Beauty and Personal Grooming

Massaging the hands with a good nourishing cream, removing superfluous hair for that smooth satiny look, manicure , nail care – all these should be an integral part of your beauty routine. Nails after all reveal your health and hence you need to carefully scrutinize them for any incongruity and pay ample attention towards their maintenance. A tendency towards nail-biting should be nipped in the bud. But in spite of all the pampering and attention, it’s quite possible for your nails and fingers to get stained. Here’s how you can try  to remove some of the slight as well as stubborn stains from spoiling the beauty of your fingers and nails. 

Here are some home remedies for leucorrhea : * Mix 1 cup of water with a cup of milk and boil it. Add 1 tsp of dry ginger (adrak) to it. When this reduces to half add brown sugar to it. Have this for 5-6 weeks. * Eat an overripe banana everyday * Eating the insides of a ripe bael fruit also helps. * Make a decoction of Fenugreek (methi) seeds have it twice daily. * Ayurvedic medicine ‘Ashokarishta’ is found to be effective in such cases. * One of the best remedies is to mix a tsp of the powder of dried amla (gooseberry) seeds and a ripe banana everyday for at least 40 days. * Paste jamun (black plum) roots in water in which rice has been cooked and take it twice a day. * Fry and powder cumin (jeera) seeds and take a tsp twice a day with honey . * Methi powder mixed with curds is also...

If you are one of those who would like to prepare your own beauty concoctions, I’m sure you must have tried the toning lotion with grapefruit , more suited for oily skin. Now try your hand at this toning lotion with sunflower oil for dry skin. The recipe: Ingredients: Lanolin (( PURE LANOLIN , 100% Pure Australian Anhydrous Lanolin Pharmaceutical Grade 2 oz. )) – 1 cup Sunflower oil – 1 cup Wheat germ oil 1 tsp Witch hazel extract – ½ cup Sodium benzoate (or powder a Sodium Benzoate Tablet )– 1 tsp Method: Melt lanolin in a pan over a low flame and stir in sunflower oil. Remove from the heat and stir in wheat germ oil and witch-hazel with sodium benzoate. Bottle and refrigerate and then massage a little on the face and neck at bedtime. This delicate and mild lotion refreshes your dry sallow skin. Pic credits:photostogo.com

Some girls tweeze their eyebrows to death to give them a pencil-thin shape. It gives such a ridiculous, unnatural look to the face. Bushy, straggly eyebrows look much nicer in comparison. If nature has bestowed a near-perfect shape to your eyebrows, then flaunt the natural look proudly. Even fashion is on your side now. The current fashion trend is to go natural and not to sport perfectly tweezed eyebrows. Do trim a few stray hairs from here and there, but a pencil thin shape is a strict no-no. Too bushy eyebrows? Then go ahead and tweeze them to a decent shape but here again don’t go overboard and disfigure them.

Drumstick (Sahijan/Munga)is the most commonly used vegetable in Indian cuisine; it lends that typical flavor to the ever so famed South Indian curries. Drumstick and the leaves particularly, are loaded with nutrients and minerals. Read all about it and more in this post . Drumstick leaves are used as a first aid and for curing a number of common ailments in rural India . Here’s a collection of such remedies using drumstick leaves: * When you are suffering from a headache , all you have to do is to grind a few leaves of drumstick with a few pepper corns and smear it on your aching forehead.  * Cuts, gashes, sprains or swellings? No problem. Just grind a drumstick leaves with castor oil and apply the paste on the affected parts. * Make a paste of equal quantities of drumstick leaves and radish leaves and apply it externally on bleeding piles . * Suffering from whooping cough ? Then mix 1 tbsp juice of drumstick leaves with a spoonful of honey and have it. *...

Dark circles around the eyes make them look lifeless and give you a sickly look and an expressionless face. Though these can be concealed to a certain extent by the deft use of makeup, it is possible to prevent their formation by proper and regular habits. Late nights, irregular food habits, wrong reading habits, heredity, stress and anxiety – all these could be the culprits in giving you those panda-like patchy eyes spoiling your otherwise pretty face. So analyze and work on these and try your best to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Skin under the eyes is extremely thin and the only part of the human body that has no moisture or oil glands and hence prone to get wrinkles quickly. This lack of natural protection should be compensated for by paying special attention to the skin care around the eyes. Massaging the eyes with warm vegetable oil helps in getting a smoother look. A good almond lanolin cream must be applied every night around the eyes to nourish the skin around the eyes. Almond...

It’s quite natural for us to suffer from tiredness and fatigue after a hard day’s work. Sometimes this tired all-gone feeling persists even on arising after a night’s sleep and one feels so haggard and drained of energy that one finds it difficult to even get on with day-to-day work. Fatigue could be mental, due to a tired mind or physical due to tired muscles. Mental strain, frustration, over-exercising, little or no zest for life– all these could be some of the reasons for your fatigue. Your energy level is also at its lowest after a bout of illness like fever or diarrhea , and hence you feel weary all the time. When you are suffering from fatigue, don’t just brush it off casually and go on with your work. Pay heed to this call which almost says, “Take it easy. It’s time to recharge your mental battery and renew your physical energy.” If it’s mental- exercise. If it’s physical -rest. So, identify the exact cause of your tiredness and act upon it accordingly. To regain that pep ...