Get beautiful the natural way

I have been strssing on using homemade products. The reason being that you know what you are using on your skin.. Trust me natural things work more effectively and quickly when compared with unnatural things.. Your skin will thank you for being so kind to it. It does not only applies for woman but also for men also.

Here are some recepies that will force you to ditch your chemical loaded products and to shift to your homemade products. Read furthur to know more.

1. Ditch your expensive lip scrub for a yummy homemade scrub. Just mix sugar granules with your favourite flavoured lip balm and you will get smooth, soft,kissable lips in seconds.

2. You can even make a yummy body scrub by mixing cocoa powder, coffeee and powdered sugar along with almond oil or honey. Trust me, you will get smooth glowing skin and your bathroom will smell like heaven. Even you can use it for your face.

3. Dump you manicure-pedicure sessions at salons for a pampering session at home. Take as much hot water as you can bear and put some shampoo and salt and put your hands and legs in it for around 20 minutes. You will feel relaxed like never before.

4. For fruit facials, just mash the pulp of any fruit that is available at home and mix it and apply. Your face will get a natural glow.

5. Oiling your hair with warm mustard oil and washing off will give a radient shine to your hairs.

6. Keep some orange peel powder at home and you can get radient skin in seconds. I myself make orange peel powder for entire year. Whenever I need a quick facial, I just mix orange peel powder and honey and apply it.

7. If you want your chapped lips to be healed, apply a drop of mustard oil on your bellybutton every night. You will get healed lips by morning.

8. For a quick colour to your hair, apply henna. It will not only give your hair a natural colour, but it will also make your hair smooth and shiny.

9. For soft feet and crack-free feet, soak your feet in warm water at night and apply vaseline and wear cotton socks. You will get smooth and soft feet in morning.

10. To whiten your teeth naturally, mix black salt with 4-5 drops of mustard oil and apply to your teeth. You will get whiter teeth naturally.

These are some tips that I swear by in my life. They are not only cost effective treatments, but they also give immediate results. I think its very important for us to ditch our chemical loaded products and switch to these herbal alternatives. I bet you will never turn back to chemical loaded cosmetics

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Until now I was trying to update more and more stuff in my blog. But now I am taking a step furthur. As a blogger I know it is ver important to be active in most of the social media. And with thhis in mind I announce my presence in most of the social media

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shikha

My night skincare routine

Last night while doing my skincare stuffs I got this idea to do a night skincare routine on this blog.
It is very important to follow a night skincare routine because at night you give a chane to your skin to breathe. If you sleep with even a very little makeup at night, it is sure that you will wake up with a dull skin.
So I always make it a point to pamper myself with good natural things at night so that my skin gets its glow by the morning and I truly swear by it.
Many of my friend have been questioning me about how I get that glow on my face, well here comes the answer. Its my night skincare routine which makes all the difference.
So here goes the routine.
First, I wash my face with lukewarm water. Yes, even during winters I dont skip washing my face. And I brush my teeth (you know good habits)
Then I apply aloevera gel from Patanjali on my face followed by two drops of almond oil from the same brand. With this I am done with my face.
Next I apply foot cream from Patanjali after washing my feet with cold water. Yes I know its a crack heal cream but it works as a good foot cream. It smells bad of camphor but seeing the results, I think I can bear this cream. After applying this cream I wear cotton socks andd let my feet soak this cream during the night.
Then I apply a moisturiser on my hands and rub it. There was a Garnier moisturiser that did not work for my face so I started using it as a hand cream.
Finally I apply my lip balm. Which lip balm? Oh it depends upon my mood. Sometimes when my lips need a scrubbing I apply my cocoa-coffee lip balm. Or when I want strawberry, I apply Blue heaven strawberry lip balm. Or sometimes I just apply my baby lips.
This is all about my night skincare routine.
Share your night routine here...



shikha

DIY cocoa-coffee lip balm

I think the title itself is so exciting that the post does not need any sort of introduction. We girls can never have enough lip balms. I mean we need them in every possible flavour, we need them in every possible colour. Lip balm is a staple thing in my stack. Well, I do not have lip balms in every flavour but I have started making mine in different flavour. I got this idea from pinterest and I thought lets share this idea with all of you.

For those who think DIYs are boring, effort-taking and time-consuming, here is a note to them- when you will first try a thing that you have preapared yourself, the feeling is all so different. You feel a little proud of yourself. You also know what you are using.

Okay, now enough of gyaan. Lets jump straight to the DIY. Let me tell you that this is not at all totally copied from pinterest, I have done my own moderations in it. I amjust inspired from that idea.

Things required
1.Vaseline
2.A mixture of cocoa powder and pinch of coffee powder.
3.Vanilla essence (optional)

Firstly you need to melt the vaseline, just heat it till it melts so that we can mix our cocoa-coffee powder in it. In the liquid stage only you need to add as much things as you can so you need to be a little fast here because vaseline solidifies faster.

You can even add vanilla essence for a yummy flavour. I have added it when I was heating it. And now just transfer it into an empty container or a cute lip balm pot which is empty. It solidifies in about 5 minutes and takes up a lovely dark brown shade. Dont worry the colour would not show up on lips.

This can be applied as a lip scrub also because you will find fine coffee particles which will scrub your lips very well. Overall I am in love with what I have made. You can even add a drop of almond oil to this lip balm for added benefits.
I apply this lip balm at night and wake up with soft smooth lips in the morning.

Enjoy the piccys

shikha