If words like chocolate, strawberries, quarg (quark) or lemon sherbert make your tastebuds water then you'll love these homemade edible face mask recipes. The recipes I am about to share with you are not only delicious to eat but also contain many benefits for your skin that you can find in skin … [Read more...] about Yummy Edible Moisturizing Face Masks
Benefits Of Apple And Apple Masks For Skin
Apples contain vitamins A and C, antioxidants that have many skin benefits. Vitamin A helps repair and maintain skin tissue, preventing skin from becoming dry and flaky. Vitamin C - an antioxidant scavenges harmful free radicals and fights collagen and elastin destructuring to support the structure of skin, helping to prevent signs of skin ageing from spots to wrinkles.
Vitamin C also helps to lighten skin, further helping with sun and age spots that often appear on adults faces.
Apple masks for skin are also great for acne, the acids in apples combat acne bacteria. When combined with other anti-bacterial ingredients like honey, turmeric powder, tea tree oil, neem oil and soothing lavender oil, you can make a potent acne mask to target acne bacteria and help heal acne scars.
Apples are also exfoliating due to their acid content lifting away sea skin cells. Apples are a mild astringent that also benefits acneic skin, contains skin-renewing malic (AHA) acid, safe for sensitive skin.
Apple cider vinegar is another derivative of apples used to relieve skin and scalp itching, balance skin pH, and gently soothe and exfoliate skin.
Try the many recipes in either of these books, one for acne and the other for general skin care. The recipes will show you how to use natural every day ingredients to make user friendly hassle free skin care products at home that are perfectly suited to your skin. Make your own custom made skin care products/treatments from cleansers to masks and serums for a fraction of the cost of commercial products but all the benefits and more…see Natural Homemade Skin Care Recipes. The combinations of ingredients are easily absorbed into skin helping it to utilize the maximum benefit of each substance leaving you with brighter healthier glowing skin.
Or for acneic skin The Complete Acne Book
Almond Meal Benefits For Skin
Almond meal is a nourishing exfoliating ingredient used in many facial mask recipes and as a facial exfoliator. The meal is constituted from ground raw almonds. You can make your own almond meal by finely grinding raw almonds (not roasted because roasting changes the beneficial oils in the … [Read more...] about Almond Meal Benefits For Skin
Homemade Honey Facial Mask Recipes & Honey Benefits Explained
Honey is fantastic for skin for many reasons, it is: Moisturizing - Honey is a natural humectant which means it attracts moisture to itself making it perfect for dry skin Acneic Skin - Honey is especially good for acneic skin because of it's antimicrobial properties. This is especially true … [Read more...] about Homemade Honey Facial Mask Recipes & Honey Benefits Explained
Acne Masks, Skin Care Remedies & Acne Serums
Acne and blackheads can effect people of all ages, especially if you have oily skin. The irony is you can help clear your skin by consuming oils like safflower oil and evening primrose oil which help to loosen and dilute congestion in your skin. There are also many ingredients you can use in … [Read more...] about Acne Masks, Skin Care Remedies & Acne Serums
Homemade Face Masks: More Effective Than Store Bought Products
Homemade face masks have been used for centuries to moisturize skin. Most of the top skincare ranges in our modern times contain active ingredients that are much the same or derived from the same ingredients - whether chemically derived or natural - as what the likes of Cleopatra or other famous … [Read more...] about Homemade Face Masks: More Effective Than Store Bought Products