up to a great extent.

• Read: Just Herbs No Sun Sunscreen Gel

Note: 
Do NOT use packed or store bought coconut milk for any of these recipes above. They would be containing preservatives and such those can be allergic to your skin. Grate fresh coconuts, grind and squeeze them to extract that thick, natural coconut milk.

Hope you enjoyed reading these skincare recipes with coconut milk.

Do try them and share with us your results!

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Almond & Sandalwood Face Pack for Brides

Guest Post by Shilpa

Hi girls! This is Shilpa Kalluru from Kadapa; working and settled in Hyderabad now. I bumped into this blog when I was searching for some home remedies for my dark patches. I was surprised and happy to see the simple, affordable tips those were shared here. This is a very nice blog and thank you for all the effort.
   Any beauty problem has a home remedy in it and thus I wanted to share a beauty tip with MABH friends that will help everyone get a porcelain clean skin. I have heard this over television in Band Baaja Bride by some famous beautician. And this is especially for brides who are looking for a clearer and beautiful skin for their wedding. Check out the quick and simple recipe below.

Things you will need:

• Almonds - 10 numbers (Small sized ones; these are rich in Vitamin E)
• Sandal wood powder - 1 or 2 tbsps
• Saffron - a pinch
• Olive oil -  4-5 drops

Preparation:

• Grind everything together in mixture until smooth.
• You can store this face pack in refrigerator by making it for a week.

How to Apply:

• Take required quantity of this mixture and add full fat milk to it to make a semi solid consistency. If you have extra oily skin type, you can use rose water instead of milk.
• Cleanse your face with a mild cleanser or a cleansing milk and wipe off gently.
• Apply this pack over your facial and neck skin evenly. Let it dry for 10-15 minutes.
• After this dries out completely dab it with rose water. Scrub it in circular motion to get that exfoliating effect (This encourages the removal of impurities and dead skin cells).
• Clean with lukewarm water and then splash cold water to close the skin pores.

Try this for a week and you will see beautiful, clear and supple skin on your face. Continue using this face pack regularly for maximum results. For brides, 3-4 times usage per week is recommended.

Hope you liked my first contribution for MABH. 

Do leave your comments and feedback below! Thank you

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How to Make Fairness Night Cream at Home?

As all we know, the thing 'skin fairness' is a huge craze among most of the Indian women. But our born skin colour is something we cannot change naturally. Chemical bleaching, whitening and other skin lightening treatments can give you a temporary brighter skin or end up in resulting a PALE unhealthy looking skin but only natural ingredients can work on your skin to bring out that original brightness. Don't mistake the word brightness for white skin. Pale, dusky, tan olive or dark, whatever skin type you have, your skin is beautiful if it is bright and glowing! A dark skinned, flawless, supple and glowing skin is seen beautiful when compared to a pale skin with dullness and blemishes. Don't you agree? 

    Okay fine. Today, let us check an interesting skin lightening night cream recipe that can be prepared easily at home with simple kitchen ingredients. You need to use this night cream for at least 15 days every night to see visible results but the results are completely natural and gives you a natural beauty unlike the other store bought skin whitening products.

Things you will need:

• 1/4 cup of almonds
• 1/4 cup of creamy yogurt
• 2 tsp of sweet lime juice
• A pinch of turmeric powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of sandalwood powder
• A pinch of saffron strands

How to Prepare?:

• Soak almonds overnight in fresh water. In the morning, peel of the skin and grind them to smooth paste. Collect this almond paste in a small clean bowl.
• Soon after preparing the fresh almond paste, put it the yogurt, sweet lime juice, turmeric powder, sandalwood powder and the saffron strands to the bowl. Blend well with a blender until smooth.
• Fresh lemon juice can be replaced for sweet lime juice. Turmeric powder is optional depending upon your wish as it is not easily available in many countries. 
• Store this smooth cream in a clean small bowl or tube and refrigerate immediately. As this cream is made of natural ingredients and prepared without any preservatives, this fairness cream should be used within one week. If not refrigerated, make sure to use it within an hour after preparation. 

How to Use?:

• Cleanse and pat dry facial skin at night before going to bed. You can use a mild gentle facial cleanser or some cleansing milk for this.
• After cleansing, take a small quantity of this prepared fairness cream and smooth over your facial skin. Massage gentlly until it gets completely absorbed. Go to sleep!
• Wash off face with clean water in the morning to see the natural glow. Continue this procedure for 2 weeks to start seeing the lightening results on your skin. This also helps in removing skin rashes, acne spots, blackheads and dark circles from your facial skin. 

Prepare and try this fairness night cream recipe at home and let us know your results!

Don't forget to share your love and comments or doubts below. 

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Home Treatments to Cure Skin Rashes in Sensitive Skin

One of our reader asked us a solution for her sensitive skin problem causing rashes. This post is specially dedicated to her and others who suffer from the same problem. Sensitive skin types are usually more prone to pimples, acne bumps and heat rashes. When these kind of skin ailments occur, itchiness includes there and causes several skin infections. This may result in ugly scars and red rashes to severe skin diseases. People with sensitive skin type need to use suitable products for their skin type and of course, they need to be very careful while undergoing home treatments as well. If you feel that your skin condition is getting worse day by by, then it is a  must to consult your dermatologist as soon as possible to find a solution for our sensitive skin. If you are in starting stage with little skin rashes and breakouts due to the sensitive of the skin, few of the home remedies below would help.

Skin Rashes - What are they?

Skin rashes are nothing to fear; depending upon the type, a normal or severe skin inflammation is called as a skin rash. These rashes occur all over the body skin or only in particular parts such as face, neck, arms etc. The change in your skin colour, texture and type might be caused due to skin rashes; for Eg: Usually people suffer from skin rashes which appears to be red.

Causes of Skin Rashes

Skin rashes are caused due to various reasons and some of them are excessive sweating, lack of skin maintenance, sensitivity of the skin, dry skin etc. Rashes occur a lot in people during humid weathers usually. People with sensitive skin might experience skin rashes with light to severe skin irritation. In such case, if the irritation persists, consulting a dermatologist immediately is the best and unavoidable option.

Home Treatments for Skin Rashes caused due to Sensitive Skin

Keep it Clean!

Sensitive skin easily develops acne, pimples and heat bumps than normal skin types when it comes in contact to dust, dirt and sunlight. These causes lead to irritation, itching and when we scratch or rub to get a relief, there occurs the RASHES! Hence, maintaining your sensitive skin clean and dirt free helps 90% to avoid rashes and itchiness.

  A good and gentle facial cleanser for sensitive skin type should be used twice a day to remove excessive oiliness, dirt and impurities from the skin. Both your facial and body cleanser should be chosen seeing the gentleness. Mild herbal body washes and face washes will do best as well. After cleansing, moisturizing skin should be done immediately to prevent dryness and provide required moisture to the skin.

Read: Prakriti Herbals Rose Aloe Vera Gel Review

Choose a Perfect Moisturizer

Choosing a gentle, as well as a soothing moisturizer is necessary when it comes to calming down the skin rashes in sensitive skin. Use water based natural moisturizers if you have oily-sensitive skin type and a rich creamy, yet a gentle one if your skin type is dry-sensitive. Glycerin, aloe vera or sandalwood oil based moisturizes would be very soothing for your sensitive skin.

Read: Vedic Line Sandalwood and Turmeric Moisturizer Review

Don't Try New Cosmetics Often

Are you a person who loves to try different, usually new cosmetic products seeing television ads? If this is your habit, you are going to stop it right now then! Yes, when you have sensitive skin type, you need to be very conscious about what you are using on your skin surface. Trying new skincare products can bring you lots of troubles with red rashes hence limit your new product usage. Make sure that your skincare cosmetics are from trusted brands and non-allergic to your skin. Many dermatologists recommended using calamine lotion on red, itchy skin to calm down the bad effects. In case if you get allergic to a particular cosmetic product that you tried new, stay way from that product and start using calamine lotion on the affected area everyday. This would help you a lot in combating skin rashes in a easier way.

Read: Lacto Calamine Classic Skinsurance Review

Aloe Vera and Vitamin C for Rashes

Yes! Applying aloe vera pulp to the affected area acts as a very natural medicine for red skin rashes. Simply extract the pulp from your aloe vera plant, put it in freezer for 5-10 minutes and apply it over your rashes. If you do not have an aloe vera plant, get some good branded aloe vera gel (Unflavoured) from store. 

  How does Vitamin C help rashes? This is what you're wondering now, Isn't it? Vitamin C is not going to calm down or sooth your skin like aloe vera gel but it is definitely going to help you combat skin infections. Being a great natural anti-oxidant, Vitamin C prevent and cure skin infections. Simply dilute powered Vitamin C capsules in rose water and dab over your rashes before going to bed at night. 

Read: Skin Care and Hair Care with Aloe Vera Gel

Quick Tidbits to Prevent Skin Rashes

• Avoid using artificial perfumed and coloured cosmetics such as perfumed body lotions, hand creams and soaps as they may cause skin irritation which leads to rashes.
• Do not use bar soaps on your skin as they may dry out your skin and cause inflammation. Go for gentle and soap free body washes. 
• For facial skin, opt for a gentle glycerin based cleanser and a light moisturizer.
• Cleanse your facial skin twice a day with your facial cleanser specially formulated for sensitive skin and twice to thrice with just plain water.
• Do not use rough towels on your facial or body skin. Use a soft cotton towel and make sure to wash and dry it after every use.
• Identify and avoid food items those causing you extra sensitive skin and skin rashes. Seafood items such as fish and diary items might cause allergies and rashes in some people.
• Fill up your old and clean spray bottle with pure rose water and spray it over your rashes whenever you feel that itch. This is definitely going to clam down your skin and help inflammation. 
• Apply olive oil, Vitamin E oil would also help in calming down and curing red rashes on skin. 

Read: Instant Noodles does bad for your Skin

     Hope you find these Home treatments and facts about curing skin rashes in sensitive skin type useful. 

            Leave your comments, love, feedback and love below! We are ready to hear and help.

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Early Morning Skincare Routine for Glowing Skin

Have you ever wondered about the skincare routines those should be done on early mornings? What's the difference between the skincare regime we do at day, night time and in early mornings? It's true that people who wake early in the morning, around 5 to 6, has the beautiful skin which is younger for years than the lazy people who wake up late :P It's all because of the reason that we get pure oxygen to breathe and our skin  gets too when we wake up early in the morning. As I am a lazy girl I never wake up earlier, but just want to make you know all what a dermatologist said to me. Let me follow this hereafter at least :P In this post you are going to know a simple easy early morning skin care routine for glowing young skin. Follow the below steps and beautify your skin in early mornings!

Read: Citrus Fruits for Glowing Skin

Read: Iraya Grapes and Green Apple Shower Gel Review

Warm water bath

Soon after you wake up, rush in to the bathroom and have a quick warm water bath with a mild nourishing body wash or a shower gel. Go for cream based moisturizing soaps if you have dry skin. Oily people skinned should go for a good oil control body wash. As much as possible, avoid using soap for facial wash because soap has a lot of harmful chemicals which are lesser in face washes. Soap free mild face washes those doesn't irritate your skin is best for facial use. After having a bath, gently wipe your skin with soft cotton towel. This calming warm water bath in early morning boosts up your mental, physical energy and helps your body skin get rid of dirt, sweat and bacteria. After bathing, go to the terrace and relax! Breathe in the fresh oxygen well for few minutes. Fresh oxygen not only helps you in maintaining a good health, but also a very good skin.

Read: Nyassa Handmade Clear Soap in Fresh Raspberry Review

Natural Toning of Skin

Got pure oxygen for your skin and you? Come down. Now you are going to tone your skin for extra glow. You can use any good branded toners which suits your skin type or go for homemade natural ones. Don't worry I'll teach you how to make one. Take a glass of clean water. Mix 2 teaspoons of lime juice to it and refrigerate it. After cleansing face, apply this toner on your facial skin with soft cotton and allow your skin to absorb it. This will tighten skin and helps removing tan by lightening naturally.
         Rose water can also be used as a wonderful skin toner. I'll give your few more recipes.  If you are okay with using ice cube toners on your skin, blend fresh strawberries with a cup of water. Filter the extract and make it as ice cubes by setting it in your freezer! :) That's all. Homemade ice cube fruit toner is ready to use. This toner can be used within 5 to 7 days when refrigerated. Likewise, you can make different fruit skin toners with your favorite fruits and vegetables. Eg: Apple, papaya, tomato, carrot etc.

Read: Forest Essentials Facial Toner Panchpushp Review

Moisturizing Face and Body Skin

More than the importance we give to cleansing and toning processes, our skin need to be moisturized without fail whatever our skin type is. By cleansing, the skin would have lost excess moisture. To restore it and to bring out the original glow you need to give nourishment to your skin. Use a good branded moisturizer for your facial skin and a good body lotion to nourish hands, feet and all over your body. Keep in mind, you should concentrate more on dry parts like knees, elbows more while applying your body lotion.
       As same as the toner, you can also make your own simple body lotion by yourself. This is a very simple procedure. All you have to do is, pour 3/4 parts of glycerin and 1/2 parts of fresh rose water in a old body lotion container of jar. Shake well. This lotion can be used to moisturize your body skin whenever needed. It is chemical free, very natural and hence it will be a great boon to dry skins in winter and can also be used on children skin.

Read: TNC Lily Of The Valley Body Lotion For Dry and Sensitive Skin Review

Other Early Morning Diet Tips for Glowing Skin

• Drink a glass of fresh water soon as you get up and brush your teeth. This balances the acids in your body and removes the inner toxins. Toxin free body reflects in your skin's beauty. 
• You can also add a dash of honey to your water for better blood purifying benefits. Honey is good for overall health and beauty. 
• Your breakfast should be nutritious to maintain good overall health and skin health. Add lots of veggies, fruits and greens to your breakfast. Healthy fats are essential too, they are abundant in nuts such as almonds, walnut etc.
• Few minutes of fast walk in early morning also helps in beautifying skin as it improves the blood circulation. 

By following all these steps in your early morning skin care routine, your skin shines beautifully forever!

Share with us your early morning skin secrets in the comment section below.