Monday, 30 April 2012

You Are What You Eat


What ever we eat, directly results on our skin, our health and beauty are directly affected by the food we consume. The more the food is clean and toxic free the more the skin is protected from various damages and disease. Healthy diet increases longevity, and keeps us looking and feeling younger.

  • ·       High consumption of sugar results in puffiness, redness, excessive oil or dryness and generally poor complexions.  Circulation of sugar in blood irritates the blood vessels and creates inflammation in the body, thus try to avoid food, which has high sugar value, and shift your diet to brown rice, brown bread and multigrain bread.
  • ·       Adequate protein is necessary to make proteoglycans, such as hyaluronic acid. Proteoglycan molecules help moisturize the skin from the inside. You can pick up proteins from smoothies, egg white omelets or frittatas, lox, plain yogurt or low-fat, low-sodium turkey sausage. Vegetarians need to focus on eating a variety of plant proteins such as brown rice, nuts and legumes
  • ·       Consumption of vegetables is essential as they are most concentrated source of antioxidants, which are necessary as they protect the cells from radical oxidative damages. Antioxidants also help in reducing aging by preventing cell death.
  • ·       Consume at least 300 grams of fruits as fruits contains high nutrition value and compliments your body in various task of a day after all an apple a day keeps the doctor away.  

Friday, 27 April 2012

5 beauty habits which are bad for health


  1. Stress Less : The more you take stress the more it affects your health, some of the health issues which are noticed are depression, diabetes, hair loss, heart disease, hyperthyroidism, obesity, obsessive-compulsive or anxiety disorder, sexual dysfunction, tooth and gum disease, ulcers and cancer
  2. Sleep with your make- up on can result in dull, breakout-prone skin. Leaving on your eye makeup could cause eye irritation and broken lashes but above all restricts your skin to breath. So before going to bed one should rinse her face or should use make removers in order to clean the pores.
  3. Steaming: To much of steaming results in more production and break out of oil in the body.
  4. Over-plucking your eyebrows: over plucking of eyebrows results in weakening the hairs to the stage where they might not grow back, thus, eyebrows should be down in the beauty saloon by professionals in order to maintain adequate growth and retain the shape.
  5. Putting rubber band around your hairs: The elastic band which is used by women on regular basis results in cuts into the hair shaft, but removing it also removes some of the hairs from the scalp.

Monday, 23 April 2012

SKIN RASHES AND THE HOME TREATMENT"

Skin rashes is one of the skin problems which generally bothers both the sex of the society. The red bumps on the skin which changes the textures are known as rashes which are the results of conditions. Some of the rashes which generally occurs are Seborrheic dermatitis ( It produces a red, scaling eruption that characteristically affects the scalp, forehead, brows, cheeks, and external ears), Atopic dermatitis (Commonly found in asthma and hay fever patients. They are red, itchy, weeping rashes on the inner aspects of the elbows and in back of the knees as well as the cheeks, neck, wrists, and ankles.), Contact dermatitis ( It is either caused by contact with a specific chemical to which the patient is allergic or with a substance that directly irritates the skin) and many more.
But one has to not to worry because the rashes can be easily treated at home following below mentioned tips.



  • chamomile tea is one of the herbal tea which can be used to treat rashes, one has to wash the affected area with the tea. 
  • Olive oil can be applied to the affected area as the oil contains complex characteristics.
  • Apart from olive oil one can also eliminate the effects of rashes by applying  cod liver oil and vitamin E to the affected area.
  • Like Sunburn, one can take oatmeal bath for relief.
  • If almond grows in your garden than you can apply the leaves to the effective area and can enjoy immediate relief.
  • Vitamin C strong antioxidant properties that can help heal rashes and reduce the chances of subsequent allergic reaction.

Friday, 20 April 2012

Trying hard to loose weight??

If you are trying really hard to reduce your weight but no results are coming up than i believe you should change a little bit of your daily routine and try the one which i believes will work.

Of course if we are looking forward to reduce weight one has to stop consuming high fat content food consumption and keep eating fresh fruits and vegetables which contains more of water.

Eating fresh fruits and vegetables balances the nutritious value in the body and helps reducing fat in a gradual and efficient way.

When it comes to exercise, one should at least dedicate an hour time to do exercises which can be either walking, jogging  and aerobics. Yoga is ultimately the best one to loose weight without effecting your health.

Never go out empty stomach in terms of shopping, work or personal because the more you are empty stomach the more you buy fatting snacks, beverages and alcholols etc which in returns add more weight to the body.

Our physical actions are based on our mental thoughts, thus, one should stay healthy in terms of his thoughts. Tend to keep the health concept instead of diet for better results. 

Monday, 16 April 2012

5 Easy Steps to Get Rid of Black Heads

Get rid of the black heads in five easy steps.
1. Apply a face scrub gently to the skin in order to remove dead cells.
2. Safe guard your skin from dust and dirt when ever you are out in the streets.
3. Cleanser should be applied regularly
4. Apply tomato pulp to the black head affected area for 5 - 10 minutes and wash off with water. Do it once a week, tomato has cleansing properties.
5.Black head indicates that your skin is dehydrated so drink good amount of water everyday.