Skin Care Home Based Remedies
Artifical ingredient free homemade recipes to care for your own skin are easy 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 the skin finding their way into the bloodstream which can be harmful to the overall health.
Virgin coconut oil/butter makes for a good moisturizer by providing a protective layer over the skin that locks in non-artifical moisture. Coconut oils solidifies at temperatures below 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the coconut butter in tiny lip balm or eye cream jars or any teeny sterilized jar. For a lip balm, use coconut butter on its own or add peppermint or spearmint oils. As an acne treatment, add a couple of drops of tea tree, lavender, or patchouli oils. For wrinkles, add rose, orange or patchouli oils. To treat eczema, add chamomile, geranium, or orange oils. To treat broken capillaries, add rose, palmarosa, or parsley oils. To treat cellulite, add grapefruit, tangerine, or orange oils. For stretch marks, add palmarosa or neroli oils. To treat burns, add geranium, patchouli or lavender oils.
For sunburned skin, break open a leaf of an Aloe Vera plant and smooth onto the dermis. The gel is also good for other types of burns and has soothing, cooling, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. Strawberry fluid, cucumbers and avocados are also soothing to sunburned skin.
For tired eyes, place cumbers slices over your eyes. For dark circles around your eyes, place cooled tea bags over the eyes.
For a homemade facial toner, mix green tea, chamomile or ginseng tea (made with mineral pure water or distilled water) with lavender or lemon oils. Green tea is rich in antioxidants which fight no-cost radicals that damage and age the dermis. Green tea is expounded to diminish fine lines. Lavender oils is a good toner and lemon oils is a good rejuvenator and toner. Add Vitamin C crystals as a preservative and antioxidant. MSM (Methyl Sulfonyl Methane) is a home-grown source of organic sulfur good for the skin. Add MSM crystals to your toner or eat high sulfur foodstuffs such as kale or watercress.
Prick a capsule of Vitamin A, E, or wheat germ oils and smooth directly onto your own skin, add to coconut, almond or apricot oils, or to your toner. Vitamin A is a potent antioxidant and Vitamin E is expounded to slow down the aging process. Almond oils soothes and lubricates the skin. Apricot oils protects and softens the skin. Wheat germ oils promotes skin elasticity.
For a moisturizing and refreshing mask, mix avocado with shredded cumbers. 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 own skin.
For a body powder, mix cornstarch and baking soda with the most popular essential oil preparations. For a foot powder, mix cornstarch, baking soda and tea tree or peppermint oils. Baking soda acts as a deodorizer and soothes the erpidermis. Tea tree oils is a non-artifical antiseptic, germicide, antibacterial, and fungicide. Peppermint oils is soothing to the feet and swollen ankles.
Drinking plenty of spring 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 own skin. Don't forget, skin care is important to your health.
About the Author Elizabeth Kiely is the owner of EK Shower Caps: http://www.eklbc.com
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