Natural Skin Care: Tips and Tricks!

Skin care is difficult. Think about it; each skincare regimen asks for cleansing, toning and moisturizing twice a day everyday for the rest of your life. And that means you have to buy a cleanser, toner and moisturizer for yourself for the rest of your life. As every one knows, that can be really expensive in the long run. Every one would love to buy the really expensive brands that have added ingredients that tone and plump up your skin almost instantly. But those revolutionary products are expensive and we cannot afford it.

In the Far East, ancient sages used home remedies to ensure that skin remained healthy and taut for the rest of their life. There were home remedies for nearly everything, even the most serious of conditions! As a result, take a good look at your kitchen and what it contains and you might not need that really expensive skin cleanser set at all.

For a cleanser, you can use raw milk. For some reason, raw milk seems to clear blocked pores really well. The pores are opened and the ingredients in raw milk clean out any debris that can cause pimples and blemishes. Even Cleopatra used raw donkey's milk to bathe in to retain her beauty and remain youthful forever. You can use honey as a moisturizers as it's a great humectant and retains moisture in the skin. A combination of honey and milk is great to keep skin great.

Why it works? Honey has natural anti-oxidant and anti-microbial properties to keep skin healthy and clear. Honey locks in moisture to keep skin soft and plumped. Traditional Chinese medicine advices the use of honey to treat hormonal heatiness in the body. Honey also tightens the skin pores and cleanses the skin

There are several honey products on the market that have honey in it to take care of skin, hair and nails. You can find sunscreen, bath gels, soaps, hair lotion and moisturizers to keep your body soft and supple with the protective effects of honey. One really great product is the combination of Manuka Honey Lip Balm with soft beeswax. Both the honey and the beeswax work in combination to soothe chapped skin on the lips and make them look soft and pretty again.

A few simple combination's of honey skin home remedies include-

Cucumber honey toner- Combine 1 cucumber with 2 tsps of honey in a blender, sieve the mix and chill. Use a spray bottle to store the solution and apply on the face in the night and wash off in the morning. You can use the solution for a week

Apple-honey toner- Mix one peeled and cored apple with one tsp of honey and then sieve. Chill the sap for an hour and apply as a face pack for fifteen minutes. Rinse off and pat dry

Honey oat scrub- Mix one tsp honey with one tsp almonds, two tsp oats and a little lemon and yogurt

Honey cleanser- Mix one tsp honey with a little glycerin for facial cleansing.

Hot honey bath- Mix one quarter cup of honey with warm water for soft and soothing bath.

Do try them out to rejuvenate your skin almost instantly!

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