Keep them protected: Before gardening , it is helpful to insert a little white soap underneath your nails to prevent discolouration. Wear gloves at all times, and after washing, rinse with lemonised water and apply some lemon lotion (you can make this yourself). This is important as the skin on your hands contains fewer oil glands and therefore dries out more readily.
Keep Beauty Aids in your Kitchen: It is a good idea to keep a bottle of lemon lotion in your kitchen as well as in your bathroom. Keep 1/2 a lemon in a saucer, cut side down, in your beauty kit apply it to hands immediately after washing with soap or cleansing powder. This will nuetralise and alkali, remove stains and destroy onion & fish odours.
Keep them manicured: Before your hands have a manicure each week, dip a cotton tip orange stick into a cup of warm lemonised water and clean nails first. Your polish will take better with clean lemonised nails.
Make them up: Don’t think that makeup stops at your face.. It works miracles for your hands and arms too to hide any slight imperfections. Use a powder base (or primer) first then powder as required.
For your Elbows: Just before you don’t see your elbows don’t think they escape the eyes of others. Keep them soft and smooth with lemon lotion. If they are in bad condition, scrub them with warm soapy water and a pumice stone. One beauty authority suggests placing your elbows in two halves of a cut lemon for a few moments each day.
OK, a couple of quick ones that take my fancy:
- Use as a Mouthwash: 1/2 lemon, 1/2 water – Delightfully refreshing and kills odours..
- Oatmeal-Egg-Lemon Mask: 1 egg white,Juice of 1 Lemon – Mix and add sufficient Almond Meal to make a thin paste. Apply, leave dry then rinse with lemonized water.
- Almond Oil – Lemon Lotion: 4 parts sweet almond oil, 1 part fresh lemon juice, a few drops of your favorite perfume shake well and use often.
- Lemon Hand Lotion: 2 parts fresh lemon juice, 1 part glycerine, 1 part rubbing alcohol, perfume as desired.
- Lemon Ice: 2 parts fresh lemon juice, 1 part water, freeze into cubes.
- Lemon-Egg Shampoo: Yolk of one egg, 1 table spoon of olive oil – Juice of half a lemon – stir with egg beater. Rub well into scalp, rinse with warm water containing lemon juice from 1 and 1/2 lemons for final rinse, shine and softness.
For your Elbows: Just before you don’t see your elbows don’t think they escape the eyes of others. Keep them soft and smooth with lemon lotion. If they are in bad condition, scrub them with warm soapy water and a pumice stone. One beauty authority suggests placing your elbows in two halves of a cut lemon for a few moments each day.
Excerpts from Book: Lemons for Loveliness, 1935
DON’T WASTE THAT LEMON PEEL – Passed on via email from Mum…(Unknown source)
Many professionals in restaurants and eateries are using or consuming the entire lemon and nothing is wasted.
How can you use the whole lemon without waste?
Simple..place the lemon in the freezer section of your refrigerator. Once the lemon is frozen, get your grater, and shred the whole lemon (no need to peel it) and sprinkle it on top of your foods.
Sprinkle it to your whisky, wine, vegetable salad, ice cream, soup, noodles, spaghetti sauce, rice, sushi, fish dishes. All of the foods will unexpectedly have a wonderful taste, something that you may have never tasted before. Most likely, you only think of lemon juice and vitamin C. Not anymore. Now that you’ve learned this lemon secret, you can use lemon even in instant cup noodles.
What’s the major advantage of using the whole lemon other than preventing waste and adding new taste to your dishes?
Well, you see lemon peels contain as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the lemon juice itself. And yes, that’s what you’ve been wasting. But from now on, by following this simple procedure of freezing the whole lemon, then grating it on top of your dishes, you can consume all of those nutrients and get even healthier.
It’s also good that lemon peels are health rejuvenators in eradicating toxic elements in the body.
So place your lemon in your freezer, and then grate it on your meal every day. It is a key to make your foods tastier and you get to live healthier and longer! That’s the lemon secret!
