HERE is a list of do it yourself skin care products you can make from stuff in your kitchen (they say). I know a lot of this stuff from my grandma. In her day, they couldn't get their hands on any commercial products, so they'd 'make do'. As kids, my cousin and I used to make our own lip gloss out of Kool Aid and Vaseline. It's good, but, we always had red fingers too. Now they tell you to use Pomegranate Crystal Light. (Rolls eyes.) Truthfully, some of the recipes sound pretty gross. Honey is great for many things, but, it would be hard to wash off. And I have no desire to smear yogurt on my face, yuk. A lot of the recipes use sugar. Sugar is so grainy, I'd think it would be hard on your skin unless you wanted an exfoliant. And of course, there are hard to get oils on the list. I don't know about you, but, I don't keep 'virgin coconut oil' on hand. (Another eye roll.) I do use tea bags on my eye bags sometimes and it works. So does Preperation H. (Don't laugh before you try some ass cream on your face.) Plain old oatmeal is good for a lot of skin things too. Baking soda makes a good substitute for toothpaste. At grandma's house there was never toothpaste, but, there was always a big box of baking soda. I think the advice in this article means well, but, is just too fancy.
Anyway, do you use any of these or variations? Tell me if you use or know about any good natural skin products that you mix up yourself.
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I knew about the Preperation H, but I thought the active (good) ingredient had been removed and replaced with something less active because some women used it in more places than under the eye and were having very bad reactions. The closest place I have been able to find REAL Prep H was in Canada and it is like $30 a tube. That was on the internet. Let me know if you can still find the old stuff.
What I like to do:
Cukes work well on puffiness and they make your skin feel nice.
Yogurt is great for your skin tone, but you have to use it frequently. Apparently it's the lactic acid in the whey that works on the skin.
I scrub my face gently with baking soda sometimes and use it for brushing too. I can afford toothpaste, but I hate them all, even the 'natural' ones.
Apple cider vinegar for a hair rinse, no conditioner.
Epsom salt baths - hot and around 20 minutes - very relaxing and energizing at the same time. Subtle but real.
I use essential oils a lot just because I like them. I don't try to match them with their healing properties very often, but I love the scent of the conifers and grapefruit, orange, mints and lemongrass all smell wonderful as air fresheners, much better than anything artificial.
I don't buy any commercial products because I'm cheap and fussy. I've never found a good face cream no matter how expensive it was.
The past two weeks I've been putting raw goat milk on my face, neck and hands. NO, it doesn't stink at all, it's thick and naturally homogenized and even my dog doesn't seem to notice the scent of it. It absorbs well and costs about 2 cents a week. Yeah it seems I've sunk all the way to the bottom of the hippie barrel.
Since I've gone to natural homemade treatments I feel and look better and I've saved a lot of money.
Honey and slightly frothy egg white. Egg white tightens and the honey makes the skin silky smooth and plumped up. Just my own concoction based on a story I read about a beekeeper's wife who noticed how smooth and unwrinkled her old husband's hands were from handling the raw honey all the time. And I was told by a Chinese woman that "all" Chinese women use slightly frothy egg white to keep the skin tight and smooth. 15-20 mins is all it takes. You can use them separately, but imo I get similar results combining them...plus it takes less time. If you want a quick "face-lift" then try it before a special night out.
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