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Five Things You Need to Know About Scrubbing

by DesZeLL — Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 4:43 pm

in Beauty School, Skin Care

Facial scrub is one of the common items that people use as exfoliator. Although exfoliation is recommended to be done at least once a week, and scrub is one of the products by which exfoliation can be done, but there’s more than just to scrub for exfoliator. For more information on exfoliation, you can read this article.

But coming back to scrub, do you think you’ve been scrubbing the right way? Here’s a couple basic information that you want to know about scrubbing.

1. Use facial scrub once to twice a week. Using it too often will not add any benefit to your skin, it will only irritate and ruin the texture of your skin. Scrubbing once a week will be enough to help lift dead skin cells build up and keeping your skin smooth and glowing.
2. Don’t use facial scrub with coarse texture. Our facial skin is much thinner and finer in texture compared to any other skin in our body. Therefore, mild form scrub should suffice in helping to lift the dead skin cells build up in the surface of our skin. Therefore, you should also avoid facial scrub that feels rough on the skin or you would be in danger on lacerating your skin.
3. Don’t massage the scrub too hard. As I mentioned above, you don’t want to lacerate your skin and create scratches on it. Soft massaging in circular motion should be enough to make the scrubs do its work. Some of the dirt that you want to cleanse will not be able to be reached by the grit on the facial scrub no matter how hard you massage them. You will need chemical exfoliator such as AHA or BHA that will help dead skin cells to part from your skin’s surface.
4. Good facial scrub doesn’t have to be expensive. They can be made out of natural ingredients that contains many benefit for your skin, for instance oatmeal, fruit pulp or sugar. We’ve also written an article about how to make a home-made lemon scrub.
5. Avoid eye area when scrubbing. Your eye area is even much more sensitive and thinner than your face. So, avoid using any exfoliation product in this area at all cost or you will only shed unnecessary good layers of skin on this area.

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EXFOLIATION

Beautypedia: Exfoliation

by affi — Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 4:05 pm

in Beauty School, Beautypedia, Skin Care

Exfoliation is removing old dead skin cells from the skin’s surface. Our skin naturally sheds billions of skin cells everyday. Some factors can make this process slow down such as sun damage, dry or oily skin, aging and when this happens, it causes dead skin cells to build up. This is what makes your skin look dull, flaky, full of blemishes, blackheads, white bumps or uneven skin tone.
The most common form of exfoliator that most people use is scrubs but unfortunately, scrubbing isn’t really effective because they only reach the top layer of your skin while the built-up skin cells are located deeper than what the scrubs can reach. To get a maximum benefit of exfoliation, you need to use chemical exfoliator such as AHA (alpha hydroxy acid such as glycolic and lactic acids) or BHA (beta hydroxy acid, also known as salicylic acid) products. We’re going to talk about AHA and BHA on the next edition of beautypedia

By removing these unhealthy skin cells, you can get cleaner, smoother, more radiant skin without clogged pores and blemishes. Now who wouldn’t want that?

How often should we exfoliate? It depends on your skin and the kind of products you use. Some can be used everyday, some can be used two or three times a week or even once a week. When you exfoliate too much, your skin will most likely tell you. As quoted from cosmeticscop.com, exfoliating does not negatively affect how healthy skin cells are generated in the lower layers of skin. If anything, exfoliating unhealthy dead skin cells on the surface of skin can improve collagen production, increase skin’s ability to hold moisture, and allow pores to function normally!

So do you exfoliate regularly? What product do you use?

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SUNDAY MORNING LEMON POPPY SEED PANCAKES

 

 

By: steveneu

Rating (5.0000)

• Prep Time: 15 Min
• Cook Time: 10 Min
• Difficulty: medium
• Serves: 4

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Description

POPPY SEED CAKE IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE CAKE SO THESE REALLY HIT HOME FOR ME. PANCAKES WITH POPPY SEED AND LEMON ZEST, PERFECT

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3/4 cup milk
1 TS vinegar
1TS Lemon Juice
1 egg
2TS melted butter
1/2ts vanilla extract
1cup flour
2TS white sugar
1ts baking powder
1/2ts baking soda
1/2ts salt
1TS poppy seeds
1TS lemon zest
Cooking Spray

Preparation

1. Stir the milk, vinegar, and lemon juice together in a bowl; let stand 10 minutes to curdle. Whisk in egg, butter, and vanilla extract.
2. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, poppy seeds, and lemon zest until well combined. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture and whisk a few times until the batter is mostly free of lumps.
3. Heat a skillet over medium heat and spray with cooking spray. Pour 1/4 cup of batter per pancake into the skillet and cook until bubbles appear on the surface, about 2 minutes. Flip the pancakes over with a spatula and brown the other side, about 2 more minutes.

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Fanta Cake

 

 

By: tanche051209

Rating (5.0000)

• Prep Time: 10 Min
• Cook Time: 45 Min
• Difficulty: easy
• Serves: 1

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Description

Very easy to do, perfect for any kind of occasion, so delicious that everyone loves it. Hope you will enjoy it as well! :)

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4 Eggs
2Cups Sugar
1Tsp Vanilla
3Cups Flour
1Cup Oil
1Tbsp Baking Powder
1Pinch Salt
1Cup Fanta
250gr Powder Sugar

Preparation

Mix the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla.
Add one cup of flour to the mixture and mix well.
Add the cup of oil to the mixture. Mix.
Add another cup of flour and mix it.
Now add the cup of Fanta. Mix.
Mix the last cup of flour with the baking powder and then add them to the mixture. Mix it.
Add the salt.
Now put the mixture in a big, deep baking dish and put it in a preheated oven to 180 degrees C. Bake it for 40-45 min.
FOR THE ICING : Take 250gr powder sugar and add 2-3 spoons of the fanta. Mix it very well. It shouldn't be too liquid, but you should be able to spread all over the cake.
You could decorate it the way you like it.
And now ... Enjoy :)

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Three_colour Marble cakes

Tri-Colour Marble Cake

 

By: ovenhaven

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• Prep Time: 10 Min
• Cook Time: 25 Min
• Difficulty: medium
• Serves: 4

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Description

Fluffy, soft, moist, and most importantly, fun to bake, this is suitable for an afternoon tea with friends and families.

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200g butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
200g sugar
2 eggs
300g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
150ml milk
pink food colouring
2 tbsps cocoa powder
2 tbsp milk (extra)

Preparation

1. Beat butter, vanilla and sugar until ight and fluffy.
2. Add eggs one at a time.
3. Stir in flour & milk in 2 batches. Divide mixture into 3 portions.
4. Blend sifted cocoa powder with extra milk and stir into one portion.
5. Add pink colouring into another portion. Leave the 3rd portion plain.
6. Drop alternate spoonfuls of mixtures into a round pan. Use a skewer to swirl through the mixture.
7. Bake cake at 170C for 55mins.

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Chocolate Lava Cake

 

Rating (4.4286)

• Prep Time: 10 Min
• Cook Time: 15 Min
• Difficulty: medium
• Serves: 4

Description

This is quick and easy to make but it taste just like the ones you get at the fancy restaurants.

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2 oz Sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup semi-sweet mossels
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 teaspoons all-purpose flour

Preparation

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Butter and flour four 4 ounce ramekins or custard cups.

In the top half of a double boiler set over simmering water, heat the butter and the
chocolate until chocolate is almost completely melted.

Beat the eggs, egg yolk, vanilla, and sugar together until light colored and thick.

Beat together the melted chocolate and butter. While beating, slowly pour the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture, then quickly beat in the flour and mix until just combined.

Divide the batter between the four molds and bake for 10 to 12 minutes. The centers of the cakes will still be quite soft. Invert cakes on serving plates and let sit for about 15 seconds, then unmold.

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RICE FACIAL PEELING

Every Woman in the world wants their face skins are smooth, fair and healthy. Most of them prefer to try modern facial treatment than traditional treatment even the unnatural facial treatment contains a lot of skin trouble risks. “Instant” or quick is the answer they prefer it. That is why, our beauty tips today is about traditional healthy white by using rice facial peeling in order women knows natural facial peeling is safer than unnatural one. Moreover, don’t you know rice peeling can make your skin youthful and smooth looking?

I’m sure you are curious about why does the rice peeling work? The fact is rice contains a high concentration of PABA (para aminobenzoic acid) which is a very good sunscreen. PABA itself also raises the Vitamin C levels in our bodies if it taken internally.  Rice also contains two other sun protecting agents – ferulic acid and allantoin. According to scientist the sun protection ability will be doubled if  ferulic acid is added to Vitamin C and E. Thus, Ferulic acid is considered as an antioxidant besides allantoin is a good anti-inflammatory agent. Allantoin soothes sunburns and also promotes the skin’s repair
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How to make the rice facial peeling? It’s completely easy and quick.

First, you just need to take a palm of rice and soak the rice in water for 10 minutes.
Then, drain the water and mash the rice till shaped like fine sand.
After that, you clean your skin face first then you can peel your skin face by using the rice peeling softly.
The last, you wash the peeling of with cold water.