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KajoTries: 5 homemade beauty remedies and they actually worked

Published on August 21, 2025

Lifestyle

You have seen homemade beauty remedies on Pinterest and various social media. You have heard people testify them.

Yet, you have never tried them yourself.

Fret not, here are some homemade beauty remedies tried and tested by KajoMag:

1. Coconut oil as hair mask

Massage your scalp with coconut oil before going to bed. Rinse out with shampoo the next morning.

Continue this routine for weeks and you will notice that your hair will become less frizzy.

Coconut oil helps to moisturise and smoothen hair.

Coconut oil as one of homemade beauty remedies. Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya.

2. Butter as lip conditioner

If you have chapped lips, this is the most simple and cheapest homemade beauty product for you.

Before going to bed, apply a thin layer of butter on your lips. (Yes, you read right.) Even margarine will do.

Be prepared to wake up with soft and luscious lips.

Besides butter, coconut oil is also good for dry and cracked lips. Apply it on your lips several times a day.

Homemade Beauty Remedy — Apply a thin layer of butter on your lips before going to bed. Credit: Pixabay.

3. Homemade nose pore strip

All you need is one egg white and a paper towel.

Dip the paper towel into the egg white and place it on your nose. Then wait for it to dry.

The best part of this homemade beauty product is that it is affordable and it works.

The disadvantages of using this? You have to bear with the smell of egg while waiting for it to dry. Plus, it takes longer than your usual store-bought nose pore strip. But think of the savings!

Homemade Beauty Remedy 3 — Use white egg to make your own homemade nose pore strip.

4. Apple cider vinegar facial toner

First of all, this homemade beauty product is not suitable for everybody, especially those with sensitive skin.

However, for some, apple cider vinegar works wonders as a facial toner.

You can find many different ratios of apple cider vinegar to water mixtures online.

If you are not sure which ratio works best with you, start with one part apple cider vinegar to four parts water first.

Then slowly adjust the ratio according to your preference.

Apply the toner to your cleansed face with a cotton pad, avoiding the eye area.

After several weeks, your face should feel smoother and tighter.

5. Foot scrub

The basic formula for homemade scrub is one cup of white or brown sugar and a quarter cup of olive, almond or coconut oil.

Simply try to mix and match your own ingredients with your preferred essential oil.

We have tried mixing one cup of white sugar and a quarter cup coconut oil with a few drops of lavender essential oil.

Our verdict: the smell of coconut may overpower the lavender but it scrubs away dead skin just fine.

Other concoctions you can try are brown sugar, olive oil and orange essential oil or white sugar, olive oil and peppermint essential oils.

KajoTries: Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

Published on June 22, 2020

Lifestyle

This time we tried making Nigella Lawson’s chocolate chip cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookie 2 — Nigella Lawson’s chocolate chip cookies

The history of the chocolate chip cookie

An American chef Ruth Graves Wakefield (1903-1977) is best known as the inventor of Toll House cookies, the first chocolate chip cookie together with Sue Brides.

She invented it around 1938. She added chopped up bits from a semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.

Most reports stated that the invention was an accident and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to melt.

However, Wakefield clarified that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, “We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it but I was trying to give them something different.”

Wakefield used a Nestle chocolate bar for the cookie. When she gave Nestle the recipe for her cookies, in return the food company gave her a lifetime supply of chocolate.

The nationwide craze for the chocolate chip cookie started during World War II (WWII). Soldiers who were writing home asking their families to send them some Toll House cookies.

Soon, Wakefield was bombarded with letters from around the world asking for her recipe.

From there, the craze for chocolate chip cookies even spread to the United Kingdom.

The original chocolate chip cookie recipe

Sue Brides’ daughter shared the original chip cookie recipe in 2017. It comprises of these ingredients:

1 1⁄2 cups (350 mL) shortening
1 1⁄8 cups (265 mL) sugar
1 1⁄8 cups (265 mL) brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1⁄2 teaspoon (7.5 g) salt
3 1⁄8 cups (750 mL) of flour
1 1⁄2 teaspoon (7.5 g) hot water
1 1⁄2 teaspoon (7.5 g) baking soda
1 1⁄2 teaspoon (7.5 g) vanilla
chocolate chips

Besides this, other variation of the recipe may add additional ingredients such as nuts or oatmeal. Moreover, vegans often substitute the ingredients using vegan chocolate chips, vegan margarine and so on.

KajoMag tried out Nigella Lawson’s chocolate chip cookie recipe

Chocolate Chip Cookie 3 — Preparing the ingredients.

On her website, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson shared “It seems strange that I’ve managed to write seven books without one plain chocolate chop cookie (by which I mean a plain cookie with chocolate chips in it).

“For here’s the thing: you’d think a plain cookie with a few chocolate chips folded into the mixture would be a simple matter. It’s not. It’s never difficult to make, just difficult to get right. I may be picky, but to my mind, or my mouth, a cookie that’s too crisp feels dry and disappointing and a cookie that’s too chewy tastes like dough. I want a bit of tender, fudgy chewiness but an edge of crisp bite, too.”

After giving the recipe a try, it amazingly turned out the way Lawson describes it.

It was a bit tender, fudgy and chewy but a little bit crisp on the edges.

Would we change anything from her recipe in the future? Maybe a little bit. Instead of using a semi-sweet chocolate chips, we would replace them with dark chocolate chips. This would give a slight bitterness to it which is more to our liking.