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Homemade Beauty Recipes and Natural Remedies
Homemade beauty recipes
- Soft Skin: Mary Howard, Howard Horticulture
Add 1/4 Cup of Apple Cider Vinegar to a bath instead of bubble
bath it will soften your skin and protect from yeast infections, Unlike
soaps that often cause yeast infections.
- Moles: Mary Howard, Howard Horticulture
Apply Caster Oil to brown
colored moles and after 2 to 4 weeks it will take the color out of them.
- Scars and Stretch Marks: Edythe Mae Brown
Use Cocoa Butter on scars, sctretch marks, etc. It's supposed to soften and
eliminate scar tissue.
- Good Complexion and Less Wrinkles: John T. Connor
I have found that after I get out of the shower while drying off I
message my face vigorously with the moistened towel for about one
minute. Attacking the whole face, pressing hard to deep clean and
awake the muscles. It stimulates the muscles in the face, a face
workout, and helps to deep clean the skin to help prevent blockage
so the skin can breath.
Natural Remedies
Itch Relief
Add two or three cups of quick cooking oats to a bathtub of hot water. Let it "stew" a little bit. When you're bathing,
pick up handfuls of the oats and spread on itchy areas. You'll need to shower off with clean water when you're done, but don't use soap.
This is a great itch relief for a little kid with chicken pocks or poison ivy.
Minor Burns and Scratches
Add about a teaspoon of vanilla extract to a cold damp rag and put on to the area concerned.
Stress Headache
- Sharply squeeze and massage the flesh between your index finger and your thumb.
- stick your thumb into your outer ear, (not all the way into your ear - don't put your fingers or any
objects into your ear, you could damage your hearing) and rub the ear
in a circular motion until you feel a slight "tingling sensation" keep rubbing for a several seconds, this also relieves
stress.
- Lie down with a damp cloth over your eyes
Hangover
- This is one to swear by and is easy to do. Hangovers are usually due
to dehydration, alcohol tends to cause this, so before heading off to
bed try to drink a couple of glasses of cordial diluted with water.
The sugar helps as does the water. At least if you wake up feeling
like your mouth resembles the bottom of a birdcage you will know that
the bird is safe.
- If you are susceptible to hangovers, like I am (I can have three beers in
an entire night and wake up with a hangover - needless to say, I don't drink very often) but I've found that
if you drink at least one eight ounce glass of water, before you go to sleep at night, you will not wake up with
a headache. Try to drink as much water or soda as you can throughout an evening of drinking. I usually have an alcoholic
drink and then a non alcoholic drink and intersperse them. You will also find that you don't act like as much of
a jerk as all the other people!
- Take two tylenol and huge glass of milk BEFORE drinking.
- Eat Crackers and honey. Honey has a high source of fructose and will be helpful in removing the remainder of the alcohol in your system. Fruit juice will do the same thing because of it's high level of fructose.
- Aspirin for a headache or you can chew on some willow bark, willow bark contains a substance used in aspirin and will help your headache. You can find it in a health food store if you want to try an alternative to aspirin.
- Plenty of water, it will help flush out the alcohol, also too much alcohol leaves the body dehydrated, so have a drink, I mean of water, not the other stuff, that's what gave you the hangover in the first place.
- rub lemon slices under each armpit.
Bee sting
Put mud on it.
Constipation
Eat prunes.
Urinary Troubles
Drink cranberry juice.
Flu
Clean your ears with peroxide every hour or so,
will shorten how long you have the flu.
Hiccups
Drink a glass of water while having someone plug your ears.
Another thing to try is to eat Bitters and lemon to relieve hiccups.
Sunburn
- 8 drops Lavender (helps to heal the skin)
4 drops Peppermint (cooling to inflamed skin)
8 oz. water
Mix together in a spray bottle.
- Take shower, do not use soap or scrub at all, just rinse any sweat, lotion residue from your body, Pat yourself dry, no not rub, this aggravates the sunburn. Then put vinegar in a spray bottle and spray the burned areas. Let dry, do not rub. The smell is almost undetectable after a shortwhile. Repeat every 4 hours as needed. With a mild sunburn the burning should stop after the 2nd "dose."
- Aloe Vera gel, but not lotion.
- Dump a packet of oatmeal in your bath, soak as long as you want, then use aloe vera gel.
- Cool compresses of equal parts water and milk.
- Soak in a tub of cool water and add a cup of white vinegar to the bath.
- Fill a bathtub with cold water and dissolve one pound of baking soda or oatmeal in it. Soak in the bath for 30' approximately, until you feel relieve. (I've used this for poison ivy as well).
- Cut a raw potato in half and spread the juice over the sunburned area to cool and relieve the pain.
- Use the sap of fresh chamomile diluted in warm water on the sunburned area, or brew dried chamomile in a tea and sponge onto affected area.
- The old standbys: Noxema or Bactine
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