1. After washing your hair pour milk all over it. Leave it for 2 minutes and then rinse it out for shiny long hair.
2. Soak a few almonds in milk overnight. Grind them and mix with honey. Use this as a face or body scrub.
3. You could add a little milk to your bath water and bathe normally for soft skin.
Use preboiled unpaturised milk as a liquid pack on your face. Milk is a natural bleaching agent and nourishes the skin. It is also a skin softener.
Take a small cup of dhania, few red chillies, 1 tsp pepper balls, 1 tsp jeera, 1 tsp kadalai paruppu (Tamil) or kadle bele ( kannada).
Fry the above ingredients without oil in a pan for about 3 minutes. Do not allow colour to turn black. Grind it in a mixie and store.
This can be used as a powder with every curry that you make. Goes very well with brinjal and capsicum. You can also fry ladies finger, slit it and stuff this powder and serve.
It is equivalent to the north Indian garam masala.
It seems a good diet is very important to prevent dandruff…check this out..
To begin with, t one should resort to an all-fruit diet for about five days and take three meals a day of juicy fruits.
Citrus fruits, bananas, dried, stewed, or tinned fruits should not be taken
After the all-fruit diet, one can gradually adopt a well-balanced diet, with emphasis on raw foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Further short periods of an all-fruit diet for three days or so may be necessary at monthly intervals till the skin’s condition improves.
Moong dal halwa is something I love… I need to try this when I make it..
While making moong dal halwa, add one tbsp flour to ghee and fry for one second before adding the ground moong dal. This will prevent the dal from sticking to the pan.
Chopping raisins is made easier if you grease the knife with a little butter.
To remove lipstick stains from clothes, soak the stain in methylated spirit. Spread a little glycerin to soften it and finally wash with soap and warm water.
If playing cards stick together, sprinkle some talcum powder over them, you can have a smooth deal.
To prevent the pages of books from turning brittle and brown, sprinkle vibhuthi or grey ash in between them. The pages will retain their shine and strength.
It seems used tea powder can be used to clean oily vessels….I am going to try this right today
A joss stick will burn longer if it is wrapped in a wet cloth for five minutes before being lit.
To remove food odors from the refrigerator, ad 4 tsps of mustard seeds to ¾ cup of water and keep it in the refrigerator. The smell will go away within 2 hrs.
To remove odor from a flask, put half cup vinegar in it and wash with cold water after half hour.
Most of the times we have silver items at home that become blackish. To make them sparkle again you can try this.
Fill a vessel with water. Put aluminum foil pieces into the water and immerse the silver item in this water for a few hours.
When you take it out, you will find it nice and sparkling.
Recently mom was telling me that she watched a clip on TV. It was about how Garlic can be used to prevent many problems.
Method is very simple….
use about 2 to4 garlics with 1 glass of milk.
peel off the outer scales of the garlic. boil it along with a glass of milk till the milk becomes thick (you can keep it on low flame so that the milk does not overflow from the vessel).
Then drink the milk along with the garlic.