Skin Care Tips and Advices
Would You Say That Chocolate Can Be Beneficial For Your Skin?
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Although chocolate works great to improve our mood or to diminish the stress level (thanks to magnesium - a natural stress reducer), many of us loves it simply because it's tasty. Of course, it is also rich in calories, but if you have a balanced diet, a little bit of this sweet pleasure will not ruin your weight :-)
Did you know that chocolate has also some beauty benefits?
What makes it so powerful? Cocoa!
Cocoa - its main ingredient - is a rich source of antioxidants, that protect the body from aging, and flavonoids which are helpful to improve the blood pressure and circulation, accelerating the process of getting rid of body toxins too. Since cocoa is also loaded with caffeine, which speeds up the process of fat burning, we can find it as an ingredient of some anti-cellulite products.
Apples And Raspberries In Oily Skin Care
Natural Recipes For Oily Complexion And Combined Skin
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Fruit essences often make part of skin care products because of their beneficial properties. However, it is also easy to prepare some fruit mask yourself at home. If you have oily or combined skin - it may love to be treated with apple or raspberry masks.
Why raspberries can make your skin beautiful?
They are a very rich source of natural vitamin C and organic acids. That softens and smoothens your skin. Raspberries are also great to relax and refresh greasy and combined skin quickly. Raspberry mask tends to normalize the sebum secretion too.
Why apple can make your skin healthier?
This popular fruit contains organic acids that are able to exfoliate dead skin cells in a very gentle way. Thanks to this property tired and unhealthy complexion becomes smooth and glowing. Apple extract has also anti-bacterial properties, so mask with this fruit can be very helpful to normalize the oily complexion and to diminish acne problems.
How to prepare homemade treatment with those fruits?
You can start with the simplest recipes ever - take a handful of ripe raspberries or one apple, mash it until smooth with a fork in a small container and then apply to your face for 10-20 minutes, then rinse off with a warm water (in case of apples it may be easier to grate them). Do not apply the mask to your eye zone! If the pulp is too watery, you can add a tablespoon of potato starch to thicken the pulp.
How To Diminish Dark Under-Eye Circles In A Natural Way
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Dark circles are a nightmare for a lot of people, not only women, but also men, regardless of their age. If you are one of them, you may like some tips you can find in this article.
What to do in order to diminish dark circles and to stop worry about them?
One of the most popular ways to hide them is to cover it with make-up base or mineral powder, however this method not always gives desired results, and of course - it only hides the problem, not solves it.
Anyway, sometimes we are quite happy just with temporary and quick results. In this case you may like to try this make-up trick: in order to make dark circles less visible within few seconds, apply a little bit of white eye shadow under your eyes with a small soft brush. Don't put too much of the cosmetic - just a small touch of the white shadow will make dark circles less visible and it gives a very natural look. You may use also a very light powder instead (pale color, pearl color).
If you have a little bit of free time, you may also like to try some natural, homemade tips and recipes.
One of the most popular ways to diminish circles (and puffiness as well) is to apply a cotton ball moistened with a cool black tea brew under your eyes for 10-20 minutes and relax. Less known tip is to use camomile or linden brews instead of the black tea. Feel free to try them as well, but only if you are not allergic to those herbs.
Another way to improve the look of the skin under your eyes is to use fresh cucumber or potato remedies. How to do this? Simply put cool slices of cucumber on your eyes and relax for a few minutes. If you would like to try the potato trick, take a raw potato, wash it well and peel it off. Cut two slices of the potato and place them under your eyes for a while. I've heard that papaya juice is helpful to reduce dark circles as well, but I've never tried it since there are no fresh papayas to get the juice in my place ;-).
Finally, you may also decide to apply eye creams to reduce under-eye circles. The most efficient cosmetics often contains extracts from those plants and herbs: eyebright (euphrasia, euphrasy), bluebottle (called also cornflower or Centaurea Cyanus), horse chestnut, arnica montana, buckhorn plantain (Plantago lanceolata) or cucumber juice. Eye creams are often enriched also in vitamin E and C as well as sun protection factors - UVA, UVB filters. For better effect, you may like to touch your under-eye skin with ice cubes for a few seconds before applying the eye cream in the morning. When massaging you eyes or applying the cream, make-up and other treatments, remember to treat your skin extremely softly, because the under-eye area is very sensitive.I hope that you will find those tips helpful to reduce the dark eye circles and to make them less visible.
Natural Recipes:
Homemade Body Scrubs Full Of Fruits
We used to exfoliate our body with body brushes, body scrub cosmetics, loofah or sponges & CO.
Most of those works really well, but why not to try some natural body scrubs that you can easily make yourself at home? I would like you to try some homemade fruity scrubs. They are 100% natural and contain a lot of natural vitamins and enzymes present in fresh fruit. They will take care of your skin gently to make it glowing. What is more, they smell really nice.
We can use many different ingredient to prepare body scrub - below you will find the following recipes:
* Papaya & coconut flakes body scrub
* Ripe strawberry & coffee scrub
* Fresh peach and almond natural scrub
* Kiwi & oatmeal natural body peeling
Papaya & Coconut Flakes Homemade Body Scrub
Peeled papaya, 2 tablespoons of coconut flakes, few drops of olive oil (optionally)
Put chopped papaya into a glass container, blend until it reaches smooth consistency. Add coconut flakes and mix together with your fingers. You can optionally add few drops of olive oil to make it more nutrient and creamy. Apply the mixture to your skin and rub with smooth circular motions (exactly the same way you do normally to exfoliate skin ). Then rinse with warm water.
Papaya leaves skin smooth and supple. This mask exfoliates and nourishes your skin.
Strawberry & Coffee Natural Scrub That Cleanses Skin And Helps With Cellulite
A cup of ripe strawberries, tablespoon of ground coffee
Mash strawberries, add ground coffee and mix until you get pasty consistency. Apply to skin and massage with circular motions. This scrub smells in a really particular way!
Strawberries smooth the skin out, while coffee is an excellent way to treat and prevent cellulite.
Fresh Peach And Almond Natural Scrub
1 juicy peach, few almonds, tablespoon of olive oil
Grind almonds using a coffee grounder or food processor. It has to be of fine-grained, sandy consistency in order not to scratch the skin. Remove the peach stone, put chopped peach into a glass container and blend until smooth. Add grinded almonds and olive oil. Mix altogether until the creamy paste is ready. Rub onto skin, rinse off with warm water.
It exfoliates and moisturizes the skin. If you love peaches, you have to try this!
Kiwi & Oatmeal Natural Body Peeling That Is Perfect To Treat Oily Back And Acne Problems
Fresh ripe kiwi, 3 spoons of oatmeal, about 5-6 spoons of boiling water
Put oatmeal into a cup, pour boiling water into the cup - it should cover the oatmeal. Leave for few minutes. In meantime, peel kiwi and blend it for a few seconds. When oatmeal absorbes water and it cools down, put it into the container with kiwi, and blend altogether to receive a creamy paste. Apply to skin and massage for a while, then rinse off. In case you would like to cleanse oily skin on your back and to cureacne, ask somebody to apply the mixture on your back and to massage it into your skin while you lie down. Then leave it for 5-10 minutes and take a shower.
Kiwi and oatmeal are both full of natural vitamins and enzymes that cleanse gently the skin, make it soft to touch and help to get rid of pimples.
Tips For All Scrubs
Remember not to exfoliate skin soon after tanning, if you are sunburned, if you have small wounds or irritated zones on the skin surface or if you are allergic to some of the ingredients that the peeling contains. To achieve best results, body scrub should be applied on moist skin - the best time is after you took a shower.
You should include body scrubs in your beauty routine, because they are great to remove dead skin cells and impurities from your skin. They also nourish it with natural vitamins and minerals. As a result skin remains smooth, fresh and healthy.
Lip Care:
5 Natural Tips For Healthy And Sensual Lips.
Healthy lips are beautiful and make you look attractive, even if you apply only a transparent lip gloss instead of a lipstick. Moreover, applying lipstick to dry and chapped lips drives attention to your lips - but the only thing that people notice is the fact they are dry. So the proper lip care is very important to look pretty.
Below you will find 5 major reasons of dry lips followed by advices how to prevent the dryness in order to achieve healthy, sensual and attractive lips.
1. Too much sun exposure
Always use moisturizer lotion that will make your lips soft. When you go out (especially when you go sunbathing), apply a lip balm that contains a SPF. The best choice is a sun-blocker or high protection factor - at least SPF 10.
2. Lack of protection in the winter
To protect you lips in the winter, use special lip balm designed to apply in cold temperatures (ask in the store in case of any doubts about a certain product). You can apply a little bit of Vaseline as well. Another great natural remedy for dry lips is an olive oil mask - simply massage your lips with few drops of the oil and they will become smooth.
3. Dehydration
It is extremely important to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day - to hydrate all your body, not only your lips :) . You may also drink a glass of fresh carrot juice that contains a lot of vitamin A and other mineral substances that are required to maintain healthy skin and lips.
4. Licking lips - don't do that under any circumstances! It will make them even more dry than before. Apply an unflavored lip balm on your lips instead.
5. Allergy to cosmetics or wrong lipstick
Sometimes lips can become very dry and irritated because of allergy to skin care products, toothpaste or make-up cosmetics. In this case the only way to solve the problem is to throw away the cosmetic you are allergic to and to buy another one. You should choose also lipsticks that contain natural moisturizing ingredients and vitamins, for example smoothing lanoline or vitamin E.
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