Monday 18 November 2013

How to have soft and smooth feet elbows and knees

Do you notice than when the winter arrives, your feet, elbows and knees get drier and rougher?
To keep these areas soft and smooth all year round you need to exfoliate and moisturise.

After washing in the shower, while your skin is still wet, add a small amount of exfoliant and massage for about one or one and a half minutes, then rinse off. After drying, apply moisture cream.

If you don't have exfoliant at home, here is a simple recipe:

         - 1 tablespoon of oliveoil or sunflower seed oil
         - 1 teaspoon of sugar

            Mix together and ready to use.



Wednesday 13 November 2013

Beauty from the inside.

In order to have a healthy fresh loking complexion, apart from a daily beauty routine, we will really notice a difference inour skin if we follow these suggestions.

Eat your A, C, + E vitamines. Where you can find these:

  • Vitamin A: Basicly in anyt fruit or vegetable with an orange colour, for example, carrots, sweet potatoes, peaches(use tinned peaches in the winter), etc
  • Vitamin C: All citrus fruits, kiwis, read and  green peppers.

  • Vitamin + E: Olive oil, sunflower oil, nuts, sunflower seeds.

And finally, don't forget to drink plenty of water, between 6-8 glasses per day, even in the winter, and of course, even more in summer months.

Beauty from the inside (part 2)

Did yoy Know that eatung foods with Omega 3 will hidrate our skin from the inside, not only benefiting our face and neck, but our hands, nails and hair.

By eating some of the following we will soon notice a fifference not only in our skin, but our nail will be stongera and our hair will be shinier:

  • Oily fish: Mackerel, trout, sardines, salmon, tuna
  • Nuts: Walnuts, hazelnuts, brazil nuts
  • Seeds: Lin seeds and sesame seeds.
  • Olive oil
  •  Green leef vegetables: Spinach, brocoli, coliflower.
  • Egg yolk 
  • Advocado

Take advantage of tinned oily fish, with salad in brown bread makes a very healthy tasty sandwich.







How to have soft and smooth hands

Help to keep your hands soft and supple, even through the cold winter months, with these ideas.

If you are already using a handcream, and not getting the results taht you expected, or have yoy tried various handcreams and can't seem to find one that gives you the results you are looking for?

The answer: exfoliant. This will remove all the dead skin cells.

1) Wash hands with any mild soap that you have in the bathroom.
  

Sunday 10 November 2013

Irritated skin

Your body's skin is lightly irritated and is continuously peeling off? Try rubbing your skin with freshly cut potato slices. It's proven that the stach that potatoes contain calms and protects your skin.


Thursday 7 November 2013

Fresh skin

To refresh your skin after being exposed to the sun, peel two cucumbers, cut them into pieces and pass the through the blender. Get the juice and filter it. now, put it in a glass bottle for no more than a week. A rub with this lotion will refresh your flushed skin.



Healthy and shiny hair

Massage your hair with lemon juice mixed with a glass of water and let it on for 10 minutes. Wash it with your usual shampoo and then, rins the shampoo of your hair. Your hair will be shynier and healtier.