Makeup and Beauty

Traditional home-brewed hair rinses are lemon juice for fair hair and vinegar for brunettes—dilute them eight parts to one with water. This will neutralize alkalinity and give hair a real shine.
For dry hair, try an egg and honey conditioning treatment, mix one egg with one teaspoon of honey and two teaspoons of olive oil. Apply to wet hair. Put on a shower cap or a layer of cling film, cover with a towel, and leave for as long as possible before shampooing out. If you have an over-ripe avocado, use it as a nourishing hair pack in the same way.
Egg is a very good conditioner, besides it also nourishes the hair. However, you mix in curd, tea water, coffee-powder, amla powder and your henna. Leave it in an iron vessel for a couple of hours, then use it.
Should you avoid alcohol formulas ? Although the trend is for gentler control, dermatologists still maintain that very oily skins benefit from alcohol’s decreasing influence—used wisely, it’s an oil control that dissolves plugged pores. But abuse may parch skin into panic producing sebum and establishing a vicious circle. Many toners now have soothing, moisturizing and stimulating properties, taking them up a level from basic cleansing to the treatment zone. The newest way to use these formulas is as a hydrating spray. Apply moisturizer while your face is still wet for maximum benefit. An entire system is based around misting before moisturizing, to rehydrate parched cells. Desperately dry skin can take up to ten misting daily. It’s a wise idea to carry simple mineral or floral water sprays to spritz over your face in low-humidity atmospheres like offices and aeroplanes. They refresh even over make-up—but shut your eyes before you spray.

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