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How to Exfoliate Your Face Using Homemade Ingredients?

   Skin Care  Mar 03, 2016  Comments Off on How to Exfoliate Your Face Using Homemade Ingredients?
How to Exfoliate Your Face Using Homemade Ingredients?

Home Facial IdeasWith spring fast approaching, you should be on the hunt for a superb exfoliant that will make you skin glow. Don’t worry you because you won’t have to look far. The perfect exfoliant could be hidden in your kitchen cupboards. What follows are a few ways to make a homemade skin exfoliant from ingredients in your kitchen

The Basic Kitchen Exfoliant

Baking soda can replace many harsh and toxic household cleaners and apparently store bought skin exfoliant when combined with sea salt which will exfoliate. Take half a teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of baking soda. If your skin is sensitive, you can add some olive oil to soothe inflammation and irritation.

Oats, Honey, and Apple Vinegar Exfoliant

Who knew that oats and honey could make more than a satisfying breakfast? Two to three teaspoons of ground raw oats and honey with a fourth of a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar creates an adventurous exfoliant that will leave your skin feeling fresh and anew. The amount of honey depends on how sticky you want the mix. The vinegar smooths it out. You can add a drop of basil oil or tea tree oil to quicken the healing process.

Oatmeal, Honey, and Egg White Mask

One cup of plain oatmeal combined with half a cup of honey and one egg will create an intense pasty textured exfoliant that will hydrate the skin. Next time you’re preparing a bowl of oatmeal, put some aside for your next homemade facial.

Argan Oil Exfoliant

Arian oil is a lightweight oil made from the Moroccan Aegean tree. It has restorative and age-defying effects, and it deeply hydrates hair, nails, and skin. Like the recipes as mentioned above, it is also edible, as it can replace olive oil in your favorite vinaigrette. In this instance, can add a few drops of the oil to one teaspoon of crushed almonds, half a teaspoon of honey, half a teaspoon of milk, and half a teaspoon of tomato juice to create an amazing Homemade skin exfoliant.

Cucumber and Avocado Exfoliant

Not only does the combination of cucumbers and avocados make an excellent salad, but it is also good for face masks as they contain soothing oils and hydrating elements. Mix it with strawberries, honey, oatmeal or ground almonds to create a viscous skin exfoliant and probably a delicious smoothie. Try concocting a combination of a fourth a cup of grated cucumber, diced avocado, and one of the previously mentioned ingredients.

Application

Once you’ve mixed your ingredients, apply it in a circular motion and let it sit for about 15 minutes then rinse it off with cold water to close your pores. Afterwards, use a good moisturizer or sunscreen to lock in that moisture. Please be advised not to use the other exfoliants more than three days a week. If used excessively, your skin will dry out.

Bikini Waxing 101: How to Prep for Your First Wax

   Brazilian  Jan 22, 2016  Comments Off on Bikini Waxing 101: How to Prep for Your First Wax
Bikini Waxing 101: How to Prep for Your First Wax

Now is the time to start thinking of all those vacations you are planning to take this year. To prepare your body to be “beach ready” you may work out and shop for the perfect bikini that will show off your curves and tanned skin. To look great in that bikini, you are probably going to want to get a wax.

Bikini Wax Petaluma, CABikini waxes can be painful, but they are also a much better alternative to shaving as they pull the hair out from the roots. Shaving will only take the hair off of the surface of the skin and can leave you with razor bumps. Here we will discuss how you can prepare for your first bikini wax that will help you turn heads on the beach.

Since this is your first wax, you should understand that it is going to be painful. Consider is a mild inconvenience for some pretty long-lasting results. Since the wax will last anywhere from three to six weeks depending on the speed at which your hair grows, you would not have to endure the pain that often. And it sure beats the messiness of shaving gels and razors or hair removal creams.

When scheduling your first bikini wax appointment, be sure to go to a trusted professional. The best way to find one is by asking your girlfriends where they get their waxes done and check Yelp reveiws.  Chances are, they’ll have someone to recommend to you, and they can tell you all about the customer’s experience firsthand.

Try practicing breathing before walking into the room. It will come in handy when the pain level is so high that you are shouting curses at the aesthetician. Remember, it’s not her fault. It might be beneficial to take a pain reliever about an hour before you go in for your appointment. It can help reduce the amount of pain you will feel. Keep out of the sun for at least the day before and after your wax.

Exfoliating your skin then following with baby oil will do two things for you. First, the exfoliation will get rid of any dead skin that may be in your bikini area, thus giving you a cleaner waxing that is not pulling out skin. Second, the baby oil will soften the hairs to make them easier to get rid of. Applying pain-relief gel after the massage could be helpful to your newly sensitive bikini area.

Following these tips before your first massage will not help you feel no pain when you go in, but it will help you be more prepared and possibly feel less uncomfortable when your aesthetician does her work. Because waxes can be so painful mental prep is necessary, especially for your first time. However, the results are more than pleasant and will give you a lasting hairlessness for at least three weeks after your suffering.

Bikini Wax or Shave? Making the Choice

   Waxing  Aug 18, 2015  Comments Off on Bikini Wax or Shave? Making the Choice
Bikini Wax or Shave? Making the Choice

Woman Waxing Leg Petaluma, CAEvery woman knows the struggle of figuring out how to get her bikini area ready for summer. As the warm weather approaches and it’s time to hit the beach, the only thing that stands between you and that perfect swimsuit is unsightly hair “down there” – and you know that you have to get rid of it. Thankfully, there are numerous methods at your disposal, many of them easy and cost-effective remedies that you can do yourself at home. Among these, waxing and shaving are the two most popular methods of removing hair from the bikini area, but despite their similar function, these two processes are almost entirely different. Deciding which to use comes with understanding the difference and knowing the pros and cons of each, so that you can choose whichever one works better with your lifestyle.

Shaving uses a sharp razor to cut the hair at the layer of the skin, leaving the hair root; thus, the hair can still grow and is not “removed”, only trimmed. Waxing, on the other hand, uses a sticky wax to pull the hair out by the root; in the bikini area, waxing is usually done without strips, using a wax that cools quickly so that you can apply it when it’s soft and tear it off once it has solidified somewhat.

The benefits of shaving are primarily ease and lack of pain; using a razor means that simply a few swipes can remove most of the hair you want to target, and that this can be done without feeling any pain (since the hair is just cut, not pulled out, you don’t feel anything during the process). Furthermore, it is generally easier to shape the hair in the bikini area when using a razor rather than wax. However, in many cases shaving can cause itchy and swollen bumps in the pubic area due to the sensitivity of the skin; this discomfort turns many people off from the idea of shaving. Furthermore, shaving only cuts the hair short, so it regrows within 3-4 days and has to be shaved again. And shaving frequently over a long period of time is not recommended because it can cause ingrown hairs and other damaging effects.

Waxing, on the other hand, is sometimes avoided due to pain concerns. Pulling hair out by the root causes a stinging and burning sensation and can leave temporary redness in the area. However, the effects last much longer because the hair is fully removed, and thus takes 3-4 weeks to fully grow back. Ultimately, waxing is recommended for those with more sensitive skin, while shaving can be used by those who can tolerate the irritation it leaves behind (or avoid the irritation by using lotions and oils).