Oatmeal Benefits for the Hair

Hello ladies!

 How to Use Oatmeal for the Hair, The title was somehow weird for me, but I was curious to watch it and know how to use oatmeal for DIY hair treatments. The idea was so simple, and can easily be done at your own kitchen.

First, let me tell you a little about oatmeal benefits for skin and hair:

1) Oatmeal is a great source of fiber. Fiber of oatmeal balances cholesterol levels, which help protect you from heart diseases.

Homemade Hair Mask Recipes from Around the World

I have been using henna for dying my hair for years now, and I am very glad that I did!

When I was searching for DIY hair masks, I found that henna along with other ingredients are the best natural hair treatment that you can give for your hair. Bad hair routine may cause problems to your hair.

Today, I decided to write about healthy hair routine and share DIY hair masks recipes from around the world, so let us start!

Healthy Hair Routine

1. How often should you wash your hair?

This depends mainly on your hair type and the surrounding environment. If you have normal to dry hair, you may wash your hair once or twice a week. If you have oily hair, you may need to wash it more frequently. In spring here in the Middle East, when it is windy, the air becomes full of dust and pollution particles, which will accumulate on hair, and makes it more necessary to wash hair more often.

10 Effective Homemade Shampoo Recipes for Beautiful Hair

Synthetic shampoos are full of harmful chemicals which degrade our hair quality instead of improving it. No need to worry as we have an ultimate solution – “Homemade Shampoos”: – These have an edge over those synthetic harmful shampoos.

You can bring in use many of the stuff lying in your kitchen to make a good natural shampoo recipe tailored for your needs. The benefits of making your own shampoo are that you can use all natural ingredients and avoid all the irritant chemicals which  commercial makers use, scent it any way you want, and customize it to suit your hair’s needs. Do I need to say more?

These are some of the best and easy homemade shampoo recipes:
1). For Normal Hair.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup distilled water.
• 1/4 cup liquid Castile Soap- you have a choice between scented and unscented.
• 1/2 teaspoon jojoba, grapeseed, or other light vegetable oil.

Mix together all the ingredients.  Store in a bottle.  Shake before use.

10 Tips to Grow Healthier and Stronger Nails

Nails can speak a lot about a person’s health. Nail care can be simple and inexpensive. If you take a close look at your nails, you can identify if there are any undesirable conditions. Most people overlook the importance of nail care, simply because they are not aware of how crucial it is. Choosing to avoid certain products with harmful toxins, regular nail treatment and being cautious of everything you do with or for your nails will help you enjoy your health thoroughly. But, whether your nails are healthy or need attention, these 10 things are very important for a lifetime.

Do you want to avoid any trouble or find answers to your existing concerns?

Then this is just for you! Read on.

#1 Keep them Dry And Clean

Nails can start becoming weak and fragile when they are always wet and moist. Over exposure of it can cause various nail problems like fungal infections and ignorance in such cases may result in having a serious and long lasting impact. Consider using a hand towel and dry your hands after washing them, because fungus grows in moist places can spread more easily in wet conditions. Knowing the facts of hand hygiene can help you act accordingly to avoid infection.

5 Tips to Avoid Stretch Marks

Stretch marks are often associated with pregnancy however the truth is, anyone can get stretch marks during any rapid periods of growth. These can include weight gain, muscle gain, pregnancy, and even just going through puberty. Especially if you are genetically prone to having stretch marks.

What Exactly Are Stretch Marks?

Stretch marks are caused when the elastic layer of your skin tears during periods of weight gain. They can be all different sizes and lengths and generally start off as a reddish or purplish color. Then over time they generally fade to a silvery color. Stretch marks are commonly seen on the stomach, thighs, upper arms, and / or breasts. While there is nothing wrong with having stretch marks and they are far more common than you would think. We have included some tips to help you avoid stretch marks from occurring in the first place.

3 Ways to Increase Collagen Levels in Your Skin

What is the number one natural thing that gives your skin a plumper and smoother appearance?

I believe the first thing that would pop up in your mind is collagen; it has the ability to plump up your skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines and make wrinkles less deep.

When you are young, your skin is smooth and young looking, but as you get older, fine lines and wrinkles start to appear. At a very late age, those who did not take a good care of their skin may end up with a wrinkled skin just like an elephant!

Have you ever wondered what collagen is? And how you can supply your skin with new collagen?

Let me answer these questions for you.

Flaunt Your Hair with Super Foods

The condition of your hair is a mirror to your overall health. They are a vital part of your personality and everybody loves lustrous hair. However, we often forget the role of diet in the health of our hair. Deficiency of nutrients in the body can be directly related to thin, dry, falling and unhealthy hair. No shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, or serum can affect hair better than a healthy diet. Thus, it is necessary to add some super foods to your diet for healthy hair.

Here is a list of a few super foods, which have the necessary nutrients not only useful in enhancing the health of your hair but also your overall health. Especially, women should not miss including these super foods in their diet.

Super Foods for Healthy Hair

• Green Veggies: Asparagus is very healthy as it’ packed with B complex, folic acid and vitamins that help body absorb protein faster; protein is crucial for growth of healthy hair. Other varieties of dark green veggies like broccoli, spinach, and kale are all major sources of Vitamin A and C. These vitamins basically produce sebum, which is very good in conditioning hair. These should be a part of your daily diet.

4 Amazing Benefits of Lemon Water for Your Skin

Lemon water, which is made by squeezing the juice of lemons into a glass of water, is a sour and refreshing drink which comes with a host of benefits. While many cultures claimed that lemon water benefits for skin are huge, modern science has now verified these magical properties.

This makes the seemingly innocuous drink a good way to replenish and rejuvenate the skin. No wonder then so many cosmetic products today contain substances derived from lemons as their active ingredients. Here, we list a few of the advantages of the mildly colored drink.

Lemon water benefits for your skin

How To Add An Anti-Aging Regimen To Your Daily Routine?

Anti-aging skin care techniques don’t begin and end with your nightly beauty routine. Although cleaning, moisturizing and exfoliating are all important ways to keep your skin looking younger, there are other surprising secrets to youthful skin. In her book The Beauty of Food, Hanan talks about standout foods for anti-Aging beauty enhancement.

Here are our top five favorite anti-aging skin care tips.
Moisturize

One of the best-kept secrets to keeping your skin look young and vibrant is to moisturizer. This simple tip can take years off your skin – aging skin loses collagen, which leads to wrinkled, sagging and dull skin. Even drugstore moisturizers, especially those containing shea butter or glycerin, can help plump up fine lines and wrinkles and give your skin a lovely glow. However, for the greatest benefit, opt for a moisturizer with antioxidants and retinol. There are hundreds of products on the market, so shop around to find a daily lotion or night cream that fits your skin care needs.

Everyday Beauty Tips for Women

Look gorgeous! Dazzle the world around you. The connection of beauty and women is as old as the human race itself. We’ve heard of Cleopatra bathing in goat milk and honey in her marble tub and we’ve heard of women using bullock’s bile, whipped ostrich eggs and resin etc. Thankfully, skincare is not as complicated today. You have a plethora of beauty products that help you maintain your prettiness, enhance it, and also help skin recover from the damage afflicted due to several causes.

The first step towards a resplendent face is clear, healthy skin.

Here are a few basics, perhaps you’ve heard of them a number of times, yet their importance remain as high as ever.

5 Natural Skin Care Products You Should Try

When it comes to shopping skin care products, I always end up buying things I was not planning to buy, and forgetting what I went shopping for! The huge variety of products always makes me feel dizzy; even when I try to avoid big shops. With the huge variety of products, it is a big challenge for most of us to choose the best skin care product.

Therefore, I had to do something about that. And I came up  with a pretty small but very valuable list of natural skin care products, some of which are paraben free, others include my favorite ingredient ” Shea Butter” as the main ingredient, and some of which are multi task, thus saving money, Yuppie!

So let us get started…….

Your Insider’s Guide to the Right Moisturizer for Your Skin

For a 30 something woman, hiding my real age has become a big challenge!

I am always trying to find the most natural and effective skin care products. But every time I visit a local store to buy a moisturizer, I find it very difficult to choose from the huge number of “miracle”, “ultimate solution”, “The best”, “Anti-Aging”, “Magical”…. products that I find there.

So when it comes to choosing the best moisturizer for my skin, the choices are endless. Yet, there are plenty of things to take into consideration, like my skin type, my age, and many more. Do not you agree?

Well, I spent the past few weeks searching and reading about the best moisturizers for your skin. What you are about to read, is NOT a list of “The Top 10 moisturizers to choose from“; it is a guide to how to choose the best moisturizer for your own skin.

What Causes Dry Winter Skin? And How You Can deal With it?

Each time it gets cold, my skin starts to get dry, flaky, or itchy, sometimes all three together! That is annoying, and even sometimes painful, especially the itchy part. And what makes my situation worse, is that I can’t avoid using soap especially that I have four children, so I have to wash my hands a lot, whether I am preparing our meal, helping my little son washing his hands, or even giving one of them a bath. Soap is good for killing germs, but it hurts a lot when it touches the dry skin.

That is why we need to learn how to treat dry skin, so let us get started!

What is Dry Skin?

Our skin generates new skin cells on a regular basis. Dead skin cells should shed in order for new living skin cells to take place. If dead skin cells failed to shed, dead cells will accumulate on the surface of your skin, forming what we know as dry skin.

What Kind of Skincare Products Should You Use in Winter?

As I am one of those who used to suffer from dry skin in every winter. Itchy, flaky skin has become a common scenario every winter for my poor skin.

After disparately trying many products, I finally realized that all matters is the kind of skin care products and not the number of skin care products I use. So, if you are one of those who have a bathroom cabinet full of skin care products, that you tend to apply on your face and body every night, hoping that you will wake up with a baby soft skin, please, read this post first.

The most important part of curing any skin problem is to understand the causes of that problem. If your cleanser irritates your skin, try to switch to a mild cleanser. If you take very hot showers, try to cool the water a little bit or shower for a shorter time. Thus, if you could know what causes dryness to your skin, you will be able to cure your skin and maintain the number one defense system against the environmental dangers.

Easy Skin Care Regimen for Dry skin

Dry can be the worst nightmare for your skin, and when talking about dry skin, this could mean more than just dryness, for many people the result is dry skin that cracks and bleeds, it hurts and is not pretty at all! That is why a skin care regimen for dry skin is highly recommended, especially in winter.

Dry skin can occur on different parts of your body, including your face, elbows, hands, lips, and feet. It is important to learn what causes your skin to dry. And If you maintain a regular skin care regimen, you will prevent the formation of flaky skin.

Skin care regimen for your dry skin

Dry flaky face

What could be worse than a dry flaky face? Fortunately, there are few easy things you can do about it.

Exfoliating or Cleansing Your Skin, which One Should you do First?

In order to keep my skin clean and healthy looking, I cleanse my face with a mild cleanser then exfoliate my skin using Simple Beauty Minerals Jojoba scrub. Especially at night, when I am wearing makeup,I make sure to remove it all before I go to bed. Even when using one of my DIY scrubs, like my favorite yogurt facemask, I always cleanse then exfoliate my skin. I do not remember where I read about that first, but most brands recommend cleansing first. It was not until I received some products from Simple Beauty Minerals that I noticed that Lisa, the owner of the brand with a 30+ experience in the beauty industry, recommends exfoliating first.

Therefore, I did some research, and I was surprised by the facts I found!

Simple Homemade Beauty Tips

Homemade beauty tips are always fun and easy to make. You can enjoy trying them out with your friends or alone. They cannot be wrong, and you do not need to worry about side effects, and most of all they are affordable, especially that most of those beauty remedies can be found in your kitchen!

There are mainly six homemade beauty tips you should be aware of, and here they are:

1. Exfoliation:

Olive Oil and Sugar Exfoliator

There is no need to spend $$$ on body scrubs while you can get the desired result with much cheaper and safer way.

You can use simple homemade beauty tips such as using olive oil mixed with coarse sugar to scrub your face and your entire body. Coarse sugar is much better than salt, which may dehydrate or irritate your skin. Olive oil will moisturize your skin, so it becomes soft and clean. Your skin will absorb the olive oil faster than you think.

5 Beautifying Avocado Recipes

This week I was planning to write about avocados homemade face masks, but while I was reading about avocados, I thought that writing about avocado recipes would be a good idea. Experts always say that a healthy diet helps to nourish your skin from the inside, out. In our case, this is 100% true!

Today, I will tell you about some delicious avocado recipes from all around the world. Specialist recommends some of those recipes, too :)

If you are still not sure about what to cook dinner today, I have some good suggestions for you.

Beautifying Avocado Recipes

Mediterranean Mtabbal Avocado recipe.

10 Amazing Turmeric Benefits For Youthful Skin & Great Hair

Turmeric, commonly known as Haldi in India, is a spice with multiple uses.It is widely used in India and China for curing many diseases, this yellow spice, which is part of the ginger family, is used to make Curry.  Though the main usage still remains as being the chief ingredient in Indian culinary tradition, this wonder product of nature surely has many more impressive qualities. Turmeric is used in innumerable ways as from generations it has a lot of benefits for skin and hair.

Turmeric, both in the raw as well as the powdered form is widely used for cooking and many forms of skincare. Turmeric has been known to contain numerous antioxidants as well as antibacterial properties. Giving you amazing benefits for your skin, hair and health.

12 Reasons You Should be Using Ghee

Every nation has its own secret beauty ingredient. While its green tea in China and the Far East, it is argan oil in Morocco, olive oil in the Mediterranean, turmeric and ghee in India, and many more. I did not know about ghee as a beauty ingredient until I received MIRATI night cream, which was a pleasant experience for me, you can read my full review here.

That made me curious about learning what exactly is ghee, so I browsed through the Internet and found some interesting facts that I would love to share with you :)

So What is Ghee?

According to Wikipedia “Ghee is a class of clarified butter that originated in India and is commonly used in Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi, Nepali and Sri Lankan cuisine, traditional medicine, and religious rituals.”

Clarified butter means that ghee is derived from butter. While ghee has similar properties to that of butter, it is not totally the same as butter.

11 Lemon Beauty Uses You Should Know

Many times on my blog, I mentioned the importance of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a perfect anti-oxidant for many skin issues like brightening your skin, fading age spots, fighting radicals that damage your skin, and many more.

As a mother of 4 children, sometimes I have no time to make my own brightening mask, so I apply vitamin C serum. (Read my reviews for some good vitamin C serums here)  But when I have extra few minutes, I like to mix few ingredients from my kitchen and make my own homemade face mask.

One of the most famous vegetables that contains vitamin C, is lemon. And in this infographic, there are many beauty uses for lemon including brightening your skin, curing acne and blackheads, promoting the production of collagen, and nail strengthener.

The Beauty of Food: Using Food for Beautiful You

“Beauty is how you FEEL inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is NOT something physical” – Sophia Loren

Being beautiful, and believing that you are beautiful, are two deferent things. Have you ever met a woman without those beauty standards that most believe in, but still felt and saw that she is beautiful? That is because a woman does not have to be the world miss universe to be beautiful, she needs to take care of herself and believe that she is beautiful, that what matters most.

When I look in the mirror, I see a beautiful smile, a confident woman, and smart eyes. What about you? What do you see?

The Main Pros And Cons Of The Paleo Diet

Dieting is something that people have a tendency to do on a regular basis. This is when people often will jump ship from their current diet and start to explore a new diet. Before people do this, though, they should know the pros and cons of a diet plan, since even an older diet plan like the Paleo diet will often require people to make some changes. With those changes being made, people need to know more information about what the changes are and how these changes are going to affect them and their life…

Pros Of The Paleo Diet

Removal of the foods that are going to be filled with the additives and other artificial items that you may not want to have in your diet. With the Paleo diet, your food is going to be somewhat limited to more of the foods that you can pick and eat or certain types of meats. With the limited selected of foods in the diet, you will notice none of them are going to have the foods that have artificial items, which means your diet will be somewhat chemical free.

Helpful Anti-Aging Tips That Worth Your Try

anti-aging tipsAging is a natural process. The signs of aging start showing on your body and your skin in the form of lines and dark spots. However, this does not mean that you cannot do anything to keep a youthful appearance. In fact, there are a number of things that can help you in looking and feeling young.

Here are a few anti-aging tips to help you look younger as you grow older…

One of the first things you need to do is to take excellent care of your skin. You may use a natural cleanser product to get rid of any make-up. It is also important to use moisturizer on a daily basis. Your skin needs moisture constantly and it is recommended to start using moisturizer even before you get older.

The Beauty Of Food Guide By Hanan – Our Full Review

Hi and welcome to our review on “The Beauty of Food” by Hanan.

Like always, this review will be divided into 3 main parts:

1. The basics section where we explain what you can expect to find inside The Beauty of Food book.

2. The pros and cons section that features the most important advantages and disadvantages that we believe you should know on Hanan’s guide.

3. The conclusions section where we talk about our final thoughts and feelings on The Beauty of Food.

Pleasant reading :)