Old-Time Herbal Beauty Tips

Before the big cosmetics companies took over, women often invented their own beauty aids. Here are a few of the herbal beauty tips my grandmother left behind.

Some old fashioned herbal beauty tips are extremely simple. For example, to bleach, your skin rub cucumber slices on your face.

For centuries, herbs were the main source of beauty aids, then along came the big cosmetic companies and the…

I've been under a catastrophic amount of stress lately, so I just rattled this one off this morning because I wanted something yummy and healthy to start the day.

✨✨💜💙🍋Levi's lavender-blueberry lemonade for peace of mind.🍋 💙💜✨✨

Ingredients:

2 lemon slices

Handful of frozen blueberries

2 small sprigs of lavender from the garden

Store-bought lemonade

1/2 can LaCroix passion fruit sparkling water.

Put all fruit and lavender in your glass after you squeeze the lemons in. Crush berries if desired. Pour lemonade and sparkling water over at a ratio of half and half.

Stir clockwise and repeat:

"As I add these blueberries,

Let all good luck be in times three.

Lemon cleanse to purify me,

Lavender soothe, so may it be."

INFUSED WATERS 101 GUIDE 

I’m a busy mom of 4 full-time fitness instructor and coach... busy YES!  But I learned some tricks to stay on top of my game when is about MY NUTRITION because if I don’t do it WHO WILL? 

Here are my best tips!! Enjoy! and Share it with your friends!! 

Ingredients

Choose organic when you can. Wash produce and rinse herbs to remove chemicals, pesticides, and other residues.

Water

Use cold or room temperature filtered water. Hot water makes produce fall apart faster and can compromise the nutrients you’re trying to coax out of the ingredients.

Containers

Glass, plain and simple. You can splash out for purpose-built infusing pitchers and bottles, but you don’t have to. Spend on fresh produce instead.

Prep Tips

Softer fruits like citrus and strawberries can be sliced thick, thin, halved, or quartered. Harder fruits like apples should be sliced very thinly because they take longer to release flavors.

Crush fibrous ginger root, rosemary, and lemongrass with a muddler or wooden spoon; tear or crush leafy herbs like mint, basil, and cilantro to release their oils.

Loose herbs and flowers—lavender, rose petals, dried hibiscus—can be corralled in a tea infuser or cheesecloth.

Soak Time and Temperature

Infuse water at room temperature for no more than 2 hours. After that, put it in the fridge to prevent bacterial growth.

Cucumbers, citrus fruits, melons, and mint flavor water almost immediately. Apples, cinnamon, fresh ginger root, and rosemary need an overnight soak in the fridge.

Melons and sliced strawberries start looking waterlogged after a few hours; citrus, and whole berries look pretty good even after hours in the fridge.

After 4 hours, unpeeled citrus can make water taste bitter. To make a big jug of infused water for a party, peel the citrus before soaking. Or you can soak it unpeeled for 4 hours, remove it, and add fresh slices for looks. (And keep that water icy cold for food safety.)

If you don’t drink the water within 24 hours, strain out the solids and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

To keep sipping all day long, refill your infused water container when it’s half full. It will be weaker than your first drink, but still flavorful.

Keep it simple. Think of flavor combos you like in other recipes and build from there. Here are some ideas to get you started:

Cucumber + lime + strawberry + mint

Lemon + raspberry + rosemary

Orange + blueberry + basil

Lime + ginger root + basil

Watermelon + honeydew + mint

Cucumber + mint + jalapeno

Lemon + thyme

Orange + hibiscus + star anise

Orange + cinnamon + cardamom + cloves

Pear + fennel

Stay thirsty, my friends.

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xoxoxoxo,

Peggy Rojas

Cucumbers, mint,  stevia, lime, and lemon-scented geranium are steeping in my pitcher It is hot here in Maryland and I am trying to quench my thirst with something healthy, no calories and with ingredients ready to hand – infused water. Its beneficial hydration in every refreshing sip!  If you often work outside like I do in the summer, there is nothing better than to whip up one of these…

I just went shopping and bought beautiful strawberries, watermelon, lemons and lime. Herb wise I bought more sage, rosemary and edible flowers.

I'm going to have fun this week.