Homemade Face Masks and skin care

If you wouldn’t put it in your body, don’t put it on your body. Our skin is the largest organ of the body not to mention the one that receives the most exposure to the elements. We need to take care of it and love it and if we don’t it just might reflect the neglect. Being our largest organ, our skin absorbs what we put in it going right into our bloodstream. Skin care creams contain so many harsh chemicals, preservatives and other bonding ingredients –count on these recipes to be all natural, full of antioxidants and very healing for you and your wallet. ENJOY!


What’s your Skin Type?

What kind of skin do you have? Dry, oily, combination or normal? Once you know what kind of skin you have, you can learn how to take care of it. If you’re not sure, here is a simple test.

Wash your face with plain, non-gel shaving cream. Rinse. Wait about three hours so that your skin can revert to its regular self. Then take tissue paper and press on your face.
It is sticks, leaving an oily spot that’s visible when you hold it up to the light; you’ve got oily skin. If it doesn’t stick, your skin is dry. If it sticks, but doesn’t leave oily spots…your skin is normal. If the paper sticks on some areas, leaving oily spots, and doesn’t stick on other areas, you have combination skin.

Before and after the masks:
Always wash your face before applying a face mask. When washing use tepid water. Either very hot or very cold water could break the small capillaries-those little red squiggly veins-in your face. When cleansing off mask again wash with tepid water and end with a splash of cold water to close the pores. Pat your skin dry with a clean towel and apply a moisturizer this way you seal your skin to keep the water inside.

RECIPES:
Lemon Clay Face Mask (For oily skin or for deep toxin and dirt removal)
2 tsps of lemon juice
2 tsps honey
2 tsps distilled water
4 tbsp clay (some people use Kitty Litter that says it is 100% clay, no chemicals added.)

Mix all together and apply to face. Leave on 15 minutes or until completely hard. Rinse with warm water.

Avocado Mask (For Dry skin or deep cleaning pores)
One egg white
½ cup milk
1 Avocado
1 Tbsp Lemon juice (optional)

Beat the egg white until frothy. Add milk and peeled and mashed avocado. Mix until consistency of a lotion then apply to clean skin for 20 min. and rinse with warm water

Turmeric Facial Mask (for wrinkles and glowing skin)
Turmeric is an inexpensive beauty aid for cleansing skin and bringing a lifelong natural glow. Tumeric is known to slow down the aging process of your skin. It fights dry skin by stimulating your blood flow which helps your skin to keep healthy and fight the formation of wrinkles.
¼ teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 Tablespoons Coconut oil or to your liking
Mix coconut oil and turmeric until you have a smooth and uniform paste. Smooth the paste gently and equally with fingertips on nick and face. Leave on for 20 minutes. Wash of with warm water. Stores well.

Banana Mask (for wrinkles & balancing skin tone)
Mash up a very ripe banana. Add just enough honey to make a soft pulp. Apply over face and leave on for 15 minutes before rinsing off.
Note: This is such a great firming mask that aging movie stars have been known to put it in the cups of their bras to make their breasts "perky."

Basic Salt Scrub
4 cups Kosher salt
2 cups oil (sesame, almond, avocado or olive do not use a vegetable oil)
Scent or Essential oil (optional)

A body scrub’s main function is exfoliation. In addition to rubbing away dead skin cells, it may also smell delicious and moisturize. Because products like this don’t usually sit on your skin for very long, it’s usually not worth putting a lot of expensive products or essential oils in any homemade body scrub.

Cracked heal and hand repair salve:
3 Tablespoons olive oil
1 Tablespoons Beeswax
1 Tablespoon Shea Butter (optional)
¼ tsp Comfrey (optional)
pinch of cayenne
essential oils (optional)

Add first three ingredients together and melt in microwave safe container. Add additional ingredients along with any essential oils you wish and stir well. Sit until it becomes firm and apply often on any area with broken, bruised or dry skin.
Comfrey-heals wounds; Cayenne brings blood to the surface to aid in healing.

Other great Home Remedies for skin:
Stretch Mark Removal- Emu oil is one of the most potent skin healing ingredients you can use!.

Nail Fungus- One of the most effective home remedies for nail fungus is to soak your finger or toenail in apple cider vinegar (mixed with water if you are sensitive) for at least twenty minutes per day. If need be, you can do this twice per day for maximum results

Varicose Veins-Applying apple cider vinegar to the varicose veins two times a day i.e. in the morning and evening would prove helpful in treating the problem. This would make the vein shrink back to their original size

Enrich your night cream: According to the legendary cosmetics expert Adrian Arpel, “to transform a skimpy night cream into an enriched vitamin skin treat, add 1/8 teaspoon of liquid vitamin C and the contents of a 100 IU vitamin E capsule to 4 ounces of ordinary night cream.

Lighten dark spots: Apply fresh lemon juice on Q-tip and apply to dark spots only. Leave on for at least 10 minutes. May need to do this often. Lemon naturally lightens skin.

Getting family to eat veggies (Maceys little Theatre class)

Some may say it is a little deceitful, but I say there is no better feeling than getting your family to eat their veggies without the food fight.
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Color & Taste:
If your normally white pancakes are one day green the secret is out. Use the same colors of puree as what is in the dish. Example Carrots or squash to dishes with cheese or Spinach to a deeper color dish such as tomato to not change the color.
Also be aware of how strong the flavor is of the veggie add mild tasting veggies to mild dishes strong veggie taste to strong flavorful foods like tomato based dishes. ).


How to Puree Veggies?

Sweet Potatoe- Do not peel. Cut into quarters, if steaming. Leave whole if roasting. Steam for 40-45 minutes. Roast at 400deg. 50-60 mins. Scout put the flesh and puree in a food processor or blender.

Carrots: Peel, trim the ends, and cut into 3-inch chunks. Steam for 10 –12 minutes. Puree in food processor or blender for 2 minutes, with a few teaspoons of water if needed for a smooth creamy texture.

Butternut Squash-Cut off the stem, cut squash in half lengthwise and scrape out seeds. Roast in halves on a cookie sheet, flesh-side down at 400 deg. For 45-50 minutes. Scoop out the flesh and puree in a food processor or blender for about 2 minutes.

Recipes:

Pizza (with Sweet Potato)
1-cup warm water
1 tsp sugar (or xgavae)
1 Tsp Yeast

1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp oil
½ cup Sweet potato puree
Spices to your liking (basil, oregano etc.)
2 ½ cup flour

Add 1st 3 ingredients in bowl and let sit for 10 minutes. Add the additional 3 ingredients and rise for another 10 minutes. Roll out on pizza pan and top with your favorite toppings. This also makes great breadsticks.
Sauce-use a can of spaghetti sauce and add ¼ cup of carrot puree

Hamburger topping:
Olive oil
Minced Onion & Garlic
Hamburger
¼ cup oats
¼ cup green bean puree
Salt & Pepper
Satae onions and garlic, Add hamburger and oats, cook a little before adding veggies.

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (With Butternut Squash)
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
2 cups butternut squash puree
4 tablespoon butter1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon crushed flax seeds (optional)
12 slices whole wheat bread
Need: Griddle/spray butter/
In a medium bowl, mix the cheese, vegetable puree, melted butter and salt. Spread on bread and top with bread. Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray and set over medium heat. When hot add oil. Cook 4-5 minutes per side until bread is crisp and filling melted.


Chocolate Mint Milk shake (With Spinach)
Milk
Chocolate Syrup or powder (follow amount on package
Add a handful of Spinach and a few Sprigs of mint
Handful of ice - Add all to blender, mix well and enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Chickpeas & Flaxseed)
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 large egg whites
2 tsp vanilla
1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 cups chocolate chips
¾ cup chopped walnuts
¾ cup raisins (optional)
2 cups flour
½ cup old-fashioned oats
1 tsp ground flaxseed (optional)
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt

Mix sugar, butter until smooth. Beat in eggs, vanilla then chickpeas and chocolate chips. Add flour, oats, baking soda and salt mix until thick. Bake 350 for 11-13 mins. Or until golden brown.

Other ideas:
Add Carrots to ketchup.
Add Navy or Great Northern beans to Ranch dressing
Add Cauliflower or carrots to Mac N Cheese
Add shredded veggies or any puree veggie to Meat
Add Cauliflower to mashed potatoes
Always satae onions and garlic before cooking meat adds wonderful nutrition and great flavor.
Replace your oil with Applesauce when baking
Add crushed flaxseed to Yogurts and oatmeal
Make an herbal tea and use as the water when making juice (or making into Popsicles)
Add an herbal tea bag to pasta water when cooking pasta – the noodles soak up the tea with out any taste.

What are your nail beds telling you?

Have you ever experienced split or discolored nails? Did you know these signs can be an early detection of something going on inside you body? Knowledge is power.

WHAT ARE YOUR NAIL BEDS TELLING YOU?

Kidney Diseases: Half of nail is pink, half is white
Heart Conditions: Nail bed is red
Lung Diseases; Yellowing and thickening of the nail, slowed growth
Anemia: Pale nail beds
Diabetes: Yellowish nails, with a slight blush at the base

NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

Vitamin A and Calcium deficiencies- dry brittle nails
Vitams B deficiency- horizontal and vertical ridges, that break easily
Vitaman B12 deficency- dry, darkened nails with rounded and curved nail ends
Protein deficiency- white bands

Foods that Heal-Gods Pharmacy

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

Gods Pharmacy

CARROTS- If you slice a carrot what does it look like? A human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye. and YES! Science has shown that Carots greatly enhance blood flow the the function of the eyes!

TOMATO- If you cut a tomato you will notice it has four chambers and is red. Research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are great for healing the blood and the heart!

GRAPES- These yummy fruits hang in a cluster that is the shape of none other than the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are a profoung heart and blood vitalizer.

WALNUT- A walnut as I think we will all agree looks like a brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper & lower cerebrums even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the new-cortex. Well walnuts help develop more than three dozen neurontransmitters for brain function!

KIDNEY BEANS- The name says it all. These little guys actually do help maintain kidney function and are in the shape of the human kidney.

CELERY, BOK CHOY, RHUBARB- What do these look like? None other than bones! So these wonderful veggies actually help with bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and thes foods are 23% sodium. By the way, if you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones and makes them weak. So eat these long veggies to keep your skeletal body strong.

AVACADOES, EGGPLANT PEARS- These oval shaped super foods target the health and function of the womp and cervix of the female and don't they resemble these organs? Todays research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheads unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers! Even more amazing it takes exactly nine months to grow an avacado from blossom to ripened fruit!

FIGS- these little guys are for the guys! Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

SWEET POTATOES- SWEET! These actually look like the pancrease and they balance the glycemic index of diabetics. Plus they are half the calories of a white potatoe and taste great!

OLIVES- These assist the health and function of the ovaries.

ORANGES, GRAPEFRUITS, CITRIS FRUITS- These fruits look like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

ONIONS- These look like the body's cells. Todays research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the eyes and boost the immune system.

I received this information from a friend but it did not give credit who came up with this I have changed it a bit and have added a bit of my own info. to this. I just loved it and had to share.
Have anymore? Please comment!

Body Signals-LIVER

Do you Have a time at night that you frequently wake up? Did you know that could be an indication of something going on in a specific organ?


When the Liver is inhibited here are a few signals you may notice:
-Waking between 2-4 am
-Feel achy in the upper right quaderant of your body
-Sore in your right shoulder
-Dark under your eyes
-Dark brown spots on your body

What to do? Dandilion Tea or any bitter herb is good for the Liver. Watch your diet. Eat a plant based diet and chew your food.

For more information about Body Signals and what your body is trying to tell you. Attend my upcoming seminar. or e-mail me at jamie_sagers@yahoo.com for an upcoming class schedule.

Green Drink

Green Lemonade: (Juice in a juicer)
1 head romaine Lettuce or celery
5-6 stalks kale
1-2 apples
1 whole lemon
1 inch fresh ginger

"If I were to tell you there is something that you can drink that literally infuses your body with millions of enzymes, keeps your immune system strong year-roung, offers unparalled protection against osteoporosis, and tastes highly refreshing and filling, would you want some?" Here you go it is green lemonaide." Natalia Rose (The Raw Food Detox diet)

I am constantly telling my clients to go on some type of a green drink to enrich their blood and give them more energy. This is a great one.

Make your own
GARLIC EAR OIL - for earaches
Did you know that you can make your own ear oil for an earache? It's very easy and simple to make, see the recipe below. Garlic is a well known herbal remedy or treatment for painful earaches and has a long history of good standing and healing. Ear pain is often a part of the symptoms of colds and flu as well as a common complaint in young children.
You can purchase Garlic Ear oil at your local health food store, but if your like me you would rather do it yourself...so, here is how.

Garlic Ear oil takes just a few minutes to make, but about 1 week to infuse.

Garlic Ear oil RECIPE:

peel and slice thinly all the cloves from 1 head of garlic.
Place sliced cloves in a glass jar, like a small canning jar
Then just cover the cloves with Olive oil.

Lay a square of cheesecloth or a thin cloth over the jar and secure it with a rubber band.

Keep the jar in a warm place for 1 week. Every day, swirl the jar a bit to make sure the cloves stay coated with the oil. After the 1 week is up, strain off the garlic and pour the oil into small glass bottles with a droppers.

How to Use the Ear Oil:
Warm the bottle by placing it in a pan of warm water. Test it on your wrist until it is a comfortable temperature.
Massage a few drops of oil behind the ear. Use a circular motion and massage downward along the neck, following the Eustachian tube and lymph glands. Massage in front of the ear also.
As long as the eardrum is not ruptured, you can place a few drops of the oil in the ear. Place a cotton ball in the ear and then repeat the treatment in the other ear.