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Hand Care
Hands tell a number of things about a person. Hands tell
how you lead your life and how you take care of your body and skin. It is said that the hands tell how old a woman is. No
matter how old you are, your hands tell an observer a lot about you as a person. Dressing up in fancy clothes is of no use
if you do not take care of your hands and feet.
Here are few hand care tips:
- The skin on your hand is thin and delicate; therefore take special care of them.
- Moisturize your hands at least four times a day.
- Use your facial scrub on your hands once a week.
- Once a week apply your face cream on to your hands before you go to bed.
- For dry hands after washing your hands with soap, wet them again. Pour salt
on your hands and then scrub them under water. Dry hands and apply moisturizer on them.
- For greasy hands, after washing your hands rub cornmeal on them.
- Wear rubber gloves while working at home and in the garden.
- Protect and prevent your hands from aging and abuse.
- Protect your hands from the ravages of changing weather.
- Protect your hands while working in the sun.
- The best way to take care of your hands is to protect them on a daily basis.
Body Care
After an exhausting day your body needs to be relaxed
and pampered in order to get a good night's sleep. You must take care of your body not only in the day but in the night as
well. While you sleep at the night, the body is resting and replenishing itself. There are a few things that you can do to
relax the body to help in the replenishing process. Here are a few ideas for bath and body care in the night:
- Take a warm, soothing bath. Fill your bathtub with warm water and some lavender
that helps in calming and relaxing the body and reduces muscle tension. You can add chamomile, which is a skin soother and
helps in reducing swelling and pain in the skin. Lie in the bath for some time and let these herbs relax your body and mind.
- If you want to wake up with a tan you can use a self-tanning lotion overnight.
Exfoliate your skin with a scrub and moisturize. Once the moisturizer is fully absorbed spread the self-tanning lotion evenly
all over your body, working on one portion of the body at a time. Use wipes to wipe the tanner off your palm and fingers as
you apply the lotion. Today there are many self-tanning lotions that dry in five minutes.
- Your hands are the first to show signs of aging and often neglected as well.
Give your hands a new lease of life. Apply a generous amount of rich hand cream to restore lost moisture. This is an important
part of night body care.
- While sleeping in your bed, ensure that your neck is properly supported through
the night. Buy a good quality people to help keep the stress off your neck. Your sleep should rejuvenate you so ensure that
every part of your body is taken care of properly.
- Your feet support the weight of your entire body. Find time to take care of
them. If they are callused and cracked moisturize them well. If they are cracked use a foot cream that has glycolic acid.
Apply this cream before you sleep and slip on a pair of clean cotton socks. This should be another important part of your
body care routine every night.
- Light aromatic candles in your bedroom. These candles will provide a soothing
atmosphere and relax your senses. Just remember to blow them out before you sleep.
- Leave the humidifier running in the bedroom to keep the air moist. You skin
will glow and be replenished by the moist air through the night.
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Foot Care
When it comes to beauty care one aspect of our body that
we tend to neglect often is our feet. Your feet carry the weight of your entire body and if often one of the most abused and
least cared for parts of your body. Foot care is very important in order to keep your feet healthy and beautiful. The skin
on your feet is very delicate and foot skin care on a regular basis is a must if your feet are to look beautiful. Given below
is a foot care routine, that is simple and is not time consuming and that you can follow a few times a week.
- The first step to good foot care is to remove the hard skin from your feet.
You may have to use a pumice stone or apply cream generously on the area in order to remove the dead foot skin. Soak your
feet in a bowl of slightly hot water. This will soften the dirt and the dead skin, which will allow you to remove it easily.
You could use a foot file as well, rub your skin gently and rinse off the flaky residue.
- After this soak your feet for about 10 min in a bowl of warm water. Add some
mineral salts or palm sea salts, along with a few drops of lavender essential oils that will relieve the aches and reduce
the swelling.
- Dry your feet, especially between your toes. Trim the nails of your toes by
cutting straight across the tip. Shape the corners with an emery board.
- Massage your feet with rich foot skin cream. Cup your hands on either side of
your foot and with your thumbs firmly press the upper part of your foot while pushing your thumbs outwards.
- Gently massage the anklebone in a circular motion to remove any stiffness in
the ankle.
- Remove the extra cream from your nails. Then place cotton wool tufts in-between
your toes to keep them apart.
- First apply a base coat of nail polish and then apply a second coat if required.
When you apply nail polish, begin from the middle of the nail with one quick stroke and then work outwards.
- Wait for ½ an hour before wearing your shoes.
Follow this
foot skin care routine a few times a week and you will have lovely looking feet.
Essential Oils
Essential oils have been part of cosmetics for men and ladies alike for thousands of years. Their exotic aromas
were enough to win them favors amongst the humankind and when it was revealed that the aromas make a significant difference
to the status of our health, the fact was just an added bonus. Aromatherapy is a well-developed science that uses aromatic
essential oils to heal and rejuvenate one's physical and emotional health and enhance one's beauty that is constantly gaining
popularity day by day. Essential oils are extracts from different parts of the plants such as herbs, flowers, leaves,
resin, bark, fruit rinds and roots and are highly concentrated, volatile oils.
The extracts usually come out to be
0.01 to 10 percent of the raw material and are very therapeutic in nature. They are either inhaled directly or are
applied to the skin after being diluted with mostly pure-blend oils. Children, novices and people with sensitive skin must
take the precaution of using diluted essential oils only. Aromatherapy works on the basis that the lymbic system of
the brain channels the effects of the oils to balance the body's systems and stimulated particular chemicals and emotions
in us. Massage helps the skin to absorb essential oils, which can then reach internal organs more effectively through
our circulatory system.
Some of the most popular essential oils are sweet almond oil, which is considered an
all-purpose oil; apricot kernel oil helpful in massage blends; avocado, olive, sesame and macadamia nut oil,
which must be used very carefully; borage, kukui, rose hip and evening primrose oil, which is excellent in treating many skin
conditions but is quite expensive; cocoa butter, which is suitable for use in lotions and creams; grapeseed oil, which is
solvent extracted; hazelnut, good for oily skin; jojoba oil or wax, which has a very long shelf-life; peanut oil, which is
good for massage blends and arthritis; pecan oil; shea butter suitable for use in lotions and creams and unrefined sunflower
oil.
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