Skincare in winter

Today I would like to write more about skincare. It will be about skincare in winter.
In winter we should especially take care of our skin and follow some more tips which help us look younger and healthier.

1. Protect exposed skin - don't forget about scarf and gloves. Our neck and hands exposed to cold and dry air become more drier.
2. Provide extra moisture to combat drying environment - Never forget about moisture your body after bath and shower. Especially during winter skin dries out so adding an extra layer of moisture will protect our skin.
3. Avoid products with strong detergents and fragrances - beautifully smell body lotions, body washes and soaps causes very often skin irritation especially in dry winter weather. Use mild soaps with extra moisture, non-fragrance body lotions and use non-fragrance laundry products.
4. Moisturise your hands - use a lot of hand creams to protect your hands
5. Never forget about sunscreen - we need to protect our face from the sun even in the winter.

Skincare

I am sure that everyone old and young, during spring, summer, autumn or winter has some problems with skin. How often do you have a moments that you don't want to look into the mirror as your skin isn't perfect?
I think that we should always follow good skincare regime and I am sure it will help our skin to recover from late nigths, unhealthy diet, stress, central heating, cold weather etc.

Take care of you skin all year round and below there are few the most important tips which I always follow. And what about you how do you care about your skin? Do you have any special tips?


  My skincare tips:

1. Beauty start from within - healthy, well balanced diet, 5 small dishes during the day contain vegetables, fruits, fishes, proteins.
2. Hydration - ensure that you are properly hydrated, drink a lot of mineral water
3. Daily sun protection - protect your skin year round using sun protection skin and it will keep wrinkles away in the future
4. Moisturise - good daily moisturiser morning and evening help to nourish and protect the skin
5. Keep skin clean- always remove your make up before going to bed, however tired you are
6. Weekly treats - it is w0rth to do face mask once a week to moisturise and clean your skin - I always do this on Saturdays
7. Peeling - Good peeling removes dead cells that causes dullness and encourages your skin to produce new ones for a healthy grow

Chocolate Chocolate. Can it help to loose weight?

I love chocolate. I love chocolate bars with nuts and raisins and I love drinking chocolate.
It is lovely treatment especially in the winter evenings spent with book or good movies.

What about you? Do you like chocolate? What is your favourite one? Milk, dark, with orange or chilli?

Chocolate has a bad image as a high-calorie food that people should avoid. Yes it is high calorie so we need to be careful with the amount we eat but eating chocolate has a lot of health benefits.Yes, yes it is true!
The natural flavonoids in chocolate improve blood vessel function and heart healthy benefits and what is more eating chocolate could help with weight loss by helping to control cravings.
So are we going to eat chocolate?


A little chocolate reduce overall calorie consumptions but it is necessary to choose the right kind. The dark chocolate is the best one and it is over milk chocolate when it comes to satysfying cravings and it also has greater health benefits. Moreover the more cacoa in the the dark chocolate the better. So choose a bar with cacoa content of 70%, 80%, 90%. The drawback is that it can taste more bitter.

So if we eat a bar of chocolate it is a high chance that we eat less calories in the next meal and it reduces the desire to eat other unhealthy foods that are high sugar or fat.
Additionally dark chocolate lower blood pressure and may reduce risk of stroke and heart attack. We won't that when we nibble on cookies, muffins, doughnut.
And chocolate lowers levels of stress hormones and make us feel happy!

So maybe chocoholism is not so bad? So maybe when we feel like eating something sweat in the evening a little bit of chocolate will be good for us?What do you think?
I think we shouldn't feel guilty eating a little bit or drinking a cup of chocolate in the evening.

Enioy them!

Little Miss Spoon

Breakfast Time

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Delicious pancakes with raspberries and mascarpone cream

Today I am not going to write a lot…as delicious pancakes with raspberries are waiting.

Ingredients for pancakes:

3 large eggs

2 glasses of milk

2 and ½ glass of flour

1 glass of water

1/2 tablespoon salt

40g vanilla sugar

a little drop of sunflower oil

sunflower oil to fry

Method:

1. Mix all ingredients together and store in a jar.Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. 
2. Fry the pancakes on the frying pan brushed lightly with oil.
   

Ingredients for mascarpone cream:

 3 egg yolks
120 g fine sugar or granulated sugar
250 ml thick cream 18%
180 g mascarpone cheese
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 jar of raspberries

Method:

1. Whip egg yolks with sugar till white, add the mascarpone cheese 

 already mixed with cream and lemon juice and mix everything gently with a spoon. 
                             2. For each pancake spreadable after about 2 tablespoons of cream and 1 tablespoon of raspberries, made ​​into triangles and serve.

Bon appetit!!!

Little Miss Spoon