Beauty blog tip: Home made scrub using Shea butter, sugar and lemon

Hi there!
Looking forward to tomorrow's elections? Please vote wisely and prayerfully and remember, nobody's ambition is worth dieing for.
So to today's business, many ladies complain about dull skin, acne  and similar skin issues. One of the ways by which these can be prevented is regular exfoliation. Exfoliation is the removal of the dead, outermost part of the skin in order to reveal fresher, younger skin lying beneath the dead layer. This can be done chemically using chemical peels or mechanically using face and body scrubs.
Because of the sensitive nature of chemical peels, it's advisable to get one from a Spa via an experienced skin therapist/ aesthetician.
Mechanical peels on the other hand are creamy with tiny rough grains which when rubbed gently on the skin take off the unwanted dead skin. Branded scrubs are available in cosmetic shops but if you'd like to learn to make yours then please read on.

Ingredients:
1 part lemon juice
2 parts fine grained granulated sugar
4 parts Shea butter
eg 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 2 teaspoons sugar, 4 teaspoons Shea butter.

Process:
combine Shea butter and sugar mixing thoroughly, add lemon juice a drop at a time, combining it thoroughly with the sugar and butter paste.

Usage:
dampen face and or body, working gradually, gently rub the paste on with your fingers and palms and massage into the skin for about a minute, rinse off with warm water, then wipe off excess oil with a damp, cold face towel.
This scrub is actually multifunctional. The use of lemon which contains hydroxy acids, a naturally occuring exfoliator ad the sugar which acts as the mechanical exfoliator combined with shea butter which soothes and moisturizes the skin is a winner any day.
NB
If you have oily skin, you might want to use this at night cause of the shea butter.

Try it and let me know what you feel, if you've tried it before, let me know if it suits you.

till next time
XX
Olubunmi

Fruit and fibre cookie

fruit and fiber cookies

Hi friends
I've been real busy dotting I's and crossing T's for the new Bee's Signatures studio opening soon by God's grace in Oluyole estate, also with my children's exams and all but exams are over now thank God.
So how have you been? Today i decided to make something new for my children to school and settled for fruit and fiber cookies. I just thought it might come out nice (hopefully they like it like i do, fingers crossed, i'll update you)
So what i did was really simple, i pulsed a cup of Kellog's fruit and fiber with the dry cup of my blender for a few seconds and then mixed it with a little less than one egg white and a teaspoon of corn flour and a little water to get desired consistency.

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 I mixed them together, made some balls and flattened them into cookie shapes, (i need to get me cookie cutters) then popped them in the microwave. I used the cook/grill combo for 5 mins, and left them to cool. when i got them out, they werent as crunchy as i wanted so i popped them in the freezer for about 15 mins and voila! they were crunchier than digestive biscuits lol.

here are some pictures before i put them in the freezer

Like i said earlier, I'll let you know in an update if my children like it.
I'd recommend it as a healthy snack for the peckish as you don't need to add any  extra sugar since you've got the dried raisins and its also protein rich from the egg white. So that's it!
Breakfast is served
Till next time,
XX
Olubunmi
your beauty and wellness coach

The encounter women's retreat 2015

Hi people

Have you missed me like i have you? I've been MIA, i apologize, i took some well needed time off last weekend to attend the Encounter women's retreat organized by Pastor Jumoke Adeyemi , of global harvest church. I almost missed it, i have a lot of financial commitments going on but a friend, supported by my dearest husband convinced me that what is not yet a harvest is still a seed, so i mustered faith and registered, in fact i registered just a day to the retreat and had to pay extra for late registration but i must say it was totally worth it. I believe my testimonies will abound soon.
It took place at green legacy resort, Abeokuta, incidentally i was born and grew up in Abeokuta but left almost 15 years ago!
We got there on Friday, 6th March, registered, rested and had a love feast.
Then came a time of worship after which our first speaker, Pastor Mrs Ibukun Awosika, the chairman of Chair center group told us of her humble beginning, starting out wanting to be an architect, then a chartered accountant because she wanted to work in a bank, then served at an accounting firm and ended up hating accounting, got a low paying job at a furniture making company owned by our northern african brothers and had her Eureka moment there.
She started her business by renting equipment and working with contract staff at the age of 26 and at 28, when she got married, she already had 28 staff of her own. She now chairs and sits on several boards, is a mother, wife and an ordained pastor at the fountain of life church.
Something she said that stuck with me is that life is a journey, and there is no route of your life that God is not aware of or cannot make use of, also that we should seek to follow God's leading in what we do so that we can always hold on to him to show us the good in every situation we are going through.
AfteAfter that came the turn of Pastor Jumoke, the convener, she talked about aspiring for greatness as women in all our endeavors, breaking out of the cultural limitations life places on us and being the best at whatever we do.
 Then dinner.
Later that night we had a practical discussion session. We were divided into groups and talked about several topics relating to women, singles and marriage and our relationships with each other especially in the church setting. some of those issues were pretty strange to me though but hey, to each her own, God for us all!

Day 2 started at 6am with a prayer walk, after which we had 1 hour of aerobics at the gym, some time off to freshen up, breakfast, then we took group pictures.

After that we had several prayer sessions, for our families, ourselves, our nation... And the Rev Femi Oduwole had seperate sessions for single and married women.

And then came lunch and afterwards,  ME time. Some folks went off to the spa for sauna steam bath, some went straight to bed while some others. me inclusive, went on an adventure touring the resort. we went through the bamboo groove, to the pavilion, where Former president Obasanjo (did i mention he owns green legacy resort?) showcases among others, his first car, a model warship, an helicopter, the car he was arrested in during the Abacha regime... We also saw the yet to be completed presidential library, climbed the rock of inspiration from where we could see a large percentage of the city and "almost" went on a boat ride on the lake. Not sure anyone went to the swimming pool though.
We worshiped and prayed some more, in fact, a lot more, then had "help a sister out session"
And we were off to our rooms at about 12:45am on sunday (so much for #myhabitin21days lol)
Our last prayer session was 6am on sunday.
then breakfast, then goodbyes!
I had a nice time.

Quick beauty and wellness tip: Potato as acne medication

Hello,

Trust you're doing well. A lot of times we have breakouts due to change in weather, or hormones and you wonder if there's anything you can do to it naturally. There are several home remedies touted to cure or reduce acne and one of such is Potato, Irish to be precise.

Potatoes are starchy vegetables rich in vitamin C which is a very important vitamin for skin health, hence it's use in acne treatment.

How to use:

Refrigerate potato for about 30 mins (optional, but it helps as anything cold will shrink the inflammation of a pimple), peel and grate the potato,  then apply it to all the areas on your skin where you notice acne breakouts. Leave on for about 30 mins and wash off with an antibacterial face wash. Do this twice daily and you should begin to see changes within a week.

Exception:

Please note that if your breakout is as a result of an inherent health condition, or bad nutritional habits, this might not work for you. therefore, as always, a healthy lifestyle is really important in prevention and cure of acne.

Other benefits you will get from your potato mask include:

Removal of dark circles and blemishes

treatment of dark spots and pimples

Exfoliation and skin brightening

Treatment of rashes and puffy eyes

Potatoes are also used for hair treatment, but that is gist for another day!

So till next time,

xx

Olubunmi

PS. 

I'm still working on #myhabitin21days, day 5 done! What habit are you forming?

Hold on!

Today i have no words, but these already said by others!







I hope these help someone as they have helped me.
None of these pictures are mine though. got them all via the internet.
till next time

xx
Olubunmi

My HABIT in 21 days challenge

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Hello
Happy new month! I wish you a month of fulfillment and good health.
Research has shown that it is possible, after 21 days or more of repeated action, to form a habit.
Is there something you've always wanted to do or be? Do you want to read and study a verse  or chapter of the bible or some other book everyday, change your thought pattern, start exercising, change your eating patterns, sleep earlier, be more attentive at school/ work, drink more water, consume less soft drinks or any other (good) habit? Then you should join my 21 days habit challenge and take it one day at a time. All you have to do is to write down what you want to start, get better at or stop. And then daily work at it.
At the end of each day, write a post on your facebook, twitter, google plus or any other social media account using #myhabitin21days "x" day done!
eg "day 1 done! #myhabitin21days" . Let's make this viral people.Tag me, (olubunmi fajuyigbe on facebook and google plus, @olubunmifaj on twitter, @olubunmisays on instagram), tag friends and lets all form good habits.

I'm sure you want to know mine, i'd like to sleep by 10pm everyday (you don't want to know when i sleep now!)  so i can get more rest daily and wake up earlier than i do now.

That's it folks, you can share yours with me if you wish by making a comment here or sending an email to olubunmisays@yahoo.com.
xx
Olubunmi

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