We may find ourselves without a way to replenish
our makeup and toiletries. We need to
know ways to repair and restore our skin to good health. Until the stuff hits the fan, we can cut back
on expensive products and still maintain our personal standards. With the money we save, we can buy more of
what we truly need. Here are some tips.
Keep
clean. The first step to a good skin
care and good health in general is keep clean. Your skin routine starts with a clean slate.
Use a gentle cleanser. I have a
bottle of baby shampoo for face cleansing.
I poured about ¼ of the shampoo into an empty bottle and filled it with
clean water. I put the lid on and shake
till mixed. It makes a gentle foaming
soapy cleanser. Thinning it down this
way stretches your dollar and thins the soap so you rinse clean.
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Keep
teeth clean. It is the secret to beauty
and health! Cut down on whiteners by
cutting down on coffee and save your teeth from bleaching as well as the high cost of
designer coffees.
Baking soda and a good tooth brushing works. It's the brushing that cleans your teeth. The baking soda adds some gentle abrasion and sweetens the breath.
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Olive oil
is the most primal skin care oil. A few
drops on a cotton ball dabbed over the dry skin is enough as a little goes a
long way. Use the same method to remove
makeup.
Olive oil warmed is a good all
around hot oil treatment for hair. I
like sesame seed oil to restore damaged hair.
A few drops of oil are enough.
Even for my long hair 1/8 teaspoon is enough to restore sun or
chemically bleached hair to newborn-like softness.
For oily
skin, apply cornstarch as an absorbing face powder to the “T” zone.
After blotting the oil, tap your make up brush into cornstarch then
tap it on your pressed powder, mix it and apply with the brush. This helps to absorb oils and stretch your
pressed powder, actually doubling or tripling the number of uses.
The top
three ingredients in beauty fluids like Oil of Olay are water, mineral oil and
glycerin. Water comes from the tap or if you want, distilled water or spring water are available by the gallon at the grocery store. Mineral oil is sold by the quart at
drugstores for around two to three dollars.
Glycerin is sold in a bottle for the same price for about 6-8
ounces.
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1600 × 1200 - Water, Mineral Oil,Glycerin,
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Look at your moisturizing cream. As required by law, the
ingredients on products are listed by the largest quantity first. You are paying a LOT of money for water in a
pretty bottle. After the next two
ingredients that actually do the job of skin softening, the rest go downhill
with fragrances, and preservatives.
If
you want to soften your skin, mix equal parts of mineral oil and glycerin in a
small container. Keep the cap on tight
and shake before using. Just pour a few
drops on a cotton ball or makeup sponge and spread out over the face. Wipe off excess and enjoy the savings.
There are
virtual VATS of hand creams sold at discount stores like Dollar General. I can get 8.5 ounces of a name brand at the discounted price or the
same ingredients in the same order from a no name brand for the same price, but
it is 20 to 32 ounces! Use the less
expensive products and you can get the same results.
Use the
skins of cucumbers to reduce the swelling around the eyes, puree them to use as
a face mask, rub them on elbows to soften them.
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Use lemon
peel to lighten dark dry elbows. Lemon
juice will strip grease out hair.
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