At Home Homemade Skin Care

Caring for skin and keeping it soft and supple doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, one can find everything needed for beautiful, soft, radiant skin right in the kitchen! Many over the counter skin care products contain these natural ingredients mentioned below in this article. Why not save some money and just go straight to the source?

Homemade Skin Care - Facial Scrub

Sugar scrubs and facial scrubs sell anywhere from a few dollars to as much as $50 in some of your high end stores, but women don't have to spend a small fortune for a jar of scrub.

To make your own facial scrub, simply mix granulated sugar, yes, the kind you can buy at the store, with enough whole milk to form a paste. Once you have a paste, you can use this sugar scrub on your face and neck, just like the high priced over the counter skin care facial scrubs, by gently rubbing the mixture in circular motions on your face and neck, and then rinsing thoroughly.

Homemade Skin Care - Fruit Skin Conditioner

Fruit can be a wonderful skin conditioner for dry skin. Take about half of an avocado and about half a banana and mash it together with a little bit of olive oil to make it moist, and you have a perfect conditioning mask for dry skin. Simply smooth the mashed mixture onto your face and neck and let it sit for about 20 minutes. Rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.

If skin is very oily or has dark spots, a mixture of lemon juice, milk, and enough flour to make a light paste and then spread the mixture on the trouble spots. Let it sit for 1-3 minutes and then rinse thoroughly.

If the spots are very dark, using pure lemon juice can help reduce the dark spots, sun spots or age spots. Nothing can remove them completely and it won't happen over night, but using citric acid, such as what is found in lemon or lime juice, can help reduce skin spots over time.