Home Remedies for Dry Skin

1. Mix 1/4th teaspoon turmeric powder with one teaspoon of fresh milk cream (Malai) and few drops of lime juice. Apply this mixture upon your face, massage your face till five minutes. Wash it off with like warm water.

2. An excellent remedy for dry skin is the juice of cabbage leaves with little bit of yeast dissolved init mixed with honey. Apply this mixture thickly over your face and neck. After 15 minutes remove it with cotton wool soaked in water.

3. To improve the complexion:- soak few almonds over night – peal the skin and grind to a paste mix with one spoon of gram flour one tea spoon of fresh un boiled milk and few drops of lime juice. Make a thick paste and apply on face and neck. Leave it for 15 minutes. Then message gently into the skin until it comes off. Rinse face with cold water.

4. Treatment for rough and dry skin: -A few drops of coconut oil, ¼ teaspoon turmeric, a teaspoon of green gram floor mix together for thick paste. Apply every day at bath time. After it dries take a bath.

5. Mix 2 crushed almonds, spoon full egg white, few drops of honey and 1 spoon of grated coconut into a paste. Apply this mixture on your face. Wash off with cold water (after it dries)

6. Mix 2 spoon of milk powder + few drops of lime + 1 spoon of glycerin + turmeric and milk cream. Apply it on the face. After 15 to 20 mins. Wash off with luke warm water.

7. Face pack: Mix few drops of lime juice, 1 teaspoon of olive oil and yilk of egg mix together. Apply on your face for ½ an hour.

8. For rough and dry skin: - scrap one carrot and squeeze the juice from it. Apply on your face. After ½ an hour, wash the face.

9. For children dry skin problem: - just apply milk before bath. Any one can do this. After bath use any cream/moisturizers.

10. for any kind of face pack, mix it with egg yolk. This is for dry skin problem. White egg is excellent for oily skin.

Dry skin care:

Daily use a lot of moisturizer base.

Avoid using astringent
Massage the skin with almond oil or olive oil.
Use almond base face packs
Juice of red radish, cauliflower can be excellent remedy for dry skin.
Drink 3-4 liters of water daily.
Use a lot of fruit juice in your daily diet.
Daily exercise of any form (yoga, aerobics), walking can be very beneficial for overall skin.


HOW BLEACHING CREAMS FARE

How do “fairness” creams work? And how does one get the best out of them?


Some tips:

How do these creams work?

Beauticians insist that they only help bleach facial hair, thus making the complexion appear fairer.

Dermatologists point out that one’s complexion is determined by the presence of the extent of melanin beneath the skin. One’s complexion tends to darken when one goes out in the sun because of melanin synthesis in sunlight. Melanin can not be permanently bleached, although the complexion can be considerably lightened for a short time by the regular use of fairness creams.

The result of survey regarding the usage of bleaching creams by women

90% of the women bleached for a fair complexion and only 10% of women bleached to camouflage superfluous hair.

Those between 13 years to 16 years bleach occasionally. Those between 16 to 40 years bleach actively. Those over 40 years of age bleach passively.

Some tips on bleaching

One should not bleach very often.
Once in a month should be fine.
Always conduct a patch test on the elbow when you use the product for the first time.
Do not bleach after a hot bath.
Leave the skin free to breath for 6 to 8 hours after bleaching. It is always best to bleach the skin at evening or in the night.
Use little less of ammonia crystals than recommended on the face. Use a little more of the crystals on your hands and legs.
If one feels a burning sensation, or there are allergy marks on the face, gently rub coconut oil on the affected area and wash it off with cold water, can do a gentle message with face powder for 10 to 15 minutes and leave it on the face. One can rub ice over the effected allergic area for 10 to 15 minutes or little longer till the reaction subsides.
If one comes across a defective bleaching cream, one should complain to the food and drug administration authorities who administer the drugs and cosmetics acr.1940. The address of the authority should be available locally from the telephone directory.