Glycerin is a chemical compound which is known as glycerol. For making biodiesel it is the main by-product. This word comes from the Greek word glykys and its meaning is sweet. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous, nontoxic liquid with a very sweet taste and has literally thousands of uses.

It can easily dissolve in water and alcohol both but it is unable to dissolve in oils but, there are many substances which will dissolve into glycerin than they will dissolve into...

Time and again, women have been trying to get the facts about cellulite. Since they are the most affected with this unpleasant skin disorder, they have often wondered what cellulite is and its causes. When you have problems on your circulation and you tend to retain water in your system, then there is a big chance you'll be having cellulite. In earlier days, this "orange peel" condition of the skin usually sighted on the thighs and buttocks is often associated with being...

The part of the face that most people are drawn to is the eyes. Also, most people would remember someone else's eyes more often than other features of the face. If you want to make yourself a little more attractive and pretty, you have to pay attention to the eye shadow and other makeup that you put in the area.

There are many colors of eye shadows, liners and mascara on the market.  In fact, makeup colors and themes for the eyes change every season. Cosmetic...

Stretch marksappear as lines or marks and are scar-like in appearance. Most commonly associated with pregnancy, scarring can also become present as a result of weight loss, injury, surgery or acne.

Fundamentally, stretch marks - and scars - are a result of torn tissue at the superficial dermal layer. They are manifested by slightly raised lines or marks on the epidermis, often smooth in nature.

Fibroblast cells, in the subcutaneous layer of the skin, create collagen and...

Do you have dark circles under your eyes? Puffy, baggy eyes?  Hopefully you don't have all three. I'm going to show you 3 ways that work.  Do all 3 tips and you will get a new, younger look. How to get rid of either puffy or baggy eyes and even dark circles is pretty much the same.

Tip 1.  Get to Bed on Time

Dark circles under eyes develop with lack of sleep.  If you stay up most of the night, don't be surprised if you have dark circles and baggy...

To say the least, this opened up a huge market to those who couldn’t always travel to the beach (or have access to it) and/or spend countless hours in the sun trying to achieve the perfect tan. Over the next ten years, tanning beds were left virtually unregulated. However, in 1988, regulation was passed at the federal level to ensure proper safety levels were in place with tanning beds and booths nationwide.

With this new venue, there arose another marketing...

Choosing a tattoo is a really hard thing to do. It has to be unique and imaginative.. But where can you find unique and imaginative tattoos? Here's a few ways to find tattoo inspiration, so that you can expand on them to make your tattoo awesome!

• Search Engines:If you go to the image section of any search engine and for example type in tattoo ideas and click search, it will come up with thousands of pictures of tattoos that you can expand off of. If you have...

Getting rid of scars: for some people it may sound pointless, but for people such as myself it's definitely a big deal. I had a horrible scar on my leg from a biking accident, and its effects on my body image were terrible! I was so embarassed of my scar that I never wore shorts, even in the hottest summer days; well, last Spring I decided I'd had enough of feeling like a scarred freak, and I resolved doing something about it! Since I can't afford the most expensive solutions (such as...

Here's what you've been waiting for - some cellulite diet tips and the best foods to incorporate into your diet to help get rid of cellulite!

When you follow a diet that is designed specifically to help reduce cellulite and this does not necessarily revolve around losing weight, but it will involve minimizing the foods and foods full of toxins which can lead to cellulite appearing on the surface of the skin.

With a diet for cellulite, a person needs to include as many foods...

Shakespeare’s plays abound with references to ‘bearded ladies’. Indeed, a few centuries ago women, for that matter even men, who had to put up with unprecedented hair growth in embarrassingly obvious (and not so obvious) spots had to well, just put up with it. Women down the ages have tried everything, from shaving their arms and legs to threading, often with painful results and serious health consequences.

Ancient Egyptians prepared a mixture of bees’...