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Instant Face Pack for Blackheads

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Here I'm sharing my simple and instant face pack to remove blackheads and keep face skin healthy. Needs only three main ingredients from your kitchen pantry. I have been using this regularly for the past 3 months weekly once. This pack healed my pimple marks and removed blackheads. Ingredients Rice Flour - 1 table spoon Organic Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tea spoon Lemon - medium size Rose Water (Optional) Neem leave paste (Optional) Procedure Make paste using 1 table spoon for organic Rice flour,  1/2 tea spoon of   turmeric powder,   juice of half lemon .  Use sufficient amount of rose water or normal water and make fine paste.  Optional, if wish add paste of fresh neem leaves to the paste Apply it on clean face and let it dry Moisture your face with water, gently rub in circular motion and wash it off using warm water. Do not use hot water. Benefits Following are the benefits I experience over regular usage for 3 month...

Eye Care for Tired Eyes

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My story of discomfort in my eyes  I'm a Software Engineer by profession. As any other software professional, I too spend lot of time sitting in front of computer. Off late I have been complaining about mild pain in the eye, not being able to see bright display especially projector display for not more the 15 minutes. Few months back, this discomfort in my eyes become severe to an extend that I was unable to see computer screen not more than ten minutes. Visited multiple hospitals and every where I heard the same "COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME" and "DRY EYES" . All the doctors I have visited prescribed me tear drops to be used 3 to 4 times a day and no end time mentioned for its usage. This drops are supposed to prevent the eyes getting dry. As soon as the doctors suggested that this drops can be used life long and as and when I have discomfort in my eyes, I have decided that I am not going to use it for life long. Eye Massage  Then I googled lot about ...

Small Onion Hair Pack to Stop Hair Loss

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This is how I reduced my hair loss In the past one year I have lost lot of hair like never before. I have tried lot of home remedies like castor oil massage, methi pack, curry leave pack etc. Finally tried small onion pack for the past four weeks and started seeing results already. The amount of hair I loss during every day has reduced.. So feeling happy about it. I will continue this to keep the hair healthy. Ingredient Small Onion / Shallot / Sambar Onion - 1 hand full Procedure Peel the onions and grid to a fine paste in mixer without adding any water.  Apply the paste to the scalp and gently massage with finger tips.  Leave it on the scalp for 30 to 45 minutes.  Wash it with mild shampoo or Shikakai. Frequency I applied once a week. This pack can be applied once in three days too. 

Healthy Millet Snack Ball using Solam/Jowar and Kambu/Bajra

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Ever since my childhood most of my snacks are made by mom and granny. In Indian cuisine there are plenty of snacks that can be made at home very easily. During my childhood various millets were part of our family regular food. Importantly Solam and Kambu.  So here I'm posting my millet snack ball recipe. Main Ingredients to this snack is Solam and Kambu in Hindi Jowar and Bajra respectively Scientific Name: Sorghum , Tamil: Solam, Hindi: Jowar, Telugu: Jonna, Kannada: Jola, Malayalam: Cholum Scientific Name: Pennisetum glaucum , English: Pearl millet, Tamil: Kambu, Hindi: Bajra, Telugu: sajjalu, Kannada: Sajje, Malayalam: Kambam Ingredients I have used Palm Jaggery as sweetner. You can replace this with regular sugar. Making of Millet Snack Dry roast Solam/Jowar, Kambu/Bajra, Fried gram separately. Solam/Jowar will start popping as pop corn while dry roasting, so do pay attention while roasting it. Do not over roast, just stop roasting while the nice a...

Rose Powder for Face and Skin

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Paneer Rose Paneer rose is most popular Indian variety rose. It has magical mild fragrance. I love eating the petals of it. Now I keep collecting this flower and allow it to dry naturally under shade. Dry grind it using mixer or by stone grinding it. Filter and grind few times to get fine powder. This fine rose powder can be used as regular facial powder, face pack. I use the fine powder as my regular facial powder, the rose granules goes into my bath powder. Rose Powder This rose powder can be used as  Regular facial powder Face pack Bath powder

DIY Home Made Bath Powder

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DIY Home Made Bath Powder In India, Home made bath powders are always encouraged since ancient times. Making our own Home made bath powder is very simple with readily available ingredients from our kitchen pantry. We can alter the proportions of the ingredients as per our preferences. Anything home made is harmless as we know what we are preparing. In this mix, neem leaf powder and turmeric powder are best remedy for all type of skin allergies. So adding them to our regular bath powder gives us best protection from any skin infection. Turmeric powder adds glow to our skin. Rose powder add beautiful fragrance. This bath powder makes our skin feel fresh, glow and keeps body odour away. Bath Powder Ingredients Making of Bath Powder Mentioned ingredients and its proportion can be alter to our preference. Neem leaf powder and Paneer rose powder are optional. Mix all the mentioned ingredients in a clean dry bowl and store it in a container. Best to prepare for once in a mont...

Uses of Castor Oil

Here is how Castor Oil playing important role in regular routine. Though I knew Castor Oil and seen its several usages from childhood, but some how I forgot to use it in my kitchen in the beginning. For sure our lifestyle changes and health often reminds you to get back to your roots. Such instances made me to kick start it again. Right now following are my usages of Castor oil 1. As Cooking Ingredient While making plain toor dal (uppu parrupu recipe in tamil) along with jeera, red chilli, pepper, turmeric powder, I will just add 1 table spoon of castor oil in it. This addition will enhance the taste and also avoid the over flow of dal when it is not pressure cooked i.e when cooked in open vessel or pot. Use it as thickening agent in all pulli kulambu recipes i.e tamarind based vegetarian curries. I do not prefer adding coconut in my curries just to make it thick, so I add 1 table spoon of castor oil to the recipe 5 mins before getting it off from the stove. 2. As M...