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Benefits with Orange Peel

Apart from eating the juicy fruit or using it to make a healthy juice, you can use the orange peel to stay healthy too. Here are four great healthy beauty tips on using orange peel.

Create a Body scrub: ..Dried and ground orange peels make the perfect natural body scrub. Not only does it help make your skin silky smooth but it also helps keep it free of any infections. This is because of the peel’s potent antibacterial properties.

Also, orange peel has skin softening properties too and helps get rid of dead skin and ingrown hair.

Tip to use: Run a warm bath and add some crushed orange peel to it. Avoid adding any other type of soap to the water as this could undo the good that the orange peel will do. Allow the warm water to stand for about 15 minutes before you step in for that relaxing bath.

Can help rejuvenate you : The citric scent of oranges is known to be very good in relaxing the mind and beating stress. It also helps relieve mild aches and pains in the body that makes it a perfect addition to a relaxing bath or as a part of scented candles. For that perfect stress buster use orange oil and add it as a part of your stress relief strategy.

Can help beat a cold: According to practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, orange peel has a number of health benefits including the ability to loosen mucus and relieve the symptoms of a cold. Therefore drinking orange peel tea is the perfect natural remedy for an upset stomach, get rid of excessive gas, treat a cold and get rid of congestion. Tip for use: Put some orange peels in a pot of hot water and allow it to stand. Add some honey to this mixture and drink it while it is still warm. Make sure you drink this tea only twice a day.

Lowers cholesterol: Hesperidin, a flavonoid found in the fruit and peel, cuts down lipids in the blood and lowers cholesterol and blood pressure. Drinking water infused with orange and its peel has the ability to lower LDL and it can boost your immunity with vitamin C.

So next time you have an orange don’t throw away the peel use it along with one of these helpful tips.

Let’s talk about Tuesday… Succulents

Talk about it Tuesday is a theme blog post, where I will share a topic and “You” the viewer leave a question in the comment for me.

Each Tuesday in the month of October, I will share a topic for my viewers to leave only 1 question that is related to that topic. Just like last Tuesday post the topic was “3D Printing”. So if you are curious about that subject, please hop on over to that post and leave a question.

With their striking forms and beautiful colors, an a easy reputation to take care of this Tuesday topic is “SUCCULENTS”… SO what do YOU want to know about this beautiful plant? Please let me know in the comment box below….

DIY Fire Cider

Fire Cider is a traditional herbal remedy used to warm up the body during the cold months and support immunity during cold and flu season. Its striking blend of ginger, garlic, onion, horseradish, chilis and other herbs gives it a potent warming quality, while apple cider vinegar and honey give it a pleasant sweet-sour flavor.

Rosemary Gladstar in the late 1970s created this herbal remedy and it is still used today. People take it in winter months to support the immune system at the onset of a cold, to soothe the sniffles and as a warming tonic.Made with common ingredients that you can find at just about any grocery store, fire cider is both easy to make and affordable. Further, due to its reliance on highly accessible ingredients like ginger, onion, garlic and vinegar, fire cider is one of the easiest herbal remedies you can make.

Fire Cider depends upon five dominant herbs including ginger, onion, garlic, horseradish and hot chilis like cayenne. In addition, many home herbalists add turmeric which is strongly anti-inflammatory, rosemary which has anti-microbial properties and is a restorative tonic, or cinnamon for its warmth. I also include star anise which has a sweet, soothing quality.

When you make fire cider, you’ll also add apple cider vinegar and honey. Apple cider vinegar acts as an excellent digestive aid and which helps to extract the medicinal compounds of the herbs. And honey helps soothe the body, makes the tonic more palatable and helps buffer the intensity of the herbs.

How much should you take?

Most people take one or two tablespoons of fire cider at a time, often diluted in water or tea. Many herbalists recommend taking a shot every 3 to 4 hours if you feel a cold coming on.

However, more than a remedy, fire cider is also an excellent food – a delicious, spicy sweet-tart tonic that you can use in place of other vinegars in vinaigrettes and other culinary preparations. Accordingly, it’s a great way to consistently consume medicinal herbs regularly.

Ingredients

3 ounces diced ginger root
3 ounces yellow onion
1 ½ ounces garlic cloves
1 ½ ounce diced horseradish
1 ½ ounces jalapeños
3 star anise pods
1 cinnamon stick
2 cups raw apple cider vinegar
½ cup honey

Quart-sized Jar

Instructions

Layer the ginger, onion, garlic, horseradish and jalapeño into a quart-sized jar with the star anise and cinnamon stick. Cover with apple cider vinegar, adding additional vinegar to cover the contents of the jar as necessary.
Seal the jar, and store it away from direct sunlight at least 1 month and up to 6 weeks. Shake daily.
Strain the vinegar, discarding the solids. Next, stir in the honey until fully dissolved. Store at room temperature up to 6 months and in the fridge up to 18 months.

Dorm room Plants

House plants and college students at times just don’t mix, especially if the student is busy with attending parties or studying in the library long hours of the day and night. If you want their room to appear more habitable by adding houseplants, you need to choose ones that they can’t kill from utter neglect or watering it too much. Here are 4 suggestions that might work. .

Snake Plant:

This plant can survive with little light and little water. A friend told me that she moved out of her dorm room one semester, went home for a couple of months and actually came back to the room to pick up the forgotten plant, and poof! It was still living and looked like the same plant that was left 3 months before. There are lots of varieties of the plant, the one called Laurentii is the most popular and features spear shaped leaves and can grow up to 3-4 feet tall. Plant care: Even if your plant is placed in ample bright indirect light, you won’t need to water it more than once every 10 days (at most) during the growing season. During the winter months or if the plant is in low light, it can need watering as infrequently as once a month.

Rubber Plant aka (ficus plant)

This plant accepts a wide range of growing conditions without dropping any leaves. It accepts low light and only needs water when the soil is completely dry. Rubber plants Plant care: like bright light and a lot of it, but not direct sunlight. A sunny spot shielded by a sheer curtain is often perfect for rubber plants. You can tell if your rubber plant needs more light if it becomes leggy, its leaves lose their luster, and lower leaves fall off.

Cast-iron Plant

It was made for brown-thumb gardeners. Sturdy, long lived and nearly bullet-proff, this evergreen tolerates low light and nearly total neglect. Plant care: Water well and then wait until the soil has almost dried out before watering again. Temperature Average room temperatures are ideal.

Spider Plant

Spider plants will tolerate lower light conditions, however, they prefer bright indirect light where they will flourish. Spider plant needs are simple Plant care: Place the plant in bright to moderate light in a room that’s a comfortable temperature for everyone. Keep the soil slightly moist. Once-a-week watering is sufficient in spring and summer; in winter, allow the soil to dry a bit more between waterings.

Now if you think these plants won’t work at all because you are too busy with college classes or your daughter/son is just not the best with plants you can always choose artificial ones. Nowadays, there are so many choices to choose from that the plant actually looks real and can fool anyone! You can find perfect faux succulents, cacti, or ivy at any local craft store or on Etsy. Our shop actually offers artificial succulents and air plants along with cute planters too! Just follow the link to see : www.printhousedesign.com

Let’s Talk about it… 3D printing

Talk about Tuesday!

This Tuesday and for the next Tuesdays in the month of October I will be posting only a topic and I would love for my followers and viewers to comment in the comment box a question that would be related to the topic. Each week the topic will change and I will be collecting all the questions to answer them in a podcast that will be aired in November or December.

This Tuesday the topic is (3D Printing)…. Ask any questions that you would like to know about the topic! The more the better!