Save with Homemade Beauty Products

Honey milk bath: Refresh and invigorate your skin and unclog your pores with a relaxing honey milk bath. Simply pour about 1 pint of milk and a couple tablespoons honey into a hot bath, sink in, and enjoy!  Honey has natural antioxidants that help protect your skin from the sun and reduce signs of aging. Milk will help exfoliate your skin.

Salt body scrub: Right after a soak in a warm tub or a hot shower is the time to rid the skin of dead cells. And all you need a little salt!  Simply rub a few handfuls of salt over rough areas, like elbows and knees, at the end of your bath or shower. Give yourself a final rinse and you’re done!

Oatmeal face scrub: Here’s another way to promote soft, beautiful skin. To remove dead, scaly cells and deep-clean skin, use this nonabrasive scrub on your face and neck: Mix 1 tablespoon finely ground oatmeal with 1 teaspoon nonfat yogurt. Apply to damp skin and massage gently for several minutes, then rinse off.

Hair highlighter: Forget about the expense of harsh dyes and bleaches and turn to an age-old hair lightener: lemon juice. Rub the juice of 2 or 3 lemons throughout your damp hair, then sit out in bright sunshine, or under a hair dryer, for 10 to 20 minutes or until your hair is dry.  Rinse your hair, dry and style as usual, and you’ll find it’s half a

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Hair clarifier: Eliminate the buildu

p of conditioners, mousses and gels with a super-simple hair clarifying formula: Mix a few teaspoons of baking soda in your hand with your usual shampoo and work through your hair as usual. Rinse well and you’ll find cleaner, less weighed down locks.

Age spot remover: Lemon to the rescue again! Help fade age spots by sprinkling a bit of sugar on the cut side of a lemon half and then gently rubbing over the age spots. Repeat once a week for several weeks.

Chapped lip soother: No chapstick?  Try olive oil!  Rub some on your lips as often as needed to moisten painful dry spots. Bonus: Olive oil contains vitamin B2 which helps protect the skin.

Pimple fighter: If you have a bottle of witch hazel in your medicine chest, you’ve got the perfect pimple fighter. It has a mild anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects and will help freshen skin, reduce excess oil and tighten pores. Simply dab affected areas with witch hazel tincture up to two times  a day.

Green tea eye pack: Have a few drops of green tea left over from tea time?  Moisten two cotton pads in the tea, lie down and place over your eyes for about 10 minutes. This will bring instant  relief to tired, strained eyes.

And be sure to check out the complete instructions for our Stimulating Strawberry Facial Mask.