Honey’ n Oats Scrub

Today I would like to share with you a recipe for a great scrub: Honey’ n Oats Scrub.

You will need ½ cup of uncooked oatmeal, 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon of cider vinegar and 1 tablespoon of grounded almonds. Mix the ingredients together. Moisten your facial skin with a warm cloth and apply the prepared mixture. Remember to avoid the area around the eyes which is very sensitive. Leave on your face till it dries and remove with a warm, damp washcloth.
Enjoy!

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Natural Facial Masks For Oily Skin

Natural Facial Masks For Oily Skin
By Carole Parker

Skin that feels great when you take off for work in the morning but feels greasy by lunch; these are all too familiar scenarios for those of us with oily skin. By one word, does your skin tend to look shiny or oily? Do you suffer from frequent blackhead and whitehead breakouts? Are the pores visible all over your face (not just on your forehead, nose, and chin)? If so, you have oily skin. Oily skin contains a lot of sebum which helps prevent the skin from drying out. However, oily skin tends to attract more dirt and dust than dry skin. So, oily skin requires more cleansing than other skin types.

The main rule to remember if you have oily skin is keeping your skin clean. Use a cleanser preferably without strong perfumes or colors. We recommend not using soap because it may be too alkaline for the skin. If you can, clean it three times a day. If not, at least try to clean in the morning and in the evening before going to bed. Use warm water to loosen the dirt, and then use cold water to rinse. And put any masks for oily skin only on cleaned skin.

An oatmeal and honey mask can be very effective for treating oily skin. Simply make a paste using uncooked oatmeal, honey, and lemon juice. Spread this mixture on your face, and use extreme caution around the eyes. Leave the mask on for about 10 minutes, and rinse it off with warm water. Dab your face dry with an absorbent towel. This oatmeal and honey mask should leave your face feeling clean and refreshed. Apply this natural home remedy once a day, or as often as desired, to keep your skin soft, smooth, and oil-free.

Generally honey is a natural astringent that will also help to tighten your oily skin. You can make also apple and honey facial mask for oily skin. Add one apple (peeled, seeded, and cut into slices) into a blender or food processor. Add 3 tablespoons of honey. Blend the mixture well. Apply to face and leave on for 10 to 15 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.

Cucumber mask for oily skin. You need 1/2 cucumber, 1 egg white, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon mint. Puree everything and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Apply the mixture to your face and leave it on for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm, then cool water.

Banana mask is a smoothing facial mask and great if you have bananas around the house. To do it, you need 1 banana, preferably ripe (you can keep ripe bananas in the freezer. Let it thaw before using), 1 tablespoon honey, an orange or a lemon. Mix the banana and honey together. Add a few drops of juice from an orange or a lemon. Apply to face for 15 minutes before rinsing with a cool washcloth or a steaming warm washcloth.

Strawberry and yogurt facial mask for oily skin. Place four ripe, clean strawberries in a bowl. Use a fork to smash the strawberries. Add a teaspoon of plain yogurt and stir until the mixture is smooth. Apply the mixture to your face, and leave on for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove mask with lukewarm water. The yogurt will naturally exfoliate your oily skin.

And finally three easy masks to help you to care oily skin. Honey, yogurt and oats. Mix one spoon of each and apply over clean skin. Leave it for 10 minutes and clean it with lukewarm water.
Egg whites to close pores. Whip an egg-white and apply it over clean skin. Leave for 10 minutes and wash it off.

French green clay. You may add essential oils or use it alone. Take one spoon of French clay and make a paste with few drops of water. The consistency has to be such that it can stick to your skin. It is a good mask for very oily skin.

Carole is the author of some web-blogs in Health category. You can find more interesting and useful at Beautiful Skin Blog and Ideal Weight Blog.

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Kiwi-Strawberry-Cucumber Mask

Facial masks that moisturize and nourish face skin are usually expensive and consist of harsh chemicals. But why to spend a fortune on a facial mask if you can prepare one yourself? Making your own facial mask is easy and fun. Homemade masks are also healthier and therefore better for your face skin.

To prepare a great facial mask all you need is strawberries, a kiwi and a cucumber - cheap and easily available at any grocery store. Kiwi seeds will help gently exfoliate the skin leaving your face smooth and soft. Kiwi is also rich in alpha-hydroxy acid. Strawberries are rich in alpha-hydroxy acid. This acid gently cleans the facial skin and reduces acne. Also, strawberries might help eliminate dark circles under the eyes. Cucumbers can help clean, nourish and hydrate your skin. And because they have the same pH as your skin they can do it without stripping your facial skin of its natural protective acid layers.

How to make a Kiwi-Strawberry-Cucumber Facial Mask?

Place five large strawberries, a peeled kiwi and a half of a cucumber (peeled) in a blender. Keep two slices of cucumber to place them on your eyes during your facial, as they can help reduce dark circles under the eyes.

Mix the ingredients and add 1 tablespoon of sea kelp at a time until the mask has a creamy consistency. Kelp helps restore damaged skin cells. In addition to this, kelp reduces the production of sebum and therefore prevents acne and reduces wrinkles.

Once the facial mask has the right consistency wash you face and neck with lukewarm water and dry. Put the mask on your face and neck avoiding the eye area. Leave for about 10 minutes and rinse with cool water.

 

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Banana Facial Mask

Bananas are not only a great source of nutrients for our body, but also they can help our skin to look young and health when used in a facial mask. Bananas contain a lot of Vitamin C, A, B6 and B12, and also potassium and magnesium. Moreover, the fruit acids in bananas help to remove dead skin and energize the complexion.

How to make banana facial mask.

Mash a banana with 1 tablespoon of honey. The banana and honey have a firming and moisturizing effect on the skin, as well as a light exfoliation of dead skin cells.
It is very easy to do and… you have just prepared your banana facial mask. Now apply the mask to cleansed face and neck, but remember to avoid the eye area.
Leave the mask on for about 15 minutes and then rinse with warm water.

You can also Wheat Germ and Jojoba. In this case, cut a banana in half and mash it with a fork. You do not want it to become to runny. Now, add 1 tablespoon of wheat germ and ¼ tablespoon of soothing jojoba oil to exfoliate. Mix it all gently to combine the ingredients. Now put the mask on your face and neck (avoid the eye area). Leave it on for about 10 minutes and rinse with warm and then cool water.

You could also add oatmeal to your banana facial mask. Oatmeal clams and moisturizes the skin. Simply mix a fairly large banana with ¼ to ½ cup of oatmeal. You can use oatmeal as is, but you can also grind it so it becomes a powder. Mix the oatmeal with the banana until it is moistened. The mixture should be thick and if it is too runny, add more oatmeal. Put the mask on your face and neck (remember to avoid the eye area) and leave for about 20 minutes. Remove the mask with a wash cloth and rinse off with warm water.

If you want to prevent scarring add Vitamin E Oil to your banana facial mask. Vitamin E is a well-known healing agent and helps clear up skin eruptions.
To make a banana facial mask with Vitamin E Oil, simply add 1/8 tablespoon to a mashed banana and stir.
Apply the mask to your face and neck (avoid the eye area) and leave for about 10 minutes. Rinse your face with warm water.

 

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Carrot Facial Mask

There are thousands of skin care and beauty products that women can use to make their skin beautiful and young. One of the most common ways to restore the beauty of the skin is by using facial masks. Facial masks are not only quite cheap. They are also easy to prepare, as you can prepare them from daily household products.

One can make facial masks from coffee, bananas and carrots. In this article I would like to focus on carrot facial masks. Those masks are excellent for oily skin and they are great when it comes to preventing wrinkles. Carrots protect the skin from free radicals and they also promote the regeneration of healthy skin. Therefore, if you want to have youthful and glowing skin, you should learn how to prepare and apply carrot facial mask.

How to Make Carrot Facial Mask

You should start with peeling the carrots and steaming them till they are soft. Once the carrots are soft mash them to make paste. Now, add 1 tablespoon of natural honey- it is a natural remedy for lots of kinds of ailments and also helps reduce inflammations, swellings and eliminates germs. Next, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil which helps cleanse and nourish the skin, leaving it glowing and supple.

If your skin is very oily you can also add a few drops of lemon juice. Lemon juice is a natural astringent and helps clean greasy skin. The amount of lemon juice you should add depends on the skin type you have. For dry skin, add just 8 to 10 drops, but if your skin is quite oily, add 1 tablespoon.

The last step is to add mineral water to the mask to make a smooth paste. You need to do it carefully as you do not want your mask to become runny.

You should now wash your face and neck with warm water and pat dry. Apply the mask to your neck and face and let it set for about 15 minutes. After that, rinse your face and neck with warm water and pat dry again.

 

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Use Coffee For Great Skin

Everybody aims to have flawless skin. But not everybody can have that naturally. It would be wonderful to be able to have great skin, while indulging in some things that you really like. For example coffee. Many coffee addicts would wish that nature’s pick-me-up would help them have great skin. But you will not get this by drinking a lot of caffeine. Instead you will have to make coffee facial masks and scrubs out of it.

Coffee facial masks are quite simple and effective in their work on your skin. Coffee is great exfoliator and helps get rid of rough and dead skin. The granules gently scrub your skin clean and make your skin baby soft. An added advantage for coffee enthusiasts is that the aroma of coffee stays on your skin much after you have taken off the mask.

As with any other masks there are certain things that you have to keep in mind for coffee facial masks. Use the mask as soon as you make it. If you have excess you can store it in an appropriate container and in the fridge. This can last you for up to a week. Ideally use a mask once a month. Once you are done with your coffee facial mask rinse your face with plain lukewarm water. Tone your skin after the mask. And then finish off the process with a moisturizer suited to your skin type.

One type of coffee facial mask goes thus – get yourself three tablespoons of finely ground used coffee beans. Mix these beans gradually with milk till you get a creamy consistency. Do this slowly so that you don’t end up with a liquid that will not stay on your face. Apply this paste to your face and neck and as will all other masks avoid the areas around your eyes. Make sure that you massage this mixture well into your skin. Sit back and relax for around 20 minutes.

Wash your face with lukewarm water and as you are doing so massage the mask into your face. This acts as an additional exfoliator. After a coffee facial mask, never scrub your skin dry, instead pat it gently. Use a moisturizer when your skin is damp so that it absorbs the cream in well.

Another great coffee facial is made by combining ground coffee seeds, sea salt and an egg white. Mix this up well. Before you apply the mask, wash your face with lukewarm water. Apply the mask and as mentioned earlier avoid the area around your eyes and don’t go too close to your hairline. Gently massage this coffee facial mask cum scrub into your face. Let it dry for around 20 minutes and wash it off. Pat your skin dry and apply a suitable moisturizer.

A great variation on the coffee facial mask is the addition of sour cream. You can use any market bought sour cream but just ensure that it is at room temperature when you use it. Mix in a portion of coarsely ground coffee beans and apply this to your face. Leave it on for half hour and then rinse off. Apply a moisturizer immediately to seal in the freshness.

 

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