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INDEX:
1. Face Masks and Cleansers for Acne
a.) Honey Cleansing Scrub
b.) Tomato Mask for Acne
c.) Firming Face Mask
2. Full Body Treatments
a.) Paraffin Wax Treatment For Hands and Feet
b.) Solution for Dry Elbows and Knees
c.) Dry Skin Body Treatment
d.) Blemished Skin Body Treatment
3. Soothing Baths
a.) Foaming Vanilla Honey Bath
b.) Homemade Milk and Sea Salt Bath
c.) Homemade Fragrant Milk Bath
d.) Honey Milk Bath
e.) Smooth and Silky Milk Bath
4. Hair Care Tips
a.) Homemade Intensive Conditioner
b.) Reconditioning Hair Care Tips
c.) Help for Dandruff
d.) Help for Itchy Scalp
5. Cutting Calories
a.) 20 Ways to Cut Calories
6. Weight Loss Tips
a.)12 Super Weight Loss Tips
7. Facial Exercises
a.) Help for a Double Chin
b.) Firm and Lift Your Cheeks and Corners of Mouth
c.) Firm Those Sagging Jowls
8. 13 Exercises for Body
a.) Desk Exercises for chest, back of upper arms, knees, neck Shoulders, Back And Hip Muscles.
b.) Want Great Legs? "6 Tips to Firm and Tone Them"
c.) Firm Your Buttocks 3 Firming Movements
9. Low Calorie Smoothies
a.) Hawaiian Punch
b.) Banana Split
c.) Chocolate Amaretto Fudge Shake
d.) Home-Made Strawberry Lemonade
10. Herbal Teas
a.) Cranberry Orange Ice Tea
b.) Triple Berry
c.) Green Banana Iced Tea
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Masks and Homemade Cleansers
Start off with this wonderful cleansing scrub, then try our tomato mask for acne or our firming face mask to tighten your pores and follow with oil free moisterizer. Your face will feel refreshed and your acne will start to clear-up in no time.
Honey Cleansing Scrub
1 tablespoon of honey
2 tablespoons finely ground almonds
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice.
Rub gently onto face. Rinse off with warm water.
Tomato Mask for Acne
Remove skin and seeds and mash 1/4 of a tomato
2 tsps. plain yogurt
1 tsp. mashed cucumber
2 tsp. aloe gel
3 tsp. Oatmeal powder
2 mint leaves (crushed)
Mix ingredients together in a bowl, apply to face and leave on for about 10 minutes.
rinse with warm water.
Finish with an oil free moisturizer
Firming Face Mask
Whisk together:
1 tablespoon honey
1 egg white
1 teaspoon glycerin (available at drug and beauty stores)
Enough flour to form a paste (approximately 1/4 cup).
Smooth over face and throat. Leave on 10 minutes. Rinse off with warm water
Paraffin Wax Treatment For Hands and Feet
Deep conditioning treatment to soften and smooth your feet and hands.
Supplies:
3 blocks paraffin wax
3 oz. vegetable oil
20 drops of essential oil
a few drops of olive oil
plastic sandwich bags
Melt the paraffin, oil, and the scented oil in a double boiler. Be sure to use a double
boiler for safety purposes. Very carefully pour the wax into a greased foot tub
and wait until a skin has formed on the top of the wax. At this point the
temperature should be about right for submerging your hands and feet.
Be sure to test a little on your wrist first to make sure it is cool enough. Thoroughly
wash your hands and feet and pat dry with a soft cotton towel.
Smooth on the olive oil and be sure to cover every inch of your hands and fingers or
feet and toes. Dip each hand or foot into the wax repeatedly until you have several layers of wax built up.
Have someone help you put on the sandwich bags onto each hand or foot and then
relax for about 30 minutes. For added benefit, place a bath towel over your hands or feet while you wait.
Now to remove the wax... simply peel it away. Start at the wrist or ankle area and pull
it down. It should come off in large sections. Follow with a hand and foot massage.
Solution for Dry Elbows and Knees:
Start by using a good body scrub to exfoliate in the shower. Next mash-up pineapple in the blender and rub it on your elbows and knees.
Leave it on for about 15 minutes so the natural enzymes can do their work. Shower it off and follow up with a thick lotion. You'll be amazed at how soft your skin feels!
Full Body Treatment For Dry or Oily Skin
Dry Skin Body Treatment
Heat almond oil in a Pyrex dish until warm; slather all over your body. Standing outside the shower, turn on the spray till the water is hot, closing the shower curtain or door till Steam forms. Now, enter the shower and stand under the steam (not the hot water!) For 10 minutes. Feel the oil slip into your skin. Next, stand under the warm -- not hot -- water for 10 minutes... Then wash is usual.
Blemished Skin Body Treatment
This treatment is great for broken-out backs. Add enough water to crushed almonds or cornmeal to make a paste. Stand in the shower and apply your meal paste all over your body, massaging it vigorously -- first with your hands, then with a loofah, or Body Buf-Puf. The skin will look clear following your shower.
Soothing Bath Treatments
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 (plain or flower scented)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Mix all the ingredients together and pour about 1/2 cup under running water into tub.
Relax and enjoy!
Put the remainder in a canning jar for later use and refrigerate for up-to 30 days.
Homemade Milk and Sea Salt Bath
Want Luxurious Skin? This milk bath is great for all skin types.
Ingredients:
1 cup of instant dried skim milk
3/4 cup of either fine or coarse sea salt
20 - 25 drops of fragrance oil if desired or 15 - 20 drops of essential oils
Instructions: Place the dried milk and sea salt into a large bowl. Mix well. Scoop out about 1/2 cup or so and place into small bowl. Sprinkle your fragrance or essential oils over the top of this mixture and stir well. Add this back into the main bowl and thoroughly mix. Store your milk bath in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Now just scoop out about 1/3 cup and dissolve under running bath water. Jump in and relax!
This recipe makes enough for about 5 or 6 baths. ENJOY!!!
Homemade Fragrant Milk Baths
2 cups dry milk powder
1 cup cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon fragrance oil of your choice
Blend together all ingredients in blender.
Add 1/2 cup of mixture to hot bath water.
Mix all the ingredients together and pour about 1/2 cup under running water into tub. Relax and enjoy!
Put the remainder in a canning jar for later use.
Honey Milk Bath
• 1 cup honey
• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup salt
• 1/4 cup baking soda
• 1/2 cup baby oil
• Fragrance oil of your choice
Combine honey, milk, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Fill your tub and pour the mixture in. Add the baby oil and a few drops of the fragrance.
Smooth and Silky Milk Baths
Ingredients:
1 cup of instant dried skim milk.
3/4 cup of either fine or coarse sea salt
20 - 25 drops of fragrance oil if desired or 15 - 20 drops of essential oils
Place the dried milk and sea salt into a large bowl. Mix well. Scoop out about 1/2 cup or so and place into small bowl. Sprinkle your fragrance or essential oils over the top of this mixture and stir well. Add this back into the main bowl and thoroughly mix. Store your milk bath in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid.
This recipe makes enough for about 5 or 6 baths.
Now just scoop out about 1/3 cup and dissolve under running bath water. Jump in and relax!
Hair Care Treatments
Homemade Intensive Conditioner
Mix 1/4 cup of olive oil with 1 egg and apply to hair. Use more olive oil if your hair is very long. Cover your head with aluminum foil, then cover with a towel that has been soaked in hot water and rung out. Leave on for 30 minutes or overnight for deep conditioning very dry hair, then shampoo as usual.
Homemade Intensive Conditioner
Mix 1/4 cup of olive oil with 1 egg and apply to hair. Use more olive oil if your hair is very long. Cover your head with aluminum foil, then cover with a towel that has been soaked in hot water and rung out. Leave on for 30 minutes or overnight for deep conditioning very dry hair, then shampoo as usual.
Help for Dandruff
Mix one part of antiseptic mouthwash with 9 parts of water and massage to scalp. Rinse after 10 minutes. Mix 3 tbsp of lime juice with ¼ cup coconut oil and massage to scalp. Shampoo after 1 hour. Boil oat meal and massage to scalp, comb after 10 minutes and shampoo after 15 minutes. Repeat this once in week.
Help for Itchy Scalp
Suggestions to help: Use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of peanut oil, rub together in both hands and message into your scalp before you get into the shower. Wash your hair as usual.
Brush your hair frequently to remove the flakes.
Massage your scalp to improve circulation.
Avoid using alkaline based shampoos.
Try a jojoba oil based shampoo and use it regularly. Try a final rinse of one cup warm water mixed with two to three tablespoons of white vinegar. This will also bring out the highlights in your hair and make it shiny.
Massage 20 crushed asprin (you can use a generic brand about $1.50) mixed in 1/2 cup water into your dry scalp before shampooing.
Massage warm olive oil into your hair and scalp cover your hair with plastic wrap and with two warm, wet towels for 20 minutes, then shampoo your hair twice.
20 Ways to Cut 100 Calories or More
Replace 1 cup of whole milk with 1/2 cup of nonfat milk.
Snack on an orange and a banana instead of a Snickers candy bar.
Replace 3 tablespoons of strawberry topping on your ice cream with 3/4 pint of fresh strawberries.
Snack on a papaya instead of a bag of M&Ms.
Replace a 12-ounce can of cola with a 12-ounce can of diet cola.
Grill a cheese sandwich with nonstick cooking spray instead of margarine.
Order 2 slices of cheese pizza instead of 2 slices of pepperoni pizza.
Top your celery sticks with 2 tablespoons of fat-free cream cheese instead of 3 tablespoons of regular cream cheese.
Munch on 1 cup of frozen grapes instead of an ice cream sandwich.
Eat 2 Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars instead of 2 Kellogg's Pop-Tarts.
Fix 1 cup of turkey chili with beans rather than regular chili with no beans.
Snack on 2 ounces of oven-baked potato chips instead of regular potato chips
Make a burrito with 1/2 cup of fat-free refried beans and 1 ounce of nonfat cheese instead of the same amount of traditional refried beans and cheese.
Rather than drink a strawberry milkshake, make a smoothie of 2/3 cup of low-fat milk, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1/2 a banana.
Choose 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in water instead of 4 1/2 ounces of tuna packed in oil.
Have a single scoop of ice cream instead of a double scoop.
Order a sandwich on cracked wheat bread instead of a croissant.
Use 2 tablespoons of light pancake syrup instead of 2 tablespoons of regular syrup.
Replace 1 large flour tortilla with 1 six-inch corn tortilla.
Cut the peanut butter on your sandwich from 2 tablespoons to 1 tablespoon.
12 Super Weight Loss Tips
Try to work out as much as possible, but at your own pace, and reward yourself. But not with a snack, by putting a certain amount of money in a jar, for every time you work out. The more you work out the more money you save. Then go on a shopping spree, and buy yourself a new wardrobe for your new thin, and trim body.
Keep healthy foods handy like fruit or vegetables in the fridge. Eat only if hungry. Ask yourself how many times have you started a diet & where would you be now if you had just stuck to one of them?
Play with your kids! It is hard enough for us to find time to be with them with all the pressures of life. Play some kind of game requiring physical movement. They will love you for it, and you will benefit in more ways than you can imagine. If you think you can you will. If you think you can't, you won't.
Snack every 4 hours (try oranges, apples, carrot sticks, pretzels, airpopped popcorn).
Buy pre-cut fruit and veggies: You'll be more likely to munch on them for a snack or make a salad for dinner.
Cut down on fat, keep it to less than 25 percent, somewhere around 20 percent is nice.
Carry a little sport bottle at all times. If you feel hungry, take a drink. This works great, for example, when you're at your desk or computer as it helps to curb your appetite.
Eat a Good Breakfast, people who skip breakfast burn 5 percent fewer calories than those who eat a healthy morning meal.
Substitute activity for eating. When the cravings hit, go to the gym or health club if possible; or clean, or walk around the block.
Include two fruits or vegetables in every meal or snack. You'll feel fuller and cut back on calories from other foods.
Facial Exercises
Do you find as you age you have lost elasticity and tone in your face? Here are some wonderful exercises to firm and tone the muscles in your face and neck and give you back your youthful appearance.
Help for a Double Chin
Sit upright in a chair and tilt your head back looking at the ceiling, keeping your lips closed and relaxed. Start by puckering your lips together like you're going to kiss someone, stretch to kiss like you're trying to kiss the ceiling. Keep your lips puckered while counting to 15 to yourself, then relaxed, bring your head back to normal and repeat five times.
Firm and Lift Your Cheeks and Corners of Mouth
Turn the corners of your mouth upward in big smile as far as possible. Try to make your smile has wide and as big as possible while bobbing your head. Hold this position to the count of 5. Now return your mouth to it's normal position. Repeat this five times.
Firm Sagging Jowls.
Close your mouth and clench your back teeth tightly. Open your mouth as you release the clench. Slowly bring your lower jaw up again until your back molars meet again, and bite down hard. Return your mouth to you relaxed position. Repeat this exercise 10 times.
Super Firming Facial Exercises.
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13 Exercises to Tone Your Body
Desk Exercises
You can get an effective workout at your desk. Try these simple desk exercises to work out the kinks and get your body in shape at the same time.
1. Desk Top Push-ups: Work your chest and back of upper arms.
Stand a few feet away from your desk, put your hands on the desk, shoulder-width apart. Keeping your back straight, lower your chest toward the desk, then push out. Don't rush. Repeat 8 to 12 times.
2. Knee Stretch:
Pull one leg to your chest, grasp with both hands, and hold for a count of five. Repeat with opposite leg. Repeat 8 to 12 times.
3. Stretch Out Your Shoulders, Back And Hip Muscles
Place your palms on your lower back in a standing or sitting position. Stretch back your upper body. Hold this position for 5 seconds. Do this 3 times.
4. Neck stretch:
Let your head drop slowly to the left, then to the right. Slowly drop your chin to your chest, and then raise your chin as high as you can. Turn your head to the left, return it to the normal position, and then turn it to the right.
Want Great Legs? "6 Tips to Firm and Tone Them"
Bend your knees deeply to reach an item on a low shelf, then straighten up without leaning forward or holding onto anything for support.
When you get into or out of a chair, don't depend on the arms for help. Instead, let your thigh muscles contract to lower and raise your body while your back is kept straight.
Climb stairs two at a time, with a straight back and without leaning dependently on the handrail.
In the theater, on a bus, or during a meeting, sit with your lower back against a chair, then press your two legs tightly together as if they were one for as long as possible.
To increase your walking speed, take longer strides rather than shorter, quicker steps. By lengthening your pace you're using more of your thigh and hip muscles.
Just before you retire at night, stand with your knees slightly bent and grip your pillow between them. Squeeze the pillow for 8 counts as if trying to crush it. Repeat several times.
Firm Your Buttocks
Lunge This exercise works your gluteus muscles in the Hips as well as your Quadriceps and Hamstrings.
• 1. Stand with your feet together, your toes pointed straight ahead and your hands at your sides. Take an exaggerated step forward with your right leg.
• 2. Bend your right knee slowly, lowering your body close to the floor. Keep your right knee directly over the right foot and your back straight. Most of your weight will be over your front foot; you should feel the strain in your hip and thigh muscles, not your knees, ankles or back.
• 3. When your rear knee is about two inches above the floor, hold for one second. Then slowly return to the starting position.
• 4. Perform 8 to 12 repetitions. Then do a set with your left leg in front.
Flutter Kicks
Lie on stomach, elbows bent, palms on floor near shoulders. Breathing steadily, contract muscles in buttocks and flutter kick legs as if swimming.
Repeat for 50 repetitions, working up to 100.
Donkeys: This exercise works the Buttocks and Lower Back.
1. On your hands and knees, bring your right knee to your chest, then kick it straight back, leading with your heel.
Be careful not to arch your back. Finish with your leg straight, lifting it out and up.
2. Bring knee back to chest.
3. Do 25 to 30 repetitions, then switch legs.
Yummy Smoothie Recipes! Here are a few tasty smoothies sure to curb your sweet tooth and fill you up.
Hawaiian Punch
2 tbs. Vanilla Protein Powder
8 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 banana
5-6 strawberries
4-6 ice cubes (optional)
Mix with a blender
Banana Split
2 tbs. Chocolate Protein Powder
8 oz. skim milk
1/2 banana
5-6 strawberries
4-6 ice cubes (optional)
Mix with a blender
Chocolate Amaretto Fudge Shake (181 calories)
2 tbs. Chocolate Protein Powder
1/2 tsp. instant decaffeinated espresso coffee
8 oz. skim milk
1/4 tsp. almond extract
4-6 ice cubes (optional)
Mix with a blender
Home-Made Strawberry Lemonade
8 cups water
1 cup fresh-cut strawberries
1 cup frozen strawberries
honey to taste
1 cup lemon juice
2 lemons sliced
In a large container, combine 4 cups of water and the fresh and frozen strawberries.
Let soak in the sun for 3-4 hours. In another container, combine the lemon juice, sliced lemons and water.
Chill for 3-4 hours to let the lemon juice soak thru. Mix the 2 containers together, and add honey to your taste. Serve chilled over ice.
Herbal Tea Recipes
Cranberry Orange Ice Tea
2 cups boiling water
6 cranberry herb tea bags
1/4 cup lemon juice
9 packets (or 1 tablespoon bulk) Sweet'N Low granulated sugar substitute
2-1/2 cups cold water
1-1/2 cups orange juice
1. In a large pitcher, pour the boiling water over the tea bags. Steep 5 minutes; remove the tea bags and discard.
2. Stir in the lemon juice and Sweet'N Low until the Sweet'N Low dissolves. Mix in the cold water and orange juice.
3. Refrigerate until well chilled.
4. Pour over ice in tall glasses. Makes 6 cups. Per Serving (1 cup): 40 calories, 1 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate, 1 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 10 mg sodium
Triple Berry
4 oz. of ice
6 oz. raspberry iced tea
2 oz. cranberry juice
1 oz. blackberry syrup
Combine ice, iced tea, juice and blackberry syrup in a cocktail shaker or a jar with a lid. Shake until cold and frothy. Pour into a tall iced tea glass.
Green Banana Iced Tea
1 cup Green Tea
1 cup Banana Pineapple Nectar
Ice cubes
Place one tea bag of Green Tea into an 8 oz. cup. Pour approximately 2 oz. (1/4 cup) boiling water into cup and steep for 4 to 6 minutes. Remove tea bag and fill cup to top with cold water. Mix with banana pineapple nectar and ice. Makes on 16 oz. serving.
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