Foaming vanilla bath indulges your body and your skin.

Have a soothing vanilla bath:

1 cup sunflower oil
1/2 cup castile soap
1 Tbsp real vanilla extract
1/4 cup honey

Mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Shake well before using. Use 1/4 cup per bath.

Foaming Vanilla Honey Bath
1 cup sweet almond oil, light olive or sesame oil may be substituted
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup liquid soap
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

Measure the oil into a medium bowl, then carefully stir in remaining ingredients until mixture is fully blended. Pour into a clean plastic bottle with a tight-fitting stopper or lid. Shake gently before using.

This combo of essential oils will lift your spirit:

20 drops lemon essential oil
20 drops tangerine essential oil
25 drops neroli essential oil
25 drops lavender essential oil
Place a few drops of oils mixture on a handerchief to sniff, or add a few drops to your bath water.
Enjoy!

Lemon Lift Drink Recipe
1/2 oz Limoncello

1/2 oz Grappa

Serve chilled straight or on the rocks. Drink Lemon Lift is a cocktails drink also called short drinks. The ingredients are 1/2 oz limoncello lemon liqueur, 1/2 oz grappa brandy. You should serve the Lemon Lift in a shot glass. Making a Lemon Lift is easy, you simply serve chilled straight or on the rocks. It makes a delicious recipe for lemon lift, with limoncello lemon liqueur and grappa brandy.

Your bath water will emanate great fragrance:

1 cup instant nonfat dry milk
1 cup baking soda
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 Tbsp cream of tartar
1 Tbsp cinnamon
Combine all the ingredients and store in a decorative container in the bathroom. Add as much as desired to your bath water.

Rainbow Fruity Bath Salts

3 quarts of Epsom salts
3 envelopes unflavored unsweetened Kool-Aid powder (one each of three different colors)
3-4 drops of scented Essential oils

Mix one envelope of Kool-aid to 1 quart salts in three separate bowls. Add 3-4 drops of essential oils to each of the three bowls, in a scent which coordinates with the color. Alternate colored layers in a glass or plastic container. To use, add 1/2 to 1 cup salts per bath.

Use it in bath water, body lotions, or cosmetic creams:

15 drops lavender
5 drops cedarwood
20 drops sweet orange
2 to 3 drops clary sage
1 teaspoon of jojoba, hazelnut, sunflower, almond or apricot kernal oil
Mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

Stress Buster Tips – some ways how to fight stress:
We all have someone whose voice alone perks us up. Give them a buzz, even for a few minutes. Whether with a joke or a funny story, or just by listening, they will likely put a smile on your face and calm you down.

Rest & relax, it’s a powerful tool to fight stress. Get pampered with a good massage. It balances your mood and it is also good for your skin. It gets the blood circulating throughout the whole body.

About 60 percent of people who are stressed say they don’t get enough sleep, according to a National Consumers League survey. If falling asleep is your trouble, it’s time to start a calming bedtime routine. Start with a soothing shower and some lavender body wash. Then slip between the covers with a light novel and you’ll be asleep in no time.

To whiten your nails, try these:

Use a common whitening toothpaste. Try scrubbing your nails with Pearl Drops, it’s just as easy as achieving a pearly white smile and will take away any stains and shine up your nails.

Soak your nails in water with lemon juice or lemon slices. The lemon acts as an astringent and will strip away stains. Once your hands are dry, you’ll only need to put on a couple of coats of a clear topcoat

If you want to keep your nails clean and white, just soak them in warm water for three minutes. Then put two Alka-Seltzers in the mix and soak until it stops fizzing!

Also you can clean yellow nails with 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide. Another variant is to use the mixture of glycerin with hydrogen peroxide (proportion 1:5). To get the better effect try to make the mixture of glycerin, perhydrol and distilled water (proportion 1:1,5:4).

If you are not satisfied with result, try mechanic way of whitening. Soak the nails to help them soften in the warm bath with soap and salt water for 10 minutes. And then pumice upper yellow layer of nails.

Wrinkles occur naturally as subcutaneous fat and skin elasticity is lost. Wrinkles (rhytids) are caused from the break down of your underlying collagen and elastin fibers.

Wrinkle Remover
There are various expensive wrinkle creams available now-a-days.

Cut a seedless grape in half and gently crush it on your face and neck. Leave it on for twenty minutes or so and rinse with tepid water and pat dry. Repeat every day and before you know it, those nasty old lines will be hard to find!

Papaya and Pineapple are the most common natural home remedy for wrinkles.

Treatment option for wrinkle removal

Botox injections have been in use about 10 years for the short-term treatment of fines lines and wrinkles in the face.

Equal concentrations of AHA and BHA. These are not recommended as mixing of the two different pH’s cause the delivery of only one product at the right pH and the other at a lesser strength.

Topical Vitamin E – Considered an antioxidant and has anti cancer and anti sunburn properties but can cause contact dermatitis and possible worsened scar healing.

Hair spray is used on hair once you are ready with a hairstyle.

How to create Homemade Hair Spray?
Lemon Hair Spray
Chop one lemon (or an orange for dry hair). Place in a pot with 2 cups water. Boil until half of the initial amount remains. Cool, strain, and place in a spray bottle. Store in the refrigerator. If it is too sticky, add more water. Add one ounce rubbing alcohol as a preservative and then the spray can be stored for up to two weeks unrefrigerated.

Sugar-Oil hair spray
The ingredients required to make this hair spray are 1-tablespoon sugar, one-cup hot purified water, one-tablespoon vodka (optional), and three to five drops of oil.
In a pan add sugar and water. Boil water and make it sure that the sugar dissolves in water. Add oil and vodka.

Homemade Hair Spray Tips
Adding 1 oz. of rubbing alcohol to the spray bottle will allow you to store your homemade hair spray unrefrigerated for 2 weeks.
Add water to the hair spray any time it becomes too thick.

Apple Cider Softening Hair Rinse
Mix 1-2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar with 3 cups distilled water.Pour over your hair as the final rinse. It will leave your hair feeling soft. Good for all hair types.

Skin Sauna

A good deep cleansing treat is to give your face a sauna. This is especially good for congested skin.

You need to fill a bowl with near boiling water and add four drops of each of the essential oils recomended for your skin type. Place a towel over your head and hold it over the bowl from a distance of about 30cm for a period of around two minutes. This opens the pores and prepares it for a face mask.

Skin Sauna Tips
You should not use a face sauna if you have sensitive skin, are pregnant or suffer from asthma.
Slather on moisturizer afterward. Heat from a steam room or sauna can leave skin dry. After your sweat session, rinse off in a cool shower and apply a generous amount of body lotion to damp skin.
Sauna for Skin Cleansing
Sauna is widely used as a skin cleansing method. This is an ideal process for the elimination of the environmental chemicals stored in the fat cells. For skin cleansing using sauna, you should use a dry heat sauna that is not treated with the toxic chemicals.

Skin Detox with a Sauna
Sweating process increases the removal of harmful toxins from the body along with the sweats and so the impurities are flushed out from the body.

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