Feel refreshed with peppermint oil

PEPPERMINT THE REFRESHING OIL

Cure yourself with this essential oil:-

• This refreshing, clean-scented oil is beneficial for the digestive and respiratory systems.
• It is also reviving, and can help cure fatigue, headache and migraine.
• It is also used for curing problems like Asthma, colic, exhaustion, fever, flatulence, headache, nausea, scabies, sinusitis, vertigo.

Peppermint is aromatically described as:-

• Minty
• reminiscent of peppermint candies
• concenterated

Botanical name for Peppermint is :-

• Botanical Name of Peppermint : Mentha piperita

20 safe and useful aromatheraphy oils

Twenty safe and useful aromatheraphy oils and the ailments and conditions they can be used to treat The oils listed in this table are among the most widely used and readily available. Essential oils should not be applied to the skin undiluted or taken internally unless specifically prescribed by a medically qualified advser.


List of oils:-

PEPPERMINT
YARROW
EUCALYPTUS
FRANKKINCENSE
GERANIUM
GINGER
JASMINE
MANDARIN
ROSEMARY
JUNIPER
NEROLI
LAVENDAR
CLARY SAGE
LEMON
ROMAN CHAMOLIE
GRAPE FRUIT
ROSE
SANDALWOOD
TEA TREE
YLANG-YLANG

I will be discussing about each oil in my further posts.

Note:- Please make a note of these 20 essential oils or else remove a print out and keep for yourself and keep as a ready list for your personal use.

Natural aromatic shampoo for your hair

Aritha or the Soap Nut:-

ARITHA (Sapindus trifoliatus) also known as soapnut, can clean the hair and imparts shine to dull hair.

Contents of Aritha:-

• It contains tannic acid,
• vitamin C and resins.

Natural cures:-

And these react with hair to stop hair loss, prevent dandruff, prevents scalp and hair follicle damage and stops hair loss.

A Gift Of Nature,

It Cleans The Skin Thoroughly and used as a Shampoo Excellent In Washing Hair, Gives Hair A Natural Gloss & Beautiful Bounce. Recomended For Washing Silk, Wollen Clothes, Silver & Gold Ornaments & Utensils.

Aritha has it's origin thousands of years ago and has been use as a natural shampoo for all types of hair.

Where to buy aritha nuts?

Few places to list;

• grocery stores
• aryuvedic departments
• local shopkeepers
• huge vegetable or grocery markets
• online purchasing (start with search engines!)
  
  Natural aromatic aritha shampoo:-
  
  Make your own..
  
  Items needed:-
  
  

1. Aritha soap nuts (dried ones)
2. Lukewarm water
3. Concenterated amla oil (2 drops) - optional*

Method:-

• Soak aritha nuts in lukwarm water for 2 days
• Add 2 drops of amla oil
• Use after 2 days by peeling off the soap nut skin and using as a natural hair conditionar by squeezing the nuts and using the frothy shampoo

Note:- Aritha is the best shampoo for any kind of hair and has no harmful effects on your hair.

Use aritha nuts instead of those powders avaiable for being on safer side free from adulteration.

Multipurpose uses of lavendar

Scent up your bedroom with the fragrance of lavendar

The simplest way of perfuming your bedroom, is to surround your room with lavendar shrub pots or else loose bunches of lavendar flowers in a decorative vase. Another way out is to hang up lavendar shrub placed in cane vases and thus decorate your sweet room by spreading fragrance and give a twin effect and decoration cum sweet scent.

Have a cozy feeling underneath your pillows

Place dried lavendar flowers underneath your pillow or else stuff lavendar flowers inside your pillow and while sleeping have a cozy cum sweet feeling and enjoy your dreams easily with the relaxation properties of magical lavendar.Choose pretty cottons and silks to match the decor of the bedroom and edge them with lace or ribbon and match as per your prefrences and contrast your bedroom wall paint colour with your pillow and bed sheets.

Express your writings with lavendar!

LAVENDER INK
Scented ink will give a delicate, intangible fragrance to your personal letters, cards and with a fragrance that will spread out as soon as the envelope is opened and sweet fragrance will make your words give a divine feeling of utter sweetness.

Spice up your life with the wonders of Lavendar

LAVENDAR AS FOOD

Uses of Lavendar in your Kitchen

Lavendar is now-a-days used in food preparations namely, honey, lemonade, sweets like cookies or biscuits, tea etc.

"Know more about Lavendar"

What is Lavendar?

Lavender is an evergreen shrub with pale green leaves with violet flowers.

When does Lavendar grows?

In the summer the lavender plant blooms with highly scented flowers: its narrow leaves are extremely fragrant.

Where can you find Lavendar?

Lavender can be found in the Mediterranean, Bulgaria, France and England.

How is Lavendar oil prepared?

Lavender’s essential oil is extracted by steam distillation from its flowers.

What are the characteristics or distinct features of Lavendar oil?

The oil has a light floral aroma and is used for its anticonvulsive, antitoxic, decongestant, deodorant and stimulant properties.

A blend approach of Lavendar in aromatheraphy?

When used in aromatherapy is it often blended with bergamot, Clary sage, jasmine, lemon and rose to prepare many mixtures for many different ailments.

The magic of rose water

Have you tried to make your life a bed of roses?

The title seems to be indifferent to you? Don't think so much dear let me tell you the magic of rose and rose water then you will surely tell me ahh yes something magical is there in my words and thinking.

It's after all my applied knowledge and trial which I have carried on rose water and seen a drastic change in my day-to-day life.

Life is hectic ..it is also full of noise and pollution ..then what one can do in order to soothe and have a short sweet nap but what about your precious eyes. Are they ithching?? is your head paining oh god a hell lot of problems ..But you don't worry just follow the sweet rosy guidelines and you will really say me hey now my life is a bed of roses.

Follow these simple things:-

1. All of us know what roses are and from where to buy real roses. If not you can surely browse the net and find out. These are sold at leading flourists shops and even small retailers dealing in flower business sell the same.
2. Rose has healing and cooling powers so in order to get benefits from the same one must prepare or else buy rose water.
3. Now the question is from where to buy rose water? - You must be very careful when purchasing rose water to buy only the 100% pure form. Often what is available in pharmacies and even some natural food stores is synthetic rose oil and water with preservatives added. Pure rose water is the distilled water of roses. It is usually made by stream distillation, and it smells heavenly and tastes delicious. The best place which I know is haldhigathi where roses are grown and all rose products are sold . You can even buy online if you want.
4. If you want to prepare rose water what all you must do? the method of preparing rose water is as listed below:-

Rose Water -Preparation Method :-

This recipe is the more traditional way to prepare rose water. Though it's a little more involved, its fun to do and the results are outstanding. You can make a quart of excellent-quality rose water in about 40 minutes. However, if you simmer the water too long, you will continue to produce distilled water but the rose essence will become diluted. Your rose water will smell more like plain distilled water, rather than the heavenly scent of roses.

Be sure you have a brick and heat-safe stainless steel or glass quart bowl ready before you begin.

Ingredients:

2-3 quarts fresh roses or rose petals

water

ice cubes or crushed ice

Method:

1. In the center of a large pot (the speckled blue canning pots are ideal) with an inverted lid (a rounded lid), place a fireplace brick. On top of the brick place the bowl. Put the roses in the pot; add enough flowers to reach the top of the brick. Pour in just enough water to cover the roses. The water should be just above the top of the brick.

2. Place the lid upside down on the pot. Turn on the stove and bring the water to a rolling boil, then lower heat to a slow steady simmer. As soon as the water begins to boil, toss two or three trays of ice cubes (or a bag of ice) on top of the lid.

3. You've now created a home still! As the water boils the steam rises, hits the top of the cold lid, and condenses. As it condenses it flows to the center of the lid and drops into the bowl. Every twenty minutes, quickly lift the lid and take out a tablespoon or two of the rose water. It's time to stop when you have between a pint and a quart of water that smells and tastes strongly like roses.

** I have still more to write about magic of rose water and it's usages...

Pamper yourself with natural things

Personal care and hygiene

Bored with everyday bath soaps? Don't worry at all here is a conventional and healthy way out pick up nature's own caring products for your body and pamper yourself and feel fresh.

I have tried the following and found a great change in myself..

Orange Bath

Yeah!! It's a natural way to care yourself. Just do the following and you will see results just wonderful.

1. Take a small/medium size orange fruit and side by side keep ready hot/lukewarm water for your bath.
2. Peel off the orange and add those peels in the hot water, make small pieces of those peels if as per your choice.
3. Sweet fragrance of orange will make you feel fresh and ready for a orange bath.
4. aha! Now you must be wondering what about those oranges yeah now just squeeze in those oranges in a small container with your hand and keep aside the scrap.
5. Use that orange juice for your face and you will find a difference in your face which will flow and look fresh as you wanted.
6. Don't throw away the otange peels use them as bath scrub while you apply soap to your body. It is one of the best scrub which I felt. It really works!!
7. Orange is best for those who have oily skin so you oily skinned people just see what a best and economical substitute you have rather than buying those creams and face packs and what not.
8. The same process I tried and you may also go ahead and try the same.

Special Tip for the next time:- Use large juicy lemon instead of orange next time and have a lemony fresh look on your face.