Two Amazing Natural Beauty Treatments: Lemon and Avocado

We all know that eating healthy can give us great health and even show on our skin, but did you know that applying certain fruits to the skin, or hair for a beauty treatment is a great way to pamper yourself! Lately tips using home made DIY fruit mixes on your face, skin, and hair has been popping up everywhere. Maybe because we are becoming more aware of the natural benefits of using these great God given ingredients to beautify ourselves from the inside and out.

Amazing Natural Beauty Treatment: The Avocado

Debating whether the avocado is a fruit of vegetable has perplexed many, but it is in fact a fruit! More over this fruit packs many amazing beauty secrets all in it's pear shaped shell.

A substance inside of the peel of an avocado is known to be a fabulous moisturizer. As a matter of fact this tip was actually featured on the hit show The Doctor's! The best part is you are using something that you would typically be throwing away! All you have to do is rub the peel over your face, knees, elbows or other areas in need of deep hydration.

The avocado has been used for centuries for beauty and even by the ancient Aztec and Mayans! The truth is you can use the avocado for many beauty treatments, and not just the peel! The pulp of the avocado makes a great mask, facial cleanser and hair mask! You can find many recipes for using avocado in your own DIY beauty treatments online.

Amazing Natural Beauty Treatment: The Lemon

Lemon has been know to be packed full of good for you vitamin C to help fight off colds, but vitamin C isn't the only benefit of lemon! Lemon can actually be used as a natural lightener; for both skin and hair!

If your like me, you may have noticed the area around your knees or elbows is dark, almost resembling a bruise. You can buy many expensive creams that help lighten the skin around these areas, but none are as powerful as the lemon! You can cut a lemon in half and rub it over these areas daily. Within a few weeks those dark areas will be lighten and soon you can stop using the lemon altogether because your dark knees and elbows will be even toned!

You can also use lemon to lighten your hair too! Especially in the summer months, where the sun is beaming! All you have to do for this cool beauty trick is squeeze the juice of one lemon onto damp hair and comb through to evenly spread the juice. Going outside in natural sunlight while this mixture is on your hair will create natural glowing highlights...without the chemicals!

Beauty treatments don't need to come from a jar or bottle, they can come from nature too!

Sources:
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/avocadobeauty.html

http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/2150/1/Lemon---A-Miracle-For-Beautiful-Hair-And-Skin.html