Thursday 30 July 2015
Avocado beauty tips
Avocado beauty tips
Handy Avocado beauty tips
Avocado beauty tips that you can use
So today's blog is all about Avocado beauty tips, what does Avocado have to do with beauty? well keep reading to find out.
Avocados are packed with healthy fats, antioxidants, skin-saving vitamins A and K as well as B, C, E and biotin (aka the hair growth vitamin) they're just asking to star in your beauty routine.
Make up remover- You don't even need to sacrifice the flesh for this one: The oil in avocado makes a nourishing and effective makeup remover. Simply pop a bit of the oil from a freshly cut avocado onto a cotton bud and use the oil collected to remove your make up.
Eye serum- The double bonus is that if you've used avocado as an eye makeup remover, it's a super-nourishing eye treatment too. The oil in avocados is thought to have the highest concentration of the healthy fats and vitamins A and E so don't wash the residue off afterwards, gently massage it into the skin using your ring fingers and it will be easily absorbed.
Face mask- There are endless variations on the avocado face mask. The most simple one to try is mixing half a ripe avocado with a teaspoon of raw honey, (a great natural exfoliant and humectant so it helps shed dry skin while boosting hydration levels) and leave it on the face for 10 minutes before washing off. If you have blemish-prone skin, you can try adding a spoon of natural yoghurt to the recipe, the lactic acid helps kill bacteria.
Skin scrub- With a couple more ingredients you can turn your face mask into a pore-polishing scrub. Combine half an avocado and teaspoon of honey with a tablespoon each of olive oil and granulated brown sugar. Blend it well in a bowl and gently buff it over damp skin. Naturally exfoliating, balancing and moisturising, your skin will feel super-smooth after washing it off.
Lip scrub- Keep a spoonful of your skin scrub aside and add in a drop of peppermint oil to make it an invigorating lip scrub. It will brighten your lips and get the blood pumping to them.
Hand mask- To create a luxury hand mask, mash up half a ripe avocado with a small ripe banana (also antioxidant, vitamin and mineral-rich) and cover your mitts in the green gloop. Put your hands into some sandwich bags to keep mess to a minimum. When you wash it off after 10 minutes your hands will be softer than when you use hand cream and your nails will be nicely nourished from the vitamins and zinc.
So who knew that there were so many Avocado beauty tips, let us know if you have anymore.
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Monday 13 July 2015
Bad beauty advice
Bad beauty advice
There is unfortunately Bad beauty advice available
This Bad beauty advice is usually online
When you look online for beauty advice you don’t bank on it being Bad beauty advice. Unfortunately this can be the case. We have listed below a few for you to keep an eye out for. Be sure not to follow this.
Bad advice- Using cleaning products to remove self tan- really not sure why anyone would do this as it is not a good idea to put any cleaning products on your skin. You could have an allergic reaction or even worse. These kind of products were never made to go onto the skin so do not use them on it.
Good advice– patches and stained hands can be sorted out by rubbing half a lemon onto the area for two minutes before lightly buffing with a damp towel.
Bad advice- Make a self tan using coffee- so this one’s probably not dangerous, unless you have some sort of coffee allergy. But it’s also probably not really going to work. The coffee may slightly stain the skin, but it’s going to be difficult to get good, even colour.
Good advice- stick to your normal self tan products.
Bad advice- Use peanut butter as shaving cream– Aside from the obvious downsides (it’ll gunk up your razor in seconds, make a sticky mess in your bathroom, and attract vermin, YUCK!), this so-called tip just seems like a huge waste of perfectly good peanut butter.
Good advice– If you run out of shaving cream, use conditioner. It gives the same effect as shaving gel and also changes the hair’s pH, making them softer and easier to cut.
Bad advice- Make a face mask from cat litter- This face-mask hack is mentioned on a number of different sites, which makes us wonder Who on earth tried this first? It turns out that they might not have been completely crazy. Clay-based cat litters often contain bentonite and silica, two ingredients found in many skincare products formulated to absorb surface oils and create a barrier to hold moisture in. But other cat litter ingredients, like the masking fragrances, could be harsh and abrasive on skin.
Good advice- Sticking to clay-based face masks that are known to be safe and also provide benefits like exfoliation, hydration, and cleansing.
So make sure you do not be fooled by the Bad beauty advice that you may find online.
Wednesday 8 July 2015
Thursday 2 July 2015
Looking after your hair in the sun
Today we are going to be Looking after your hair in the sun
As its is summer we thought we would do the blog on Looking after your hair in the sun
We quite often don’t realise the damage the sun can do our our hair, so we decide to cover Looking after your hair in the sun today.Using products that contain UV filters will help but just like skin products, you need to reapply them to keep the protection constant. Ideally you should use a hat or scarf as a cover-up, and avoid exposure when the sun is highest and causes the most damage which is in between the hours of 11am and 3pm. It is a good idea to use conditioning products as these can help repair hair and prevent further damage.
As well as damaging the protein structure of the hair, UV light also attacks the pigment in your hair, breaking it down, bleaching it and reducing the hair’s natural defence system. Darker hair has greater natural protection from UV, just like darker skin. But if you chemically lighten darker hair it loses its natural protection, making it more vulnerable to UV. Blonde hair, whether natural or coloured, has very little pigment and is therefore at greatest risk in the sun. When hair dehydrates it becomes brittle which leads to broken split ends that go up the hair shaft and cause frizziness and sometimes breakage; it’s a cumulative process It’s very important to treat your scalp and hair as you would your skin in the sun. To prevent ending up with dry straw like hair by the end of summer.
As well as damaging the protein structure of the hair, UV light also attacks the pigment in your hair, breaking it down, bleaching it and reducing the hair’s natural defence system. Darker hair has greater natural protection from UV, just like darker skin. But if you chemically lighten darker hair it loses its natural protection, making it more vulnerable to UV. Blonde hair, whether natural or coloured, has very little pigment and is therefore at greatest risk in the sun. When hair dehydrates it becomes brittle which leads to broken split ends that go up the hair shaft and cause frizziness and sometimes breakage; it’s a cumulative process It’s very important to treat your scalp and hair as you would your skin in the sun. To prevent ending up with dry straw like hair by the end of summer.
So as you can see Looking after your hair in the sun is just as important as looking after your skin.
Wednesday 1 July 2015
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