Make your tarnished silver and dull jewelry shine like new after a cleaning with common household items like aluminium foil, baking soda or even ketchup. Cleaning silver with Ketchup: If your silver is tarnished, ketchup can help. Squirt a small amount on a paper towel, and rub gently over the tarnished … Read more
Curly hair presents its own set of challenges and demands for proper hair care. Below are some of the best tips out there to ensure that your curly hair stays manageable, strong and beautiful: Shampoo Less, Condition More Unless you absolutely need to shampoo your hair once a day (i.e. … Read more
Stuffed Round Gourd (Tinday) Recipe Type: Main Cuisine: Pakistani Author: Madiha Hamid Much like any other child, I had a special hatred for the deceptive ‘tinda’ which looked just like a potato but much to my dismay, wasn’t one. However, as I grew older I developed a taste for the … Read more
Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins Recipe Type: Dessert Author: Adapted from The Foolproof Freezer Cookbook by Ghillie James Serves: 12 Ingredients • 3/4 cup whole milk • 1 large egg • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract with seed • 2 cups self-rising flour • 3/4 cup … Read more
There’s no doubting the powerful role smell can play in stimulating a craving—freshly baked apple pie, anyone? But here’s some surprising good news: Smelling certain scents can also help you with weight loss. Extra Virgin Olive Oil A new study from the German Research Center for Food Chemistry found that even … Read more
Learning the essentials behind organic gardening can help you reach the right path to making your very own “Garden of Eden”. The key to a success is patience and the willingness to get “muddy” along with these five simple tips. 1. Create a Plan Creating a plan is very important if … Read more
The Alkaline Diet – If you hadn’t realised, 2013 is the year that we all go hard core for health. Now this can be great, getting a bit more clued up about healthy eating is obviously a winner, but some of the diets that have burst onto our scenes promising us the world have … Read more
Tired of clothes that pill, fade and fall apart after just one season? Use these tips to spot quality clothing: Metal Zippers Plastic zippers are harder to zip (and keep zipped), go off track more often, and wear out quickly. Look for garments with metal zippers, and you’ll avoid all … Read more
Not a fan of yogurt or milk? Try these excellent foods to get enough bone-building, fat-burning calcium. Long touted as a bone builder, more recently calcium has been shown to help control hunger and reduce body fat, and linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, healthy blood pressure … Read more
When the boundary of the skin is crossed or cut, it heals with a scar. New skin scars are thick and full of blood vessels, but over a period of several months they become flatter and the blood supply decreases. Skin scars that remain thick and wide but are confined … Read more
Are you afraid that you are shedding hair even as you read this? Well, if it is beyond the 50-100 strands which is deemed the average hair fall on a daily basis, then you have something to worry about. Hair damage is a common phenomenon; dust, pollution, excessive styling and … Read more