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Archive for April, 2008

One of the many problems women are facing is the discolored underams or dark underams due to hair growth, plucking or whatsoever is causing it. Just imagine wearing sleeveless outfits and you know that you have problem with underams discloration. Low self esteem is one of the damage this problem caused.

According to one doctor, sweat mixed with alum chloride, the active ingredient in most deodorants, can stain skin and your clothes. Using deodorants will prevent body odor all right, but the flipside is that it can also cause darkening of the skin.

There are actually dermatological ways to solve the problem but it’s just a bit pricey and not everyone can afford the treatment. Do we just stay in one corner then and forever bring the anxiety of dark underams? No way!

Here are some practical tips to solve the problem

For those of us who are on a tight budget and can’t afford these expensive procedures, there are several over-the-counter products that can whiten the skin, with tons of applications and patience required. Look for ingredients such as melawhite and other natural extracts like licorice, grapeseed, and Vitamin C. These natural extracts, when regularly used, can whiten the underarms. But before heading to the drugstores, make sure you consult your dermatologist for adequate advice regarding underarm therapy.

It is best that you wax your underarms regularly. Underarms generally look dark due to thick hair under the skin, caused by shaving. Waxing removes hair from the root, so there is no hair under the skin, and the underarms look clean. Also, regular waxing reduces hair growth over a period of time. How long it takes differs from person to person. Often, as soon as you wax for the first time after shaving for a long time, your underarms look much cleaner and lighter. This is because the hair is a lot thicker, so the wax gets a good grip and pulls it all out. There are chances your armpits may bleed very slightly, so don’t get unduly worried if this happens.

Rub lemon slices on your armpits. Use alum powder instead of deodorants. After a shower rub some baking soda on your armpits. Apply vitamin E oil on your armpits. Wash your armpits with coconut oil. Apply a paste of 1 tbsp. curd, 1 tsp. gram flour, pinch of turmeric and 1 tsp. milk on your underarms. Rinse with cold water when it dries. Apply paste of rose water and sandalwood powder on your underarms. Make a paste using 1 tsp of lime juice, 1 tsp of cucumber juice and a pinch of turmeric powder. Apply it on your armpits and rinse after 20 minutes.

You may want to exfoliate – You should exfoliate all over to get rid of dead skin cells 2-4 times a week. It would be great to use pumice stone. If exfoliating does not work , talk to dermatologist to get a script for glycolic acid which would be stronger than OTC ones. Bliss may have one or Freeze 24/7 which is sold at Bath and Body Works. I am not sure how fast you are supposed to see results though. I did read that you should not use hair remover cream in these areas as those can cause darkness.

I’ve come to the point of getting tired of waking up early, go to work without giving me any choice. Taking orders from bosses, staying late at work because I have too and etc. I was thinking of resigning but was stopped by the thought of how am I supposed to spend my time jobless? Not that I am planning to just slack off and do nothing. Geez! that’s why I’ve been trying a lot of stuff to earn while actually owning my time. I’ve just talked to a friend two days ago who is so much engaged in online business! Boy do I envy him for making so much not just in terms of financial but time as well! He can do anything he wants without asking permission from any boss or superior! Just as any woman dreamed of! So he convinced me is opening up my own business online, he knows my thing and passion so definitely he knows how to get into me with this. Now immediately I asked him, how do I make it work and how can I make it secure? You know I am a bit paranoid considering all the frauds existing online. He first mentioned about ecommerce software that will definitely help me with everything should I decide to open up an online store. He says it will help me from Payment Processing, Shipping, Customer Management, Marketing and Security etc. He talked a lot about it that made me wanna learn more!

Okay, information overloaded! I made some research regarding this Shopping Cart Software so I will really understand what is this all about and how will it help me towards my endeavors of owning my time. So this is just not a software but it is like your literal shopping cart when you go to a grocery and shop. It allows customers to do things such as searching for a product in your store catalog, adding a selected product to a basket, and placing an order for it. That’s amazing! making shopping really easy and high tech! I actually tried shopping online after that and yes personally I thought a shopping cart is quite an invention online. Now at least I have an idea on one of the major factor to consider in starting my online business. Next stop? finalizing my draft so I could start! Thanks to this virtual cart I can make my life easier.

Hello women out there! Ever notice how everything gets really expensive lately? From our basic needs up to our caprices as women. Whew! That kinda hurt our pocket if we really live up to all our wants as women. But there’s one thing we shouldn’t neglect inspite of all these crisis we are facing along with the rest of the human race. That is staying beautiful! Here are some Practical and Cheap Beauty Tips that will help us attain radiant and moisturized skin without spending so much.

Remember

Cleansing and Toning should go first before applying any moisturizer. Use your finger tips to apply.

Water Melon Moisturizer
Steps to make watermelon moisturizer:

• Take one slice of water melon
• Take one tablespoon of lemon juice

Squeeze the juice of lemon over the watermelon slice and refrigerate it for 22 minutes. Now take out the slice and cut it into bits and place it over the face. This will help in reducing body temperature and moisturising it. This would also tighten your skin.

Avocado Moisturizer
Steps to make avocado moisturizer:

• Take a medium size avocado
• Take one teaspoon honey
• Take one teaspoon lemon juice
• Take 200 gram curd

*Now mix honey and the pulp of the avocado and puree it (i.e. prepare it in a blender). Now add the lemon juice and curd to make stiff cream.
*Refrigerate if for 35 minutes and then take it out of refrigerator. Massage it on face and neck till the cream is totally absorbed by the skin.
*Leave it on for overnight. This will result in giving luster to your skin.

For urgent use, just mash half a slice of avocado and massage it on face and neck. Leave for about 10 minutes and wash.

Egg Whites Moisturizer
Steps to make egg white moisturizer

• 1 egg (remove the yolk)
• 1 lemon

Slice the lemon and take the seeds. Beat the egg white and squeeze lemon to mix. Apply to face and neck and leave overnight.

Lanolin Moisturizer
Steps to make lanolin moisturizer:

• Take one tablespoon of lanolin.
• Take 1 ½ tablespoon of almond oil.
• Take 1 vitamin E capsule.
• Take 2 teaspoons of cold water.

Warm the almond oil and lanolin in a dish over hot water. Add the vitamin capsule content and cold water and blend the mixture well. Apply the mixture on your face and neck.

Lemon moisturizer
Steps to make lemon moisturizer:

• Take 2 teaspoons of lemon juice
• Take 100 gms of gelatine
• Take 1 cup of distilled water

Dissolve the gelatine in water and add lemon juice to it and then refrigerate the mixture for 20 minutes for setting. Apply it on face and neck for 20 minutes. Then wash it off with lukewarm water

Other moisturizers

* Mix ¾ cup of rosewater, ¼ cup of glycerine, 1 teaspoon of vinegar and ¼ teaspoon of honey. Store it in a bottle and use it regularly after cleansing.
* Take 2 teaspoon of lettuce juice, ½ teaspoon of almond oil, ½ teaspoon of oatmeal powder, ½ teaspoon of honey. Mix all these ingredients and apply it.

Thousands of women nowadays are struggling to stay fit, loose those bumps and bulges and stay healthy. It is becoming hard for most women due to the hectic schedule that we have which does not allow us to have extra activities at the end of the day. It’s like we work 25 x 8! Imagine! Well, there’s a saying that “if there’s a will, there’s a way!”.

There are various activities that will help us to maintain the figure, achieve that body we so want to have and get back into our old body. So we have age brackets categories, the 20s, 30s and 40s. Let’s see what are the activities that fits to which age bracket we belong.

To keep fit in your 20s and 30s

According to exercise physiologist who was Personal Fitness Professional Magazine’s 2004 Online Trainer of the Year Calabrese, “Fitness in the 20s and 30s is really all about creating good health habits, and that should really be your main goal.”

In our 20s bones are still developing in this decade. Exercise that help build the strongest bones possible are ideal. The idea is to put bones into stress which encourages them to become stronger. Doing weight-bearing workouts such as those that work your muscles and bones against gravity, like walking or jogging for 30 minutes at least twice a week helps a lot! Having a regular cardio workouts even just for 20-30 minutes two times a weekm an aerobic activity (running), swimming, biking or even dancing, you will reduce the risk of hypertension, high cholesterol, or even heart attack later in life.

In terms of your future health, nothing is more important than regular cardio workouts. You can reap benefits from just 20-30 minutes, twice a week, of an aerobic activity like running, swimming, biking, or even dancing, Carmichael tells WebMD: “You will reduce your risk of hypertension, high cholesterol, or even heart attack later in life.”And the sooner you incorporate fitness into your daily life, the more likely you will be to carry the habit into the next several decades.

“It’s a lot easier to carry a behavior from one decade to the next, than trying to change a behavior in later years,” Carmichael says.

At your 40s

There’s no denying that by the age of 40, no matter how active we were, women’s body begin to change and one of the most significant changes we encounter is the decrease of hormones which does not only affect the bones, heart and health but as well as the weight. The exercise goal during these years is to build muscles that will condition the heart and control weight. Shorter but harder aerobics type workouts to reap cardiovascular benefits is suggested by exercise psychologist Kelli Calabrese.

Lifting Weights while standing, riding in a stationary bike 10 minutes twice a week or sitting in a chair, then standing up, 20 times (both have the same effect) are suggested as strength-training workouts and in strengthening the thigh muscles, or quadriceps, thus giving attention to knee problems. These helps avoiding many mobility problems in the
later years.

As to the cardio workouts, it is safe to continue the routines that you’ve been doing in your 20s and 30s. Any form of activity that gets your heart beating faster such as walking on a treadmill or doing step aerobics at least twice a week will keep you in shape and in good health.

Remember, exercising should go along with eating right and healthy.

Diet and exercise are the two main essentials in making and keeping the figure beautiful. No woman can reduce weight, improve a clumsy and ungainly figure, through exercise alone. Diet comes first. Comparatively few women need fattening. What most need is reduction.

FIRST AID FOR THE THIN

Yet for those whose figure needs building up and filling out, the following facts should be borned in mind. First, relax mentally. Worry and nervous tension use up calories – the calorie is the unit by which we measure heat and food – very rapidly, and tend to reduce weight below normal. Secondly, sleep enough and breathe fresh air in plenty. Third, exercise, to stimulate the appetite and aid all the organs of the body to do their work. Fourth, eat more of the foods that are high in food value. Butter, sugar, cream and cream sauce on vegetables, cod-liver oil and olive oil, are all fattening.

FIRST AID FOR THE FAT

Do not cultivate fallacies, if you are fat and wish to reduce your figure in accord with the normal and ideal body measurements, . Shun antifat patent medicines and quack “cures.” Often they are based on mercury, arsenic or thyroid extract. Shun Epsom salts baths and too many Turkish baths. They do harm and no good. The reduction of calories is the real secret of
successful fat reduction, and a key to that unit of measurement will enable you to bring your figure within the proper limits, to keep your figure beautiful. The whole point is to know how many calories of food you need per day. Now, normally, a woman who does not “work” in any actual sense of the word, can do with 1,600 to 1,800 calories per day. If she follows some sedentary occupation, 2,000 to 2,200 calories will suffice her. If her business requires walking, standing or any lighter manual labor, she can run her calorie allowance up to 2,500. If she performs hard physical labor, she is entitled to 2,500 to 3,000 calories. All this is normally speaking.
But if you are too fat, if you wish to bring back your figure to its rightful lines, you must know what your ideal net weight should be in order to cut off the number of calories of food you do not need.

Among the kinds of food, note that Proteins, which build tissue and yield energy, may store fat.
Proteins are contained in meat, fish, fowl, nuts, milk, cheese, vegetables. Fats (animal fats, oils, chocolate, nuts) are stored by the body as fat. So are Carbohydrates (sugars, starches, including bread, cereals, potatoes, corn, etc.). Vitamins, food substances needed for growth, occur in animal fats, but not in vegetable ones, as also in eggs, milk, butter and meat, vegetable outer skins, grain germs and fruits.

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