Author: Moin Nex

Dry skin

Milk and Honey for Dry Skin on Your Nose

Author ByMoin Nex

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Natural oils surrounding your skin protect it from infectious bacteria and virus. Few external or internal factors reap these natural moisturizing elements, leaving the skin dry and lifeless.

Pricey cosmetic creams can hydrate your skin and help you get rid of itching, but chemicals incorporated in these creams may irritate your sensitive skin. Unlike artificial creams, natural ingredients like milk and honey saturate the dry scaly skin on nose without less or no side-effects.

  • Renowned humectant and antibacterial agents in honey deeply cleanse dead cells and impurities off the skin.
  • Rich antioxidant agents in raw honey thwart free radicals and enhance elasticity of the skin.
  • Antibacterial properties blended in milk and honey help to deeply cleanse the dry skin on nose and face.
  • Moisturizing agents in this mask will penetrate into deeper layers of the skin to hydrate.

How to use Milk & Honey to Remove Dry Skin on Nose

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Chemical and fragrance filled soaps and creams stripe natural moisture from the skin, leaving it dry. Apart from this, aging and weather may cause your skin around nose dry. With age, sebaceous glands fail to secrete required amount of sebum to keep the skin moist. The need for an external moisturizer comes here.

  1. Initially cleanse your nose. Use rose water or olive oil, wash your face and apply one of the natural cleansers. Leave it for few minutes and wipe using cotton ball.
  2. Blend milk and honey in a bowl and mix thoroughly. While the skin is still damp, topically apply the mask on the nose just like you do over the face.
  3. Leave it to dry for few minutes.
  4. Then rinse it off using cool water.

Alternatively, you can mix 1 table spoon of unsweetened yogurt with 1 table spoon of raw honey to apply on face and nose. Slightly massage the face mask over dry areas of the nose.

Optionally, follow with a natural moisturizer like jojoba oil.

Conclusion

Milk and honey mask for dry skin on nose works effectively, when you select raw form of its ingredients. Avoid processed milk and honey, as they lack notable nutrients. If you feel irritated after using this homemade face mask, stop its use and reach the physician.

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Natural Resource

Amazing Benefits of Papaya Seeds

Author ByMoin Nex

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Papaya is cultivated all over the world for its edible fruit, leaves and seeds. Originated in Southern Mexico and Central America, green papaya is picked and allowed to ripe. Renowned for its juice and sweet taste, this melon is used with vegetables in its green state.

Like papaya flesh, papaya seeds have abundant benefits for your health. Papain, an enzyme residing in green papaya helps to break down undigested food and improves intestinal tract. Papaya seeds are also packed with such interesting enzyme that helps to break parasites and thwart them from the body.

Unlike papaya fruit, seeds of papaya has strong flavor just like mustard and black-pepper combined. So how can you reap its nutrients and get benefited? Continue reading to reveal surprising papaya seeds benefits for health.

  • Phenolic and flavonoid compounds housed in papaya seeds exhibits antioxidant properties, which restrain free radicals and delay damage of cell membrane. Scientific research carried out on 100,000 people concludes that antioxidant supplements cure cardiovascular, cancer and other chronic diseases.
  • A study claims possible immunomodulatory actions residing in papaya seeds. These effects reduce risks of serious diseases by slowing tumor growth.
  • Another study claims that this seeds have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory agents, which can restrain dangerous bacteria like E coli, Salmonella and Staph.
  • Excess consumption of alcohol makes liver shrink and hard, failing it to effectively remove toxins from the body. Consuming papaya seeds are popularly known to treat liver cirrhosis disease. Crush few fresh or dried papaya seeds to powder, and then mix it in lemon juice. Many cirrhosis patients noticed dramatic improvement with papaya seeds.
  • Digestive enzyme packed in papaya seeds, give favorable environment for the good bacteria in intestinal tract.
  • Apart from this, you can use these seeds to treat Dengue fever and other viral infections. Anyhow, we recommend consulting a doctor before proceeding.

 Also recommend: Papaya Face Mask

Papaya Seeds and Honey

Little data don’t let us provide specific dosage on papaya. Anyhow, a study used 4 grams of dried papaya seeds with 20 ml of honey to treat infection.

It’s unsafe for sensitive and pregnant women. Though it has less side-effect, excess consumption of papaya seeds can trigger allergic reaction and cause stomach irritation.

Note: Men who wish to expect partner pregnant should avoid eating papaya and papaya seeds.

If you don’t like the strong flavor of papaya seeds then mix it with honey specifically manuka honey.

Also read: Papaya Face Scrub

How to Store Papaya Seeds

It’s good to have southern Mexican or American papaya, if not take any fresh papaya and extract its seeds to store in a container. You can refrigerator it to keep the freshness.

Before using them, soak in warm water and powder them. Mix with honey as mentioned above or take it with lemon juice. We recommend consuming lesser papaya seeds initially, as it’s strong. After some weeks, depending on your body tolerance increases the dose.

Papaya seeds benefits for health are notably effective, but you must consider its strong effect on digestive system before proceeding.

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Dry skin

Dry Skin Around Nose Piercing

Author ByMoin Nex

Nose piercing is an old tradition, which is practiced in all parts of the world. In Indian culture nose piercing is regarded as a beauty and social standing. Often it’s used to wear jewellery. In USA, UK and Australia piercing is no more a tradition but a fashion icon.

Though it looks cute and adds beauty, but the dry skin around nose piercing will spoil your appearance.

First thing is pain, while piercing nose you’ll be accompanied by extreme pain. Piercing makes your skin sensitive; exposing it to harmful chemicals and wind makes it dry.

How to Fight Dry Skin around Nose Piercing?

Nose piercing involves puncturing through non cartilage lobe of one of the nostrils. It’s not only difficult but irritating till you get habituated to it.

A reputable piercer would suggest you to stay away from harmful chemicals and practice strict hygiene. Starting few days, the skin will be so sensitive that you need to avoid makeup and clean it twice a day. Also, you must stay away from harsh wind that can stripe natural oils from the skin.

 

If not taken care, the dry skin can worsen the infection and pus may gather with extreme pain. Moisturizing the nose skin with essential oils or with a natural moisturizer will help you prevent such conditions.

Avoid chemical filled soaps, creams, foods that may trigger pus and clothes that may cause allergic reaction. Alternatively, you can use mild chemical soaps, natural face packs (I’d recommend Argan oil face mask) and wear natural fabrics like cotton and linen.

Though there are dozens of natural remedies to hydrate the skin, coconut oil is affordable and always available ingredient for you. Mix it with pinch of turmeric powder and drop the oil around the piercing ring. Regular application is important for stimulate fast healing.

When I asked my mother about a simple home remedy to treat nose piercing, she suggested keeping warm boiled rice over painful part. Sounds strange but, you’ll be relieved from pain.

Let me know your home remedy for dry skin around nose piercing?

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Face Masks

Coriander Face Mask for Acne, Blackheads and Skin Whitening

Author ByMoin Nex

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Did you ever wonder how can an ingredient that makes your dishes delicious can nourish your skin and make it supple? Coriander face mask is naturally packed with antioxidants, vitamin C, antiseptic, anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory properties. These renowned agents thwart free radicals that are affecting cell membrane and fades dark spots giving you a spot less skin.

Coriander also known as cilantro or Chinese parsley (kothmir in Hindi) has been incorporated in many cosmetic products. Check out the ingredients list of your pricey creams and you’ll be surprised to see coriander extracts. Ancient medicines are taking over modern cosmetic cream that is what I think. But, unfortunately they use refined form of natural ingredients.

To reap all nutrients blended in coriander for face, you must set your hands to work on preparing homemade face mask. Before sharing coriander face mask recipe let’s peep into nutritional profile of cilantro.

Why Coriander Face Mask is Effective?

  • Exaggerating benefits of antioxidants by media is slowly catching the reality. Research now claims that antioxidants can treat acne lesions. Luckily coriander is packed with antioxidants.
  • Recent research claims that inflammation is the main reason behind pimples. Anti-inflammatory agents in this face pack will soothe and reduce blemishes.
  • Bacteria has vital role in most skin disorders. Antibacterial properties in this herb will restrain bacterial infection and prevent chronic skin diseases.
  • Abundant free radicals damage your skin resulting in wrinkles, dark spots, dryness and inflammation. Vitamin C provides a protective layer over the skin, guarding it from free radicals.
  • Iron, water and other assorted nutrients residing in coriander can treat pimples, blackheads and fade wrinkles.

Regular use will show positive results.

Also read: Mint face mask recipe

Coriander Face Mask Recipe

Things you’ll need:

  • Coriander juice
  • Turmeric powder

Blend fresh coriander leaves and extracts its juice. Mix pinch of turmeric powder and apply it over prewashed face. Leave it to dry and then rinse it off.

Note: Excess turmeric powder may leave stains on your face.

Coriander and Egg White for Face Scrub

Grind coriander leaves, 1 egg white and 1/2 cup of oats till you get thick paste like consistency. Wash your face and pat dry. Apply this fresh face mask cum scrub over the face evenly and let it dry.

Wipe the mask with wet cloth.

Coriander for Blackheads

Mix coriander juice with 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Initially wash your face with lukewarm water and apply the lotion evenly. Then rinse it off.

Apart from this you can use coriander face mask with other innate ingredients like essential oils, honey, aloe vera gel and white kaolin clay.

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Blackheads

How to Use Green Tea for Blackheads?

Author ByMoin Nex

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Because of hormonal imbalance and other internal factors, excess sebum along with keratin gets clogged in pores. Melanin, a pigment responsible for your skin color is also carried in sebum. When the clogged pores open up, air enters in and due to oxidation melanin turns black resulting in blackheads.

Green tea for blackheads is one of the effective innate remedies. It’s packed with antioxidants and able to control excess oil secretion.

How Green Tea Can Reduce Blackheads?

Various studies carried out to dwell into the benefits of green tea for skin and health. Renowned medical properties in this tea enticed ancient and modern people to include it to their daily routine.

  • A study carried out on animal skin concludes that green tea can guard from skin cancer.
  • Consuming green tea will eventually protects your skin from sun damage, restrain free radicals and reduce inflammation.
  • Polyphenols in green tea proved to reduce aging wrinkles. Anyhow, more research is need in this area.
  • Antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents housed in green tea nourish the skin and help to get rid of blackheads, pimples and other skin disorders.

Related post: 5 ways to use raw honey and lemon for blackheads

Steps to use Green Tea for Blackheads

There are diversified ways to use green tea for healthy skin. Brew a cup of green tea and place tea bags over nose or blackheads. Else you can mix it with sunscreen cream with zinc oxide. Anyhow, expert states that topically using green tea bags may not be effective sometimes because of oxidation. When green tea polyphenols comes in contact with air they lose their ability.

Here’s the recommended way.

Things you’ll need

  • Green tea bags – 2
  • Saucepan
  • Face cleanser
  • Cotton ball
  • Soft cloth/towel

Procedure

  1. Boil 1 cup of water in a saucepan.
  2. Remove the pan and hang two green tea bags into the hot water. After steeping for an hour, refrigerate it.
  3. Mean while, cleanse your skin with water or face cleanser and pat dry with soft towel.
  4. When the skin is still damp, topically apply chilled green tea over blackheads using cotton ball.
  5. Leave it to dry naturally for 15-20 minutes and then wash your face with cold water.

Repeat the process for long lasting results.

Also read: Egg white for treating blackheads

Treating Blackheads from inside

Stimulating qualities of tea attributed to its extensive use from ancient times till now. If you love tea like me, then I recommend brewing a cup of hot green tea every morning and have.

Tips

  • Resist from washing your face constantly.
  • Avoid using chemical filled soaps, creams and makeup.
  • Use decaffeinated green tea.
  • Don’t give up; natural remedies may not show instant results but the effect lasts long.
  • If you don’t like hot tea, don’t worry you can drink chilled green tea.
  • Limit or stop using green tea if you see symptoms of allergic reaction and reach physician.

Would you try to have this herbal tea? What’s your say on green tea for blackheads?

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Face Masks

3 Awesome Gram Flour Face Pack Recipes

Author ByMoin Nex

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Gram flour or besan (in hindi) is powdered form of raw or roasted chickpeas. Exfoliating and cleansing agents packed in gram flour enticed people to use it as a natural remedy for skin disorders. Right from olden days and till now besan or gram flour face pack has been used as a beauty treatment.

Because of its alkaline nature, it’s recommended to add lemon or yogurt. As mentioned, the face pack draws toxins and impurities from the skin.

Also read: Homemade Yogurt Face Mask

Benefits of Gram Flour Face Pack for Skin

  • Besan face pack is renowned for cleansing dirt and dead skin cells accumulated over your skin. Regular use of gram flour face pack will make your skin free from impurities.
  • Assorted nutrients in this traditional mask make your skin smooth and tighten the pores by unclogging them.
  • Not just removing impurities, besan helps to get rid of dark spots.
  • Treats blackheads, whiteheads and acne lesions.
  • Use it as a face wash or body wash. Yes, you can replace your pricey soaps with this inexpensive mask.
  • It absorbs excess oil secreted by your skin and helps to prevent pimples with its antimicrobial properties.

Gram/Besan Flour Face Pack Recipes

This traditional natural face mask works for all skin types. Anyhow, you just need to add other innate ingredients to make it effective for your skin.

For Oily Skin

It’s annoying to have oiliness over T zone while going out. Excess oil is always a problem. Mix besan powder with rose water thoroughly. Initially wash/cleanse your face with water and pat dry. Now, apply this face pack over your face evenly. Let it dry naturally, and then rinse it off.

You can replace rose water with yogurt. It will absorb toxins and oil, to make your skin smooth.

Face pack recipe for acne prone skin:

Mix gram flour with cucumber juice thoroughly. Expose your face to steam or wash it with lukewarm water, so that pores open up. After pat dry, topically apply the mask over the skin and rinse it off in 15-20 minutes.

Must read: Get rid of acne with this face mask

For Dry Skin

Your skin is border by natural oil that protects it from harmful virus and infectious bacteria. External or internal factors results in dehydration, which leaves your skin dry and itchy.

Gram flour along with honey, milk and pinch of turmeric powder will moisturize your skin from the outside. Wash your face and mix the above mentioned ingredients in required quantity. Limit the use of turmeric if you’re allergic to it. Leave the face mask to dry and rinse it off with water.

Follow with a moisturizer. Because of dryness bacteria invades the skin, applying this face mask helps to restrain infection.

This face pack can be used as a face or body scrub to exfoliate.

For Skin Lightening

Accumulated impurities on skin are main cause of dark spots. Cleansing agents draws them off the skin and helps to make your skin lightening.

Mix besan with 1 table spoon of milk, almonds 4-5 (powdered) and lemon juice. Apply the thoroughly mixed besan face pack over prewashed face. Rinse it off after 15 minutes.

Related post: Turmeric face pack for Skin whitening

Besan face pack for glowing skin

As mentioned above, besan face pack has been used to cleanse impurities over the skin. Pollutants and dirt around our surroundings are increasing exponentially, which gets accumulated over your skin and clogs skin pores along with dead cells.

Dead skin cells, dirt and excess sebum piled over the skin makes it dark at different parts. Natural face mask like besan exfoliates these impurities and makes your skin glow.

Ingredients:

  • Besan – 4 teaspoon
  • Lemon juice – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Turmeric powder – a pinch
  • Optionally, Yogurt – 1 teaspoon

Lemon juice is packed with citric acid that lightens dark spots, but it may make your sensitive skin so limit its use or wear sunscreen after using it.

Mix above mentioned ingredients in a clean bowl and apply it over prewashed face or skin. Leave it for about 20-25 minutes to dry naturally then wipe it using wet cloth. You can rinse it off with water later.

Get rid of unwanted facial hair using Besan face pack

Add fenugreek powder to besan powder. Fenugreek is popular to control pimples, dandruff and get whitening face. Thoroughly mix both ingredients and apply it over prewashed face and body. This will remove unwanted weak facial hair.

Would you try this traditional gram flour face pack on your skin? Please share your views in comments..

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Cosmetic products

Vicco Turmeric Cream Review

Author ByMoin Nex

I still remember that ad from Vicco; it makes me ponder on my lovely childhood days. Before Fair and lovely, Vicco turmeric was our traditional cream or first aid for all skin problems.

Whenever I had a minor injury my mom used to apply this home available ointment. Yes, this skin care cream can be used to heal injuries just like medicine. I wonder why the company never tired to change the color or design of the pack. But I must admire, even the quality of the cream stayed same for all these years.

A 15 g pack will cost you around 55 INR.

Ingredients in Vicco Turmeric Ayurvedic Cream

Notable ingredients in this cream are turmeric extracts and sandalwood oil. Both are packed with exceptional properties.

  • Turmeric has excellent cleansing and exfoliating properties. Dead skin cells and dirt accumulated over your face can be cleansed.
  • Antiseptic and antibacterial agents housed in turmeric powder can restrain acne causing bacteria and reduce inflammation.
  • Combined with other innate ingredients turmeric can hydrate your skin.
  • Along with this, turmeric can fasten healing, soothe burns, fade wrinkles and regulate the excess production of sebum.
  • Renowned for its aromatic smell, Indians use sandalwood powder in rituals. Apart from this assorted properties in sandalwood can make your skin clean and flawless.
  • Sandalwood oil treats itching and dry skin to some extent.
  • Regular application of sandalwood oil can effectively prevent aging wrinkles.

So, both turmeric and sandalwood has remarkable natural properties, which can nourish and make your skin radiant. Now, let’s check out effectiveness of this so called Ayurvedic cream.

Vicco Turmeric Ayurvedic Cream Review

At the first sight you may think it’s an ointment, the not so attractive pack resembles so. The cream is light yellow in color and comes in a small pack. Though it has a strong fragrance, as time passes it fades quickly.

Wash your face and apply this face cream when the skin is still damp. Compared to other face creams, Vicco cream is not so soft and you must massage to fade yellowish color left behind after applying the cream. Anyhow, the renowned natural ingredients in this cream will help you to reduce pimples and give you a spot less skin.

Remember not to go out without massaging, as the sticky cream will give you a tough experience in summer. On dry skin, the yellowish color remains until you massage extensively. Oily skin people may find this cream a boon, as it prevents acne and fades acne scars.

Anyhow, few people didn’t find this ayurvedic cream helpful. So, you must try it to know if it’s working for you.

How to Use Vicco Turmeric Cream on Face

This amazing skin care cream can be used on to control oil and heal injuries like I mentioned above. When tried it on my dry itchy patches I got relief for some time. So you can use Vicco turmeric cream to moisturize your skin.

  • Best time to apply this ayurvedic cream for hydrating your face is at night. Before going to sleep wash your face with water and pat dry. Evenly massage the Vicco turmeric cream on face. Don’t leave behind yellow lines massage extensively.
  • Get rid of pimples: Before going to bed apply Vicco cream on red swollen bumps as a spot treatment. Anti-inflammatory and healing properties housed in this cream will reduce inflammation and pimples.
  • Impurities accumulated over the skin forms dark spots on face. Regular use of this cream will cleanse and fade dark spots.
  • Medical properties residing in Vicco turmeric cream soothes and heals minor burns and injuries.

Conclusion

Vicco turmeric cream is good to use for a flawless skin. Apart from being a skin care cream, it can be used to heal minor razor cuts and injuries. But it fails to hydrate the dry skin effectively. I recommend trying this ayurvedic cream; never know what it has for your skin. 🙂

Face Masks

Sunni Pindi – Natural Bath and Face Scrub

Author ByMoin Nex

Renowned innate ingredients were used in preparation of this herbal powder known as Sunni Pindi. From centuries it has been used as a face and bath scrub. Till now families in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (states in India) use sunni pindi as a cleanser and an exfoliator for babies.

Due to increasing pollution and impurities, your loses its moisture and get infected by various ailments. Before to applying any cosmetic cream to obtain that gorgeous skin (as claimed by manufacturing companies), you must wipe the impurities and allow the skin to breath easily.

Naturally, your skin is protected by natural oil that keeps infectious germs at bay. Chemical filled creams and soap steal the moisture and its repeated use will ruin your appearance. Sunni pindi is one of the most effective way to remove the impurities off the skin.

Ingredients in Sunni Pindi

Dried green gram flour is powdered and mixed with chickpea powder (besan in Hindi). Other ingredients include turmeric sticks, multani mitti, rose petals, fenugreek leaves, almond, basil leaves, neem leaves and gooseberries.

Though, you can get ready made sunni pindi in local market, beauty experts suggest to make your own because it’s cheap and simple.

Steps to Make Sunni Pindi

  1. Take listed ingredients first: 100 gms green gram dal, 50 gms of rice, multani mitti 50 gms, chickpea flour 100 gms, neem leaves 2 tbsp, rose petals 2 tbsp, almonds 10 and other natural ingredients listed above.
  2. Air dry, all the ingredients and grind them into powder.
  3. You can roast green gram in ghee (clarified butter) for aromatic smell.

How to Use Sunni Pindi?

Exceptional properties in sunni pindi can replace your chemical filled soaps. Try it once and you’ll certainly love this traditional soap.

  • To use it over face, mix the prepared sunni pindi powder with water, milk or honey and topically apply it over prewashed face. Leave it for few minutes and rinse it off.
  • Even today people of all religions in Andhra Pradesh use this sunnipindi for babies. Not just cleansing the dirt and impurities, but it removes the roots of baby’s body hair. (Its known as nalugu pindi in Telugu.)

Use it on face or on complete body; increase the quantity if you’re using it on body.

Benefits of Sunni Pindi for Skin

  • Green gram flour and chickpea powder helps to exfoliate dead cells, impurities and dust accumulated over the skin. It nourishes the skin and enhances elasticity.
  • Turmeric is renowned for its antiseptic and antimicrobial properties, which restrain bacterial or viral infection.
  • Rose petals hydrate the skin and thwarts acne causing bacteria.
  • Multani mitti powder reaps excess oil secreted by your skin.
  • Assorted properties in almonds hydrate your skin and repairs tissues. Vitamin E and antioxidants residing in almond postpones aging wrinkles.

With all these unmatched nutritional properties sunni pindi can nourish your skin and makes it extra smooth. Would you like to try this traditional soap as a face scrub or body scrub? Let us know in comments.

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