Super Healthy Green Tea

Green tea stems from China but has now found its place in almost all civilizations of Asia. It is extracted from the plant known as Camellia Sinensis. It is used in various nectars which makes it one of the healthiest beverage on earth.

One of the research scientists Christopher Ochner, Ph.D. says about green tea

“It is the healthiest thing I can think of to drink”

Benefits of Green Tea:

It is full of nutrients that leave powerful impression on body. Diverse uses of green tea include 

Home Remedies for Sore Throat

Sore throat is always uuhhhh, the most irritating problem for me.

The sore throat burns, irritate and make it hard to talk. It is mostly one of the initial signs of cold. If you have a sore throat then there is high chance that you will also catch a cold.

Common sore throat causes include bacterial infection, cold, flu, allergies, chicken pox,  smoking etc. The main symptoms of sore throat are pain, dry throat, difficulty in breathing and talking,  patches on the tonsils and swollen tonsils.

Below are some simple remedies that will help you to get relief from sore throat naturally.

Natural Migraine Treatment

Three years back, I was the suffering from severe migraine attacks. I got the medical treatment for quite a long time, which reduced the frequency migraine attacks and their severity but on the occurrence of triggers, it started again. Then I started practicing remedies to get relief from this painful head aching. No doubt that medication is effective but it is good to take medication side by side with different therapies at home.

Triggers for migraine are different for different people. Some people get migraine by dairy products, some get by noise pollution. Lack of sleep, alcohol, weather changes, stress are some other triggers.

Read on to get my personally experienced remedies that can reduce or completely stop migraine pains.

How to Do a Pedicure at Home

How many of you equally treat the beauty of your feet as your face and hands? I think very few. Feet are usually our least concern when it comes to beauty especially for mommies and working women, even though they are as important as our face and hands. Feet are that part of our body which is affected by the physical fatigue the most. So here is the procedure to do pedicure at home to enhance beauty and release tiredness. Personally, I am too lazy to go to salon for a treatment and honestly speaking I cannot afford expensive pedicures with my limited pocket money.  =p

The things we need for a DIY pedicure are:

6 Reasons why you should care more about the quality of your sleep

Sleep has the key role in our physical and mental health. In our busy routine, sleep is often the thing we neglect and we become least concerned about it.

How much sleep we need: 7 to nine hours of sound sleep is recommendable by experts

Many of us don't bother to get enough sleep, so here are some benefits of having a good night's sleep:

Prevent and Cure Flu in Winter

Prevent and Cure flu in Winter

I did not like winters because it was a flu season for me. From the mid of November to start of February, I used to be on medication and it was the toughest time of the year for me. Every year my priority problem was flu and my schedules were disturbed. I thought what would be the end of this, then I started to search that what should I do and how to cure it. I tried many remedies to get relief. Now I am going to share the most effective ones with you.

6 Daily Beauty Habits we should have

We girls are quite beauty conscious by nature and spend quite a bit of money on beauty products and salon charges. I was fed up of all the beauty costs because I too spend a lot of money on cosmetics. So I started searching about how to minimize these charges, then I found that it is pretty simple. I just had to develop some habits. I started to practice them and they are very useful for me.

I am going to share 6 beauty habits that we all must adopt.

Everyday 5 Minute Makeup

As women love to look good, every morning my only concern is to get ready in less time. And I am sure that most of school going girls or working women are in the same situation that how to do quick casual makeup every day and which items could be used for casual makeover.

Don’t worry! I tried to explain that how to look casual with makeup. Hope this post could help you to get out of this situation.

Magical Herb-Turmeric

A month ago, my mother slipped on the floor and got knee injury. We gave her first aid immediately but after few days, she still has pain. And when mom is on bed, everything goes wrong at home. =p

After few days, I was sitting with my friends in the university and one of my friend mentioned that her grandma recommends turmeric as a painkiller. Oh yes! Turmeric. It clicked on my mind. I came home; boiled milk with half teaspoon turmeric and cardamom for my mom to drink. Now she is perfectly fine.

Miss Tipsy's guide to a healthy lifestyle

Every one of us is tired of carrying extra weight or worried about it, but do not have time to think about it in our busy schedule. Although it just needs some adjustments to our hectic lifestyle.

When we say ‘Healthy Lifestyle’, does it mean to give up your favorite food and comfort zone?

Not really! A healthy lifestyle is not about restrictions and limitations; it is about balancing, controlling your mood, enjoying more energy and eating your favorite food.

There is no medication in the world to improve our lifestyle but to change our habits. We ourselves have to plan our diet and routine. We have to balance somewhere between all-or-nothing. Doing this can lead us to a healthy and productive life.

I divided the routine of the whole day in 4 easy steps:

Stress Effects

Improve your Immune System

Tip # 2 Before Applying anything to your face

Moisturize your body

How to get rid of Dark circles

The way you feel on the inside is reflected in your eyes.

But what if you got dark circles under your eyes? Hmm? Today, life for us has become hectic and is reflected by the eyes in the form of dark circles. They make you appear unhealthy, ill, tired and make you look older than you are, although dark circles are not a sign of serious illness.

Dark circles are the darkness of sensitive area around the eyes. They may be caused by various factors. Aging, staying up late, , excessive crying, smoking, stress, lack of nutrient diet, working on computer for long, alcohol, iron deficiency, fatigue, liver problem or some allergy are major causes of these dark circles.

Various creams are available in the market, which claim to reduce darkness around the eyes. Doctors and specialists have come up with lots of new treatments. As it is not a serious skin problem so you can cure it at home and get rid of dark circles under your eyes naturally.

First of all, remove the cause of skin discoloration. Take a beauty sleep, treat allergies, eat healthy food and drink water, etc.

Natural Remedies to get rid of Dark Circles:

How to remove Freckles

Freckles are flat, round and dark colored spots and may not be felt by the finger tip. Freckles occur due to increase in a dark pigment on a particular area but they have no medical concerns. Freckles may be developed due to sun exposure, hormonal imbalance or they may be inherited. Freckles can appear anywhere on the body but mostly appear on the area often exposed to sun. Women with fair and lighter complexion are more prone to freckles and dark spots because they are more prominent on fair complexion. Freckles are of different colors on different skin tones, that may be red, yellow, black or dark brown.

There are many modern techniques to cure freckles like laser, bleaching and cosmetics but it again comes to chemicals that may affect your skin in some other ways and these techniques can also be very expensive. On the safer side, there are many homemade remedies to cure freckles with no side effects.

  
Remedies to get rid of Freckles:

Homemade Skin Whitening and Fairness Masks

There are many factors on which our skin color depends. If our skin color is genetically dark than we can’t do anything to light it but dark color has its own beauty, glow and fairness. Women have craze to achieve spotless and fair skin and the market is flooded with expensive skin products that may not suit your skin or you may not get expected results.

Do you always visit market in search of expensive skin products? Do you often spend hours in beauty salons for fairness skin treatments? Have you spent a lot of money on skin products and their false promises? Did you ever think of economical  home remedies?

The best way we ever have is natural skin whitening remedies. Natural remedies are cost efficient and more effective. They do not involve any chemicals with no guarantee for your skin need.

Some natural remedies that can lighten your skin are listed below:

Homemade remedies for skin whitening and fairness:

Masks to Get the Skin Glowing

Healthy looking skin can increase your confident and enhance your charm. Fresh and glowing skin is the dream of every woman (and men too :) ). They spend hours and hours in beauty salons to get expensive skin treatments. Even then they often don’t get the desired results and end up with disappointed. There are many cosmetic products available in the market that claim to be the best for your skin. These are expensive and sometimes even harmful. Every person has a unique skin tone and skin problems and nature cares for all. Thus, why not go for natural skin treatment with zero side effects? Hmmm :) I have some natural skin care remedies for you to make your skin soft, smooth and glowing.

How to make your hair grow faster and Healthy

Every girl wants long hair, well not every girl but most do. How to grow hair long is a big question mark for girls because in our busy schedule, it is hard to spend hours and hours on our hair. But don’t worry, growing long hair is not a difficult process, there is no need to visit a salon for any expensive treatments. Solution to these types of issues is, more often than not, present in your homes. The only thing you need are proper guidelines.

Home remedies for faster hair growth:

10 Home Remedies for Beautiful Hands

Hands are an important part of our attractive personality, but the skin of our hands is soft and sensitive. Will all the work that we do with our hands, they often come in contact with germs, dirt, chemicals such as in detergents, etc., which may not suit our sensitive skin and result in dryness and ugliness. Therefore, it is necessary to treat our hands with special care.

I always prefer natural ingredients for beauty and health care, because I believe that there is no match of natural ingredients on this planet, in both economical and output perspectives.

I have some hand care tips and masks for you, which you can make it at home.

10 Homemade remedies for beautiful hands fairness:

Sugar and olive oil Scrub: 

Sugar is the best ingredient to remove dead skin in minutes and bring your hands back to life.

Mix 3 tablespoon sugar with two tablespoon of oil (olive oil, vegetable oil or baby oil). Olive oil is very rich in vitamins. This scrub removes leftover skin from your hands and maintains the softness. 

Banana mask: 

Banana contains vitamins that help to maintain natural glow of the skin. You only need to mix it with honey, lemon and butter in equal quantities. Mix these ingredients well to form a paste. Apply this mask on your hands and leave for 15 minutes. Then rinse the mask and you will get glowing skin. 

Lemon-Sugar Softener: 

Lemon is the most common remedy for skin lightening. Lemon is a healthy food ingredient as well as a good skin remedy. For dry hands mix 1 tablespoon lemon juice with one teaspoon sugar. Apply it to your hands, leave it for 5 minutes. Wash off with warm water. 

Tomato pulp: 

Tomato is a beneficial beauty item to keep the skin healthy. Tomatoes are used as a cure for sunburn and for reducing rashes and large pores.

Take tomato pulp, lemon juice and glycerine to form a paste. Apply a layer of masks on your hands. Leave for 30 minutes and wash off.

Honey-egg white mask: 

Mix 1 tablespoon of honey, egg white and 1 teaspoon glycerine. Apply to your hand gently and leave for few minutes. Rinse the mask and see the results, it will clear and soften your hands. 

Moisturizing mask: 

2 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. honey, 1 tbsp. olive oil, 1 tbsp. cream.

Mix all the ingredients well and apply a layer of mask on your hands. Massage with your fingertips for 3-4 minutes and leave. After 15 minutes, wash off the mask with warm water.

You can replace olive oil with vegetable oil or baby oil. Ask your friend or partner for help in massaging your hands.

Rose extract: 

Add 1 part of glycerine on 2 parts of rose water. Mix together and massage your hands as often as possible. You can make it once and save it in a refrigerator. 

Cucumber: 

Cucumber can do much for your skin. It tightens open pores, improves complexion, fades scars and much more. Anyways for your hand’s treatment, you have to mix cucumber juice in glycerine and massage on your hands.

Oranges: 

Oranges contain vitamin C and it improves color and texture of your skin. Mix orange juice with honey to use it for fairness of hands. 

Softening hand mask: 

Milk, lemon and honey is a great combination for your skin.

Mix these items, and stir to form a thick paste. Apply to your hands. Massage for 3 minutes. Then leave for 10 minutes and rinse it off.

At last, hope the above information will help you and it will not disappoint you. If you think these is something missing do tell me, or you have any suggestion or a question in your mind Ask Miss Tipsy  :)