Natural homemade recipes for your skin are simple to make and cost-effective. What you put on your skin is just as important as what you eat. Commercial products often contain chemicals that are absorbed by your skin finding their way into the bloodstream which can be harmful to your overall health.
Virgin coconut oil/butter makes for a good moisturizer by providing a protective layer that locks in natural moisture. Coconut oil solidifies at temperatures below 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the coconut butter in small lip balm or eye cream jars or any small sterilized jar. For a lip balm, use coconut butter on its own or add peppermint or spearmint oil. As an acne treatment, add a couple of drops of tea tree, lavender, or patchouli oil. For wrinkles, add rose, orange or patchouli oil. To treat eczema, add chamomile, geranium, or orange oil. To treat broken capillaries, add rose, palmarosa, or parsley oil. To treat cellulite, add grapefruit, tangerine, or orange oil. For stretch marks, add palmarosa or neroli oil. To treat burns, add geranium, patchouli or lavender oil.
For sunburned skin, break open a leaf of an Aloe Vera plant and smooth onto the skin. The gel is also good for other types of burns and has soothing, cooling, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. Strawberry juice, cucumbers and avocados are also soothing to sunburned skin.
For tired eyes, place cucumber slices over your eyes. For dark circles around your eyes, place cooled tea bags over your eyes.
For a homemade facial toner, mix green tea, chamomile or ginseng tea (made with mineral water or distilled water) with lavender or lemon oil. Green tea is rich in antioxidants which fight free radicals that damage and age the skin. Green tea is said to diminish fine lines. Lavender oil is a good toner and lemon oil is a good rejuvenator and toner. Add Vitamin C crystals as a preservative and antioxidant. MSM (Methyl Sulfonyl Methane) is a natural source of organic sulfur good for the skin. Add MSM crystals to your toner or eat high sulfur foods such as kale or watercress.
Prick a capsule of Vitamin A, E, or wheat germ oil and smooth directly onto your skin, add to coconut, almond or apricot oil, or to your toner. Vitamin A is a potent antioxidant and Vitamin E is said to slow down the aging process. Almond oil soothes and lubricates the skin. Apricot oil protects and softens the skin. Wheat germ oil promotes skin elasticity.
For a moisturizing and refreshing mask, mix avocado with shredded cucumber. Avocados are rich in protein and Vitamin A. Cucumbers are cooling and cleansing. Use a mashed banana for a skin firming mask.
To lighten age spots, rub lemon directly onto your skin.
For a body powder, mix cornstarch and baking soda with your favorite essential oil. For a foot powder, mix cornstarch, baking soda and tea tree or peppermint oil. Baking soda acts as a deodorizer and soothes the skin. Tea tree oil is a natural antiseptic, germicide, antibacterial, and fungicide. Peppermint oil is soothing to the feet and swollen ankles.
Drinking plenty of water, eating raw fruits and vegetables, and getting plenty of rest are one of the best ways to achieving healthy and radiant skin. What goes into your body is reflective on your skin.
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10.01.2008
Skin Care Home Remedies
Natural Skin Care Beauty Tips Made From Natural Ingredients
For natural home cures, kitchen is the great place to start. Natural cures created at home for the smallest of problems from natural ingredients such fruits, vegetables, herbs are catching loads of attention due to its very nature of cure - no or negligible cost, purity, without side effects, dollops of TLC (tender, loving care), simple and no side effects. Sounds too good to be true?
-Try this for dandruff problem; soak 1 tbsp of fenugreek seeds overnight. Grind them into a paste. Apply on hair for an hour and wash it off using gram flour paste.
-For dry, flaky skin on your arms and legs, try this concoction. Mix 6 tsp petroleum jelly, 2 tsp each of glycerin and lemon juice. Apply this moisturizing lotion at least twice a week.
-Peel, grate and squeeze the juice of a cucumber. Mix it with ½ tsp each of glycerin and rose water. Apply this if you are suffering for sun burns.
-A facemask of egg white and honey gently removes the tan from your face.
-Dip cotton wool pads in chilled mixture of cucumber and potato juice. Keep this on your eyelids for 15 to 20 minutes and gently wash it off. A way out for dark circles.
-Melt paraffin wax; mix it with little mustard oil and apply on the affected area. Leave it on overnight. After 10 or 15 days, your cracked heels will become smooth.
-Mix oats with honey, yogurt and ground almonds. Apply this to your face, leave it for five minutes and wash with lukewarm water.
-Try chocolate mask to make your normal to dry skin, skin smooth. Take 1/3 cup cocoa, 3 tsp of heavy cream, 1/3 cup ripe papaya, ¼ cup honey and 3 tsp of oatmeal powder. Mix them together. Smooth on your face. After 10 minutes, wash your face with warm water.
-For oily skin, apply a mixture of grapes (softens your skin), lemon (natural cleanser) and egg white (tightens the skin). Leave it for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water.
-Tone and refresh your skin by rubbing the wedge of a cut lemon all over your face. Leave it for about 20 minutes and then rinse off with cold water.
-You can mix 1 tbsp cranberry sauce juice with 2 tbsp of Vaseline for a delicious home made lip balm.
-Mix honey, lemon and vegetable oil for a great home made moisturiser for your dry skin. Apply this concoction for 10 minutes.
-For a glowing skin, heat 4 tbsp of almond oil, 2 tbsp each of lanolin, petroleum jelly and extra virgin olive oil. Blend all these ingredients and massage into your skin.
-Mix a slice of pumpkin with egg yolk and milk. Let this mask set on your face for 30 minutes for a glowing skin.
-Massage your body with a mixture of coconut oil and some of your favourite scented oils like lavender or rosemary. Your skin, besides smelling heavenly, will acquire a silky and supple quality.
-Mix ½ cup honey to your bath water for soft and smooth skin.
-Paste of mint leaves and almonds, mixed with warm water and applied all over body till it dries and rinsed off with warm water makes a soothing body pack.
-Buttermilk dabbed on skin for 15 minutes will soak up oil from your skin without drying it.
-Carrot juice applied daily helps blemishes fade.
-For dark underarms and neck - apply lemon juice mixed with cucumber juice and a pinch of turmeric daily. Leave this on for 20 minutes.
-A mix of crushed mint leaves and oats applied for 20 minutes and washed off with warm water will reduce pimples.
-Hair on face - apply a sticky paste of egg white blended with sugar and corn flour. When it dries, gently peel it off. Repeat this three to four times a week.
-Thin apple slices rubbed onto oily skin will help in controlling the oily shine.
-For supple skin, apply a ripe mashed banana on your face for 20 minutes daily.
-Try this natural bleach to lighten the tan. Mix orange peels (sun dried and powdered) with milk. Apply this paste for 25 minutes and rinse off.
The reader of this article should exercise all precautions while following instructions on the recipes from this article. Avoid using if you are allergic to something. The responsibility lies with the reader and not the site and the writer.
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Sharon Hopkins manages natural skin care sites that provide information on natural skin care with the help of home made skin care recipes and tips on skin nutrition. Read up on various Natural Skincare Beauty Tips made from natural ingredients.
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9.30.2008
Natural Skin Care Products - How Do You Choose?
There are so many natural skin care products out there, all of them promising to help make your skin look younger and healthier. But with so many options and choices out there, how can you really choose the product that will provide you with the most effective skincare? Well, it's actually not that difficult. Once you realize exactly what your skin needs to look its best, the next step is choosing products that contain that contain the right ingredients. And here are five things your skin needs to keep it looking young and healthy.
Moisturizer
A good moisturizer is one of the key ingredients in a good skin care routine. If you're skin is dry, it is more vulnerable to things like age spots, fine lines and wrinkles, as well as other kinds of damage. Keeping your skin moisturized and hydrated is one way to keep it looking its best. But not all moisturizers are created equally. Synthetic moisturizers can clog your pores and keep your skin from breathing. Natural moisturizers, on the other hand, give your skin the moisture it needs without clogging the pores and causing breakouts or other skin problems.
Protection from the Sun
Too much sun exposure is one of the major causes of the visible signs of aging, including wrinkles, age spots, and dark circles around your eyes. Exposure to harmful UV rays can also cause other kinds of damage that make your skin look older. That's why it's important to use products that contain ingredients, like CoenzymeQ10, that can protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays.
Antioxidants to Fight Free Radicals
As we now know, free radicals can cause all kinds of damage to your body, and is responsible for many health problems. And your skin is no exception. Fortunately, beauty products that contain antioxidants can protect your skin from the damage free radicals can cause. Not only that, but free radicals can actually reverse some of the skin damage you might have already experienced. Ingredients
That Stimulate New Skin Cell Rejuvenation
One of the keys to youthful looking skin is the production of new skin cells. When new skin cells are produced to replace old, worn out ones, the result is younger looking skin. Unfortunately, as we get older, our body's production of new skin cells begins to slow down. But all is not lost. There are some skincare ingredients that can stimulate the production of new skin cells. CynergyTK is one good example. This ingredient has been clinically proven to dramatically increase skin cell production by as much as 160%.
Ingredients That Stimulate Collagen and Elastin Production
As we get older, our bodies produce less collagen and elastin. This is unfortunate because, without them, our skin can begin to lose firmness and elasticity, as well as developing fine lines and wrinkles. Fortunately, the right skin care product can help to stimulate the production of collagen and elastin, resulting in thicker, firmer, more elastic skin. Finding the right natural skin care products isn't as difficult as you might think, especially when you know which ingredients will give you the results you want.
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