Showing posts with label ingredients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ingredients. Show all posts
Friday, May 27, 2011
Best Liquid Makeup for Sensitive Skin
If the selection of makeup cosmetics go wrong by any chance, then they would definitely take a toll on your sensitive skin. Thus, a day's effort to look beautiful would ultimately cause acne, rashes and pimples to burst open. Being extremely vulnerable to the side effects of the ingredients present in foundations, compacts, concealers and other types of makeup materials, a sensitive skin requires extra attention. While speaking of liquid makeup, we actually consider a liquid foundation, which forms the base of the makeup. Since the foundation is applied directly on your skin, it often shows a reaction against it. So how would you find out the best liquid makeup for sensitive skin? Here we give you some tips...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Safflower Oil Benefits
Safflower oil, as the name suggests, is a form of oil that is taken out from the seeds of the safflower plant. There are two ways in which safflower oil is extracted from the plant - the chemical process and the mechanical process. During the chemical process, the oil is refined by adding certain chemicals into it. This process actually eliminates the essential nutrients found in the oil and also contaminates it with certain harmful chemicals which can cause negative effects on the body, on consumption. The other method of extracting oil from the safflower seeds is the mechanical method. In this method, instead of using chemicals, oil is taken from the plant by using a natural expeller. This is a better method than the former one, because it helps in retaining all the naturally found ingredients in safflower oil. Due to this reason, consumers should check the label well before buying safflower oil to know the method used for making the oil. Let us look at the essential ingredients present in safflower oil, before we go into the safflower oil benefits.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Oven Baked Chicken Thighs
Chicken can be cooked in different ways using a combination of ingredients. One of the best ways to cook chicken thighs is by baking or barbecuing them. This method of cooking ensures that the meat is thoroughly cooked, and also enhances the flavor of the ingredients added to the chicken. make an excellent appetizer before any meal. Here are some delectable oven baked chicken thighs recipes, you can try at home.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Calories in Poached Eggs
Eggs are loved by a lot of people across the globe. Be it scrambled eggs with bacon, soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers, egg omelets with cheese, delicious Italian frittatas, or simple poached eggs with vegetables; eggs have become a staple food and an inseparable part of our breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes. If someone asks me to name one of the healthiest ways of eating eggs, I would always recommend poached eggs, which is indeed a healthy egg recipe. And, making poached eggs is one of the simplest ways of preparing eggs. Eggs are poached in boiling water or in a special instrument, which is called an egg poacher. The preparation method of poached eggs involves a very few ingredients. Moreover, one can combine well prepared poached eggs with healthy green vegetables, or breakfast foods like cereals and fresh fruit juice, to make it a really tasty and nutritious affair. If you are finding my above statement hard to believe, then check out the following article that deals with the nutrition facts and calories in poached eggs.
Healthy Fast Food Meals
With people spending more time at work than at home, consuming a healthy 'homemade' meal on a regular basis becomes very difficult. With time passing by more quickly than the speed of light, fast food seems to be the most quick, easy, cheap and irresistibly yummy food corner to eat up. I mean how convenient is it! You drive down to work, and on your way there is a drive-thru window to give you a meal that can be consumed while you drive and save your time to actually cook it all by yourself. But have you ever given it a thought as to how much is this 'convenience' causing your health! It is difficult to stop eating fast food completely, but you can always opt for some healthy fast food meals over the 'unhealthy one'. Yes, the secret lies in choosing the right meal options over the wrong ones, and you can find some healthy meal choices even in your favorite fast food restaurant, if you just watch out on the ingredients like trans fats, sodium, cholesterol and sugar, a little more closely.
Raw Sunflower Seeds Nutrition Facts
Sunflower seeds are commonly used as garnish or ingredients in various recipes and snacks, and as a part of salads and cereals. Eating raw sunflower seeds can drastically improve the regulation of blood pressure in the body, unlike any animal protein. Sunflower seeds are immensely rich in unsaturated fat (about 90%). This may help keep the level of 'good cholesterol' high in the body, thereby countering the ill-effects on 'bad cholesterol'. These seeds are a rich source of vitamins, minerals and poly and monounsaturated fats. So Get some quick information about raw sunflower seeds nutrition facts and get the answer yourself!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Apple Pie Recipes with Fresh Apples
The warm whiff of an apple pie baking will set off hunger pangs, really big ones, that will need a whole pie to satiate. An apple pie, as the name suggest is a fruit pie, whose main ingredient is 'apples'. The pastry or crust used in apple pies is shaped depending upon the type of pie one wants to relish. A top and bottom double crust pie, where the upper crust could be plain or lattice woven of strips, whereas a deep dish apple pie has only the top crust. The type and form of apples used can make a whole lot of difference in the cooking time and the taste of your apple pie recipes with fresh apples. can be fresh, canned or even made from dried ones. Preferably use fresh ones, but in their absence, dried or preserved (canned) apples can be used. Although, English in origin, apple pie today, is more associated with the American culture. As with a mix of cultures, the apple pie filling recipes remains the one all can enjoy, and with ingredients available anywhere. Hence, it does not matter which part of the world one stays in to enjoy this yummy fresh apple filled pastry.
How to Make Ginger Ale
With the arrival of hot summer months, many of us are busy searching for healthy summertime drinks. One of the tasty beverages that you can easily prepare at home is ginger ale. Basically it is a mildly sweet, carbonated drink with ginger imparting the main flavor. In commercial ginger ale products, manufacturers use corn syrup (high fructose type) for cutting down the cost of production. Instead of purchasing this beverage from the market, you can try making it at home with easily available ingredients.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Safe Beauty Products
Beauty products, be it skin care or makeup are used by all women. All skin care products and cosmetics contains chemicals and preservatives that is required to keep them in a stable state. But have you ever wondered how safe are these beauty products for your skin and health. Research has shown that many use harmful chemicals and stabilizers that not only harms your skin but might also lead to diseases like cancer, gastrointestinal disorders and nervous disorders. It is therefore wise to use safe beauty products that has natural ingredients or at best should not contain harmful chemicals. Because of minimal or almost non existent regulation by FDA, most manufacturers get away with selling and beauty products that has loads of harmful ingredients. Here we are going to discuss what are safe beauty products and how you can recognize them.
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