Tuesday 8 December 2020

Aleo Vera Oil for Hair fall and aches

 


Aloe Vera Oil 

Experience with research and experimenting has taught me to be a patient and keep trying. I have Aloe Vera plant in a pot, when ever my knees, legs were painful I would cut a leaf, take the gel from it and massage my legs /knees /back with it and it gave relief from pain. I used the gel for hair fall also. 
I knew about the anti-inflammatory property of onion, carom seeds, garlic ginger etc. So I started making oil which would be helpful in pain relief as well as for falling hair and for improving the texture of hair. 
Garlic gave such strong smell to oil that I could use it hair. So I removed garlic as ingredient and used onion, aloevera and carom seeds and ginger. Finally I got an oil which has pain releaving property as well as reduces hair fall. The texture of hair also becomes very smooth after applying this oil. I have been using this oil for almost a year now. So it is well tested. 

Preparation Time : 30 minutes 
Making Time : 50 minutes
Makes 300 ml. Oil 

Ingredients Required To Make The Oil :
  • 5 Aloe Vera leaves 
Aloe Vera leaves 
  • 250 ml Coconut oil 
  • 100 ml Sesame oil 
  • 4 Teaspoons Carom seeds (Ajwain) 
  • 4 Tablespoons Onion paste 
Directions For Making Oil :
  • Cut Aloe Vera leaves from sides. Carefully remove the upper green cover and scoop all gel from the leaves. 
Different Stages of extracting gel 
  • Peel onion and cut to pieces. Pulse it in grinder /mixer to give fine paste. Do not add water. 
  • In a big thick bottom container take 

 Oil, Onion paste, Aloe Vera gel, Carom seeds 
  1. 250 ml coconut oil 
  2. 100 ml Sesame seed oil 
  3. Onion paste 
  4. Carrom seeds 
  • Keep the container with oil and herbs on medium heat and let the oil mixture start to bubble. 
Oil and herbs bubbling on low heat 

Mixture cooking on low heat 
  • Once it starts bubbling bring the heat to low and cook with regular stirring. 
  •  The mixture will start foaming. Switch off the heat and let it cool a bit for foam to settle down. Then again bring the heat to low and cook with stirring. 
Stage when heat to be switched off 
  • Repeat this process of switching off and switching on while cooking till foam appears. Do not stir vigorously. Be gentle while stirring else foam will come out of container spilling the oil. 
  • After almost 40 minutes it will be observed that the Aloe Vera gel has shrink to strips and onion paste turned light pinkish brown. 
  • Switch off the heat and allow it to cool. 
Oil ready with residue turning brown 
Residue to be discarded 

  • The oil density and color will change and residue will have turned brownish. 
  • Sieve the oil, squeeze  oil from residue as much as possible. 
  • Store this oil in any type of container you wish to. 
  • Apply this oil luke warm on scalp and hair strands. Keep for minimum 2 to 3 hrs. (I prefer 5 to 6 hrs.). 
  • Wash hair as usual. 
  • Repeat this once a week. After some time you will notice reduction in hair fall and hair texture changing to smooth silky texture. 
  • Legs, back, joints pain is relieved by massaging by this oil. 

Tips:
  • For 350 ml oil I took 2lt container to make sure foam does not spill. Take bigger container till a certain degree of expertise is obtained in handling hot oil foam. 
  • Container should be thick bottom. 
  • Cook only on low heat with constant stirring. 
  • Switch off heat when residue starts turning brown, the residual heat will keep on removing the remainder moisture from gel and onion paste. 
Suggested variations :
  • 100 ml. Sesame seed oil can be replaced by 50 ml each of sesame and mustard oil. 


Saturday 18 July 2020

चाय की छन्नियों को साफ करने का आसान तरीका


चमकती हुई साफ़ छन्नियां 
अक्सर चाय की छन्नियां कुछ दिन इस्तेमाल करने के बाद बदरंग होने लगती हैं और उनकी जाली में चाय के बारीक कण फंस जाते हैं और जाली गंदी हो जाती है।
चाय की छन्नी को साफ करने के लिए उसे या तो रगडना पड़ता है। कितना भी रगड़ो सभी बारीक कण और स्टील के फ्रेम और जाली में चिपकी सभी गन्दगी नहीं निकलती।
कुछ लोग छन्नी को धीमी आंच पर जलाते हैं।
जब छन्नी जलाई जाती है तब धुआँ और गन्ध आती है। छन्नी काफी हद तक साफ तो हो जाती है परन्तु उसका रंग जलने के कारण काला हो जाता है।
छन्नी साफ करने का नया और सबसे आसान तरीका जिससे छन्नी काली नहीं बल्कि बिल्कुल नयी जैसी हो जायेगी।
सामग्री ;
  •  १ चम्मच सर्फ या अन्य कोई कपड़े धोने का पाउडर
  •  १ दांत साफ करने का पुराना या नया ब्रश
  •  १ डोंगा जिसमें छन्नी रक्खी जा सके
  •   पानी
साफ करने की विधि ;
  • डोंगे में इतना पानी लें कि छन्नी का जाली वाला भाग उसमें डूब जाये।
  • डोंगे के पानी में एक चम्मच सर्फ डाल दें।
  • गन्दी छन्नियां डोंगे में डाल कर डोंगे को गैस पर कम आंच पर रख कर गरम करें।
मैली छन्नियां 
मैली छन्नी 
साबुन के पानी में छन्नियां 
  • पानी उबालने लगेगा और छन्नियों की गन्दगी धीरे धीरे पानी में आने लगेगी।
  • पांच मिनट तक कम आंच पर उबालने दें।
  • गैस बन्द कर दें और छन्नियों को पानी में ही ठण्डा होने दें।
  • आप देखेंगे कि पानी कचैला और गन्दा हो गया है।
५मिनट उबालने के बाद 
छन्नियां उबालने के बाद बचा पानी 
  • एक एक करके छन्नी निकाल कर ब्रश से साफ करके धो लैं। रगड़ने की आवश्यकता नहीं पड़ती।
  • आपकी छन्नियां साफ सुथरी चमचमाती नयी जैसी हो जायेंगी।
चमचमाती साफ छन्नियां 
टप्स:
अगर आपकी छन्नियां प्लास्टिक की हैं तो बड़ बबर्तन लें। 
साबुन पाउडर और पानी डाल कर उबाल लें। 
गैस बन्द करके पानी ठण्डा होने तक छन्नियां उसी में रहने दें। 
ठण्डा होने पर ब्रश से साफ करके अच्छे से धो लें। 
छन्नियों के साथ ना उबालें। 

Thursday 16 July 2020

How To Clean Tea Strainers


Clean Strainers
It is seen that tea strainers whether they are metallic or of synthetic material, after few weeks of use they start getting stained and the seive starts getting clogged by very fine particles. I make ghee at home so I use the strainer for straining ghee (Clarified butter) also.
Scrubbing the stariner for cleaning is not a great option as the edges between sieve and the meatl strip retains the dirt, also it is too cumbersome with not so staisfactory results. After some time the strainer looses its shine and we normally discard it and get a new one.
Some people keep the stariner on low flame till all particles in the siave, all dirt in the edges gets burnt, then scrub it hard to clean it. This though cleans to quite an extent but the stariner becomes black due to getting burnt. Also burning leaves the kitchen with disagreable smell and lots of smoke.
Today I am telling the best, easiest way of cleaning the strainers.

Material required:
  • 1 Teaspoon: Cleaning Powder or Cleaning Liquid (I used Surf)
  • 1 Old / New Tooth brush
  • A pan big enough to hold your strainers
  • Water
Direction For Cleaning Tea Strainers:
Dirty Strainer
Dirty strainer
Dirty Strainers
  • Take a pan big enough to put your stariners in it.
  • Fill the pan with water and add one teaspoon of cleaning powder / Liquid.
  • Put the stariners in the water and cleaning powder mixture in the pan with the sieve side in water.
Dirty Strainers Kept For Boiling In Water Soap Mixture
  • Keep the pan with stariners, water and cleaning powder mixture on medium heat and allow it to boil.
  • Once the water starts boiling lower the heat and let it boil for 5 minutes.
  • Water will become murky due to dirt of stariners coming in it.
Dirty Strainers in boiling water and soap
  • Let the water cool.
  • With the help of tooth brush remove all particles and stains by slowly scrubbing it. It will be very easy and effortless. It will take just a minute or so. 
  • Wash under flowing water. 
  • Lo and behold you have your strainers looking new ans shiny again.
Cleaned  Strainers
Tips:
  • Incase of synthetic stariners water and cleaning powder / liquid mixture will have to be boiloed first, then afetr switching off the heat the dirty strainers will have to be put in it. Let the strainers be in the hot water cleaning powder mixture till it cools off then scrub them off clean.