Baking soda for whiter teeth

Baking soda is so commonly used for dental hygiene that it has even been added to mainstream toothpaste in some cases. It helps you keep a fresh breath too. It can even be added to lemon juice and honey, giving you a healing boost against almost anything. It makes your body alkaline, putting up a protective shield against viruses and diseases. It neutralises the acidic environment which bring about illnesses of all kind.

Sage for white, shiny teeth...

Sage is truly a magic herb, with numerous usages, even your teeth will like it.

To have beautifully white, shiny and teeth, brush them, as usual and then twice a day, rub them vigorously with fresh sage leaves.

The surface of sage leaves is soft and hairy, perfect for polishing your teeth.

To get shiny hair

Follow the elders beauty recipes by adding some lemon drops or some vinegar to the last rinsing water, rubbing it into the scalp and hair was and is still, the best and cheapest way of getting beautiful shiny hair. Beer is also good.

To get beautiful highlights in your hair

Dark haired who would like to get highlights in their hair should try this recipe: 

boil 4 big, previously washed, leeks in a litre of water for 20 minutes. Use this water as last rinse after your shampoo.

For blondes this recipe will accentuate the golden strains in their hair with the same method but with two handful of German Camomile flowers instead of the leeks.

Picture just to illustrate not actual result.

Both could use the following recipe to get reddish highlights in their hair by rinsing with water from a litre of water in which tea and onion peels have cooked.

To get thicker hair

Make a poultice with green clay, apply it after a mild shampoo, let it sit for 10 minutes and rinse. Do it over again every week for three months.

In tradition, clay symbolises the primordial substance from which Adam was created, it is a living substance. In pharmacopoeia, clay is antiseptic, healing, re mineralising and favour the rebuilding of cells.

Hair growth stimulating lotion

Any rural woman knows that to stimulate hair growth it should be cut at the new moon or the waxing moon. A handful of Lupinus flowers soaked in water during an hour, filtered and mixed together with the equal amount of dark rum would give you a lotion to use to rub your scalp every morning.

Watercress could be used as well instead of Lupinus.

Keep your hair from whitening...

Mix dried fig tree leaves with camomile oil. Rub your hair daily with this preparation. The white hair that is already present will disappear progressively. Another option would be to wash your hair with clay and water, without any soap at all. All you have to do is to coat your hair with the clay, do a massage on your hair and scalp, let sit for some 5 minutes and rinse.