Food for Beauty
It's amazing just how many kitchen ingredients can be used as beauty products. Now that we can access all the beauty products we want in drug stores, we never think too much about home grown solutions, but they are so easy and so many of the ingredients are already in your kitchen! Not to mention they are 100% natural.
Face/Body:
For starters, you can use egg white as a mask for your face. You can leave it on overnight or leave it on for 10 minutes. It sounds slimy, but the whites dry fairly quickly. This is amazing for improving your skin tone.
A simple cream cleanser consists of 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon plain yogurt. Mix it together in a bowl and apply to skin.
Apple cider vinegar diluted in water is also great for sunburns. Speaking of sunburns, my favorite treatment is slathering cold milk or yogurt on it. You can also pour milk into a bath for treatment.
Oats are anti-inflammatory and moisturizing. Use them to cleanse or add them to your cleanser. You can also wrap oats in a cheesecloth and use as a pouf to wash with. In addition, you can soak oats or almond meal overnight in milk and use as a cleanser. Here's a guide to what milks to use for what skin types:
-Acneous: Rice milk, skimmed milk.
-Mature: Cream, whole milk, soy milk.
-Dehydrated: Whole milk, soy milk, rice milk.
-Sensitive: Buttermilk, Goat's milk, soy milk.
-Dry: Cream, whole milk, goat's milk, soy milk.
-Oily/Combination: Buttermilk, skimmed milk.
-Normal/Combination: Buttermilk, goat's milk, rice milk, soy milk, yogurt.
Here's a great scrub for all skin types. Combine 2 teaspoons almond meal, 1 teaspoon honey, and 1/2 teaspoon orange juice and apply to skin.
Avocado makes a great mask, especially for dry, mature, and sensitive skin. Honey is also a great mask and lip treatment for dry lips. Leave the honey on your lips for at least 15 minutes.
Another mask for mature skin consists of 2 teaspoons olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon lime juice. You can leave it on for 30 minutes or overnight.
To make a mask for oily and combination skin, combine 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon rosewater, and 1/2 teaspoon honey.
To make a mask for dry skin, combine 1 whipped egg yolk, 1 tablespoon powdered milk, and 1/2 teaspoon honey.
For damaged skin, make a turmeric paste by mixing turmeric with water. Leave on for a couple of hours or overnight (just sleep with a towel over your pillow to avoid changing the color of your pillowcase).
Body:
Olive Oil also makes a good body mask if you don't have very oily skin. After bathing, slather your skin in olive oil. Put on old cotton clothes for 1 hour. After 1 hour, there shouldn't be any oil residue so you won't need to rinse off.
A body mask for mature skin consists of cream. Slather on and leave on for 15 minutes.
Hands:
A quick hand scrub consists of 1 tablespoon granulated raw sugar, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, and 2 teaspoons olive oil. Rub it onto damp hands and rinse.
To soften and exfoliate cuticles, blend 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice and 1 tablespoon egg yolk. Massage onto cuticles, leave on for 2 minutes and rinse. Substitutes for pineapple juice include apple, tomato, grape, lemon, or orange.
Feet:
To soften heels, soak your feet in a foot bath with 2 tablespoons of baking soda added to it for 15 minutes. Dry your feet, then rub a mix of 1/4 cup olive oil and 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar onto your heels. Put socks and sleep on it overnight.
To soften heels or elbows, an alternative is to fill lemon halves with sugar and rub your heels or elbows in them.
Hair:
Apple cider vinegar makes a great hair rinse. It cures dandruff and leaves hair extremely shiny. Put 1 tablespoon in a glass of water. Pour over your hair between the shampoo and conditioner and massage into scalp before rinsing out. Don't worry, your hair won't smell like vinegar if you condition after the rinse!
Another great hair or skin treatment is mayonnaise as a moisturizer. I recommend making your own to avoid all the preservatives and junk commercial mayonnaise typically has. Place 1 egg yolk in a blender or food processor. Slowly pour in any cold-pressed vegetable oil in a thin stream until the noise of the blender changes. Then add in a teaspoon of honey and a half teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.
An alternative to mayonnaise is a simple egg mask. For oily hair, mix 2 egg whites with 1 tablespoon brewer's yeast. For dry hair, mix 2 egg yolks with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
For dry hair, a great hair mask consists of 1/2 avocado, 2 tablespoons plain yogurt, and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Leave on hair for 10 minutes then follow with shampoo and conditioner.
To add extra shine to your hair, beat 2 egg yolks into 125 ml of rum. Apply to wet hair, leaving on for 20 minutes. Follow with shampoo and conditioner.
All of these beauty fixes are simple and are made of common kitchen ingredients. If you do try them, let me know how they work out for you!
Face/Body:
For starters, you can use egg white as a mask for your face. You can leave it on overnight or leave it on for 10 minutes. It sounds slimy, but the whites dry fairly quickly. This is amazing for improving your skin tone.
A simple cream cleanser consists of 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon plain yogurt. Mix it together in a bowl and apply to skin.
Apple cider vinegar diluted in water is also great for sunburns. Speaking of sunburns, my favorite treatment is slathering cold milk or yogurt on it. You can also pour milk into a bath for treatment.
Oats are anti-inflammatory and moisturizing. Use them to cleanse or add them to your cleanser. You can also wrap oats in a cheesecloth and use as a pouf to wash with. In addition, you can soak oats or almond meal overnight in milk and use as a cleanser. Here's a guide to what milks to use for what skin types:
-Acneous: Rice milk, skimmed milk.
-Mature: Cream, whole milk, soy milk.
-Dehydrated: Whole milk, soy milk, rice milk.
-Sensitive: Buttermilk, Goat's milk, soy milk.
-Dry: Cream, whole milk, goat's milk, soy milk.
-Oily/Combination: Buttermilk, skimmed milk.
-Normal/Combination: Buttermilk, goat's milk, rice milk, soy milk, yogurt.
Here's a great scrub for all skin types. Combine 2 teaspoons almond meal, 1 teaspoon honey, and 1/2 teaspoon orange juice and apply to skin.
Avocado makes a great mask, especially for dry, mature, and sensitive skin. Honey is also a great mask and lip treatment for dry lips. Leave the honey on your lips for at least 15 minutes.
Another mask for mature skin consists of 2 teaspoons olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon lime juice. You can leave it on for 30 minutes or overnight.
To make a mask for oily and combination skin, combine 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon rosewater, and 1/2 teaspoon honey.
To make a mask for dry skin, combine 1 whipped egg yolk, 1 tablespoon powdered milk, and 1/2 teaspoon honey.
For damaged skin, make a turmeric paste by mixing turmeric with water. Leave on for a couple of hours or overnight (just sleep with a towel over your pillow to avoid changing the color of your pillowcase).
Body:
Olive Oil also makes a good body mask if you don't have very oily skin. After bathing, slather your skin in olive oil. Put on old cotton clothes for 1 hour. After 1 hour, there shouldn't be any oil residue so you won't need to rinse off.
A body mask for mature skin consists of cream. Slather on and leave on for 15 minutes.
Hands:
A quick hand scrub consists of 1 tablespoon granulated raw sugar, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, and 2 teaspoons olive oil. Rub it onto damp hands and rinse.
To soften and exfoliate cuticles, blend 2 tablespoons of pineapple juice and 1 tablespoon egg yolk. Massage onto cuticles, leave on for 2 minutes and rinse. Substitutes for pineapple juice include apple, tomato, grape, lemon, or orange.
Feet:
To soften heels, soak your feet in a foot bath with 2 tablespoons of baking soda added to it for 15 minutes. Dry your feet, then rub a mix of 1/4 cup olive oil and 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar onto your heels. Put socks and sleep on it overnight.
To soften heels or elbows, an alternative is to fill lemon halves with sugar and rub your heels or elbows in them.
Hair:
Apple cider vinegar makes a great hair rinse. It cures dandruff and leaves hair extremely shiny. Put 1 tablespoon in a glass of water. Pour over your hair between the shampoo and conditioner and massage into scalp before rinsing out. Don't worry, your hair won't smell like vinegar if you condition after the rinse!
Another great hair or skin treatment is mayonnaise as a moisturizer. I recommend making your own to avoid all the preservatives and junk commercial mayonnaise typically has. Place 1 egg yolk in a blender or food processor. Slowly pour in any cold-pressed vegetable oil in a thin stream until the noise of the blender changes. Then add in a teaspoon of honey and a half teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.
An alternative to mayonnaise is a simple egg mask. For oily hair, mix 2 egg whites with 1 tablespoon brewer's yeast. For dry hair, mix 2 egg yolks with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
For dry hair, a great hair mask consists of 1/2 avocado, 2 tablespoons plain yogurt, and 1 tablespoon olive oil. Leave on hair for 10 minutes then follow with shampoo and conditioner.
To add extra shine to your hair, beat 2 egg yolks into 125 ml of rum. Apply to wet hair, leaving on for 20 minutes. Follow with shampoo and conditioner.
All of these beauty fixes are simple and are made of common kitchen ingredients. If you do try them, let me know how they work out for you!
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