Lime or lemon juice, turmeric, honey, etc are natural bleach that improve complexion. They remove tan and make your skin fairer. (Note that lemon juice is more effective than lime juice for getting fair complexion). Cucumber juice can be applied on dry as well as oily skin to get fair complexion. To make cucumber juice, grate cucumber (with skin) and squeeze it. Only 1/2 to 1 teaspoon is sufficient for a single application.

• Apply a mixture of equal amounts of lemon and cucumber juice on the face and whole body. Leave it for 15 minutes and wash off. If your skin is dry, use honey and lemon juice.
• Apply a gram flour and turmeric paste on face and neck. After sometime when it dries, scrub it off gently. This would gradually reduce body hair over a period of time.
• For 15 days, apply a paste of gram flour, milk (2 teaspoon) and lime juice(3-4 drops) on face and neck for 15 minutes and wash with water. You complexion should improve. Repeat every 2 weeks.
• Mix honey with equal amount of almond oil. Apply on the face every night.
• Mix oatmeal with yogurt and tomato juice and apply on the face. Wash it with cold water after 15 minutes.
• Mix some turmeric to yogurt and apply it on the face, neck and arms for 30 minutes. Then wash with cold water.
• Make a paste of turmeric  powder with fresh lime juice and apply.
• Make a paste by mixing a pinch of cinnamon powder to ½ teaspoon honey. Apply on the face every night.
• Dark hands: To remove a tan from the hands, apply a paste of sunflower oil, lemon juice and sugar for 15-20 minutes and then wash with cold water.
• Dark feet: Soak feet in water containing some lemon juice.

Grind nutmeg with unboiled milk and apply on acne for 1-2 hours. This works as a magic. Pimples should disappear without leaving a mark.
Make a paste by mixing honey and cinnamon powder Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. Repeat for two weeks, pimples will disappear forever.
Apply a mixture of 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder. Note that this remedy is not for sensitive skin.
Rub fresh garlic on and around pimples. Pimples will disappear without a mark with regular applications.

• Apply a paste of ground seasame seeds with water as poultice for inflammation of the skin due to allergies, skin rashes, and pimples - acne.
• Apply a paste of fresh fenugreek leaves in water over the face every night and washed with warm water in the morning for preventing pimples, blackheads, whiteheads, dryness, and wrinkles.
• Make a paste of salt in vinegar. Rub it on the pimples. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.
• Make a paste of turmeric powder in mint juice. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.

Can you get healthy teeth, using natural remedies from home?

Mint & Rosemary Mouth wash :
2 1/2 cups distilled or mineral water

1 tsp fresh mint leaves

1tsp rosemary leaves

1 tsp anise seeds

Bring the water to a boil. Add herbs and seeds, infuse for 20 minutes. Cool, strain and use as a gargle/mouthwash.

Spearmint Mouthwash :

6 ounces water

2 ounces vodka

4 teaspoons liquid glycerine

1 teaspoon aloe vera gel

10-15 drops Spearmint essential oil

Homemade bath salt recipes to soothe your skin and relax your aching muscles and joints.
Dead Sea Salts & Coconut Oil

Ingredients

• 3 cups Dead Sea salt
• 15-24 drops of your favorite essential oil
• 1 tbsp coconut oil (as a moisturizer)

Directions

Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Store in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid.
To use add 1/2 cup of the salts to running bath water and mix well so the salts dissolve completely before you enter the tub.

Basic Recipe for Homemade Bath Salts

Homemade Bath Salts are very easy to make.
Start with Dead Sea Salts, Kosher Salts or Epsom Salts (you can find these at any grocery store) - or a mix of any of them.

Then, add any of the following - slowly to not dissolve the salts - (all of the following ingredients are optional, so choose your favorites for the perfect bath salt recipe)

Baking Soda
Your Favorite Essential Oils
Dried Milk
Drops of Food coloring
Liquid Glycerin Soap
Dried Flowers
Dried Mint Leaves
Oatmeal

Beautiful Feet

Everyone wants to have smooth skin and Beautiful Feet, right ?

Take 1 cup Lemon Juice, Cinnamon (for smell), 2 tablespoons (or less) olive oil, 1/4 cup of milk, and water you can make a wash that leaves skin refreshed and fragrant (the amount of water does not matter).
If you do not like the cinnamon smell you can replace it with another spice, perfume, or flower petals such as roses.
After you make it, you can put it in a tub were you can soak your feet or body.
Next dry your feet or rinse them with water and a MILD soap.

Dark (Black ) Under Eye Circles

Try one home remedy at a time to get rid of the dark circles.

• Apply a paste of turmeric powder with pineapple juice for dark circles under the eyes.
• Keep round ct shaped cucumber piece on both closed eyes regulerly at noght time.
• Keep the pure cotton which is soaked with potato juice on both closed eyes.

Turmeric Facial Mask

This is the traditional mask, also used for a bride, seven days in advance of marriage in India.

Take in a cup half a cup of besan (gram flour), 2 tsp of turmeric powder, 2 tsp of sandal wood powder, 2 tsp of ghee or almond oil, add some water to make a paste. Apply to face and whole body and leave for 5-10 minutes. Rub with pressure with both palms and fingers to remove all the paste.

Facial masks for all skin types

Grind a cup of yellow mustard seeds and a few rose petals in water. Apply on face and wash with water after 20 minutes.

Natural Removal / Home Remedy for Moles, Warts & Skin Tags
The remedies for warts given below are for common warts and plantar warts. Please note that these remedies are not for genital or cervical warts. Genital or cervical warts should be treated by a Doctor.

• Soak your wart in warm water for 15-20 minutes and dry. Apply apple cider vinegar with a cotton ball and leave on for 10-15 minutes. Wash off with water and dry.
• Rub crushed garlic on the wart 2-3 times daily until the wart disappears in 3-4 weeks. OR mash a garlic clove so it is pulpy and moist. Cover the wart with this pulp and secure it there with a band-aid. Leave it for overnight. Wart will start disappearing from the first night.
• Chop one raw onion and cover with salt and leave overnight. Apply the juice to the warts 2-3 times daily until warts disappear.
• Apply vitamin E on the wart, crush a clove of raw garlic and place it on the wart, and cover it with an adhesive bandage.
• Cut a small cube from a plain potato and put on the wart or mole. Cover it with some tape or bandage and leave for 4-7 days. As the potato decomposes, the wart or mole will turn black and fall off.

Beautiful Gorgeous Hair Mask
Grind fenugreek seeds soaked in water overnight. Massage this paste on scalp and hair and leave it for15-20 minutes. Wash it off with a mild shampoo. This paste is good for all types of hair problems, viz. dandruffs, falling hair, thinning of hair, baldness, split hair, etc.
Make a hair pack by mixing one egg yolk, 1 Tbsp lemon juice and 1 Tbsp black gram flour in 1 cup yogurt and apply to your hair. Wash after 4 hours. Whenever possible, try to use an herbal organic shampoo.

To Grow Long Hair
Grind black pepper and lemon seeds in equal amounts and make a paste in water and apply on your hair and scalp. Wash after 15 minutes with cold water.

For Shining Hair
Mix juice of one fresh orange, water, 1 tablespoon Honey and a few drops (5-7) of sandalwood oil. Use as an after-shampoo rinse.
Beat two eggs in a tablespoon of milk and apply on your hair. Rinse your hair after 5-7 minutes to get an instant shining.
Add a 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in water and rinse your hair.

For Damaged Hair
Mash a ripe banana with a few drops of almond oil and massage into hair. Leave it for about 15 minutes. Rinse with soda water and then shampoo and condition.

For Split End Hair
Grind half a cup of urad dal (black lentil) with 1 Tbsp of fenugreek (methi) seeds to a coarse powder. Add half a cup of yogurt and mix well. Apply generously all over the scalp. apply thoroughly to your scalp and hair. Wash after 2-3 hours with warm water.

For Hair Loss
Prepare a coconut oil concoction as below:
Pure coconut Oil – 500 gms
Shoe flower leaves ( Hibiscus Rosasinesi)- 15-20 leaves puree
Crystal rock salt – 10 gms
Borneo Camphor – 5 gms (powder form)
Aloe Vera leaves- 2 (cleaned) mashed puree
Tulasi ( Basil Leaves) – 10 leaves puree
Whole Black pepper- 6 nos
Henna leaves- optional
Boil the oil , let it simmer for 10 min. Add all the ingredients except black pepper. Simmer for another 15-20 minutes. Add black pepper. Simmer for another 5 min.
Strain the mixture through muslin cloth. Cool & store in air tight bottle.
You could also add Henna leaves ( for black hair).

Application:
Apply oil & keep it on for 30 minutes at least. It would cool your head too.
Wash it off either with green gram powder or fenugreek powder.