Healthy Beautiful Skin

I am always looking for natural home remedies that are cheap, easy, healthy and most of all give good results. I will be randomly sharing health and beauty tips that I have tested and know that work. Here's one that I'm in love with. A honey-orange face mask. I did some research and found that honey and orange peel were always the common factor to be used for the skin.
Honey, by the way, is a remedy for numerous things... anywhere from soothing toothaches, fighting off infection, healing skin diseases etc. I haven't proven all of these, but that's what is said. But I know that honey is fabulous. It's even great in coffee... Just saying!
So anyway, on to my face mask... after doing the research on what is good for skin, I picked out the two ingredients, honey and orange peel, and mixed them together. I just grate the orange layer off the peel of one orange with a fine shredder and mix it in with approximately 1 big tablespoon of honey. The best thing would be to let the peel dry till you can crumble it into a fine powder. But I'm too impatient to do that and it works otherwise too.
You can add a tablespoon of flour to make it into more of a paste. Otherwise you might find it to run off your face pretty fast.
But yes, then you apply it to your face and let the magic begin. Leave it on for about 20 minutes before you wash it off. It does beautiful things to your skin. The results I have gotten from doing this maybe 2 times is: it takes care of oil, it moisturizes, it tightens pores, makes the skin super smooth and glowing (you won't be able to keep your hands off your face... it's so smooth), and dunt- du-da-daa.... teens...it takes care of your acne. Remember how I said honey fights infection. Well redness and acne is kind of like an infection and this mask heals and cleanses the skin... AND conditions and tones it.
It would be a good idea to put on a light moisturizer after the mask. Coconut oil is the best skin moisturizer out there. And obviously, it's natural and healthy as well.
Try doing this every once in a while. Depending on your skin and your eating and exercising lifestyle, but I wouldn't see it necessary doing this more than once a month for a while. Even less than that... it's that good.
I hope you find this helpful. Let me know what your results are if you try it. Enjoy the rest of your week.
And keep that skin healthy. Your skin condition is a complete telltale of your lifestyle and how you treat yourself. Not enough exercise, not enough water, not enough fresh air, eating lots of junk foods, smoking, stress, worrying, all of this will show in your skin. But the opposite of that will also "glow" in your skin.

Feeling the Spark?

                                                    Sparks!

           

You know the feeling when you fall in love… or at least really like someone. There’s the person who you are good friends with and enjoy hanging out with… but then there’s the person who, when your with them, you have those butterfly feelings in your stomach, they make you blush, and pretty much you’d do anything to be around them.

Those feelings feel very real and strong. If I’d ask you which person you’d like to marry, I’d bet pretty high it would be the person you have strong feelings for. Why? Because there’s a spark there… something  alive. And although I know that feelings alone is not what carries you through a relationship, they are critical to keeping the relationship alive.

What do experts always say when a couple has hit a plateau and they are completely bored with eachother? Don’t they always try to get the couple back to what first attracted them to eachother? Doesn’t he try to get them to do special things for eachother to spark those feelings again? It’s that spark that reminds the couple why they’re doing this. It’s why they thought they could ever do this. It’s that spark that helps them realize this is meant to be. And they will do anything to make it work. No matter what comes against them, they can hold their head high and say, I know this is real because I felt that love, so nothing can stop us.

Why am I saying all this? Especially since I’m not married, what do I know about love? Well my point in this post really has nothing to do with marriage or relationships. And by the way, I might know more about love than you think. But that’s beside the point as well.

I want to refer to that spark as that something that gives you joy and purpose in life. The following are questions we all long to find answers for: What’s my purpose in life? What is my dream job? What career should I pursue? What do I love doing? Why am I not happy? Why do I not feel fulfilled? Why do I burn out so easily? Why do I not even want to start something new?

I used to burn out pretty quick after I tried anything. I would do something I thought I had a passion for, and I thought it would be so wonderful if I could become this person e.g. actress, drama teacher, youth leader. But not too long into it I would burn out. Why? These were things I enjoyed doing. But these were not things that gave me a giddy feeling inside, that made me flush with excitement, that I couldn’t stop thinking about.

One of my goals in life is to keep things simple.

1) I’m ok with exploring different things till I find that spark. 2) I’m not afraid to say no to the other good things. 3) When I feel a spark, I pay attention to it and I nurture it. 4) And when I’m far down this road, and I find myself in a place where it would seem easy to give up, I remind myself of that spark I felt, that giddy feeling I had in my tummy. There was something real, something alive. And I step back till I feel that spark again. And so nothing can come against me. It doesn’t matter what people say about me, I know this is real and it will keep on going.

I would like to propose that that spark you feel could be the Creator. He’s really not that complicated. And when he sets that dream He gave you on fire no opposition can quench it. You just have to know it’s real. It’s not about you anyway. It’s His dream, and so you don’t need to have any worries that you’re going to burn out.

Also Holy Spirit, the Creator, is a moving, changing being. If you’re scared of being stuck in one place, you need to get back to what you love – back to where you felt that spark; because that spark can become an unstoppable fire of joy and purpose in life.

Can you think of a moment where you felt very alive and happy?