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[23 Feb 2011 | No Comment | 71 views]
Homemade Sugar Scrub

50 percent white cane sugar (note that organic sucanat, while the best choice for food, doesn’t work as well for this recipe) 50 percent vegetable glycerin to moisten the sugar (use avocado oil) Small amounts of aloe vera gel, vitamin C crystals, or anything healing that dissolves in water. 1 or 2 drops of essential [...]

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[22 Feb 2011 | No Comment | 82 views]
Aloe Vera Benefits

Having Aloe Vera in your home is about as important as having rubbing alcohol or band-aids. Aloe Vera has tons of beneficial uses, especially when it comes to beauty. Acting as not only an after-burn treatment, Aloe Vera can help you with numerous beauty conundrums that you never thought it could. Of course you already [...]

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[1 Jan 2011 | No Comment | 203 views]
Milk Mask for Dry Skin

This recipe makes a mask for two
Ingredients:

1 tsp powdered milk
1 tbsp runny honey
1 tsp aloe vera gel
2 drops essential oil

Preparation:

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[28 Dec 2010 | No Comment | 621 views]
Take care of hair after hair rebonding

Special care needs to taken after hair rebonding otherwise you may regret. Find out how to take care of your hair. 1 Oil regularly: The hair should be oiled and steamed every 15 days. Also go in for a hot towel treatment to ensure deep conditioning to the roots of the hair. 2 Special care: [...]

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[18 Dec 2010 | No Comment | 107 views]
Aloe Vera for winter cracks

Aloe Vera comes in handy for heel and skin winter cracks! Yesterday my garbage picker had a painful look on her face when she rang the bell to collect the garbage at doorstep. She showed me her inflamed ankle with cracked skin and painfully asked me for some cream. I just snipped off the fleshy [...]

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[6 Dec 2010 | No Comment | 72 views]
Body Glitter Recipe

What you need: 3 tablespoons of unmedicated aloe vera gel 1/2 teaspoon very fine glitter, color desired 1 drop essential oil with fragrance desired (optional) Food coloring (optional) Procedure: Add as much glitter to aloe vera gel as you like (you can always experiment). If you are using food coloring, mix a few drops at [...]

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[26 Oct 2010 | No Comment | 370 views]
Aloe Vera and Egg White Firming Face Mask

Ingredients

1 pasteurized egg white
2 teaspoon aloe Vera juice
2 teaspoon oil
1 teaspoon apple juice

Mixing Directions
Mix egg white, Aloe Vera juice, oil, and apple juice together in a blender.

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[22 Jul 2010 | No Comment | 207 views]
Silky Aloe Vera Skin Care Body Lotion

Aloe vera is used in many skin care products due to its ability to stimulate healthy cell growth and also to repair damaged tissues. It contains anti-inflammatory properties and burn healing effects.
Ingredients:
1 cup Aloe Vera gel
1-teaspoon lanolin
1 teaspoon Vitamin E oil
1/3-cup coconut oil

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[27 Dec 2009 | No Comment | 782 views]
Homemade Moisturizers for a beautiful skin

Moisturizer is a lotion, which keeps the skin moisturized, supple and smooth. It also helps to remove makeup from skin. Moisturizer is an essential for any type of skin and for protecting the upper layer of skin from air.  There are many moisturizers available in the market. But there are many recipes available to make [...]

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[10 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 449 views]
Naturally Wise Aloe Vera

If we go by an Egyptian lore, then the gel from the leaves of aloe vera was the secret ingredient that Cleopatra used for her skin and not the much-touted milk. In fact, the Egyptians have used aloe vera for their embalming process since times immemorial. It may look like a thorny cactus, but the [...]