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Homemade Beauty Recipes

Homemade Beauty Recipes
Looking to add a new addition to your beauty and skincare arsenal? Instead of heading out to the store or ordering a new product online, try whipping up one of these luxurious beauty treats. Body scrubs, face masks, bath salts, oils—these easy, surprisingly inexpensive, DIY beauty treatments are filled with nutrient-packed ingredients and are great alternatives to splurging on the expensive stuff. MORE: More DIY Beauty Recipes Coffee Body Scrub What it does:An instant pick-me-up that provides a jolt while softening and hydrating skin How to make it: Combine equal parts ground coffee and granulated sugar. Lavender Bath Salts What it does: Soothes tired muscles and minds How to make it: Mix together two cups of Epsom salt with one cup of sea salt in a bowl. MORE: Surprising Way to Soothe Sore Muscles Yogurt and Honey Face Mask What it does: Exfoliates and brightens complexion How to make it: Stir together equal parts honey and yogurt (one tablespoon each is enough for one mask). Rose Bath Oil

50 Uses for Vaseline | Christina Loves... This is one of my favorite products from Vaseline, their Vitalizing Gel Body Oil. I keep it by the tub, and use it on my wet body before I dry off. It leaves you totally smooth and very nice and moisturized without being greasy (after a very few minutes anyway). They are not expensive, and totally worth a try. Here is the ingredient list: Hydrogenated Styrene, Butadiene Copolymer, Bertholletia Excelsa (Brazil Nut) Seed Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Fragrance I have the classic Vaseline all over my house. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. And just for fun, this one is totally not beauty related, but VERY timely – here is #51: Once you carve your Halloween pumpkin, rub Vaseline on the exposed edges. it keeps it from rotting or going dry. Popularity: unranked [?]

Discovery Health &Uses for Baking Soda: Guidelines for Health and Beauty& Baking soda was one of the few products many years ago on the market for cleaning your teeth or settling an upset stomach. While we have many more choices today, baking soda still does the trick for these and dozens of other health and beauty tasks. Try it for shaving and shampooing, for minor burns and cuts, or for relaxation in the bath. In this article, you will see that baking soda can be a key ingredient in your health and beauty routine. Let's start at the top with your hair. Squeaky clean hair: Add a teaspoon of baking soda to your usual shampoo bottle to help remove buildup from conditioners, mousses, and sprays, and to improve manageability. In emergencies, use baking soda as a dry shampoo on oily hair. Chlorine remover: Rinse hair with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda in 1 pint water to remove the dullness or discoloration caused by chlorinated pools. Hands: Remove fish, onion, or garlic odor from hands with a solution of 3 parts baking soda to 1 part water or liquid soap.

Broke-Ass Student & Blog Archive & Beauty On A Budget - Some Of My Favorite Beauty Secrets Lookin’ like a million dollars, even on a broke-ass budget For me, beauty has always been a special type of spiritual elevation – a powerful radiation from the inside out that shines through in the joy we feel in our hearts and by unlocking the passion in our souls. Beauty encapsulates not only the physical, but possesses the mental and spiritual just as deeply. Many women may feel afraid to cultivate their external beauty and end up neglecting themselves in fear of being too vain or self indulgent. This to me is an absolute shame. Beauty is all around us. KISS (keep it simple, sugar) Taking proper care of your body doesn’t need to be expensive or a hassle and once you establish a routine, in can actually be a lot of fun! Beauty always starts from the inside. Your skin is the largest organ of the body and if you’re out of balance somewhere internally, the effects will always show up on the skin in some embarrassing form. Yoga is by far my favorite type of exercise. Need exfoliation fast?

DIY - MAKE YOUR OWN WAX FOR HAIR REMOVAL - Fashion + Beauty on Shine I was chatting with someone on my flight back from my vacation. She lived in another country where salons are hard to come by or if they are around, they aren't very good. So, sometimes a girl has got to depend on herself. You can make one on your own so easily. Wax recipe Ingredients 2 cups sugar ¼ cup water ¼ cup lemon juice Method Pour the sugar, water and lemon juice in a saucepan, and heat it over a low flame. How do you know it is done? Take a glass of water and put a drop of wax into it. Benefits of making your own WAX: 1. Waxing strips: We used to do this in college all the time. NOTE: The inner facing fabric of the jeans should be the one touching your skin otherwise if you use the opposite side, your skin will probably get blue with the denim color. Waxing technique Test the temperature before applying the wax to your skin. Benefits of Waxing 1.

A Millionish Uncommon (and Not So Uncommon) Uses for Coconut Oil Heart-healthy, heart-warming coconut oil. You’re a nut! You’re crazy in the coconut! Okay – I’m crazy in the coconut. As you can tell. I’ve just spent 37 hours obsessing about coconut oil. In the homemade toothpaste post, Karen from Abundance on a Dime posed a thoughtful question. And I thought, “Hm. So I combed through the Crunchy Betty archives for all the recipes I’ve posted using coconut oil, so we could see them all in one handy place. But wait! If you figure out a way to get it to drive you to the store, let me know. Effective DIY Coconut Oil Deodorant It’s been months since I made my first batch of coconut oil deodorant – and I’ve made three more batches since then. Here’s the link to the entire post on how to make homemade deodorant. 1/4 c. baking soda1/4 c. cornstarch or arrowroot powder5 Tbsp. coconut oilEssential oils (optional – I used 3 drops of ylang-ylang, 4 drops of sweet orange, and 2 drops of tea tree) Coconut Oil Deep Conditioner Coconut Oil to Manage Frizz and Flyaways

let the children play TOTAL PHOTOSHOP (tut. video immagine ecc.) Up&Up è il nuovo, spettacolare, video dei Coldplay Il gruppo britannico ha pubblicato sui propri canali ufficiali il video del nuovo singolo Up&Up ottenendo, subito, moltissime visualizzazioni. Posto che i Coldplay possono piacere o non piacere, siamo qui per suggerirvi di dare un’occhiata (ed anche più di una) alla clip. Si tratta infatti di un video ricco di effetti speciali, una delle nostre grandi passioni, e di contenuti e rimandi all’attualità davvero sconvolgenti. Up&Up – Due parole sui registi Non ce ne voglia chi non è appassionato del settore e chi è abituato a spegnere la televisione quando compaiono i titoli di coda, ma non possiamo non dedicare almeno due parole a chi ha realizzato questo capolavoro. Up&Up – Messaggi subliminali Come già accennato, questo video porta con sè una serie di immagini che richiamano ad argomenti di attualità, vediamone qualche esempio. Un muro collocato in una splendida spiaggia blocca l’accesso al mare. Up&Up – Come hanno fatto? Up&Up – Il video

joran Sharing a printer to Windows XP clients with Samba and Cups Posted by Anonymous on Mon 31 Jul 2006 at 11:07 Setting a printer in Debian Sarge from scratch and make it available for Windows XP clients on a LAN can be difficult, but using CUPS and samba it should be fairly straightforward if you have a supported printer. Here we will demonstrate how to do this. Printing for the first time in a machine with a fresh install of Debian Sarge is not as easy as one might think. Part 1: The Nightmare First we must make sure we can print from the Debian Sarge PC to the printer attached to it. cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimprint cupsys-driver-gimprint-data Besides these packages, Synaptic selected the next packages or they were already installed: libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 Finally, this package is necessary or Mozilla Thunderbird won't print at all: cupsys-bsd The packages can be installed usingSynaptic or using the apt-get command as usual for Debian. Once CUPS is installed we can add the printer. Epson Stylus Color 777 -CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7

KVM/Installation Pre-installation checklist Check that your CPU supports hardware virtualization To run KVM, you need a processor that supports hardware virtualization. Intel and AMD both have developed extensions for their processors, deemed respectively Intel VT-x (code name Vanderpool) and AMD-V (code name Pacifica). egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo If 0 it means that your CPU doesn't support hardware virtualization. If 1 or more it does - but you still need to make sure that virtualization is enabled in the BIOS. By default, if you booted into XEN kernel it will not display svm or vmx flag using the grep command. cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities You must see hvm flags in the output. Alternatively, you may execute: kvm-ok which may provide an output like this: INFO: /dev/kvm exists KVM acceleration can be used If you see : INFO: Your CPU does not support KVM extensions KVM acceleration can NOT be used You can still run virtual machines, but it'll be much slower without the KVM extensions. uname -m

Setting up an Ubuntu webcam server Sharing a webcam stream in Ubuntu is not the easiest thing, but it’s not too bad if you have some help. This tutorial will explain how to use the package webcam-server . It seems to work pretty well for me. I had to write the startup script myself, but I’m going to share that with you. Follow up: The first thing you will want to do is install the webcam-server package: sudo apt-get install webcam-server The webcam-server binary will be installed along with the java applet and html needed to host a live stream on a webpage. Next, you will want to setup the startup script. Open a new file in the /etc/init.d directory with your favorite editor. sudo nano /etc/init.d/webcam-server Write a starup script, or simply use this one : #! SERVER_BIN=webcam-server LOCK_FILE=/var/lock/$SERVER_BIN RTRN=0 OPTIONS='-v -g 320x240 -p 8888 -c hacktivision.com' start() { [ -f $LOCK_FILE ] && echo "$SERVER_BIN already started" [ -f $LOCK_FILE ] && return exit $RTRN Let’s test our webcam server now.

Request: Supporting OpenJDK due to... I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric with both OpenJDK 6 and OpenJDK 7 installed and when I changed my /etc/init.d/openfire to have this, it still took a preference to OpenJDK 6: if [ -z $JAVA_HOME ] then t=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64 && test -d $t && JAVA_HOME=$t t=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386 && test -d $t && JAVA_HOME=$t t=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk && test -d $t && JAVA_HOME=$t t=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk && test -d $t && JAVA_HOME=$t fi I have java-7-openjdk-amd64 installed on my system but also noticed there is an java-7-openjdk-common folder in /usr/lib/jvm/ as well. Here is what I see when I do update-alternatives --config java: There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java). Selection Path Priority Status * 0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 auto mode 1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 manual mode 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java 1051 manual mode

Pidgin De Guía Ubuntu Pidgin (antes Gaim) es el cliente de mensajería instantánea predeterminado del escritorio GNOME hasta la versión 2.24. Es multiprotocolo. Anteriormente su nombre era Gaim, pero en abril de 2007 fue renombrado a Pidgin debido a problemas de patentes con la empresa AOL, propietaria de la marca AIM. Características Compatibilidad con múltiples protocolos de mensajería: AOL Instant Messenger (a través del protocolo OSCAR o el TOC) Gadu-Gadu Google Talk únicamente mensajería instantánea (usando el protocolo Jabber) ICQ (a través del protocolo OSCAR o el TOC) Internet Relay Chat Jabber Lotus Sametime MSN Messenger Novell Groupwise OpenNAP SILC Yahoo! Instalación Para tenerlo es necesario instalar el paquete pidgin de los repositorios oficiales de Ubuntu. Última versión estable Se puede añadir el repositorio oficial de la última versión estable; para ello solo es necesario teclear lo siguiente: Con esto se tendrá el repositorio de la versión más reciente. Google Gtalk Gmail

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