Anti-Aging Home Remedies

Here are a few anti-aging tips to help your skin looking younger and radiant:

• Coconut Oil/Coconut Milk: Apply a few drop of coconut oil or coconut milk on your skin half an hour before you shower to keep your skin looking younger and to get a natural glow.
• Castor Oil: Castor oil helps combat wrinkles. It is usually very thick. Apply a few drops of your skin and leave on for half an hour before washing. Feel your smooth and glowing skin.
• Lemon Juice: Lemon juice helps to fade away blemishes and age spots.
• Potato Juice: Grate some potato and squeeze the juice out. Applying this juice will help reduce under eye dark circles as well as acne scars and age spots.
• Olive Oil: Massaging a few drops of olive oil on face and hair gives you a youthful glow and shinny hair.
• Almond Oil:Almond oil is am effective remedy for wrinkles.
• Jojoba Oil: Jojoba oil works wonders on your skin, combats wrinkles, soothes your skin and gives you a radiant glow.
• Avocado: Mash a piece of avocado and apply on face as an anti-aging treatment.
• Banana: Banana is a good anti-wrinkle treatment. Mash a banana and apply the banana mask on your face and leave on for 30 minutes. Wash with lukewarm water to get a refreshed skin.
• Pineapple Juice: Juice from the core of the pineapple helps reduce wrinkling.
• Apple: Apple mask also helps delay skin aging.

Naturally Grow Eye Lashes

Long eyelashes always add beauty to you. A good balanced diet is essential to maintaining healthy and long lashes. Here are a few ways which can help you grow long lashes:

• Apply a drop of olive oil on your lash and leave it overnight. This nourishes your lash and helps it grow
• Apply castor oil on your lashes to help it grow longer and thicker.
• Apply a drop of almond oil to nourish your lashes.
• Apply some vitamin E oil to your eyelashes and leave it overnight to encourage growth.
• Add diets rich in zinc, B-vitamins such as B-6, biotin, folic acid and beta carotene,silica and magnesium to your diet which encourage hair growth
• Drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated always

Natural Home Made Skin Cleansers

A clean skin is the key to healthy and blemish free skin. Here are some simple home made cleansers that are easy to make at home to have a clean and clear skin.

• Milk: The lactic acid in milk is an excellent cleanser. Apply with a cotton ball all over the face and wash off after a few minutes
• Honey and Milk Cleanser: Mix together milk and honey and apply on face. The anti-bacterial action of honey gives you a clean and beautifully blemish free skin.
• Cucumber juice: Is an excellent skin cleanser.
• Potato: Juice of a potato also helps clean your skin.
• Oat Meal:Clean with ground oatmeal for a refreshed skin.
• Corn Meal: Corn meal is very effective to cleanse the skin.
• Yogurt: Yogurt is a good and natural skin cleanser. Apply on face and leave it for 20 minutes. Wash off with warm water and pat dry.
• Chickpea or Channa Flour: Mix chick pea flour with cream for a thorough face cleanse.

Natural ways to Exfoliate your skin at home

Regular exfoliation is key to healthy glowing skin. Exfoliation removes the unwanted dead cells and debris from your skin and encourages clean, new and better looking skin. Exfoliation helps keep pores clear and is essential to keep black spots and white heads at bay. Exfoliation also helps remove excess oil from oily skin keeping it clean and discourages clogging. It also helps remove dullness and gives you a bright and beautiful skin. But be sure not to exfoliate too much. Once or twice a week depending on your skin type should be more than enough.

Here are some simple ways to naturally exfoliate your skin at home:

Facial Scrubs:

• Honey facial Scrub: Apply honey evenly on face and scrub gently. Leave on for 10 minutes and wet your palm and scrub on for a few more minutes and wash off. Honey's antibacterial property helps acne prone skin and leaves your skin soft and looking and feeling great.
• Milk Scrub: Apply milk evenly on skin. Lactic acid in milk acts as a natural exfoliant leaving you with a clean skin. It also helps remove some tan from sun damage and lightens your skin.
• Oatmeal scrub: Oatmeal is only of nature's wonder for skin. It helps exfoliate and at the same time moisturize your skin. This can be used for all kinds of skin types and works wonders on your skin. There are several ways to make a oatmeal scrub for your face. Here are a few:
  
  • Slightly grind oats to get a coarse meal. Mix this with milk and apply evenly all over the face. Start scrubbing your skin in circular motion. Once you are done leave it on your face for a few minutes and wash off with warm water. The lactic acid in milk also helps exfoliate and remove all dirt and debris from the skin. The oatmeal facial scrub removes all the dead cells and gives you a clean and youthful looking skin.
  • Grind together almonds and oatmeal and mix it with yogurt and use as a facial scrub.
  • Mix ground oatmeal with lemon juice and use as facial scrub
  • Mix together ground oatmeal and honey and use as facial scrub. The antibacterial property of honey also helps acne prone skin.
  • Mix an egg white with oatmeal powder and apply on your face and start scrubbing. Leave it for 15-20 minutes till it dries out. Slightly spray warm water and scrub again. Then wash off with lukewarm water. This will remove dullness and give a new glow to your face.
• Wheat Germ Scrub: Combine together wheat germ and honey to form a excellent facial scrub
• Almond Scrub: Add honey and lemon juice to ground almond and use as a scrub to get glowing and flawless skin.
• Mung Dal Scrub: Grind Mung Dal (found in most Indian and Chinese grocery stores) and add a pinch of turmeric powder. Take a spoonful of this powder and mix it with milk and use it as scrub to remove excessive oiliness from skin and have a smooth clear skin.
• Channa Flour Scrub: To remove dirt from face, make a paste of cold milk and Channa flour (found in most Indian grocery stores). Apply on face and let it dry. After it dries, wet with some water and scrub gently. Rinse off with warm water.

Body Scrubs:

• Sugar Scrub:
  • Mix together sugar and olive oil to form an excellent body scrub. Use this to scrub down your whole body focusing on the dry areas like elbows, knees and foot for smooth youthful skin. Doing this once a month works wonders on your skin.
  • Mix together lemon juice, honey and sugar to get an excellent body scrub. It is good for acne prone skin and helps remove blackheads.
• Salt Scrub: In the same way mix together salt and olive oil to exfoliate your whole body.
• Coffee Scrub: Combine together ground coffee and buttermilk to make a excellent body scrub
• Lemon Scrub: Cut lemon in half. Add a couple of teaspoons of salt to a bowl. Dip the lemon in salt and rub on your body for a good exfoliation.

Tips on exfoliating:

• Always remember to rub gently on your skin while exfoliating. Never rub vigorously. It can damage your skin.
• Even though most natural products are mild on your skin it is a good idea to test your scrubs on a small area of your skin for sensitiveness and irritations before applying to whole face or body.

Easy and Natural ways to get fair and bright skin

Here are some simple home remedies to lighten your skin tone caused by sun damage and get a glowing, bright and fair skin:

• Apply lemon juice on the face. It helps to lighten the skin tone and blackness due to mild sun damage.
• Cut a tomato and rub it on the face. Leave it for 15 minutes and rinse off. This will give you a bright glowing skin.
• Make a mask by mashing some ripe papaya and apply of face. Rinse off after 30 minutes.
• Make a paste of milk, Channa flour and turmeric. Apply on face and let it dry. Wash off after 30 minutes.
• Apply the juice of mint and lemon juice on areas with acne scars to even skin tone and fade away scars.
• Make a paste with 2 tsp of Yogurt, turmeric powder and lemon juice and apply on affected areas. Rinse off with warm water after 30 minutes.

Homemade Facial Fruit Masks

Fruit Masks are very easy to make with simple ingredients. They have wonderful benefits for your skin like cleansing the skin, making it softer, lighten skin tone, reduce large pores, hydrate the skin and make it more elastic. They also cost less and gives you good skin care on a budget.

Here are a few fruit masks:

Peach Mask
Remove the skin from a peach and mash it with. Apply this paste directly on skin and leave it for 30 minutes. Rinse off with warm water. This mask helps to tighten pores and give you a glowing skin.

Apple Mask
Apple masks are very good to cleanse the skin and make it more elastic.Remove skin from apple and mash it to form a paste. Add a few spoons of green tea to this and apply on face. This mask is an excellent anti-oxidant and helps reduce the effects of aging on the skin and helps you look youthful.

Papaya Facial Mask
Remove seeds from a ripe slice of papaya and puree it by adding green tea.Add a few drops of honey to this. Apply evenly on face and leave it for 30 minutes.Rinse off with warm water. This enzymes in papaya are very good for your skin.This removes oiliness from face and removes dead cells and gives you a glowing youthful skin.

Banana Facial Mask
Take a small portion of a ripe banana and mash with some honey.Apply evenly on face and leave it for 30 minutes. Rinse off.This mask is cleansing and very good for dry skin.

Tea Tree Oil Acne Treatment

Tea Tree Oil has tons of beneficial medical properties including anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-septic properties. These medical properties makes it an excellent option for natural acne treatment.

Pure tea tree oil is very concentrated and can cause skin irritation. So it is best used when it is diluted with other oils like jojoba oil or olive oil. Make a 10% dilution of tea tree oil and 90% jojoba oil and apply on acne prone areas. The antibacterial qualities of tea tree oil will help reduce the appearance of acne and clear your skin.

5% dilution of tea tree oil with your shampoo can also help with dandruff and in turn help with your acne problem.

Like any other natural remedy tea tree oil treatment for acne takes a little longer time but will work wonders on your skin.

Good Skin directly related to Good digestion

What you are outside is a reflection of what your are inside. Good skin is a reflection of a good digestive system.If your body is successfully able to eliminate waste products and toxins from your body you will naturally have a clear glowing skin. Here are some of the simple tips to improve your digestion, preventing constipation and improving your bodies ability to flush all toxins out:

Water: Drink plenty of water. Water hydrates the body, flushes impurities form the body and gives you a clear and glowing complexion.

Fiber: Adding enough fiber to your diet helps improve digestion and eliminating toxins.
Daily fiber recommendation:

• Men (<50>
• Men (>50 years) - 30 grams/day
• Women (<50>
• Women (>50 years) - 21 grams/day

Here are some suggestions to add fiber to your diet:

1. Add whole grains to your diet.
2. Add beans and legumes.
3. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
4. Eat wheat/oat bran to your breakfast.
5. Add 2 tbs of ground flax seed to your diet.
6. Snack on pop corns.
7. Add high fiber fruits like prunes.

Exercise: Another keep for good digestion and eliminating toxins is to stay active throughout your day. Aim for a minimum of 45 minutes of active workout in a day.

Natural Remedies for Premature Grey Hair

There might be many reasons for premature greying of hair like stress, improper nutrition, hereditary, poor blood circulation, external factors, chemicals used on hair, aging, medications taken, lack of vitamins, lack of sleep etc. Proper nutrition, cleanliness and good rest are key for healthy hair. After those are addressed, there are a few simple natural remedies that are believed to help remedy premature greying. Here are a few of those:

Curry leaves
Regular addition of curry leaves is believed to prevent premature greying of hair and make it healthier. Curry leaves can also be boiled with coconut oil to make a healthy hair tonic. Regularly massaging the root of hair with this oil also prevents premature greying. They juice can also be extracted from curry leaves by adding little water and this can be used to condition hair after washing it to help prevent greying.

Amla or Indian Gooseberry
Amla is full of vital nutrients required for a healthy hair. Regularly eating Indian Gooseberry, making a hair tonic with coconut oil or conditioning hair with the juice from Amla, all help in preventing premature greying of hair.

Almond Oil
Regular massage of hair root follicles is also believed to improve circulation and prevent premature greying.

Butter
Massaging hair roots with butter is also believed to help prevent premature greying.

Natural ways to reduce under eye dark circles

Here are some natural and easy to do remedies for under eye dark circles:

Cucumber: Slice a chilled cucumber and place it on both eyes and rest for 15 minutes. Do this 2 to 3 times a week and see the dark circles and puffiness of the eyes disappear.

Green Tea: Place green tea bags over eyes and rest for 10 minutes to see an improvement of both dark circle and puffiness.

Potato: Grate a slice of potato and dip a cotton ball in the juice and place over the dark circle. This is a very effective method to get rid of dark circles.

Almond Oil: Massage a few drops of almond oil around the eyes to see an improvement in circulation and reduction in dark circles.

Olive Oil:Massage a few drops of olive oil around the eyes as a remedy for under eye dark circles.