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Mother Nature has been supplying us with many beneficial ingredients to help you stay beautiful for centuries. One ingredient that can be used for beauty and health is fresh squeezed lemon juice. Lemon juice has many uses in food preparation such as cakes, meat marinades, and of course as a delicious refreshing summer beverage. It also has a variety of uses for beauty as well. From head to toe, this juice provides many benefits. Here are 10 uses to keep you looking good:

Healthy Fingernails: Soak your fingernails in lemon juice for about 10 minutes. Then brush your fingernails with a tooth brush or nail brush using a mixture of 1/2 white vinegar and 1/2 warm water and then rinse with warm water.

This treatment helps your fingernails stay strong and bright and you will be surprised at how shiny and amazing your fingernails look!

Get Rid of Blackheads: Rub lemon juice over the area of your face that has blackheads right before you go to bed at night. Rinse your face with cool water when you wake up. Repeat this procedure every night until blackheads are gone.

Brighten your skin: I remember as a little girl, I liked to crawl around on my bare knees on the carpet and outside. My knees became rough and darker.so my grandmother would rub half of a fresh lemon on my knees to brighten and soften them up.

You can use fresh lemon juice on any area of your body, including your face to brighten up and soften your skin. Simply rub a fresh lemon on this area before you go to bed at night. You can also add 1/2 cup of fresh juice to your bath water and soak for 20 minutes for an all over treatment.

Hair Conditioner: Dull, damaged hair will benefit from lemon juice by combining 3/4 cup Olive Oil, with 1/2 cup raw honey and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice. Set the mixture aside. After shampooing your hair, towel dry your hair and work the lemon juice mixture in your hair by combing it evenly throughout your hair. Then cover hair with a plastic cap for a 1/2 hour. Shampoo and rinse this conditioner out of your hair.

Add Blond Highlights to your Hair: The all natural alternative to hair dyes and bleach is to use 1/4 cup lemon juice and 3/4 cup water mixed together and applied to your hair. Sit in the sun for 25 minutes for lighter colored hair.

Breath Freshener: The citric acid content of lemons is a powerful killer of odor causing bacteria. You can quickly freshen bad breath by squirting a few drops of lemon juice into your mouth, swish it around for about 15 seconds and then swallow it.

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Skin, the largest organ in human body, not only protects all the internal body parts, but makes men and women look good! Your skin defines your personality. There are very few who have no desire for flawless skin.

Is flawless skin god gifted? Is it ever possible to overcome skin problems? Yes there is. Flawless skin is god gifted, no doubt. But proper skincare can turn a mediocre skin flawless too. Hence, to achieve a Flawless Skin, all you need to do is take care of your skin adequately.

The very first step of skincare is the skin type identification test. Skincare treatments and facial products depend on the skin type of individuals. Identifying your skin type is of paramount importance. The product that works well on oily skin may not be equally useful for normal or combination skin. Take a test to know the skin type you have.

‘Care your skin’ - that is the only way to make it flawless and there is simply no shortcut. Performing the basic skin care treatments regularly makes the change. Routine skincare not only retouches the defects, but delays aging too. Facial skin care specific for your skin type is what you need. Let us discuss the steps of Routine Skincare one by one.

Steps of Routine Skincare for Flawless Skin:

1) Cleansing:

Cleansing is essential to remove excess oil and dirt from your skin. Cleansing is done with specific solutions, known as cleansers. Cleansers are mixture of oil, surfactant and water. Oil dissolves the oil, surfactant cleans the dirt and water washes out all the garbage giving your skin a fresh look and feel.

All cleansers may not go with your skin type. The ratio of oil to the surfactant and water defines how your skin would response to the cleanser. Excess oil content may block pores while lesser oil often leads to dry skin. Get yourself a good cleanser that suits your skin type. Visit online drugstore to buy a suitable product.

2) Exfoliation:

This process removes dead skin cells that make your skin look dull by changing your natural complexion. When you exfoliate all the dead skin cells are peeled off along with the outer layer of skin. This makes your skin look fresh and more youthful.

Among various processes of exfoliation Scrubbing is quite common and popular. Scrub cleaners take the dead cell layer off your skin gently. A considerable number of people prefer peeling treatments as well. Exfoliation should be done at least twice in a week.

3) Moisturizing:

Whether yours is oily or dry, you must moisturize your skin. Moisturizer moistens your skin by locking water on the surface. If your skin often becomes dry and your face seems to be stretched tightly, perhaps it lacks moisture.

4) Sunscreen:

Sun damage is often irreversible. The best way to protect your skin from sun burn is using sunscreen. Avoiding exposure to direct sunlight may not work. UV rays of the sun are active on cloudy days too.

Sun damage is one of the main reasons of early wrinkles. After applying all the basic facial products, use a sunscreen. Alternatively, you can use a moisturizer with sunscreen for the daytime and purchase a moisturizer without sunscreen for night.

We have the facial skin care products to choose from anywhere on the internet. If you are looking for an Online Drugstore that has everything you need, then you just found it.

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Acne. Boy do I hate it. Those pimples popping up all over my face back in my teenaged years. Even now, I do get acne outbreaks when I am stressed, or use the wrong skin care product. I’ve been to many doctors who are able to clear my acne, until the next outbreak.

Part of the reason is oily skin. Greasy skin that traps dirt and skin debris clogging up pores make your skin pores an excellent breeding place for bacteria. The bacteria multiplies and voila. You have acne.

All is not lost. If you have oily skin that is prone to acne, here are 7 beauty tips to help keep the pimples away.

1. Keep your HANDS off your face.

You hands, after touching so many things, opening the door, picking up a bag, things we do everyday, are covered with bacteria. The last thing you want is to put that bacteria on your face. Touch your face often with your hands, or worse still, pick those pimples with your fingers, and you will see the pimples multiply.

2. Keep your HAIR off your face.

If you have oily skin, you probably have oily hair. Oily hair brushing against your face adds to the oil. Oil, sweat and skin debris are a great way to clog the pores in your skin, leading to more pimples. If you notice pimples appearing on your forehead, or your cheeks and chin, typically where your hair might brush against, your hair could be the culprit. Wear a hairband, use hair clips to keep your hair off your face, tie it into a pony tail, or get a hair cut.

3. Wash your face 3 times a day with a good acne cleanser.

I got that tip from a doctor. I washed my face when I woke up, at lunch time and at bedtime with a cleanser that is meant for skin that has acne. My skin cleared when I stuck to the routine and used only skin care products meant for skin with acne. A bar of soap meant for washing your face does the trick just as well.

4. Stick to acne skin care

Every time I stray from that point, I end up with a major acne outbreak. Always. Everytime I see my pals with exceptionally radiant skin, I want to use whatever they use. I would switch to richer, anti aging skin care as a preventive measure, worried about wrinkles appearing when I get older. That backfires every time. I end up with more pimples. Stick to good acne skin care products.

5. Relax

Did you notice how pimples tend to appear more before a stressful event. Exams. A big date. A presentation. Stress wreaks havoc on your skin. Ok, pimples can also pop up due to hormonal imbalances, like just before your period.

6. Sleep

Your skin heals itself when you sleep. Your entire body heals itself in your sleep. A night without sleep may lead to more pimples. Make it a habit to leave your worries behind and get a good night’s sleep. Work out more earlier in the day. Get some exercise before evening. It helps.

7. Stay away from pressed powder compact.

Yup. You heard me right. I got this tip from a friend. Her friend used a pressed powder compact to hide her acne. Instead, the more she used it the worse it got. Just think. By mid day, your skin gets oily. You take out the powder compact, and use that powder puff to apply pressed powder on your face. Now, your face would already have dirt, bacteria and oil on it. Pat your face with that powder puff and now that puff picks up the dirt, bacteria and oil. You put it back into the compact. The bacteria happily breeds in there. Then you take out the compact again and pat more powder, mixed with oil, dirt and bacteria onto your face, picking up more gunk, putting in more gunk into your compact. The cycle goes on. A better bet would be to use blotting paper to blot off the excess oil instead. Then you can throw the paper away after use. Use the blotting paper meant for your face like the ones found at http://www.everythingbeauty.info/blotting%20paper.htm

About this powder puff thing, make it a point to wash your powder puff and all your make up brushes regularly, with soap and water. Then dry them completely before you keep them. Guess that would make it an 8th tip right?

Oily, acne prone skin needs a lot of care. The bright side is that oily skin is slower to show signs of aging than dry skin. Take care of your skin and you’ll probably look younger than your peers as the decades go by.

You can find more information about how to deal with acne at acne remedies and skin care for teens. The writer is the webmaster of http://www.sisadvice.com

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Want to know beauty tips that the worlds top models use? Our models share their beauty tips that will have you looking as good as they do. Simple tips that cost less than a cup of coffee. I call it the “Models Cheat Sheet.” Listed below are some of their tips for you.

1) If your hair is looking a little greasy and lost some of its shine rub a little talcum powder thru it and watch it bounce back instantly.

2) Having trouble covering up a pimple or blemish and no amount of makeup is making it look better, just making it look bigger. Don’t try to hide it, take a tip from Cindy Crawford or Madonna and turn an eyesore into a beauty spot. Use an eyebrow pencil to color it in.

3) No one likes those bags under the eyes but some days we just don’t get enough sleep and out they come. Sure there are teabags or cucumber and ice packs that you can use to reduce them but that takes time. So do what the models do rub hemorrhoid cream on them. It will bring the swelling down and tighten the skin in no time at all.

4) Don’t go putting that hemorrhoid cream away just yet. We all hate those little spidery veins that we get, give them a rub with the cream too. They well reduce or even disappear before your eyes. Ask any model to show you her handbag or makeup bag and you will always find a tube of hemorrhoid cream.

5) Want to wear an outfit that is a little loose around the breasts and you feel that if you are not careful you might fall out of it. Do what the Hollywood stars and models do use double sided sticky tape. Stick the tape on your skin and press the edge of the clothing onto the tape and it will remain in placed all night. No more embarrassing moments from something popping out.

6) A good smile is so important our look and how we feel. Try this natural teeth whitening tip. Rub a fresh strawberry along your teeth, they will whiten up naturally. Just check that you don’t leave any pulp or seeds behind in your teeth.

7) Shoes giving you blisters try a little Vaseline or similar lubricant on the pressure points inside of the shoe. Being oil based it will prevent or at least minimize the rubbing. Be careful not to use too much and check that the Vaseline doesn’t stain the shoe, especially if they are leather. Being petroleum based it is an oil and will stain like an oil.

The dreaded “Visible Panty Line” (VPL) we have all seen it, whether wearing a dress, skirt or pants it’s never a good look. Try wearing g-strings, thongs or Boy Shorts style knickers. They won’t show thru your clothing.

9) With all the low cut jeans and trousers now in the market place there is always that problem of leaning forward or crouching and having your knickers show over the top of your waistband especially at the back. Try our range or Micro g-strings and thongs they sit much lower than conventional knickers and won’t peek over the top of your trousers or low cut skirts.

I trust these tips will prove helpful and suggest that you try them for yourself.

M Green from http://www.addictivelingerie.com

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Skin that produces excess oil is more likely to suffer from acne. It doesn’t matter if the surface of your skin is dehydrated with fine lines due to excessively drying products you’ve used in the past to dry up the pimples. If the oil glands beneath are overactive, pores can easily get clogged up with dirt and oil. Bacteria breeds in that concoction giving you an infection and that corresponding inflammation we know as acne.

So if you have a problem with pimples, these are the top 3 things you can do about them.

1. Hide the pimple when necessary.

Got a date or a presentation? Here’s how you can minimize a big pimple. Ice it. Take an ice cube and hold it against the red, hot spot to bring down the redness. Then dab on a pimple treatment. Let that sink in before you apply a tiny dab of concealer with a fine brush, directly on that spot. Then apply your makeup as per normal. Actually, it is better to go barefaced, without makeup as much as possible, with only the pimple treatments on the zits. At least until they clear up.

2. Watch your pores.

Acne begins with clogged pores, so unclog them. Use a clay mask twice or three times a week to deep cleanse your face. Wash your face 3 times a day with an antibacterial face wash. For pore clearing, AHA (Alpha Hydroxy Acid) is fantastic. It sloughs off the dead skin cells that would otherwise clog up the pores. Actually, the ones the skin doctors administer definitely unclog the pores. Salicylic acid is another ingredient to look out for as that unclogs the pores too.

3. Avoid rich skincare products.

Rich moisturizers, especially the cream-based ones can very well clog up your skin. It doesn’t matter how old you are. That ultra-rich, antiaging cream is likely to cause your skin to break out in pimples again, or worsen your acne. A better bet is to use a water based moisturizing gel if you really need the moisture. Stick to products that are noncomedogenic so that you do not clog up your skin again.

Also check out these 20 pimple tips

The author writes for from http://www.sisadvice.com

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