Archive for July, 2009

Bath Home made recipes for ultimate relaxation

Date Posted: July 21st, 2009 Posted Under: Skin Care & Body(Fitness/etc)

There is nothing more relaxing or soothing than a nice warm bath with bath beads or moistening mixtures added to the water. The bath provides the needed break from the long stressful day and rejuvenates you with each minute you soak in the water.

There are different types of additives to the water all creating different benefits. Some of the benefits include nourishing, stimulating, toning, soothing, and relaxing. To create the home recipe for each makes the benefits far more appealing.

Here are basic recipes to achieve the benefit you desire.

To soothe dry or itchy skin, add one cup of vinegar.

To soothe or soften skin, add one tablespoon of ground oatmeal.

To nourish the skin and fight dry skin, add one cup of powdered milk.

To relieve sleeplessness and tiredness, add one large spoon of honey

To add a pleasant odor, add either a lemon or orange peel.

To tighten or smooth the skin, add two tablespoons of starch.

To fight tiredness, add one cup of Epsom salts.

Herbal bath treatments have been a common beauty treatment for ages. Some of the leading popular herbs are chamomile flowers, elder flowers, thyme for soothing and softening the skin. Use mint and rosemary in the water to stimulate the circulation. To clear the skin use blackberry leaves and for sore, chapped and spotty skin, use comfrey. Lavender eases the mind and emotions while providing a pleasant scent.

To create autumn body polish mix together 1/8 cup of finely ground sunflower seed meal with 1/8 cup of applesauce. Mix the ingredients together forming a paste then gently apply to your legs, arms, face, throat, and chest in circular motions. Allow the mixture to dry for ten minutes so the sunflower oils are released into the skin. Rinse the mixture from the skin and pat the skin gently dry.

To make buttermilk bath salts, mix one cup of buttermilk powder, one cup of sea salt, and several drops of essential oils. This will create enough for four applications. Add one cup of the mixture to the water and enjoy the rewards.

Free Online Dating Sites

Date Posted: July 5th, 2009 Posted Under: Romance, Dating & Relationship

Online dating has become the hot trend these days. People do not need to wander here and there to find the perfect date. They now just need to log on and then they can find their perfect date online. Online dating requires you to fill your details and then the service gives you the matches with respect to your interests. The people having the similar interests are displayed on each other’s page as a matching date.

Though most of the dating services require you to pay a fee to use the services but there are few good dating services which will offer free memberships. The free dating services will also give you some really good features just like the paid membership dating services. This will help you to save the money and get the services for free. It is a fact that the paid membership websites will always have something extra which the free dating services will not be offering but you can live without it. You can easily find good dating facilities and services even for free. So there is no need to spend the extra money to get a paid membership.

The only problem with the free dating services is that you will rarely find the exact match that you are looking for. This is because they are still less popular and the data base of these services has not grown a lot. So you will have to search and look through a lot. On the other hand, the paid membership dating services will have thousands of members who would be your exact match. This will help you to save the time and effort that you’d have to put while finding a perfect date using the free membership services.

While choosing a free dating service, you should always look for the privacy. If the website has a good privacy policy, then its free membership is worth taking. A good privacy policy means that the website will not be selling your details to the other websites. They will be keeping your details private and only within the website that you have enrolled with.

You should also check the repute of the free service by researching it online. You can go to the forums and message boards to know more about the quality of the service. You should also ask the people in the social networks. This will help you to sign up only to a quality service.

Whenever you are signing up for a free online dating service, make sure to use a different sign up name than your original name. It will help you to keep yourself safe. There are many hackers around and you never know about the log in safety that the website has used.