Home Made Scrubs

I do home made scrubs - try a little say sugar or salt with your fav shower gel - if you dont smell or feel some huge chemical reaction on your hands - make a 500gm pot of this say

400gm sugar or salt
100gm shower gel

Use salt of sugar as you please - salt has antiseptic properties & use coarse suagr of salt progressively form the fine kind as you wish for more exfoliation action. the mixture is not a hard & fast 4:1 - its really up to you.

My slimming scrub: ( I took this idea from US magazines - Celebs do it too even with rolling pins for extra anti cellulite function)
coffee for brewing - get those really cheap ones SGD $3+/500gm kind

mix abit at a time or all at once
250gm coffee powder
100gm sugar fine or course
mix some in a plastic bowl/container with just abit of water & massage into wet skin,
Massage helps circulation, Coffee & sugar particles help exfoliation.circulation
Caffeine helps prevents cellulite - aids fat burning (alternative to caffeine slimming pills)
Sugar helps to mask - draw out impurities from the skin
Leave on if you can for about 5 mins - shower off - finish off with shower gel or soap as you wish.

REMEMBER to shower off with soap/shower gel & rinse your shower walls or bath properly to avoid feeding the ants!

Apple Cider Vinegar

Information from website: www.bragg.com
Ingredients:
Certified Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar is unfiltered, unheated, unpasteurized and 5% acidity. Contains the amazing Mother of Vinegar which occurs naturally as strand-like enzymes of connected protein molecules.
Information:
Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar is made from delicious, healthy, organically grown apples. Processed and bottled in accordance with USDA guidelines, it is Certified Organic by Organic Certifiers and Oregon Tilth; and is Kosher Certified. Bragg Organic Raw Apple Cider Vinegar is full of zesty natural goodness. It’s a wholesome way to add delicious flavor to salads, veggies, most foods, and even sprinkle over popcorn.
Apple Cider Vinegar has been highly regarded throughout history. In 400 B.C. the great Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, used it for its amazing health qualities



INTERNAL BENEFITS:
Rich in enzymes & potassium
Support a healthy immune system
Helps control weight
Promotes digestion & ph Balance
Helps soothe dry throats
Helps remove body sludge toxins

EXTERNAL BENEFITS:
Helps maintain healthy skin
Helps promote youthful, healthy bodies
Soothes irritated skin
Relieves muscle pain from exercise

How i take this:
I usually mix 1 tbs Honey with luke warm water 200ml
then 1 tbs of ACV
another 200-300ml of water 2-3 cubes of ice

Its better drank as a cider drink - best neat with water warm or cold u you can take it but i found that after a while of drinking with warm water - its taste so horrible I just gave up & lost all the benefits.

My Review:

After Confinement month. Usually weight loss here is very fast as its alot of water loss after birth nearly 1-2 kg a week loss. BUt then in mth 2 wt loss stagnated weeks 4-6.
I started take 3 times a day 2 weeks, in the 3rd week i start lost 2 kg. Continued this 3 times a day for weeks 6 - 12, (3rd mth end of maternity leave i went back to work earlier) Continued on & off 1 time every 2 days or so - in 5th mth after deliver i regained my pre pregnancy weight.
I was 81kg before I got pregnant,
101 at full term,
94kg after delivery
around 89 after Confinement mth.
Lost 8 kgs in about 4 mths.

Please note I believe post delivery weight loss usually is quite fast especially taking into consideration I also Breast feed totally week 3 onwards. But i know i Continued to eat alot -else the weight loss in totality could have been greater.

Extra Tips: You can Vary the honey & the ACV to more each time or less each time 1 time a day or 3 times a day.

Best 20 mins after a meal 3 times a day 1 tbs ACV for accelerated detox & slimming.

Bioessence Inch Loss Body Cream Celebrity's Choice

http://www.ginvera.com/shop_online/product.asp?cat_id=4

Price: S$29.90

Info from website: CELEBRITY'S CHOICE Inchloss Body CreamA Slender Body In 28 Days

Description:A revolutionary product withunique natural and bio-heat,active ingredients such as BioMineral Essence to help firm tummies, flabby thighs and arms effectively in 28 days.You'll feel a warm tingling sensation every time you massage this product into your skin as it is a sign of the process to a slender new you.

Ingredients:Biotin (Biogel), Ginger (Zinger officinale) Extract, Capsicum (Capsicum Frutescens) Extract, Rice (Oryza Sativa) Extract, Propylene Glycol, Cetyl Alcohol, Isopropyl Myristate, Octyldodecanol, Pineapple (Ananas Sativus) Extract, Stearic Acid, Cetearyl Alcohol, Caffeine, Dimethylsiloxane Polymer, PEG-40 Hydrogenated Castor Oil, Menthol, Ginseng (Panax Ginseng) Extract, Bioflavonoids (Bio Mineral Essence), Triethanolamine, Propyl Paraben, Methyl Paraben Imidazodynyl Urea.

Direction of Use: Always massage in upward circular motion for a few minutes.Suitable for arms, tummy and thighs area.

Started:- 22ndMarch SUN
NIte time started
Waist XXcm
Hips XXcm
Thigh at groin XXcm L & R
Applied on: Tum Thighs Butt, Hips
Immed reactions: Very hot within 5 mins – heat went off within 1 hr – I think cos aircon room so it was cool didn’t sweat – so the effects went off.

23rd morning MON
Applied on: Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms
Morning: PS a load of Crap!
Daytime till evening – butt still warm warm
Nite still had burning effects after bath.
NIte: Waist -3cm (collective since start of use of pdt)


24th TUE
Morn Applied on:Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms
Nite Applied on: Tum Thighs Butt, Hips,
Nite: Waist -2cm (collective since start of use of pdt)


25th WED

Morn Applied on:Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms
Waist – 4cm (collective since start of use of pdt)
Morning: PS a load of Crap (less than monday!)

Nite didnt apply cos after bath it was very hot, cream still at work for a good 30 mins after the bath.

INch loss: maintained.

26th THUR

Morn Applied on:Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms

INch loss: maintained.

Nite bathed Hiamness maintained anotehr 30 mins on thighs (cos maybe i put more cream there this morn)

Inch Loss: Maintained

27th FRI

Morn Applied on:Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms
INch loss: Maint.

Morning Load of crap again.

NIte did not apply

28-29th Weekend didnt apply cos of attending to my child.

30th Mon

Morn Applied on:Tum Thighs Butt, Hips, Arms

Wrapped with cling wrap except arms. BUrns like crazy even after 1 hr.