Easy Homemade Hair Mask (for Nutrition and Hydration)

Here is a easy homemade mask for nutrition and moisturize your hair. These ingredients are not expensive and have incredible benefits for your hair! 

Ingredients:

1. 2 egg yolk

2. 2 tablespoons of olive oil

3. 1 tablespoon of honey

Procedures: 

1. Beat the egg yolk and mix with the olive oil.

2. Add the honey and mix all together.

3. Apply the mixture onto your hair and scalp.

4. Massage it gently with your fingers.

5. Leave it for at least 1 hour (use a plastic shower cap).

6. Using cold water rinse the mixture out of your hair very well.

Apply this mask at least twice a month for having a beautiful and healthy hair! 

Goodbye, until next post!

How to make French Palmiers (easy recipe)

I just love Palmiers made from puff pastry! The recipe I’m sharing with you here is delicious and you can prepare it quickly at home. It’s really easy to make these Palmiers!

Ingredients

• 1 sheet rectangular puff pastry
• about 1 cup of sugar (add sugar to taste)
• cinnamon sugar (optional)

You can make yourself  the puff pastry at home but there’s no need, you can buy it already made.

For the sugar, I prefer coarse-grained sugar but you can use the kind of sugar you like most.

Directions

1. How to fold and shape the Palmiers

• If your puff pastry is frozen, thaw it first in the refrigerator overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C (390 degrees F).
• Spread sugar on the counter and roll out the puff pastry. 
• Press softly on the sugar. 
• Sprinkle your puff pastry with sugar, over the surface.
• Mark the middle of the pastry.
• Fold right and left sides to the middle.
• Add a little more sugar.
• Then fold the dough in half again lengthwise.
• Fold right and left sides of the dough toward the inside until they meet in the middle. More layers will give the palmiers a more rounded aspect.
• At the end, fold the left side over the right side like closing a book.  
• Press the sugar softly into the dough with a rolling pin or with your fingers to help sugar adherence.
• Place the dough on a tray and bring to the freezer for 15 minutes to cool and harden mass a little.
• After 15 minutes, remove from freezer.
• Spread sugar again on the counter and place the dough on it.
• With a sharp knife, slice the dough into individual pieces about 1cm (1/2 inch) thick.
• Dip both sides into the cinnamon sugar (optional).  

2. After cutting the Palmiers put them on a tray with parchment paper.

3. Place in the oven preheated to 200° C for 15 minutes (or until they begin to dark golden).

4. Remove from the oven after 15 minutes.

Enjoy your palmiers!

Daily habits for Healthy Skin

For having a beautiful and healthy skin there are some tips we need to follow in our daily diet, such as:

1. Avoid greasy fast food and fried food

It can stimulate acne and clog your pores.

2. Don't forget to drink about 2 liters of water everyday 

Hydration helps the body eliminate toxins harmful to the skin and your skin needs to get the sufficient amount of water in order to have more resilience. Dry skin is also more prone to wrinkling.

3. Have enough sleep

Scientists say that adequate sleep plays a crucial role in many vital functions. It benefits heart, weight, immunity, memory, learning, metabolism and others.

4. Avoid stress as much as possible

Experts say the mind and the skin are intimately intertwined and a lot of nerve endings are connected to the skin. They also say that many skin disorders take their roots in the psyche.

5. Eat toxin-fighting foods

Eating toxin-fighting foods helps clear your skin. Foods rich in antioxidant have a protective effect for the skin.

6. Drink less refrigerants

Try substituting soft drinks for fruit juices and water. Your body will thank you later.

Skin-friendly foods

Here are some healthy foods for our skin:

• Fatty fish (such as salmon, mackerel)
• Sweet Potato
• Avocado
• Olive oil
• Tomatoes
• Lemons
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Green leafy vegetables
• Beans, peas and lentils
• Berries
• Watercress
• Yellow and orange fruits and vegetables (such as apricots, carrots)

I wish you a beautiful skin!

Cleaning products you should never mix

Sometimes mixing different products could be dangerous depending on their chemical structure. There are some common cleaning products that we should never mix!

I have just put a video on youtube (link below) that shows some of the most common mistakes of everyday life.

I hope it could be useful to you!