Thursday, July 31, 2008
Skin care basic 1 2 3
A healthy and beautiful skin is soft to touch and yet firm with elasticity. It is moist, with a definite acid balance. It is smooth and fine-grained in texture. It should be uniform and glows in color. These are the attributes we look for in our skin.
Even if you have all the best inherited skin by basic, we all have to face the reality of aging which changes our skin with time. Beautiful skin, no matter what type of skin you have, demands constant care to resist the aging process. The earlier you start, the better. You’ll notice the loss of elasticity first in your neck. This is a warning signal, and the face is next. Massaging properly with moisturizing creams will help tone the underlying muscles of the face and slow down the inevitable. We can’t stop the process of aging, but should do our best to slow it down. Therefore it is essential to maintain a healthy skin that is cleansed, toned, moisturized and cared for everyday of our life.
( Natural recipes of cleansing creams, moisturizing creams, skin refresheners )
Caring for the skin externally is not everything that the skin requires to stay young and beautiful. A nutritious, balanced diet is crucial too. Lots of protein – lean meats, fish, poultry, and eggs – plus fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and adequate quantities of water; all help to keep you strong, healthy and functioning efficiently from the inside. Malfunctioning internally is adversely affected on your skin elasticity, texture and color.
The last but not the least thing to complete your skin care package is exercise. The fitness of the rest of your body is reflected in the appearance of your skin. Exercise stimulates all internal organs to function smoothly. It helps to distribute the nutrients, tones the muscles, and eradicates fatigue and stress.
Care for the health of your whole body from outside to inside. Your skin, and its resulting health and beauty, will surely make you stand out from the crowd.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Cover-ups for Trouble skin
It's much healthier for a trouble skin to go naked (with just a drying agent to aid healing). However, there are times when you want to cover eruptions and the following recipes will allow you to do so, without subjecting your skin to the impurities of makeup.
Neutracolor Cover-up
4 tbsp pure cornstarch
Tiny pinch of neutracolor
1 tbsp witch hazel
1 tbsp camphor water
Mash powders and witch hazel with a mortar and pestle. When it becomes a smooth paste, add camphor water and put in small jar.
Benzoin Cover-up
4 tbsp fuller's earth
2 tbsp rose water
1/2 tsp tincture of benzoin
Mix rose water into talcum to form a paste. Blend in enough tincture of benzoin to get desired shade. When you put this in a jar, it will harden. Wet finger and rub for each application.
Your Own Foundation Cover-up
1 bottle medicated foundation (no rosy shades)
Calamine lotion
Pour 1/3 to 1/2 of the foundation out. Fill bottle with calamine lotion and shake
Beauty in different languages
beauty in Afrikaans is skone
beauty in Chinese is 秀麗
beauty in Dutch is fraaiheid, schoonheid, knapheid
beauty in French is beauté
beauty in German is Schönheit
beauty in Italian is bellezza
beauty in Korean is 아름다움
beauty in Latin is decor, pulchritudo pulchritudinis, forma, venustas
beauty in Portuguese is beleza
beauty in Russian is schoonheid
beauty in Spanish is belleza
Beauty quotes
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.
- Johnann Georg Zimmerman
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.
- Aristotle
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- St. Jerome
Creating from themselves, all beauties are Creators of the beautiful.
- E.H. Burrington
A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eye.
- Le Boyer de Fontenelle
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
- Giovanni Ruffini
Beauty draws us with a single hair.
- Alexander Pope
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
- Publilius
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.
- Blaise Pascal
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
- Saint Augustine
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
- Sophia Loren
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
- Chinese Proverbs
Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson
Eye Creams
The winkle Arrester
3 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
5 tsp coconut oil
3 tsp olive oil
1 tbsp mineral oil
3 oz castor oil
Melt lanolin and coconut oil together. Heat olive, mineral and castor oils in separate pan. Pour oils slowly into lanolin mixture, beating constantly. Neat until cream thickens. Makes approximately 5 oz.
Coconut Butter Cream
2 oz mineral oil
2 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp cocoa butter
Heat together and beat until cool. Make about 3 3/4 oz
Almond Eye Cream
1 oz plus 1 tbsp almond oil
1 oz plus 1 tbsp castor oil
2 tsp anhydrous lanolin
2 tbsp mineral oil
2 tbsp beeswax
Pinch sodium benzoate
Over low heat, melt beeswax and lanolin. Warm the oils in separate pan. Add sodium benzoate to oils and pour mixture into wax mixture. Beat until cool. Makes a little under 4 oz.
Avocado Cream
2 tbsp avocado oil
2 oz castor oil
2 tbsp petroleum jelly2 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly together over low heat. Warm oils and add slowly, beating all the while, to the lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes a little over 4 oz.
Baby Balm
1 1/2 oz mineral oil
1 1/2 oz castor oil
3 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
3 tsp cocoa butter
3 tsp coconut oil
2 tbsp petroleum jelly
Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly over low heat. Heat liquid oils, cocoa butter, and coconut oil and beat into lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes 5 oz.
Ultrarich Eye Gel
2 tbsp petroleum jelly
2 tbsp cocoa butter
2 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly over low heat. Heat cocoa butter and coconut oil together and beat into lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes approximately 3 oz.
Vitamin E Cream for Eyes
1 oz mineral oil
1 oz wheat germ oil
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
2 tsp beeswax
Melt beeswax and lanolin over low heat. Warm oils and beat into wax mixture until cool. Makes about 3 oz.
Sunburn Relievers
Touch of Tea Sunburn Lotion
2 oz strong, dark tea
1 tbsp witch hazel
2 oz glycerin
Shake together in bottle and apply to burned areas.
Green Olive Sunburn Helper
2 oz limewater
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp borax
1/8 tsp tincture of benzoin
Dissolve borax in limewater and shake in bottle with olive oil. Add tincture of benzoin and shake again. Apply to burn. Shake each time before using.
Vitamin A Sunburn Healer
Cod liver Oil
Rub into burned skin; its healing powers are phenomenal.
Lubricating Suntan Oils with No Protection
Citrus Suntan Oil
6 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp oil of bergamot
Shake together in bottle.
Cocoa Butter Cream
2 oz cocoa butter
3 oz petroleum jelly
Melt over low heat. Beat until thick. Put in jar and refrigerate when not in use.
Favorite Perfume Sun Lubricant
6 oz heavy mineral oil
1 tbsp favorite perfume or cologne
Shake together in bottle. Shake before each use.
Baby Brown Suntan Oil
6 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp iodine
Shake together in bottle. Shake before each use.
Sunscreens with Small Amount of Protection
Coconut Suntan Butter
1 1/2 oz coconut oil
1 1/2 oz cocoa butter
Melt and beat together. Pour into jar and store in refrigerator. Don’t be concerned if it melts in the sun. Refrigerate when not in use.
Favorite Perfume Sun Oil
3 oz mineral oil
3 oz poppyseed oil
1 tbsp favorite perfume or cologne
Shake together in bottle and refrigerate when not in use.
Peanut Butter Suntan Oil
2 Peanut oil
1 oz cocoa butter
1 tbsp oil of bergamot
Warm oils. Melt cocoa butter and stir into oil mixture. Let cool, and oil of bergamot, and pour into bottle. Refrigerate when not in use.
Coconut Sun Oil
3 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp oil of bergamot
Melt coconut oil. Warm mineral oil, stir together, and cool. Add oil of bergamot and pour into bottle. Refrigerate when not in use.
Cocoa Butter Sunscreen
3 oz cocoa butter
2 oz olive oil
1 oz cottonseed oil
Warm oils together. Melt cocoa butter over low heat and stir into oils. Cool, bottle, and refrigerate. Don’t be concerned if oil hardens in refrigerator; it will melt again in the sun.