Beauty Benefits of Cucumber

“As cool as a Cucumber”- This idiom itself tells how cool a cucumber is.

Cucumber is well-reputed for its amazing cooling properties.  Cucumber offers a wide range of beneficiaries covering from our head to toe.  It is used as a face pack to increase the moisture content on the skin and to remove the oiliness present on the skin. 

Summer has gone, but this rainy season is no less than a summer season.  In this hot climate, it is impossible to give full attention to your day to day work and also to complete the work on-time. 

Cucumber, which is well-reputed for its cooling properties can help you go through this hot, rainy come summer season days with the utmost coolness.

Its turn for Aloe mist

Just like we used rose water in  the previous spray of cucumber, this homemade spray uses Aloe to prepare the spray.  As we all know that cucumber acts as a cooling agent, Aloe helps to soothe your skin and promotes good blood circulation and thereby improves the elasticity of the skin, which helps you appear younger than your age. 

All you need to prepare cucumber and Aloe spray is one cucumber, one squeeze of lemon, one tablespoon of aloe gel, and one tablespoon of rose water. 

-Now, take the cucumber and cut it into pieces. 

-Blend it in a blender until it turns out as a fine paste. 

-Now take a cloth and squeeze out the juice out of the pulp into a bowl in the same way  as I explained to do in the above session. 

-Now add all the ingredients that are listed above into this cucumber squeeze.
 

-Mix them well. Use blender to mix it well if you want the solution to be in a more liquid form. 

-When you are done with the solution, pour it in a spray bottle and store it in the refrigerator. 

-This solution will last for a week. This cucumber, aloe spray shows good signs of refreshes your face. It smoothens and cools you within no time.

Time to prepare green tea and cucumber spray

Green tea is named for its health and beauty benefits. Along with these health and beauty benefits, it also offers refreshing tricks with its antioxidant properties. 

Using green tea as a spray along with cucumber squeeze will help repair the skin that is damaged due to sun exposure.  Let us know how to prepare a green tea and cucumber spray.

In order to prepare a green tea and cucumber spray, you will need half a cucumber, one green tea bag, and aloe. 

-Brew the green tea and keep it aside until it gets to room temperature. 

-Take half a cucumber and blend it in a blender and squeeze off some juice out of it. 

-Take a spray bottle and add 1/4 cuff of green tea to the bottle. 

-Now add two tablespoons of cucumber juice to the solution and one tablespoon of aloe gel to the solution, store it in the refrigerator.  It will last for a week.

These are the different cucumber sprays that offer great deal of refreshment in the hot summer and semi-hot rainy seasons.

ALL ABOUT SKIN WHITENING

Skin whitening remedies are not limited to expensive beauty and skin treatments or usage of cosmetics. You can try skin whitening remedies at home by using natural ingredients. Read on to know what skin whitening is and which home remedies can be used for whitening skin at home.

Skin whitening is the process of lightening the skin colour with the help of creams, soaps and even injections. Although most of these methods give you the results you are looking forward to, but they are not free from side effects and disadvantages. When you use any skin whitening product, your skin is forced to prevent and distribute the production of its natural skin pigment. All these are done with the help of various toxic chemicals that are present in the products.

One of the most unwanted side effects of constant use of these skin whitening products is discolouration of the skin due to which skin gets dark and almost blackish. It can be seen in patches or on the entire face and neck where the product was used. Other side effects are severe drying of the skin, itching and cracking of skin, liver failure, skin cancer, fetal toxicity in pregnant women, mercury poisoning and many more. The worst thing is that the damages caused by these products are not curable.

Home Remedies for Skin Whitening

There are many ways to lighten your skin and if you opt for home remedies, you will feel that most of them are very helpful. However, when you switch to home remedies, it is for sure that you are not going to suffer from any side effects. But at the same time you will have to be prepared to give some time to get results. Here, you are not going to get them instantly.

Take juice of half lemon, half cucumber and add a pinch of turmeric to it. Apply this on your face and leave it for 10 – 15 minutes. Wash with normal water.

Soak almonds overnight, peel them in the morning and make a paste out of them. Take same amount of honey and add to it. Apply this paste for sometime and wash with normal water.

Take 2 spoons of gram flour and add half spoon lemon juice along with a pinch of turmeric and mix it with milk cream. Apply this paste for sometime on your face and then wash.

Mix equal amounts of fresh coconut milk and fresh pineapple juice and apply it on your face, neck and hands. Wash it after sometime.

Take sandalwood powder, tomato juice, cucumber juice and lemon juice in equal amount and mix them all with clean hands. Apply the paste on your face, neck and hands and then after 15 minutes, wash them.

Dry the orange peels in the sun and grind it. Mix fresh raw milk to make a paste of it and apply it on your skin everyday. Wash your face and other areas with lukewarm water.

You can apply potato juice as they work as bleaching agents. It will even help you get your blemishes and pigmentation reduced.

Mix oatmeal with curd and tomato juice. Apply it and keep it on for at least 20 minutes and then wash.

Applying freshly ground mint leaves on your face will also help lighten your skin colour.

Lime juice is natural bleach. Add a pinch of turmeric powder to it and then keep it on for 15 minutes. Wash your face after that.
The home remedies mentioned above are very helpful especially if you apply them regularly. The only thing you will have to keep in mind is that the results will not come out instantly. It will take time.

Still Rocking Away at 92

Jerry Thill, who at the time was 91 years old and rocking away. I thought I would reprise it and add some more info about Jerry, since the article I wrote was short on background information about her. 

Jerry is truly a longevity role model.

Jerry Thill

Jerry Thill, now 92, lives in L.A. and has been in the music scene since her teens. Over the last 60 years she has been leading all-female bands, from big-band and swing bands to jazz ensembles. She’s been on the Tonight show and on TV shows such as The Golden Girls andMarried With Children.

But it was the above video, Hey Jerry, shot and produced by her musician/filmmaker friend Allee Willis last year, that gave Jerry Thill massive exposure. After all, how many nonagenarians are out doing drumming gigs on a regular basis, as Jerry still does?

Jerry currently gigs in Hollywood, CA at the El Cid restaurant. See the video below of her performing the song“Oh Yeah” at the El Cid in 2008. The song begins at the 1 minute mark of the video.

A publicity photo from 1988, when Jerry was a mere pup, at age 71. She's the one on the right.

Since the Hey Jerry video first appeared on YouTube, Jerry has appeared on the cover ofModern Drummer magazine, and has been featured in other articles. Along with that she has received thousands of letters and emails, with people telling Jerry what an inspiration and role model she is.

Jerry says that, “I’ve gotten a lot of emails from people who say, ‘I’m 45, and I’m at a point in my life where I don’t know what to do, and your video inspired me, and I’m going to get off my ass and do something.’ ”

The oxygen tank Jerry has with her (you see it in the above video) is something only recent, in the last year. I assume the oxygen tank is from the occupational hazard of years of gigging in clubs and all the cigarettes that people used to smoke while listening to the music.

Jerry Thill is still going strong at 92 and is a remarkable model of longevity. We should all be rocking away when we hit her age.

Here’s Jerry’s website: http://jerriethill.com/

And don’t forget, next time you’re in Hollywood stop by the El Cid to see her.

Below is the video of her performing in 2008 at the El Cid. The music starts at the 1 minute mark of the video.