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Some more Tiger pictures for your computer desktop to 2010 New year of Tiger (by the lunar Chinese Horoscope).

Here tigers widescreen desktop background wallpapers gallery (1680 x 1050 px):



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Making yourself skin care product will give you a skin care product that matches or exceeds the effectiveness of anything you can buy over the counter at a truly affordable price. Try one of these recipes and you may never go back to fancy labels, boxes and prices ever again! The heart of much of the finest natural skin care is made up of volatile plant extracts, otherwise known as essential oils. While some folks still see essential oils as some sort of New Age funny-smelling stuff, the truth is getting out: that essential oils really are medicine, and many of them are some of the finest skin care ingredients money can buy. There’s even a whole bunch of scientific data to back it up (search pubmed.gov for “calendula” or “rosehipseed” and “skin” for example, and you’ll see all sorts of papers). The essential oils make up the “active ingredients” of your formula, and the “carrier oils” into which they’re mixed make up the “base”. Creating a custom recipe is as easy as selecting a few essential oils and one or two carrier oils that suit your skin’s particular needs, and mixing them together just as you would and recipe in the kitchen.

On to the ingredients — we’ll look at several, and note which ones are best for each skin type. The heart of every formula for woman’s mature skin care is also the premier beauty oil of all time: Rose Otto. This steam distilled variety of Rose essential oil is nearly miraculous in its therapeutic beauty care benefits for woman’s skin. Rose offers a synergy of effects, being emollient, softening and hydrating in addition to being gently stimulating and cleansing. Amazingly, it is also considered astringent (remember its also hydrating at the same time) and can heal redness, broken capillaries and inflammation. It is somewhat costly, but for your recipe, you’ll only need a few drops — the smallest size available will virtually always be enough, and probably enough for several bottles of your recipe. And oh MY, even those tiny amounts smell simply Out-Of-This-World!

Calendula oil has been used for hundreds of years for all sorts of skin care uses. Its exceptionally soothing, with the traditional use being for infant’s skin care. The flowers have been hard to work with however, limiting the uses of this magnificent medicinal plant. A new extraction technique now offers us a Calendula oil concentrate, often labeled Calendula CO2. This new extract is highly antioxidant, powerfully wound-healing, and one of the most effective soothers of irritated or damaged skin available on Earth.

One or more of these three oils are excellent companion oils to the Rose and Calendula. Rosemary “Verbenone” is a skin-care specialty oil, distilled from a particular variety of Rosemary herb. Long used in all sorts of body care preparations, Rosemary is thought to work by stimulating cellular metabolism (increasing the amount of nutrients getting into our skin cells), speeding the creation of new cells, and enhancing our skin’s vitality. Helichrysum is even more potently regenerative — often used in wound healing, Helichrysum will also increase new skin cell production, while drawing waste products from skin tissues. And lets not forget Lavender, the Grand-Daddy of skin-care medicine. Lavender is regenerative, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and aids skin conditions where stress may be an underlying factor. For specific skin care needs, we’ll also include Sandalwood and Myrtle essential oils in certain blends (you’ll see which oils go with which skin type in the recipes below). Both these oils are considered excellent for acne-prone skin. Myrtle is potently antiseptic, regenerative, and commonly found in acne and oily-skin formulas. Sandalwood is hydrating AND an excellent treatment for acne. Myrtle offers a great herbaceous “high note” to your blend, while Sandalwood gives a lovely earthy tone.

On to the base of the formula, the “carrier oils”. These are oils cold pressed from nuts, seeds and fruit. Olive oil is an example, but we’ll use ones more therapeutic for woman’s beauty care. Virgin Coconut oil is the foundation of every recipe. It has a host of therapeutic properties itself: it is antibacterial, antioxidant, antiviral (just in case!). Coconut oil is also VERY hydrating and is known to balance hormones in the skin on a cellular level (which can clear up a number of skin “conditions” — acne being one of them, dry irritated skin being another). Kukui nut oil, also from the tropics, is another amazing, healing base oil with numerous skin care benefits similar to Coconut. Kukui oil is beneficial for all skin types bringing a gentle softness and silkiness to the skin. Both of these oils blended in equal amounts make a wonderful base into which to add the essential oils — OR you may use one or the other, in combination with this next amazing oil…

For everyone except ; those prone to acne, Rosehip Seed oil is the third important base oil. Rosehip seed naturally balances the incredible tropical nut oils, coming from the high mountain arid regions of South America. Rosehip seed may be the most thoroughly studied carrier oil for skin care use — and with excellent results. Rosehip has been shown to significantly reduce the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines and scars, while smoothing overall skin texture and color. Imagine what its going to do with all these other top-notch therapeutic ingredients…let’s get on to mixing them.

Putting It All Together for Your Custom Formula:
Gather your ingredients: 1 glass bottle 30 or 60ml (1 or 2 ounces), preferably colored glass (helps protect the oils) with an eyedropper (makes it easy to dispense your formula later). ALL recipes are for EACH FLUID OUNCE, so you’ll want to know the size of our bottle to make measuring easier. A funnel might make things easier as well. And of course your selected base oils and essential oils (note for purchasing oils — the recipe calls for drops, and essential oils are sold in milliliters — there are 25 drops per milliliter).

Mixing instructions: Add the required number of drops of each essential oil to your empty bottle. If making 2 ounces, double the amounts, 4 ounces, 4 times, etc. With a funnel, add approximate amounts of your carrier oil — if using all three carrier oils, for example, just fill the bottle about a third of the way with each oil. Don’t overfill, as you won’t be able to get the eyedropper in (if using one) without spilling! Gently invert the bottle several times and let set for a bit. The aroma will not really be brilliant until the following day, but you can use the mixture right away. The formulas are designed for using one to 3 times per day. On to the recipes:

Brilliant Beauty Recipes for All Skin Types:
Moderate to sever dry skin with smile lines: Rose Otto 8 drops, Lavender 12 drops, Calendula CO2 6 drops, three parts Coconut and one part each Kukui and Rosehip seed oils.
Mature skin with scars or color variations and smile lines: Rose Otto 6 drops, Lavender 8 drops, Helichrysum 6 drops, Rosemary V. 6 drops, Equal parts Coconut, Kukui, and Rosehipseed oils.
For irritated or sensitive skin: Rosemary Verbenone 8 drops, Lavender 6 drops, Calendula 6 drops, Sandalwood 6 drops, in equal parts of all three base oils.
For skin that is oily or combination: Green Myrtle 10 drops, Lavender 8, drops, Rosemary V. 6 drops, in equal parts of Kukui and Coconut oils only, no Rosehip Seed.

And there you have it: incredibly effective “mature skin” care blends for every woman. Once you make one of these yourself, and realize you may have just made yourself the best skin care formula EVER, you can experiment a little with one or more of the hundreds of essential oils available. Each has unique therapeutic properties that are highly compatible to our skin. Here’s to your happy, healthy glow!

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The holidays are here and coming with them are the traditional, seasonal foods we all know and love. Whether it’s turkey, ham, latkes, eggnog, or sugar cookies, rich foods tend to work their way into our hearts and bellies this time of year, as meals and as leftovers. Almost invariably, these lead to talk of the infamous ‘seasonal seven,’ the average amount of weight you could gain over the holidays. There’s a reason so many New Year’s resolutions involve losing weight and exercising more.





The interesting thing is that many of these concerns can be avoided before the fact, rather than repented of later. For those worrying about the seasonal seven, here are seven simple tips for keeping off the holiday pounds.





Step 1: Make your decisions now, not then.





Lapses in willpower typically occur right at the moment of temptation. We see something big and tasty, and decide that one more helping couldn’t hurt too much, and then we’re surprised when we’ve eaten half the dish. Fortunately, there’s a trick that you can use that will give your willpower a bit of an edge when the time comes.





Set your limits before you go, maybe as much as a week in advance. Remind yourself that you’ll stick to just one small serving of dessert, or that you’ll use only a single spoon of gravy instead of two. With the decision made beforehand, there’s less temptation to change it when at the table.





Step 2: Set your alcohol limits.





Holiday gatherings frequently involve alcoholic drinks, and these are one of the sneakiest sources of holiday weight gain people can consume. We don’t often realize it, but alcoholic drinks do contain numerous calories. A 12-ounce bottle of lager can easily have 125-150 calories, depending on the brand. Having even two or three beers is a big chunk of a 2,000-calorie diet, and we’re typically not in an exercising mood afterwards.





Fortunately, this is a fairly easy factor to control. Set yourself a hard limit on alcoholic drinks before the get-together, such as one serving with the meal, or one for the New Year’s Eve toast. If you find that people are trying to hand you drinks when your hand is empty, carry around a glass of water or juice so you can show them you’re already set.





Step 3: Eat Slowly.





Remember all those holiday meals where you ate and ate, until you suddenly felt so full you could barely breathe, let alone move? Some experts suggest that we can actually eat past the point that our stomach is reasonably full. Our stomachs are slow to send the signal for ‘full’ to our brains sometimes, so we eat past the point we should.





A way to avoid this is to simply slow down our eating at the table. Take smaller portions to start with, and take the time to enjoy them. Pause for a minute between servings, to let your stomach ‘catch up’ so to speak. You’ll find that you probably consume fewer calories overall, while still enjoying everything the meal has to offer.





Step 4: Eat Healthy.





This may sound like a herculean task, but there are many healthy, delicious options open to us during holiday meals. Green beans, corn, and cranberries often make it onto the traditional holiday table, for example. Consider adding a few extra servings of these sides to round out the heavier staples of the meal, for a sense of fullness and some extra nutrition.





There are healthy drink alternatives as well. Consider replacing your dinner soda or beer with a healthy juice cocktail. A cranberry juice blend mixed with plain soda water is delicious and healthy for you. Drink plenty of plain water as well, as it will help with digestion and keep your body functioning healthily.





Step 5: Exercise!





From the way some people talk, it would almost seem like there’s a prohibition on exercising over the holidays, but this simply is not the case. Perhaps you don’t have time to make it to the gym, and that’s understandable. But you probably do have a few minutes to jog up the stairs and walk back down them once or twice, just to get your heart rate up.





Additionally, there are traditionally family sporting events at some holiday get-togethers. Consider organizing a quick round of flag football or soccer before dinner. Your appetite will be fired up, and you’ll have burned off some of those holiday calories in advance.





Step 6: Have a light snack.





Frequently, we try to wait to eat as long as possible before the big meal, so we can save up room. This is actually one of the best ways to gain extra weight, because we start packing in the food with more gusto when we’re hungrier. Consider a modest snack a couple hours before the meal, such as an apple or a light sandwich. The extra food will help you keep your resolution to eat in moderation later.





Step 7: Get help.





Watching the holiday weight is harder to do when you have to do it alone. Talk to your friends and family, and ask them to help you watch what you eat. Ask the host if they’ll make extra veggies with the meal so you can stick to your healthy eating plan, for example. Team up when you go for your exercise, and get a partner for those short brisk walks around the block. Having a little company will make it more enjoyable, and maybe a little more effective.





Good luck, and Happy Holidays.

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