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Tips to wake up during colder mornings {Health}

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Body feels sluggish in the winters so I am putting down some tips and some yoga poses to help your body awaken in the mornings. Try them out, they actually work.
  • Drink lemon/lime juice in the morning as soon as you wake up. It helps with your bowel movements.
  • Splash your face with rose water / water seven times. This wakes you up.
  • Click your teeth together to set off rousing energy in the body. Follow with gum massage.
  • Trataka is an eye exercise which should be done for the health of your eyes.
    • Rotate eyes in clockwise direction five times.
    • Repeat in anti-clockwise direction.
    • Simultaneously, stretch your body completely as soon as you wake up (Yastikasana).
      • helps kick start your metabolism
      • gives your body a powerful stretch
  • Awaken your third eye – massage the center of your eyebrows with your forefinger dipped in oil.
    • this alerts the rational part of your brain
  • Anuloma-Viloma and Kapalabhati are two amazing yogamudras to awaken the body.

These tips will also control the unwanted weight gain in winters.

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Get soft lips this winter {Lip Care}

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Some remedies I read in a magazine so check them out:
  • Rub cucumber slices on your lips.
  • Aloevera gel also works wonders to keep the lips soft.
  • Neem leaves juice is good at controlling chapped and bleeding lips so try this out.
  • And, the very own remedy – “shuddh desi ghee” which keeps the lips soft, pink and beautiful.
So, go ahead and try out these remedies and do not forget to drink lots and lots of water in the winters to keep your lips beautiful. Also, check out this lip scrub to keep away the tanning and do not forget to apply sunscreen regularly on the lips too.

Is your skin itchy? {Skin Care}

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Winters are almost on the door step and my skin has already started to feel the cold and chill in the air. And, my skin has also turned itchy lately. So, why is it so? Because of the lack of moisturization. Yes, if you are facing the same problem, you might want to explore more options in the moisturizer and body butter departments.For me, I would say that Nivea worked really well. Yes, the original blue tin Nivea.
If budget is not a consideration, The Body Shop body butters are pretty much famous but if you do like to keep a tab, then, Nivea or any thick lotion would do the trick. And, if you still want more, you can go for the combination of body oils followed by body lotions. The key to control itchy skin is not let it get dry and this can also be helped from the inside by feeding on nuts. This is especially useful for people living in hills.

How do you counter your skin dryness?

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