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How To Make Organic Shampoo With Green Tea And Aloe Vera?

Green tea is good for health and aloe vera is good for skin but do you know that a combination of both can make a great haircare product? It will be your DIY shampoo that you can make at home if you drink green tea and have aloe vera in your kitchen garden.

But never mind if you don’t drink green tea and nor have aloe vera plant at home. And there’s little need to use fresh tea bags as you can use used tea bags.

Let’s start

• Take 200 ml of fresh water in a pan and put a used bag of green tea in it. Allow the tea bag to boiling for 25 minutes.

• Remove the pan from gas after the said time and let it cool. Add 200 ml of a good quality liquid soap to the boiled water and some aloe vera gel extracted from plant leaves. Also, add 1 tsp of olive oil to the boiled water.

• For fragrance, you can add a few drops of essential oils like lavender or rose to the solution. Since the mixture is free from chemicals found in commercial shampoos, you won’t require a conditioner after washing your hair with green tea.

• Simply rinse the shampoo through your hair and wash with cold water to get clean hair. Also, you can keep the DIY shampoo in a bottle for future use.

If you don’t drink green tea or have aloe vera at home, you can buy aloe vera plant and green tea bags to make DIY shampoo.

Disclaimer: Take care while mixing ingredients as the quality of the shampoo would depend on the concentration. Also, be careful of the side effects.… Find more

Try These Home Remedies For Dark Knees And Elbows

There’s nothing uncommon in getting dark skin around elbows and knees but it is really strange to see people living with the ugly skin condition when there’re plenty of options to treat the dry, flaky and dark skin.

Here’re 7 ways of treating the dark ugly skin around elbows and knees.

Lemon treatment

Massage the dark skin of elbows and knees with fresh lime juice and wash it after 10 minutes with lukewarm water. The acidic nature of lime and natural bleaching properties will brighten the skin tone overtime.

Curd and gram flour mask

Mix 1 tsp of gram flour and vinegar with curd and mask your elbows and knees with this paste. Rinse the mask with warm water after 15 minutes. Curd being a natural moisturizer will make your skin feel soft and brightened.

Shoo dryness away with aloe vera

Pluck an aloe leaf, remove its pulp and apply the aloe material on the dark skin. Let the soothing pulp treat the dry skin for 20 minutes and wash it with cold water. The aloe vera gel will nourish your skin with moisturizer.

Coconut oil + Warm Relaxing Shower

Give the skin around your elbows and knees a good massage with coconut oil and keep massaging until the skin seeps the oil. Wait for a short while before heading for a refreshing warm shower. But avoid using soap on dried skin and pat it instead to get the best results.

Olive Oil + Sugar Scrub

Olive oil and sugar make an amazing DIY body scrub. Sugar is a natural exfoliant and olive oil is a super nourishment for your skin. Together they can make your skin look younger.

Oatmeal and Yoghurt Mask

Mix oatmeal and yoghurt in equal quantities and mask your knees and elbows with this mixture. Wash it with running water after 20 minutes. The ingredients have soothing qualities that will give a power-pack boost of moisturizer to your skin.

Turmeric

Turmeric is a natural antiseptic but it can also help improve skin condition like dark spots on elbows and knees. Mask the dark skin with turmeric paste and wash it with cold water after 10 minutes to get a glowing skin.

Also, you should cleanse and moisturize the dark skin regularly and exfoliate the dry skin around the elbows and knees. To get rid of the ugly looking skin.

Disclaimer: Home remedies can help treat dark skin around elbows and knees but the results could vary from person to person.… Find more