ExtraBeautyCare

Author: Meher Iqbal

6 Steps to Get Rid of Cracked Heels
Neglecting our hands and feet is a common habit of many of us. Cracked heels happens when we ignore our feet for long time and also due to lack of moisturizer. They leaves a very embarrassing impression on others and are very painful. In severe case it results in bleeding and pain. There are natural ways to cure the damaged heels, we discuss them one by one. First of all, we must know its symptoms & causes. They are as follow;

Symptoms:

The symptoms are cracks appear on feet, dryness, bleeding, red flaky patches appears on feet, itchiness.

Causes:

The factors causes damaged heels are stated as below;
- Excessive feet activity
- Prolong standing at home or at work
- Continuous exposure to water
- Lack of feet care
- Lack of moisturizing
- Hard floors
- Dryness and scaly skin
- Deficiency of vitamins, minerals and zinc
Tips:
1. Apply a mixture of glycerin and rose water to soothe cracked heels.
2. Rub your feet with a mixture of 1 tsp. of Vaseline and one lemon juice. It is best to use before going to bed as it is an overnight treatment.
3. Apply pulp of ripe banana and leave this mixture on your feet for ten minutes and then rinse off your feet and let them dry.
1. Soak your feet in lemon juice mixture for ten minutes and then rinse off your feet and pat them dry with towel.
2. A mixture of melt paraffin wax and mustard oil is best remedy to solve this problem.
3. Apply glycerin or any other foot cream after every shower to moisturize your feet properly.
4. Keep your feet clean and dirt free. Moisturize them properly.
5. Exfoliate the dead skin of your feet when required.
6. Soak your feet in warm water twice a week.
7. Consume a diet rich in calcium, zinc and omega 3 fats.
8. Apply mint mixture with water to cure them.
Treatments:

Things you’ll need;
- a small tub
- 1tsp. salt
- a lemon
- soap
- good foot file
- foot brush
- towel
- pure glycerin
- a pair of thick socks
Step#1: Soak Feet

Fill the tub with water. Add salt, lemon juice and soap in it. Soak your feet in tub of water for fifteen minutes to soften your dry cracked feet.

Step#2: Scrub & File

Now scrub and file your feet for long time for getting soft and smooth cracked free heels.

Step#3: Brush

Now properly brush your feet from top to bottom while taking out your feet from water.

Step#4: Wash & Dry

Now wash your feet with warm water and pat them dry with towel.

Step#5: Moisturize

Massage your foot skin with pure glycerin, it will moisturize your skin deeply.

Step#6: Cover

Now cover your feet with socks pair for minimum two hours.

[quote style=”boxed”]After this simple and natural treatment you will enjoy the soft , smooth and cracked free heels ,the one heels you always desired. :)[/quote]
November 26, 2013
How to Prevent Premature Aging – Tips
Face explains a lot about us, that one is pleased or sad, youthful or even old. This discloses several things regarding person’s age, health and it is persona. Face needs a lot of care for developing a great perception on others. Rapid getting older is often a widespread problem of countless men and women. Premature aging starts after 20’s and your skin seems old, a lot more tired, and dull. Trying to keep the skin hydrated, can easily fix numerous early getting older problems.

Precisely why & How Rapid Aging Happens:

The leading reasons causing early aging are as follows;
- The production of collagen become slow (collagen makes skin firm).
- Fat cells start vanishing (leading to sagging of skin).
- The production of elastin also decreases (elastin provides skin elasticity).
- Frown lines & “crow’s feet” come into sight due to small muscles contractions.
- Less displacement of new skin cells.
Most of these factors add to wrinkles, age spots, thinness and dryness within skin, these all will be the indications regarding early aging.

Tips:
1. Do give a facial once in a week to delay early growing old.
2. Fresh juices, fruits and vegetables are recommended as they are rich in antioxidants and antioxidants delays early aging.
3. Do wear sunscreen to avoid direct contact with harmful UV rays of sun.
4. Moisturize your skin after every bath to avid dryness on your skin as dryness can lead to early aging problem.
5. To give up smoking, because it brings about early growing old very speedily.
6. Do not take too much stress.
7. Clean your skin daily to avoid clogged pores.
8. Do not rub or pull your skin as it is already affected by stress and UV rays of sun. Rubbing or pulling of skin can causes many skin problems leading to early aging.
9. Do not ignore your neck and hands as they are first to show signs of aging.
[quote style=”boxed”]A great healthy skin care, a fantastic diet plan along with preventative measures could resolve your premature aging difficulty lots.[/quote]

Preventive Measures:

Poor Diet:

A diet rich in vegetables and fruits tends to makes skin healthy and also helps prevent quick aging, as it is enriched with antioxidants which defends skin from any harm and make it healthy. Thus a diet lack of fruits and vegetables leads to quick aging as it has no antioxidants for skin care.

Sun Exposure:

It causes quick aging by leading wrinkling and it even causes skin cancer. Always use sunscreen to avoid sun spots and leathery appearance of skin. Use hats and sun glasses to prevent one on one connection with sun rays.

Smoking:

Cigarettes depletes body vitamin C, which is necessary for fresh and young looking skin. It is as bad as UV rays of sun. Cigarettes smoking causes wrinkling and dryness of skin. Hence leading to uncontrolled aging.

Excessive Stress:

Taking too much anxiety makes a person look much older than his/ her age. This leads to rapid aging by causing wrinkles and blemishes on skin.

Not Enough Exercise:

Workout delays the process of rapid aging as it causes an excellent blood flow, which makes skin healthy and younger looking.

Exposure To Cold:

Exposure to cold and winds cause’s quick getting older as skin becomes dry, rough and irritated. Thus use scruff and moisturizing lotions to keep your skin hydrated.

Excess Alcohol:

Excess alcohol causes quick aging because it permanently blood vessels in your skin and causes blemishes on your skin.

[highlight]These tips and preventive measures are simple and natural solution to protect your skin from premature aging as compared to costly surgeries which are painful. Hope you find our guidelines healthful for your skin.[/highlight]
February 27, 2013
Skin Care in Winter – Tips
Everyone desires a good healthy skin around the year. Our skin gets dry, flaky and rough during winters. The reasons are dry weather and dry air. The people residing in cold areas suffer a lot. [highlight]Our skin especially face, lips, hands and feet gets flaky in winter season.[/highlight] Our skin faces dehydration problem a lot as we drink less water and fresh juices.
[quote]Dry air and hot bath results in dry skin. In such situation our skin gets thirsty, so it needs proper moisturizing and care.[/quote]

Tips for [intlink id=”263″ type=”post”]Skin Care[/intlink] during Cold Weather:
1. The major problem which our skin faces during winter is dehydration and loss of moisture in our skin. Drink a lot of water and fresh juices to hydrate your skin and maintain moisture in it.
2. Mixture of olive oil and honey is very effective for dry lips in winter. Chap stick is also good for dry lips.
3. Use oil based moisturizer especially of almond oil. Use moisturizer frequently after every shower and face wash.
4. Pre-bath oil massage of body is good for skin in winter season.
5. Use milky cleanser daily to moisturize your skin properly.
6. Use petroleum jelly on dry areas of skin.
7. Use Luke warm water for shower and use towel dry after every bath.
8. Use a light scrub for exfoliation because our skin becomes dry and lifeless in winter. The skin becomes dead, it really needs exfoliation.
9. Use moisturizing lotion after washing your hands. Our hand skin is extremely thin it will help in locking moisture in hand skin.
10. Use a humidifier in your home so that there will be enough moisture in air and moisture can be locked in your skin.
11. Go for oil bath. A few drops of almond oil used in bath will wonder you a lot.
12. Only use moisturizing facial masks in winter.
13. Apply sunscreen before thirty minutes going outside because sun rays are still harmful for skin in winters.
14. Use creamy facial cleanser to remove the makeup.
15. Use hat as it protect your scalp from dry air.
16. Use gloves as it protect your hands from dry and cold weather.
[quote style=”boxed”]One should use fresh juices and water in winter to make skin moisturizing as it needs special care in dry cold weather. So follow these preventive measures to make your skin moisturizing and enjoy the cold weather without fear of dry skin.[/quote]

Avoid:

Avoid the following things to have fresh, flossy and beautiful skin in winter;
- Do not use such skin & hair products which contain alcoholic content.
- Avoid heavy use of sunscreen in winter.
- Avoid excess use of facial masks in winter as they make our skin dry.
- Do not use alkaline soap, as they cause dryness and rashness on skin.
- Avoid hair blowing as its heat damages your scalp and dry air adds more problems to it.
- Do not go for hot shower though it is enjoyable but it causes severe dryness and dullness in our skin.
December 8, 2012
Hair Care Tips & Treatments
Hair is most attractive feature of our body. Long, silky, shiny and strong hairs have a charming and magnificent impression on others. One cannot ignore the charm of beautiful hairs. There are many hair problems such as hair breakage, dandruff, dryness, dullness, etc. One can have healthy hair by practicing the right shampoo, drying and styling of hairs. In our previous articles we discuss the hair structure and some hair growing tips, but today we share much more tips and treatments for hair care with natural remedies, for all of you. Because healthy, shiny and long hairs are the desire of almost every women and girl.

Basic Hair Care Tips:
- Trimming is necessary for avoiding split ended hairs. So trim your hair at least after one month.
- Massage your hairs and scalp gently with oil daily as it increases blood circulation and improves hair growth.
- Use soft hair ties for reducing hair stress.
- Use wide-toothed comb to avoid hair breakage.
- Brush/comb your hair 3-4 times a day.
- Avoid cholesterol and fat containing diet as it damages your hairs and make them dull and lifeless.
- Don’t brush wet hairs as it leads to a major hair breakage.
- Always go for a towel dry after shampooing and then go for hair blowing as it saves your hairs from excess heat.
- Always use normal water for rinsing shampoo hairs as it moisturizes the hair properly. Oiling is necessary for your hairs.
- Always massage your hairs with finger tips not with palm as it avoids hair breakage.
- While washing your hair don’t leave shampoo in your hairs more than 30 seconds. It will reduce the hair breakage.
[quote style=”boxed”]A good diet is necessary for strong and healthy hairs. Green vegetables, fish, soybeans, honey, cereals, milk products, eggs and low cholesterol food is suggested for healthy growth of hair and their strongness.[/quote]

Natural Remedies for Hair Care:

Tips to get silky and healthy hair:
1. Take an egg (only white part), 1 tsp glycerin and 2 tsp castor oil. Mix them well and apply the mixture on hair and scalp. After half an hour wash it with shampoo.
2. Castor oil is also good for healthy hair growth.
3. Mayonnaise is best conditioner for hairs. Apply it on dry hairs, leave it in to hairs for half hour and then rinse hairs and go for shampoo.
Tips for longer hairs:
1. A mixture of coconut oil and Amla powder makes hair long.
2. Drink lots of water, it makes hair long.
3. Mustard oil and henna paste makes hair long.
Tips to get rid of Dandruff and Itchy Scalp:
1. Take 1 tsp coconut oil, 1 tsp mustard oil and 1 tsp castor oil, mix them well. Apply this mixture on your hair for minimum 2 hours. Then wash it away with slightly warm water. It is an easy tip to get rid of dandruff.
2. Massage your scalp with olive oil in evening for eight days. Leave the oil in your hairs overnight. then shampoo them the in morning. Your hairs will be strong, dandruff free and vibrant.
Dry and Dull Hair treatment:
1. Massage coconut oil into your hairs, half an hour before shampooing. You will feel your hairs much manageable and silky soft after rinsing them.
Treatment For Extremely Dry and Brittle Hairs:
1. Put 3 tsp olive oil and 3 tsp boiling water in blender and blend it on high speed till the two liquids get merged into one another. While the mixture is hot apply this on your hairs and leave it for fifteen minutes and then go for shampoo.
Treatment for Damaged hairs:
1. Apply the mixture of olive oil and one egg yolk in your hairs for 2 hours and then go for shampoo. Do this once in a week for a month. It will make your hairs strong.
Treatment for Oily hairs:
1. Apply lemon juice in your hairs, leave it for fifteen minutes and then rinse off your hairs. It is best cure for oily hairs.
December 3, 2012
How to Get Rid of Dark Neck
Dark neck is a common problem and many of us are facing it. A good face with a dark neck leaves a bad impression on others. Dark patches, uneven skin tone, dark spots and fatness around neck are main problems faced by many of us. [highlight]Everyone desires of a graceful and creamy looking neck.[/highlight]

Reasons of dark neck skin:

We do very care of our face but a few cares the neck area. Mostly women practice the daily routine care of their face while neglecting the neck area and consider it enough. We have to understand that our neck skin also demands some care. Well, it is a very basic reason of having a dark neck. The other reasons are stated below;
- Neck has skin folds; the dirt, derbies and sweat accumulate there and cause darkness of neck skin.
- The exfoliation of dead skin cells does not takes place. It’s a main reason causing neck skin darkness.
- Excessive fatness around neck also causes dark neck skin.
- Exposure to sun light also causes darkness of neck skin.
- We don’t go for neck cleansing, washing, moisturizing and toning. So its also a major reason of dark neck.
Tips to avoid neck darkness:
1. Very basic and primary step is recommended here to get rid of dark neck is, to maintain hygienic practice (wash neck) after coming home.
2. Tomato is a natural bleaching agent. Apply juice of tomato around your neck. It is best for lightening dark neck and toning.
3. Honey is best natural scrub for your neck. It helps in reducing scar formation and dark spots. It nourishes your skin naturally and will lightening dark neck.
4. Cleanser, moisturizer, toner, sunscreen and scrub should also be applied on neck areas, to get flossy and beautiful neck.
5. Aloe Vera gel is very effective for skin lightning of dark neck.
6. Use umbrella while going outside, it will protect your neck skin from getting dark.
7. High collar shirts are recommended for avoiding darkness of neck.
8. Exfoliate your neck skin by using scrub on it.
9. A scrub of walnut and yogurt is also recommended. The massage of this scrub should be in circular motion with slow hands as walnuts is in solid form.
10. Raw milk is best cleanser for neck skin.
11. Potato is also a bleaching agent. Its juice is very helpful in lightening dark areas of neck.
12. Olive oil and sugar crystal paste scrub is very effective. Massage this paste with slow hands till the sugar dissolves. The olive oil is very nourishing for skin.
[quote style=”boxed”]The above stated tips are very helpful for lightening dark neck. All treatments are natural cure. It will surely help you in gaining a creamy looking neck.[/quote]
December 2, 2012