Natural Skin Care Ingredients in your Kitchen

When the skin care ingredients are straight from your kitchen, you know one thing for sure, and that is, you will be using fresh and superior quality recipes that can do no harm to your skin. You have to know, however, what recipe suits your skin type and what does not. Here are some recipes that have successfully rewarded so many women (of all ages) with a beautiful, glowing complexion.

Yogurt face mask: (For young, healthy looking skin)
Ingredients needed: Rice flour, yogurt and half a teaspoon of lime juice.
Method: Mix rice flour with yogurt and lemon juice to form a smooth paste that can be applied on the face. Apply mask all over face and neck liberally and let it stay on for 20 to 25 minutes. Wash off with plain water and pat dry. Wrap an ice cube in a paper napkin and run over the face and neck.

Coffee scrub: (Bath scrub to improve circulation)
Ingredients needed: 3 to 4 ounces of sea salt, 1.5 ounces of massage oil that you always use and 1.5 cups of ground coffee beans.
Method: Mix all ingredients. Take a warm shower. Using a loofah, scrub the mixture all over your skin, in a circular motion. Wash off with warm water.

Basic face scrub: (This scrub will ensure a lovely softness for your skin)
Ingredients needed: Sugar and olive oil
Method: the first step is to apply olive oil all over the face and neck. Then place your fingers on the sugar and whatever smear the sugar that attaches to the fingers all over the face and neck. The final step is to massage the olive oil, sugar mixture well, without forgetting the area around the nose and below the chin. Keep the mix on for another four to five minutes and wash off with a mild soap and water.

Kitchen remedies for pain and damage caused to skin by exposure to sun
Too much has already been said about the extent of damage caused to skin by exposure to the harmful UV rays of the sun. The skin loses its luster, it starts wrinkling before time and its suppleness and elasticity starts waning. Here are some simple home remedies to help ease the pain and damage caused by the sun.

The cool-cool wipes
Take 3 or 4 soft and super absorbent thin cotton or lint squares, their size big enough to cover your face and neck. Soak them in clean plain water and squeeze out all the water. Fold the pieces, place them in a clean dry tray and refrigerate.

After a day of sun exposure, wash and dry your face and then remove one cloth from the refrigerated tray and spread over face and neck. Keep it on for 3 to 4 minutes. You will feel extremely refreshed and the skin feels great. Alternatively, you can add 2-3 drops of rose water to a bowl of water and soak the cloths in it for a more fragrant wipe.

Aloe Vera treatment
You can either use Aloe Vera gel squeezed from its plant or you can buy the gel over the counter. Apply the gel on the area of sunburn for quick relief and quick healing.