Health benefits of lemon: weight loss, lightens skin, aids digestion

Yellow in color (depending on the specie) sour in taste, lemons provide more health benefits than just a refreshing zing to dishes. Lemons are high in vitamins and antioxidants thus they help prevent scurvy and treat a wide variety of conditions.
They are packed with vitamin C which enhances your beauty, by rejuvenating the skin from within or exfoliating it when used externally bringing a glow to your skin. Its numerous health benefits make it one of my favourite in the citrus family.

Aside using lemon to detoxify my system, I use it for lightening dark patches on my skin by applying the juice directly on it and trust me, my skin gets clearer after just one application.

Below are #10 health benefits of lemon juice that you should know:

Health Benefits of Lime: Weight-loss, Skin care...

Lime is a medicinal powerhouse that can do many things some advanced medicine can't do. All over the world people use lime for both culinary and non-culinary purposes. This small green fruit of the citrus family has been said to improve fertility, but there's really no scientific evidence to support this claim, neither is there any evidence to support the widely accepted myth that lime reduces a woman's fertility.

These are some of the health benefits of lime:

(1)Skin care: lime juice and it's oil extracts are highly beneficial in skin improvement both in consumption and application. It contains appreciable amount of vitamin-c and flavonoids which do not only rejuvenate the skin, retains it's glow , it also protect the skin from infections and body odour.

Lime possesses antioxidants,antibiotic and disinfectant properties that are beneficial to one's overall health. When applied externally, its acid scrubs out dead cells, cures dandruffs, rashes and bruises. It's also refreshing when mixed with bath water.

(2) Weight loss: lime is an excellent fat burner, a typical weight loss fruit variety. A glass of warm water with a full lime's worth in it can do all the weight loss magic in just a week, besides the  weight-loss benefit, it also plays a good role as an antioxidant and a brilliant refresher. For people trying to lose weight 2 glasses of lime water everyday will give you remarkable results within the first 7-days.

Dry skin: natural homemade remedies that work!

Hello Beauties! Forgive my AWOLness, my work on set of Emerald TV drama series has made my schedule really tight, but it's quite flexible now. Today's post is on dry skin in fulfillment of a blog reader's request.

Dry skin isn't considered the ultimate skin type by most ladies and this is no thanks to its characterisation that includes dullness and flakiness.

Factors that contribute to dry skin include; harmattan , winter, genes and even nutritional deficiencies, but managing this skin type can be easy with natural home remedies that are cheap but effective.

Let's checkout some natural home remedies that nourish and hydrate dry skin.

Getting rid of stretchmark with sheabutter : Here's what worked for me

Hi Beauties! I'm writing this post to share more tips on how to get rid of stretchmark. I'm going to briefly and precisely talk about what worked for me, but first, I'm going to talk about how stretchmark ended up on my skin.

This skin condition hardly pays any respect to anyone and it's caused by a number of things, including obesity, pregnancy and even weightloss. It found its way to my skin no thanks to weightloss. After I lost a signigicant amount of weight in my mid teens, I discovered stretchmarks on my left breast.

THE CELLULITE SOLUTION EXERCISE PLAN

Cellulite is not a friend of any lady, especially those who love to flaunt their bodies in bikinis. Cellulite is also not a respecter of body size as it affects both overweight and normal-weight ladies. Though it's more predominant in overweight ladies.

This skin condition is caused by several factors which include genes and accumulation of fat due to lack of exercise. Several over-the-counter-medication claim to be effective against cellulite, but that's not always the case when put to use, but not to worry, here are some exercises that can help get rid of cellulite by targeting the areas that store the accumulated fat responsible for this skin disorder.

Follow this workout routine 3 days a
week, and watch those ripples disappear.

Natural Home Remedies For Stretch Marks

Stretch marks is medically known as Striae distensae. It a common skin disorder that affects both males and females but more predominant in females. Stretch marks can occur in different parts of the body, they can appear in the arm, back, shoulder, butt, breast and thigh. Some factors that causes stretch marks are instant weight loss or weight gain, changes in physical conditions, pregnancy and  hereditary. As the name indicate, stretch mark occur when the skin is stretched beyond it limit. Men who lift weight are likely to have stretch mark. Although painless, stretch marks can cause distress to who ever has it. Anyway nature has it own healing ways. Stretch marks may be treated with some of these natural products which are always readily available in the home.