Skin Care from your Pantry!

Ever since I can remember I've been putting milk, or paw paw , or fresh tomato pulp, or even raw egg on my face or hair. Some of it was great! Oily teenage skin turned into soft supple skin. Some of it turned to scrambled egg in my hair. But I have developed a few favourites over the years. The best being:

FOAMY EGG WHITE

Seperate 1 egg white into a bowl.

Beat the beat white to a soft foam.

Scoop the foam onto a clean face and allow to dry completely.

It will feel REALLY tight!

Wash off throughly with warm water.

Your skin should feel lovely and fresh and tight and clean. It draws impurities from the skin, just like its use in a consumme! I'll never forget the first time I did this one and have repeated in the most ridiculous locations since - the tropical beaches of small Malaysian islands, Mexcian beaches.....

I regularly mix it with honey / milk powder / oatmeal  for the hell of it.

Try these recipes using food that should already be in your pantry. If you have too much, put the rest on you chest, stomach, arms, wherever!

ALMOND / OATMEAL EXFOLIATING FACE SCRUB

1/2 cup raw almonds

1/2 cup ground oatmeal

20-25 drops of essential oil of your choice

Grind almonds to a fine texture in a food processor or grinder, add other ingredients and mix well.

Wet face. Add 1 tsp. of the scrub to your palm and moisten with water; apply to face.

Massage in a circular motion over face and neck. Rinse well with cool water.

Use as a regular face wash or as needed to exfoliate.

SENSITIVE SKIN GENTLE EXFOLIANT

1/2 cup cornmeal

1/4 cup milk,

2 teaspoons baking soda,

1 tablespoon olive oil

5 drops of tea-tree oil

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl

Apply handfuls of exfoliant to body in shower

Scrub gently using circular motions all over body

SALT GLOW

1/4 cup Kosher salt

1/4 cup Epsom salt

1/4 cup sea salt

60g  Hazelnut or Jojoba oil

Approx. 20 drops of essential oil of your choice (can use a blend of oils)

BOWN SUGAR BODY SCRUB  (for all skin types)

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1 tablespoon of orange juice

1 tablespoon of vitamin E oil

Mix brown sugar, orange oil/juice, and vitamin E oil in a bowl.

Take a handful of mixed ingredients and scrub in a gentle circular motion.

Rinse off and apply a moisturizing lotion to re-hydrate skin

GENERAL EXFOLIATING FOOT & BODY SCRUBS

Pour 1/4 cup of either coarse sea-salt, fine sea-salt, or raw sugar in a bowl

(Note: while salt works very well as an exfoliating agent, it can sting if it gets into open cuts or sores, so be sure to either warn recipients to only use on unbroken skin, or use sugar as your exfoliator instead).

Add 1/4 cup of sweet almond oil and stir together.

If desired, add the contents of two gel-capsules of vitamin E (optional) and stir.

Add 10-20 drops of your favourite essential oil or blend and stir.

Pour the mixture into either a small wide-mouth glass jar.

To use the scrub, place a small amount in the palm and scrub over moistened skin.

Rinse off in a shower or tub

(Note: the oils in this scrub can make the floor of the bathtub or shower rather slippery, so use extreme caution while rinsing off so you don't fall).

Extra Ideas

Use ultramarine powders or other natural powders and oil-soluble colorants to color your scrubs.

Try using different coarsenesses of salt or sugar to create progressively smoother scrubs (ie, a coarse "buffing" scrub, followed by a fine"polishing" scrub) with different essential oils to help relax in each scrub.

Try using brown sugar, table salt, or white sugar as your exfoliating agent instead of sea salt (or try combining two or more exfoliating agents) to get a different feel for your scrub

SMOOTH SKIN MASKS

Banana and milk

Egg white and honey

Tumeric and milk (also removes facial hair when used as a scrub)

Oatmeal, milk curds, tomato juice (also lightens skin)

Raw potato slices (blemishes)

WINTER SKIN MASK

Mix equal parts of olive, mustard and sesame oil and massage into the skin.

WINTER SKIN BATH SOAK

1/2 c oatmeal

1/2 c milk powder

EXFOLIATING MASK

1 banana

cosmetic clay

DRY SKIN MASK

1 egg yolk

2 t almond oil

1 banana

Combine with a fork, apply to the face. Leave for 20 minutes.

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