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Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 21:44 in sleep, health and beauty, beauty sleep
We hear of people talking about “beauty sleep”. Does sleeping make us more beautiful? Well, there is some truth in it as sleeping is one of the simplest form of anti-ageing treatment. When we sleep well or go into a deep sleep, growth hor...
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Posted on Saturday July 4th, 2009 at 02:52 in General, bird's nest soup
Bird’s nest soup is a prized luxurious delicacy in Chinese cuisine for centuries. Deemed as a “cooling” food, it is consumed to restore health, repair skin, to keep skin young and supple and even used as an aphrodisiac. Bird nest, h...
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Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 01:22 in natural ingredients, pearl powder, beauty ingredients
It was a known fact. For the past 3000 years, women in China (especially the empresses, royalties and nobilities) had been using pearls topically as well as ingestion as part of their beauty regime. Crushed natural pearl in powder form, used extens...
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Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 01:53 in Natural, exercise, natural skin care, brushing
One way to achieve a healthier skin is to brush your body regularly with a firm brush. Termed Dry Skin Brushing, it is a natural skin care technique for shedding dead layer of skin cells and encouraging skin regeneration, at the same time creating a ...
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Posted on Monday May 25th, 2009 at 02:52 in natural ingredients, homemade recipes, facial scrubs, facial masks, beauty ingredients
Good things about homemade scrubs are that you can alter the intensity of the exfoliation based on your skin type, avoid ingredients you are allergic to and know it is fresh and chemical free. You may store it in jars and kept in fridge for a few d...
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Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 19:59 in skin, wrinkles, antioxidants, anti-ageing, anti-ageing cookies
I saw an article on Reese Witherspoon, along with other celebrities like Renee Zellweger and Courteney Cox, being fans of anti ageing cookies. Apparently, these cookies contain skin nurturing ingredients that help to combat signs of ageing. Incredulo...
This is especially noticeable in the fragile skin under the eyes. The under eye area is almost fifty percent thinner than the skin on the face. Sleepless nights leave behind fine lines, dark circles or puffy bags. Cosmetic treatments can soften the effects of sleep deprivation but preventive medicine is the best cure. Eye treatments are limited in their ability and cannot reverse the stress that a lack of sleep will do to the skin.
http://healthnbeauty.livejournal.com/9690.html
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