Summer Beauty Tips
30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
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Summer is a time to relax and rejuvenate. At the same time, summer sun can be very harsh on your soft skin and deep fry your natural looks. Summer is cruel for your face, which remains uncovered almost all times. So you need to take special care of your skin in summers.
Summer, like winter, requires its own special beauty tricks. After all, it is in summer that your eye shadow becomes a greasy pool in your eyelid creases, your hair falls flat or frizzes to a crisp and your hair color looks like mud against your tan. But have no fear there are fixes to your summer beauty problems. To keep you looking best, here are beauty tips for the hot season.
Effects of summer:-
Bright sunny summer days and warm winds cause great damage to the skin. In this season we also have to face the stickiness of sweat.
In the summer due to more sweat problems like prickly heat, itching, infection in arms and thighs occurs.
Going out in the sun causes sunburn and pigmentation on the skin.
Beauty Tips for summer: -
Bath at least twice a day with cold water.
Wear clean and washed cotton cloths.
Washing your face 3-4 times a day will soothe you.
Take juice of cucumber, orange or sweet lime and put it in the ice tray in the refrigerator allows it to freeze.
Applying the cubes on the face will keep your skin fresh and shinny.
Do not use scrubs daily it makes your skin dry. Homemade face packs with tomato and lemon take out excess oil and black heads. If your skin is carrying pimples or rashes then do not use lemon.
Avoid bleaching your skin in summer. Bleach may make your skin dark.
Use sunscreen or sun block cream, lotion before going out in the sun.
If you go for a walk, then first cool down and then splash cold water.
Watermelon
27 Apr 2012 2 Comments
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Summer and watermelon are inseparable. Watermelons are found almost everywhere in the world. Although we can find watermelons in our markets throughout the year, the season for watermelon is the summer when they are sweet and of the best quality. No other fruit can we find so crunchy and thirst quenching like watermelon.
Some health benefits of watermelon:
- The health benefits of watermelon are really great. No matter how it is sliced, it is packed with some of the most important antioxidants found in nature.
- It is an excellent source of vitamin C and a very good source of vitamin A, particularly through its concentration of beta-carotene.
- The beautiful red watermelon is also a source of the potent carotene antioxidant which is called lycopene. These antioxidants travel throughout the body neutralizing free radicals. Free radicals are substances in the body that can cause much damage to us. They are able to oxidize cholesterol, making it stick to blood vessel walls and thicken them which can lead to heart attack or stroke. The lycopene which gives fruits the attractive red color that we find in watermelon can help reduce the risks of prostate cancer.
- It is a surprising fact that watermelon is the only fruit that contains higher concentrations of lycopene than any other fresh fruit or vegetable.
- Watermelon is a fruit that is rich in electrolytes sodium and potassium that we lose through our perspiration.
- Watermelon is rich in the B vitamins necessary for energy production. Food experts recommend watermelon as a very good source of vitamin B6 and a good source of vitamin B1 and magnesium. Because of its higher water content approximately ninety percent and calorie value it is ranked more valuable than other fruits.
- Watermelon has a special cooling effect and is exceptionally high in citrulline, an amino acid that our bodies use to make another amino acid, which is used in the urea cycle to remove ammonia from the body.
- The antioxidants help reducing the severity of asthma. It also reduces the risk of colon cancer, asthma, heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and prostate cancer.
- Watermelon is a good source of thiamin, potassium and magnesium which protect our body from so many diseases.
- Watermelon is fat free but helps energy production. It protects against macular degeneration.
When the heat of summer tires us with thirst, eating watermelon is a safe alternative to taking energy drinks. Since it contains high water quantity it can hydrates us whereas other drinks are caffeine filled energy drinks which can easily dehydrate us. Nothing can be more satisfactory on a hot, dusty day than a crisp, juicy slice of watermelon!
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Happy Holi
07 Mar 2012 1 Comment
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Seasons Greeting – Spring is coming…
24 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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Love is like a rubber band…
02 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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2011 in review
02 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 30 trips to carry that many people.
Wish you very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2012
30 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
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Merry Christmas
23 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
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Christmas is actually around the corner, and there is bound to be some activity with the menus and party planning. We can use fresh fruits to make desserts that are best served warm and are soul satisfying.
CARAMELIZED PINEAPPLE GRATIN:
Mix 3-4 tablespoons vanilla custard powder with half a cup of cold milk, mix till smooth and set aside. Heat 2 ½ cups milk with 4 tablespoons sugar and bring to a boil. Stir in the cold custard milk and cook on low heat, stirring continuously, till thick and creamy. Remove from heat, cool and refrigerate to chill. Combine cubes of ½ medium ripe pineapple, ¼ cup dark rum, 2 tbsps unsalted butter, few drops vanilla essence and half a cup of brown sugar in a saucepan and cook on medium heat for eight to ten minutes or till caramelized. Transfer the caramelized pineapple into a greased baking dish. Spoon the prepared custard over the caramelized pineapple evenly. Mix ½ cup brown sugar with 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind and sprinkle over the custard. Cook the pineapple and custard under a hot grill for four to five minutes or until the sugar has melted and caramelized.
Celebrate!
Wishing you
Vinegar
14 Dec 2011 10 Comments
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The term “Vinegar“ can be applied to solutions derived from the fermentation of a wide range of bases, including apple juice, other fruit juices, wine, beer, barley and rice. Besides its distilled form, which has acetic acid as its main ingredient, vinegar finds its way into our kitchens in salad dressings, pickles, ketchup and mayonnaise.
The health benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar are:
• Improves digestion and elimination.
• Enhances skin tone and texture.
• Helps in soothing skin irritation and is a powerful fungal fighter.
• Promotes weight loss. It controls blood sugar levels, breaks down fat and stabilizes appetite. It also reduces sugar cravings.
• Relieves constipation.
• Reduces colds and flu due to its antibacterial and antiviral properties.
• Restores the Alkaline-Acid Balance of your body.
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Amla (Indian gooseberry)
12 Dec 2011 28 Comments
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Amla also know as amalaki, dhatriphala plus in Sanskrit and Emblica officinalis scientifically, is the most widely second-hand herb in the ayurvedic system of medicine. it maintains equilibrium amongst three Doshas of storm, bile and phelgm (Vayu, Pitta and Cough) and effectively controls digestive evils, strengthens heart, builds up and sustains defense mechanism, improve eye sight, imparts a natural glow to hair and body and a store residence of Vitamin C.
The English name of amla: Indian gooseberry, denote that it is indigenous to India. Though all parts of the tree have medical value, it is the fruit which constitutes the main drug. Charaka has specifically mentioned it as a great rasayana that helps protect people from disease and keeps missing the manifestations of premature ageing.
Amla fruit is acrid, cool, refrigerant, diuretic, laxative, alexeteric, antipyretic, aphrodisiac alterant, tonic and trichogeneous. It is the richest usual source of Vitamin C. 100 gm. of Amla contain about 700 mg. of vitamin C, which is thirty times the amount found in oranges.In adition to Vitamin C, it too contains calcium, iron, protein, garlic and tannic acids, sugar, phosphorus, carbohydrates etc. The juice of unsullied amla fruit is given as tonic, diuretic and anti-bilious remedy. It is also caring in burning sensation, over thirst, dyspepsia and other complaints of digestive organism.
Amla Health Benefits:
The powder of the dried amla fruit is an efficient remedy of hyperacidity, ulcers and blood impurities. It is also used both inside and externally as a decoction and paste. Some of the common uses of amla fruit are as below:
- Amla strengthens the body, oust toxins from the body and improves defense mechanism of the body.
- It is an essential vitamin to get better eye sight
- Weakness of body, spirit and mind shall be dispelled by taking frsh amla juice in betwen meals.
- Massaging the head with amla oil, induce sound sleep and is good for hair.
- Wash eyes daily, in the cock-crow with amla water, soaked in water and drink the water to improve the eyesight and take out constipation.
- Insert 2-4 amla juice drops into every nostril to cure bleeding for nose.
- Regulates Blood Sugar
- Very influential anti-inflammatory herb.
- A wonderful antioxidant and a usual Source of Vitamin C. Amla helps scavenge free radicals.
- Amla is powerful food for the brain.
- Studies show that Amla helps inferior cholesterol
- Amla also helps uphold the functioning of the liver
- Increases Hemoglobin, Red blood cell count up
- Useful used for Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma
- Amla cleanses the maw, strengthens the teeth
- Its decoction is used in hyperacidity and with sugar as an anthelmintic. The presence of Amla resulted in an enhanced cell survival, decrease free radical production and higher antioxidant levels similar to that of manage cells.
There are various typical ayurvedic preparations, such as chyawanprash in which amla is used as a chief ingredient. It helps get better intelligence and memory power. Triphala and Brahmrasayana are other typical medicine in which amla is being used since time immemorial.
