Simple Home Remedies for Healthy Hair

Your hair is actually an extension of your skin, and like your skin, is a direct reflection of your internal health. While topical treat­ments such as conditioners can smooth the surface of your hair and make it appear softer, true hair health begins deep beneath the sur­face in the hair follicles. A nutrient-rich diet is essential for creating strong, healthy hair. Stringent dieting and food plans that overly restrict fat and protein intake can cause dull, dry, and thinning hair. Make sure to eat...
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Natural Treatments for Beautiful Skin

Your skin naturally sheds dead cells every day, which helps to keep it smooth and fresh looking. But after the age of 35, the dead cells that make up the outer layer of your skin are not shed as rapidly as when you were younger. As dead cells accumulate, they make your skin look dull and dry and you lose the healthy, radiant look that characterizes youthful skin. You can greatly improve the appearance of your skin by regularly removing the top layer of dead skin cells, a process called exfoliation....
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Easy Home Remedy for Moisture Control of Skin

Many women find that their skin becomes drier after the age of 35.This may be a welcome change for those who suffered from oily skin earlier in life, but women with normal or dry skin may find that their skin appears flaky, tight, and lacks the lustrous appearance that moisture imparts. Skin dryness is caused not only by moisture loss from the skin's outer layer, but also from a lack of moisture moving upward from the underlying layers of the skin. Applying a moistur­izer softens and moisturizes...
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Secrets of Youthful Skin

Like your other body organs, your skin begins to slow down its functions as you age. As levels of estrogen and progesterone decline, skin becomes drier, thinner, and secretes less oil. Circula­tion decreases, and wrinkles appear when collagen and elastin, pro­teins in the skin that provide elasticity, break down. The rate of cell production and turnover decreases, and cells grow thicker and more tightly packed together. Common signs of aging skin include unevenness of skin texture and pigmentation,...
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Tips for Greasy Hair

Greasy hair quickly looks lank and limp. No matter what you do, your flip' flops, your waves wilt, your long hair turns to frizz!!! Your hair probably looks good the day you wash it. But the next morning you have the greasies. Your hair sticks together in unattractive strands.I suggest:Frequent washing - even every day if you have to. The old myth of harming hair by frequent shampooing is hog wash. Instead, specialists have now proved that it can be harmful to your skin if you leave greasy, oily...
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Special Indian Beauty Recipes for Dry Hair

Mix a little hair oil with Fuller's earth (Multani mitti). Massage this paste into the scalp. Leave on for an hour.Then shampoo well....
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Tips for Dry Hair

Dry hair is usually fine. It splits or breaks easily, and soon gets a fly-away look.You must brush your hair well to stimulate the flow of natural oil from the sebaceous glands.An oil pack is one way of helping too-dry hair. Instead of olive oil suggested by old-fashioned recipes, try a poly unsaturated oil (e.g.: corn oil). This permeates into the hair shaft more effectively than olive oil.It helps if you warm the oil to body temperature and. then massage into your hair.Shampoo off after a couple...
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Homemade Flat Beer Hair Setting Lotion

Flat because the chemicals in it have dissipated. Put some in a mist-spray bottle and spray lightly on damp hair. This gives excellent body to the hair. The smell of the beer will soon disappe...
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