Beauty Secrets and Health Tips

You will enjoy a natural glow on the skin when you give appropriate priority to skin care. Mange some time from your busy schedule for natural skin care therapy. Care of hands and feet is important. Take adequate care of hands and feet because you need to match an attractive face with harmonizing hair-do in a beautiful outfit.

Pedicure:
You can complete the pedicure session in your home successfully. Create an ambiance by playing soft music, light an aromatic candle and enjoy the relaxing mood.  You will require certain small tools that are required for the session such as nail brush, heel scrubber, nail clippers, cotton, cotton buds, creams for massage and other ingredients and a few small buckets of water.

Foot massage:
Prepare the cool massage oil at your home. Take 100ml of olive oil, a few drops of eucalyptus oil, 10-15 drops of rosemary oil, and 3 - 4 drops of rose oil and preserve the mixture in a glass bottle. Massage your feet regularly with the oil every night. They turn soft, glowing and attractive.

Hot Foot Bath:
It is the best way to clean dirt and dust and it also eliminates tiredness. Take lukewarm water in a bucket, mix ½ cup coarse salt, ½ cup fresh lemon juice or orange essential oil. Your foot bath is ready. If you suffer from complaints of excessive perspiration, add a few drops of tea-tree oil. Dip your feet for 10-15 minutes every night before going to bed.

Cooling Foot Bath:
Make a combination of rose water, fresh lemon juice and Eu-de-cologne in cold water. Dip your feet for some time. It eliminates foul odor.

Foot lotion:
You need to apply foot lotion after every foot bath. You can prepare the foot lotion right in your home by mixing 3 tablespoonful of rose water, 2 teaspoonful of fresh lemon juice and one teaspoonful of glycerin. Apply the lotion over the entire feet and leave it for at least one hour.

The contemporary lifestyle has no scope for rest or relaxation, which appears on the face of busy individuals. The day begins with a series of phone calls and gradually includes many meetings in the office or shopping in malls, meeting friends in parties and clubs until the individual is completely worn out and eventually seeks rest.  All these activities in the modern day busy life constitute a grueling effect on your tender skin, which looks and feels tired and bogged down. It shows on your face, which you need to uplift immediately by taking suitable steps in the matter. You have to follow certain rules and regulations to obtain a lively appearance to complement the status in the society.

1. Massage is a great idea for a tension-free feeling of the body. It provides complete relaxation to muscles and tissues of the body. Engage in a massage session of body including a facial massage for total relaxation. Don’t ever forget the foot massage to release stress of the feet. Massage helps release toxins of the body and turns you fit and agile. Take a bath in tepid water after a massage session. Prepare the bath water by adding lavender skin tonic or rose water to obtain the advantage of aromatherapy.

2. Use a mild moisturizer after the bath to regain the softness of the skin, which is now properly hydrated. Apply the moisturizer very gently all over the skin surface. Use the home-made body massage oil by combining carrier oil, olive oil, lavender oil or rose oil.

Give a treatment to palms with a home-made paste of 2 tsf sunflower oil, 1 tsf fresh lemon juice and 2 tsf table sugar. Rub the paste between palms for 10-15 minutes and wash out the paste with water. You feel the palms totally relaxed.

3. Hair care is essential in reducing overall tension of the boy.  Ensure that you are totally relaxed and feel calm without an iota of tension to look attractive.

You need to take care of your skin in a regular manner to keep it smooth and shining. In the modern city life, you are very busy with your tight schedule of appointments and other engagements and do not find enough time for skin care, which is common with everyone. You should make some time available to look after the skin in a routine manner and hence, take certain suitable steps. You need to have a fair knowledge about the requirements of a healthy skin so that you are able to provide the same to your lovely skin.

(1)Oily Skin. This type of skin requires additional care to keep it clean and free from dirt and dust that gathers during outings. The use of a cleanser is carefully selected to avoid the skin becoming dry. The home-made cleanser is a better alternative at this point. Make a combination of fresh lemon juice, paste of Neem leaves with a base material like Multani Mitti, the Fuller’s earth, known to be a superb cleansing material. The mixture is more acceptable in cold climates and enhances blood circulation. Apply the mixture on face and let it stay there for nearly half an hour. It is washed with cold water thoroughly.


Use an oil-control toner to reduce the oily texture of the skin. You can also use a revitalizing toner liquid. It should be known that the oily skin produces problems related to pigmentation of the skin and therefore, you should always use a sunscreen lotion before you go out in the sun.  You can make a sunscreen lotion right in your home with olive oil, bee wax and zinc oxide.