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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