Do you know that freshly squeezed coconut milk can give you youthful skin, healthy scalp, and shiny hair?
No more moisturizers, conditioners, lotions and other creams that can cost you thousands of money!
All you need is coconut milk!
Everyday, in whatever time you're comfortable with or is convenient to you, do the following:
1. Get or buy freshly grated coconut and squeezed out its juice or milk. You may use cotton cloth to squeezed out the coconut milk by placing the grated coconut meat in the cloth. Place the coconut milk in a container or bottle or bowl.
2. Get enough coconut milk to be used for your hair, and body.
3. Scoop the coconut milk with your hand and put it in your face. Don't worry, coconut milk is good in healing skin diseases, especially those caused by yeast or fungi.
4. Then scoop the coconut milk with your hand and dab it in your body, from neck, to arms and armpits down to groins, thighs, legs and feet.
5. Then pour some coconut milk to your hair, and massage your hair and scalp with it.
6. Let the coconut milk stay to your hair and body for at least 15 minutes.
7. Rinse your hair with water, and wash it with your favorite shampoo, to lessen the coconut milk's oil, and natural smell. Let the shampoo stay in your hair for not more than 5 minutes.
8. Wash your face and body with mild soap. Let the soap stay for not more than 2 minutes.
9. Rinse your hair, face and body with water.
10. Pat your skin with towel. Squeeze the excess water from your hair, and towel dry it.
In the first few days of application, you will feel a little greasy or oily with your skin, that's just the natural after-effect of the coconut milk. You'll get used to it when you continue doing this regimen daily.
Lotions and moisturizers need not be used anymore because the natural oil of the coconut milk serves as your moisturizer and lotion.
What are you waiting for? Go on! Try it! Enjoy the gift of nature!
Abundance of Life... Natural Beauty...
Monday, May 4, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Nature's Powerful Skin-Antioxidants
What's with the antioxidants? Why is it that a lot of people go gaga over it? What's the benefit that we can get from it?
Well, antioxidants prevent wrinkles, slow down aging, boost immune system, and a lot more. That's why people like to have them!
Antioxidants, as defined in Wikipedia, are molecules having the capability to slow down or prevent the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that transfers electrons from a substance to an oxidizing agent. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells.
Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates, and inhibit other oxidation reactions by being oxidized themselves. As a result, antioxidants are often reducing agents such as thiols or polyphenols.
Although oxidation reactions are crucial for life, they can also be damaging; hence, plants and animals maintain complex systems of multiple types of antioxidants, such as glutathione, vitamin C, and vitamin E as well as enzymes such as catalase, superoxide dismutase and various peroxidases. Low levels of antioxidants, or inhibition of the antioxidant enzymes, causes oxidative stress and may damage or kill cells.
Nature's powerful antioxidants can be found in calamansi and lemon. These two fruits are very common and economical. So instead of buying moisturizer that contain their extracts, why not use the pure and natural juices of these fruits?
All you have to do is slice a calamansi or lemon fruit, then get rid of its seeds and squeezed out its juices then apply it in your face. You may feel a bit of tingling effect especially when there is wound or cut in your skin. But it will soon fade away, just be patient. You can do this every morning or night or both. If you can tolerate the sticky after-feel then leave it on to your skin all throughout the day, just rinse it off at night. After a month of continuously using such regimen, you will have the rosy and healthy skin that you long for.
So what are you waiting for? Give it a try!
Well, antioxidants prevent wrinkles, slow down aging, boost immune system, and a lot more. That's why people like to have them!
Antioxidants, as defined in Wikipedia, are molecules having the capability to slow down or prevent the oxidation of other molecules. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that transfers electrons from a substance to an oxidizing agent. Oxidation reactions can produce free radicals, which start chain reactions that damage cells.
Antioxidants terminate these chain reactions by removing free radical intermediates, and inhibit other oxidation reactions by being oxidized themselves. As a result, antioxidants are often reducing agents such as thiols or polyphenols.
Although oxidation reactions are crucial for life, they can also be damaging; hence, plants and animals maintain complex systems of multiple types of antioxidants, such as glutathione, vitamin C, and vitamin E as well as enzymes such as catalase, superoxide dismutase and various peroxidases. Low levels of antioxidants, or inhibition of the antioxidant enzymes, causes oxidative stress and may damage or kill cells.
Nature's powerful antioxidants can be found in calamansi and lemon. These two fruits are very common and economical. So instead of buying moisturizer that contain their extracts, why not use the pure and natural juices of these fruits?
All you have to do is slice a calamansi or lemon fruit, then get rid of its seeds and squeezed out its juices then apply it in your face. You may feel a bit of tingling effect especially when there is wound or cut in your skin. But it will soon fade away, just be patient. You can do this every morning or night or both. If you can tolerate the sticky after-feel then leave it on to your skin all throughout the day, just rinse it off at night. After a month of continuously using such regimen, you will have the rosy and healthy skin that you long for.
So what are you waiting for? Give it a try!
Sugaring Drinks
The left over sugaring mixture can be made as cocktail drinks! Isn't that great?
Here's how to prepare your coolers:
First, make sure that the mixture to be used as drinks is not contaminated with dirt, sweat or other bodily fluids, right after you use a portion of it as sugaring to remove hairs.
If you are not sure about the cleanliness of the mixture, try to make another mixture. Here's the ingredients and how to do it:
1 cup sugar (white, brown or washed)
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup lemon or lime or calamansi juice
Combine the ingredients in a bowl, then place it a hot saucepan, melt it in a low fire, stirring constantly until it completely turned into a syrup. Place it in a pitcher with water then stir. Drink a little amount of the combined mixture to know if it suits your taste. Amounts of water and sugaring mixture are dependent to your taste. You may add a lemon, cut in round forms, in the mixture to make it look classy.
You may experiment on the drinks to add a distinct taste like mixing it with a green tea powder that has no sugar or boiled green tea leaves (as much as possible do not include the leaves in the drinks). To add more zest to your drinks, just add strawberry fruits cut into various sizes. Serve it cool. Enjoy!
Here's how to prepare your coolers:
First, make sure that the mixture to be used as drinks is not contaminated with dirt, sweat or other bodily fluids, right after you use a portion of it as sugaring to remove hairs.
If you are not sure about the cleanliness of the mixture, try to make another mixture. Here's the ingredients and how to do it:
1 cup sugar (white, brown or washed)
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup lemon or lime or calamansi juice
Combine the ingredients in a bowl, then place it a hot saucepan, melt it in a low fire, stirring constantly until it completely turned into a syrup. Place it in a pitcher with water then stir. Drink a little amount of the combined mixture to know if it suits your taste. Amounts of water and sugaring mixture are dependent to your taste. You may add a lemon, cut in round forms, in the mixture to make it look classy.
You may experiment on the drinks to add a distinct taste like mixing it with a green tea powder that has no sugar or boiled green tea leaves (as much as possible do not include the leaves in the drinks). To add more zest to your drinks, just add strawberry fruits cut into various sizes. Serve it cool. Enjoy!
Sugaring
Do you want to have hairless armpits and legs, but you don't want to spend so much money with laser treatments? Well, sugaring is one of the cheapest but effective solutions.
Actually, there are many ways to remove unwanted hair. One of these is plucking with the use of tweezers. But plucking can be painful in the process, and can make your skin looks like that of a chicken.
Shaving is another easy method to remove unwanted hair. But the catch is, hairs are coarser when they grow back. Shaving does not promise you a smooth skin, and hairs grow back faster. Like plucking, shaving can cause ingrown hairs, which can be haven for bacteria causing malodorous smell, or skin infection. Not only that, after shaving or plucking, skin pores look larger than before.
Waxing is another method and is being practiced in salons or beauty clinics. Waxing is advised to be done by the specialists or experts because of the temperature of the wax being used to remove hair. There is also temperature requirement for the preservation of the wax, so the wax will be safe to use on the skin and effective to remove unwanted hairs.
Another unique method is by the use of cotton or nylon thread to remove the eyebrow hair. Nevertheless, be sure to ask for assistance on this or else you will lose all of your eyebrow hair.
In sugaring method, hairs are remove from their roots giving you smooth skin and hairs regrow slower and thinner.
As the hairs regrow, refrain from scrubbing the itchy skin to avoid further irritation or skin infection.
Sugaring is only one of the many ways to remove the hairs of underarms, arms, legs and even bikini lines. Sugaring is a method being practiced since the time of Pharaohs in Egypt and has gone as far as today. It is an effective way of taking the hairs from their roots. The hairs will grow back in its old form in more or less four weeks time. The more you stick to this method in removing hairs, the more it will make the hairs finer as they grow.
Sugaring mixture can be bought in markets or can be made at home. The ingredients include sugar, honey, and lemon or lime or calamansi juice. The proportions of the ingredients are the following:
1 cup of Sugar (white or washed or brown)
1/4 cup of honey
1/4 cup of lemon or lime or calamansi juice.
Just mix the ingredients in a bowl, then place it in a hot saucepan. Melt the mixture in low fire, stirring it constantly. After it has completely turned syrupy, transfer the mixture to a microwaveable container and let it stand to cool. When it is in lukewarm temperature, take a small portion of the mixture, just enough to cover the underarms hair or other body hairs that you want to remove. Try not to contaminate the mixture with bodily fluids or dirt so you can use the mixture as drinks.
Before you put some sugaring mixture to your armpits, be sure to dust off your underarms with baby powder or talcum or cornstarch to remove the excess oil. You place the small amount of mixture on hairs and cover it with small cloth, preferably cotton-made, and wait for 10-15 minutes or until the mixture has seeped in. Then you pull the cloth on the opposite direction of hairs. Cleanse with water the remaining mixture in your skin. Enjoy your free hair skin!
Actually, there are many ways to remove unwanted hair. One of these is plucking with the use of tweezers. But plucking can be painful in the process, and can make your skin looks like that of a chicken.
Shaving is another easy method to remove unwanted hair. But the catch is, hairs are coarser when they grow back. Shaving does not promise you a smooth skin, and hairs grow back faster. Like plucking, shaving can cause ingrown hairs, which can be haven for bacteria causing malodorous smell, or skin infection. Not only that, after shaving or plucking, skin pores look larger than before.
Waxing is another method and is being practiced in salons or beauty clinics. Waxing is advised to be done by the specialists or experts because of the temperature of the wax being used to remove hair. There is also temperature requirement for the preservation of the wax, so the wax will be safe to use on the skin and effective to remove unwanted hairs.
Another unique method is by the use of cotton or nylon thread to remove the eyebrow hair. Nevertheless, be sure to ask for assistance on this or else you will lose all of your eyebrow hair.
In sugaring method, hairs are remove from their roots giving you smooth skin and hairs regrow slower and thinner.
As the hairs regrow, refrain from scrubbing the itchy skin to avoid further irritation or skin infection.
Sugaring is only one of the many ways to remove the hairs of underarms, arms, legs and even bikini lines. Sugaring is a method being practiced since the time of Pharaohs in Egypt and has gone as far as today. It is an effective way of taking the hairs from their roots. The hairs will grow back in its old form in more or less four weeks time. The more you stick to this method in removing hairs, the more it will make the hairs finer as they grow.
Sugaring mixture can be bought in markets or can be made at home. The ingredients include sugar, honey, and lemon or lime or calamansi juice. The proportions of the ingredients are the following:
1 cup of Sugar (white or washed or brown)
1/4 cup of honey
1/4 cup of lemon or lime or calamansi juice.
Just mix the ingredients in a bowl, then place it in a hot saucepan. Melt the mixture in low fire, stirring it constantly. After it has completely turned syrupy, transfer the mixture to a microwaveable container and let it stand to cool. When it is in lukewarm temperature, take a small portion of the mixture, just enough to cover the underarms hair or other body hairs that you want to remove. Try not to contaminate the mixture with bodily fluids or dirt so you can use the mixture as drinks.
Before you put some sugaring mixture to your armpits, be sure to dust off your underarms with baby powder or talcum or cornstarch to remove the excess oil. You place the small amount of mixture on hairs and cover it with small cloth, preferably cotton-made, and wait for 10-15 minutes or until the mixture has seeped in. Then you pull the cloth on the opposite direction of hairs. Cleanse with water the remaining mixture in your skin. Enjoy your free hair skin!
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