12 Easy Home Remedies for Chapped Lips

Posted by: Sara in Home Remedies

The protective layer on the skin of your lips is far too thinner than the skin of your face. It has only three to five cellular layers whereas the skin of your face has up to 16 layers! This makes your lips prone to moisture loss in a big way. Not only this, there is no sweat glands too on your lips. If you think for a while, your lips never sweat! Also there is no hair on lips thereby no hair follicle that may secret sebum or oil to keep your lips moist and hydrated. Sometimes weather too contributes in making your lips dried and chapped such as winter months that lack humidity in air. Your lips are not safe even in summers due to over exposure to sun rays that make it more drier by sucking whatever moisture it has. Sometimes you knowingly or unknowingly lick your lips and the saliva of your mouth too contributes in making it dry as if all the above causes for chapped lips were not enough! So, what to do? Because your lips cannot remain moist themselves, you need to provide them with extra moisture. These home remedies for chapped lips are meant exactly for this, to tell you what all can lend moisture to your lips so that they remain wet and plump! Home Remedies for Chapped Lips

Powerful Home Remedies For Hair Growth

The Need For Hair Growth

In some people overall thinning of the hair occurs without any bald spot or patterns. The individual will that the hair is not thick or full as it previously was. There are many reasons for this hair loss condition and most of them can be effectively treated using home remedies for hair growth. It is normal for a healthy person to lose up to 100 hairs a day. Though the condition is very common, it is very tough to live with it as it may change your appearance.
Causes Of General Hair Loss

The important causes of general hair loss include

•    Rapid shedding of hair after child birth
•    Hair loss after fever
•    Sudden weight loss
•    Some medications
•    Certain illness and infections
•    Severe stress
•    Thyroid problems
•    Anemia
•    Age
•    Poor diet

Symptoms Of Hair Loss

Hair thinning occurs very slowly and you may not notice the problem. Some of the important symptoms are
•    Clumps of hair fall out
•    Loss of more than 100 hairs in a day
•    Thinning of the hairline
It is necessary to understand the cause for hair loss and treat it with appropriate home remedies for hair growth. Good nutrition, good hygiene and adequate levels of vitamins and irons ensure the growth and health of the hair. Read More

Top 10 Herbs For Hair Growth

Hair loss is a common concern these days for both men and women who are in their mid to late adulthood. Many people are suffering from baldness, receding hairline, hair loss and thinning of hair. Even though hair loss is very commonly seen in men here are many females too who are prone to this problem. The regular use of treatments like hair dyeing, hair straightening and curling which leads to many harmful chemicals being used on the hair is one of the main reasons why females also feel hair loss at some stage in their life. Some of the other factors that are responsible for hair loss in humans according to the American Academy of Dermatology are: poor diet, improper care of the hair, health disorders like thyroid and anemia problems, inborn conditions like menopause and alopecia and also due to chemotherapy and certain medications.

The hair is not just a part of your body and it is a symbol of beauty, status and health. It is important for you to take proper care of your health in order to prevent early hair loss. It is not a very serious problem and with a little bit of caution you will be able to prevent further hair loss. There are certain uncontrollable factors like pregnancy conditions or certain illness or genetic factors that will result in hair loss. But, this does not mean that you cannot do something about your hair loss. Read More

Muslim Minister Of UK Resigned Over Gaza Tragedy

British Foreign Office minister Syeeda Warsi

LONDON: A Muslim British Foreign Office minister, Syeeda Warsi, who was also the first Muslim to sit in the UK cabinet, has resigned over the UK government’s policy on Gaza, TheNewsTribe reported.

Her resignation was made public through twitter when she wrote on Tuesday that, “With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister (David Cameron) & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza.”

Warsi was the first Muslim to handle as a full cabinet minister. Cameron had appointed Warsi as chair of the Conservative Party and minister without portfolio in May 2010.

It should be noted that the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron has drawn criticism as his coalition partner Labor party has also been blamed for its silence and for not taking a tougher stance against Israel over its military attacks and atrocities on children of Gaza. Read More

Israel Withdraws Ground Forces From Gaza Before 72-Hour Ceasefire

Israeli soldiers from the paratroop battalion return to Israel . Photo: AP

Jerusalem: Israeli ground forces will completely withdraw from the Gaza Strip before a 72-hour Egyptian-mediated ceasefire, which began at 3pm on Tuesday (AEST), a military spokesman said.

"The Israel Defence Forces will be redeployed in defensive positions outside the Gaza Strip and we will maintain those defensive positions," Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said.

Citing briefings from the military, Israel Radio and Army Radio also announced that ground forces have completed their main war mission of destroying cross-border tunnels dug by Palestinian militants.

At least 32 of the underground passages – and dozens of access shafts – were located and blown up, Israel Radio and Army Radio said.

Just hours before the ceasefire started, the Gaza conflict arrived in deadly form in Jerusalem. In two separate attacks, a Palestinian man killed an Israeli while overturning a bus with a construction vehicle in West Jerusalem and a few hours later a gunman wounded a soldier in an attack in East Jerusalem. Both attacks appeared to be a backlash against Israel's Gaza war.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility but a spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, said: "We praise the heroic and brave operations in Jerusalem, which come as a natural reaction to the crimes and massacres by the occupation against our people in Gaza." Read more 

A man at a funeral in Beit Lahiya carries the body of a girl from the Abu Nejim family, whom medics said was killed along with eight other family members by an Israeli air strike. Photo: Reuters

Afghan Princess Faces Eviction From Manhattan Apartment

Matt A. V. Chaban

Zeynep Osman,a niece of the last king of Afghanistan.Photo: New York Times

New York: Tutankhamen, Richard III, Archduke Franz Ferdinand - throughout history, the deaths of monarchs have set off wars, revolutions and writing careers. Now, the passing of the last of the imperial Ottoman Turks has led to a battle over the rent-controlled apartment of an ageing Afghan on the Upper East Side.

In 1945, Ertugrul Osman moved into a two-bedroom walk-up apartment on the top floor of a three-storey commercial building. Though it had a handsome mansard roof at the time and a prime uptown location, the stout 10-metre-wide property was practically a hovel compared with the  50-hectare Yildiz Palace in old Constantinople where Osman was born and where his grandfather Abdul Hamid II ruled from 1876 to 1909. Had the empire not been dissolved, Osman would have taken the throne in 1994.

Instead he spent 64 years in the same apartment until he died in 2009 on a trip to Istanbul with his second wife, Her Imperial Highness Zeynep Osman, who had joined him after their marriage in 1991. Like her husband, Zeynep Osman's royal family had had to flee its home in Afghanistan in the 1920s.

Now Osman, who was born in Turkey, fears she may be forced out of her New York home.

After her building was sold in 2011 for $US10.1 million ($10.8 million), her new landlord, Avi Dishi, went by to see her that October.

"The first words out of his mouth were: 'I want you out. I paid too much for this building to have you here,' " Osman, 69, recalled, sitting inside her large living room sharing platters of cookies and crackers - a courtly gesture she said she also extended to her landlord, along with any other guests. Read more

Guo Meimei, China's most brazen 'professional mistress', confesses on TV

Philip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media

Guo Meimei living the high life, here.Photo: Supplied

 

Beijing: In the end, the downfall of Guo Meimei, widely considered China’s most brazen “professional mistress”, came through the same means she achieved fame and notoriety – an indiscriminate series of ostentatious and overly revealing internet blog posts.

Ms Guo, 23, was arrested by police with seven others ahead of the football World Cup final last month, amid a crackdown on the massive illegal online betting on the tournament in China. Rather indiscreetly, she had been bragging to her legion of nearly two million followers on Weibo – China’s broad equivalent of Twitter – about the big bets she was making.

Ms Guo, with her penchant for fast cars, designer brands and documenting her glamour-filled life on social media, has simultaneously captivated China's netizens while infuriating them with her relentless flaunting of her inexplicable wealth - a gleaming example of inequality in a nation grappling with the social divide.

There are the shots of her sunbathing on luxury yachts and her sitting behind stacks of casino chips in Macau. Yet those fall in the subtle category: Ms Guo also once posted a screenshot of her bulging 10-digit bank balance for all to admire.

On Monday, China’s state broadcaster China Central Television revealed some of the money’s origins, in an astonishing news package complete with a recorded ‘confession’ by a meek Ms Guo and testimony from a sour ex-boyfriend and a snitching personal assistant.

On top of participating in the online World Cup betting syndicate, she admitted to operating an illegal poker den from an inner-city Beijing apartment. She also supplemented her income by having sex with men for money, but never for less than 100,000 yuan ($17,400) an encounter.Read more