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Serious Skin Care. 5 Steps to Achieving Great Skin


Are you serious about your skin care? Serious skin care requires a total health approach, or you’ll never achieve the skin care results you want.

After all, our health is the most important thing to us. What are we without our health? And our overall state of health is related to the state of our skin as well as our overall wellbeing. With good health we achieve great skin, but without it it’s extremely difficult to achieve great skin.

So if, to achieve serious skin care results, we need to get serious about our skin, and health, first, what should we do? How do we go about this?

Simple. Notice I said simple, not easy. There’s 5 simple things we can do to achieve the skin we want, and the look we want. And if we do these 5 things then we’ll also achieve great overall health and feel great as well as achieving serious skin health.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Exercise. There’s no doubt that exercise has an impact on just about every aspect of our life, and health, including our skin. Exercise, for example, increases our ability to circulate the blood around our body, and as the skin, like other organs, requires a good blood supply, improved circulation will improve your skin health. Serious skin care must involve a minimum amount of exercise.

2. Improve your diet. Cut down on the Pizzas and burgers, increase your intake of high quality fresh fruit and vegetables. Increase your intake of good vitamins and minerals and antioxidants and your skin will thank you for it.

3. Use high quality organic health supplements to supplement those vitamins and minerals that we should be getting in our diet, but aren’t. Because even the best diet will have it’s deficiencies, for a number of reasons, and we need to use high quality organic supplements to correct this.

4. Avoid well known brand name skin care products. Serious skin care cannot be found in a brand name moisturizer. Brand name products contain ingredients that are at best suspect and at worst actively damaging to our health and skin. And the bottom line is that mainstream skin care products don’t work anyway, so even ignoring the health risks, you’re wasting your money using the skincare products on the shelves of your local store.

5. Use a quality organic skin care range that offers tested ingredients proven not only to be safe to your overall health but also to work. And the best ones are backed up with money back guarantees so you can try the products risk free until you’re convinced that they are working for you. Try getting a money back guarantee like that from your mainstream skincare product manufacturers.

Serious skin care requires a serious, thought out approach to overall health, not just skin health, because the two go together. If you’re serious about your skin care you need to make an effort. Anything less and it just won’t work. But if you do it will shine through in far more than just your skin health. It will show in your whole life.

Because your skin is just another organ in your body. It’s a visible organ, not an invisible one. Because people see your skin they see when your skin us unhealthy, because it looks unhealthy. But if you get healthy generally then your skin gets healthy, and looks it.

So make sure you get serious and practice some serious skin care practices. Eat well, stay moving and stay healthy and everyone will know, from how your skin looks.

Where do you get these great skin care products? Not from the mainstream anti aging and skin care companies, in fact the best ones come from a company you’ve probably never heard of.

Layering skin care products is very popular in Asia. A poll showed how women in Asia would use about an average of 9 skin care products on a daily basis! So skin care is taken very very seriously. I’m not using 9 products here, but I am layering my products. This is my favorite method and it’s best for night time. Daytime, you want to use a technique that’s requires lighter layers. I also recommend sleeping on your back, because not only is it better for your body, but it’s better for your face. Enjoy! Check out before and after of my skin! www.facebook.com Music by Bitter:Sweet – Sugar Mama itunes.apple.com Bitter:Sweet : Take 2 Blue itunes.apple.com Aren’t they an amazing band??? Love them. ♥ Follow me on twitter! ♥ www.twitter.com ♥ If you have a Facebook, please add me! ♥ www.facebook.com Products I used Lancome Cleansing Water www.lancome-usa.com Kiehl’s Avocado Eye Cream www.kiehls.com SK II – Cellumination shop.sk-ii.com The skin care products may be expensive, but I always stress on investing in good skin care products. It’s a good investment in the long run! Even when I was in college, I saved up for skin care products. If you can’t afford these products at all, I recommend Olay and RoC. They’re great alternatives. But I swear by SK II and Khiel’s. If you have super sensitive skin, I don’t recommend layering your skin care products. Also, I wouldn’t worry about applying “too much chemicals” on your face. Sometimes, your makeup has more harmful chemcials, even
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Hair Care Tips and Perfect Home Remedies for Hair Care


The hair is the crowning glory of a person and yet we find that not many of us give it the care it deserves. Hair has a central core called the cortical and around it there are a number of overlapping scales.

If these scales are tangled it reflects on the hair and makes it look lifeless and dull, but if they overlap smoothly, the hair looks smooth. Let us look at some of the hair care tips that we must follow.

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There are two things which determines how your hair looks -diet and lifestyle. Deficiencies of vitamins and minerals affect the quality of hair and you are plagued with dandruff, premature graying, thinning and a host of other problems.

To keep the hair glossy and healthy, proper grooming is a must. Wash regularly and rinse it with lemon juice, which is dissolved in warm water. When you wash your hair, never use very hot or very cold water.

Finally learn to accept the kind of hair you have and do not use too many chemicals on it. Be gentle when you want to make your hair look different. Use good hair products and never compromise on quality.

Eat well, exercise and sleep well. Indulge your hair and give it a hot oil rub at least once a week. Your hair is your crowning glory. Treat it well, follow the hair care tips faithfully and  it will return the favor.

Hair Care Tips

1.    It is better to apply castor oil for a healthy growth of hair.
2.    Wash hair with tea once in a week.
3.    Apply besan in the hair and wash it with water drained from the cooked rice.
4.    Soak a handful of gooseberries in a cup of milk for two hours. Make a paste and apply on the hair.
5.    Apply the mixture of an egg white, 2 spoons of castor oil, 1 spoon glycerin, in the scalp and hair. Wash it after some time.
6.    Massage hair with warm coconut oil an hour before washing. Let it soak. Cover your head with a hot towel and wash your hair after an hour or so.
7.    Boil a few hibiscus flowers in coconut oil. Filter and use this hair oil to control hair loss and thinning.
8.    Do a ‘steam-towel-wrap’ once in a while, if your cuticles are damaged, as this steaming opens out the pores and absorbs the oil.
9.    Soak 1 teaspoon fenugreek in curd and keep it for a night. Apply it in the next morning.

Home Remedies for Hair Care

1.    Mixture made from amla, reetha and shikakai too is very help to make hair silky smooth and prevent the hair fall. One can use this mixture to wash the hair or can use it as a hair pack.

2.    For dull hair boiled tealeaves water is useful. It adds shine to the hair.

3.    One can make a hair pack by taking henna powder, adding limejuice and curd to it. Leave it on hair for at least 30 minutes and wash it. It’s a very good conditioner to the hair and gives them a nice color.

4.    Some good conditioning tips are, heat two tea spoonful butter in microwave, when it melts add a spoonful olive oil to it and message it on hair. Leave it on hair for at least 30 minutes and then wash it off using your shampoo. It will make your strands extremely silky.

5.    Soak fenugreek seeds in mustard oil overnight and then boil them in the same oil in the morning. Strain the seeds from the oil and fill it in a bottle. Using this oil helps prevent hair fall and premature graying of the hair.

6.    Rubbing lemon peel from the juicy side on the scalp is a very known and useful remedy for hair suffering from dandruff.

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