TIP 1: Give Your eyebrows and eyelashes a much needed vacation. Take a break from using glued on false eyelashes and avoid eyelash curlers. Stop over-plucking your eyebrows and go easy on the tweezers there is no need to reduce your full eyebrows to a thin line of hair that you then have to fill in with an eye pencil. TIP 2: Petroleum Jelly Vaseline For Healthy & Strong Hair Follicles. TIP 3: Olive Oil For Shiny Luster & Soft Texture. TIP 4: Vitamin E Oil TIP 5: Vitamin B and D Click Here for more fab tips like how to get fuller, thicker hair instantly! How do you protect and care for your eyelashes and eyebrows? Share with us by leaving a comment below and don't forget to share these fab beauty tips using the buttons below.Curls, Hair Tip Tuesday Hair Tip Tuesday: Vitamin E Oil for Fine and Thinning Hair I have made it pretty well known that I have fine, curly hair. I have been applying JBCO onto my scalp nightly for strength and while my hair hasn’t been breaking as much, I don’t feel as though it has made that big of a change in thickness.
My cousin swears by using Vitamin E Oil to help thinning hair so I am going to wait until I have finished my bottle of Jamaican Black Castor Oil to begin using this magic oil! Your tip for the day? Massage Vitamin E Oil onto your scalp or apply it onto the length and ends of your hair as a pre-poo treatment. Vitamin E helps to repair and build tissue due to it’s antioxidant properties. This makes it an excellent oil to use for stimulating hair growth. Massaging your scalp with Vitamin E oil will help improve circulation to the scalp, improving the health of the hair follicle, encouraging hair growth. Have you used Vitamin E Oil on your curls? Let me know what you think!11 Best Beard Oils and Conditioners: A Review & Guide [Mar 2017]For many, the idea of putting something on our skin that we’d normally put onto a salad sounds… insane. But once you get over this mental hump – you’ll find the idea of using overly fragranced, chemical-laden lotions even crazier! Vegetable oils are natural emollients, packed with vitamins and nutrients recognised by our body.
Your skin will not only be soft, but also nourished. If like me, you find yourself shopping for skincare in a supermarket aisle, I promise you’re not crazy and you’re not alone! People have used plant oils as skincare for centuries – we just seemed to have forgotten – so, let’s change that! Take a look at these six simple oils. Everyone’s skin is different and finding the right one means experimenting. You can use them directly on the skin, to make a scrub or body butter, or add a few drops of oil in rosewater or aloe vera juice for a moisturising spray. The best part is that if for any reason your skin doesn’t like a particular oil, there’s no waste. Just go back to making that salad! Try one out, and see if it works for you! good for: all skin types A neutral scented oil, light enough to use all over the skin, on the face and body. It’s packed with vitamin E which is incredibly healing and protective on the skin. how to use this oil: Makes a great base oil for making body oils, body butters, body scrubs, creams or to use directly on the skin as a moisturiser.
good for: all skin types, dry skin An incredibly nourishing oil, we’ve been using it as skincare for a long time now! The ancient egyptians knew what they were doing – they prized olive oil for it’s moisturising and beautifying properties. Olive oil has major antioxidants which work to heal, protect, nourish the skin. how to use this oil: Great for skin and hair, you can apply it on directly or use it in any of your skincare recipes that call for a natural oil. good for: all skin types One of my favorite oils – it’s great for both skin and hair. 50 percent of Coconut oil is a fat called Lauric Acid, which is naturally found in human breast milk – making it easily recognised and useful for our bodies to nourish and protect the skin. It’s incredibly antimicrobial, which cleanses the skin as well. how to use this oil: You can use it directly on the skin, it makes a great eye-makeup remover. It’s also great to mix into your skincare recipes and it makes a great intensive hair moisturiser – but don’t use too much, you’ll spend days washing it out!
good for: dry skin A rich and lovely oil for the skin and hair, it’s very nourishing full of protein, fat and antioxidants. It helps to treat skin conditions like sunburn and diaper rashes, it boosts collagen production and softens the skin. how to use this oil: This is great to moisturize under the eyes, to treat dry skin and as protein rich hair treatment. You can blend it with other oils or use it on it’s own on trouble spots. good for: dry skin/ mature skin Macadamia oil is interesting because it has a high fatty acid profile. This helps with cellular regeneration, giving it anti aging properties. It’s light weight/medium oil that doesn’t feel greasy on the skin, but has a great moisturizing effect. how to use this oil: use this oil for very dry skin, to treat dry patches or soothe skin conditions. You can mix in a little with another oil to boost moisturizing properties. it’s great to add into your recipes to create anti-aging remedies. good for: oily skin
A light oil, extracted from the seeds of grapes left over in winemaking. Grapeseed oil is packed with Vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant and skin brightening vitamin C. It helps to nourish the skin and balance the skin’s oil production – making it great for acne prone skin. how to use this oil: Grapeseed oil is very light and non-greasy, so you can use it directly on the skin. Many people like using it on their face and for under the eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The brand of oil doesn’t matter as much as how the oil was expressed. Chemical and heat destroy the oils natural properties, so always buy: Cold-pressed, Virgin and unrefined oils only. Read the label and make sure it says it! ps – I’ve linked the oils to iHerb, so that you can see them, but you can easily find them in your supermarket too! If you prefer shopping online, I’m an affiliate of iHerb, so using these links helps to support the blog. a free 5 day skincare plan