Miracles of coconut -I

Hey all!

         Today I am gonna share with you one of the tips that my grand ma had shared with me for beautiful hair and skin! Grand moms are always the best for they give us the most quint essential tips in every aspect of life. One thing am very much proud of my family is our thick long hair. In fact even my kids have very black and thick hair.

         Throughout both my pregnancies I was losing and gaining hair on and off but was unable to maintain and retain it. It was my grand-mom who first noticed my hair loss and it becoming weak and gave me a handful of tips to regain my lost lustrous and voluptuous hair. And believe it or  not, she suggested only ONE ingredient which worked wonders for me. It's none other than coconut.

         I then realized what I had forgotten all these years and was instead running behind other imported products. Coconut is and was our basic product which has health and beauty enhancing properties. Each and every part of coconut is proven useful by our ancestors. Coconut oil, milk and its water has time and again proven to have invaluable benefits on our body, skin and hair.

   

           In this first part I shall share about the benefits of coconut water and how to apply it. For beautiful face, take one glass of tender coconut water and add 2-3 strands of saffron and some rose petals. Leave this mixture for 15  min. Apply this to face and neck with cotton balls. You will realize instant results as coconut water keeps your face refreshed and smooth while saffron adds extra glow. Rose petals enhance the tone of your face. Use this solution for thrice a week to get best results. Also note that you cannot refrigerate this as tender coconut water tends to get spoiled.

               For shiny and rehydrated nails, rub the tips and cuticles of  your nails with cotton dipped in coconut water.This will keep your nails from getting cracked and gives oxygen. You can also use this on your ankles to treat cracks. You can also remove make up with coconut water and believe me, it removes your entire make up without any hassle! 

So that's it for today folks. Do try these out and let me know how it went. Also don't forget to follow my blog for more updates and posts! Meet you in next post.

Until then, tc bye bye <3 <3

Cinnamon love

Hey all!!

How you been? I wasn't active for d past 4 years as I was busy parenting my lil ones :) Now that they are a bit grown up I am once again back to blogging ! Yippeeeeeeeeee !! These 4 years I have been experimenting with a lot of natural ingredients for face, body, arms and legs and guess what! I was able to come with my own legit tips and techniques for glowing and healthy skin with the help of my kitchen ingredients. So without wasting much time let us jump straight to the topic.

Cinnamon is one of my personal favorite ingredients which I use regularly in any recipes that I make. These go well with peas pulao, tomato rice, veg biryani etc and lot more. Apart from its edible nature it also acts as an anti depressant and stress buster with its subtle yet awesome fragrance. Whenever I have a severe headache or a bad day, a sniff of this powder makes my mind refreshed.Its properties are so wide that we Indians use in tea as well which brings additional flavor to tea. Apart from all these, I have also tried it using as a face pack and the results were awesome. Here's how to use it :

All you will be needing is a 

1. 1 table spoon baking soda

2. 1/4th tb spoon of finely grounded cinnamon powder. Make sure it is not coarse as it might give your face slight rashes.

3. 2-3 tb spoons honey.

Mix all these into a smooth paste and apply it in circular motions evenly on your face and neck. Let it sit for 10-15 min. You will experience a light burning sensation on your face which is totally fine. Wash your face with luke warm water after 15 min.

The baking soda present in the mixture removes dead skin cells from your face while honey keeps your face smooth and radiant. As for cinnamon, it acts as a refreshing and cleansing agent since it is combined with honey and baking soda. It also acts deeply on your skin by cleaning the pores and closing them temporarily. It also removes acne and blemishes from your skin and protects your skin from further pimples. People having heavy pimples can also use this.Use this pack thrice a week to get best results.

So that's it for today <3 Do try this and let me know how it went. Feel free to drop your comments/suggestions below and do follow my blog for further home made tips. You sure will love the results. 

Meet you in next post. Until then tc <3

Boundless happiness for skin, mind and heart!!

Hello my dear readers and viewers!!!

               How are you all? Hope you all are doing fine. I am super excited to announce that I was blessed with a baby boy this May 30th. I was unable to write posts as I had to take care of my lil one :)
Now that I am back on my feet, I have started to write posts!! And I promise you that I would be in regular touch with you through my posts. Ha ha :) Thank you for all your wishes and prayers :) I will post a photo of my baby and introduce him to you ;)

               Ok, so lets get started. When I returned to home from the hospital, I found my hands and feet tanned and covered with dirt. I was so shocked that I felt my eyes deceived me for a moment. With a heavy heart, I accepted the fact that my hands and feet were indeed tanned and dirty. Having accepted the fact made me to search a solution for it.

               The very first thing I wanted to do was clean my hands with a cleanser. I noticed that I had run out of cleanser and so decided to prepare a home made cleanser with available items in my kitchen. And guess what?? The results were astonishing!!I wanted to share this amazing D.I.Y cleanser which does not even take more than 10 minutes for preparing. Here we go!!

               All you need for this is

1.  Two moderate chunks of aloevera

2. A glass of milk

3. Three to four fresh roses

4. One full cucumber

5. A pinch of cornflour to hold the mixture together.

Extract the gel from the aloevera and keep it aside. Incase you have missed out my previous post on tips to make aloevera gel more effective, follow http://beautyisskindee.blogspot.in/2014/03/diy-suncreens.html which gives you a basic idea about it  Remove the petals from the roses and keep them along with the sliced cucumber. For the cleanser to be more effective, you can also soak the rose petals in a jar of water before one day so that the petals absorb the water and tend to become more aromatic. You can add the water in the jar along with the petals to retain the essence. Mix the gel, petals, cucumber in a mixer jar and grind it till it becomes into a smooth paste. Add milk to the paste for every two minutes and grind it once again till the milk gets mixed with the paste and turns out into a lotion. If you have taken more milk, then you can add a pinch of cornflour to make the paste thicker.

Remove the paste from the mixer jar and keep it aside for 20 min. You can also refrigerate it if you want your lotion to be more thicker. Take a cotton or a soft cloth and gently rub your skin with the lotion. You can watch the dirt peeling off from your skin without any irritation or itching on your skin!!!

You can also use this as a face pack by mixing two table spoons of besan gram to it!! Awesome, isn't it??So try it out and I am pretty sure that you will love this timeless preparation which does not even take more than 20 min.

Do share your experiences with me and don't forget to share it :)
 Meet you in next post, Until then, take care :)