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Yogurt Cucumber Parsley Facial Mask

Homemade Spa recipe for a creamy facial mask that leaves your skin soft and refreshed.

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp. plain yogurt
• 1 Tbsp. cucumber
• 1 Tbsp. parsley

Directions

Puree the cucumber and parsley finely and mix with the yogurt until smooth. Clean your face with a gentle Cleanser. Cover your face with this creamy mask.

This will rejuvenate your skin as it moistens. Leave the mask on for approximately 15-20 minutes for best results. Rinse with water. Follow with your favorite Moisturizer.

Orange Yogurt Mask

• 1 tsp plain yogurt
• 1 tsp fresh orange juice

Combine the yogurt and juice. Apply the mixture to your face. Rinse with plenty of warm water after 5 minutes.

Avocado Banana Facial Mask

Homemade Recipe for A Nourishing and Moisturizing Facial Mask for Dry Skin

Ingredients

• 1/2 overripe banana, mashed
• 1/2 overripe avocado, mashed
• 2 tbsp plain yogurt (not nonfat)
• 1 tsp olive oil

Directions

Combine ingredients and mix well. Apply to clean face and neck. Leave on for 20 to 30 min. Rinse with plenty of warm water.

Relaxing Facial Recipe

Homemade Spa recipe for a creamy facial mask that leaves your skin soft and refreshed.

Does a long hard day (or week) at work leave you tired and stressed out? I don’t know about you, but when that happens to me, all sorts of stuff happens to my face from wrinkles to dark circles. Not exactly the look I was going for. This relaxing facial recipe helps me relax and keeps my skin soft and smooth at the same time.

Ingredients

• 1 beaten egg (unclogs pores)
• 1 carrot (cooked and mashed)
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1 avocado (peeled and mashed)
• 3 tbsp honey

Directions

Combine the egg, mashed carrot, cream, avocado and honey in a bowl. Make sure the carrots are cooled down before you add them, or they will start to cook the egg. Stir everything together with a fork until they are well combined. Of course you could also throw everything in the blender and combine it that way.

Spread the mixture all over your face, being careful not to get it in your eyes or mouth. Leave it on for about 10 minutes, then rinse the mask off with plenty of warm water.

You can repeat this relaxing facial mask weekly, or just throw it together when you need to relax and pamper yourself.

Peach Tightening Facial Mask

Is your skin not feeling quite as tight and firm as it used to? You don’t have to go out and spent a fortune on facial creams, masks and other commercial products designed to empty your wallet. Instead you can use this simple facial mask that uses just two simple household ingredients – a peach and an egg.

Homemade recipe for a facial mask made from peaches and egg whites that helps tighten your skin.

Ingredients

• 1 ripe peach - peeled and pitted
• 1 egg white

Directions

Cut the peach into chunks and throw them in your blender. Separate the egg and add only the egg white to the blender as well. Turn the blender on and let it do it’s thing until you have a smooth mixture of peach and egg white puree. Gently pat mixture over face. Avoid getting it in your mouth.

Leave on for 30 minutes. Wipe most of the egg mixture off with some paper towels or a washcloth. Rinse your face with plenty of cool water.

You can use this peach tightening facial mask about once a week to keep your skin firm and younger looking.

Exfoliating Tomato Facial Mask

Homemade Recipe for an exfoliating facial mask made from ripe tomato.

Ingredients

• 1 overripe tomato
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 1 tsp. instant oatmeal

Directions

Puree all ingredients in a blender.

Apply to your face and let it soak in for about 20 minutes.

Rinse with plenty of warm water

Apple Facial Mask Recipe

Homemade Recipe for an facial mask made from applesauce and wheat germ.

This apple facial mask recipe combines apple sauce and wheat germ into a rejuvenating mask that will make your skin feel refreshed and gives you that “glow”. The wheat germs serve as a gentle exfoliator and the apple sauce nourishes your skin. Not only will this mask leave your skin soft and glowing, the mask also smells great.

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp Applesauce
• 1 Tbsp Wheat Germ

Directions

Pour the apple sauce in a small bowl. Add the wheat germ and stir them together into a paste. Spread your apple facial mask gently over your clean face. Allow it to soak in for 15 minutes, then gently wipe the apple mask off. Rinse your face with plenty of warm water. Gently pat it dry with a soft towel.

Give your skin a chance to dry out completely, then apply your favorite facial cream.


Another Homemade Apple Mask Recipe

Take an apple, peel it and take the core out. Then, put the apple into the blender with some honey.

Apply it to your face and let it sit for 15 minutes. Wash thoroughly.

Carrot Avocado Facial Mask

Homemade Recipe for a soothing facial mask made from carrots and avocado.

Ingredients

• 1 large carrot, cooked and mashed
• 1 avocado, mashed
• ½ cup heavy cream
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 tbsp honey

Directions

Stir all ingredients together in a small bowl.

Clean your face.

Apply the mask to your face and let it sit for 15 minutes.

Rinse with plenty of warm water.

Egg White & Oatmeal Mask for Oily Skin

Ingredients:

• 1 egg white
• 1/2 cup cooked instant oatmeal
• teaspoon olive oil
• fresh lemon juice

Mix all ingredients until smooth. Apply to your face and relax with a book for about 15 minutes. Rinse thoroughly.

Homemade Facial Scrubs & Masks

Make a paste from a little oatmeal and water. Apply to face and allow to dry. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Mash 1/2 banana and add 1 tablespoon honey and 2 tablespoons sour cream. Apply to face and let set for about 10 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Two tablespoons of cornmeal mixed with enough water to make a thick paste makes a great inexpensive facial mask. Gently apply to face and wash off.

In a food processor or blender, combine 1/2 cucumber, 1 tablespoon yogurt, a few strawberries, and 1 teaspoon honey. Apply to face and allow to dry. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Grind 1 tablespoon almonds into a fine meal in a blender or food processor. Mix almond meal together with 1 tablespoon honey and 1 egg white. Apply to face and let set for about 15 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

To loosen blackheads, combine equal parts baking soda and water in your hand and rub gently on your skin for 2 to 3 minutes. Rinse with warm water.

Mash half of an avocado and apply to entire face. Let set for about 20 minutes and then gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Soak 1 cup dried apricots in water until softened. Puree in blender or food processor with 2 tablespoons skim milk powder. Apply to face and let set about 15 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Puree 1/2 peeled, sliced cucumber in a blender or food processor and add 1 tablespoon yogurt. Apply to face and let set about 20 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Crush a handful of strawberries and mix well with 1 teaspoon honey. Apply to face and let set for about 15 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Mix 1 1/2 teaspoons honey, the juice from 1/2 of a lemon, and 1 small carton plain yogurt. Stir in 1 whipped egg white. Apply to face and let set about 15 minutes. Gently wipe off with a damp wash cloth.

Homemade facial cleanser

Homemade Facial Cleanser Recipes

Buttermilk and Fennel Cleansing Milk (For Oily Skin)

1/2 cup buttermilk
2 Tbsp crushed fennel seeds

Heat the milk and fennel seeds in top of double boiler for 30 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the mixture steep for 2 hours. Strain, cool, pour into bottle and refrigerate. Keeps for 2 weeks.

Chamomile Cleansing Milk (For Dry and Sensitive Skin)

1/4 cup cream
1/4 cup milk
2 Tbsp chamomile flowers, fresh or dried

Heat all ingredients in top of a double boiler for about 30 minutes, do not allow milk to boil. Turn off heat and let sit for about 2 hours, strain. Pour into a bottle and refrigerate. Keeps for 2 weeks.

Kiwi Facial Cleansing Cream

1 kiwi, peeled
2 tbsp plain yogurt
1 tbsp almond oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp almonds, finely ground

Put the kiwi in a food processor and puree. Add yogurt, almond oil, almonds and honey. It will form a thick and creamy paste. Use like any facial cleanser. Rinse with plenty of warm water.

Fennel Thyme Cleanser

2 sprigs fresh thyme
2 tsp fennel seeds
½ cup water
½ lemon

Pull the small thyme leaves off the stem, crush the fennel seeds. Bring the water to a boil and add to the thyme and fennel. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into the hot mixture. Let it steep for 20 minutes. Strain the liquid out, pour it into a clean glass bottle or jar and refrigerate until ready to use.

homemade natural shampoo

Homemade Shampoo Recipe

Natural Shampoo

• 1 oz. Olive oil
• 1 egg
• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar.

Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until well combined. Use like regular shampoo. Discard any leftovers.

Homemade Conditioner Recipe

Natural Conditioner

• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 tsp olive oil
• 3/4 cup lukewarm water

Beat the egg yolk until it's thick and white. Add the oil and mix well. Then add the water into the egg mixture and mix well. Massage into clean, damp hair. Rinse with plenty of warm water after about 10 minutes.

Homemade Hair Rinse Recipe

Herbal Vinegar Hair Rinse

• 2 cups of cider vinegar
• 2 oz of lavender buds
• 1 tablespoon of glycerin
• 10 drops of rose geranium essential oil

Heat the vinegar to just below boiling point. Remove from heat and add the lavender buds. Pour the mixture into a jar and allow to age for a week. Strain the lavender out and add the glycerin and rose geranium. Store in the refrigerator.

Take 4 oz of your lavender vinegar and add it to 4 cups of warm water. Use this as your hair rinse.

Homemade Hair Spray Recipe

Lemon Hair Spray

This all natural hair spray will leave your hair with a light, fresh lemony scent.

1 lemon
2 cups of water

Cut the lemon over a glass bowl to catch the juice. Add the lemon pieces and the water to the bowl and set the bowl in a pot of simmering water. Simmer until the lemon water mixture has been reduced by half. Pour it through a piece of cheesecloth to strain out the lemon pieces. Let the liquid cool, and then transfer it to a clean spray bottle.

The hair spray will keep for up to a week in the fridge.

Roasted Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes

Roasted Garlic Mashed Red Potatoes
Recipe courtesy of Life's Ambrosia

Ingredients

1 lb red potatoes, cleaned, scrubbed and cut into quarters
1 bulb roasted garlic (recipe follows), skin removed
1/4 cup half and half
2 tablespoons butter
salt and pepper to taste

Directions

In large pot of water, boil the potatoes until a fork can be inserted and removed easily from the potatoes. About 10 minutes. Strain.
Return the potatoes to the pot add roasted garlic, half and half, butter and salt and pepper. Mash until potatoes are your desired consistency.

Roasted Garlic

You will need:

1 bulb garlic
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon lemon juice
kosher salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Cut 1/4 inch off the top of the bulb of garlic to expose the cloves beneath, but do not peel the garlic, you want to roast it in the skin. Place clove on a piece of aluminum foil, place butter on top, pour lemon juice over the garlic and sprinkle with kosher salt. Bring up all sides of aluminum foil and twist together to close. Cook for 60 minutes or until garlic cloves are soft and golden in color.
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Garlic Health Benefit

Some of the old stories of garlic's healing properties have doubtful validity, but many of its claimed health benefits have been backed up by modern scientific research. There are two main medicinal ingredients which produce the garlic health benefits: allicin and diallyl sulphides.
Garlic is a sulphurous compound and in general a stronger tasting clove has more sulphur content and hence more potential medicinal value. Some people have suggested that organically grown garlic tends towards a higher sulphur level and hence greater benefit to health. Whether or not that is in fact the case, in my experience it certainly has the best taste.

Benefits

Various garlic health benefits have long been claimed and the "stinking rose" treatment has been used extensively in herbal medicine (phytotherapy) down the centuries. It's been considered by many to be a herbal "wonder drug", with a reputation in folklore for preventing or treating everything from the common cold and flu to the Plague!
Much of that is at best unproven, however there are some very positive garlic health facts that are now widely accepted. Amongst the most interesting potential applications are suggestions that garlic might be able to assist some people in the management of blood pressure cholesterol levels.
Modern science has shown that garlic is a powerful natural antibiotic, albeit broad-spectrum rather than targeted. The bacteria in the body do not appear to evolve resistance to the garlic as they do to many modern pharmaceutical antibiotics. This means that its positive health benefits can continue over time rather than helping to breed antibiotic resistant "superbugs".
Studies have also shown that garlic - especially aged garlic - can have a powerful antioxidant effect. Antioxidants can help to protect the body against damaging free radicals. There are claims that fermented black garlic contains even higher antioxidant levels than normal cloves.
Some people who want the claimed health benefits without the taste prefer to take garlic supplements. These pills and capsules have the advantage of avoiding garlic breath.

Side-Effects

Even garlic isn't a perfect. Apart from garlic breath there are other possible side effects, especially if used to excess. Use common sense and don't overdo it.
Raw garlic is very strong, so eating too much could produce problems, for example irritation of or even damage to the digestive tract.
There are a few people who are allergic to garlic. Symptoms of garlic allergy include skin rash, temperature and headaches. Also, garlic could potentially disrupt anti-coagulants, so it's best avoided before surgery. As with any medicine, always check with your doctor first and tell your doctor if you are using it.
Important: Research published in 2001 concluded that garlic supplements "can cause a potentially harmful side effect when combined with a type of medication used to treat HIV/AIDS". More details are available on the NIAID website.
See also the warnings page on this site.

Garlic makes a wonderful health supplement for many people but the so-called "garlic cure" is no substitute for the basics: sensible eating and appropriate exercise. Garlic should be seen as part of a healthy lifestyle - not as an alternative to it. Always consult your doctor first regarding any medical condition.

Homemade Yogurt

• 3-3/4 cup warm tap water
• 1-2/3 cups instant nonfat dry milk
• 2 to 4 tablespoon store-bought, plain yogurt with active yogurt cultures (read the label to be sure)

In a large saucepan combine the tap water and dry milk powder. Stir it very well, and let it sit a few minutes. Then stir it again. All of the dry milk should be dissolved. Heat the milk over medium low heat until it reaches 180°. This kills off any competeing bacteria so that the yogurt will respond better to the acidophilus cultures. Remove from the stove and allow to cool to 115°. If the milk is any hotter than this then it will kill off the yogurt cultures. Add the store-bought plain yogurt to the warm milk. Stir well. Allow it sit for a few minutes and stir a final time. This should dissolve the store-bought yogurt completely.
Carefully pour the mixture into a very clean, quart-sized, wide-mouthed canning jar, or another clean, quart-sized container.
Incubate the yogurt in a warm spot for 6 to 8 hours, or until it is set almost as thick as store-bought yogurt. Chill and eat.
Each cook develops her own way of incubating home made yogurt through trial and error. I am going to describe my method, followed by some other common methods and ideas. But first there are a few things you need to know. Yogurt is cultured from acidophilous bacteria, which you can sometimes buy in powdered form at the health food store. I have never actually seen it, but I’ve heard tell about it.
Yogurt can also be cultured from store-bought yogurt which contains “active yogurt cultures” or live bacteria. Read the label and it will tell you if the yogurt contains active cultures or not.
I always use prepared yogurt as my culture. I buy a large container of plain store brand yogurt from the store. I bring it home and scoop it into a couple of icecube trays. Then I freeze it. When it is completely frozen, I take the frozen yogurt cubes and pack them in a plastic freezer bag. Each time I make yogurt, I use one cube as the starter. You can use your own fresh yogurt as a starter too, but eventually it loses it’s power due to the introduction of foreign bacteria, usually after using it about 3 or 4 times. I like to use a new frozen yogurt cube each time I prepare yogurt. I’ve had my best results this way.
When making yogurt with powdered milk, it is good to use more dry milk powder than you would to just make fluid milk. For instance, normally I would use 1 1/3 cups of dry milk powder to make a quart of milk. When I reconstitute milk for yogurt, I add an extra 1/3 cup of dry milk powder, using 1-2/3 cups of dry milk powder for a quart of yogurt. This makes the yogurt thicker and also higher in calcium. Even when preparing yogurt from fluid milk, the results are better if you add a little extra powdered milk for thickness.
There are lots of ways to incubate your yogurt. I prefer to do it in my electric oven. I set the stove dial half way between OFF and 200°, or at approximately 100°. The light which signifies the oven is on, pops on for a moment, and then pops off when the temperature is reached. I set my jar of yogurt in the oven and leave it for between 6 and 8 hours, usually overnight, or while I’m out for the day. I take out the yogurt when it is thick. This method works every time for me. My yogurt has a very mild flavor, which the kids like better than the sour stuff we used to get from the store.
There are many other ways to incubate your yogurt. Some people pour the warm milk combined with the starter, into a large preheated thermos and let it sit overnight. Other folks set the yogurt on top of a warm radiator, or close to a wood stove, or in a gas stove with the pilot operating, or on a heating pad set on low. Sometimes I have placed the jar in a pan filled with warm water, to keep the temperature even. This worked pretty well when I incubated the yogurt next to the wood stove. It kept the yogurt at a uniform temperature, even with occasional drafts from the front door opening and closing. The heating-pad method is supposed to be pretty reliable. You set it on low and then cover the heating pad with a towel, place the yogurt on top of it, and put a large bowl or stew pot upside down over the yogurt. This makes a little tent which keeps the heat in. I don’t have a heating pad, and have never actually used this method myself, but a good friend swears by it. Another friend uses a medium sized picnic cooler to incubate her yogurt. She places the jars inside the cooler and then add two jars filled with hot tap water, to keep the temperature warm enough. After 4 hours, check the yogurt to see if it is thick enough. If it isn’t then refill the water jars with more hot water, return them to the cooler, and let the yogurt sit another 4 hours. When I tried this method, it worked very well. It took a full 8 hours, but the yogurt was perfect, and I liked not having my oven tied up during the day. Also, there was little danger of getting the yogurt too hot while it incubated, and drafts weren’t a problem because of the closed nature of the cooler. You should try to disturb the yogurt as little as possible while it is incubating, in ensure you get good results.
After the yogurt is thick, place it in the fridge. It will stay sweet and fresh for about a week or two. You may prepare more than one jar at a time if you like. I included the method for a quart because this is the size canning jar I use. Narrow mouth canning jars would probably work too, but I prefer the wide mouth ones because it is easier to stick a measuring cup or ladel down inside of it, to scoop out the yogurt. I usually prepare two quart jars at a time. The prepared yogurt is good mixed with jelly, fresh or canned fruit, served with granola for breakfast, or substituted for sour cream in many recipes like stroganoffs. It is also nice pureed in fruit smoothie blender drinks, or stirred into gelatin or popscicles before freezing them. It can also be stirred half and half with regular mayonnaise to make a very tasty low fat mayonnaise. This mixture can be used in just about any recipe which calls for mayonnaise.
Learning to make yogurt is a trial and error process. Most people don’t have perfect or consistant results the first few times they make it. With a little practice though, anyone can learn to make it. When you get a little skill at it, the entire process becomes second nature, and you will have sweet fresh yogurt available whenever you like.

Homemade Toothpaste

In our quest to become more self reliant, we are always on the lookout for ways to make things for ourselves rather than buying them ready-made. Often the results are healthier for us and kinder to the planet — as well as costing less.Recently, I decided we should start making our own toothpaste. I have seen various recipies for toothpastes and tooth powders in books and on the Internet. This one, which I found on Path to Freedom, appeals to us because it consists of just a few easily obtained ingredients.

Toothpaste
6 teaspoons baking soda
1/3 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons vegetable glycerin
15 drops natural peppermint essence (optional)
Combine all ingredients, mix well, and store in an airtight container.

Note: Kevin and I like a thicker toothpaste, and don’t mind if it’s not very sweet tasting, so we halve the quantity of glycerin in each batch. Also, we like to make at least a double mixture, since the quantity this recipe makes is pretty small.
We get a lot of satisfaction from this toothpaste. It contains no saccharin, no artificial flavourings or colourings, no flouride, no sodium laurel sulphate, no sodium laureth sulphate. . . to name just a few of the less desirable ingredients that can lurk in commercial toothpastes. It’s easy to make, and our teeth feel shiny and clean after using it.
But what say we ran out of vegetable glycerin, or even baking soda? Or what if we wanted to buy even fewer ingredients? Then what? Well, we could always clean our teeth with salt and sage leaves. We bought a tiny sage plant at the market last Saturday, so perhaps we’ll be able to try this before too long.

mom method for homemade hair shampoo

1) massage with olive oil or mustard oil every weekend n i would take a shower the next day
2) use yogurt at first
3) or some times milk alone n massaged it nicely
then after 5 mins, apply the baking soda paste with water n gently washed all the scalp n finally rinsed with really cold water

~hair grew like a bamboo.it was till my knee’s n beautifull healthy n shiny-i never had a spilt end

Baking Soda and Vinegar Hair Wash

It’s time to wash my hair again. That’s not exactly breaking news (!), but I thought it might be a good moment to write a post about how we wash our hair here on the Farmlet.Since about April this year, I’ve been washing my hair with baking soda and vinegar.
How do you do this?
Just put a couple of tablespoons of baking soda in a dish, and mix with enough water to form a soft paste. Once your hair is wet through, apply the baking soda paste to your scalp (only the scalp, not the rest of the hair). Take some time to massage the baking soda into your scalp with your fingertips. Leave for a few minutes, massage a little more, then rinse thoroughly.
After washing out the baking soda, I rinse my hair with a solution of water and apple cider vinegar (about 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar, 3/4 cup of water). I don’t apply this solution to the scalp, only to the hair shaft — especially the ends. You can rinse out the vinegar if you want, but I like to leave most of it to condition the hair. Of course, I smell like a pickle for a while, but the odour disappears once the hair dries.
NB: Baking soda is a strong hair wash. It will probably dry out your hair if you are using it too frequently (I think this is also true of most commercial shampoos). The formula works best if you wait until your hair actually needs a wash — this might be about once a week, depending on your hair and your lifestyle.
This simple baking soda and vinegar formula seems to work fine for me (My hair is normal to slightly oily, with a tendency to get a bit dry at the ends.) Reputedly, baking soda doesn’t work too well on dry hair. People with dry hair might try using honey, which is a natural emollient, to moisturise the scalp. I’ve heard that this works, but have never tried it.
I wish Kevin and I had known before this year that we could wash our hair like this. It’s a simple, inexpensive trick that really works. Admittedly, Kevin and I are not very fussy about the state of our hair. We never bothered with designer haircuts, blow drying etc., even when we were not living out in the wopwops. Still, I think our hair is in better condition than it was when we were using commercial shampoo. And then there are all the dodgy chemicals and additives that we are not pouring onto ourselves and into the environment.

Homemade facial cleanser

Assalamualaikum wbt...

Too long time not writing here...

what is my new hobby??

It's about appreciating the earth natural gift..before this I used Mary Kay product which cost me about MYR 200++ for my skin face (it's good but too much cost) & using variety of hair shampoo but didnt satisfied with all of them. hence, I do not know how much chemical in those particular products which will of course can give lont term bad effect for human body.

so after my best friend introduced me with Olive Oil product Minsyam,, the cost is just about MYR 50 for suppliment and external use oil. after a week I can see my hair and skin no more dry Alhamdulillah. so my mind is up to opening into new thinking about natural earth source product. so I start making research using internet and the expertise in traditional+homemade product.

So my new vision start from Maal Hijrah (new Muslim year which is on 26/11/2011) is to start with a healthy life and appreciate the earth natural gift inshaAllah.

Homemade natural for face 

Cleanser
I just use papaya soap for face cleanser each night during shower.

Scrub
Blended lemon skin as scrub. It will make your face fresh and clean. for dry skin , can add cucumber skin and blend with lemon.

Masker

Mix an egg & 2 tsp honey, and put the mixture into the fridge. Normally I will prepare for 1 month mixture and put in the fridge. I will use the mask after going back to home once for 2 or 3 days and every weekend. can use about 30 minutes to 2 hours. can also sleep with it.

Moisture
I use Olive Oil for face moisture.Put some olive oil into your face to give moisture to the face skin. InshaAllah if you consistent using the Olive Oil, you will see the improvement of your skin face :)
but to follow traditional tips, don't wash your face with cleanser in the morning because it will skip away the natural good liquid produced by our skin. just wash with warm water and let the water dry by itself.


Homemade natural for hair

Hair shampoo

Blend some lemon skin with cucumber skin. apply to hair about 10 to 15 minutes..if your hair dry, add some cucumber skin. if oily, use more lemon.

Hair conditioner

1)Can use mayonnaise for 15 minutes before shampoo
2) olive oil + egg + virgin coconut oil + honey :- apply about 30minutes to hair before shampoo.
3) or can just mix egg+honey


Hair cream

can apply olive oil before sleep everyday. your hair will growth healthily



Homemade natural for body 

Body shower & Scrub

1)I can also use lemon skin+cucumber skin for body shower and scrub
2)I blend some lemongrass for a minute and cook until it boiled properly. can put into fridge.

Body shower herbs

1)I use the herbs buy from Ainaherbs at Selangor,Malaysia..it's originally extract from ginger, lemongrass and other herbs.


Body lotion

1)can apply olive oil to body before sleep
2) I use original aloe vera to body during weekend.

Body Suppliment

1)Eat some olive oil capsul and Habbatus Saude produced by Minsyam. or you can buy from other sources.
2) Also take 2 tsp honey each morning

Body Health

1) drink warm water
2) eat vegetables and fruits a lot

Ujian tu tanda Allah ada dgn kita

Assalamualaikum wbt..

Alhamdulillah this is my last day fasting for 6 days . Yahoo!!! although a little bit late compare to other people, but nevermind....i'm still satisfied with it...Amin thank you Allah:)

now I realize, more mistake that we did, the heart will be more painful.

so need to non-stop recharge imaan always

but as of today, I feel so happy (although facing some problems at the workplace for these few days)

I'm Happy thank you Allah!!! :) :)

these last few days are so horrible...i faced continuous problem.. ohh..so stress..and the most is when i am SO FAR FROM ALLAH..I LOST THE TRACK FOR A WHILE..AND MY RAMADHAN IS THE WORST FOR THIS YEAR..Subhanallah :(

my heart feel so dry for everything..no mood at all.it's so bad

                                                           my lost and dry heart

i want to cry but I can't...my tears is dried.it's very hurt

it's so cold and dark...where am I?



so I ask help from Allah...a very very need for help

Allah please help me oh Allah...i need you please ya Allah..

i feel so hurt inside...i feel nothing

after a few days..i think i will get a happy day or some reward or gift from Allah so i can find my way back..
but Allah is so Powerful..He heard my voice..He don't want me to be so far from Him

and know what..

He tested me a few days after that
a test that make me felt so stress..SO SO STRESS...URGHHH...

like i'm playing violin in the centre of dark sea

but then after all the stress and make my knees down...here comes the time for me when only Allah can help me.

so i cried and cried and cried bcoz i know all the problem i faced come from Him..and only He can let them go away from me

and after a week stress He gives me a good news to release my stress..and make me smile..besides, I settled my 6days fasting today Alhamdulillah ya Allah:) i'm so happy now.
happy not bcoz of the world but bcoz i know He is so close to me that He can heard my voice and show me His so much love to me:)
I love you too Allah!!!!

                              THANKS ALLAH FOR RELEASE MY PAIN..ALHAMDULILLAH

that woman with face veil thing

Salam alayk..

as of 3rd tarawikh at Masjid Negeri Shah Alam..i've think nothing except pray and pray and pray..
until one moment, a small woman with face veil thing who sat down near a door as i was stepped out from the mosque, i saw her reading Al-Qur'an in the crowded of people..she is so alone..so only focus to Allah

yes, Allah grabbed my heart so that i remember Him..i felt so nerves into entire body..a warmed tears burst out through my eyes..oh Allah..why is that picture make me cry? You touch my heart just by seeing a face veil woman reading Qur'an alone..full of taqwa?

He woke me up at 4.30am this morning, performing Sahur...and Tahajjud, Taubah, Witir...

Oh Allah..
i dont know what to say..
but that picture grabbed my heart ,make me tears a lot..
oh Allah..i want to be pure besides You..

i want to be a good servant of Yours
but sometimes i am too bad because i've crashed the rules all the times
oh Allah guide me to You
because I truly love You Allah..
Thank you Allah for remind me to you
Amin.  :'(

MY DIARY OF SWIMMING

Salam alayk..
MY DIARY OF SWIMMING..specially dedicated to myself...hehehe.but it's Ok if anybody want to read..and share yours:)

I would like to write down my Diary of Swimming because this will be the most excited things to do.
but..maybe it will take some times..bcause..
I am a pisces girl (things related with fish and water)...but don't know why..too afraid of water
Swimming is the last thing I will try to learn because...too afraid of the water.

FGrrrrrrrr...HELP!!!!

but in my stage of age, why not I try to face and dare myself to overcome fear of water?
so i took swimming class for adult in UITM s.alam...

here is Muslimah swimsuit i bought from a swim teacher

and a goggle of course..

and now i can learn to swim

about the water
1) quite cold
2) 1.5metre (my chest level...but i felt it's too deep for me)

after some exercises and wet body shower

Stage 1 : BUBBLE

Alhamdulillah I PASSED (this is my 1st time to Bubble)

very calm down here...Subhanallah..
but I need to practise a lot..to let my fear decrease slowly


Step 2: Floating

I PASSED...ALHAMDULILLAH..
my body can easily float in the water..

Step 3 : Gliding

i've tried 3TIMES!!
but i failed :-((
i felt too afraid when my hand not holding anything during gliding.
felt like flying into the water..huhu
i can felt my chest throbbed rapidly..
and until last of  class that day i failed to glide
i know i can do this 1 day inshaAllah

Oh Allah! Please give me a brave in the water...i really want to swim..let the fear decrease Allah..why I feel so fear to the water..

the next day: swimming with a friend who knows a few step how to swim

my friend patiently guide me..i hold her hands and floating...and she walking slowly inside the pool while i learn how to turn in and turn up my head in the water...oh..so terrible..

but I felt so excited like I already can swim..

it's a shy to see some chiledrens around me can swim freely without holding people hands..

oh Allah..help me..I want to swim..

Amin..

I will update my Diary of Swimming in this blog from time to time..maybe it is useful for someone facing water phobia like me..inshaAllah..

picture below is my dream ...hehe:)

And now I put swimming as the top 1 ranking of THE BEST THING TO DO IN MY LIFE.

swimming also..Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad SAW..
and I proud to learn it although take a long period time.

Thank you Allah for giving me a good life..only to You my love and worship:)

Next Training Session

1) as before, I hold my friend's shoulder and swimming as she walk around the pool. Alhamdulillah my leg skill is improved. but still feel afraid if doesn't hold anything.

2) my friend asked me to swim to the wall without holding anything..uhhh....so fear. but when i tried for the 1st time, wow..i felt amazing! my body can easily float and moved :)



How to Achieve Total Body Awareness in Swimming (Do you know what your body does in the water?)

I don’t have to tell you that swimming is a wonderful sport with countless benefits, but many people unfortunately struggle to realize their full swimming skill potential to enjoy those benefits. It might sometime seem, there is an impenetrable wall which a swimmer cannot get through to reach the next level. This could also be referred to in the sports terminology as a plateau. Whether, the plateau means that your times are not getting faster or swimming just does not seem easier or you just cannot get passed a particular skill. This could be very frustrating and often times can also lead to the sport abandonment which is, of course, quite sad. No matter of the swimming level you are at, reaching a plateau in some point of your training or learning is just a reality and it will happen. What if I were to tell you though that there is a secret passage way through every plateau to get to the next undiscovered world. It is just like in the Jules Verne famous novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, one just needs to find the right passage and new amazing world full of mind boggling discoveries awaits on the other side.

Ok, that is enough of the philosophical mambo jambo. What I really wanted to talk to you about today is the mindful body awareness control in the water. If you feel like you have reached your plateau, perhaps gaining a total body awareness could just be the hint you need to get to the next learning stage.

Do you know what happens to your legs during a breath? Have you ever paid attention to what your hands do when you push off the wall? These and many more body awareness questions is what separates successful aware swimmers from the mindless individuals who just go up and down the pool without even a thought about their stroke. Fair enough, if someone does not want to learn to swim properly, mindless swimming is a way to get away from the real world and relax, but mindless swimming with a proper technique would definitely give them much more pleasure and relaxation. Total and controlled body awareness is a key to a successful and enjoyable swimming experience. Learning to swim or improving on your swimming skills can be at times an overwhelming task as there are million and one things a swimmer should think about, a proper head position, above the water high elbow recovery, hip rotation, front high elbow catch, nice narrow kick during Freestyle or proper breathing rhythm. Putting all of these body movements together and control them in a proper way is a magical thing which comes with a lot of practice, however, if a beginner swimmer tries to think about all of the above swimming aspects at once, it is usually a disaster and it always looks awful.

To help us with this, we break the stroke down to miscellaneous swimming drills instead of swimming the full stroke all at once. If you read this blog regularly, you have heard me mention many swimming drills which are specifically designed to work on one part out of the million and one that you should think about. This drill isolation technique is the only way to learn the proper swimming body movements and then imprint them to your muscle memory. It is like with reading. If I were to put in front of you the Jules Verne adventure book, I mentioned earlier, when you are five years old, you might look at me in dismay and it will feel overwhelming, however, if I teach you your ABCs first and then build gradually on top of those skills, by the time you are ten years old, you will reach for the book with your own initiative and will devour German professor Lidenbrock’s adventures in full immersion within several days.

Arm moving away from middle body line

I’ll not discuss any particular swimming technique drills here today, but I’ll point out and isolate a couple of unconscious movements that you more than likely are guilty off. I’ll focus mainly on freestyle as that is the most common stroke, but the same thought process applies to everything you do in the water. One of the toughest thing to learn for a swimmer is to separate and control different parts of your body. For example: when a swimmer takes a breath during freestyle, it usually means their entire body rotates at the same time with the head as one big stiff piece of styrofoam float. Unfortunately, this is not the right way to swim freestyle and it causes many problems. If your body is stiff and it rotates as a whole at the same time with your head, your front arm will more than likely shift from being nice straight and pointing forward to being driven to the side (in other words, crossing over the imaginary line in the middle of your body or going too far away from it). This causes your body to go in a snake-like (zig zag) direction instead of forward. So, lesson number one, relax your body and make sure when you take a breath to the side you do not take your body and arm with it. The proper way to do this is to rotate your hips and then slightly after that move your head separately to breath by rotating your neck when you are on your side. Also, lubricate that shoulder joint of the arm that is extended forward and keep the arm stretched out forward. As you can see, a simple breath requires the coordination of a lower shoulder joint looseness, hip rotation and neck rotation. All separate, controlled movements which have to happen almost at the same time. Hence total awareness of your body movements while swimming.

Scissor kick for balance support

Another big issue is spreading ones legs too far apart during one kick cycle. You will notice this flaw usually during breathing again. A swimmer with this problem will appear to have a normal narrow kick, but during the breathing stage of the stroke, he/she will spread the legs apart in the horizontal direction, like a slow motion scissor kick. So the pattern of the kick could be something like kick, kick,kick, kick, kiiiiiiiiick, kick, kick, kick, kick, kiiiiiiick etc.The reason this kick happens is the fact that the swimmer uses the big slow kick for balancing support during the breath. Next time you are in the pool with fellow lap swimmers, watch underwater from behind and see if you can spot this irregularity in the kick. Then try to become aware of it during your own swimming. I guarantee that you have it in one size of the kick or another. To fix this scissor kick problem, you should re-read the paragraph above in regards of lubricating your shoulder joints:). The loss of balance feeling which causes the scissor kick is usually caused by the cross over of the lower arm during the breath, so by being in control of your separate body part movements and not crossing over you will eliminate the scissor kick flaw. You can also kick to a beat in your head and if you skip a beat, then you know you have the scissor kick syndrome :). OR just rub your toes against each other with each kick and if there is a period without a toe touch, you know you got it bad.:).



There are many more of these small nuances that are done on an unconscious level and unless a fellow swimmer or a coach points them out, the swimmer in question will never notice them. So remember, next time you are out there doing your thing, practice total body awareness and try to notice what each separate part of your body is doing. Pick one part of your body and follow its movements in your mind through one lap and see if you can visualize exactly what it does. Ones you discover an issue, find a drill (not a full stroke) which helps to fix it. continue reading...

Learn to Control your Breathing (Drills to improve your lung capacity in swimming)

It is not a secret that a swimmer has one of the best lung capacities from all athletes or at least should have. :) . Here are a few ways how you can improve your breath holding ability during every day practice.


1. Lungbuster - exhale all your air and when no air is in your lungs, push off the wall and either sprint fly or free for a 25 or sprint fly kick underwater while in streamline with maximal speed of undulation
2. Good ol' underwater swims - 40x25m underwater on 40 etc.

3. Hypoxic swimming - do a set of your chosen distances (3x400 or more) and vary your breathing by 50s or 100s as follows. 1x50 breath every 3, 1x50 every 5, 1x50 every 7, 1x50 every 9 and repeat all over again.
4. Fast fly kicks on your back - do a set of sprint fly kicks in the streamline, head alined with eyes looking up (not behind you), fast undulations coming from the bottom of your ribcage. Why on your back? Answer: To even out your kicking muscles due to the fact that majority kicks are on your front and also, because it is harder to keep the air in. If you can't keep the air in and it is escaping through the nose, use a nose plug (don't be afraid - top athletes do it). That is the last thing you need, air bubbles coming out of your nose.

5. Underwater turns - pick a favorite distance (not below 300) and have a set where you swim from inside the flags-to the wall-to the flags underwater, so only the section in the middle of the pool between the flags is above the water, the rest below.

6. Front snorkel - one of a great ways to work harder in the water is to limit your oxygen intake. Front snorkel is a wonderful tool which will do just that and it will help you with your head and body position. The frontside snorkel is also used for training your proper head position. Even David Marsh, a head coach at the Auburn University in Alabama, is fond of this simple tool and describes its use in his DVD set The Auburn Way .

7. Not taking breaths into the turns and off the turns. This practice is perfect for training to help you get out of it as much as you can. Take one stroke into the turn and one stroke out of the turn without breathing.

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8. Breathless relays - Sprint fly or free as a relay, however, without breathing. If you are not skilled in non-breathing swimming, start with 25's, if you are more advanced I'd do 50's to make it more challenging. There is a catch though. If a person takes a breath during their part of the swim, the relay is penalized by one more swim or by time or any other penalty you can think of to make it interesting.

As Richard Quick, former Stanford's Women's Swimming Coach, mentions in his Championship Winning Swimming Videos, underwater swimming is a 5th stroke and up to 60% of your races can be swam underwater. So here you have it.
One last note, remember that when racing, it is not good to go into an oxygen debt, that is why you'd want to incorporate some of these excercises into your training. And also keep in mind that while in competition, if you have a perfect stroke and body/head position, you can take as many breaths as you want without impacting your speed (there is nothing wrong with that). You will swim faster with more oxygen.

For helping your breathing, you can use Power Breathe (just 2 times 30 breathes a day and you'll see a difference within a week).
Feel free to leave a comment if you know of any other interesting ways to help your lungs get fit.

How to improve your kicking? (Freestyle Kick Drills)

18 comments In this post, I will discuss a few tips and tricks on how to improve your kick or how to make kicking more fun.
Let's start with the basics.

a.) Kicking without keybboard (kickboard :) thanks @4th Dwarf) is a must for majority of the kicking exercises. Advantages include: working on stabilizing body (your core), improving balance, easier on the shoulders and much more. If you have to use a kickboard, cut it in half, so it is small and makes you work. Finally, if kicking with kickboards - do flipturns with both of the arms staying on the kickboard. This will help you with your stomach and keeps you focused.

b.) Keep in mind that kicking on your back is much better for you due to the fact that you exercise the other side of the leg which equalizes the leg muscles (since most of your swimming is on your front).
c.) When using fins, it is best to use zoomers. If you do not have money for zoomers, simply cut off the tips of your fins to make a pair. :)
Here are some helpful drills:

1. Wall kicking. Start kicking holding the wall. Kick 15 sec easy, 15 sec sprint and then push off right away and swim 6-beat kick free to the other side where you will grab the wall and continue kicking. So if you decide to do 20x25 of this, you will never stop kicking, until you get done with all the 25s. Feel free to change the interval sprint/easy kicks as you wish.



2. Whistle kicking. This exercise requires a kickboard. Select a good distance, for example 500 meters and then have your coach blow the whistle every so often to let you know that you should start sprinting, when he/she blows again, you may slow down, but continue with kicking. Or you can select a time interval like 30 minutes and see how far you can get during this time.



3. Shoe kicks. Get yourself a pair of old tennis shoes. Do 6x50 with a kickboard and tennis shoes on. Pick a slower interval, because this is not easy, but breaks up the monotony.



4. Stretch cord kicks. Get a short stretch cord, attach it to the block and have a set of explosive kicks off the wall. E.g. 5x (30 sec sprint+30 sec rest).



5. Breaststroke on your back. Arms are in the streamline position, you are laying on your back and perform powerful breast kicks. The most important part is to keep flat on the water with your head back and your knees underwater at all times. Heels of your feet should almost touch your buttocks.

6. Vertical kicking. There are many variations of this excercise.

a.) Sprint - Do short intervals of fly kicks as fast as you can and count how many you have done. Try to increase the number of kicks each time.

b.) Longer distance - You can kick with your arm in the streamline, on your head, at your side or by you body. Make sure to keep nice and straight posture + your head out of the water.

c.) Fun weights - To make this more challenging, you can hold a bucket with water above your head. To make it even more fun, you can split your swimmers into groups of 2 or 3 and give them waterproof medicineballs to throw to each other.

d.) Push offs - Lastly, if you feel creative, you may have the swimmers push of the bottom as high as possible in streamline while kicking fly and not let the body fall deep back underwater.

Feel free to leave a comment if you have more kicking sets you'd like to share with us. Happy kicking

Do you know how to swim breaststroke? (Top 5 most common breaststroke mistakes)

Knock knock. Who is there? Head hovering right above the water, perhaps even with regular rimmed glasses on and dry hair, arms slowly pushing the water to the sides with a rhythmic, lazy, and very wide breaststroke-like kick in a weird angle to the bottom of the pool.

Vertical breaststroke by Mr. Wright

I am sure you know who I am talking about. The most common breaststroke swimming position in our swimming pools all around the world. In the Czech Republic we have a name for this type of head above the water, lazy breaststroke swimming style. We call it "paní Radová" breaststroke. In literal translation, it means "Mrs. Mayor". In the olden days, the stereotypical wife of the town's mayor used to be very respected individual, lazily strolling through the town with her nose held high. And this was translated into the swimming terms when someone swims very slow breaststroke with the head above the water at all times as if they are above anything else.

You know, however, that to properly swim and enjoy breaststroke, the "paní Radová" style is not the way to go. This type of breaststroke puts quite a lot of pressure on ones lower back since the swimmer needs to bend to keep the head above the water. Ok, this is a bit of an extreme and most people who are at least a bit serious about learning to swim breaststroke do not swim like that, but there are a few commonalities and pitfalls that appear in breaststroke swimmers' strokes. Below are just a few of the most common breaststroke mistakes out there:
1) Excessive arm pull past shoulders - one of the biggest pitfalls during the breaststroke arm movements is the exaggerated pull which causes swimmer's arms and elbows to go too far back, passed the shoulders. The current form of breaststroke technique actually puts a lot less emphasis on the arms than the kick, but many swimmers use their arms to move forward instead of their breaststroke kick and this is causing them to pull too far back with their arms. Imagine a wall 1 meter (~3 feet) tall and 5cm (~2 inches) thick. The top of the wall is nice and flat. Pretend like you'd sit on your knees with your chest to the wall and bring your arms over the wall, so you are basically resting on your armpits on top of the wall. Your arms are free and you can move them around on the other side of the wall. Now try to do a breaststroke arm pull. It has to be small, because you cannot move your arms through the wall toward your body. This is almost like swimming breaststroke. Another way to try this in the pool is to hang on the lane rope (as if it was the top of the wall). Hang on the lane line at your armpits, extend your legs horizontally behind you and try to do a breaststroke pull. Again, you cannot move your elbows passed the lane line backwards. You can practice these mimicing exercises a few times and then try it when you swim and remember, smaller is better.
Arm hesitation and head movement by C-Serpents

2) Taking a breath too late - along with the problem of too big of an arm pull as described above, comes the late breathing mistake. One of the first principles of swimming is that if a body part (head, arm) is taken out of the water, there always has to be another body part which serves as a support in the water. The more body parts that are above the water and the longer they are above the water, the easier it is for the swimmer to sink down. In other words, the harder the swimmer has to work to keep afloat. Same principle applies during breaststroke breathing. When your body rises to take a breath, your head is above the water, so you need to minimize the time your body is above the water and use the arms for support. The common mistake here that I am talking about is taking a breath when swimmer's arms are already by his/hers shoulder area or even worse, by his/hers hips (see mistake number 1). When this happens, body (head) is out of the water, but there is no support in the arms to keep the body afloat as the arms already finished the pull, therefore, the swimmer feels like they are sinking every time they take a breath. So, next time you are breathing in breaststroke, remember, take a breath at the same time or before you start your pull (when you arms are still stretched up front) and finish the breath (head in the water at the same time you are stretching your arms forward.

3) Hesitation in the middle of the stroke - if you have read my post about how to use your arms during breaststroke, you already know what I am talking about here, but if not, here is the scoop. The goal position of swimmer's body in breaststroke is right below the surface of the water. The important key element is the hips which should ride at all times very close to the surface of the water. The "high hip" position, is very vulnerable during the time when swimmer just finished the pull and is ready to return the arms back to the front position (this is called the arm recovery). It is at this time (hands are right in front of your chest) when swimmer's hips are forced down by the hands' above the water position. So, the longer the swimmer takes to get the arms back forward the more likely are the hips to sink away from the surface. Many swimmers (even competitive athletes) make a big mistake by pausing the hands in the chest position before returning the arms forward. In reality, it should be totally opposite, there should not be a pause, the arms should actually speed up as the swimmer throws them (along with the upper body) forward. A good way to practice this is by using a drill where you use freestyle kick with very fast breaststroke arms. This drill will not let your hips sink since the freestyle kick is supporting them, but it will get you tired very fast if you keep pausing in the breaststroke arm pull.

Eyes should look more down, not forward.

4) Head movement instead of body movement - this is a very common mistake and if I were to venture a guess, it is practiced by 90% of the swimming population out there. Contrary to the belief, there is no (or very little) neck movement during breaststroke. It is opposite of butterfly, where you should slightly move your neck to get the head out of the water. You can read about that in the top butterfly mistakes post. In breaststroke, you can imagine you have a neck collar (one of those you get in a hospital, also called the cervical collar) which does not allow you to bob your head up and down. Instead you should move the chest along with the head. You might now wonder: "well why shouldn't I move my head. It works fine for me." True, you can swim breaststroke with the head bobbing, however, you are not then swimming properly up to your potential. The head bobbing introduces unnecessary up and down motion to your body which causes you to loose the forward motion engagement as well as hips at the surface position (see point 3 above) and increases your drag. You can practice this by utilizing a few tricky drills. One way to get your head immobilized is to put a tennis ball or a bit bigger ball under your chin and keep it there while you swim. The other way, which I like the best is to utilize the Finis front end snorkel, but use it backwards in the back of your head to not let your head move up from its natural position. In other way to think about this is, if your face is vertical (eyes looking straight ahead) during the breathing cycle, it is wrong. Your head is an extension of your neck, so you need to look in an angle towards the water somewhere in front of you in order for your hips to stay at the surface.



5) Improper breaststroke kick - I discussed the proper breaststroke kicking sequence in one of my older breastroke leg post, however, let's talk about it again. Proper breaststroke kick is a must if you want to succeed in swimming this wonderful stroke. The most common mistakes in kicking are a scissor kick, too wide of a kick or the worst, modified butterfly kick. The main ingredient to a good breaststroke kick is the revelation of what part of your leg actually pushes the water and where. So, let me shed some light on that.



a) Breaststroke swimmers always need to push water backwards behind them since they want the kick to propel them forward. In the scissor kick (wrong type of breaststroke kick) the water is pushed to the sides and in too wide of a kick.

b) The proper way to push water behind swimmer's body is by utilizing the inner shin (from knee down) and the inner foot (from ankle to your big toe) as the main parts. In the scissor kick and modified butterfly kick (wrong type of breaststroke kick) it is the front shin and front foot that is wrongly being used. In the too wide of a kick (wrong type of breaststroke kick), it is only the sole of swimmer's foot that stomps the water backwards which actually generate almost zero propulsion forward. As you see, all the three variations are using totally different less efficient propulsive mechanisms to get a swimmer forward.



The best way to learn the proper inner shin and inner ankle position is to place your feet in the right alignment against a swimming pool wall while holding onto a lane line and then very gently push off (with your inner ankles touching the wall - foot rotated outward). Keep repeating this leg wall alignment many times until you feel comfortable and are able to mimic the same ankle rotation in the water.



There are of course many more aspects to a proper breaststroke swim, however, if I'd list them all, it would be for a short book ;). I hope you learned something about breaststroke today and remember, to improve in swimming or as a matter of fact in anything in life, trying new things and understanding why something is done is the key to success. So go out there and modify your breaststroke for the better. One way or another, you will discover something new, even if it is just more realization that this is not the way to do it. Have fun and keep swimming