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Beauty Treatments with Homemade Products

Homemade MaskSometimes we believe that to be well kept and beautiful need to spend time and money on beauty salons, spas or beauticians. At that moment we ignore the older option, we have a simple and practical: do at home our own beauty products. No there was always a cosmetology industry and yet there was always looking women cute, fresh and healthy wonder if our grandmothers!

So taking natural elements or simple acquisition, let’s get down to work to have our own range of basic beauty products.

Cleaners

Always apply with a cotton swab in a circular motion and remove excess water.

  • Oily skin: mix half a teaspoon of baking soda with 2 tablespoons water.
  • Normal skin: Mix one cup of milk with a tablespoon of sunflower oil.
  • Dry Skin: olive oil.

Mask

Apply with rotating movements, from the bottom up, using the muscles of the face. Retreated with fresh water and dried without rubbing.

  • Oily Skin: In a blender put 1/2 peeled cucumber, 1 egg, ½ teaspoon red apple and lemon. Mix until a smooth paste is formed and cooled in the refrigerator. Apply on face and neck and leave it on for 20 minutes.
  • Normal skin: Mix ¼ cup oatmeal, a teaspoon of honey and two tablespoons of natural yogurt (no flavor). We apply on damp skin and leave it on for 15 minutes.
  • Dry Skin: grate an apple and mix with 3 teaspoons of honey. Applied with spatula Let it about 15 minutes.

Facials

Apply with your hands, making circular motions. We operate 10 minutes and removed with water.

  • Oily skin: Mix ½ teaspoon of baking soda and ½ lemon zest 3 tablespoons water.
  • Normal skin: Mix ½ well of natural yogurt with a tablespoon of brown sugar and a little cucumber trodden.
  • Dry skin: Mix 2 tablespoons olive oil, 1 sugar and 1 lemon juice.

Scrub

Stretch with your fingers, making circles. Are removed with cold water.

  • Oily skin: Mix 1 teaspoon honey, 1 sugar and 1 oatmeal into a paste with small lumps.
  • Dry skin: Mix one cup of apple juice with 1 tablespoon white sugar.
  • For the whole body: olive oil with fine salt, or fine sugar and salt mixed in equal parts with a double batch of oatmeal in warm water.

Also remember that ice, cold compresses and tea and lime are excellent tonic.

Aromatherapy for Your Skin

AromatherapyThe skins tormented by bad weather, excessive or incorrect intake of unsuitable foods, sun exposure and conditions of each individual are difficult to treat. Usually require much perseverance, because the results are verified with the passage of time.

Among the first steps for skin care, cleanliness is essential because it allows the proper oxygenation of the skin and therefore a good cell regeneration.

When? While there is no specific age that is real teens makeup ever start at a younger age and this should be accompanied by the first facials to remove make up, because as we know, with respect to the skin, all we can prevent is our best ally.

The market offers many product variants. In these early beginnings is convenient to choose light products-gels or creams-aqueous bases intended only to hydrate.

There are cases that, by excessive sun exposure or other factors require other products, which would be appropriate, are indicated by a competent professional.

We must not forget that the first care we give to the skin, and this does not exclude any age-is protection from sun.

The pace of everyday life and stress so common these days bill is charged in our body, and skin is not exempted from this, different disorders manifesting with passing a simple dehydration, eczema, dermatitis, allergies, rashes among others.

To counter these factors, apart from implementing the specific product for the condition, we can also resort to aromatherapy to balance our body-mind-spirit so that the body regain normal footing. With only a few drops on a stove can enjoy the aroma will relax our senses and our body.

There are products on the market that come with the right combination of oils sold the effect we want, (stress, office, insomnia, harmonization, etc.). Or we can arm ourselves:

- Lavender Essential Oil: Relaxing, emollient, soothing, combat acne, stimulates cell regeneration.
- Tea Tree Essential Oil: Antiseptic, bactericidal, invigorating mood
- Geranium essential oil: Regulator sebaceous. Reduces stress and nervous tension.
- Eucalyptus: decongestant, refreshing. Appease the spirits and helps to relax the atmosphere.
- Random: Relieves anxiety and stress. Contribute to regenerate cells and improve skin elasticity

Also, essential oils can be mixed (1 drop in 1 ml) in vehicle oil (almond, hump, etc.) for massage.

Importantly, before using any essential oil should be tested irritability. One of the surest ways is to put a few drops of the mixture in the forearm.

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