Once and a while I love to give home remedy type beauty tips. There are so many natural remedies out there that its hard to not use them. I've noticed that a lot of these types of remedies are usually 'old wives tales' but actually they work. My dad told me about how to use Baking soda and hydrogen peroxide to whiten my teeth and I also use it to whiten my nails. I wrote about it in one of my past posts. I also believe that your skin reacts to the food you eat so if you have acne prone skin, I recommend taking a deeper look at what type of foods you eat and anything bad for you also probably isn't good for your skin. I recommend swapping things out and also make sure you are keeping up on your water intake. If you do this and still have bad acne, go to the doctor.
Growing up in Puerto Rico, I used to go to the beach every weekend for like 5 months straight. Sometimes during the first few months going back to the beach after the long break of 'winter months' I would get sunburned if I went overboard and didn't really protect my skin which I never did when I was younger. There were times that I had horrible sunburns but one time I had gotten the worse one was one time I laid out and I guess the sun was REALLY bad that day and I ended up with blisters on my arm. Forget about the pain, once you put aloe on it the pain went away. I was more worried about days after when it cleared that I was going to get scars. This would have sucked since it was on my arm in plain view any time I wear short sleeves. My dad told me to put Tea Trea Oil on it every night. At first, I really didn't think anything was happening but by the end of 2 weeks the scar that could have formed was gone. I then went all crazy. I put it on a scar that I had on my knee and it helped minimize the marks as well. I was in love with this magic oil.
I started reading up on other possible uses for this magic oil and I saw that you can put a few drops of this into your shampoo and conditioner to clarify your hair of any build up. A lot of people don't think that their hair has build up maybe because they don't color their hair or that they don't use a lot of product in their hair but that isn't the only thing that causes build up. You can get build up with hard water. It is always good to wash your hair once a month or depending on how many times you wash your hair you can do it either once a week or twice a week or even once a month. As long as you are doing it frequently you should be good.
Those are what I use Tea Tree Oil for but you can also use it for cuts, burns, skin infections and other things like that. Before you use it, just google some stuff and see if its okay to use. But all in all its like coconut oil, you can basically use it for everything. Let me know if you use this for anything specific?
Not sure if you have seen lately that there have been a lot of different brands coming out with a cleansing conditioner or a conditioning cleanser for your hair. It basically is a 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner but not the ones that we are used to seeing when we were growing up. This is something that conditions your hair more and the ones that I've tried so far don't leave your hair feeling like yarn. If you read my post from yesterday, you know I received this product in the May Test Tube container.
I saw the Macadamia brand and automatically thought 'crap, I'm not going to like this because it will make my hair all gross and greasy'. I had to wash my hair so I decided to use this instead of my regular shampoo and conditioner. First of all, the instructions aren't really clear and I had to Google how to use it first. I wanted to make sure that I was actually doing this correctly.What you are suppose to do is wet your hair just like you would if you were going to wash your hair with shampoo and instead of using shampoo and conditioner, you use this. It says to use 2 pumps and just make sure that you rub it in your hair. It says to massage your scalp to make sure that it has a chance to cleanse from the root to the ends. You can add water just to make sure that you have enough to make sure it saturates your hair. I didn't leave it in for long, it says to massage it in for about 3 to 5 minutes. I probably did 3 and then went under the shower for about 10 minutes just to make sure I didn't have any residue left. I wanted to make sure that I didn't have any greasiness left. I was reading some reviews and some people said that it was greasy. For me it wasn't greasy.
So this Flawless 6 in 1 cleansing conditioner is suppose to refine hair texture and optimize the styling process. It claims to cut the blow drying process in half. I can tell you that I don't think it cut my blow drying process in half not even a quarter. It usually takes me 20-25 minutes and I think it took me about the same amount of time. Now it did give my hair a nice shine to it. The ends don't look as frayed even though they aren't really frayed but since I don't really spend a lot of time blow drying my hair sometimes the looks a bit rough. I do blow dry my hair at night so I figured once I slept on it, my hair in the morning would be greasy but to my surprise it wasn't at all. Actually, today is probably one of the best days to try this out since its 93% humidity today and I have to say that my hair isn't weighed down nor is it frizzy. I honestly wanted to hate this stuff but I can say that this is definitely a good buy.
One thing I want to bring up is that I didn't buy this separately. I got it in the Test Tube May edition so I didn't know how much it retailed for until I researched it. I saw that the little bottle that I got retails for $15 and the bigger bottle retails for $30. Now thats a lot of money but if you think about it, its really replacing your shampoo and your conditioner. I haven't used this enough to see how many uses I get out of the $15 bottle so I can't really say if its REALLY worth it but I do like the product.
Hi there! I wanted to talk about the Lush Solid Shampoos. I recently received these for my birthday from my dear friend +Carrie L. I know what you are probably thinking that shampoo shouldn't be in a solid form since shampoo should be lathering. I have to tell you skeptics out there, this shampoo has such a rich lather. Lush has many different types of shampoos that you can choose from so you can definitely get one that works with your hair type. My hair is henna colored with the Lush henna dye and along with that I have really thin hair but it tends to be on the oily side which is no surprise since my skin is always oily.
I use these shampoos every other time that I shampoo so that my hair doesn't get accustomed to it and get dull. This usually happens with any shampoo doesn't matter what I do, if I use it for a long enough time, my hair stops reaping any benefits. All I do is wet my hair and then I take the shampoo and rub it on my hair. I start with the roots and then I run it down to the ends. I keep the bar of soap in my hand until I get enough of the product that makes it lather to my liking. I then rub the shampoo as you would any other shampoo and I rinse then I go at it again. I always shampoo my hair twice since its oily and I feel that it helps get the oil out of my hair without stripping it. I then go in with conditioner at the ends so that my ends are conditioned and then thats it. I rinse and dry my hair.
My hair comes out so shiny and doesn't get oily as much as with other shampoos that I buy. This is all organic and vegan and natural. I love all Lush products and these are great for everyone. These are great for people that travel a lot and hate hotel shampoos or like me, my hair is so long that it takes more than what we get in those little vials and for traveling, its a pain to carry my own shampoo since I can't put my luggage in carry on. These range from $10-11 and you can get them at your local Lush store or online. They are a good deal since these last way longer than bottled shampoo. I use one complete bar every 6 or 7 months maybe more. My hair is really long too (like 2 inches from my waist) and I wash my hair at least twice or 3 times a week. All in all I definitely recommend these shampoos and there are different varieties so there is one that will work for you. They are so fragrant too so get ready for great aroma therapeutic shampooing experience.
