The Kitchen Alchemist Natural Skin Care Aids

BE A KITCHEN ALCHEMIST
CRAFTING NATURAL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

Your refrigerator is a smorgasbord for more that just your dinner; the cucumbers, lettuce leaves, peppermint, rosemary, lemon, oatmeal and honey are just a few of the natural skin care aids found in your kitchen. For the enterprising “kitchen chemist,” mixing up a batch of honey, almond foot scrub can be a breeze and a fun way to experiment with natural ingredients creatively. After all, when you buy a big-box brand name cream, do you really know what it is made of? In the case of a skin care product based on an essential oil, can you be sure how it’ll affect your skin? We’ve all certainly grown weary of wasting money on all those "magical" products that do almost nothing for our skin and don’t meet the claims they trumpet in their advertising, so why not experiment with natural ingredients and find some inexpensive and an effective ways to care for your skin?

Many Natural Skin Care Ingredients Around The Home
Our skin takes a daily beating and is subject to a wide variety of life’s harmful bombardments, taking their toll on the skin’s protection of our body. Prominent among these destructive influences is the sun with its harmful ultra violet rays.

Also, a diet consisting mainly of processed and enriched foods will cause the skin to wrinkle and accelerate our aging process. Another negative factor can be inadequate cleansing of the skin; improper skin cleansing allows for the buildup of dirt in the pores and clogging the glands that allow for the normal excretion of skin oil.

Fortunately, there are a number of natural skin care aids that can not only protect our skin but can revitalize and restore the damage caused by these negative influences. A program incorporating these natural skin care aids will include attention given to our diet and consuming natural, everyday food products.

Diet and Natural Skin Care
The foods we eat can play a major role as part of natural skin care aids that not only benefit our body, but more specifically, our skin needs. As part of our healthy diet, the food that we eat should contain all of the elements required for the health of the body. They should include protein, carbohydrates fats, amino acids and vitamins. Additionally, other important elements in our skin-saving diet should include nuts, grains, vegetables, fruits and dairy products. All of these foods serve as a natural skin care aid in keeping the body and skin healthy from the inside out.

Everyday Food Products for Skin Care
There are also natural skin care aids that eat or drink that can be used as treatments in providing for the health of the outer portion of the skin. You’ll find many of these items on your grocery list or in the refrigerator.

For example, the juices from lemons can be used as a natural skin care remedy for the treatment of oily skin. A bowl of ice water mixed with lemon juice can be applied to the face and massaged into the skin for about 5 minutes. After rinsing the mixture from your face, the resultant effect will be your face feeling clean and less oily.

Another natural skin care food idea that’ll benefit dehydrated and coarse skin is a mixture of the yolk from an egg blended with a few drops of lime juice and olive oil. Apply this mixture to your face and leave it on until it dries. You’ll find after rinsing your face, your facial skin will be moisturized and soft.

A popular natural skin care aids uses a teaspoon each of juice from a lime and cucumber mixed a few drops of rose water; this natural bracing but gentle skin toning aid will add vibrancy to your face, as well removing that “greasy complexion” look. Simply coat your neck and face with this soothing combination and leave it on for a quarter of an hour or so, and then rinse with water. You’ll love the feeling!

BE A KITCHEN ALCHEMIST CRAFTING NATURAL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS

BE A KITCHEN ALCHEMIST
CRAFTING NATURAL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS