Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Healthy Beautiful Skin


I am always looking for natural home remedies that are cheap, easy, healthy and most of all give good results. I will be randomly sharing health and beauty tips that I have tested and know that work. Here's one that I'm in love with. A honey-orange face mask. I did some research and found that honey and orange peel were always the common factor to be used for the skin.
Honey, by the way, is a remedy for numerous things... anywhere from soothing toothaches, fighting off infection, healing skin diseases etc. I haven't proven all of these, but that's what is said. But I know that honey is fabulous. It's even great in coffee... Just saying!
So anyway, on to my face mask... after doing the research on what is good for skin, I picked out the two ingredients, honey and orange peel, and mixed them together. I just grate the orange layer off the peel of one orange with a fine shredder and mix it in with approximately 1 big tablespoon of honey. The best thing would be to let the peel dry till you can crumble it into a fine powder. But I'm too impatient to do that and it works otherwise too.
You can add a tablespoon of flour to make it into more of a paste. Otherwise you might find it to run off your face pretty fast.
But yes, then you apply it to your face and let the magic begin. Leave it on for about 20 minutes before you wash it off. It does beautiful things to your skin. The results I have gotten from doing this maybe 2 times is: it takes care of oil, it moisturizes, it tightens pores, makes the skin super smooth and glowing (you won't be able to keep your hands off your face... it's so smooth), and dunt- du-da-daa.... teens...it takes care of your acne. Remember how I said honey fights infection. Well redness and acne is kind of like an infection and this mask heals and cleanses the skin... AND conditions and tones it.
It would be a good idea to put on a light moisturizer after the mask. Coconut oil is the best skin moisturizer out there. And obviously, it's natural and healthy as well.
Try doing this every once in a while. Depending on your skin and your eating and exercising lifestyle, but I wouldn't see it necessary doing this more than once a month for a while. Even less than that... it's that good.
I hope you find this helpful. Let me know what your results are if you try it. Enjoy the rest of your week.
And keep that skin healthy. Your skin condition is a complete telltale of your lifestyle and how you treat yourself. Not enough exercise, not enough water, not enough fresh air, eating lots of junk foods, smoking, stress, worrying, all of this will show in your skin. But the opposite of that will also "glow" in your skin.

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