Homemade Facial Mask
Why go to the spa when you enjoy all the same great benefits with a homemade facial mask. You can make a facial mask at home for all skin types including oily, dry, and aging using ingredients found in the everyday kitchen. You can even create homemade facial mask using ingredients that are more exotic from your local health food store.
Tame oily or acne prone skin with a homemade facial mask made of ingredients like banana and strawberry juice. These ingredients will not only help to neutralize your skin but they will work as natural astringents too. For those who experience dry chapped skin, restore moisture with a mask made of avocados and honey. If you wish to exfoliate and moisturize at the same time use a mixture of brown sugar and olive oil.
If your skin is sensitive or irritated, a homemade facial mask made of yogurt and oatmeal will provide moisture while calming the skin. Other ingredients common in soothing mask include aloe, chamomile and milk. To protect aging skin and minimize wrinkles try a mask made from carrots for vitamin A or egg whites to tighten the pores.
For a truly spa like treatment at home try using ingredients like turmeric, rose water, wheat germ, linden flowers and coltsfoot. With simply one ingredient, you too can enjoy the benefits of a homemade facial mask in the comfort of your own home.
