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Summer Beauty: Ten Things You Can Do to Look and Feel Fab!

By Kayce

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With summer just around the corner, it’s time to start getting ready for some great times and great memories! Here’s a list of the top things you can do to enhance your summer beauty!

1 Keep a cool spray bottle of water with some sliced cucumbers in it. Spray on your face to keep your delicate skin from drying out in the hot sun. This is important to keep your skin hydrated, and it also feels really refreshing!

2 During those long days at the beach, put your hair into a tight french braid. The sun, water, and wind will keep the hair out of your face, and when you get home and undo your braid, you’ll have beautiful wavy hair to match your golden tan!

3 Make yourself a mixed tape or CD of summer time hits. In the future, any time you hear one of these songs you’ve listened to a lot during the summer will remind you of that specific summer and the great times you had!

4 Just as the CD of summer songs can enhance your memories of the summer, so can scents! Choose cool summer perfumes like CK1 Summer, or anything tropical or citrusy. It doesn’t even have to be a perfume. It can be a beauty product or hair product. Everytime I smell clean&clear combination skin lotion, nutrogena face wash, or calvin klien scented nail polish, I think back to being 14 on summer vacation. If I smell ten-0-six face cleanser, or this pink and purple hair detangler, I think of summer time at age 16. When I smell this sparkle lotion, I think of being 17 at summer time with my summer love and new friends. So you see, whichever products you have for the summer will play a big impact on your memory – so choose something you love! This will make you feel beautiful all summer long.

summer beauty5 Use a heat activated moisturizing spray in your hair while you sit in the sun. This will keep your hair from frying. Use sunscreen all the time. You’ll still tan, but you won’t burn or age too quickly. Use a bronzer if you want to look more tanned, as this won’t harm your skin.

6 Use a heat activated moisturizing spray in your hair while you sit in the sun. This will keep your hair from frying. Use sunscreen all the time. You’ll still tan, but you won’t burn or age too quickly. Use a bronzer if you want to look more tanned, as this won’t harm your skin. If you’re going to tan, it’s better to face tan in the morning or evenings so the hot sun doesn’t cause you to have wrinkles.

7 Treat yourself to a manicure and pedicure. Even if you do it yourself, make sure your nails are all shiny, sparkly, and has a nice light color. The skin on your hands and feet should be soft and smooth.

Make yourself a yummy cooling papaya or banana face mask using:
4 tbsp ripe papaya pulp, or banana, mashed
½ tsp of honey
A squeeze of lemon juice

Mix all the ingredients together. Smooth all over your face. Leave on for 5-10 minutes while you relax, and put cool cucumber slices, cool tea bags, or a cold cloth over your eyes.. Rinse off with water. Great for rehydrating, and great for treating sun burn!

8 Treat yourself to a manicure and pedicure. Even if you do it yourself, make sure your nails are all shiny, sparkly, and has a nice light color. The skin on your hands and feet should be soft and smooth.

9 Always wear lip balm or chapstick while outside in the sun, even if your lips don’t feel dry. Always, Always drink water even if you don’t feel thirsty. Keep your skin hydrated and moist, and avoid getting sun stroke by drinking as much water as possible while in the sun. Soda, ice caps, and juices don’t count.

10 Make it a point to hang out with the people in your life that care about you the most, and that you have the most fun with. Being around people that love you and make you feel good about yourself will make you less stressed, happier, and therefore you’ll look prettier. Also, make yourself smile. It’s a well known fact that even a fake smile can trick your brain into thinking you are happy rather than stressed or depressed. If your brain thinks you are happy, you will have more energy and be in a better mood. Remember, stress can kill, so always stay happy and smile. It’s the most important beauty feature anyone could ever have.

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Body and Facial Scrub Recipe

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All Natural Beauty Products: Body Scrub and Facial Scrub

By Kayce

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Beauty Products can often leave you broke because they’re so over-priced. Worse of all, they don’t even work half the time. Scientists often seem to think they can do better than mother nature when it comes to solving your top skin problems. Sometimes scientists succeed, but for the most part, natural fruits and minerals were put on this earth to naturally fix your health and beauty concerns. How do you think the beautiful queens and princesses of the past centuries coped without harsh chemicals and artificial scents and added colors? They used all natural beauty products that actually worked. We’ve created a special beauty guide for you to save money and make your own beauty products using the same safe and effective ingredients that have been around for centuries.

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Here is an easy homemade beauty recipe for a body scrub. All you’ll need are sugar and a grapefruit. To make:
Cut the grapefruit in half and dip the half in sugar. Use this as an exfoliator in the shower. The ingredients of the grapefruit are enriched with vitamins to leave your skin cleansed, smooth, and will leave you smelling great! The sugar sloughs off dead skin.

Facial Scrub
Get perfect facial skin like our model O’Shein by simply mixing a small handful of sugar with just a drop of your favorite facial cleanser and a small drop of lotion or baby oil. Use this mixture to scrub your face, but do so gently or else you’ll get over dry skin, and tons of breakouts from irritated skin.

Model: O’Shien

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Delicious and Sweet Body Spray Recipe

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Natural Beauty Products: Make Your Own!

By Kayce

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Delicious and Sweet Body Spray

Make your own scented body oil by mixing a few drops of olive oil in a spray bottle full of water. Add a few slices of your favorite fruit! Oranges, lemons, strawberries, grapes, or even cucumbers for a nice cool fresh scent. You can even put a few slices of orange, lemon, lime, and pineapple for a nice tropical citrus scent!

Shake your mixture and spray all over your body and even a little on your hair for a delicious fresh scent! This spray will even be safe enough to spray on your face to keep your face cool and moisturized during the hot summer months. You’ll need to keep your spray bottle in the fridge – it’s all natural so the fruit/ veggies can go rotten within a day if not kept cool. If kept cold, it should last you for about 2-3 days.

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Detox Bath Recipe

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Baths are relaxing, but are also quite healing. Toxins can be released through the skin’s pores, with the help of certain ingredients and heat drawing them out. It’s also very easy to make your own homemade, detoxifying baths.

Warm water draws toxins out of your body and to the surface of your skin. Hot water is usually recommended for detoxifying, however hot water is known to dry out your skin, causing more problems like acne (from irritated skin). Warm water will do just fine for your detox bath. For an added effect, make sure your bathroom is nice and steamed up. As the water cools down, is when it pulls toxins completely out of the skin, according to Dr. Hazel Parcells, who specializes in Naturopath. Epsom salts boost this detoxification process by making you sweat. Other salts like sea salt, clay, baking soda, and dead sea salt minerals are all very cleansing – so they are great at helping to cleanse the skin.

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Basic Detoxifying Bath
By following this recipe, your bath water should feel silky smooth and leave your skin feeling totally cleansed and soft.

For each bath you’ll need:

1 cup of sea salt
2 cups of baking soda
1 cup of Epsom salts
1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil, or vegetable oil, or baby oil

To Make:

Combine the sea salt, the baking soda, and the Epsom salt in a container or bowl. Stir so that everything is blended. Pour a quarter of a cup of your mixture into the bath under running water, so that it gets all nice and mixed. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil to the bath to keep your skin from drying out. You can put in more oil for dry skin, or less for oily skin.

it is amazing that everyday ingredients we already have at home and are natural work great! Sometimes they work better than expensive store bought brands. People had to do something to get great skin centuries ago. It is a great thing to see more and more people going back to nature.

Disclaimer: Each individual person, fabric, or material may react differently to a particular suggested use. It is recommended that before you begin to use any formula, you read the directions carefully and test it first. If you have any open sores, cuts, or wounds, the salts will hurt them. All ingredients are natural and safer to use than most harshly perfumed soaps and detergents. Should you have any health care-related questions or concerns, please call or see your physician or other health care provider. Caution: Do not take hot baths and salt baths (including Epsom salt baths) if you have heart trouble, high blood pressure, or are diabetic, without first asking your physician or health care provider.

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Natural Cure for Dry Skin

Dry Skin

cure dry skin imageSuffering from dry skin this fall? Here are a few tricks straight from the dermatologist’s office.

Eliminate showers, especially with hot water. No we’re not kidding. Bathe instead of showering, and try to do so in lukewarm water.

Hot water will make your skin even drier. Add a few drops of oil to your baths. Soak for at least 10 minutes each time.

Soaking ’til you’re all wrinkled is even better. As soon as you get out of the water, don’t dry off immediately.

First apply a light lotion to your face, and a thicker lotion to your body.

Doing this daily will make your skin soft, smooth, and moisturized.

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Hair Removal: Body Sugaring

Beauty | Skin Care | Back 2 Basics

Natural Beauty Products: Make Your Own Body Sugar (natural hair removal)

By Kayce

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Body Hair Removal, Naturally.
There is a method called body sugaring, which you have probably heard of before. It is painful, but not as painful as waxing. You don’t need to use strips, and the more often you do it, the less you will feel it, and your hair will grow in slower, finer, and less.

What you’ll need
2 cups of sugar
1/4 cup of lemon juice
and a candy thermometer. These can be found in most cooking tool isles of large department stores.

In a pot, cook the sugar and lemon juice over medium or high heat while stirring and use your candy thermometer to detect once it’s reached between “soft ball” and “hard ball”. As soon as this happens, pour the mixture into a bowl or container immediately. Be careful, it will be scalding hot and sticky. Let it cool in the fridge. After it’s totally cooled off, set it at room temperature to make sure you can scoop it out easily with your hand. Before you begin sugaring, your legs should be free of oil or lotion, otherwise the sugar won’t stick.

Now that you have a palm-sized glob of body sugar in your hand, smooth it up your leg, against the way the hair grows and immediately pull it down. You have to act fast to make sure it doesn’t melt all over your hands and leg. Your body heat will make it stick to your leg and you won’t be able to finish unless you wash off, dry thoroughly, and start over again. You have to press kind of hard and it will hurt your hand digging it out of the bowl more than the actual ripping of the hair, but in the end,your soft, smooth legs will be so worth it.

Homemade beauty products like this are easy to make, fun, and so much cheaper than getting a service done at a spa or even buying a home waxing kit. This is the same method ancient Egyptian Queen Cleopatra used to keep hairless and smooth.