I used to spend so much money on products used to maintain beautiful skin. Little did I know that there were products in my kitchen that achieved the same thing all along. Not only that, but the natural products that I had in my kitchen lasted longer. If you want to save money and steer clear of things that contain ingredients that you can’t pronounce or don’t know the origin of to maintain a beautiful face, look to these natural beauty tips.
FACIAL CLEANSER: Dip a cotton ball into apple cider vinegar. Take the cotton ball and gently massage it onto your face. Be sure to be careful around the eyes and nostrils. (If it gets into the eyes, it can sting. The smell is also really strong when it’s applied too close to your nostrils.) Rinse off your face with cold water. Apple cider vinegar will restore your skins natural pH, unclog pores, kill your pimples, lighten up blemishes.
For me, it’s always guaranteed that if I have a pimple on my face, doing this method twice a day dries up every pimple in sight within 24 hours, making it easy to gently scrape off without having to see any blood or pus, or leaving a scar. (However, if I forget to do it twice daily, it’s not as effective and I can almost count on a pimple or two showing up.) If you have pimples that you want to get rid of a little bit sooner and you don’t have the patience to wait twenty-four hours, dip a q-tip in apple cider vinegar and gently massage it onto the pimple until it pops. (Apple cider vinegar has the power to bring that yucky puss to a head until it explodes. Haha.) Once it pops, proceed to clean it out with the same q-tip (the apple cider vinegar is also great for cuts and open wounds).
MOISTURIZER: To keep your face moisturized after the cleanse, dip a cotton ball into coconut oil and rub onto your face. If for some reason you missed a couple dirty spots in your cleansing session, the coconut oil will pick up any access dirt laying around. It will also make your face look radiant, smooth out your skin, and halt the aging process by preventing blemishes, wrinkles, and sagging.
I also noticed that having the coconut oil on my face served as a good natural primer for the rare times that I put on makeup. Also, the irony in this is that I would also use coconut oil on a cotton ball to wipe the make-up off when the day was over. I would then proceed to cleanse my face with the apple cider vinegar method again.
EYEBROWS & LASHES: Add a thin layer of olive oil onto a q-tip and rub across your eyebrows and eyelashes. The olive oil will thicken them.
EYES: For the eyes, slice up cucumbers that are fresh from the refrigerator and apply them to the eyes for ten to fifteen minutes.
LIPS: When you’re finished with your used teabag after drinking a cup of tea, don’t throw it away. Lay it across your lips for about five minutes, then rinse it off with water. This will rid your lips of dead skin and soften them.
Of course there’s many other natural ways to achieve the above. If you have any other natural remedy tips, feel free to add yours to the list.
