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You combed or brushed your hair and these scales from your scalp fell like snowflakes settling on your eye brows, shoulder and clothes. You can’t scratch your scalp too because they fall as if it’s Christmas time already! Now you can’t even wear black as it’s making the situation more embarrassing. That’s how annoying dandruff is! The scales sometimes even appear as lumps or crusts on the scalp! That’s bothersome.

Many people suffer from persistent or recurring dandruff, also known as seborrheic dermatitis. The main causes of having this are the Impairment of general health, development of toxic condition mainly due to taking of wrong foods. Sugar is one of the biggest diet culprits that can make your scalp flake. But it’s not just sugar from the places you would expect, like candy, sodas or the molasses and syrups you put on your pancakes. Sugar can be masked under a variety of names and in products you wouldn’t even think of. Check labels for the following names which signal sugar content: corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose and sorghum. Also, lessening up the yeast content of your diet helps, since most cases of dandruff is a result of a yeast imbalance on your scalp. This means limiting baked goods, beer, wine and alcohol.

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Most people nowadays prefer All Natural Cosmetics since it is the safest way not to damage skin and for those environmentalist, this is one great way in utilizing Nature’s Gift. Let’s try doing our own Lip Balm at home. Apart from it’s easy to do, making your own cosmetics is also a great gift idea. Talking about Personal Touch .

So anyway, before I give you the ingredients, remember that because we are making a lip balm, it only requires small quantities of ingredients we need to find a VERY small pan to use for melting. Often using the double boiler method is a good solution.

Find some mini pots to use for filling with lip balm–you can find these at craft stores or through suppliers of home remedy/natural products. And if you want to add a little tingle to your lip balm, try SMALL amounts of menthol or tea tree oil. Below are three recipes of homemade lip balms for you to choose.

Lip Balm with Essential Oil Flavoring

Recipe:
2 Tbsp of Petroleum Jelly
1 Tsp. Beeswax
10 drops of essential oil (of your choice)
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Face powder either pressed or loose gives glow as well as smooth look to the skin. Women with oily skin benefits most with face powder application as it conceals the oily look of the skin and makes your skin look perfect. It is used because it is the quickest and easiest way to cover up blemishes. Whether you use face powder to conceal skin oiliness or just to look fresh is not a question. The question now is how to choose the right face powder that suits you best?

It is important to choose face powder that suits your skin tone. Use a face powder that is 1 tone lighter than your skin. Personally it took me sometime to finally stick on one brand as looking for the right face powder that blends my skin and complexion is quite challenging. I went through hit or miss stage in choosing the right powder for me.

To help you decide, consider the following in choosing your face powder.

1. Your complexion – If your face powder isn’t the right shade for your face, it will look like you have dirt smudged on your face. You will likely have some hit or miss in finding the right shade, but in trying to figure out what shade you are, first consider, are you fair, medium, or dark skinned? That will winnow the choices down somewhat. From there, look at the undertone in your skin. Is it pink, peachy, or olive? In any given line of powders, you will probably end up with just two to decide between if you know those two aspects of your skin tone.

*** When picking your color, keep these tips in mind. White powder is best for the evening, since it adds luminosity. If your complexion is sallow, try a mauve or violet tone. Green and blue will tone down colors, pink gives a nice glow for pale skin and apricot works for olive skin that needs to some brightness.

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Chapped lips - is a condition whereby the lips become dry and possibly cracked. It may be caused by the evaporation of moisture. Often the lips become dry because the layer of oil that is naturally produced by the body to coat the lips is removed or is lacking.

Lips have almost no melanin, the natural pigment in skin that helps screen out the sun’s harmful rays. Your lips’ natural tendency toward dryness and chapping is aggravated by the fact that they are more prominent than almost any other part of your body–and most of the time they are unprotected by clothing and fully exposed to the elements. While exposure to sun, wind and cold can obviously speed the rate of moisture loss, your lips aren’t even safe indoors. They can suffer from lack of moisture in centrally heated or air-conditioned rooms in which the relative humidity is low.

The Cure:

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One of the greatest fun spoiler, poise wrecker and beauty killer is when ladies is experiencing a terrible TOOTHACHE. Oh yes! I can definitely relate to that! Having a toothache is excruciating, painful and a complete torture! It takes over your life at its worst!

Here are few home remedies that will help alleviate the pain.

Home Remedy For A Toothache #1:Ice

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Ice can eliminate all kinds of pain and swelling in the mouth, just as it can help strains or sprains. You can use either ice cubes that are wrapped in a towel or wash cloth or you can use frozen food. If you use food, smaller items like peas are more ‘bendable’ and therefore adaptable to a painful toothache. Hold the cold substance directly against the tooth area that hurts. Just remember that if the food thaws you should either eat it or throw it away – don’t refreeze it. That’s a major no-no.

Home Remedy For A Toothache #2: Peeled Cucumber
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Get a peeled cucumber and then cut it into thick slices and hold these pieces in your mouth. You would feel that the pain is gone.

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