Innovative Skincare with Ingredients from the Kitchen

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Innovative Skincare with Ingredients from the Kitchen

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

by Vivienne Myatt

Skincare products can be expensive at the best of times, so why not make innovative skincare products from your own kitchen and for a fraction of the price. Things like honey, oatmeal, cream and even chocolate can be used, but keep it away from hungry little mouths or you won’t have any left for your skin.

It is true, chocolate is becoming one of the most popular additions to beauty regimes. It softens the skin, helping to release serotonin, which makes you feel happy and is one of the most natural remedies for skin care. It is being used in some of the best salons out there.

Well actually you can buy chocolate guilt free, as despite people saying that chocolate is bad for you, makes you fat, will give you spots, really what you should concentrate on is its ability to protect the skin layers from free radical damage, and smooth out wrinkles. Cocoa powder, which chocolate contains a lot of (the darker the chocolate the more cocoa content and the better for you) is an antioxidant. Chocolate is both yummy, good for you in small doses, and one of the great natural remedies for skin care too.

Now you have finished eating some (not all) of that lovely chocolate, lets have a look at a recipe for an innovative skincare product. You’ll want 4 tablespoons of cocoa (not actually chocolate, but once mixed with other ingredients it will be more edible), 3 tablespoons of runny honey, 2 tablespoons of thick cream (this can be sour cream) and a level tablespoon of oatmeal.

Once the mixture is made, don’t eat all of it, you will need to massage it into and around your face. Then all you have to do is lay back and make sure that all pets, children and anything else with a tongue is nowhere around you for the next twenty minutes. After this time, if you are tempted to eat the mixture - don’t! Just wash it off with lukewarm water and feel the benefits.

Now go and lie down and relax for twenty minutes, after applying the mixture of course. The smell of cocoa will actually help you relax and every mom needs twenty minutes time to herself, every now and again! So as the cocoa helps soothe your face, moisturize it and make you happy, the honey will open up clogged pores and deeply cleanse your face, and the oatmeal has already done its job in helping the exfoliation part earlier.

After the twenty minutes of relaxation time, with lukewarm water wash the recipe off and you will notice how supple, fresh and good looking your skin is. Who would have thought chocolate could have such a use as an innovative skincare product and taste so lovely too?

It’s up to you, whether you want to share with other moms, and girlie friends about your renewed love of chocolate and why it is one of the best natural remedies for skin care out there. Or you can mention it to them about how good chocolate skincare products are, and keep your homemade innovative skincare recipe a family secret!

Who says you cannot succumb to chocolate for yourself and feel great all the while. Don’t suffer for beauty! Read what Vivienne Myatt has to say about (http://www.perfectformums.com) innovative skincare and all while spoling yourself in the process, using ( http://weightingeneral.com/fight-stress-with-healthy-eating) natural remedies for skin care

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