Skin Care- Sensitive Skin

Sensitive Skin is also a result of pollutants, stress and UV exposure (due to lack of using sunscreen). Those with sensitive skin can care for their skin with the use of products designed to be gentle and caring.

Allergy Free Products for Sensitive Skin
In addition to staying away from harmful ingredients, it’s important to add the right components of healthy skin care into a daily beauty regimen. Begin with a gentle and non-drying cleanser, such as those made by Cetaphil or Neutrogen brands. Cleansing facial soap will wash away and remove dirt, oil and chemicals from the environment and help you with treating and preventing blemish outbreaks and acne.
The second product needed is an exfoliant. When you exfoliate your skin, you will remove the dead skin cells and leave the skin glowing. It is recommended to use an exfoliant with salicylic acid, which is easier on the skin than those products with an alpha hydroxyl. Beware of those with a toner included, as they may be too harsh for sensitive skin areas.
Next, be sure to use a great moisturizer lotion or cream. Every skin type (from oily to dry) needs a moisturizer. You should have a daytime moisturizer with an SPF and a richer night time moisturizer, which better hydrates the skin in the evening.

When you step out – use sunscreen
Lastly, all beauty regimes should include a sunscreen that protects against UVA and UVB rays. UVB rays cause the skin to burn and cause skin cancer. UVA rays cause premature aging or wrinkling of the skin. You need to look for three key ingredients in your sunscreen which will ensure healthy protection. These include titanium dioxide, zinc oxide and avobenzone. These three ingredients absorb UVA and UVB rays protecting the sun from burning or other types of skin damage.

Keep in mind these tips to take care of your skin.

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Vendhaya Kali(Fenugreek Breakfast)

Vendhayam or Fenugreek is good in medicinal values its good to have it in our food. It is good source of protein,Magnesium,Copper and good source of dietary fibre and Iron.

Ingredients:
Fenugreek - 2 spoons
Rice-1 cup
Grated Jaggery(black one)
Gingely oil-3 spoons
Water -3 cups

Cocunut scrappings-1 hand full
Salt -2 pinches(just for taste)

Preparation:

Soak rice and vendhayam for 3 to 4 hours and make it batter(it should not be thick). Grate the jaggery and keep it aside. Add 3 cups of water with the batter and keep stirring in medium flame. Add grated jaggery, coconut scrapings and gingely oil. When the pan sticks with batter put of the stove.

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Coriander leaf Chutney

Goodness of corriander leaf

High in calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, Zinc etc...

Ingredients:

Corriander leaf-1 bundle

Corriander seeds -1 table spoon

zeera - 1/2 table spoon

red chilli-3

tamarind- goose berry size

garlic- 4 pods

salt

oil to fry

Preparation:

Fry in a pan each ingredients seperately by adding oil. Also fry coriander leaf for 2 -3 minutes. Let its hotness reduce . then add everything along with salt in mixie and grind it.

You have have this chutney with curd rice, idli and dosa.

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Lip Care

Lips play a vital role to enhance beauty in a face. Lip Cosmetics can be used to giving color and outline.

I want to give some Lip care Tips for natural beautiful lips

• If your lips is black you can apply lemon juice daily.


• To avoid dryness and maintain moisturizer use lip moisturizer(herbal).


• Corriander leaf juice can also be applied forl ip care.


• Castor oil is also good for lips to moisturize and make lips soft.

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Hair Care - Natural Shampoo

Always as we know natural products are good and harmless for our skin and hair.
Try this out
Soak fengreek seeds overnight for about one hand full or little more for medium length hair.
Then in morning you can add curry leaves ,hibiscus flower and together grind it by adding water the paste shoud not be very thick a bit watery and not much watery also.
Then apply the paste for about half an hour and then you can wash you hair throughly. this gives your hair natural shine, reduces hair fall and reduces hair whitening further it cools your body as well.
You can do this weekly once or twice.

Note:
either if you have sinutus or getting cold often fenugreek will not suit you since it cools your body from head.

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Typical Tamil Nadu aatu kari kulambu(Goat Gravy)-My Mom's style

I'm Sure you will never be able to forget the taste of our authentic dish-Kari Kulambu(this is my mom's special.my friends,relatives and our guest every one don't forget the taste.I'll be adding one by one my mom's delicious recipe.)

Ingredients:

Mutton -1/2 kg

Small Onion-25-30

tumeric powder-1/2 tablespoon

Mustard seeds - 1 table spoon

Corriander seeds-1 hand full

feenel seeds(perumjeerakam in tamil)-half the quantity of coriander seeds

Red Chilli-6-7

Cocunut-half part fully

Oil -to fry

Salt to taste

Curry leaves-10 -15 leaves

Preparation :

Fry without oil the spices one by one coriander, fennel seeds and chilli(remember one by one)

And grind it finely and make it powder.

Gind the cocunut into paste in mixer.keep it aside

Add mutton,onion and tumeric with water till mutton is half sunk. keep this in cooker and wait for the first whistle, then keep it in low flame for 10 minutes.

Now add the prepared powder(prepared in the above mentioned way) and cocunut paste keep it in low flame for about 10-15 minutes.

Now in seperate pan add oil then put mustard seeds ,onion and curry leaves and fry for 1min and turn off the gas, add this to the gravy. Now the delicious aatu kari kulambu is ready.You can have this kulambu with rice and for side dish you can have some mutton or chicken or fish fry.

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Delicious Cauli flower Fry(tikka)

Ingredients:

Cauliflower cutted big-2 cups

Chilli powder-1 table spoon

Karam masala Powder(south indian spices)-1 table spoon

pepper powder- 1 table spoon

zeera powder- 1 table spoon

Corn flour powder-1 cup

curd -1/2 cup

lemon juice-1 table spoon

salt to taste

Oil to fry

Preparation:

In a bowl mix together cauliflower,salt,chilli powder,zeera powder,karam masala powder,lemon juice,curd and keep it aside for 4 hours.

Add corn flour to it and fry deep .Lip smacking snacks ready for tea time.

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Ceramic Tiles For Your Floor

Ceramic tiles has many good virtues like

• durable, low maintenance

and stylish as well.

• For Floor the best size in tiles is 6"x 6" upto 12" x 12".


• They come in many shapes like oval,triangle ,rectangle and even in custom shapes.


• Be clear with color, pattern and shapes to match your wall and interior.


• Types include natural tiles,glazed tiles, mosaic tiles etc..


• Remember glazed tiles are water resistant and easier to clean than unglazed tiles

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Aatu kaal Soup and Aatu kaal Gravy

Ingredients:
Goat legs -5-6.
Onion -1(big).
Tomatoes -1(big).
Chili powder - 3/4 table spoon.
Black pepper -1 table spoon.
Garlic -1(full).
Coriander powder -1 table spoon.
Turmeric -1 table spoon.
For Gravy:
Cloves - 4-5(optional)
Cinnamon (optional)
Thick Coconut milk - 1cup

Preparation:
Boil goat legs with water, salt and turmeric powder and keep it aside when the goat legs are done.
Grind garlic and make it a paste

Fry Curry leaves, onion in a pan and add tomato and fry till tomatoes turn very thin and dry. Now add chili powder, salt, pepper powder, garlic paste, coriander powder and finally goat legs with water and allow to get it done

For Soups: You can filter it and have as hot soup.
For Gravy: Allow the contents to get thicker, you can also use coconut milk to get thicker and tastier. Serve hot with rice ,idlis dosa or chapatis.

Optional for Spicy Gravy: While adding curry leaves you can also add cloves and cinnamon to get typical south Indian spicy flavor.

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Candle-Making For Kids

Want to make your kid happy and entertained with crafts on this vacation? Then you can try this out to make your kid delighted and enjoyable.Its quite amazing to workit out in beach.
Simple Sand Candle Materials
A sandy beach (At home, a simple sandbox will do, if you have clean sand.)
A pail or bucketWater (salt or fresh)
A double-boiler pan
A stove or hot plateParaffin wax
Old broken crayons
Toothpicks
Wick string (available at craft stores)
Scissors
Instructions:
Find a sandy candle-making spot, with clean, dry sand. (At the seashore, be sure to select a location that is above the top water line, so the tide will not come in and surprise you, before you finish your candle-making project!) Melt the paraffin wax in the double boiler. Add crayon bits for color variations, if you wish. Fill your beach bucket with water, and use it to dampen the sand slightly. The sand should be somewhat firm and simple to form, not soupy. Use your hands or sand molds to make desired candle shapes. Pour melted wax into the shapes you have made in the sand. While wax is still somewhat soft and supple, use a toothpick to poke a hole into the center of each candle. Insert a length of wick string into each hole, leaving about one inch poking up on top. Pour a bit more wax on top, while holding the wick string upright. Allow candles to cool completely before lifting them gently out of the sand. Brush off any excess sand before bringing your candles home from the beach.

Note:
For added interest and texture, try lining your sand molds with tiny seashells or pebbles before pouring wax into your sand candle molds. Broken crayon pieces or shavings may also be used to line the sand candle molds before the wax is poured. This creates a modern mosaic look, which can be quite appealing.

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Dressing Choice to suit your Body Shape

Based on our Body shapes we should be cautoius to choice outfits that suits us ,there are many categories of body shapes and we have listed below few tips for dressing choice that can well fit your bodyshape to highlight your personality.
Category 1
Tops and Bottom are equal(Like an hour Glass)
These Category women are lucky for all dress suits them
Category2
Broad Shoulders,Chest i.e broad on top compared to bottom
Tips:Avoid wearing low cut tops instead go for shirts which is wrapped.Wrapped dresses are best for you.
Category 3
Broad on bottom i.e hips and thigns and smaller upper body
Tips:Wear loose tops with slim fitting bottoms.Use dark shade on bottom and light shade on tops.
Category 4
Narrow shoulders and hips and centre of your body is larges Or you may wear plus sizes
Tips:Belly control underwear will help you flatten your stomach and hip areas. wear print pattern tops and do not go for plain tops.
Category 5
Slim with small bust and appear less curvy
Wear push up bras to make top larger.Wear knee length skirt with solid colors on bottom.
Remember to wear dress that give you curvy appearence.

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Chicken rice

Curried flavours work well serve chilled. This curried rice salad makes a satisfying midday meal.
Ingredients

• 3/4 cups brown rice
  
• 125g low-fat natural yoghurt
  
• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
  
• 2 tablespoons mango chutney
  
• 2 skinless boneless chicken thighs, cooked, diced
  
• 1/4 punnet cherry tomatoes, halved
  
• 1/4 cup sultanas
  
• 1 spring onion, finely sliced
• 1/2 cup corn kernels
  

Instruction
Step 1 Cook rice until tender. Drain and leave to cool.
Step 2 Mix yoghurt with curry powder and mango chutney. Add chicken, sultanas and salad vegetables to rice and mix well.
Step 3 Stir through curry sauce. Transfer to sealed containers. Chill until ready to eat.

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Tips for Happy Married Life

Marriage Life to make it sweet lies on our hand and our attitude. It all lies in how you understand the other and tackle it. Let us see some tips to improve Husband and wife relationship

• Communication
  Being bought up in different situation each one has different opinion and taste so while speaking try to respect them and if you have a different opinion tell it is correct but I believe so and so further if your partner argues just leave the topic as such. Do not try to argue your statement is right. Remember that first impression is the best and try to capture your partner’s mind by being soft and flexible.
  
• Outing
  Whenever you both are free and feel to have some change do outing and have dinner outside and have talk with each other and enjoy
  
• Be positive
  Do not be negative and keep your mind frustrated be happy with the life you have and have appositive way of thinking. Remember happiness lies inside by the way you accept things.
  
• Believe God
  Whatever happens in life think it is for good, this attitude comes only if you believe God unshakable and love god. Many problems are sorted out if you have faith in almighty.
  
• Be forgiving and loving
  It is human to make error so forgive if your partner does wrong by doing so you can be peaceful therefore it makes your life happy. Always be caring to take care of all needs(Husband or wife should feel that nobody can take care to this much in this world)
  
• Be expressive
  Express your thankfulness, love always.
  
• Make your spouse miss you
  You activities should be in such a way that you must make your husband or wife
  Miss you.
  
  
• Whenever you give up remember you do for your family and happiness. be good as much as you can by being so even if things does not change your mind will be in Peace.
  
  In all case do only good and react good .this will work fine in your relationship.
  
  All the best
  

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South Indain(Chettinadu) Chicken Fry

Ingredients:

Chicken – 750 gms

For making paste:
Garlic – 4 pods Ginger – 1 inch Fennel – 1 Tbsp Cumin seeds – 1 tsp Coriander powder – 1tsp Chilli powder – 1 Tbsp Pepper – 1 Tbsp Lemon juice – 1 Tbsp Yogurt – 1 Tbsp Turmeric powder – ½ tsp Salt as required .

Grind and prepare the paste and keep it aside

Onion - 2 chopped

Tomato – 1 chopped

Ginger-Garlic paste – 1½ Tbsp

Curry leaves – 1 twig

Red chillies – 3

Pepper powder – 1 tsp

Preparation:

Marinate the chicken with the prepared paste for a couple of hours. Heat oil in a pan and fry half of onionsonions. When the onions are soft add the ginger-garlic paste and then the tomatoes. Fry until the tomatoes are soft and the oil comes out. To this add the chicken with very little water and cook until done and the water is evaporated and check whether chiken has been cooked soft.In another pan heat some oil and fry the red chillies, curry leaves and the sliced onions. When almost done add the pepper powder to the onion and mix it well. Add the fried onion to the cooked chicken and give it a stir.

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Eye Care-Preventing and Remedies for Dark Circle

Eyes are window of our soul and source of expressing our thoughts. Every look into our eyes while we speak and it is vital to have it flawless and beautiful.

• Potato or Cucumber Slices
  Cut thin slices of potato or cucumber. Now lie down and put these slices on your eyes for fifteen minutes. Regular use will relief any discomfort of eyes and helps to remove dark circles within few days.
• Used Tea Bags
  Yes! These used teabags that are supposed to be thrown directly to the waste bin, could really help you. Put them in cold water, till they are really cold. Now lie down and place on your eyes for fifteen minutes. Again regular use is required to eliminate dark circles completely.
• Rose Water
  Soak two cotton balls in rose water, now slightly compress to take away any extra water and put these balls on your eyes. Again wait for fifteen minutes and repeat this daily to get good results.
  TIPS TO PREVENT DARK CIRCLES
• Proper sleep is very important. Take good sleep for six to eight hours daily.
  Good diet is reflected by your skin. Take well balanced diet rich in rich in iron and Vitamin A, like carrots, .
  Exercise increases blood supply to the skin and so does to the eyes and skin around the eyes. Consequently you will see a difference in the intensity of dark circles under your eyes.
  Cold water is very good for your eyes, wash them daily in the morning with cold water.
  Protect your eyes from direct sunlight and smoke. Use sun glasses whenever sun exposure is expected.
  By the time your dark circles are under treatment, use a good dark circle concealer to hide them.
  

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