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Using Thanksgiving Leftovers for Homemade Skin Care Videos

Jan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:50:43 +0000

Thanksgiving leftovers for skin care? You bet!

Here are a few videos that I thought you might enjoy to help you clean out your fridge and freshen up your skin.

How to Use Leftovers – on Your Face!

BellaSugarTV: bella.popsugar.tv Facebook facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com This holiday season, find out how your skin can benefit from a Thanksgiving feast. Watch our video to see which fall ingredients make the best beauty boosters, and how to make…

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Leftover Facials

Beauty Expert Stacy Cox showed how Thanksgiving leftovers can be used to reduce wrinkles and under-eye swelling.

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Cranberry Ninja Facial Mask

A fast and easy “double duty” facial mask that you can do yourself! Home-made and organic, this fresh and fab concoction encompasses all of your skin care needs!

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“The Great Pumpkin Facial”

Embrace the autumn season with this tutorial on how to make a fabulous homemade, organic mask in no time at all! Right from your own kitchen, create something that will make your skin glow better and brighter than any jack-o-lantern!

Thanksgiving Facial

Sweet Potato rejuvenating mask facial. Ingredients: 1 Sweet potato or yam. 1 egg Cinnamon Honey DIRECTIONS: Boil sweet potato till tender. Peel skin off potato. Smash potato. Add egg to potato. Add cinnamon and honey to potato. Spread on face and lea…

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LOOKING FOR INGREDIENTS?

If you want a few things to help spruce up your Thanksgiving face mask, you can get some great exfoliants and clays at Skincare Naturals - your do it yourself one stop.

Homemade Face Mask Clays

Healthy Summer Skin Care

Jan — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:02:07 +0000

Over the years I’ve found that having the best looking and healthiest skin is a two part process.

PART ONE- Taking care of your skin from the inside by eating healthy foods.

I have found that the more raw foods I eat the better my skin looks. Greens -- raw are better but some cooked are good too, seem to pack the biggest punch.

QUICK TIPS TO GET MORE GREENS AND RAW FOOD IN YOUR DIET

I get a powerhouse of raw skin care from green smoothies. My skin looks best when I have at least one a day. You can take any smoothie recipe and just add raw spinach or mixed greens. Best option? Grow it yourself. It’s quite easy. I will have more on that coming up.

I also regularly have eggs cooked with baby spinach or greens on the side as well as salsa. If it sounds a little different, try it. I’m hooked! Just cook them beside your eggs for a few minutes so that they are soft but not mushy. I usually add some water to lightly steam my eggs as well as the veggies -- you can also use sliced tomatoes, peas and herbs from your garden. You can add a bit of greens to almost anything and hardly notice if you slice them into small pieces.

A NOTE ABOUT COFFEE: Healthy diet for skin care is also much about what you don’t eat. One of the biggest offenders? Coffee. I have been drinking far too much lately myself and I can see it. If you can cut it out or even reduce it, you will notice a difference (in your anxiety and stress level as well, which is a big part of it.) Btw, alcohol is a close second. If you are using both, see what you can do and watch your skin take on a clear glow from the inside.

PART TWO- Taking care of your skin from the outside using natural ingredients that don’t contain harsh synthetics -- in my experience they seem to agggravate the skin -- bottom line my theory is that anything that goes onto and into the skin that is not biodegradable is likely going to aggrevate/irritate on some level. That’s not science, it’s my own suspicion :0) The implications go far beyond beauty but that is another story for a different day!

This is a video I did last winter. Odd for an article about healthy summer time skin care but it has a lot of timeless information in it, so what the heck! Maybe it will cool you down :0)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVkLFAwYH80

For more information on great skin care nutrition, here is an article from the blog

http://skincarenaturals.com/natural-skin-care-blog/skincare-naturals/healthy-skin-care-nutrition/

Here is an interesting idea -- adding aloe to your smoothies. I haven’t tried it but it could be a great idea!

http://www.aloeplant.info/springing-into-a-smoothie-craze/

Next up is a closer look at simple summer skin care that you can use to take care of your skin from the outside.

Meantime, grab a green smoothie -- or two!

And don’t forget to use save a bit a few of the berries to mash up and put in your face mask! (remember to always do a patch test first to test for sensitivities, especially if you have sensitive skin.)

Cocoa Butter – Bulk Unrefined Certified Organic Fair Trade Prebuy Special

Jan — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:56:08 +0000

COCOA BUTTER – BULK UNREFINED ORGANIC FAIR TRADE PREBUY SPECIAL

DESCRIPTION – This cocoa butter has a wonderful chocolately aroma characteristic of raw unrefined cocoa butter. Certified Organic and Fair Trade. Suitable for any skin care application or soap recipe.

PRICE – 297.00 + Shipping To You + Taxes
QUANTITY – 55lbs

PRICE – 175.00 + Shipping To You + Taxes
QUANTITY – 25lbs

END DATE - TUESDAY JULY 19, 2011

ADDITIONAL NOTES: I am waiting for a pricing update on Monday July 11 – if there is enough interest I may be able to give a quantity discount (2+ boxes). If you can place your order asap it may help me to negotiate a better deal.

ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS -

Please use the order link in the cart system on the page provided below.

http://www.skincarenaturals.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=6305164

Select payment through money order. This will allow me to adjust for shipping as well as any price reduction that may become available on 2+ orders.

If you have any problems with the cart system, please email me at jan.ferrante@gmail.com.

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