AMAZING BENEFITS OF RICE WATER. IT WORKS!!!

The next time you make rice, don’t throw away the water! It turns out it’s one of the cheapest ways to pamper your skin and hair!Rice water is full of vitamins and minerals that are wonderful for both hair and skin, something women in Asian cultures have known for centuries. Traditionally, female rice farmers in China, Japan, and other southeast Asian countries used to bathe and wash in the water used for cleaning rice.

One week rice water in a jar

Make Your Own Rice Water, What You’ll Need:

  • 1/2 cup uncooked rice (brown, white long grain, white short grain, jasmine, or what ever you have)
  • 2 cups water

To make rice water, first rinse the rice with about a cup of water to remove any dirt or impurities.Then, place 1/2 cup of uncooked rice in a bowl and cover with water. Let the rice soak for 15 to 30 minutes. Swirl it around and lightly knead it until the water turns cloudy. This will help the vitamins and minerals seep into the water, creating a nourishing rinse for your hair and skin.Strain out the rice water into a clean bowl or container. You can store your rice water in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for a few up to a week.Your rice water is ready to use for a variety of hair and skin treatments:
Skin Benefits

Rice water contains vitamins, minerals and amino acids which are essential for beautiful skin, including ferulic acid, which is a great antioxidant, and allantoin, known for it’s anti-inflammatory properties.

Facial cleanser
Using rice water to cleanse your face is as simple as dipping a cotton ball or pad into the liquid and gently massaging it into your skin for couple of minutes. Let your face air dry to make sure it really absorbs all of the good stuff. With regular use you will notice your skin feeling soft, tight, and radiant. Use every day as part of your skin care routine.

Facial toner
You can also use rice water as a toner. Soak a cotton ball or pad and apply to face after cleansing to minimize the appearance of pores and tighten skin. This natural skin toner promotes cell growth, stimulates blood flow, and helps keep your skin smooth and bright.22 CommentThe next time you make rice, don’t throw away the water! It turns out it’s one of the cheapest ways to pamper your skin and hair!

Rice water is full of vitamins and minerals that are wonderful for both hair and skin, something women in Asian cultures have known for centuries. Traditionally, female rice farmers in China, Japan, and other southeast Asian countries used to bathe and wash in the water used for cleaning rice.

One of the best things about rice water is that it’s probably the simplest DIY “beauty product” you’ll ever make. Some rice and water is literally all you need!

Make Your Own Rice Water

What You’ll Need:

  • 1/2 cup uncooked rice (brown, white long grain, white short grain, jasmine, or what ever you have)
  • 2 cups water

To make rice water, first rinse the rice with about a cup of water to remove any dirt or impurities.Then, place 1/2 cup of uncooked rice in a bowl and cover with water. Let the rice soak for 15 to 30 minutes. Swirl it around and lightly knead it until the water turns cloudy. This will help the vitamins and minerals seep into the water, creating a nourishing rinse for your hair and skin.Strain out the rice water into a clean bowl or container. You can store your rice water in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for a few up to a week.Your rice water is ready to use for a variety of hair and skin treatments.

Acne treatment
Rice water also helps heal acne and cools the redness of an outbreak. It acts as an astringent on the skin, tightening the pores.

Treats eczema
The starch components in rice water are effective in easing the effects of eczema on your skin. Dip a clean washcloth into the water and pat all over the affected skin. Continue doing this for a couple of minutes and make sure you air dry it.

For irritated skin
Apply rice water on rashes or other skin inflammation to soothe it naturally. A dermatological study on patients with atopic dermatitis claimed that taking a 15 minute bath with rice water twice a day could improve the condition significantly.

Sunburn soother
Rice water is also used for cooling inflammations and burnt skin. It will help your skin recover fast and prevent further damage. Cold rice water, in such cases, is preferred.
Hair benefits

Rice water contains inositol, a carbohydrate that helps strengthen elasticity and reduce surface friction. check here to see how I use mine:

Hair rinse
Rinsing your hair with rice water adds shine to your hair and helps to keep it strong and healthy. For extra nourishment, add few drops of essential oils such as rosemary, lavenderor geranium. After shampooing, pour the rice water on your hair. Gently massage your scalp and hair then rinse your hair thoroughly with plain water. Use it once or twice a week as a last rinse.

Hair conditioner

DIY Rice deep conditioner


Rice water can also be used as a hair conditioner. Add a few drops of rosemary, lavender, or geranium essential oil to the rice water and apply all over your tresses. Let it stay for 10 -20 minutes before you wash off with cold water. check this video to see how I make my DIY rice conditioner: https://youtu.be/NAS1EIk3o8s

Another style too: https://youtu.be/YW1sDWLy9UY

Give it a try and let me know. if you have used rice water or made your own deep conditioner, how has your journey been.

CAUTION:

Ricewater has an unpleasant smell, so in order to feel comfortable while using it, add your preferred essential or carrier oils of your choice and you are good.

For the DIY rice deep conditioner, preserve it in your frigde for as long as you want to, its safe.

Remember, yes it works but it works when you maintain a good routine. I have maintained a two weeks wash and daily spray in and it has really yielded me enough ptoof to be sharing this with you. so maintain a good one and watch your hair grow!!!

Hope you watch the Youtube videos for further information on how to properly use rice for your hair.

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FRESH SMOOTHIE: A HEALTHY BOTTLE WITH A BURST OF LOVE AND NUTRIENTS! AH!!

Hello there and welcome
so I have been posting this on my WhatsApp status and I have not had enough space to actually explain all the smoothie and lemon water thingy, well, first of all, it’s not a new thing to me or my sister,  the only difference is that I am drinking it with the slice in my water, so my parents are lords on the healthy living orishirishi, they have their lemon water morning and evening, but theirs is juiced and it goes with not so much amount of hot water.

Fruit infused water

They have been a lot on the issue of drinking lemon water and what not, basically of its acidic content or something, but no, drinking it, is very much healthy and the main function is to flush the system of waste and unwanted rubbish from the body, we go about eating all sorts of things without bothering what happens to our stomach and all of that. 

Coming to the UK, when I and my friend went out to eat and ask for water, there was always a slice of lemon in the water and it tasted so nice, had a brief discussion with one of the students in my college building and she went about telling me how good it was and all of that, so I decided to start having it regularly.

My favorite snack. A ix of life’s awesomeness


So I will invite you to start any of them, whether juiced or in the slice. then on the smoothie issue, I have always eaten them and it got to a point that we stopped having some kind of fruits at home, my parents started taking a different kind of juice, basically, carrot, onions, ginger, utazi (its very bitter, mostly used for pepper soup) so if you must eat them, you should be budgeting for yourself, however leaving home and staying alone, I have the ability to budget for myself and buy my fruits and as a new person in the UK,  I  wasn’t  quite conversant with the nice drinks around, so smoothie came in very well, all I did was to get my personal smoothie blender and started.

So far so good it’s been an awesome investment that I have made and I love it.

NB: BAck to NIgeria now and miss it so much, so much. my smoothie blender had issues and for months now I haven’t had my fave. but soon hopefully I will get a replacement.

INTERNET STREETS ARE NOT SAFE: TWO WAY AUTHENTICATION

by Chiamaka Ohadiugha

In a world where technology is growing on a high speed, a lot of criminal things still go on. The security of users and their information is questioned, if at all they are safe to freely engage without having an worry. I have heard and read stories on how accounts and handles from social media were hacked, but I have never felt it would be my case some day. I have always checked my settings to see that my security is properly up to date. well!!!! guess some humans grow in their skill in intruding into other peoples space ands want to carry out their missions.

Have you experienced any kind of hacking on your social media accounts and because of that you open new accounts, or you have never experiened such and will like to prevent any incident before it happens. well at the end of this read, you get to see what I did immediatley I noticed that my account was hacked.

On the 3rd of March, 2020, at about 2:00 pm (WAT), I got a notification my instagram asking me to identify a particular information. I was first in shock, but went ahead to view the information, and I saw a totally different login, with the funniest email address I have ever seen. One thing I forgot to do was copy the phone number there, but my mind was occupied with rage, all I wanted to do was get my Intagram account back.

The first thing I did was to reject the login I was seeing, it was not me obviously. The next thing I did was to changed my password. Now this didn’t come easy because not only did the code come late, entering it was another issue but I kept on with it. after rigorous trials, my new password was finally saved….. I signed “oh finally” I thought. I didn’t know there was one more thing to combat.

All this while I was getting back my account from my email box. I finally openned my instagram account and even though my new information stated saved, I was still logged out of my account. a couple of further inputs and it was successful this time, which meant that my account was back to normal.

Now the account was back, and the first thing I realise is that I already had messages from friends. some already had dicussion with this fraud.

I panicked!!!!….. what could be worse than this.

In a bid to calm down and correct mistakes that had already taken place, I alerted everyone of the error in the messages they had received and cleared the fact that it was fraud.

Then!!!!!!!!!!!

I found out that, quite a lot of people were sent this message as well, I had to message every single person that got the message. Well those who had not openned it I did not bother, I just simply hit the “Unsend” option.

phewww!!!!!!! I finally got my account back running.

Now this is the part that you need to take seriously. After the whole back and forth, I got the best advice on what to do after retriving my account. “TWO WAY AUTHENTICATION”

The two way authentication process gives you the best options you could ever wish for in terms of protecting your social media apps. There are two options, via text message or through an app.

Best belive that I secured my account both ways, did not want to take chances again.

Via text message, you are simply sent codes which you are advised to screenshot and save for future purposes. The app on the other hand is called “Duo” and you can get it from ios or Android. It is recommended from instagram itself, so have no worries… I hope.

I hope this has englighted you and given you a valid information on what to do in case of a possible hack on your social media accounts. from time to time, update yor security logins on any of your apps. The DUO app, also enables two way authentification for as many apps as possible.

Stay Safe!!!!!!!

Be Security concious!!!!

Till my next read, Cheers!!!

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