09
Dec
Author: yanilea // Category:
Beauty Tips and Products,
Home Remedies
Most of us girls have been doing all sort of things to pave our way to stunning beauty. Some have undergone straightening their hair to make it manageable and won’t look frizzy. True that our hair could be expose to treatments like relaxing, heating it to extreme temperature to the point that it loses its own natural moisture, and dyeing it could make the condition of the hair worst. Mine is now experiencing hair fall. I’m starting to get nervous with this since I got a very thin layer of hair. When I start to see fallen hairs on my bed or after I comb, I came to think of what solution to take to solve this one.

Some sources said that washing your hair daily with a protein shampoo can help prevent hair loss. These shampoos contain hydrolyzed animal proteins or thickeners. They coat the actual hair shaft when used in your hair, thus making your hair thicker. The resulting effect is hair that is fluffier and fuller looking. This type of hair is the one I’ve been dying to achieve.
Homemade Remedies:
A good homemade conditioner for thin hair is white vinegar. Take a large spoon of white vinegar and about 500 ML water. Mix the two and then massage it into your hair after shampooing. The vinegar has a high acidic level and thus helps change the chemical balance of your hair. This gives your hair more body and allows it to appear thicker. Another positive is that the vinegar does not leave an odor in your hair. However make sure to rinse your hair well after applying the conditioner.
Lime juice can be applied to the scalp and allowed to dry for some time before taking a head bath. This will arrest fling hair by keeping the scalp clean and healthy.

You can also apply a paste of Fenugreek seeds soaked overnight and apply it all over the scalp. Allow it to sink in for about an hour before taking a bath.
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Applying coconut milk all over the scalp is also another effective solution for falling hair. Using castor oil as hair oil regularly will also help in preventing hair from falling.
Iodine and vitamin B1 deficiency can also be the factors that lead to falling hair. Therefore look for solutions with a combination of home remedies and mild medications for a proper solution for your falling hair.
The best way to prevent hair loss is to stimulate the production of natural oils from the sebaceous glands situated in your scalp. This natural oil or sebum is essential for nourishing your hair and keeping it healthy, therefore allowing it grow strong while avoiding unnecessary breakage. Therefore after washing your hair rub and massage your scalp well until it starts to heat up. Once this happens the blood circulation to your scalp increases and the sebum glands are subsequently stimulated.
However, there is no quick fix solution to falling hair. Regular and timely care is the only lasting solution to falling hair.
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21
Aug
Author: yanilea // Category:
Beauty Tips and Products,
Home Remedies
Working on night shift is a tough job.
Not only did night shifts can make your eyes looked tired, most of the time it is the comfort of having a good sleep that you are deprived of- a normal sleep which eventually make you look so tired.
Stressful activities can also develop tired looking eyes. Sometimes I lack sleep because it was hard for me to sleep during the day prior to working on night shift. No wonder I happen to have these tired eyes. It looks so awful to carry those baggy eyes. Plus our job requires us to stare at a computer for hours, so definitely it causes much strain to the eyes.And me, myself dreaded to have those. But women listen. You need not fret and look for that dayto have an operation to treat those eyes. There are many solutions to that problem.
You just have to choose which one is comfortable for you to treat those tired eyes.
Some natural treatments for tired-looking eyes are
- drinking water,
- avoiding the sun,
- using sunscreen,
- using vitamin K cream,
- treating allergies,
- applying cold compresses (tea bags or cucumbers), and
- sleeping on your back with your head elevated
Home remedy for tired eyes
If your eyes are tired and stressed, try these simple tricks:
- Take 2 used teabags, refrigerate them for some time and place on your tired eyes for 20 minutes. Voila ! You have fresh and beautiful eyes.
- Or boil some tea in a little water and let it cool. Dip 2 cotton pads in it and place the pads on each eye for 15 minutes. This is an effective treatment for tired eyes.
- Place cucumber slices on your eyes for half an hour. And then wash your eyes with cold water.
- If you have tired eyes, wash them with cold water several times a day. This treatment reduces inflammation, relaxes the eyes & provides relief from eyestrain & fatigue.
- Dip two cotton pads in rose water and place them on your eyes for atleast 20 minutes.
- Lavender oil is also known to offer relief for tired and strained eyes. Add a drop of lavender oil to 500 ml of water and shake the solution well. Dip two cotton pads in it, squeeze out the excess water and place one pad on each eye.
Because of the busy schedules we follow, and the continuous hours we spend before the computer, eyes are the worst affected due to stress. Here are some tips to reduce the tiredness in your eyes and to make them sparkle with health.
- Boil tea powder in a some water and let it cool. Dip 2 gauzes in this liquid and place the gauzes on each eye for around 15 minutes. Keep dipping the cotton wads into the liquid, as soon as the gauzes dry up. This is a very effective treatment for tired eyes.
- Wash the tired eyes with cold water, many times a day. This treatment reduces inflammation, moisturizers the skin /tissues, relaxes the eyes & provides relief from eyestrain & fatigue.
- Lavender oil offers relief to tired and strained eyes. Add a drop of lavender oil to 500 ml of water and shake the solution well. Dip two cotton wool pads in the liquid, remove the excess water and place one pad over each eye.
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14
Aug
Author: yanilea // Category:
Home Remedies
Say goodbye to those pesky ants, safely and effectively.
Yes, those durable creatures…they come crawling in their lines and missions dead set to get into your cupboards and climb over your counters. Seeming to come out of the walls from nowhere, suddenly they appear from all directions. And, all you want is to get them out!
Do not worry! There are practical things you can do to keep these marching soldiers out of your home without having to resort to toxic bug killing repellents. You do not have to worry about inhaling dangerous fumes and you will remedy your problem.
Try some of these out and see what a difference a little ingenuity can make!
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Use Vinegar
Put some vinegar in a spray bottle. Spray around the areas that these pesky critters show up. Vinegar leaves behind a natural ant repellant.
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Chalk
School teachers get your chalk out. Yes, that’s right, for some reason if you draw a line of chalk on the ground, ants will not cross over it. Maybe they know that once you “draw the line” one side is theirs and the other is yours. (pun intended) If only it was that easy with all things in life. Maybe we can all learn something from ants.
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Black Pepper
Black Pepper is a natural safe way to send these insects running back to their anthills. Sprinkle some near their entryway and rest assured that they will not visit you while that pepper stands in the way.
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Cayenne Pepper
This is another pepper that ants avoid. Lay some down and remedy the problem right away.
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Mint and Chewing Gum
Some types of mint and chewing gum keep these segmented bugs away. Place some down and they will find some other place to hang out.
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon is also known for its ability to keep those crawling bugs away. Sprinkle some around the areas they frequent the most.
These are just some great ideas especially if you don’t like the idea of killing anything. Ants, while they can be troublesome in your home, are remarkably interesting creatures. It is a wonder to think that even when they are running from the risk of their own life, they will stop to pick up a fellow fallen soldier and try to carry him home.
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