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Thursday

Home Made Facial Masks for Oily Skin, Packs for Dry Skin


Home made facial masks are very easy to make and very beneficial if applied. They have no side effects and saves lots of your money, as most of the ingredients are easily available in the kitchen.

So they are cost effective, time consuming and can do wonders to one's skin. One can make facial masks at home depending on one's skin type. Regular use of homemade facial masks can make drastic positive changes to one's skin.

Facemask for oily skin-certain homemade facemasks are extremely good for oily skin.

  • Keep calamine power and sandalwood powder at home. They have extremely good agents to reduce oiliness from the skin. By adding other ingredients to them we can make many face masks for the good of the skin.
  • Take two spoonful of calamine powder in a bowl and add rose water to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. When it dries, remove it with a sponge and then wash off. Don't laugh and talk when this paste is applied on your skin. It removes the greasiness from the skin and tones it up.
  • Take a spoonful of calamine powder, one spoonful of sandalwood powder, add few drops of lemon juice to it. If you want, you can add cucumber juice to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. Wash it off when dries. It clears the complexion, diminishes the blemishes from the skin and reduces oil.
  • Take two spoonful of gram flour and make a paste with curd or yogurt. Yogurt has bleaching agents so clears the complexion. Add a pinch of turmeric powder to it, which helps in reducing the marks caused by acne and pimples. This pack can be used as a scrubber also. Scrub it off from the skin in adverse direction when half dries. It will remove the dead skin also.
  • Take tomato juice, cucumber juice and lemon juice; add a little calamine powder or gram flour to it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. Wash off with lukewarm water when dries. It cleanses the skin and adds glow to it. Tomato has toning agents so it helps in toning the open pores caused with oily skin.
  • You can rub a lemon peel on the skin to reduce the oiliness and grease from the face.
  • Honey and lemon paste if applied on the skin reduces the tan and oil from the skin.
  • Make a paste of neem leaves and add it with calamine powder. Apply this paste on problematic skin. It helps in reducing acne and pimples.
  • Dry orange and lemon peels and make a powder. Add rose water and milk cream to it apply on skin. Wash off with water when dry. It clears the complexion and makes the skin tone even. It is extremely useful for highly oily skin.

Packs for dry skin-kitchen is full of lots of ingredients, which can do wonders to a dry skin.

  • Take gram flour powder, add a pinch of turmeric powder to it and make the paste using milk cream or raw milk. Apply it on the face and wash it with lukewarm water.
  • Take milk powder and add honey to it to make a paste. Apply it on your skin and wash off after 20 minutes with lukewarm water.
  • Take wheat flour and add milk cream in it. Make a paste and apply it on the skin. It makes the skin smooth and supple and reduces the dryness.
  • Soak almonds in the water. Make a paste by adding honey to it and apply it on the skin. Leave it for at least 20 minutes. Wash off with lukewarm water. It adds glow to the skin, enhances the complexion and makes the skin smooth.
  • Make a paste of gram flour and rose water, add milk cream to it. Apply it on the skin and scrub off when half dry.
  • Milk cream is a very good solution to soothe dry skin. It can be added in any of these packs to reduce the dryness of the skin.
For normal skin-for a normal skin any of these packs can be applied, the only thing which has to be kept in the mind is that normal skin requires both the things as milk cream and lemon juice. But the proportion should be equal. As normal skin needs both the things a little of cream to give smoothness and a little of lemon juice to reduce oiliness. Normal skin is the best skin which requires least care and have few problems.

Make any of these packs; just add both the ingredients to them required for oily and dry skin. Regular usage of such homemade packs is extremely helpful for one's skin. One can make and apply them depending on the weather also.

Natural Face Lift and Facial Exercise


Natural face-lifts are a slower way to lift the facial and neck skin to make it appear younger. It doesn't give you results as soon as the cosmetic face-lift or cosmetic surgery does. But it has lasting results, no pain and no side effects. Most women pay heavy money and bear lots of pain to get their youthful facial skin back and they are ready to do anything for it. So natural face-lifts are quite good options for them.

As everybody knows that skin starts producing less moister or natural oils so the skin starts getting loose, saggy, full of fine lines and wrinkles as the age grows. To some extent it depends on a person's life style also. If you have an unhealthy lifestyle, you don't eat and sleep on time, drink alcohol, do smoke and the consumption of tea or coffee is high then definitely you are going to loose the elasticity of your skin much before you age.

To keep the skin younger and healthy you need to live a healthy life style, keep away from all such habits of drinking and smoking, drink lots of fluids at least 2 liters of water a day is must to keep the body hydrate, sleep well and work out regularly. It makes lots of difference to one's body and skin.

But once you have already lost the toned skin and starts loosing the elasticity, natural face-lifts are not bad options. Even if they fulfill half of what these products promise you, you can be thankful to the company because beauty once lost cannot be regained. And if you get it back without any knife and stitches put on your skin, there is nothing like that.

Facial exercises to tone up the skin

Few facial exercises if done on the face and neck tactfully surely give you some relief from the saggy skin. To start tie your hair tied so that they don't fall on your forehead or face.

  • Now take a good anti aging moisturizer apply it lightly on the face with a little upward massage. Now put pressure on both the sides of your forehead with 2 fingers of each hand starting from the middle of the forehead to the end. Do this practice at least five times a day to decrease fine lines from the forehead.

  • Gently massage the under eye cream or gel below the eyes, with the fingers very lightly. Starting form the corner of the eyes to the end in upward circulating motions. Your nails should be cut properly so that they don't harm the eyes. This exercise decreases the fine lines below the eyes and reduces the puffiness. Rotate your fingers very lightly on and around the eyes with the help of the fingertips.

  • Massage your cheeks in upward circular motions.

  • Put pressure on the chin with the help of thumb and massage the neck upwards with the finger strokes and pressure them below the chin where the double chin appears.

  • You can learn the tricks of facial pressure points with the help of a book containing the subject.

Usage of skin toners, face packs to tighten the skin and anti aging creams and lotions, which contain some anti aging substances such as collagen, make the skin appear tighter and brighter.

These collagen and cellulite containing products are available in forms of creams, lotions, injections and capsules.

An anti aging facial too is not a bad option as the massage and tightening packs reduce appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

There is on more chemical found in the body, which helps to keep the skin young, and the elasticity intact is Hyaluronic acid. It's a natural substance found in our body in sufficient amount when we are born. But it decreases with age so does the elasticity of the skin. This substance keeps the skin tight, toned, young, and moist and wrinkle free. With age when the production of HA decreases in the body, it starts loosing its youthfulness. This is the substance which helps the skin in healing the wounds, cuts, burns, bruises and burns. It keeps the muscles and joints lubricated to function effectively. Now anti aging products containing Hyaluronic acid are hitting the markets in two forms, to be applied externally as creams and lotions or internally as pop up pills. Which has to be taken as a health supplement in your daily diet to provide moister to the inner layer of your skin.

It penetrates the skin deeply till the deeper layer the way no other skin food or cream does and reduces the age signs as saggy skin and wrinkles.

Besides trying all these things, one of the best way is to keeping your body hydrate by drinking sufficient amount of fluids to retain the natural moister and consume good healthy food containing dairy products such as milk and curd, vitamin E rich diet, carbohydrates and green veggies to keep your skin and body fit.

Wednesday

Facial Exercise: Prevent Skin from Wrinkles and Sagging

Exercises are meant to relax the body and increase blood circulation; they tone up the muscles, stretch them to flex and keep the body fit. So the same way facial exercise helps to tone up the facial muscles and help to keep them relaxed.

If done properly for few minutes in a day, facial exercises help people to reduce stiffness and dullness from the face and decrease wrinkles. It increases the elasticity of the skin. Facial exercise's main motive is keeping the skin muscles in it place and maintaining the tissues from early aging. Regular facial exercise can do more wonders than many expensive cosmetics do to the skin.

One can do facial exercise in any time of the day, like other body parts' workout it doesn't have any rules for the stomach to be filled light or empty. One can do them while taking bath, reading newspaper, driving, traveling or watching television.

Here are some facial exercises to help facial skin get toned and young.

  • In the morning after doing toothbrush, fill some air in your mouth and then leave it slowly, do this practice 4-5 times. Its an easy exercise and can be done by anybody. It keeps the cheeks toned and glowing.
  • Close your lips, take your mouth in the left and then in the right. Practice it 3-4 times and you will feel a good stretch on the muscles around your mouth and lips.
  • Pull the eyebrows up a down, hold them up for 10 counts and then slowly get them down. It's a relaxing exercise for the eyebrows.
  • Twitch the nose and fill the air in it, drop it down and then release the air.
  • Breathing should be proper while doing any of the workouts no matter whether it's for whole body or for just the face.
  • Use your fingers upwards from the lower of your eyes to the sides of the forehead; it relives the stress from the facial muscles.
  • Move your eyes in circular motions from left to upward, then right and down, practice it at least five times. It makes you feel extremely relaxed on your eyes and whenever you are tired while reading or working on computers for long hours, you can do it and relaxes your eye muscle.
  • Hold both your lips inside your mouth, inhale and hold the breath for few seconds and release it. Do it 4-5 times and you will relax the lips and muscle around them.
  • Even while doing facial exercise keep the hands clean or the skin might get infection with dirty hands and can break out in acne and pimples.
  • Tap the face slowly and lightly with the fingertips to increase the blood circulation.
  • Chewing gum too is a very good form of exercise. One can even pretend in the mouth as if one is chewing the gum and it stretches the entire facial muscles and helps them to relax.
  • Making a smiling face and then holding it for few second and releasing it are as good exercise for the cheeks.
  • There are some lightweight, battery operated equipments are available in the market to use for facial exercises.
  • On the forehead, put your middle and index fingers on above exactly your eyebrows and put pressure on them. Release it and repeat it for 5-6 times.
  • Stroke your chin in upward motions using both your thumbs. It helps reducing the double chin.
  • Blow off air from mouth as you are filling air in a balloon, it's a helpful exercise in filling the flat cheeks.
  • Overall, doing all these facial exercises even for few minutes in a day relaxes facial muscles, tones up them, reduce fine lines from the face and gives you a smooth, flawless skin.
  • Even the complexion improves because whatever exercise is done; it improves the blood circulation in that part of the body so it helps to rejuvenate the skin to look and feel better.
Facial exercise help in reducing lines from the face that is the sign of old age. It reduces the forehead lines, lines around the lips and crowfeet, which some people get around eyes. It helps lips become thick and fuller. Saggy and loose cheeks become tight and fuller. It reduces the puffiness which one gets around the eyes. Decrease the wrinkles as it tones up the skin. It increases the vitality and elasticity of the skin.

There is hardly any chance to do facial exercise wrong but still if one feels any uneasiness or stress on the face with any of the exercise, one should stop practicing it.
Any skin type or age group can follow these exercises to get rid of wrinkles and other early age signs.

Facial Massage for Beautiful Skin

Massage is helpful in relieve muscle and increasing blood circulation in all body parts so the same way its beneficial for the facial skin. But facial skin is a sensitive one so require an expert hand for its massage. One has to learn the right way to take or give facial massage to keep facial skin toned, relaxed and young.

Whenever a woman takes facial, she takes facial massage to start facial with. Even 5 minutes light face massage improves blood circulation of the skin and adds glow to it. Facial massage should always be done by light upwards finger strokes. These days some massage instruments are available in the market which are battery operated, they can give massage to the face with the vibration. One can read the direction written with the machine and can use to once a week or once a month depending upon the age and requirement.

What to do while massaging the face-- there are certain things which one has to keep in mind while massaging the face.

  • Always use fingertips for facial massage.
  • Keep your hands clean otherwise you will do more harm than benefit to the skin.
  • Use cream or lotion depending on your skin type. If oil based cream or lotion is used on oily skin for massage, the skin will break out in acne and pimples.
  • One can mix little amount of mild scrubber in the cream to be used for the massage, it helps removing black heads and white heads from the skin.
  • Before starting face massage one should tie and cover head with a towel or headband to avoid the facial cream to enter the hair and make them sticky.
  • Fingers strokes should always be in upward motion as downward strokes can make the skin look saggier.
  • Massage tones up the skin so women who are in middle age can use anti aging creams for their facial massage.
  • Depending on the skin type one can do massage from 5 to 20 minutes. More than this, it can get the skin read and patchy.
  • Cream should be removed neatly with a wet napkin or cotton dab after the massage so that skin couldn't soak unnecessary grease.
  • One should learn the pressure poiints so that one can use them while giving or taking massage to relieve the skin from stress. There are pressure points on face to tone up the facial skin. Two pressure points are there on both the sides of the forehead, both sides on the nose, on the chin, and around the eyes. If one learn to do it correct, one can reduce the wrinkles from the face.
  • Facial tissues are sensitive so while massaging the face, not much pressure should be put on the skin.
  • One can add the right essence to the skin when giving or taking facial massage as if one hasoily skin, one should choose cream that is lemon, orange or cucumber based and to improve the effect of the massage, few drops of lemon juice, orange juice or cucumber juice can be added to the cream. Natural substances have their own effect on the skin and if used correctly, they often don't have any side effects.
  • On dry skin, few drops of almond oil, milk cream or olive oil can be used to make the massage more effective.
  • A light massage can be done without using any cream from the market by taking a spoonful of fresh milk cream and few drops of lemon juice added to it. It can be used as an anti tanning massage cream too. Its natural so is safe for young and sensitive skin.
  • If the skin is extremely sensitive than one should avoid using lemon juice on the skin. One can rather use cucumber juice added to the fresh milk cream to give or take massage.
  • Fingers should not be rubbed on the skin; the strokes should be constant but smooth and slow. In between pressure should be put on the pressure points to relax the skin.
  • One can keep slices and chilled cucumber slices or cotton balls soaked on rose water on eyelids to relax them and to stop cream to enter the eyes.
  • If done properly, massage tones up the pores and tightens up the facial tissues. After the massage skin feels fresh and young. If one starts taking facial massage from the right age, one can prevent getting wrinkles and saggy skin on face for the time being and can look younger than the actual age.

These days plenty of variety is available in the market for the best massage option as herbal massage, spa, aromatherapy, oil massage, natural massage, gold and silver massage. One can choose the best suited one for oneself. Many oil as lavender oil and some other aromatherapy oils heels the skin if used in massage creams or lotions.