1. Simple Embellished Braid:

1. Make your nail polish last longer by using vinegar. Yes! Just take vinegar on cotton balls and swipe it on your unpolished nails and then apply nail polish. By doing this, your nail polish will stay longer on your nails.
2. To avoid brittle nails, give them a salt bath.
• Add four tablespoons of sea salt (ordinary salt which we add to our food) in one litre of water and soak for 15 minutes.
• Afterwards dry your hands and apply cuticle softener on your nails
3. If your nails are becoming yellow, give them a chamomile bath. It is very helpful.
• Add a few spoons of dry chamomile blossom (you can get these from stores that stock aroma products) to two cups of water and brew it for 20 minutes and then dip your nails in it for 15-20 minutes .
• Do it three times a week and combine it with lemon juice rubs for better results.
4. For brightening your nails, use rose water combined with glycerin and hydrogen peroxide. Mix 40 ml of rose water with 10 gms of glycerin and 50 ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide, and rub it on your nails using a cotton ball drenched with this mixture.
5. To make your hands silky soft, use jojoba oil, and you can use aloe extract to heal the cracks which you may get during cold weather around your cuticles.

1. Love,
2. Nikita Keskar

Water. Crucial for flushing out toxins, delivering nutrients, and keeps skin looking fresh. Hydrate with:Water, Peaches, Green Tea, CucumbersVitamin A and Beta-Carotene. Helps skin heal and rebuild tissue, and is an anti-aging tool to prevents wrinkles. Eat: Broccoli, Papaya, CarrotsVitamin B Complex. Gives your skin a glow by boosting blood circulation and helps your skin receive oxygen. Eat: Beans, Sweet Potatoes, Bananas, etc.
Vitamin C: Stimulates the production of collagen in your skin, making it elastic, youthful and firm. Eat:Grapefruit, Kiwi, Papaya
Vitamin E: Reduces the appearance of age spots, wrinkles, stretch marks. Eat: Greens, Nuts, Tropical fruits
Fatty Acids: Protects against sun damage, allows water and nutrients into the skin while keeping toxins out, and wards off inflammation dark. Eat: Beets, fish, almonds, avocado
Pectin: Prevent wrinkles and blemishes, keeps skin conditioned and toned, essential in driving acne away for clear and beautiful skin. Eat: Kiwi, Apples, Peaches, Peas
Selenium: Improves the skin at a cellular level, helps regenerate vitamins E and C, protects against sun damage, helps heal injuries, and flaky skin. Eat: Brazil Nuts, Whole Wheat, Brown Rice
Lycopene: Protects against agents that clogged pores and create breakouts, and helps reduce inflammation. Eat: Tomatoes
Natural Alpha Hydroxyl Acids: Refreshes and brightens skin. Eat: Apples
Other Antioxidants: Fights against free radicals and helps rejuvenate the skin. Eat: Cantaloupe, Plums, Blueberries

Love,
Nikita Keskar

What Is Fuller’s Earth?

1.  Magnesium
2. Quartz
3. Silica
4. Iron
5. CalciumWhy is it called Fuller’s Earth?
6. Calcite
7. Dolomite, to name a few.

Why Is It Called Fuller’s Earth?

According to Wikipedia “The name reflects the historic use of the material for cleaning or “fulling” wool by textile workers called “fullers”. In past centuries, fullers kneaded fuller’s earth and water into woolen cloth to absorb lanolin, oils, and other greasy impurities as part of the cloth finishing process.

Fuller’s earth is also sometimes called “bleaching clay”, probably because fulling whitens the cloth.

Now that we have a fair idea of what Fuller’s earth is and how it has been used so far, let’s check the Fuller’s earth benefits in detail.

Fuller’s Earth Benefits And Uses For Skin:

We bring to you the multani mitti benefits on various notes in detail. From the ingredients to use each time, to how to use it, how it works and tips on using it too. Each segment is a paragraph that explains the same. Please read on and be well-informed.

1. Oil Absorber

As an oil absorber, Fuller’s earth can absorb the excess oils formed on our skin layers and along with it vacuum off the impurities with the same as well.

What all you need

• A tablespoon of fuller’s earth
• An equal amount of rosewater
•  A pinch of turmeric

Directions:

1. Mix all the above ingredients well with a spoon, and apply on the face.
2. Wait for ten minutes until the pack hardens on the face, and gently wash off with cold water.

How it works:

What actually happens is that when you apply this multani mitti face pack, it penetrates into the skin and shrinks the pores. This stops the excess of oil production from happening. Therefore, it is also called as ‘Multani mitti for pimples’, as oil absorber is a pimple preventer.

Fuller’s earth address issues such as hyperpigmentation because of oiliness on the skin.

Tip:

• Should you have normal to dry skin, use this pack twice a week.
• Thrice a week for ten minutes should you have combo to oily.
• For sensitive skin, we do not recommend this pack.
• The pH levels of the skin would be balanced after every use of this pack.

2. Fairness And Glow

To naturally attain fairness and a wonderful youthful glow on the face, ditch away from the costly commercial products and look at Fuller’s earth for an answer.

What all you need:

• A cup of orange zest
• A tablespoon of Fuller’s earth.

Directions:

1. Add a little water to the orange zest and then pour the same into Fuller’s earth to form a coarse paste.
2. Apply the same on your face for half an hour, and wait for it to dry.
3. Once the waiting period is over, gently wash the face with cold running water.

How it works

What happens during this waiting period is that the vitamin C and the natural bleaching properties of orange peel and Fuller’s earth respectively work to bleach the skin and remove dirt, grime and dead skin cells from the skin; Fuller’s earth vacuums the pores off the dirt.

Tip:

• In circular motions exfoliate the skin and this would remove excess oils and dead skin cells.

• For normal to dry skin, this should be done once a week.

• For oily to combo type of skin, this should be done twice a week.

• Not to be used at all for the sensitive and couperouse type of skins.

Hope you liked it do comment.

Love,

Nikita Keskar