Wednesday, December 2, 2009

How to do an amazing at home facial


     Why spend hundreds of your hard-earned dollars on expensive facials and creams when you don't have to look any further than your own kitchen for some of nature's finest and most effective skin products?


     My great aunts are in their 80s, have absolutely flawless skin, and have never had a professional facial in their lives! I have, however, walked into their house many times to find them sitting at the kitchen table with honey, eggs, and other random household goods all over their faces. I can laugh all I want, but whatever they're doing, it works. When my face recently started breaking out like crazy (thank you, stress!) I finally asked them to divulge their tried & true home remedies, and they were all too happy I finally came around.


     Here is a mask that is super easy to make, super easy to use, and will leave any skin type feeling ridiculously soft and refreshed.

                                                            Here's how:


1. You will need an orange, sugar, and green tea. Oranges and green tea are chock full of vitamins and anti-oxidants, which help protect our skin against free radicals- the agents such as pollution, sun, smoke, etc. which all essentially cause our skin to look like crap. Sugar is an exfoliant, which helps shed the dead top layer of skin to reveal the smoother layers underneath.

2. Cut an orange in half and pour sugar on one of the halves. Rub all over your face and neck for 5 minutes. Let mask sit for 20 minutes.

3. While you have orange and sugar all over your face, brew green tea and let it sit until it cools.

4. After the 20 minutes are up, rinse your face with the cooled green tea.

And ta-daaa! Skin that is radiant and smooth, and it didn't cost you a dime. Sweeeet.
           More amazing at home facials to come...!

2 comments:

  1. Wait, how do you rinse your face off with green tea? I don't get it.

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  2. Haha you wait until it cools first then instead of drinking it pour it into a bowl or basin and rinse the mask with it! :)

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