Ordinary oil itself enhances your look. Here are a few inexpensive beauty tips, which will help you maintain a perfect complexion.
- You can prevent chapping of your skin by taking a teaspoon of castor oil and mixing with it half a teaspoon of rose water, in a cold weather.. Apply on the face and neck in the night and remove it in the morning.
- To counteract suntan, mix olive oil with equal quantity of vinegar & apply the mixture an hour before you take your bath.
- For a dry skin, soak a muslin cloth in warm olive oil & cover your face with it after making holes for the eyes and nose. Let it remain for half an hour & then wipe the face with a soft cloth. Let the face remain as it is the whole night. Next morning, wash it with warm water & splash on cold water.
- An anti-wrinkle cream is made by mixing a, teaspoon of olive oil with an egg. Smoothen the face and neck with it and let it remain till the skin gets dry. Then, remove it with a piece of cotton wool dipped in hot water to which a teaspoon of soda bicarbonate has been added.
- Mixing a tablespoon of gram flour with one-fourth teaspoon of orange peel powder, one tablespoon of beaten curd and one teaspoon of olive oil can make the best beauty mask. Mix well and apply the paste to your face and neck. Let it remain till the skin starts feeling a little dry and then rub your face with your hands till it glows. Wash your face first with warm & then with cold water. This removes all the, blemishes from the skin and makes it soft and smooth.
- To improve a blemished and discolored face, first steam it for 10 minutes. Clean your face with a cleanser, wipe dry with a soft napkin and then apply a teaspoon of olive oil mixed with half a teaspoon of limejuice. Let it remain for 20 minutes, wipe with cotton wool and rub ice cube gently for five minutes over the face.
- For a good complexion of the skin, mix a tea spoon of gram flour to which a pinch of turmeric powder, a few drops of lime juice & half a teaspoon each of olive oil and milk has been added. Leave on for half an hour and then wash off with water.
- Weak nails can be improved by applying baby oil mixed with white iodine on the nails and base of cuticles every day.
- For lined and chapped lips the best remedy is to massage them daily at bedtime with baby oil.
- Brush pure castor oil on the roots of your lashes at bedtime to make them grow long and thick.
- Wrinkled elbows may be treated with baby oil to make them soft and smooth.
- Every night at bedtime massage your face and neck with baby oil to make it soft, smooth, glowing.
- If the skin around your heels has become hard and cracked, scrub your heels with a stiff brush using soap generously. Then rub them nicely with pumice stone. Wash with water, wipe dry and then massage nicely with castor oil.
- To improve rough & dry complexion take a teaspoon of almond oil and mix with half a teaspoon each of cream milk and lime juice. Apply every night before going to bed both on the face and on the neck.
- An excellent cleaner for a dry skin is made by mixing yolk of an egg with half a teaspoon of olive oil and a few drops of lime juice. Apply on face and neck. Leave on for 15 minutes and wash first with warm and then with cold water.
- To cure yourself of dry, itchy skin take cod liver oil at the rate of one teaspoon a day for one whole month.
- To treat rough, dry skin around knees, elbows and heels massage these areas regularly with a paste made of salt and mustard oil.
- In the cold weather, take oil bath to prevent your body from becoming rough and dry. Put two tablespoons of olive oil in your bath water along with a few drops of your favorite Cologne. Your skin will turn soft and glowing after you have your bath.
