Tag: Edible Oils

You can say goodbye to your damaged hair and hair fall problems naturally with guava leaves. Rich in vitamins B and C and antioxidants, guava leaves can promote hair growth when boiled in water and massaged onto the scalp. Mix them with coconut oil, amla, and curry leaves and use the oil as desired.

These home remedies can help you get thicker, healthier hair. They include eggs, fenugreek, coconut oil, avocado, and olive oil. These ingredients contain protein which can strengthen the hair as well as fats which can moisturize the strands. Keeping the scalp moisturized keeps it healthy and able to promote more growth. This reduces breakage as well. It also helps to eat protein-rich foods like eggs, tofu, lentils, and lean meats.

Your heart literally beats every day of your life, making it literally the hardest organ in the body. The intake of junk food, oily snacks, pastries, bread, foods laden with sugar, and salt can cause artery clogging in your heart. Adding nuts like walnuts and seeds like flaxseed, olive and flaxseed oil, avocados, fatty fish, foods rich in folic acid like cereals and lentils, asparagus and broccoli, dark green vegetables like the spinach, whole grains, and onion & garlic are excellent food sources for keeping your arteries clean naturally. Apple cider vinegar contributes to healthy veins, blood vessels, and arteries.

Foot scrubs are easy to make at home, using the ingredients around you. Sugar, sea salt, coffee grounds, essential oils, baking soda, olive oil, or coconut oil can be used as ingredients for your DIY foot scrubs. Using them before you shower is an effective way to clean your feet and also moisturize them and remove dead skin. Using them twice or thrice in a week will make your feet healthy and free from germs.

Apart from the great taste, coconut oil provides a number of health benefits when consumed in food. Antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, and antimicrobial effects of coconut oil boosts immunity. It is easily digestible, as the healthy fat in it increases good cholesterol. Coconut oil stabilizes blood sugar by encouraging efficient secretion of insulin. Also, it fights inflammation, balances hormones, boosts metabolism, and treats Alzheimer's. Because of its high smoke point, you can use coconut oil for cooking at high heat, baking to replace unhealthy fats, sauteing, heating and serving, and adding to your coffee.

Often caused by seasonal allergies, sinus congestion can make it difficult for you to breathe or sleep. To make your own sinus relief essential oil blend - add 70 drops eucalyptus oil, 10 drops each of rosemary verbenon, peppermint, and tea tree oil to a 5ml euro dropper bottle and mix well. For best results, use the blend (1-3 drops) as a respiratory steam.

Did you know that Ayurveda has skin care remedies to match any commercially available cosmetics from the 21st century? These natural treatments are gentle on the skin and nourish the body, helping skin heal and replenish itself, keeping it looking supple and youthful, and slowing aging. So why not rustle up a homemade exfoliating powder or a nourishing fruit cream or face pack instead of using something out of a jar?

Piles is a painful condition almost every person can expect to face at least once in a lifetime. These hemorrhoids tend to take a lot of energy from the affected person. Follow these 7 simple natural treatments and diet suggestions to reduce the pain and help heal.

We are all concerned about our aging skin at some point of our lives. But not all of us can afford expensive cosmetic procedures, and we don't need to either. These 6 simple home remedies with ingredients like olive oil, fenugreek, yogurt, apple cider vinegar, and papaya will energize your skin and keep it young and wrinkle-free.

Moles can be naturally removed with these simple remedies. Garlic paste on moles left overnight will work. Potato slices kept on moles can help in faster removal of moles. Juice of citrus fruits; Pineapple and sea salt; Castor oil and baking soda; Honey; Bloodroot paste; Aloevera gel; Flaxseed oil; Iodine; Apple cider vinegar applied on moles will help remove them.

Grape Seed Oil: Overdose of omega-6, is inflammatory and has processed substances like hexane. Canola Oil: Over 87% is genetically modified and contains erucic acid. Vegetable Oil: High on phytic acid and trypsin which blocks vitamin digestion. Vegan Butter Substitutes are a mix of canola and soybean oil. Corn Oil: Again genetically modified and inflammatory.

The top foods that help blast fat are Avocados, Wild Salmon, Raw Nuts, Hot Peppers and Mustard, Green tea, Olive oil, and Garbanzo beans. Also people who are deficient in nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin E, Magnesium and Zinc, have a higher percentage of body fat and belly fat. All these foods help you lose weight and attain optimum health.