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January 13, 2018
Pramod Pathak
With strawberries in full season, why not take advantage of them and whip them up into a sinfully delicious lip scrub? That’s exactly what I did (although I did eat most of them!) This homemade strawberry lip scrub is SO easy to make, and will only take you a few minutes. I like to make enough for one use as strawberries don’t hold for very long, and so it’s always best to use fresh strawberries and make this whenever you need it!
Here’s how to make your own strawberry lip scrub:
DIY Strawberry Lip Scrub Recipe
This strawberry lip scrub not only smells heavenly, but will also leave your lips amazingly soft and kissable. Not to mention your lips will smell and taste of strawberries!
The Drill:
2-3 strawberries (depending on their size)
1 tbsp brown sugar (may need to add more to get the correct consistency)
1 tsp honey
In a food processor, add the strawberries, brown sugar, and honey. Process until it forms a scrub-like consistency. You may need to add more sugar to get the perfect consistency depending on how big your strawberries are.
Using a clean finger, rub the mixture onto your lips and massage gently in circular motion. Then, rinse off with luke-warm water OR just lick right off! (Remember of rinse your strawberries first!) Make this lip scrub once a week!
I love this lip scrub because of its simplicity, but it also works so well because the strawberry seeds and sugar slough off dead skin, while the honey soothes and replenishes moisture AND removes dirt and bacteria. Smooth, soft lips are just a few strawberries away!
January 13, 2018
Pramod Pathak
Haircare
Facial hair can be a pain and waxing or bleaching just doesn’t last, not to mention that it can be quite painful! If you have unwanted facial hair that you’d like to get rid of for GOOD, this DIY recipe is just for you! I’ll show you how to permanently remove facial hair using natural ingredients you probably already have, pain free, and in just a short amount of time.
This homemade facial hair remover recipe has been tried and tested by thousands of women and the results are amazing!
You’ll Need:
1 tbsp oatmeal (uncooked)
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
The Drill:
Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until it becomes a smooth paste.
Apply the paste directly onto desired area such as upper lip, chin, etc…
Leave on for 20 minutes or until it’s completely dry.
Rinse off with warm water and pat dry.
Use this mask 3-4 times a week for at least 2 weeks until you see results. It may be a pain at first, but eventually, you’ll start seeing results and within a couple of months, you’ll be rid of facial hair forever!
FAQ:
Will I see immediate results? You will start seeing results within 2 weeks!
Does this cause acne? On the contrary! This facial hair remover mask will actually get rid of acne as well as any dark spots and/or acne scars.
Will the hair grow back? The hair will grow back, but much slower and thinner. Eventually, after a few months, the hair will stop growing altogether.
Does this only work for facial hair? No, it works on any hair! So if you want to use it on your legs, armpits, or anywhere else, you certainly can!
Will this irritate my skin? Very unlikely, but if you have very sensitive skin, follow up with a few drops of coconut oil after removing the mask.
It is never too late to support your neurological health. Remember, even small changes you make each day reap big rewards over time. Seek to change your habits consistently and persistently to support your memory, cognitive function and ultimately your enjoyment of everyday life. Here are several strategies you may use to improve your brain health:
Vitamin D
There are strong links between low levels of vitamin D in Alzheimer’s patients and poor outcome on cognitive testing. Optimal vitamin D levels may protect brain cells by increasing the effectiveness of the glial cells in restoring damaged neurons. Additionally, vitamin D has anti-inflammatory properties.
Carotenoids
These antioxidant compounds are found most often in orange colored vegetables, such as sweet potatoes and carrots. Some carotenoids, such as lutein and zeaxanthin, are found in dark green vegetables, namely kale and spinach. Lutein and zeaxanthin are best known for the role they play in vision health, but accumulating evidence suggests they play a role in cognitive health as well by enhancing neural efficiency.
Probiotics
You are likely familiar with the importance of probiotics for your gut health but may not know of the role they play in your cognitive health. Certain beneficial bacterial strains, such as those found in fermented foods, have a positive effect on your brain function.
In a study by the University of California Los Angeles, scientists found women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria via yogurt experienced changes in multiple areas of their brain, including those related to sensory processing, cognition and emotion.
Exercise
Physical activity produces biochemical changes that strengthen and renew not only your body but also your brain — particularly areas associated with memory and learning.
Diet
Reducing overall calorie and carbohydrate consumption, while increasing healthy fats, has a powerful effect on your brain health. Beneficial health-promoting sources of healthy fats that your body — and your brain in particular — needs for optimal function include organic olives, organic virgin olive oil and coconut oil, nuts like pecans and macadamia and avocado, for example.
Increasing your omega-3 fat intake and reducing consumption of damaged omega-6 fats (i.e., processed vegetable oils) in order to balance your omega-3-to-omega-6 ratio also has a significant benefit for your brain.
Sleep
Sleep not only is essential for regenerating your physical body, but imperative for reaching new mental insights and being able to see new creative solutions to old problems. Sleep removes the blinders and helps "reset" your brain to look at problems from a different perspective.
Research from Harvard indicates that people are 33 percent more likely to infer connections among distantly related ideas after sleeping, but few realize that their performance has actually improved. Sleep is also known to enhance your memories and help you "practice" and improve your performance of challenging skills. In fact, a single night of sleeping only four to six hours can impact your ability to think clearly the next day.
This homemade avocado face mask can be used 2-3 times a week, but always do a patch test to make sure you’re not allergic to any of the ingredients!
You’ll Need:
1/2 avocado
1/2 ripe banana
1 tbsp olive oil
Directions:
In a bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well. Apply to face and neck. Leave on for 20 minutes and rinse off with lukewarm water. Your face will feel extremely smooth and clean. Great for dry, oily, and acne prone skin!
- January 03, 2018
- Pramod Pathak
- Hair Rinses, Haircare
For healthier highlights: want to natural alternative to damaging chemical colour treatments? Use lemon juice to bring out blonde highlights in your hair. Combined juice of one lemon with 1/4 cup of water in a glass jar, shake well and use as a rings after shampooing rings with cool water after five minutes. Lemon juice will also help an oily scalp.
Application: Prepare an herbal hair rinse the same way you make and herbal tea: for a cup of boiling water over a teaspoon of herbs. Steep for 10 minutes, then strain massage the rains into the scalp gently and evenly; leave it on the hair without rinsing. Dry your hair with a softer towel, heat can damage your hair, so try to avoid using a blow dryer and allow your hair to dry naturally.
Rinse with beer to add shine and body: if you want to do something nice for your hair, rinse it once a month with flat beer. After applying the beer , You can range the hair with warm water or not, as you choose. The beer acts as a natural setting lotion, giving blowdried hair increase vitality, resilience and hold. The B vitamins and natural sugar add body and shine. Don’t worry: the stale beer smell will just disappear very quickly.
Apply sesame or oil to reduce sun damage: the rays of the sun are extremely damaging to your hair, bleaching and drying it until it becomes brittle. Indeed, hair damage caused by too much ultraviolet radiation is it repairable. How are ever, sesame oil can provide excellent sun protection. Massage a few tablespoons of the oil into your hair and scalp before going out into the sun for prolonged periods. Sesame or oil includes a natural SPF of about 2.5. For added protection you can blend of sesame or oil with 10 drops of carrot seed essential oil, which is high in antioxidants.
Brush the scalp to improve circulation give your hair hundred strokes with natural bristle brush every day to stimulate circulation in the scalp and get the hair a secure appearance. Regular brushing will also help to remove the pollutants and dust that settle on your hair every day and potentially cause damage.
Extra tip: to help prevent split ends, Olive oil into the ends of your hair 2 to 3 times per week. For best results, leave the oil on overnight and wash it out in the morning.
Sage rinse :
1 cup boiling water, 1 teaspoon dried sage. Pour the water over the sage; steep until it cool is a bit. Strain. Effect: Sage help reduce the buildup of oil on the scalp and promotes healthy your hair use this herbal rinse shampooing for three weeks.
By studying the effects of starvation on yeast, It has been discovered that sugar accelerates aging and premature death, in part by activating two genes known as Ras and PKA, both of which are known to accelerate aging. Longo explains:
"At Walford, we were working with human samples and mice and it was very clear that not knowing about the genes and the molecular biology was going to greatly limit us in moving forward. The gamble was, let's move back to a very simple system and hope that what we learn about aging in this simple system applies back to humans. And I think the gamble worked. We did identify what I call the sugar pathway or the PKA or Ras/PKA, and then the protein pathway, the TOR-S6 kinase. "
Research has demonstrated that these initial findings in yeast hold true in other animals as well, including worms, flies, mice and a group of people in Ecuador who have Laron syndrome, a rare genetic disorder where they lack the receptor for growth hormone. As a result, they cannot grow taller than 4 feet.
Interestingly though, this genetic anomaly also appears to protect them against chronic diseases such as diabetes and cancer — even when consuming a less than ideal diet. According to Longo, there's reason to believe the findings apply to most other people as well, as we now know growth hormone and growth hormone receptor in humans regulates both the TOR and MPK pathways.
"We now suspect there is a network pathway starting with the growth hormone and ending with these transcription factors that we described. These are what I call the captains of protection, that are regulated by the food that you eat," Longo says.
Sugar Avoidance and Fasting Are Powerful Longevity Boosters
Longo was one of the first researchers to identify sugar as an aging accelerator and fasting as a process for improving longevity. In 1997, he published a paper showing yeast could be made to live a lot longer when starved. Shortly after that, they discovered the sugar and protein pathways responsible for this phenomenon.
In essence, what he found was that if you knock out both Ras/PKA and something called LCH-9, which is the S6-Kinase gene in yeast, you could obtain up to a fivefold extension in lifespan. As noted by Longo, "It was clear that the effects of fasting were caused in part by shutting down these two pathways." The question was, does the same apply to humans?
To answer this, Longo looked for equivalents to what they'd identified in yeast. Work done by John Kopchick and Andre Barki showed that, in mice, growth hormone deficiency and growth hormone receptor deficiency caused record longevity extension of 40 to 50 percent. They were also far healthier than normal mice. Half of them were completely disease-free at the time of death. As noted by Longo:
"This is very impressive and remarkable. So, we knew that this was true for yeast and this was true for mice, and the Laron [study] was our way to demonstrate that this is also true for people. To summarize, health and longevity are promoted by either a) having low levels of growth hormone, or b) lack of receptors for growth hormone, so it doesn't matter whether you remove growth hormone or the receptor."
Homemade almond milk contains all of the nutrients of the whole almond, and is packed with protein and heart-healthy monounsaturated fats and omega fatty acids, as well as Vitamins B, D and E, magnesium, potassium and copper. Ready to make your own pure almond milk? Let's get started.
Ingredients
1 cup raw almonds, soaked
3 cups filtered water
Instructions
USING BLENDER
1. Put 1 1/2 cups of the water and the almonds in a blender. Blend on high speed until very smooth. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cups of water and blend again. Strain for a smoother free flowing texture.
2. To strain, place a nut milk bag over the opening of a glass bowl, jar or jug. Pour the milk into the bag, twisting the bag closed, and gently squeezing it to pass the liquid through.
USING SLOW JUICER
1. When the juicer is running, spoon a ladle full of almonds and water into the top of the juicer. Carefully add more.
2. Continue adding more nuts and water into the juicer until you are done. To get a fine texture strain it from a fine mesh strainer.
Recipe Notes
Soak raw almonds overnight or 8-10 hours at room temperature. Rinse well and discard the water.
You can adjust the consistency of the milk by increasing or decreasing the amount of water.
Almond milk can be easily stored in a sealed container in the fridge for 2 to 3 days.
When left for sometime the milk tends to separate. Just give it a stir or a shake before using. It'll come back to its normal state again.
This basic almond milk can be used in recipes as a substitute to dairy milk or you can add a sweetener and some spices of your choice to make it more flavourful.
Almond pulp can be stored in refrigerator to use later in recipes. You may also dehydrate the pulp and turn it into almond floor. The pulp can also be used as face pack or body scrub.
