cosmetics recipes
Posted by sparkle_j on May 21, 2007 · Member since Jan 2002 · 85 posts
Hi, all:
Since it's leaning towards summer in the Northern Hemisphere (where I live) my thoughts are turning towards "Egad, my skin is going to be exposed to sun and air soon."
Do you all have any food type recipes for making the skin look nice? Any kinds of body scrubs or facial packs or what not? How about lovely things to add to the bath during a good soak?
I have wonky skin that is easily irritated, so I lean heavily towards the almond and oatmeal kinds of things. What about you all? Will you share your favorite skin-enhancing recipes with all of us? (I also purchase a fair bit of stuff from LUSH when I'm not concocting my own. I love LUSH.)
I hope you play along!
Joelle
Right now I'm trying something called the oil cleansing method on my face. You basically massage a 50-50 mix of olive oil and castor oil on your face for at least 10 minutes and it unclogs your pores. You can actually start feeling the stuff come out of your pores (feels like grit). This is coming from someone who has never had anything unclog her pores! When you're done, you just put a hot washcloth on your face and wipe it away. Your skin isn't really oily afterwards. I'm really liking it so far, although I think I'm entering the "purging" phase of it, where supposedly all of the gunk comes out of your skin at once and you break out for a while.