Eat and grow beautiful
Educate yourself about the nutritive values of day-to-day food products... let your body "talk" about the food it needs.
Skin: Your skin needs vitamin B2. This is present in fresh vegetables, milk and whole wheat bread. It also needs vitamin C to vitalise and purify the bloodstream. The easy way out? Eat at least one orange a day.
Teeth and bones: These need calcium and vitamin D. So take plenty of milk and fish. Avoid too much of starch and sugar.
Hair: Hair is made from a protein-based substance called keratin. Thus, a healthy mane of hair needs plenty of protein and vitamin B. A high-protein diet should include fish, cheese and eggs.
Nails: To avoid chipping, cracking and discolouring of nails, ensure that you have a diet rich in proteins and minerals and iodine.
Eyes: The most essential requirement for healthy eyes in vitamin. Carrots and cabbage and other leafy vegetables are a good source, as are butter, eggs and fish.
A treasure trove right in your kitchen
Almond: The juice of almonds, crushed and powdered, is extensively used to make face-packs, skin nourishers and night creams. It is extremely useful on aged and wrinkled skins. Usually mixed with rose water and glycerin to make skin nourishers. When added to milk, makes an excellent mask that nourishes and softens your skin.
Apple: Apple juice if mixed with vinegar makes an excellent hair rinse. Grated apple paste mixed with honey or milk makes an excellent face-mask, very useful for complexion cures.
Banana: Pulp if mixed with milk, honey or curds makes a good face-mask that rids you of blemishes. An excellent skin softener. Pulp when mixed with curd and beaten to a thick paste is excellent for your hair, promotes healthy, glossy hair and gives them a unique shine.
Carrot: The ideal `wrinkle fighter'. Raw carrots grated and added to almond oil and honey and applied as a thick mask, fights wrinkles.
Cucumber: When used with curds, makes good, nourishing complexion masks. Its juices remove dark circles and blemishes. An excellent skin tautener; it also closes pores, fights skin tan and helps in rejuvenating the skin.
Garlic: If taken raw, it purifies the blood, thus giving a clearer complexion. It also heals cuts and wounds, and its juice also clears blemishes.
Honey: If taken daily with lime and warm water, it purifies blood and clears the skin of blemishes.
Lemon: A perfect all-rounder used for removing skin tans; as a face-mask, as an astringent, as a skin toner and lightener. It tautens the skin and removes wrinkles. Useful to fight dandruff and an excellent tonic if imbibed with honey.
Onion: Onion juice cures pimples, burn scars and is excellent for dandruff problems. It also helps to restore natural hair colour.
Potato: A remarkable skin tautener and helps lighten tan. Heals burns, cuts and lightens your complexion. Helps to get rid of burn marks, removes pimples and freckles.
Turmeric: Cures scars and burn marks. It smoothens the skin and is a base for many other tonics.
Tomato: Makes good face-masks. A good cleanser and useful for clearing the skin of marks and blemishes.
Yoghurt: Used in numerous skincare and hair-care preparations. It is a skin smoothener and fights acne. It nourishes the hair, helping in healthy hair growth.
Educate yourself about the nutritive values of day-to-day food products... let your body "talk" about the food it needs.
Skin: Your skin needs vitamin B2. This is present in fresh vegetables, milk and whole wheat bread. It also needs vitamin C to vitalise and purify the bloodstream. The easy way out? Eat at least one orange a day.
Teeth and bones: These need calcium and vitamin D. So take plenty of milk and fish. Avoid too much of starch and sugar.
Hair: Hair is made from a protein-based substance called keratin. Thus, a healthy mane of hair needs plenty of protein and vitamin B. A high-protein diet should include fish, cheese and eggs.
Nails: To avoid chipping, cracking and discolouring of nails, ensure that you have a diet rich in proteins and minerals and iodine.
Eyes: The most essential requirement for healthy eyes in vitamin. Carrots and cabbage and other leafy vegetables are a good source, as are butter, eggs and fish.
A treasure trove right in your kitchen
Almond: The juice of almonds, crushed and powdered, is extensively used to make face-packs, skin nourishers and night creams. It is extremely useful on aged and wrinkled skins. Usually mixed with rose water and glycerin to make skin nourishers. When added to milk, makes an excellent mask that nourishes and softens your skin.
Apple: Apple juice if mixed with vinegar makes an excellent hair rinse. Grated apple paste mixed with honey or milk makes an excellent face-mask, very useful for complexion cures.
Banana: Pulp if mixed with milk, honey or curds makes a good face-mask that rids you of blemishes. An excellent skin softener. Pulp when mixed with curd and beaten to a thick paste is excellent for your hair, promotes healthy, glossy hair and gives them a unique shine.
Carrot: The ideal `wrinkle fighter'. Raw carrots grated and added to almond oil and honey and applied as a thick mask, fights wrinkles.
Cucumber: When used with curds, makes good, nourishing complexion masks. Its juices remove dark circles and blemishes. An excellent skin tautener; it also closes pores, fights skin tan and helps in rejuvenating the skin.
Garlic: If taken raw, it purifies the blood, thus giving a clearer complexion. It also heals cuts and wounds, and its juice also clears blemishes.
Honey: If taken daily with lime and warm water, it purifies blood and clears the skin of blemishes.
Lemon: A perfect all-rounder used for removing skin tans; as a face-mask, as an astringent, as a skin toner and lightener. It tautens the skin and removes wrinkles. Useful to fight dandruff and an excellent tonic if imbibed with honey.
Onion: Onion juice cures pimples, burn scars and is excellent for dandruff problems. It also helps to restore natural hair colour.
Potato: A remarkable skin tautener and helps lighten tan. Heals burns, cuts and lightens your complexion. Helps to get rid of burn marks, removes pimples and freckles.
Turmeric: Cures scars and burn marks. It smoothens the skin and is a base for many other tonics.
Tomato: Makes good face-masks. A good cleanser and useful for clearing the skin of marks and blemishes.
Yoghurt: Used in numerous skincare and hair-care preparations. It is a skin smoothener and fights acne. It nourishes the hair, helping in healthy hair growth.
