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TOP SUMMER SKIN CARE TIPS FOR KIDS: Be Summer Ready

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These summer skin care tips for kids will help you keep your kid’s skin safe in the hot months of summer. While the Sun is necessary for Vitamin D it can damage skin in the summers. Be summer ready with these handy tips.

Summer is here already, shining bright. The schools are closing down for summer vacations, kids are gearing up for a holiday, some are excited about summer camps and moms are thinking how to keep the kids engaged this summer. While you plan your family vacations, keep in mind these summer skin care tips for kids to prevent unwarranted disasters.

Top Summer Skin Care Tips for kids

summer skin care tips for kids

Sunscreen for Kids

Kids like playing outside – and they should do that. Sun can damage your baby’s skin just like it harms your skin. Apply sunscreen cream or lotion on your kids skin before they step out of the home. Specially formulated sunscreen creams for kids are available that are safe to use on kids above 6 months of age. Look for broad-spectrum sunscreens that protect against UVA and UVB rays. Sunscreens containing zinc oxide or titanium dioxide SPF 30 helps to protect the skin. Avoid sunscreens that contain paraben, benzophenone, oxybenzone, octinoxate.

One of the best summer skin care tips for kids who are going for swimming is to apply sunscreen lotion 15 minutes before hitting the pool.

Avoid Outdoors between 10 am and 4 pm

Sun is at its strongest between 10 am and 330 pm, its best you limit your kid’s outdoor activities between these superhot hours. Skin can get damaged the most at these hours. Utilize these hours for indoor games, food or even a nap time!

Keep them covered

While you can’t ask anyone to wear too many things in the summer, keep your baby’s skin covered with light cotton or linen clothes so that the skin is directly not under the strong sun. use a sun hat or cap whenever they are stepping out.

summer skin care tips for kids - keep them covered

Protect against prickly heat

Summer skin care tips for kids is never complete with prickly heat! Summers and prickly heat are synonymous. Since kids sweat a lot during summers tiny skin rashes or prickly heat can erupt at back, neck, armpits. Clogged sweat glands are to be blamed for these rashes. Keep the skin clean with regular bath with mild soap. Further, you can use gentle calamine lotion or prickly heat powders for relief.

Keep skin hydrated

Everyone sweats in the summers but sometimes kids can get dry itchy skin too. Keep the skin hydrated with lotions. Baby’s face tends to get dry at times especially if you live in a place which has a dry weather. Use an organic skin care cream like the Mama Earth Milky Soft Face Cream For Babies. This cream with Almond and Murumuru Butter is hydrating and forms a skin barrier.

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Treat Heat Burn at Home

Lycopene found in tomatoes are known to reverse sun damage on the skin. Rub a slice of tomato on your kid’s skin if he has had a sunburn after a day’s play outside this summer. It will sooth the skin.

WIth these summer skin care tips for kids, make your summers enjoyable and safe for baby’s skin. Do you have any skin care tip that you follow religiously during summers?

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MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream Product Review – Say Bye To Dark Spots

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MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream review – It helps in correcting uneven skin tone, acne marks, and dark spots. Here’s a detailed product review of an organic skin care product.

Every time you flip through the glossy magazines – you have that question in mind – how do these celebs always have the perfect flawless skin! Now, as a matter of fact, most of them don’t have flawless skins – makeup and a good dosage of Photoshop and Airbrushing create this illusion. But does it mean you don’t want a skin that is spot free or has an even skin tone? Of course, you want. I myself don’t have spotless crystal clear skin – I have imperfections and I have learned to deal with it. I have also decided to use organic products on my skin. So when I chanced upon this product I knew MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream review had to be done. This product review is my experience of using this skin correcting cream for last few weeks.

mamaearth bye bye blemishes cream product review

What’s inside the MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream?

Aqua, Glycerine, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate, Hydrogenated Olive Oil, Olea Europaea Fruit Oil, Glycerol Monostearate, Daisy Flower Extract, Mulberry Extract, Ascorbyl Glucoside, Shea Butter, Lavender Oil, Allantoin, Xanthan Gum, Patchouli Oil, Vetiver Oil, Geranium Oil

What is the claim by MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream?

  • Cream Meant for Correcting uneven skin tone
  • Reduces Dark Spots
  • Controls Melanin

mamaearth bye bye blemishes cream product review

Product review – MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream review

I have been using the MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream last few weeks as a night cream. I like the fact that this cream has organic ingredients like Daisy Flower Extract, Mulberry Extract, Shea Butter, Patchouli Oil. The lesser the chemicals the better for the skin.

I have oily skin and is extremely acne prone. I keep my skincare routine very basic to keep acne at bay. I don’t like products that are heavy and greasy. The MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream is a light. Nongreasy cream that doesn’t leave a shiny layer.

It works as a great night cream for me – hydrates the skin and its soft and supple in the morning when I wake up. I can see a visible difference in my lower jaw area which had a few acne marks.

What did I like about the MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream?

mamaearth bye bye blemishes cream product review

Packaging

The MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream comes in a small pump jar pack with an airtight cap. It’s a travel-friendly pack that fits nicely at one corner in your handbag. The pump jar makes it hygienic.

Texture and Consistency

MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream is a white colored lightweight lotion. The texture is velvety and cream is fast absorbent. Thankfully it doesn’t feel greasy or sticky on the skin.

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Organic Ingredients that are great for the skin

Mulberry Extract has high anti-oxidant properties. They help to repair skin, moisturize and brings a healthy glow to the skin.

Daisy Flower Extract contains skin lightening agent Hydroquinone. It lightens skin naturally and prevents further hyperpigmentation.

Vitamin C is great for aanti-aging dark spot and dullness issues of skin.

Cost and Availability

The product is priced at Rs 599 for a 50ml pack and is available online on Amazon, Nykaa and MamaEarth Website.

Pros of MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream

  1. Paraben-Free
  2. SLS Free
  3. Mineral Oil Free
  4. Hypoallergenic
  5. Hygienic packaging
  6. Quick Absorption
  7. Doesn’t clog open pores
  8. Travel-friendly
  9. Nongreasy formulation

Cons of MamaEarth Bye Bye Blemishes Cream

  1. Strong herbal smell
  2. Available only online
  3. Bit pricey

Would I recommend it?

I am quite happy with the product so far since its all organic and gentle on skin. I can recommend it if you are looking for an organic chemical free product for your blemishes.

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Disabled Kids in India
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What are we doing for Disabled Kids in India?

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India has a big population of Disabled Kids due to lack of proper health care. Are we doing enough for the disabled kids in India?

Did you know India has 20.42 lakh disabled children aged between 0 and 6 years? Yes, that’s an alarming number. According to a 2011 Census report, there are more than 41 lakh children with eyesight problems and 47 lakh children with hearing disabilities in the country. Have you thought why such an enormous number of disability amongst Indian Kids? Are we doing enough for these unfortunate kids? Are these disabled kids getting any help from the officials to lead a respectable life?

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Disabled Kids in India

A vast number of children with disability are found in rural areas because of lack of proper health care, lack of pediatricians or immunization drives. Even at this age, many give birth at homes with help of midwives. While good nutrition of mother leads to better development of child’s health and brain, we must also realize problems that a pregnant woman faces, affects the child as well.

Why do we have such a large population of Disabled Kids in India?

The causes of disability in kids are plenty. But as a matter of fact, most common disabilities in kids are preventable by providing expecting mothers will better prenatal and post-natal care as well as proper nutrition for infants and mothers.

Common causes for causes of disability in kids are

  1. Communicable disease
  2. Infection in early childhood
  3. Early motherhood
  4. Nutritional deficiencies
  5. Insufficient or inaccessible health care services
  6. Non – immunization
  7. Inadequate sanitation
  8. Inter-family marriages

There are more than 5.80 lakh children in rural India with other disabilities like autism and cerebral palsy. They not just are leading a restrained life, these poor disabled kids are also subjected to various social stigmas. They can’t attend schools because teachers are not trained and schools don’t have the infrastructure to deal with children with disabilities.

Shishu Sarothi – Working with Disabled Kids in North East India

While Government schemes or services available for people with disabilities are limited there are several NGOs who work endlessly to help disabled kids in India. Shishu Sarothi is one such not-for-profit CSO (Civil Society Organization) based in Guwahati, Assam who work with People with disabilities (PwDs). This Government Registered non-profit organization works towards a rights-based, inclusive society where children with disabilities have equal opportunities, and live fully with dignity and respect.

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How Shishu Sarothi helped Puja Das, a girl with Cerebral Palsy

Puja Das, a girl child was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and athetoid. Puja is the only daughter of Shri Gunajit Kumar Das and Mrs. Arati Das.  Abnormal movement and muscle tone fluctuation, delayed mental development, speech impairment were detected in her.

Puja is the first child of her parents, born after a full term of pregnancy through normal delivery. There were no known cases of disabilities in her family. Little Puja had jaundice on 2nd day of birth and had blood transfusion thrice. Later it was found her mental and physical developments were delayed.

Educational and therapeutic inputs provided to her at Shishu Sarothihas made her life better and she could join a mainstream school. After intervention in the Play Group at Shishu Sarothi, Puja could go to the toilet on her own after informing the teacher. At the time of joining the Play Group Puja could talk only one-two words. At the end of the 2nd Term in Play Group she has improved only a little but used to understand and follow what she was told.

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How can you help Disabled Kids like Puja Das?

These kids like Puja Das, need help, love, and care to grow and lead a life of dignity. Treating these kids with love and respect and teaching them the right way can make a difference as seen in the case of little Puja Das. You can read more success stories of disabled kids here.

Won’t you like a kid with disability to break the social norms and lead a life of respect? Won’t you like to spread a smile on someone?Won’t you want to be a part of one more success story of a disabled kid? Help them in any manner you can. You can even donate in kind and sponsor things like school furniture – chair, tables, cupboards, computer or laptop, sports equipment etc.

Donate Today and Make the difference! You can Donate Here. All donations to Shishu Sarothi fall under section 80 G.

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The Drink – Flash Fiction Writing Challenge #FridayFotoFIction March 23 – March 26

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#FridayFotoFiction is a weekly flash fiction writing prompt challenge where we give you a photo prompt and ask you to write a 100-150 word flash fiction about it.

Flash Fiction Writing Prompt – #FridayFotoFiction March 23 –March 26 Prompt

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The Drink – Flash Fiction Writing Prompt #FridayFotoFiction

“Thank you for bringing me here, Akash.”

“This is the most beautiful place on earth, so serene, so romantic. Said Gunja while sipping her drink.

“Your wish is my command madam”, he said flashing his handsome smile.

“I am the luckiest girl on earth – I have such a loving husband who’s so devastatingly handsome!” boasted the newlywed.

Yes it’s the handsome face that works, every time.

“Should we go snorkeling today? Or do you want to do something else”, asked an excited Gunja.

“Nowhere, we will sit here till you finish your drink, then go walk by the sea, okay my love?”

“Sounds perfect”.

Yes, it is perfect – the perfect plan! You won’t last more than 15 minutes after you finish the drink!

“Yes, the sea’s the perfect place”…. to dispose you off!

***

Another victim sorted. Time for a new identity, new girl, new wedding and getting richer.

 

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Brain Wonders: How to Improve Child’s Brain Development During Pregnancy #FeedIQ

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Many factors can influence your Child’s Brain Development and nutrition is one of the key factors. For improved brain development, start early – include nutrient-rich food, vitamins and minerals supplements in your diet.

Did you know – your child’s brain begins forming in prenatal stage? Child’s Brain Development starts early i.e. just three weeks after conception. But in many ways, brain development is a lifelong journey. Brain development, in fact, begins with the formation and closure of the neural tube. Many factors can influence foetal brain development like genetics and stimulants, however, nutrition is one of the key factors.

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Child's Brain Development

When does your Child’s Brain Development start?

By the time you have found out you have conceived and have watched the tiny pole in the 3rd-week ultrasound scan, your child’s brain development has already started. Did you know during the foetal stage, the brain adds around 2.5 Lakh neurons or brain cells, every minute?

During the second trimester, the sensory organs and nerves begin to develop. By the 5th month, the baby can start to feel and by the 3rd trimester the brain forms learning abilities and begins to make memories.

Child's Brain Development when you are pregnant

As an expectant mother, what can you do to improve your Child’s Brain Development in the womb?

A mom is a baby’s best friend, protector, and caregiver. As a mom, you always want the best for your baby. What you feed your body will feed your child. You only want the best, so choose the best.

Providing right Nutrition for Child’s Brain Development

Right nutrition during pregnancy will help in an improved brain growth of your child. While you need a balanced nutrient-rich diet, there are some nutrients that are specially needed for your Child’s Brain Development.

DHA: Docosahexaenoic acid or DHA is a major structural fat found in the brain. Foods like fish, egg, banana are good dietary sources of DHA. However, baby’s DHA is prone to oxidation and needs protection against damage.

DHA for Child's Brain Development

Natural Vitamin E: Natural Vitamin E is a powerful anti-oxidant that prevents DHA from any oxidative damage. This intact DHA helps in child’s brain development. Almonds, spinach, avocado, sweet potato, fish are good dietary sources of Natural Vitamin E.

Nutrition for Child's Brain Development

While it’s important to meet the Nutritional Needs During Pregnancy through a nutrient-rich diet, you can also use vitamins and minerals supplements in your diet. SimMom IQ+   is one of the supplements that a mom can take. It is a blend of brain nutrients like DHA, Choline Iron Zinc and Iodine that support foetal brain development.

Iron and Folic Acid: Folic acid supplementation is responsible for reducing the risk of your baby having a neural tube defect. While iron helps in maintaining healthy red blood cells and providing oxygen throughout the body.

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Providing right Stimulant for Child’s Brain Development

Stimulants or infant brain exercises play a vital role in shaping a child’s cognitive skills. Your baby can hear your voice in utero. Those early small talks with your unborn isn’t just relaxing for you as a mom-to-be, it soothes the baby too. Listen to soothing music, talk to the baby. Research has shown that a baby can identify its mother’s voice but it can’t differentiate between the father’s and a stranger’s voice.

Talk to your child for your Child’s Brain Development

Your child’s brain development can be positively influenced by stimulation and nutrition. Provide the right nutrition to your unborn for an improved brain growth.  A mother is the best person to Feed her IQ and goodness to the baby through stimulants, breastfeeding and infant brain exercises – because all you want for your baby is the best!

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Travel Gadgets – 8 Must-Have Gadgets For Travelers

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Are you a traveler at heart? You must carry these travel gadgets with you. These 8 must-have gadgets for travelers will make sure your travel is hassle free!

Travel Gadgets – 8 Must-Have Gadgets For Travelers

Is your social media flooded with your travel anecdotes? Do you plan your next travel while you are on a holiday? You are a traveler at heart then. Travelling is all about living in the moment and absorbing the experiences. Travel is about observing the world with your eyes, capturing the moments and making memories. Today technology is a big part of travel – from buying flight tickets to booking hotels, from taking a photo to finding a local cab we are highly dependent on the travel gadgets. These travel gadgets are made to make your travel experience a whole lot better and easier. Next time you are planning a trip don’t forget to pack these 8 must-have gadgets for travelers.

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers

1. Camera

That a camera is your best buddy while traveling is a no-brainer. Many travel only to capture some amazing photos. Travel photography is one the most popular photography forms. Travel is incomplete without you capturing your moments forever. If you are an avid photographer a DSLR camera is your friend. For the beginners, it is a point and shoot camera.

travel gadget must have gadgets for travelers dslr camera

The DSLRs are bulky and you might have to carry multiple lenses depending on the kind of photos you want to capture. Plan ahead on the kind of lenses you are going to need. For instance, if you are not visiting a wild life area, or you don’t have chances of capturing the sneaky animals, leave the bulky telephoto lenses at home! A point and shoot camera takes good enough photos for social media sharing!

2. Smartphone or Tablet

Can you go anywhere without your smartphone, today? NO. For all you know, you might be taking it to the washroom too! That’s how much we are dependent on a smartphone today!

You are not only going to use the smartphone camera for selfies or other photos – you are going to use the smartphone to find local restaurants, cab bookings, smart pays, ordering food or even the flashlight as a torch!

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers smartphone

If you already didn’t know you could use your smartphone as a WiFi hotspot and use the 4G data on your iPad or laptop. If you are traveling with a toddler or kid it also is the best resource to keep them busy if you allow screen time!

3. Power Bank

The smarter the gadgets are getting the faster they run out of charge! No matter how much they promise of long battery talk time, they possibly won’t last an entire day. You don’t want the electronic gadgets like your smartphone or tablet to run out of charge at the wrong time. Have a good power bank in your handbag with the correct cables.

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers powerbank

4. Wireless Charging Stand

Wireless charging stands are getting very popular now. It takes away the headache of carrying cables. Apples AirPower wireless charger can charge more than one Apple device at the same time!

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers wireless charging stand

5. Headphones

While you can carry your own entertainment in your smart travel gadgets, a noise cancelling headphone will ensure you have the best of entertainment experience. The noise cancelling headphones serves best during a car ride, train journey or a flight by cancelling the travel noise.

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers headphone

6. Pocket Drone

Are you a solo traveller who wants to feature in photos like top shots and long shots that are not possible with a tripod? Are you on the lookout for someone to click that shot of you laying amidst the waves? A pocket sized drone is the answer to this situation. The pocket drone comes with WiFi that you can connect with your phone and control all functions remotely. They take great shots, seriously!

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers pocket-drone

7. Universal Adapter

This is a no-brainer. If you are taking an international trip, pick up a Universal Adapter. These all-in-one adapters save you all the headache of the different power outlets in Europe, UK, Australia and US.

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers universal adapter

8. Kindle

If you are my kind, you like reading while traveling – the best entertainment while you are on a train or flight! But can you really carry 2-3 books if you are backpacking? No, you can’t afford to bulk up your baggage! The best way to carry your books is on your Kindle. These smart readers can store thousands of books and the battery lasts really long.

travel gadgets must have gadgets for travelers kindle

These travel gadgets are going to be your best companions. Don’t forget packing these must-have gadgets for travelers for your next trip.

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