At Home Homemade Skin Care

Dry Skin Treatment from Your Kitchen

Caring for skin and keeping it soft and supple doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, one can find everything needed for beautiful, soft, radiant skin right in the kitchen! Many over the counter skin care products contain these natural ingredients mentioned below in this article. Why not
 save some money and just go straight to the source?

Homemade Skin Care - Facial Scrub

Sugar scrubs and facial scrubs sell anywhere from a few dollars to as much as $50 in some of your high end stores, but women don't have to spend a small fortune for a jar of scrub.

To make your own facial scrub, simply mix granulated sugar, yes, the kind you can buy at the store, with enough whole milk to form a paste. Once you have a paste, you can use this sugar scrub on your face and neck, just like the high priced over the counter skin care facial scrubs, by gently rubbing the mixture in circular motions on your face and neck, and then rinsing thoroughly.

Homemade Skin Care - Fruit Skin Conditioner

Fruit can be a wonderful skin conditioner for dry skin. Take about half of an avocado and about half a banana and mash it together with a little bit of olive oil to make it moist, and you have a perfect conditioning mask for dry skin. Simply smooth the mashed mixture onto your face and neck and let it sit for about 20 minutes. Rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.

If skin is very oily or has dark spots, a mixture of lemon juice, milk, and enough flour to make a light paste and then spread the mixture on the trouble spots. Let it sit for 1-3 minutes and then rinse thoroughly.

If the spots are very dark, using pure lemon juice can help reduce the dark spots, sun spots or age spots. Nothing can remove them completely and it won't happen over night, but using citric acid, such as what is found in lemon or lime juice, can help reduce skin spots over time.

Homemade Skin Care - Oily or Irritated Skin Care

Related information
  • Natural skin care products are less expensive than the over the counter beauty treatments.
  • Caring for your skin is easy and inexpensive when you use products from your own kitchen.
  • Most over the counter products contain the same ingredients as what you can find in your pantry!
 
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I thought this was a great article. I'm very into natural products for my body, and throughly enjoyed the tips you have. Some of these are new to me, and I am definitely going to try them!

Posted on 08/10/2007 at 12:08:00 AM

Good ideas, Michelle. Thanks.

Posted on 05/01/2007 at 5:05:00 PM

great tips MIchy, and I use vitamin 3 capsules on dark spot on my cheek and it went a way, thanks for the tips

Posted on 04/30/2007 at 8:04:00 PM

Bill, I found your other comment on the hangover article (I don't get notices when non-AC CPs leave comments and I missed it) I left you a comment on that article too. I'm sorry you thought I was mean-spirited. I truly was trying to be humorous. I actually somewhat agree with you - that article was not my finest moment. Thank you for your candid, truthful assessments. That only makes any compliment I receive from you mean that much more.

Posted on 04/30/2007 at 2:04:00 AM

Where was I mean spirited? Mean spirited isn't really in my nature - often, so I'd like to know where that was. Thanks for the rest.

Posted on 04/30/2007 at 12:04:00 AM

I certainly don't agree with everything Michy writes, or for that matter the subjects she chooses to write about. She has also responded somewhat mean spiritedly to a comment I made about one of her articles. However, I would be very surprised it she has engaged in plagerism. That is one of the most serious charges that can be made against a writer, and those who would do so should specifically point out the articles involved. If they don't do this, its fair to assume they are full of it. As far as the fruit skin conditioner goes, when I first used it, my skin in the area in question felt irritated, but now, after a day or so, its as smooth and soft as a baby's butt! You just have to be patient I guess.

Posted on 04/29/2007 at 10:04:00 PM

If you've read it before, maybe you could post the link to the article that Michy supposedly plagiarized? Oh, you can't? That's because you're full of shit. I thought these were great tips, Michy! Very original.

Posted on 04/29/2007 at 4:04:00 PM

(sigh) The honey was a tip from my grandmother, who got it from a nursing home group she works with. The petroleum jelly tip for hands and feet came from my sister, but she gave up doing that and bought herself an expensive paraffin wax kit and heater - I use the petroleum jelly trick on my feet about once a month. The fruit on the face was a tip because I have lupus and have the lupus spots on my face, and the lemon juice was a tip from my docs office. You know, this didn't come from anyone else. I find it ironic three anonymous readers who had never posted here before suddenly attack this article immediately after I get bashed in the forum. Your game is annoying at best. Goodnight.

Posted on 04/28/2007 at 11:04:00 PM

I have very sensitive skin and when I tried the fruit skin conditioner, it actally caused my skin to chafe a little and caused some irritation . . . making it hard to sit comfortably.

Posted on 04/28/2007 at 11:04:00 PM

I think I've read this before, too, Luv2read. It sure seems familiar.

Posted on 04/28/2007 at 8:04:00 PM

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