Homemade brown sugar scrub

Want baby soft skin with all natural, easy to prepare scrub…its right here:

What do you need?

Brown sugar

Virgin Olive Oil

Glycerine

A container with lid to store the scrub.

A spoon to mix the ingredients

How to prepare the scrub:

Take half a cup of brown sugar in the container. Add olive oil till all the sugar is wet with it. Add a teaspoon of glycerin to it. Mix well till the large chunks of sugar gets finer. And your scrub is ready.

Step in the shower and scrub your dry body with the mix gently. Take a warm shower washing yourself with a non soap based body wash. Pat dry your body, apply moisturizer liberally and feel your skin smoother and silkier like never before.

Try it out and let us know what you have to say.

Stay beautiful.

The coffee bump

If you are interested in creating an easy home beauty remedy, then you are in luck because you have the convenience of using an ingredient that you can find within your own kitchen cabinets – coffee!

Here are the ingredients needed for this easy homemade coffee body scrub:
• 2/3 tbsp. Essential oil
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 2 cups Coffee grounds

Make sure that you are using fresh coffee grounds, and blend all of the ingredients together in a bowl. You do have the option of adding more custom ingredients to create your own special recipe, like brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, or perfume oils.

You can use brown sugar to add an even more granulated texture to the scrub for better exfoliation, and cinnamon, vanilla extract, or perfume oils will add a deeper scent. You do need to be careful of using perfume oils if you have sensitive skin because they can irritate certain skin types.

 

Scrub-a-licious

A fresh apple grated over your skin, or delicious blueberry slathered on with some oatmeal. This season’s passport to looking good comes in yummy flavours and honest-to-goodness skin benefits…

What it is
“A body scrub is an exfoliant,” explains Omar Farooque, spaconsultant, “Abrasive material like salt, sugar, rice bran, jojoba beads, apricot kernels, coffee grounds, etc. rub away the dead skin cells on the surface, revealing the softer, younger cells just below.”

Says Rutu Tawde, spa manager, “The outermost layer of skin accumulates dead skin cells. Regular exfoliation with a body scrub can reveal a younger, smoother, healthier layer of skin. Scrubs promote increased blood circulation, fight cellulite (especially scrubs with caffeine or coffee), cleanse pores, remove dry itch and flakiness, nourish and moisturise one’s skin.”

Anna Fernandes, assistant spa manager, adds, “A scrub rejuvenates and hence it helps to cleanse the skin and prepare the skin and the body to receive other spa treatments like massages and body wraps.”

How it works
A body scrub is generally part of a spa treatment, that is also followed by a hydrating body wrap or a soft tissue oil massage to nourish the skin and keep it fresh and supple. Says Farooque, “A scrub done by a professional therapist should take between 30-45 minutes.

If you are pressed for time you can have a 30 min scrub and then wash and apply a moisturiser with a light sunscreen to hydrate your new layer of skin and protect it from damage.”Should one wash after a scrub? “Yes it is important to wash or have a warm towel sponge after scrub to remove the scrubbed dead or old skin layer. A great benefit of a body scrub is that it removes a skin tan. If your skin had become rough and has darkened due to pollution or exposure to dust, you can use a body scrub to remove the rough skin layer leaving you with a soft and supple skin,” he informs.

Make your own scrub at home

1 To exfoliate
Use one cup of sea salt and add half a cup of almond oil. Gently rub the body scrub over the hands, legs and neck. Massage gently in circular motion to exfoliate the dead skin. Rinse after 10 minutes with warm water or soak in a tub.
— Omar Farooque, spa consultant

2 Basic sugar scrub
Take about 1/2 cup of brown sugar and enough virgin olive oil to moisten sugar. Gently massage the sugar scrub onto the skin before showering.
— Rutu Tawde, spa manager

3 Opens pores
Take some sea salt, add few drops of essential oil, add some olive oil, a little orange juice, mix them together and massage it gently on your skin. This salt scrub will help in opening and cleansing pores.
— Anna Fernandes, spa manager

4 Tan remover
Take half a cup each of almond powder, charoli powder and oats. Mix with ¼ cup oil (your choice) and add ¼ cup milk to it. Massage it all over the body in circulatory strokes. Leave on for 10 minutes and bathe after 20 minutes with lukewarm water.
— Nirmala Shetty, naturopath

(Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/beauty/Scrub-a-licious/articleshow/8570261.cms?intenttarget=no)

 

Home remedies for acne

Acne, the word most dreaded by most girls..Here are some quick home remedies that will help you treat acne.

Note: The tips are only beneficial for one or teo breakouts. If you have a lot of them on your face etc, you must see a dermat because that needs serious medication

– Take a few pieces of jaiphal (nutmeg), mix it with some unboiled milk and apply the paste on your acne. Wash it off after about two hours.

– Make a mixture of cinnamon powder and honey and apply on your pimples before you go to bed in the night. Wash it with warm water when you wake up in the morning. Do this for a fortnight and watch your pimples disappear.

– Not only are oranges good for overall health, you can use orange peels as a remedy for pimples too. Grind the peels, mix them with a few drops of water and apply it on your face.

– Mix a tablespoon each of fresh lime juice and groundnut oil and apply it on your face to avoid blackheads.

– Leave fresh mint juice on your face overnight to tame pimples.

– Take methi (fenugreek) leaves and make a paste. Apply it every night for 15 minutes and wash it off.

– Take turmeric powder and neem leaves. Apply the mixture on your pimples. Leave it on your face for about half an hour.

– Take equal quantities of rose water and lime juice and apply the mixture on the affected area. Leave it on for 20 minutes.

– Make a face-wash by adding fresh lime juice to a cup of unboiled milk and using it on your face.

– Take some tomato pulp and apply it on your face. Leave it for 45 minutes and wash it off.

– Take a few drops of gulab jal (rose-water) and mix it with sandalwood. Apply the paste on your face and wash it off after 20 minutes.

No acne