Body Image

Body image refers to our beliefs and feelings about how our bodies look and function. Our body image is influenced by our family, our friends, the media and society in general. It's heavily influenced by what we think we "should" look like in order to be attractive and how we think our bodies should "perform." Many of us-both males and females-are not satisfied with our bodies, and our body image is often not a true reflection of how our bodies actually are.

Having a poor body image can affect a person's sexuality in many ways. Here are just a few:

- It can make us settle for unsuitable partners and unhealthy relationships because we don't think we deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.

- It can make us use sex as a way of feeling "good enough."

- It can lead us to take sexual risks in order to feel desirable.

- It can interfere with pleasure by bringing up feelings of inadequacy and shame.

- It can make us waste a lot of time, effort and money trying to be something we're not, while neglecting our own special gifts.

We can enjoy our sexuality a lot more if we work on improving our body image. We can start by giving ourselves positive messages about our bodies and learning to appreciate them as they are instead of putting them down.

Take the first step!

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Moisturizing face gel

  

This simple face gel protects the skin from drying out, and is quick and easy to prepare.

·         150ml water

·         1 teaspoon gelatine

·         2 drops rose oil

·         3 teaspoons glycerine

Boil the water, and then leave it to cool slightly. Dissolve the gelatine in the water, stirring occasionally. Stir in the rose oil and glycerine. Once the gel has cooled, transfer it to a small jar with a lid and store in a cool place.

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FLOUR SKIN SCRUB

Treat your skin with this gentle scrub once a week.

·         115 g corn flour

·         55 g wheat flour

·         115 g dried milk powder

Mix all the ingredients and store in an airtight container. After washing, blend a little of the mixture with warm water to make a paste and massage your face with the scrub for a few minutes. Rinse well. 

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Cleansing cream with cocoa butter

This gentle cleanser will remove most types of make-up. Apply it to your face and neck and leave on for five minutes. Wash your face with warm water to remove and finish with a toner:

·         1 teaspoon grated white beeswax

·         25 g lanolin

·         1 teaspoon cocoa butter

·         40 ml olive oil

·         40 ml rosewater

Melt the wax in a bowl set over a pan of boiling water, and then add the lanolin and cocoa butter: When the mixture has liquefied, add the oil and heat to 65⁰ C. Warm the rosewater in a heatproof dish to the same temperature .Remove from the heat and blend in the rosewater, using an electric hand-mixer on a low setting, until the creamed mixture is cold and thick. Transfer to a jar, seal and store in a cool place.

Lavender Blue!

A well-known flower, famous for its aroma and healing properties, lavender is valuable in natural beauty remedies. It has the ability to normalise the secretions of the sebaceous glands, benefiting both dry and oily skin. Lavender inhibits bacteria and stimulates the growth of healthy new cells. 

BEAUTY RECIPES

For a refreshing skin tonic for dry or oily skin, combine a handful of lavender flowers with 1 cup (240ml) of apple cider vinegar in a screw top jar. Add 3 cups (720ml) of rose water and let the flowers steep for a week. Shake once a day.

Strain and use daily on a cotton ball. Store in the refrigerator. For rough hands, combine 1 tbsp. (15ml) of almond oil with 7 drops of lavender oil and massage in.

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Popular Rosemary

Rosemary is probably one of the most popular and widely used aromatic plants. It improves the circulation and is effective as treatment for hair loss or hair that is in poor condition.  Rosemary cleanses the skin deeply by opening the pores and ridding the skin of impurities. Both the herb and the essential oil are useful, particularly for oily skin.

BEAUTY RECIPES

To relax and revive puffy, swollen eyes, lie down for 15 minutes with a cold rosemary teabag on each closed eye. To restore colour or add shine to dark hair, use an infusion of rosemary as a final rinse.

To strengthen the hair and eliminate dandruff or improve dull, lank hair, massage an infusion of dried rosemary onto the scalp after shampooing. For an oily complexion, use a rosemary infusion to tone . 

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