hello everyone
this is my personal reflection on this particular thread and i hope everyone is o with me posting it up. many thanks
tomato juice everyday!
apply ubton and Oil u're hair every alternate day
YA SHAFI and YA NOOR (at least 100-1000 times)
nutritional drink once a month
2 tablespoons ajwain
2 tablespoons methi dana
2 tablespoons kalonji
2 tablespoons green tea
4-5 mint leaves
Boil the above with 5 cups of water and drink them thruout the day.
pedicure and manicure
Use a "cooling" clay or mud-mask before the big day
Masks
2 tablespoons Besan, pinch of haldi, double cream-milk or full milk , lemon juice for oily skin (apply and leave on for 20 mins and wash off) 3 times a week.
Mix 1 1/2 teaspoons honey, the juice from 1/2 of a lemon, and 3-tablespoon yoghurt. Stir in 1 whipped egg white. Apply to face and let set about 15 minutes. Then wash off with lukewarm water.
1 tablespoon sour-cream or youghurt, 1/2 tsp lemon juice and a pinch of turmeric (leave on for 1/2 an hour)
Mix besan with milk and lemon.
Face Scrubs
2 tablespoons yoghurt, 1 tablespoon orange peel powder, 1 tablespoon brown sugar and scrub-off!
Rice-flour and milk (forms a paste) egg white and calcium tablet and rose water apply, leave on for 15mins and scrub-off!
ubtan and orange juice: lightens freckles, for the added glow (apply and leave on for 15 mins untill dry and then scrub-off)
Body scrubs
Milk Bath powedered milk honey citric acid Essential Oil (any of your choice) Oatmeal neemseed oil avocado oil or olive oil Salts(Magnesium sulfate (also know as Epsom Salt...Basically it detoxifies your body) lastly....I use caffieine powder
Breakouts
Cinnamon & honey in equal quantities over pimples and scars NOT used as a mask extremely good for uneven skin tones (apply and leave on for 20 mins and wash off)
Acne scars or any other dark pigmentation
2 tablespoons of Red sandalwood powder and 1/2 tsp of wild turmeric (kacchi haldi), honey and lemon for scars (leave on for 1/2 hour) use only on pigmented area's
To loosen blackheads, combine equal parts baking soda and water in your hand and rub gently on your skin for 2 to 3 minutes. Rinse with warm water
To tighten pores withch hazel or alum - phatkari
For **dark-circles **cucumber juice n mint juice and potato juice mixed with rosewater is ideal. Soak cotton pads with this and leave it for atleast an hour =)
**Ubtan **u can make at home is:
1 cup besan
1/4 cup milk powder
1/2 cup cinnamon
4 tblsps wild turmeric
1/2 cup almond powder.
Ubtan is bought in powder form to which almond oil or olive oil or rosewater, orangejuice, milk cream is usually added and applied (massaged) all over the face and body which is later scrubbed-off.
A gud ubtan wud include besan,haldi,gaisu flowers, sandalwood..orange-peel powder, rose petals, cinnamon, almond powder, almond skin powder, cucumber peel powder, multani mitti and 101 other things.
**Finally **i have a request for **GINA
**Please tell us how you make ubton for your self i remember reading that there is specific way of making it that you learnt from your training at depilex in which you add individual indgredients and grind them together.
Oh Mili! This is just perfect. I was looking at the thread & it has wayyyy too many pages. Thanks for summing it up :)
P.S Gina thanks a zillionnnnnn for all the tips. I m just confused abt what tip is ideal for what type of skin.