Tips for Good Easy Skin Care

Skin is a very important and visible part of our body. It's a kind of protective coating on our entire body parts.

As we care and look after our all organs, our skin requires a little more care as it's directly in contact with the outer environment as dirt, dust and sun. Harmful chemicals, which our polluted air contains, and bad water too are a cause in damaging skin before time.

So one has to care about one's skin well and should make a daily routine to pamper one's skin to protect it from early aging and harmful skin disease.

Skin is affected by both the factors external and internal. External are direct contact with harmful UV RAYS, dirt and dust and internal is due to wrong food habits.

Your body is what you eat though it's a lot determined by genes and one can have a bad skin due to hormonal imbalance in a particular age but eating all wrong food as all oily and spicy food can damage your skin. Which cannot be regained by external care only.

For a good easy skin care here are a few tips:

• First thing should be keeping your skin clean. Rather than using soaps on the face, its better to use mild face wash according to use skin type as oily for oily skin, dry for dry and combination for the combination one. One can use our home remedies for a beautiful, healthy and glowing skin. One can use rose water, lemon juice, and fruit juices to clean and wipe the skin with. It will give a refreshing look to one's skin. If the skin is dry than one can use a pinch of milk cream and a drop of lemon juice on it, mixed and rubbed on the skin and then washed. Which is very good to clean the skin.
  
  
  
• Then is drinking lots of fluids. To have a good, healthy skin one should drink lots of water which is said to be at least 8-10 glasses of water in a day and some skin and health specialist say that it should be in proportion to your weight as for every 10 kg of weight, one should drink a liter of water so if the weight is 60 then the person should drink 6 liters of water. Which can be substituted with fruit juices too.
  
  
• Always apply sunscreen lotion on the skin. One should never go in the sun without applying a sunscreen lotion, which protects the skin from harmful UV rays. Which are known to give even skin cancer. It damages the skin and makes it tan, give blemishes, burn mask and pigmentation, which can never get healed 100%. So it's better to apply the right sunscreen lotion on the skin to save the skin from early aging.
  
  
• One should avoid all unhealthy food if the skin is already suffering from bad patches or pimples. Even caffine drinks are harmful for the skin. Too much consumption of tea, coffee, saturated drinks damage the skin. Smoking too is a very important factor to harm the skin. It makes the skin dry, makes it look dull and gives puffiness on the face. Drinking alcohol too isn't good for the skin. So if one can't stops consuming all these things completely, one can at least have them in moderation to help the skin stay young and healthy.
  
  
• Where one don't get proper time to care the skin as full time working people, never mind, they can care their skin in a very well way by a little effort from there side. Working people should keep moist tissues in their bags and purses to wipe their face to remove dirt and sweat when they cannot wash their face again and again. Should apply sunscreen when outside home and nice mild moisturizer on the skin while doing anything else. Even in the night before going to bed one should wash the face, keep it clean, remove any make up if had put on the face and then should apply a good moisturizes according to the skin type.
  
  
• One can judge the skin type in the morning. As in the morning without washing the face one should wipe the face with a tissue paper, if there is lots of oil on the nose sides and chin then the skin is t-zone, if there is oil all over the face then the skin is oily, if its somewhere dry and somewhere oily then it's combination skin, and if there is no oil n stickiness on the skin, the skin is dry and you are lucky if the skin is just perfect neither there is oil nor dryness.
  
  
• If the skin is prone to pimples and acne, one should give it a little more care. Should clean the skin more often, should apply medicated soaps and lotions. One should check it up with a skin specialist too as dandruff in the hair and scalp or some hormonal changes too can be a cause of a bad skin. One should never pinch or squeeze the pimples or acne or should not try to remove black head on their own as it will ruin the skin more and will give it permanent scars.
  
  
• One should avoid too much make up on the skin as if you care about your skin and keep it healthy and clean, you would definitely not require make up to make it look good. But if anytime you had applied make up on the skin, you should clean it as soon as you come back home. Let the skin breathe without any make up on it. One can use baby oil, baby lotion or mild cleansing milk on the skin to remove the traces of make up.
  
  
• For oily skin astringent of a good quality is a good option to keep it oil free and a little more moisturizer for dry skin. Once in a week face packs too can be used to make the skin clean and tight. One can make them at home too by gram flour, rose water and honey. And one can use mild scrubber, which are easily available in the market these days to get rid from the dead skin.

So one can get a glowing, healthy skin by giving it a little care and can keep the skin away from black heads, pimples, blemishes and pigmentation.

Homemade Recipes for Oily Skin Care

There are three types of skin people have, dry, normal and oily. Where dry skin requires a little more application of moisturizer on the skin, normal skin requires a normal skin care routine but the oily skin needs the highest maintenance. Skin gets oily due to many factors as hormonal changes or imbalance especially in teen age, then genetic factors or climate conditions.

A teenager's oil glands produce more oil that is called sebum in body than others. It decreases with age when a person grows. Then the skin gets dry due to age, as oil glands don't produce so much oil.

Some people have it because their parents have the oily skin or at times climatic factors as rains, and humidity makes the skin look greasy and oily.

As I mentioned earlier that oily skin needs maximum care, as it's prone to acne, open pores, boils and pimples. There are many medicated soaps, gels and lotions available in market for the oily skin. Some nice established brands have come in the market with their entire cosmetic range for oily skin, as oily skin needs special care.

But using harmful chemicals on the skin is not the permanent solution. All these gels, face wash and creams for oily skin are pretty heavy in price too and everybody cannot afford them.

At home there are whole lots of things we can use in our day-to-day routine to keep our oily skin healthy and glowing without oil. To start with one should drink lots of water to detoxify the body. As pimples and acne come on the skin when the traces of oil are not washed away from the skin surface, they stick to the skin and burst into acne and pimples.

One should wash the face with clean water with mild soap. One can apply a little astringent on face by wiping off oil from the skin with a cotton ball having few drops of astringent on it. Mixing cucumber juice and few drops of lemon juice can make a good homemade astringent. Mixing them together and applying on the skin makes skin refreshing and less oily.

When one gets acne or pimples, one should never squeeze or pinch them as it will spoil the skin and will give it permanent scars. One should never leave oily skin unclean as dust and dirt stick to it so does pollution so as soon as one comes back home from out should wash his hands and skin. So that no outside dust and dirt is left on it.

One with oily skin should avoid all oily and saturated foods, as they will make your skin's appearance worse.

Whenever one squeezes sweet lime or oranges, should apply a little juice on face too. It will absorb the oil and will give the skin a fresh look. Same way one can rub lemon peel on the face and wash it after few minutes. It will remove the grease from the skin.

Tomato juice is good for open pores; it tightens the pores and makes them visibly small in size.

One can make face packs at home for oily skin: by adding some clay powder, lemon juice, a pinch of turmeric and apply it on the face and neck.

By making power of dried lemon or orange peel and mixing little curd in it, can apply it on face and neck. It will even lighten the skin and pimple scars from it.

By scrubbing or applying sandalwood powder with rose water on skin and washing it away when dried.

By adding curd and limejuice to gram flour and applying it on skin till it dry makes skin visibly less oily.

One can even rub fruits like papaya, cucumber and watermelon on skin to remove the grease.

Though oily skin requires more of cleanliness than other skin types, it even requires moisturizer so one should apply light water based moisturizer on the skin on daily basis.

And people with oily skin should keep in mind their skin type when buying any skin product or cosmetics. As when buying a sunscreen, one should remember that it should be particularly for oily skin.

They should avoid out much make up on skin and whatever make up is applied should be removed as soon as one comes back home.

When out one can wipe face with wet face tissues, so that no dirt and grease sticks on the skin for long and makes it look bad.

For oily skin one can opt for lukewarm water to wash it. Many people do think that scrubbers are good for oily skin though they can be real harsh on oily skin and tear the open pores and damage the acne and pimples on face. So if one really wants to use scrubber on oily skin to remove dead skin and black heads, one can make scrubber by dried lemon or orange peels and can rub skin gently with that powder.

As all these are external factors and the real cause of oily skin is internal by oil glands producing more sebum, one should not ignore that factor as one cannot do much about it, one can drink lots of water at least 8-10 glasses a day and should refrain from oily stuff can help a lot.

So by giving a little more care and attention oily skin can become the best looking skin, as it remains younger for long time than the other skin types.

Anti Aging

Anti Aging Skin Care Solutions

Skin starts losing its moister after the age 30. So one has to start taking additional and special care to one's skin after the age 30 as the skin requires more care and it starts getting old. Ages, sun, pollution, carelessness all are the major factors in making the skin lose its charm day by day. Some extra efforts to look after the skin do make lots of difference in skin's appearance.

In your 30s

30 years is a good long period to make skin appearance dull, lifeless and old. The causes are the same lack of care, sun exposure, age and pollution. After the skin 30 skins starts getting wrinkles, uneven tone, pigmentation and discoloration. It starts from the fine lines on the skin, which turn into wrinkles as the age grows. One starts getting puffiness around eyes, dark circles and skin starts looking saggy and dull. Due to hormonal imbalance, many females get acne and breakouts. Open pores and black heads are an increased skin problem in this age.

How to look after the skin from the age 30-skin requires more care after 3 decades of exposure. To the outer environment.

• One should drink lots of fluids to keep the skin hydrate, as skin doesn't produce that much moister when the age is 30.
• One should start applying anti-wrinkle cream, which has right ingredients to prevent skin from wrinkles.
• One should apply moisturizer containing SPF 15 and acids like glycolic and lactic which are helpful in repairing dead cells of the skin.
• One should apply skin-toning facemasks once in a week.
• One should get regular facials done to remove dull skin cells and get a toned skin.
• Skin exercises are helpful too. One can do them by oneself in any time of the day for 5 minutes to get a toned skin.
• Area around eyes should not be ignored as the skin around eyes is the lightest skin on the face, and that the reason one starts getting wrinkles from there. So once you reach at 30, you should start applying eye cream and eye gels around the eye area.
• One should follow a skin regime to keep skin healthy and young from cleaning up and moisturizing in the morning to cleaning, toning and moisturizing it in the night before going to bed.
• Many women get acne and break outs in this age due to hormonal imbalance, so they should keep a check on their hormones and should consult a doctor if the problem is severe.
• They should use mild scrubber to remove black heads and should apply a good toner to close the open pores.
  

In your 40's

skin starts losing its tightness at the age 40. All the other problems like wrinkles, discoloration, pigmentation and open pores increase and start taking time in repairing. If skin starts getting proper care from the age 30 then the problems don't persist that much. But still, when the age comes at 40, skin requires more care than 30 because women face major hormonal changes in their body which effects even their skin texture and complexion.

How to look after the skin from the age 40-skin becomes dark, dull and full of freckles when the age comes at 40.

• As the skin ages one can start using creams which contain some specific lightening contains to help skin become even in color.
• Skin polishing is done at some established akin care salons, which can be done once in a quarter to get a new skin.
• Drinking lots of fluids is must as the age increases.
• Sun protection creams should be a part of daily skin care. Even the foundation should have at least SPF15.
• Facials should be done regularly.
• Facial exercises have no harm if one can make it a habit to do at least 5 minutes a day.
• Skin tightening products and packs can be used to close the open pores and tone the skin.

In your 50's

Skin loses its elasticity when the age comes at 50. One can guess a woman's age by her skin. Skin's repairing system becomes very weak at this age so extra care is required at this age.

How to look after the skin from the age 50-this is the age of menopause in a women where she faces major hormonal and emotional changes in her body. Her stress comes on her face so the tiredness from life after seeing 5 decades. So one needs to do something more in addition to all the care one is giving to the skin when the age is 40.

• Skin becomes much more dry than ever before because now body doesn't produce that much sebum to keep the skin hydrate so one needs to drink lots of water.
• Good hydrating moisturizer should be applied all over the body.
• Sun protection is still the must.
• Good anti aging and anti wrinkle creams should be a part of daily skin care.
• Facial massage and exercises are pretty helpful in keeping the fine lines at bay.

If not permanently and completely but a little more care can keep the skin younger than its age.

Creams

Types of Creams for Skin Care

Creams are thick liquid solutions to apply on skin. These days they are specifically made for all different parts, as different creams are available for face, neck, body and feet as the requirement of each body part is different. Choosing a cream most importantly depends on the skin type as all skin types needs different and creams specifically made for their particular skin type as if a cream made for dry skin applied on oily skin will spoil the skin and it will break out.

Same way usage of creams depends on the age also. Not all age groups need the same creams. As skin requirement is different with different age groups. A teenage girl doesn't require a firming cream though requires a cream for protection from acne, pimples and outer environment as UV rays but a middle age lady might not require a cream just to moisturize it but she needs a cream to help her skin remain young, which could prevent her skin from early aging, from wrinkles. Here are different creams' types to explain in details what they are meant for.

Firming creams

firming creams are anti aging creams which are made for 40 plus women to help the skin stay firm and supple and away from wrinkles till it can as a woman's skin starts losing its elasticity from the age 30 and then women need special care for their skin because naturally their skin starts aging and the production of sebum slows down. Skin starts becoming lost, starts getting wrinkles and loses its elasticity.

Regular usage of these skin-firming creams helps skin restore its resilience and elasticity, adds the youthful glow and vitality to the skin. These days skin-firming creams are available for the use of the cream on all over the body. They are anti cellulite and claim to tone the skin to make it look young, glowing and supple without wrinkles on it. These creams are available in different forms as firming creams are available for day use, night use and body use.

Firming creams, which are made for facial, are not same as those, which are made for daily usage. They are available in forms of lotions, gels and serums. Some companies make even capsules to be applied on the skin for anti aging. One can choose the best-suited option for oneself out of so many options available.

Night creams

night creams are made for the repair of the skin from the damage which skin suffers from in the daytime. A good night cream is must for everybody as our skin gets damaged in the day from air, pollution, dirt, sun and dust. Night cream repairs the skin to tackle with the daytime damage. Usually they don't contain the sun protection factor, which is not requiring in the night though its must in the day use. Night creams contain collagen, elastin and other moisturizers to restore the energy skin loses in the day. But while choosing a night cream one should keep in mind their age and skin type as specific night creams are made for specific skin types and age.

Eye creams

skin surrounding eye area is the thinnest skin on face after lips. It doesn't have much support as the skin is light and has hardly any support. That's the reason wrinkles appear first around eyes on face when aging. So it requires a special care to protect the skin from early aging, dark circles and wrinkles. Eye creams are not based on skin type or age type. They are meant for all skin types and all age groups. They are mostly oil based as it spreads easily around the eye area. While going out in sun its useful to apply a good under eye gel or cream with sun protection factor to protect the eye area from harmful UV rays. They are extremely helpful in preventing dark circles around eyes.

Hand creams

hand creams contain more moister in them then other creams because hands lose more moister everyday and require it more then other parts of the body as they are constantly in use. They are the most in water, as one needs the wash hand more often for cleanliness and other purposes. Hands creams are made to provide them the moister they lose, they lightens the skin and reduces the dryness and roughness from the skin of the hands.

Hands require more care as they don't have much oil glands and they are the most in water, that's the reason in winters many people's skin from hands gets peeled. When hands are excessive dry the best way to moisturize them is wash hand with a mild soap in the night, wipe them and then apply a good hand cream on them with light massage then wear cotton gloves throughout the night. This way your hands will absorb the cream and will be extremely soft and supple in the morning. This practice can be done once in a week to keep the hands young and beautiful.

Herbs

Our ancestors have found many precious herbs for us. They are nature's products and are extremely beneficial for health increment, to cure ailments, many diseases and to increase and enhance beauty.

Here are the details about some of these nature's gifts how they help in increasing beauty and help skin care. Because of their no side effects they have become more popular among people than many other medicines and cosmetics for health and beauty purposes.

1. Aloe Vera-aloe Vera is a cactus type of plant from the family of flower lily. It has vitamin E, C, zinc and many other beneficial substances in it, which are extremely beneficial for health and skin. Aloe Vera has many properties to keep skin at its best. It can be used to soothe the skin from sunburn and heat infections because of its cooling properties. Its rich of vitamin E and C, both of these vitamins work the best for the skin and are main substances in all skin care products.
   
   Aloe Vera is available in many varieties these days and people can choose and use what is best suited for their skin. It's available in form of gels, lotions, moisturizers, and juices. If juice is consumed it has wonderful results on the skin. On extremely dry and sensitive skin, aloe Vera gel can be used as a heeling agent. It heals wounds and injuries too. Most of the creams and lotions are based on aloe Vera gel these days, which change one's skin drastically from a lifeless dull skin to a new enhanced beautiful skin. Its transparent bluish green color substance. It's getting popular worldwide day to day.
   
   
2. Sandalwood -- sandalwood is the wood of a tree, which has a very strong, and soothing fragrance in it. Sandalwood too has all cooling and heeling substances in it. It is used to manufacture many scented items from the wood as beautiful handicrafts, incense sticks, oils, perfumes, soaps, face packs, powder and many other things. Because of the useful substances in it, it's powder; essence and oil are used to make many herbal items for skin care.
   
   It makes the skin smooth, blemish free, glowing and young. It is used to heal the burns too because of its cooling essence. Sandalwood soaps and packs are extremely useful for oily and problematic skin. It reduces the marks and blemishes from the skin and reduces body odor if used in soaps. It is advised to be used on skin that is prone to allergies, acne, and pimples and has blemishes. Its frequent application on the skin in form of soaps and packs do wonders to the skin. Specially the skin that is filled of acne and blemishes gets neat and clean with is frequent use.
   
   
3. Tea tree oil-tea tree oil is taken from the leaves of tea tree. It's very strong oil with many exclusive values in it, which is used in medical field too. It has many anti fungal values in it so is used for many types of allergies, infections, many other ailments and is added in many skin care products because some of it's values help prevent acne, blemishes and skin allergies.
   
   It is added in many face packs specially made for problematic skin, which suffers from acne and pimples.Its usage on skin makes skin clear, smooth and blemish free. Its has a very strong smell in it which keeps many allergies at bay. Many anti allergic oils are based on tea tree oil. Most of the herbal cosmetic company use tea tree oil as a main base in their skin care produces which are specially meant for problematic skin. It suppresses the acne, pimples and blemishes from the skin and helps to lighten the marks too which one gets on skin due to skin problems.
   
   
4. Neem- neem is a very useful tree. It's leaves, stem everything has their own properties and different values. It is used in many herbal medicines to cure skin problems, lice problems in hair. It has a very strong bitter smell and taste. It has surprising properties in it for skin suffering with allergies or skin infections. Neem power and essence if used on skin in any form makes one get rid of boils, heat infection, acne pimples and other skin problems.
   
   It makes skin blemish free, healthy and glowing. People who tend to get boils and heat boils on skin in summer, if take bath from water in which neem leaves have been soaked or boiled get rid of them completely and gets a smooth and clear skin. Its juice is extremely helpful for diabetic patient. In ancient times, people used to use its stem to chew to keep their teeth healthy and strong. It has some detoxifying agents in it so it's useful for the treatment of skin infections and problems.

Facial Exercises

Exercises are meant to relax the body and increase blood circulation; they tone up the muscles, stretch them to flex and keep the body fit. So the same way facial exercise helps to tone up the facial muscles and help to keep them relaxed.

If done properly for few minutes in a day, facial exercises help people to reduce stiffness and dullness from the face and decrease wrinkles. It increases the elasticity of the skin. Facial exercise's main motive is keeping the skin muscles in it place and maintaining the tissues from early aging. Regular facial exercise can do more wonders than many expensive cosmetics do to the skin.

One can do facial exercise in any time of the day, like other body parts' workout it doesn't have any rules for the stomach to be filled light or empty. One can do them while taking bath, reading newspaper, driving, traveling or watching television.

Here are some facial exercises to help facial skin get toned and young.

• In the morning after doing toothbrush, fill some air in your mouth and then leave it slowly, do this practice 4-5 times. Its an easy exercise and can be done by anybody. It keeps the cheeks toned and glowing.
• Close your lips, take your mouth in the left and then in the right. Practice it 3-4 times and you will feel a good stretch on the muscles around your mouth and lips.
• Pull the eyebrows up a down, hold them up for 10 counts and then slowly get them down. It's a relaxing exercise for the eyebrows.
• Twitch the nose and fill the air in it, drop it down and then release the air.
• Breathing should be proper while doing any of the workouts no matter whether it's for whole body or for just the face.
• Use your fingers upwards from the lower of your eyes to the sides of the forehead; it relives the stress from the facial muscles.
• Move your eyes in circular motions from left to upward, then right and down, practice it at least five times. It makes you feel extremely relaxed on your eyes and whenever you are tired while reading or working on computers for long hours, you can do it and relaxes your eye muscle.
• Hold both your lips inside your mouth, inhale and hold the breath for few seconds and release it. Do it 4-5 times and you will relax the lips and muscle around them.
• Even while doing facial exercise keep the hands clean or the skin might get infection with dirty hands and can break out in acne and pimples.
• Tap the face slowly and lightly with the fingertips to increase the blood circulation.
• Chewing gum too is a very good form of exercise. One can even pretend in the mouth as if one is chewing the gum and it stretches the entire facial muscles and helps them to relax.
• Making a smiling face and then holding it for few second and releasing it are as good exercise for the cheeks.
• There are some lightweight, battery operated equipments are available in the market to use for facial exercises.
• On the forehead, put your middle and index fingers on above exactly your eyebrows and put pressure on them. Release it and repeat it for 5-6 times.
• Stroke your chin in upward motions using both your thumbs. It helps reducing the double chin.
• Blow off air from mouth as you are filling air in a balloon, it's a helpful exercise in filling the flat cheeks.
• Overall, doing all these facial exercises even for few minutes in a day relaxes facial muscles, tones up them, reduce fine lines from the face and gives you a smooth, flawless skin.
• Even the complexion improves because whatever exercise is done; it improves the blood circulation in that part of the body so it helps to rejuvenate the skin to look and feel better.
  
  

Facial exercise help in reducing lines from the face that is the sign of old age. It reduces the forehead lines, lines around the lips and crowfeet, which some people get around eyes. It helps lips become thick and fuller. Saggy and loose cheeks become tight and fuller. It reduces the puffiness which one gets around the eyes. Decrease the wrinkles as it tones up the skin. It increases the vitality and elasticity of the skin.

There is hardly any chance to do facial exercise wrong but still if one feels any uneasiness or stress on the face with any of the exercise, one should stop practicing it.

Any skin type or age group can follow these exercises to get rid of wrinkles and other early age signs.

Face Masks at Home

In today's world where we are living and breathing in a polluted environment which is damaged due to harmful chemicals and gases one needs to do a little more care about their health and looks. Face is the mirror of a person's looks and one gives more attention in taking care of the face.

There are so many creams, lotions, scrubbers are available in market today to make your facial skin more radian and beautiful. Where some are chemical based, toady's favourite are herbal cosmetics which are based on natural items as fruits, vegetables, grains etc.

These days face packs, peels, scrubbers, soaps, face wash everything is getting made by natural and herbal things. So even we can make a variety of face masks with the things available in our kitchen at home which can save lots of money and can make skin beautiful without any side effects.

Here are few home made masks which can be applied easily on face and neck to remove the dull skin and make it fresh and beautiful. Some mask can be applied everyday and some can be applied only once a week.

Gram Flour mask-take two spoon of gram flour, add a pinch of turmeric to it, few drops of lemon juice and mix them together with water or rose water. Apply it on face and neck till it get 3/4 th dry and then scrub and wash it. Apply moisturizer on face afterthat.

Clay pack-this pack is very good for oily skin. Take mud clay powder its easily available in the market, add water or rose water in . make a paste, apply it on the face and wash it when it gets dry.

Sandalwood power pack-its very useful for oily skin or the skin which has blemishes or pimple marks on face. Take a spoon of sandalwood powder, add rose water to it, make a paste and apply it on face and neck. Wash it when dry. It will give the skin a neat and radiant look.

Milk Powder pack-this pack is useful for those who have dry skin. Taek a spoonful of milk powder and add a few drops of lemon juice to it. Make a paste and apply on face. Wash away after 20 minutes.

Most of the home made face masks are gram flour or clay based. Where we can add any other things to them to give the skin a look as if facial has been done.

• Take a spoon of gram flour, add a pinch of turmeric powder to it and a few drops of milk or milk cream and make the paste with orange juice. Apply it on face and leave it till it gets dry.
  
  
• Take a spoon of wheat flour, add a pinch of turmeric, few drops of lemon juice to it and make the paste with raw milk. Apply it on face and remove it when half dried as a scrubber. It removes all dirt from face and gives it a luminous look. This pack can be applied all over the body too to remove the dead skin from it.
  
  
• Take a spoon of honey and add few drops of lemon to it apply on face and wash after few minutes. It helps to remove sun tan.
  
  
• Mash a papaya and apply on face. Wash after few minutes.
  
  
• Mash a banana and apply on face and neck. Wash it off after 15 minutes.
  
  
• Take tomato juice and add a pich of turmeric and clay powder to it. Make a paste and apply on face and neck. This pack helps in reducing the size of open pores.
  
  
• Soak some rice grain in water overnight. Then grind them and make a paste. Add little milk in it and apply this pack on face. Scrub it gently when dry. It removes dead skin and black heads from the skin.
  
  
• Dry orange peels in sun and make a powder or them. You can fill and keep this powder in a container for future use. Take a spoonful of this powder, add raw milk to it. Apply it on face and neck. It cleans the skin and whitens the complexion.
  
  
• Same way rather then taking orange peels, you can take lemon peels and make powder of it when dry. Add the same things and make a paste to pply on face and neck.
  
  
• Cucumber is a very good astringent. Cucumber juice and slices can be applied on face and neck.
  
  
• Water melon paste can be applied on sun burnt skin to soothe and cool it.
  
  
• Take tomato juice, orange juice and cucumber juice add a little clay powder or sandalwood powder or gram flour to these juices and apply it on face.
  
  

So try these home made face packs and surprise everybody by your looks.

Facial Massage

Massage is helpful in relieve muscle and increasing blood circulation in all body parts so the same way its beneficial for the facial skin. But facial skin is a sensitive one so require an expert hand for its massage. One has to learn the right way to take or give facial massage to keep facial skin toned, relaxed and young.

Whenever a woman takes facial, she takes facial massage to start facial with. Even 5 minutes light face massage improves blood circulation of the skin and adds glow to it. Facial massage should always be done by light upwards finger strokes. These days some massage instruments are available in the market which are battery operated, they can give massage to the face with the vibration. One can read the direction written with the machine and can use to once a week or once a month depending upon the age and requirement.

What to do while massaging the face-- there are certain things which one has to keep in mind while massaging the face.

• Always use fingertips for facial massage.
• Keep your hands clean otherwise you will do more harm than benefit to the skin.
• Use cream or lotion depending on your skin type. If oil based cream or lotion is used on oily skin for massage, the skin will break out in acne and pimples.
• One can mix little amount of mild scrubber in the cream to be used for the massage, it helps removing black heads and white heads from the skin.
• Before starting face massage one should tie and cover head with a towel or headband to avoid the facial cream to enter the hair and make them sticky.
• Fingers strokes should always be in upward motion as downward strokes can make the skin look saggier.
• Massage tones up the skin so women who are in middle age can use anti aging creams for their facial massage.
• Depending on the skin type one can do massage from 5 to 20 minutes. More than this, it can get the skin read and patchy.
• Cream should be removed neatly with a wet napkin or cotton dab after the massage so that skin couldn't soak unnecessary grease.
• One should learn the pressure poiints so that one can use them while giving or taking massage to relieve the skin from stress. There are pressure points on face to tone up the facial skin. Two pressure points are there on both the sides of the forehead, both sides on the nose, on the chin, and around the eyes. If one learn to do it correct, one can reduce the wrinkles from the face.
• Facial tissues are sensitive so while massaging the face, not much pressure should be put on the skin.
• One can add the right essence to the skin when giving or taking facial massage as if one has oily skin, one should choose cream that is lemon, orange or cucumber based and to improve the effect of the massage, few drops of lemon juice, orange juice or cucumber juice can be added to the cream. Natural substances have their own effect on the skin and if used correctly, they often don't have any side effects.
• On dry skin, few drops of almond oil, milk cream or olive oil can be used to make the massage more effective.
• A light massage can be done without using any cream from the market by taking a spoonful of fresh milk cream and few drops of lemon juice added to it. It can be used as an anti tanning massage cream too. Its natural so is safe for young and sensitive skin.
• If the skin is extremely sensitive than one should avoid using lemon juice on the skin. One can rather use cucumber juice added to the fresh milk cream to give or take massage.
• Fingers should not be rubbed on the skin; the strokes should be constant but smooth and slow. In between pressure should be put on the pressure points to relax the skin.
• One can keep slices and chilled cucumber slices or cotton balls soaked on rose water on eyelids to relax them and to stop cream to enter the eyes.
• If done properly, massage tones up the pores and tightens up the facial tissues. After the massage skin feels fresh and young. If one starts taking facial massage from the right age, one can prevent getting wrinkles and saggy skin on face for the time being and can look younger than the actual age.

These days plenty of variety is available in the market for the best massage option as herbal massage, spa, aromatherapy, oil massage, natural massage, gold and silver massage. One can choose the best suited one for oneself. Many oil as lavender oil and some other aromatherapy oils heels the skin if used in massage creams or lotions.

Face Masks

The skin is the uppermost layer of our body that reflects the health of the person. Nature has provided us this naturally beautiful layer, yet it needs care and maintenance to keep it beautiful. The daily routine of cleansing, toning and moisturizing makes the skin healthy and it manages to look good.

But, the daily dust and grime takes its toll in a few days and that's the time skin starts looking aged, wrinkled and looks lifeless in spite of our daily care. Thus, coupled with a routine of everyday skin care, we need something extra to pamper our skin. That ' something extra' is provided by the face masks.

Pollution and the daily stress and strain make the skin dull and lifeless, which shows poor health of the person while glowing and supple skin shows that a person is healthy. The dull skin requires a lot of time and repair work to bring it back to the normal. Each person has a different type of skin. For some, minimum maintenance is required but for others, more care is needed. Face packs are one of the easiest ways to cleanse the face and keep it fresh for long. The types of face packs differ for each type of skin.

In order to take maximum benefit of choosing applying a face pack, we must know what a face pack does for our skin... The dust and grime gets into the pores of the skin and blocks it. This prevents the skin from breathing freely. This over a long period causes dull skin, pimples, pigmentation and allergies on the skin. Face packs basically cleanse the skin and its pores and make the skin breathe again .It removes the dust from the pores and cleans it. It also helps the skin to maintain the tautness and the luster.

When the seasons change your skin changes too. You accumulate lots of dry cells, blocked pores that can result in pimples and blemishes. Facial masks can be like a much needed spring cleaning, it will exfoliate your skin and remove any buildup of sluggish cells. Face masks can work wonders for your skin and can leave your skin feeling fresher and cleaner day after day.

The next thing is the frequency of using a face pack . For high maintenance skin types (very dry or too much oily), a face pack must be used once in a week. For others, it may be used twice a month, or if you are exposed to too much outdoors, then thrice a month is recommended.

Only frequency does not matter, your state of mind matters too. You must try to relax when applying a face masks. If you go about washing the dishes and

tidying up the home while putting on the masks, its effect will be less. Your muscles need to be in relax state, breathing normal, then only the mask will be absorbed nicely in your skin give you the effect you wanted from it.

Applying a Face Mask

Get a good flat brush to apply the mask. Before starting, pull your hair back and tie it with a head-band. Your neck area should also be visible.

Now, start applying the mask with your brush, using even strokes. Be careful to avoid the lips and the sensitive area around the eyes and include the neck area.

Let the mask remain on your skin for at least 20 minutes (unless written differently in the instructions)

Splash tepid water on your face to remove the mask and gently rub and wash it off. In the case of peel-off masks, peel gently and rinse face with plenty of water, incase the layer persists. Do not rub hard, this could cause rashes or reddening of the skin or cuts on your skin.

Using a suitable face-mask regularly will definitely improve your skin over a time of few weeks. It will not only make the skin softer and smooth, in the long run it will help in ceasing early appearance of wrinkles on the skin. Thus, along with the basic skin care routine, it is important to use a face mask to enhance the radiance and glow of your skin.

How to Protect Skin from Harmful Sun Rays?

The ultraviolet rays coming out of the sun do the maximum harm to one's skin. They directly penetrate into the skin layers and make it dark, dull, full of wrinkles and much older than the actual age.

All these products promising sun skin protection are hitting the market, but none of them is 100% safe. No sun care product prevents the skin from the damage completely. They contain sun protection factors in different ranges as SPF 15, SPF 20 or SPF 50. They have some chemicals in them, which put a layer on the skin to prevent the harmful UV rays to enter the skin.

Sensitive and fairer skin is easy target to sun damage. Melanin is a substance in skin that protects it from harmful UV Rays but fairer skin has less quantity of it in their skin so is more approachable to sun damage. One cannot get escaped from the harm done by ultraviolet rays to the skin but one can surely reduce the effect of the harm to one's skin from sun.

People are getting aware about sun protection. There are details in newspapers and television channels about sun protection. So people know how to care about the skin when in sun or after that.

Here are the details about some damages sun does to one's skin:

• It makes the skin's natural complexion dark.
• Gives the skin an uneven tone, whereas skin is dark somewhere and light somewhere.
• A flawless skin gets pigmentation and freckles that are brown spots all over the face and some dark patches on the skin, which gives the skin discoloration. Fairer skin is more prone to suffer from these.
• Some people, specially kids get small itchy bumps on the skin, on the area where the sweat is more as back, neck or chest. It has burning sensation and makes the skin red. It is called prickly heat and takes time to heal.
• Some people get inflammation on the area that sweats more and the condition is unbearable in the sun.
• Dark red patches on the face or on the sensitive part of the skin due the heat of the sun.
• Some people get rashes on skin due to sun, sometimes they turn into blisters, its kind of allergy people have due to sun. It normally takes 5-10 days to heal. People usually get it in holidays when they spend more time in the sun.
• Kids have much more sensitive skin than adults and when the sunrays can harm grown ups, they harm kid's sensitive skin very badly. Kids get red rashes like burns on their skin if left in the sun directly without any sun protection.
• Because of the heat of the sun many people get dehydration and vomiting.
  

Now comes the protection one should take to minimize the harmful effect on the skin from the sun:

• One should never go out of the house in the sun without applying sun protection lotion on the body. If one is out in the sun for hours then one needs to reapply the lotion on the open parts of the body, as the effect of these lotions doesn't last for more than an hour.
• Sun protection lotions take some time to set deep in the skin so one should apply them at least 20 minutes before going out.
• When going in water in sun, even if the sunscreen lotion is waterproof, one needs to reapply the lotion on the skin.
• When on the beach or somewhere out directly in the open sun, one should apply the after sun lotions available in the market on the skin to stop the harmful effect on skin.
• Kids are very sensitive to sun so never let them stay out in the sun without applying sunscreen lotion on their skin. There are different sunscreen lotions available in the market specially meant for kids.
• One can even cover the head with scarf, caps and hat in the sun. To protect hands full sleeves cotton gloves are available in the market.
• Always wear sunglasses in the sun and carry and umbrella.
• When leaving the house drink lots of fluids to prevent yourself from dehydration.
• Always apply sunscreen lotion depending on your skin type. As for oily skin use one specifically meant for oily skin. They are available in gels too, which is better to apply on oily skin.
• Moisturizer and oil based sunscreen lotions are suitable for dry skin.
• Whenever get itching, redness, bumps or blisters due to son or in the sun then does not ignore them, apply medical prickly heat powders, lotions and use medicated soaps on the skin. Even if the problem persists then take medical help of a skin specialist.
  

With proper awareness and care from harmful UV Rays of the sun, one can delay the decay sun is going to do to one's skin.

Skin Care: Caring for your Skin

Skin care is an essential part of our daily routine. One should look after the skin the same way one looks after other skin parts as a nice, beautiful skin makes a whole lot of difference in one's appearance. If a person has a perfect body and perfect features but if the skin isn't good, entire looks get spoilt.

Our entire body is covered with the coatings of skin, which protects and hides the inner body. So there should be a daily routine to care about the skin. There are many factors which decide how to look after or care about the skin as skin type; if the skin is oily, normal, dry, sensitive or combination, climate as different ways of caring the skin are required in different climates as its different in rains, summers and winters. People have many patterns for skin care.

These days they have become much more aware about their looks as never before. To get a beautiful and healthy skin they change their diet, their cosmetics and skin care products. They get skin massages, facials, clean ups and what not. But still there is a basic way to look after the skin, which is a must for all skin types, in all weather conditions. It's a kind of base to start with skin care and should be there in our day-to-day skin care regime.

The first thing is cleaning -

cleaning of the skin is the first must thing to do. For that we take bath everyday. There are a vast variety of cleansers available in the market nowadays. One can choose the best suited for one's skin type. Cleaning the skin doesn't mean just cleaning one's face. Though face is the ultimate reflection of one' personality but one should keep the overall skin clean by using good body wash depending on the skin type and climate conditions as a moisturizing soap wont turn good in humidity or in rains, medicated soaps are good options to use in heat and rains.

Now comes the cleaning of the face. Dirt, make up traces and pollution have their first impact on the facial skin. If ignored they can damage the skin's upper layer badly. That's the reason skin cleaning has been given so much importance. So when starting up the cleaning procedure one should clean the hands first as if hands are dirty they will put more dirt and germs on the face and the skin will break out in pimples, acne and boils.

Then should clean the face and neck with a good quality mild cleanser depending on your skin type as cream based for dry skin, gel based for oily skin and mild for sensitive skin. Different cleansers have different ways of cleansing. Soap based have to be applied on face with palms in foam and then washed whereas many other liquid cleansers should be taken on a cotton dab and then the washed face should be wiped off with them. They clean the pores in a better way then only with the soap.

Home made cleansers-

if one have the time and urge, one can make excellent home made cleansers which are extremely good for the skin. To clean dry skin one can take few drops of milk cream and add few drops of lemon juice to it. Give a light massage on face in upward motion with it. The dry skin will become very neat and glowing. For oily skin lemon juice and cucumber mixed together and applied on face with a cotton dab is extremely useful. Lemon should not be used on sensitive skin.

Toner-

toning of the skin is the second basic skin care step. It keeps the skin tone and helps to keep the skin pore size small. Toning for all skin type is the same. In the market some good toners are available in different brands. One can choose any of them. If one wants to go for herbal toner, one can get them easily in the market. Toner tones the skin and makes it look young, tight and supple. After cleaning the skin a dab of cotton soaked in a good branded toner should be applied on the face.

If one wants to make a toner at home, one can make it easily by applying tomato juice on skin the same way readymade toner has to be applied. Tomato is a very good toner to reduce the size of pores. Using it too can benefit people who suffer from open pores. A mixture of tomato juice and watermelon juice too is a good toner for the skin. Rose water itself is a good toner for a normal skin.

Moisturizer-

the last and very important basic skin care step is moisturizing skin and here one has to keep the skin type very much in mind when buying a good moisturizer. Oil and cream based moisturizers are required for dry skin type. For the oily skin water based moisturizers are good. In the daytime one should always choose a moisturizer, which has sun protection factor in it.

In winters for the dry skin a mixture of glycerin, rose water and lemon juice is a very good moisturizer, which can be easily made at home and can be filled in a glass bottle for the further use.

Relation Between Healthy Diet and Skin Care

Diet is a very important factor in skin care. You are what you eat and even if you are born with a beautiful healthy skin but you are eating all wrong food, you can damage your skin. Eating right food for all body parts including skin is very important. People who naturally don't have a good skin can get one by eating right food for it. And the most important thing for a healthy, glowing skin is drinking lots of water.

There should be a proper balance diet in all meals in right proportion of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrate, fats and proteins. One should include green leafy vegetables, sprouts, salads and fruits in daily diet. Non-vegetarians have rich amount of protein in their diet but vegetarian diet lacks it so they need to include good amount of proteins in their diet. One should eat curd, yogurt and other dairy products to keep their intestine clean.

If right amount of balanced food is eaten, one can easily get and maintain healthy, glowing skin with no acne, pimples and blemishes. One should avoid eating all junk food, fried food and saturated stuff to keep the skin in a good condition as they are the main cause of getting acne, pimples and break outs on the skin after hormonal imbalance.

1. Skin food- proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins are the main skin foods which one needs to increase in the diet if the skin is saggy or is older than the actual age. Sugar is one of the main sources of carbohydrates but it causes more damage than benefit so one should keep a check on the sugar intake in one's diet. Fruit sugar, jiggery and honey are better sugar substitute. Instead of white bread one should eat brown bread and brown rice should be eaten than white rice.
   
   There are people like professionals who totally skip carbohydrate from their meals to diet. They don't know hoe harmful that is for their body. If no fat is eaten, no carbohydrates eaten, one gets a saggy and dull skin. So a little fat is very essential for a good body and toned skin. Vegetarian diet lack proper proteins so vegetarians can increase their intake of pulses, dairy products, and sprouts, which are rich source of proteins. Soya beans too are a great source and these days they are available in different meal types in markets as Soya chunks, Soya granules, Soya flour, which is very good for body and skin.
   
   
2. Skin vitamins- vitamins are essential in one's daily diet and they play a very important role in skin care. To prevent skin to get it dull, lifeless and old one has to include sufficient vitamins in one's diet. There are five vitamins, vitamin A, B, C, D and E. There are different sources for all 5 different vitamins, to include them in a daily diet in proportion one has to have the knowledge about them, as how they play a role in daily diet to keep the body and skin healthy and glowing.

Vitamin A-radish, mango and apple are some rich source of vitamin A. It helps to reconstruct the skin tissues and detoxify the skin so that skin could keep away from acne, pimples and blemishes and could stay young and clean.

Vitamin B-vitamin B is available in many leafy vegetables. It boosts the immune system and keeps skin diseases at bay. Many vitamin B complex supplements are easily available in the market in forms of capsules, which can be added to your daily diet to maintain a healthy skin.

Vitamin C-vitamin C is a very helpful vitamin in keeping all the allergies away from body and help increasing the immune system. It is extremely good for skin. It keeps the skin blemish free and radiantly glowing. All juicy fruits are a great source of vitamin C as oranges, lemon, sweet lime and grapes. One should add a glass of orange juice in daily diet. It will fulfill the requirement of entire day's vitamin C to the body. Vitamin C helps skin to repair from further damage and protects the skin from early aging as it stops wrinkles and keep the skin lustrous.

Vitamin D-vitamin D is available in milk and other calcium sources. Sun is the main source of vitamin D and is very essential for our bones. It helps the skin to keep away from skin disease.

Vitamin E-vitamin E moisturizes and smoothes the skin. It keeps the skin lustrous and young. Milk, butter, fish, olives and dry fruits are rich source of vitamin D and E. They prevent the skin from getting dry, saggy and patchy and keep it soft and supple. Vitamin E capsules are easilyavailable in the market to be taken to complete the body requirement of it.

Lack of vitamins and proteins and other nutrients makes the skin dull, lifeless, problem prone and older than the actual age. So one should keep a balance in the diet to keep the skin ever young.

Beauty Tips

There are lots of beauty tips to help one look better, tips to get ready fast when in hurry, tips to make up while traveling, and tips to utilize your unused or old make up stuff which you don't understand what to do with. Certain tips are so useful in day-to-day use from the kitchen of our home that can make whole lot of difference in your overall appearance.

Here are few tips about changing eating and drinking habits to get a more beautiful and fresh skin:

• When gets up in the morning, do not wash off the oil which you get on your face, specially around your nose and chin, rather spread this oil from your nose to all over face in upward strokes. It's the natural oil, which your body produces and is very good for one's skin to keep it young and supple. After that you can wash your face but without soap. First face wash of the morning should be just with water.
• Fill water in your mouth and then splash water on your face and on eyes. It's a kind of exercise.
• Drink 2 glass of lukewarm water in the morning empty stomach with a spoonful of honey and lemon juice added to it. It's good to clean your stomach, and detoxify the toxins. With the consumption of this skin starts glowing within a month.
• Cut off the use of caffinated and saturated drinks. Stop eating much of junk and fried food, which spoils the body and damages the skin.
• Rather drink lots of water at least 8-10 glasses of water in a day. Fresh juices and even buttermilk is good to keep you fit and healthy.
• Try to walk whenever you get an opportunity. Exercise is must for a healthy mind, body and skin. If your schedule is too busy to get time to workout then get it this way. Try to climb stairs then taking lift. Park your car a little more away from your destination so that you will have to walk.
• Always sit in a right posture and keep your abs muscles tight. It will strengthen your tummy muscles and make it look flatter.
• Always breathe properly. The correct breathing pattern makes surprising difference to your body and skin. When inhale air should reach till abdomen and when exhale you should feel light in your abdomen.
• Always add green fresh salads with your meals. This will reduce the quantity of food calories you are eating and will help you remain fit.
• Consume more of fruits and vegetables with a balanced healthy diet.
• Do wash face often but not every time with soap. If you are working keep wiping off your face with wet tissues.
• Whenever in the kitchen, you can rub lemon peel from the pulp side on your face to get rid of the grease and can apply any fruit juice on face with a cotton roll. You can wash it off after few minutes.

Now here are some beauty tips related to make up and facial beauty:

• To start with the morning, wash your face with water and when you take bath use mild soap on your face. Apply a good moisturizer depending on your skin type and remember that if should be having sun protection. Never go out without applying sunscreen lotion.
• Apply a light lip color or lip-gloss in a shade, which suits your skin tone. You can put a dab of foundation on your lips before putting the applying the lip color as it helps to stay it for longer.
• For eyes eye liner and eye pencil are available in many shades. Choose a good brand. You can apply brown eye pencil to give them a softer look. Use dry eye pencil on oily skin and do avoid eyeliner on small eyes rather use eye pencil to define them.
• You can curl your lashes with mascara even if you don't want to put any other eye make up, you can use mascara.
• Use light eyeshades on your eyelids for day use.
• You can use compact powder a shade lighter to your skin tone on your face and neck to give it a finishing touch.
• Always apply body lotion on your skin after having bath all over your body. It keeps your skin smooth and keeps the skin tone even.
• Avoid using foundation for daily usage. Use it just for parties and functions and let your skin breathe.
• Use a mild scrubber on your skin once in a week to remove black heads and dead skin and face packs to rejuvenate your skin.
• Always sleep after cleaning your skin by removing your make up. Baby lotion or baby oil is good make up remover and can be used even to remove eye make up.
• Use a good cleanser, toner and moisturizer on your skin before going to bed. You can choose a good night cream based on your skin type and your age. As for women who are 30 plus the requirement of creams are totally different than teen-age girls.

Follow this routine and find a different you after few days.

What are the Different Skin Types?

Your skin care routine depends large on the kind of skin you have and determining this takes a keen eye and good judgment. Skin types vary according to the essential oils present in them and how they react to the weather conditions. Essentially, there are the following skin types:

Dry, Oily, Normal, Combination and Sensitive skin types.

• Those belonging to the category of dry skin types are possessed of complexion that lacks both sebum and moisture. This kind of skin appears fine textured, transparent, patchy and fragile and has a tendency to flake and chap easily. Fine lines and wrinkles are therefore more obvious on dry skin. Dry skin can be determined if a person has flaky patches that disappear with regular moisturizing, finely textured skin with the pores not visible, tiny expression lines that do not disappear and the skin on the neck and cheeks appears chafed. Dry skin can be controlled through intensive skin care routine and plenty of hydration therapy, which includes a healthy balanced diet, lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, 7-8 glasses of water and at least eight hours of sleep.
• Complexion care basics for all skin types includes proper hygiene, adequate rest and rejuvenation, a balanced and timely diet and regular exercise to keep the blood and oxygen supply in top form-and keep that natural glow ever present on your face!
• Oily skin types are persons that have an over reactive sebaceous (oil-producing) glands. The abundance of these glands makes the face shiny especially down the central panel- also called the T-zone. This T-zone includes your nose, forehead and chin. This over activity of the sebaceous glands causes the pores of this skin type to become enlarged and thereby prone to skin disorders like blackheads, pimples and Acne. Oily skin types need to take extra special cleansing care to keep the pores unclogged and maintain a daily method of gentle cleansing to prevent accumulation of dirt on the skin surface. However, care must be taken not to zealously over do the cleansing bit as this can aggravate the condition further so the prudent beauty advice would be to cleanse only with a product meant for oily skin, not more than thrice a day. This should be followed by patting on a toner/astringent on the oily areas of your skin to help control the excess oil.
• Sensitive skin types are those persons who have skin that reacts in a non-conventional way, both externally and internally, to changes in life. This skin type can be either oily and/or dry and tends to be easily disturbed by skin-care products and cosmetics. Sensitive skin can get blotchy and result in broken veins appearing on the surface of the skin while also showing increased redness or causing itchiness in a person. Consulting a dermatologist in serious cases is advisable as proper medical care may be needed to survive with such delicate skin condition and reactions as sensitive skin types are prone to.

How are Beauty and Hygiene Connected?

While maintaining natural beauty and enhancing it is the concern of the majority of women all over the world, in the rush for these mainstream beauty products that promise the earth, at the end of the day, they are mainly quick fixes in a bottle. Therefore, it becomes essential for health and beauty conscious women to increase their sense of awareness about long-lasting beauty and hygiene through simple, natural and skin-friendly means.

We have enumerated some basic steps to help maintain beauty and hygiene through the ages for all ages. These fundamentals of beauty and hygiene will hold anyone in good stead and give you a fresh start on looking good and feeling great.

• Eat Sensibly while nutritionists the world over may have cried themselves hoarse over the benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables from nature’s bounty, as part of the daily diet, as opposed to so-called ‘health foods’ that are commercially created, it stands equally true that only if they are organically grown and free from pesticides and other such chemicals can they really raise the beauty and hygiene factor for us. Switching to organic food helps raise the hygiene element as it reduces the potential exposure to pesticides and herbicides and simultaneously contributes to a cleaner, more biodiversity.
• Organic Foods are certified by the US government as a key element in promoting beauty and hygiene through high quality standards this holds true because such food items have not been intentionally altered at the genetic level. When we consume food items that have been part of this unhealthy practice of unnatural preservatives, they usually deteriorate the skin and normal bodily functioning, even if not apparent immediately. Chemical preservatives contain harmful substances that alter the skin’s natural defense system that organically grown produce does not since it contains higher levels of most minerals and vitamins, especially magnesium, iron and vitamin C.
• Beauty and Hygiene make for soft, healthy skin livelong pitch out the potential pull-downers! When looking out for long-term beauty, hygiene and health-consciousness rule the roost. So, instead of going in for designer labels or high-end cosmetic products laden with an uncertain mix of unhealthy chemicals, try the makeup available at the local natural food store.
• Nature Nourishes and Preserves your Beauty suggest you pitch out the potential pull-downers that enhance your looks temporarily but do nothing for overall healthy skin and appearance and opt for make-up products that have naturally derived minerals, herbs and plant oils! Bring back the rosy glow to your cheeks and lushness to the lashes by going natural-sans the same health worries!
• Feminine Hygiene rates on top of the list! Use products like natural pads and tampons made from 100 percent-unbleached organic cotton that are fragrance and dioxin-free.
• Drink Lots of Water water is the purest drink available for flushing out those toxins and carrying nutrients throughout the body. So your daily dose of eight 8-ounce glasses will replenish water lost through perspiration and elimination and give your beauty and hygiene routine, a new life.

How to Bleach your Skin Effectively?

Even though many parts of the world have taken to tanning and becoming ardent Sun-worshippers as far as exposing the skin to vitamin-D is concerned, a large segment still favor fair skin. This personal choice of many people is what has made bleaching of skin still an important part of beauty and makeup as opposed to bronzed skin, which though accepted and appreciated for the healthy look gives one still tags behind the desire for lighter complexion achieved through bleaching of skin.

History of Bleaching:

Bleaching of skin has long since been a part of essential beauty practices followed hundreds of centuries ago when women would use skin whitening ingredients. The use of special preparations containing mercury and arsenic or equivalent means of some vegetative components helped them achieve fairer skin – a much-appreciated factor when judging beauty in days gone by since it was associated with genteel background and a mark of aristocratic society. This brought about the tradition of the aristocracy wearing hats and gloves, bleached their skin using various ointments and creams as sun protection factors that were believed to help them maintain a lighter complexion.

Modern day Lightening Solutions:

While till about 25 years ago, the chemically prepared bleaching solutions were all that one had when skin lightening was being considered, today’s woman is spoilt for choice. Modern day bleaching preparations are not harsh like their predecessors and use more of a vegetative basis as heightened awareness about the benefits of using natural cosmetic bases has come about. For bleaching of skin, the most popular and safe ingredient, on a vegetative basis, is the extract of an ordinary bearberry, which is a plant that possesses connecting, antiseptic, recycling and antioxidant properties. Other popular natural bases in bleaching creams and solutions are extracts of root licorice, used as active skin whitening ingredient and the plant glubridin, another effective skin whitening ingredient.

Process and Reactions of Bleaching:

The vegetative bases used in bleaching of skin work in combination to bring about a soft and gradual clarification of skin and also improve its general condition. The modern day bleaching solutions usually include essential skin vitamins and other useful components and these are a skin-friendly bet for most persons, as they do not lead to serious cosmetic problems unlike their chemical based counterparts. The only precaution to be taken prior to using any of these products is to carry out a ‘patch test’ on the inside of the forearm to judge whether the user’s skin is sensitive to the bleaching product or at risk of allergic reactions.

Check for Safe Ingredients when Bleaching

Bleaching solutions may have a combination of natural, vegetative or mineral ingredients and even stronger basis skin whitening ingredients and synthetic components like copper, zinc, iron, hydroquinone, azelaic acid that may prove toxic for some persons, therefore consult a physician before using these.

How to Cleanse your Skin Effectively?

For all those of you wondering about whether cleansing is really important if you are having a bath every day and possibly rinsing out the dirt and germs anyway during this daily ritual, the answer is a YES! Your face has the most delicate skin, which is the first line of defense against infection and harsh elements, be it nature’s ones or cosmetically enabled ones. Usually an individual’s face and hands are the commonly exposed parts of the body as far as sun tanning is concerned and this is what makes the skin vulnerable to aging, clogging and pigmentation. To avoid these skin problems, gentle but thorough cleansing is recommended.

Importance of Cleansing:

Skin cleansers work as emulsifiers to remove dirt, excess natural skin oils, bacteria, cosmetics and exfoliate the surface skin cells to help your skin breathe and attain the correct nourishment when followed by toning and moisturizing. The best bet when considering a cleansing agent for daily use is to determine your skin type and pick a cleansing suited to your skin – a good cleanser will not disturb the ph balance of your skin and keep it feeling nourished and fresh. For those with oily skin, the importance of cleansing is doubled, as they may want to remove excess oil from oil glands but not the fat that waterproofs the skin. Therefore, cleansers meant for oily skin have a certain amount of astringent present instead of an oil-base that helps rid the extra oil and prevents clogging of sebaceous glands that can lead to skin disorders like blackheads and acne.

Cleansing and Skin Care Tips:

Those with dry and sensitive skin need to choose a cleanser that protects the oil content of their skin since the extra foaming variety suited for oily skin will only strip the skin of natural moisture and dry it. Such persons need to pick a cleanser that has oil-balance properties to re-hydrate and moisturize the skin after the ritual.

• The best way to begin cleansing your face is by washing your hands thoroughly to prevent transfer of bacteria to your face.
• Begin with the hairline and work your way down with gentle sweeping movements over the face, lips and down the neck.
• Massage the cleanser gently onto the face with light movements of the fingertips and leave on for absorption and deep cleansing for about a minute
• Next, with the help of a clean cotton makeup pad, wipe away the visible dirt and pollution with your hands and if there is any cosmetic residue, wipe it downwards towards the neck.
• Rinse your face using cool water to splash it. The temperature of the water is very important, as too hot or too cold water can cause flushing and increase broken capillaries, if such exist on your skin.

Cleansing and skin care tips are meant to increase the lifespan of beautiful skin and help in detoxification of unhealthy toxins in the body. Always follow up with a good toner and moisturizer.

Top Facial Tips

Among the most basic of skin care routines that beauty consultants face queries about are facial tips and tricks to rejuvenate, tone and make the face supple and serene. How to bring back the glow is the question foremost on the minds of most men and women considering getting a facial done.

The Importance of a Facial

The best facial is one that constitutes use of natural ingredients because they contain all of the essential vitamins that the skin needs and are able to revitalize it without the worry of harsh chemical additives that can affect the balance of the skin. For dry skins, there is a whole wide range of special facial care oils that nourish and care for the skin while giving great results almost instantly. Beauticians opine that facial care is one of the most important stages in any person, especially a woman's, everyday routine. The easy availability of different types of facial masks and creams has come as a boon for all those desiring a flawless complexion by ridding themselves of acne and blackheads. For such persons, facial masks are a real find as they help to achieve the correspondence to the conventional standards of beauty.

Facial Tips and Tricks:

• Choosing a facial mask requires one to pay keen attention to the skin type and purchase a facial mask in accordance with the skin’s needs. These few minutes dedicated to finding the right kind of facial mask is what will spell the difference for the freshened and revitalized look to your face.
• The other great benefit of commercially available facial masks is that they require minimum effort on your part as all the beautification, detoxification and exfoliation work is done by the active ingredients of the facial masks.
• A facial mask is a unique and instantaneous way to complement the daily skin care routine and adds to the breathing power granted to the pores of the skin when combined with the beauty regime of cleansing, toning and moisturizing.
• Whether your facial is the mask variety or cream-and-wash kind, take care that it must not be done too frequently as this can endanger the ph balance of your skin. Applying a facial mask should be restricted to a weekly procedure and correspond to your skin type to ensure the most positive beautifying effect to your face.
• If you have a dry skin, look for facials that will replenish the moisture needed by your facial skin and go in for products that offer coco or shea butter, lanolin, Vaseline, natural or scented fruit or nut-extract oils for extra nourishment. Fruit extracts like strawberry, peach, apricot and banana with milk components are believed to rejuvenate and hydrate dry skin.
• Choose a facial that will soften the upper derma layers and improve its color, clean and contract, intensify circulation of blood so you get that healthy, youthful glow on your face.
• Always thoroughly cleanse your skin to receive the maximum benefit of a home facial and include the neck area for massaging and treating during a facial too!