Tropical Goodness

Smooth and healthy skin is a bonus for one's appearance. There are many ways to obtain healthy skin. Drinking enough plain water, exercising, eating healthy diet are some of the efforts that can be done. Taking good care of the skin is also an essential effort to obtain beautiful skin. One of the mask which we can try is oat mask. Oat is known to help moisturize the skin, leaving soft and moisturized skin effect. It also work as scrub to clean the skin surface and pores.  The oat face mask can be made by mixing 3 tablespoons finely crushed oat in warm water, or milk, or yogurt. Then, apply the mask to your face for 15 minutes.  So what is the benefit of wearing oat face mask? By wearing face mask, we may get Instant glowing skin Smooth skin Healthy looking skin Oat face mask usually give an instant glow to the skin. And the skin become smooth too. Additional milk or yogurt may make the skin feel soft. For me, oat face mask is the homemade mask you can use if you need ...

Vitamin C is essential for our body. It is needed for many processes in our body, like tissue growth and repair, wound healing, neurotransmitter synthesis, immune system and many more. Reading about its functions in the body may convince a person to take Vitamin C supplements.  I will share the benefits of taking 1000 mg of vitamin C daily. I read that the maximum dose is 2000 mg daily for an adult. However I also read that our body only need less than 100 mg per day. Seems like 1000mg is more than enough. But it's okay. And I also read that our body do not produce vitamin C, so we have to take it daily from our daily food consumption.  After doing some testing, these are the benefits of eating 1000 mg vitamin C daily that I learned.  Smooth And Soft Hair  Vitamin C can make hair become smoother, and lighter. It feels like we just applied shampoo and conditioner on our hair. It also may solve rough hair problem.  Lesser Hair Fall  Eating Vitamin C daily may...

It has been a long time since my last post. I learned that health is a big blessing in life which many of us doesn't aware of. Being healthy, we can do many things we want and plan. We can put efforts on our dreams. And we can function well and do many things for our loved ones. Pain is one of the obstacle we always face in doing our daily activities, be it working, cooking or even resting. Muscle pain and period cramps always attack us women. These pain always hinder us from functioning well in our daily jobs and activities. One more problem that we always ignore is wind or bloating. This problem may originate from various cause such as from food we eat and may become more critical if we did not get early treatment.  There are many over the counter medicine made for these kind of problems. For less severe pain we can take pain killer. But we can also try drinking herbs tea to cure these problems. It may or may not work but drinking it usually won't harm unless you drink in lar...

Blackheads and whiteheads are some of the skin problems which many of us have to face. The dots on the face affect our appearance and also sometimes can be itchy, or can make us uncomfortable. It does make our face become oily and easy to get acne.    Oil to reduce blackheads There are some ingredients which might be useful or effective to remove this blackheads. And they are oils. Two types of oil which may reduce the blackheads are jojoba oil and coconut oil. I won’t be elaborating about jojoba oil because I have not tried it yet. I have tried only coconut oil.   Coconut Oil Coconut oil does help to reduce the blackheads. It has anti-bacterial properties which may help clean the skin and the oil also penetrates into the pores. The coconut oil must be applied for at least 30 minutes. It also helps to moisturize the skin and also tighten the skin. If you want to make your own coconut oil, here is the recipe. If you live in the tropics, you can add Pandan...

Rice Rice has many benefits to the skin. It works as anti-ageing agent, an effective scrub and also adds radiance to the skin. Rice can be used as a good base for making mask and scrubs. It leaves a cooling effect when applied on the face. The benefits and availability of rice makes it a good choice to be used as the base of our face mask.    Tamarind Tamarind is a tropical fruit which is rich in vitamin. A Bangladeshi man once told me that drinking tamarind juice may help to decrease fatigue and muscular pain. I think it does. Because I always drink this turmeric-ginger drink called jamu . It contains tamarind in it. And this drink is effective in boosting energy and reducing muscular pain. The vitamin C in tamarind may also be beneficial to our skin. Consuming vitamin C really help us to obtain healthy skin and helps our body to function better. Tamarind is also effective in eliminating or reducing oil on our face. Washing face with tamarind juice not only elimi...

Coconut oil is well known for its moisturizing effect and is widely used as skin and hair moisturizer. It is also traditionally used to moisturize hair in some cultures such as in South Asia and Southeast Asia.  In the ancient Malay Archipelago it is widely used in beauty care. Our grannies had been applying coconut oil to moisturize and maintain their hair. The oil is applied everyday, just after bath when the hair became a bit dry. It is believed that the coconut oil can make hair smoother and slow down the occurrence of gray hair. Coconut oil can be obtained through several methods. And the end result is different, based on the method used. You may end up with coconut oil or virgin coconut oil (VCO).  The best coconut oil is virgin coconut oil, as the properties in the oil is not destroyed during the extraction process. However, processing virgin coconut oil at home may be a bit challenging. Hence, most people usually go to second option which is coconut oil. Even thou...