Homemade Beauty Recipes for Smooth Skin Care

All of us want skin and hair like Cleopatra, perhaps the most beautiful woman of all time. But her secret of everlasting beauty was the Dead Sea Salt. For those of us who do not have access to Dead Sea salt or other expensive beauty items. So what is the next best option for us? Homemade beauty items, these are natural (which is brilliant for skin) and cheap (exciting isn’t it!). So here are some homemade beauty recipes that will ensure you have smooth and glowing skin.

Homemade Cleansers
Chamomile Cleansing Milk – suitable for dry and sensitive skin
You will need:

• Cream – ¼ cup.
• Milk – ¼ cup.
• Chamomile flowers, fresh or dried – 2 tablespoons.

In a pan heat all the ingredients but do not bring to a boil. Let it sit for 2 hours and then strain. Cool and put in a bottle and refrigerate. This cleanser is good two hours.

Buttermilk and Fennel Cleansing milk – great for dry skin
You will need:

• Buttermilk – ½ cup.
• Fennel seeds, crushed – 2 tablespoons.

In a pan heat the buttermilk and fennel seeds for half an hour. Let it steep for 2 hours and then strain, cool and refrigerate. This cleanser stays good with refrigeration for 2 weeks.

Homemade Toner
Lemon Toner – great for daily use
You will need:

• Lemon juice, freshly squeezed – ½ cup.
• Distilled water – 1 cup.
• Witch hazel – 2/3 cup.

In a glass combine all the ingredients and mix well. Place in a bottle and refrigerate. Shake before every use and apply with a cotton ball.

Cooling toner – great for sweaty summer months
You will need:

• Witch hazel – ½ cup.
• Water or green tea – ¼ cup.
• Lemon juice, freshly squeezed – ¼ cup.
• Vegetable glycerin – 5 drops
• Lavender essential oil – 5 drops.
• Peppermint oil – 3 drops.

Mix all the ingredients in a bottle and shake well.

Homemade Scrub
Milk scrub – great for satiny smooth skin
You will need:

• Powdered milk – 3 cups.
• Almond meal – 4 tablespoons.
• Oatmeal – 1 cup.
• Orange essential oil – 3 drops.
• Small muslin bag with draw strings.

Add all the ingredients together in a jar and mix well. when you need to exfoliate your skin, place a small portion in the muslin bag and rub on the skin.

Homemade Creams
Ginger face cream – good for dry and normal skin
You will need:

• Ginger, fresh – 1 piece of 2 inches.
• Sesame oil – 2 teaspoons.
• Apricot kernel oil – 2 teaspoons.
• Vitamin E oil – 2 teaspoons.
• Cocoa butter – ½ cup.

Grate the ginger, squeeze and place juice in a bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix on an open flame till butter has melted. Stir well and allow to cool. Store in a cool place.

Facial Cream – great to use at night
You will need:

• Lanolin – 3 tablespoons.
• Sunflower oil – 1 tablespoon.
• Almond oil – 1 tablespoon.
• Lavender essential oil – 1 teaspoon.

In a double boiler melt the lanolin and then add the rest of the oils except lavender oil and blend well. Cool and let it thicken. Place in a jar and store in a cool place.

Homemade Lip Balm
Basic lip balm – great for dry and chapped lips
You will need:

• Beeswax beads – ½ ounce.
• Sweet almond oil – 4 ounces.
• Colored jojoba beads – 1 teaspoon.
• Essential oil (your choice) – 1 teaspoon.

In a microwave safe bowl, add the sweet almond oil, beeswax and jojoba beads and melt. Stir and then add the essential oil. Let it cool and then pour into a jar.

Anti Aging Supplements

When we age our body goes through a series of changes, and these changes were simply known as aging, up until a few years ago that is. Until this discovery the aging process was simply accepted, and although we didn’t like it, there was nothing short of surgery that could slow it down. The only problem with surgery is it is a cosmetic fix, and aging is an internal process. When we have plastic surgery to make it appear we are younger, our skin looks great, but our cells and the internal workings of our body are still aged and not functioning at their optimal levels. The purpose of an anti-aging supplement is to slow this process, and some what restore the body to a younger more balanced state.

Not too long ago researchers made a link between certain actions inside the body and the "normal" aging process. To completely understand what an anti-aging supplement does you must first understand the aging process itself. Genetics were once thought to be the deciding factor of when, and to what extent you aged, we now know that this is not true, genetics do have a role in the aging process but it is rather small and in no way the deciding factor of your aging process. What does however play a large role in the aging process is the loss of antioxidants.

Researchers have come up with an ingenious way of describing the aging process…Oxidation. You know how when you leave something outside and it gets rained on and exposed to the elements, it rusts? Well, another word for rusting is oxidation, and this is essentially what our aging bodies are doing, according to the scientists. The only difference is when scientists use the term oxidation, when referring to a human, they are talking about free radicals running wild in the body. And everyone knows that free radicals are the cause of aging. What most people don’t know however is that free radicals exist in the body at alarming numbers, and we have an extremely depleted supply of anti-oxidants to try and fight them.

Anti-oxidants exist in our body in massive amounts when we are young. When we start to age this number significantly decreases and the free radicals take over. Anti aging supplements are full of anti-oxidants, and while these anti aging proteins can be found in very small numbers in certain foods, rebuilding your body’s supply through diet alone is impossible. Increasing your body’s natural army against these nasty free radicals has proven to help fight off certain middle aged diseases, and even make you look years younger because your body doesn’t age as quickly. Are anti-aging supplements the fountain of youth? Most likely no, but they are a promising start! For great deals on anti-aging supplements, please visit N101 supplements super store.

Oldest American Man Dies at 112

George Francis lived through three centuries and was witness to everything that occurred during that time. Francis lived through both world wars (World War 1 and World War 2), as well as the advent of the automobile, the telephone, the television, computers, and the election of the first black president in U.S. history.

Francis was born in New Orleans in 1896 and was brought up under the repression of the Jim Crow South. He was denied the right to fight in World War I because of his race. He would quit school in the sixth grade to start boxing and would eventually become a chauffeur, an auto mechanic and a barber. His wife died of cancer in 1964.

Francis is survived by his four children - three daughters and a son. He also has 18 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren, and 16 great-great-grandchildren. Those kinds of numbers must make family gatherings especially interesting.

His son, Anthony Francis, said that his family always attributed his father's longevity to his physical and mental toughness. He also said that his father was especially excited about the election of Barack Obama and he explained in recent interviews that he was a strong believer in the peoples' duty to vote in America.

Now that George Francis has died, the oldest man in America is Walter Breuning of Montana. Breuning is 112 years and 98 days old. The world's oldest person is Maria de Jesus of Portugal - she is 115 years and 109 days old.

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