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Are you looking for ways to make your skin rejuvenate? But don’t want to use chemical on your skin then aromatherapy facial is a good option for you to go for. In aromatherapy facials pure essential oils from medicinal plants are used.

It relieves tiredness, balances and control oiliness of your skin. It also rejuvenates and revitalizes the skin. The essential oils are used to soothe sensitive skin, heal the blemishes and the fragrance of oil provides natural healing therapy for improving health and well being.

The essential oils enter the body through skin and nasal membranes and as a result produce enormous beneficial effects. Due to this the skin feels fresh and starts glowing. Some of the common skin problems such as dry skin, oily skin, and acne could be cured by aromatherapy facial care.


Basic steps of facial

Basically facial consist of minimum three steps

1.    Cleansing
2.    Toning
3.    Moisturizing

There can be some additional steps like exfoliating, steaming and masking.

Step 1
Before cleansing your skin it is better to go for steam treatment. It will open the pores of your skin to get ready for cleaning. It can be simply done by soaking a towel in warn herbal tea. Wring out the towel and cover your face and neck with it until it slightly cools. This process is quite soothing thus can be repeated.

Step 2
Clean your face with a handmade gentle cleanser such as Rose cream cleanser. While cleaning your face move your fingers circular in the upward direction. It will stimulate the skin and lift the debris and excess oil. Rinse your face with Luke warm water and dry it with a soft towel, also remove the excess moisture.

Step 3
Now its time to tone the skin! It can be done with ingredients, balancing the pH of the skin. It is essential to maintain the pH level of the skin, as at the time of cleansing the pH level of the skin gets disturbed. Apply toner on you face with a soft cotton pad, but be careful do not rub your skin. While using toner avoid the eye areas. Now its time to moisturize the skin!


Step 4.
Moisturize your skin with Aromatic Facial oil. These oils contain soothing ingredients helpful in adding moisture and nutrients to your skin. Gently apply this oil on your face and neck. For those oily areas of your skin one time application of oil is sufficient. But to the dry areas it is necessary to apply the oil twice and before second application it is advised to moisten the skin with water or toner.

Facial procedure for different skin type

1.    Oily skin

Cleansing: Make a paste of ½ tsp milk powder, 2 drops of lemon oil, 1 drop of Cedar wood oil. Apply this paste on your face and neck and massage it for 1 to 2 minutes. Wipe off the paste with soft tissue or cotton.

Toning: Prepare a paste of 2 drops of rosemary oil and 2 drops of basil, apply it on your face and let it dry. After drying wipe it off with wet towel.

Moisturizing: Take a non-perfumed moisturizing cream and add 2 drops of lavender oil to it. Apply this gently on your skin.

2.    Dry skin:

Cleansing: Take 1 tsp of milk powder, a pinch of sugar, 2 drops of basil and 2 drops of lemon apply this paste on the face and neck with gentle massage. Leave it for sometime and then wipe it off.

Toning: Prepare a paste of almond powder, 1 drop of lemon and a drop of rose water and apply it on your skin, leave it to dry. Later wipe it with wet towel.

Moisturizing: To any non-perfumed moisturizing cream add 1 drop of rose water and 1 drop of sandal wood oil. Apply this on your face and neck.

3.    Normal skin

Cleansing: Make a paste of 1 tsp milk, almond powder and sandal wood. Massage your face with this paste. Then with the help of tissue or cotton wipe it off.

Toning: Using almond powder, ½ tsp honey and 1 drop of rose water make a paste. Apply this on you face and let it dry. Later wipe it off with wet towel.

Moisturizing: Take any non-perfumed cream and add one drop of rose and lavender oil to it. Apply this gently on your face.


4.    Combination skin

Cleansing: Apply a paste made of 1 tsp milk powder, 2 drops of rosemary and 1 drop of juniper berry on you face and neck. And massage it properly. Then, after sometime wipe it off.

Toning: For dry areas. Prepare a paste of almond powder, 1 drop of lemon, and 1 drop of rose. Now apply this paste on you skin and leave it for sometime. Later wipe it off.

For oily areas. Prepare a paste of Fullers Earth, 2 drops of rosemary and basil. Apply this on your skin leave it to dry. And then wash it off.

Moisturizing: To any moisturizing cream add 2 drops of lavender and gently apply this on you face.

5.    Sensitive skin

Cleansing: Make a paste of ½ milk powder, 2 drops of lavender and luke warm water. Apply this paste on you face and slowly massage it. Then wash out your face.

Toning: Make a paste of fuller’s earth, 3 drops of chamomile and honey. Use this paste on your skin and leave it to dry. Then wipe it off.

Moisturizing: Take any good moisturizing cream and add 5 drops of rose and gently apply it on your skin.

Essential oils and their benefits

Aromatherapy oils have different healing purposes. These oils have an effect on your feelings, emotions and moods. Essential oils like Jasmine, Lime, Lemon, lavender, Sandalwood, and Chamomile are beneficial for skin. In making aromatherapy facial mask these oils are used.

These essential oils which are used in aromatherapy facial are full of goodness. Only a small amount of these oils when added in the facial mask it purifies and softens your skin. It is also helpful in reducing depression, heals skin burns, and it acts as a skin rejuvenator.

Some essential oils when blended wrongly can be toxic and could worsen the condition. It can also cause harm to pregnant women and her foetus. Before using any essential oil it is advised to consult an aromatherapist. To boost your skin at home you can try aromatherapy facial treatment. This facial treatment is suitable for everyone except those suffering from chronic diseases and pregnancy.


Posted by in Fitness at April 02, 2008
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Who doesn’t want to look smart? Well, no one is born smart. Rather, smartness has to be inculcated though adopting the appropriate life style. The chosen lifestyle should include exercises, fitness diets, and proper skin care and personality development sessions. So here’s a detailed insight into all these indispensable necessities.

1. Health and exercises

Health is a powerful tool that is essential for almost everything in life, whether its fighting diseases, being relieved of depression, to be physically fit and even for the healing of painful injuries. Exercises help a great deal in all the pursuits of health and fitness. Exercise is not a plague but sedentary lifestyle is.

If you are not able to commit enough time for gym classes, you can even maintain your physique through simple ways that need only body movement. Try to go on walks and do increase their timings gradually. Be active and invest you time in doing small chores like gardening, moping the floor, shoveling snow etc. its also advisable to have a lost of the innumerable fitness activities that you do in a day so that you can avoid more of sitting and sleeping.

2.Skin care tips

A healthy glowing skim would obviously enhance your smartness. In addition to it, it also bestows a “feel good” notion. Rather than investing your money into cosmetics, try using natural herbal products that donot have side effects. Those who have tanned skin should always use facemasks of egg white mixed with honey. Cucumber should be used for everyday cleansing of skin. Juice of freshly cut lemon refreshes the skin in an apparent manner. A paste of curry leaves and turmeric is quite beneficial for treating black spots   and restoring the clear skin. Neem happens to be the best cure for pimples.

3. Fitness diets

The food you eat makes a lot of your outlook, personality and smartness. It is advisable to eat more of vegetarian food rather than junk and non-vegetarian food.  More of fruits should be added in your daily diet. Drinking ample amount of water is an indispensable need.

Thus, in order to look smart you donot need to adopt those extravagant expenses. A lifestyle that takes into consideration your body, your emotional self and your confidence level is enough to endow you with smartness that cannot be bought even for million dollars.


Posted by in Fitness at March 26, 2008
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Physical fitness can be closely interpreted or understood by the two primary states or stages: general fitness- a state of being completely fit and healthy and other is specific fitness- a state where the body is perfectly healthy to perform specific tasks or aspects of occupations or sports. In other words physical fitness means the capability and capacity of the heart, lungs, blood vessels, and muscles to function properly at optimum efficiency.

Pratyahara, the word means the desire to remove indriyas from the mundane or material objects. It is a stage which teaches an adept, how exercise to control over the tentacles of consciousness called indriyas. It is an effort to overcome the bondage of the five sense organs of the body. In our health, exercise plays a significant role in rehabilitation and prevention of heart disease forms. Exercise has a positive influence on our body and factors that are responsible for heart disease like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes.

Women fitness includes various components that are specially designed for women to stay healthy. Women particularly have to be very cautious about their health and hygiene. The urgent need is to be completely aware of the factors that affect our health. For instance, anxiety is an emotion that everyone experiences in day to day life. This feeling is very distressing as it causes uneasiness and apprehension. When we are being anxious, it affects our thinking, behavior, and bodily functions.

Women Fitness programme is an integrated programme defining practical and personal approach to gain fitness or stay healthy. It will teach you the right way to follow and implement the five components needed for health and fitness. They are weight management, strength training, optimum nutrition, cardiovascular training, and flexibility training.

Now there are several ways by which women can keep themselves physically fit and healthy. Yoga is the best way to exercise fitness. In the literal sense yoga means union with the SUPREME. It is a kind of exercise based on the strong belief that breath and the body are integrated and intimately connected with the soul and the mind. Yoga creates harmony by balancing the breath and the body through some asanas or steady poses.

Simple healing herbs can help women to stay fit, if being added in daily meals or foods. The herbs actually prove to be an inexpensive and effective part of the health care. Ayurveda also advised the timely use of these herbs in the different kinds of foods to keep the body healthy. Another important way to stay healthy is to keep a regular check on the problem of weight. By having proper exercise and diet, the unwanted obtained fat can be reduced. The only way is the good exercise techniques and proper diet. 

Everyone intends to be strong and fit. Especially it has become really difficult for a woman to care about her health in the real terms while carrying out daily activities. 

There are numerous reasons that state why women should have strength training sessions. It is really required for women to perform these sessions in this stressed out world for their healthy survival. The exercises in this programme is designed to work at chest, shoulder , triceps, back , legs and  abdominal muscles to balance the body meanwhile giving it a proper shape. But before performing any exercise always warm up the body. Also, make sure that you wear a weight lifting and ensure the presence of a spotter while performing an exercise in the right way to achieve the best results. So by paying good attention on your diet and exercise women can actually help themselves to stay perfectly fit in these harder times.


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