Beauty Aids For Your Hair and Skin: Home Remedies With the Use of Everyday Herbs and Spices

Today millions of people spend billions of dollars on home beauty aids and remedies. Although many of these home aids can be found in your kitchen. With very little preparation, these products can turn from spicing your meat to spicing up your life. For instance, did you know Cheyenne Pepper can plump up your lips, mint can lighten the dark areas on your face, and sage can take away gray from your hair. Here is a list of many of our common household spices, and uses that we often overlook them for along with the instructions on how to prepare your mixtures.

If you know of any others, feel free to help me in my search for better more cost efficient ways to stay looking young, beautiful, and healthy!

Basil can be applied to help itchy skin to help relieve itchiness from a bug bite or other irritant. It also has aromatherapy uses and can help rejuvenate your mind and body. in order to feel its effects, whether you want to feel more awake or just more comfortable, follow these simple instructions:

1. boil 2 cups of water with a half of an ounce of dried basil leaves
2. let mixture cool
3. use a washcloth or cotton ball to itchy skin or splash on face for an aromatherapy rejuvenation for your face.
   

Not only can we use basil, many companies use it in perfumes, shampoos, soaps, and dental products. In Mexico they believe that Basil has a magical quality that causes people to keep their lover's eye off others.

To read about more medicinal uses of basil read this hub!

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To relieve the pain from a bug bite or a bee sting you can apply boiled mint water to your skin to help relieve the pain. This same mixture can lighten dark areas on your face such as redness or darkness around the eyes. To make mint water, follow these instructions:

1. Boil 2 cups of whatever with an ounce of dried mint leaves
2. Let Mixture cool
3. Use washcloth or cotton ball to apply to bee sting or dark areas on the face.

Sucking on peppermint is great for stopping indigestion, in fact that is why they often give mints at restaurants. It's not just to take care of bad breath, but also to stop possible indigestion. Fun fact, the United States produces seventy percent of the world's spearmint and peppermint.

If you want to know how to grow your own mint plan, check out this hub!

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Cheyenne Pepper can naturally plump up your lips. In order to apply to lips just add this spice to your favorite lip balm. A dash of Cheyenne Pepper can be mixed with your favorite lotion and applied to a painful area such as a sore muscle. Although this spice should not be used if you are pregnant or nursing, as it is an irritant that could negatively effect a young child.

Cheyenne is also believed to actually rebuild the tissues in your intestinal and stomach linings. Cheyenne extract has also been proven to stop heart attacks within thirty seconds of ingesting. One man was even believed to "come back to life" after his daughter force fed him Cheyenne extract.

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Rosemary can be used as a toner for your skin.

It can relieve sore muscles if added to your bath water.

It also is believed to prevent gray hair and hair loss as well as dandruff if added to your shampoo and conditioner.

Rosemary is most commonly used in various perfumes due to it's aromatic quality.

Fun fact: Greeks and Romans used to throw sprigs of rosemary in a coffin before burying a loved one as a sign of remembrance, whereas in English Tudor, Bridesmaids would give the bridegroom sprigs of rosemary to signify that they would always remember his family.

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Sage can be used to cover gray hair if used as a rinse on dark hair. Although don't worry even if you use it as a rinse on light hair it will help prevent dandruff! This sage mixture will also help heal skin ulcers as well as act as a natural insect repellent. In order to create the rinse just follow these directions:

1. In one quart of boiling water, drop a handful of dried sage.
2. Let boil for 30 minutes (the longer you boil the darker your hair will become.
3. Let mixture cool.
4. Strain Mixture
5. Pour over hair 15 times.
6. Let Set for 10 minutes then rinse.

Darkwing discusses this in further detail in her article about sage and it's medicinal uses.

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Many of these spices are not only used in the kitchen or even in the bathroom, but in many manufacturing companies that will add these ingredients in their tonics, lotions, shampoos, etc, in order to make their products more successful in its intentions. If big companies use these products, we should too!