Homemade Beauty

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2012-03-10T15:17:00.000-08:00

Avocado delicious and nutritious!
This exotic fruit can be used to make hundreds of different tasty dishes. Did you know it could also be used to improve your overall health and beauty? Its packed with tons of vitamins that help with lots of skin aliments.
Here are just two of many ways to improve your skin and hair. I'll write more in future posts.

Supplies

avocado
honey
almond oil
knife
fork
spoon
bowl

Avocado face mask

Step 1: slice an avocado in half and put the other half with the pit away.

Step 2: scoop out the avocado insides, place in a bowl, and start mashing it up.

Step 3: Mash up the avocado.

Step 4: Add 2 tablespoons of honey to the whipped up avocado.

Step 5: Mix the honey and avocado together and apply a generous amount to your face. Leave it on for 20 minutes. Wash off with warm water and don't forget to rinse your face with cold to close water pores.

Side Note: This mixture is also great on eczema and/or psoriasis.

Avocado Hair Mask

Step 1: Scoop out the other half of the avocado or get a new whole avocado (depending on length or thickiness of hair)and place in bowl.

Step 2: Mash up the avocado the same way you did before.

Step 3: Add 2 tablespoons of almond oil and mix in to the mashed up avocado.

Step 4: Part hair in sections and apply mixture, leave on for 30-40 minutes and wash.

Your hair should be silky smooth now!

Side note: If there are any left overs, place the pit in to the face or hair mask mix to keep fresh. Then place in a zip-lock bag and save for another day. The mixture will only stay good for 2-3 days.

Here are quick and helpful facts

Skin benefits from avocado:

Helps reduce age spots and sun damage on skin
Helps heal sun damage and scars
When skin is dehydrated, sun or climate damaged, avocado is a great moisturizing and nourishing fruit, assisting rejuvenation of the skin.
Increase the amount of collagen in the skin.
Avocado acts as a deep moisturizer for skin aliments like eczema and psoriasis.
Help with regenerating the skin and softening the tissue.

Hair benefits from avocado:

Avocado promotes hair to feels soft and helps add more elasticity.
The high-fat in avocados helps hair to be less dry and prone to breakage.
An avocado hair mask is the best ways to promote hair growth.
Avocado will make hair go from brittle to being soft and shiny.
Helps strengthen and fortify your hair.

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Update!!

2011-08-03T22:09:00.000-07:00

My apologies for not posting lately, I have been ultra busy during these last couple of weeks. So here are what the next couple posts are going to be about: remedies for bruises,avocados, lip scrub recipes, strawberries,and foot scrub recipes.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb!!!!!

2011-07-16T01:54:00.000-07:00

This fruit bomb of flavor is not only good for your insides, but great for your skin. Cherries are packed full of antioxidants, which is great way to protect your skin from sun damage. Cherry juice can help with dark spots, skin discoloration and rosacea. Cherry juice also can kill most of the bacteria that causes acne. This little fruit has it all from protecting your skin from free radicals to help fighting acne. Here are some simple sweet recipes to help the skin.

Supplies:

Bag of Cherries
Greek yogurt
Honey
Sugar (optional)

Cherry Honey Mask

Wash and pit the cherries, then start to squeeze out all the juice.

Add 2 teaspoon of honey and 1/2 cup of sugar(optional).I put the sugar to get rid of dead skin cells.

Once you have 1/4 cup of cherry juice, which is about 20 cherries.

Apply on discolor areas or dark underarms, leave on for 20 minutes and wash off with warm water.

Cherry juice has been recently discovered as a skin lightener.

Cherry Yogurt

Wash, pit, and cut cherries in half. This will make is easier mash up for the mixture.

Mash up cherries with a fork until you have cherry pulp.Add 2 tablespoons of Greek yogurt and mix well.I used Greek yogurt because of its thick consistency.

Apply generously to your face and neck, leave on for 15-25 minutes . Wash off with warm water and as always splash cold water to close pores.

This yogurt mask will help soothe rosacea, and make you skin feel delightfully refresh.

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Orange Remedies

2011-07-09T23:20:00.000-07:00

Orange you glad I didn't say banana? Today I'm doing a 180 from the mild banana to the acidic orange.(^o^) This fruit helps fight a combination of skin problems such as breakouts, acne, premature aging, and even wrinkles.
Surprisingly, it can also be an effective bug repellent, which is great to protect your skin during the summer. It is also a great cleanser and helps bring a healthy glow to your skin. Here are two simple recipes that will use the whole orange and leave no waste!

Orange peel duo lip and face scrub

Supplies

Orange
Sugar
Cheese grater

Grate the orange peel, till you have half a bowl filled. Then scrape the rest of the grated orange peel, from the front and the inside of the cheese grater.

Next mix the grated peel with 1 tbsp. of sugar.

Take a pinch from the mixture and rub on your lips. Rinse off with water and feel the softness of your lips.

This is where I felt how soft my lips and my hands felt from the scrub. I decided to scrub it on my all over my face but avoiding my eyes.Then rinse off with warm water and a splash of cold to close pores.
This should leave your skin feeling ultra soft and with a beautiful glow. I love how this scrub felt, my skin felt so refreshed.
Orange juice cleanser

supplies

Orange
Cotton balls

Cut the same orange that you grated in half .

Peel the orange to make it easier to squeeze the juice out.

Squeeze out all the juice in to a bowl, it is optional to keep the pulp.

Soak the cotton ball, then apply to your face leave on for 5 minutes.Wash off with warm water and splash of cold water to close pores.

This should leave your skin feeling super clean.

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Going Bananas!!!

2011-07-04T21:52:00.000-07:00

Today I am going bananas!
I am going bananas over my skin and hair in this next blog post and hopefully you will join me! Everyone knows bananas are a yummy nutritious treat, but not everyone is aware of the benefits it has towards your everyday beauty needs. Bananas are cheap and can be found almost anywhere, making it the perfect fruit to use for health and beauty maintenance.
These bad boys can help fight wrinkles, oily skin, acne and more. Banana peels alone can help soothe mild Eczema, and Psoriasis as well. When you eat this delightful fruit you also help fight against cellulite and increase your blood flow. This helps breakdown the cellulite and any bad toxins. .Here are some recipes about to show you

The Banana Hair Mask

Supplies

1 Banana
Olive Oil
Fork
Bowl

So first you want to peel the banana, then place it in a bowl. Depending on how long or thick your hair is you might want to add another banana.

Mash up the banana, then put in two cap full of olive oil and mix well.

Grab a handful then take a small section of hair and rub in the banana mixture.

Once you have your hair covered in the banana mixture, leave it on for 30 minutes.
Then wash off with luke warm water.
Your hair should feel soft and smell yummy as well.

2 Banana Face Mask

Bananas and Yogurt

Supplies

1 mashed banana
2 tbsp. yogurt
Fork

Take a banana peel it and then semi mash it up in a bowl.

Then add 2 tbsp. of plain yogurt and start mash the rest of the banana.

Once you have it to a semi paste, apply a generous amount to your face. Leave on for 25-30 minutes then wash off with warm water. Then slash cold water to close pores.

The banana yogurt mask should leave your skin with a radiant glow and feeling softer. This mask is the best to put on a hot summer night, it is so refreshing (*^^*)

Banana and Oats

Supplies

Mashed banana
1/4 cup of oatmeal
1 tbsp. of yogurt

This is basically just like the banana yogurt mask, but with oatmeal. The oatmeal will act as a exfoliate.
So semi mash up a banana.

Add 1 tbsp. of yogurt and 1/4 cup of oatmeal and mash up the rest of the banana.

It should come out kinda thick, apply generously on face or just on the problem areas. Leave on for 20-25 minutes, wash off with warm water follow by slash cold to close pores up.

The oatmeal banana mask will help with breakout and redness. Use it also for any irritation on the skin. This mask leave your skin looking and feeling super clean!

Banana Peel on Eczema or Psoriasis

Supplies

1 banana
1 banana peel

Peel one banana, and eat the banana to help fight off any cellulite.

If you have mild eczema like me then you will love what the banana peel does for you. The banana peel will help soothe your irritated skin.

Rub and leave the banana peel on for 10 minutes.Then wash off with warm water.
When I did this I felt that my eczema felt better and less pink.

I hoped this helped!!

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Sugar Waxing (^^)

2011-07-01T18:47:00.000-07:00

Homemade wax!
Sexy summer legs without spending a dime!
This simple recipe will help you achieve smoothness all summer long, and you don't have to buy
waxing strips either. The sugar wax is a clean way to wax off unwanted hair, and help hair grow back slowly. The sugar wax mixture does not stick to the skin like regular wax does.

Supplies

1 cup of Sugar
1/4 cup of Lemon juice
1/4 cup of water
knife
- Old t-shirt

Step 1:

Measure out the sugar to one cup

squeeze out the lemon juice into a measuring cup, measuring out to 1/4.

And then measure out 1/4 cup of water.

Step 2:

Mix sugar, water and lemon juice together in a bowl.

Step 3:

Place the mixture in a sauce pan and let it boil for 15-20 minutes constantly stirring.

Step 4:

once the mixture is dark brown, pour into a bowl and set aside to cold.

Step 5:

once mixture is warm, spread wax on desire area. Place cloth strip onto the wax and rub down.
Then pull strip up against the way the hair grows.
I cut up an old t-shirt into strips, you can always wash them.

Finish!
And you can reheat this wax to reuse again.

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2011-07-01T17:00:00.000-07:00

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Cucumbers (ﾉ^^)乂(^^ )ﾉ

2011-06-26T11:39:00.000-07:00

Cucumbers can make the skin feel rejuvenated, they can also lessen the appearance of dark circles. Cucumbers are pack full with vitamin c that can soothe irritated skin ,and reduce swelling. This cucumber slice mask is perfect when you get sun burn or have picture day for school.

Supplies:

Cucumbers
Knife
Bowl

Step 1:
Wash and cut cucumber into thin slices.

Step 2:
Place slices on your face or problem areas.
Leave slices on for 15-20 minutes.

Step 3:
Peel off slices, some cucumber juice should be left on your face. Since the juice has no sugar you can message in your skin.

Finished!
Your face should feel cooling and firmer also with a healthy glow.

Bug Bites (T.T)

2011-06-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

Bug bites are the worst! Not only are they itchy, they can make your skin look and feel bad. During the summer is when the bugs like to strike, so don't leave the house without being protected. Here are some quick and easy ways to sooth your bug bites.

Supplies:

Oatmeal
Tea bag
Q-tips
Water

First I'll start with the oatmeal
Oatmeal is great to reduce redness and soothe irritated skin.

Step 1:
Open the oatmeal packet and pour in to a bowl.

Step 2:
Pour a little bit of water, just enough to make the oatmeal into a paste.

Step 3:
Squeeze out the water out, so you have paste from the oats. Rub on the bite and let it sit for 15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.

The oatmeal should relief the itchiness of the bite and make skin feel soft.

Now for the tea bag
The tea leaves will counteract the allergen of the bite on the skin.
Step 1:
Take the tea bag out of the packet, and place into a bowl.

Step2:
Pour hot water into the bowl with the tea bag. Then let the tea brew in the hot water and let it sit till the get warm enough to apply upon skin.

Step 3:
Dip one end of a q-tip into the tea, and apply to bite. Let the tea dry onto your skin. Or squeeze most of the water from the tea bag, then place on the bite for ten minutes.

Your bite should feel itch-free!

Here are a few other remedies you can try at home as well.

lemon or lime juice can take the itch out of a mosquito bite.
Ice the bites the cold temperature numb the bite, it restricts the effect of the histamine by the mosquito in your skin. Icing a bite early will reduce or eliminate the itch of the bite
white vinegar ,water and soaking a wash cloth in the mixture. Then placing the wash cloth onto bite for 15 minutes, the vinegar and the heat from the wash cloth will relieve the itch.
Rubbing dried basil onto bite, till the basil turn into sand. This will keep the bite from swelling.
Aspirin pill into a paste and applying to the bite. This will get rid of any poison and alleviate itching.

Here is some remedies for bug repellent as well.

Pure Vanilla Extract, most bugs can't sand the smell of it.
Rub yourself down with rubbing alcohol.
White vinegar

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Chocolate Mask Yummy

2011-06-20T05:11:00.000-07:00

Don't you just hate it when lots of dark chocolate is left over from a bag of delicious mixed chocolates? Well waste no more because here is a quick and easy face mask you can do with your extra dark chocolates. Imagine no more wasted chocolate! Dark chocolate is rich with antioxidants that leave your skin with a healthy glow feeling totally moisturized. A daily dose of dark chocolate will not only improve your skin, but will help it fight harmful UV rays as well. I happen to love the taste of dark chocolate so it never gets wasted in my house! Unlike my other homemade remedies, this mask not only refreshes your skin, but tastes yummy also!

Supplies:

Left over chocolate
Plastic bowl
Spoon
Microwave

Step 1:

Break up chocolate into a plastic bowl.

Step 2:

Then Put the bowl of broken up chocolate into the microwave for 30 seconds to 1 minute, depending on the consistency of the chocolate.We want to the mixture of the chocolate smooth and silky.

Step 3:

Once you have the chocolate melted to the right consistency, mix it together with a spoon.Set to the side for 1 to 2 minutes to let the chocolate mixture to cool down enough to place on to face.

Step 4:

Now that the chocolate has cool down, apply a generous amount to face or problem areas. Leave on for ten to fifteen minutes,wash off with warm water.Then rinse face off with cold water to lock in the moisture from the chocolate mask.

Your face should feel firm refreshed and smell of yummy chocolate!
You can also do this mask with cocoa powder and plain yogurt as well.

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Quick update and Nu-Pore Face Mask Review

2011-06-16T06:51:00.000-07:00

So I am having a little trouble with my rose mask, I need to refine the petal flakes into powder. In the mean while here is a review on a
cheap and wonderful beauty product.

Nu-Pore Fresh Aloe & Cucumber Collagen Mask, I bought this product at my local dollar store. This thin cloth mask is so refreshing, you can feel is firming and moisturizing you face the instant you put it on. You leave this mask on for 15-20 minutes, and then massage the remaining collage essence over your face. On the package has instructions for the summer and winter.During the summer you can put it in the refrigerator and have a cooling mask, in winter you can put it in a warm bowl of water and enjoy a warm soothing mask. In the future I will go into detail the difference between the two temperatures of mask.

I Love Nu-Pore Mask!(*^^*)

Lemon-Aid(^^) Part 2

2011-06-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

Here is another lemon entry with two different ways to brighten the skin and get rid of dead skin cells. The first by softening your feet, then next using lemon slice to exfoliate your face. Like I mentioned before, lemons helps increase the process of ridding your body of dead skin cells.

Lemon foot bath

Supplies:

1 Cup of squeezed lemon juice
2 Tbs of olive oil
Enough water to fill your foot tub

Step 1:
Start by cutting the lemon peel off and put the aside.
Then cut the lemon in half and squeeze into a bowl
measuring out to a cup.

Step 2:
Mix in two tablespoons of olive oil into the squeezed lemon juice.
Then take the mixture and
pour it into a tub of water.

Step 3:
Next soak your feet for five minutes, then rinse with warm water and dry off feet.

Your feet should feel silky soft and refreshed. Do this once a week and your feet should look good all summer.

Lemon exfoliating slice
Supplies:

Lemon
Bowl of sugar

Step 1:
Cut the lemon into two slices, then dip into the bowl of sugar.

Step 2:
Take the lemon slice; rub it on your face and lips.

Step 3:
Rinse your face with warm water, and scrub the sugar gently.
After all the sugar and water is all washed off rinse again with cold water to close your pores.

Lemon-Aid(^^)

2011-06-01T03:09:00.000-07:00

Lemons can be a great beauty aid, they have many benefits for your body and skin. This amazing fruit is so versatile as a beauty aid; it eliminate odors, whiten, brighten, and disinfect. Lemons are very acidic making them great as antiseptic, skin toners, and killing bacteria that causes smells.

You can use lemons to increase the your skin ability to get rid of dead skin cells. They can also flush out the toxins in your body, and increase blood circulation. This fruit can lighten the appearance of freckles and age spots. Here a couple lemon of remedies that helps with your skin, teeth, and feet.

Lemon Slice Mask

Supplies:

Lemon
Two bowls
Towel

Step 1:
Boil water then set aside in a bowl until cooled.
While cooling the hot water, slice lemon thinly.
Then place lemon slices in cold water.

Step 2:
Drape towel over your head and the boiled water;
steam face for 10-20 minutes then pat dry.

Step 3:
Lay back and place lemon slices onto face, keep on for 5-10 minutes.

Step 4:
Rinse face with cold water then moisturize to lock in moisture.

Your face should feel refresh and look brighter.

Next Lemon post will be about softening your feet and exfoliating lemon slice.=^^=

Coming up

2011-05-29T23:07:00.000-07:00

The next two post will be about Lemons ;what benefits that they have for your skin and more. Then a rose petal mask. The lemon post should be up within day or so and the rose one maybe in three days (I have to wait till the roses dries out). =^.^=

Beauty sleep tips

2011-05-28T05:24:00.000-07:00

Beauty sleep is essential to good skin, but falling to sleep is always the tricky part.
So here is a few tips and tricks that I have tried.

Start by winding down a couple hours before you actual bedtime. Don't watch your television shows, instead read a book.
Leave all your must do's for the next day, before going to sleep write out your to do list. So its not nagging you before you rest.
Dim your lights and find a comfortable position and avoid all stimulation such as violent t.v. shows, caffeine, alcohol and upsetting discussions.
Tune out all sounds, wear ear plugs and listen to your breathing.
Take a warm bath before you sleep, relax to some soothing music during your bath. Add a few drops chamomile , it usually clam the body and so does lavender.
Stop thinking about your worries before you sleep, instead say and repeat a mantra like "tomorrow will be a better day", "the more sleep I get the better my day will go".
Sometime we worry about how much sleep we get instead try to stay up, so your body naturally go to sleep.
Listen to nature sounds like birds, rain, rivers flowing or the ocean waves clashing. I downloaded an ipod app that contains all those sounds.
Counting backwards from one hundred.
And my favorite investing in a blindfold, when you have one on your face it eases you into sleep

Those are just a few of my tips of getting your beauty sleep. Well goodnight.o(=_=)o

Blackheads...Homemade egg strips o(^^o)(o^^)o

2011-05-27T06:13:00.000-07:00

Blackheads the worst enemy of woman's face, and Biore strips are expensive.

But I am going to experiment with
egg whites. I will try anything to get rid of them or lessen the appearance of them; and save a dime or two.

Here's the supply list:

1 egg
2 plates or tupperware lids
1 paper towel
scissors

Step 1:

Fold the paper towel into forth.

Step 2: Then cut into little strips.

Step 3 & 4: Then make into one ply, set aside. Crack egg in half, pour egg white into one plate and the yolk in the other. (4)Then whip up the egg white until nice and bubbly. Take a strip into the plate of the egg white.

Step 5: Apply to nose and wait till dry ( i totally for got to time it).Once its dry peel off downwards, then wash face.

No more blackheads and I saved money. My nose looks good and feel so incredibility soft.

Now some fun facts about eggs and blackheads (eww). Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

Egg whites help's whitens skin.
Helps shrink the appearance of your pore.
Improvement on deep wrinkles.
Helps control oily skin.
Blackheads are not acne, although they can be part of acne symptoms.
The main cause of blackheads is excess oil on skin which locks dirt into pores.
Lack of drinking water, scrubbing of the skin too often and dead skin that closes the pores of the skin cause blackheads.
infected blackheads, can develop into acne.

I hope this home remedy helps.