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Avocado delicious and nutritious!
This exotic fruit can be used to make hundreds of different tasty dishes. Did you know it could also be used to improve your overall health and beauty? Its packed with tons of vitamins that help with lots of skin aliments.
Here are just two of many ways to improve your skin and hair. I'll write more in future posts.




Supplies

• avocado
• honey
• almond oil
• knife
• fork
• spoon
•  bowl

Avocado face mask

Step 1: slice an avocado in half and put the other half with the pit away.

Step 2: scoop out the avocado insides, place in a bowl, and start mashing it up.

Step 3: Mash up the avocado.

 Step 4: Add 2 tablespoons of honey to the whipped up avocado.

Step 5: Mix the honey and avocado together and apply a generous amount to your face. Leave it on for 20 minutes. Wash off with warm water and don't forget to rinse your face with cold to close water pores.






Side Note: This mixture is also great on eczema and/or psoriasis.










 Avocado Hair Mask


Step 1: Scoop out the other half of the avocado or get a new whole avocado (depending on length or thickiness of hair)and place in bowl.








Step 2: Mash up the avocado the same way you did before.

Step 3:  Add 2 tablespoons of almond oil and mix in to the mashed up avocado.

Step 4: Part hair in sections and apply mixture, leave on for 30-40 minutes and wash.

Your hair should be silky smooth now!

Side note: If there are any left overs, place the pit in to the face or hair mask mix to keep fresh. Then place in a zip-lock bag and save for another day. The mixture will only stay good for 2-3 days.

Here are quick and helpful facts

Skin benefits from avocado:

• Helps reduce age spots and sun damage on skin
• Helps heal sun damage and scars 
• When skin is dehydrated, sun or climate damaged, avocado is a great moisturizing and nourishing fruit, assisting rejuvenation of the skin.
• Increase the amount of collagen in the skin.
• Avocado acts as a deep moisturizer for skin aliments like eczema and psoriasis.
• Help with regenerating the skin and softening the tissue.

Hair benefits from avocado:

• Avocado promotes hair to feels soft and helps add more elasticity.
   
• The high-fat in avocados helps hair to be less dry and prone to breakage.
   
• An avocado hair mask is the best ways to promote hair growth.
   
• Avocado will make hair go from brittle to being soft and shiny.
   
• Helps strengthen and fortify your hair.

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Update!!

My apologies for not posting lately, I have been ultra busy during these  last couple of weeks. So here are what the next couple posts are going to be about: remedies for bruises,avocados, lip scrub recipes, strawberries,and foot scrub recipes.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb!!!!!

This fruit bomb of flavor is not only good for your insides, but great for your skin. Cherries are packed full of antioxidants, which is great way to protect your skin from sun damage. Cherry juice can help with dark spots, skin discoloration and rosacea. Cherry juice also can kill most of the bacteria that causes acne. This little fruit has it all from protecting your skin from free radicals to help fighting acne. Here are some simple sweet recipes to help the skin.






Supplies:

• Bag of Cherries
• Greek yogurt
• Honey
• Sugar (optional)

Cherry Honey Mask

 Wash and pit the cherries, then start to squeeze out all the juice.

 Add 2 teaspoon of honey and 1/2 cup of sugar(optional).I put the sugar to get rid of dead skin cells.

Once you have 1/4 cup of cherry juice, which is about 20 cherries.

Apply on discolor areas or dark underarms, leave on for 20 minutes and wash off with warm water.




Cherry juice has been recently discovered as a skin lightener.




Cherry Yogurt

 Wash, pit, and cut cherries in half. This will make is easier mash up for the mixture.

 Mash up cherries with a fork until you have cherry pulp.Add 2 tablespoons of Greek yogurt and mix well.I used Greek yogurt because of its thick consistency.

 Apply generously to your face and neck, leave on for 15-25 minutes . Wash off with warm water and as always splash cold water to close pores.





This yogurt mask will help soothe rosacea, and make you skin feel delightfully refresh.



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Orange Remedies

Orange you glad I didn't say banana? Today I'm doing a 180 from the mild banana to the acidic orange.(^o^) This fruit helps fight a combination of skin problems such as breakouts, acne, premature aging, and even wrinkles. 
Surprisingly, it can also be an effective bug repellent, which is great to protect your skin during the summer. It is also a great cleanser and helps bring a healthy glow to your skin. Here are two simple recipes that will use the whole orange and leave no waste!


 Orange peel duo lip and face scrub

  Supplies

• Orange
• Sugar
• Cheese grater

Grate the orange peel, till you have half a bowl filled. Then scrape the rest of the grated orange peel, from the front and the inside of the cheese grater.

Next mix the grated peel with 1 tbsp. of  sugar.

Take a pinch from the mixture and rub on your lips. Rinse off with water and feel the softness of your lips.


 

This is where I felt how soft my lips and my hands felt from the scrub. I decided to scrub it on my all over my face but avoiding my eyes.Then rinse off with warm water and a splash of cold to close pores.
This should leave your skin feeling ultra soft and with a beautiful glow. I love how this scrub felt, my skin felt so refreshed.
Orange juice cleanser 


supplies

• Orange 
• Cotton balls

 Cut the same orange that you grated in half .







Peel the orange to make it easier to squeeze the juice out.

 
Squeeze out all the juice in to a bowl, it is optional to keep the pulp.






Soak the cotton ball, then apply to your face leave on for 5 minutes.Wash off with warm water and splash of cold water to close pores.

This should leave your skin feeling super clean.



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Going Bananas!!!

Today I am going bananas!
I am going bananas over my skin and hair in this next blog post and hopefully you will join me! Everyone knows bananas are a yummy nutritious treat, but not everyone is aware of the benefits it has towards your everyday beauty needs. Bananas are cheap and can be found almost anywhere, making it the perfect fruit to use for health and beauty maintenance. 
These bad boys can help fight wrinkles, oily skin, acne and more. Banana peels alone can help soothe mild Eczema, and Psoriasis as well. When you eat this delightful fruit you also help fight against cellulite and increase your blood flow. This helps breakdown the cellulite and any bad toxins. .Here are some recipes about to show you



The Banana Hair Mask


 Supplies

•  1 Banana
• Olive Oil
• Fork
• Bowl

So first you want to peel the banana, then place it in a bowl. Depending on how long or thick your hair is you might want to add another banana.



Mash up the banana, then put in two cap full of olive oil and mix well.






Grab a handful then take a small section of hair and rub in the banana mixture.




Once you have your hair covered in the banana mixture, leave it on for 30 minutes.
Then wash off with luke warm water.
Your hair should feel soft and smell yummy as well.

 2 Banana Face Mask


 Bananas and Yogurt
  
    Supplies

•  1 mashed banana
• 2 tbsp. yogurt
• Fork

Take a banana peel it and then semi mash it up in a bowl.










Then add 2 tbsp. of plain yogurt and start mash the rest of the banana.






Once you have it to a semi paste, apply a generous amount to your face. Leave on for 25-30 minutes then wash off with warm water. Then slash cold water to close pores.


The banana yogurt mask should leave your skin with a radiant glow and feeling softer. This mask is the best to put on a hot summer night, it is so refreshing (*^^*)




 Banana and Oats

     Supplies

•  Mashed banana
• 1/4 cup of oatmeal
• 1 tbsp. of yogurt

This is basically just like the banana yogurt mask, but with oatmeal. The oatmeal will act as a exfoliate.
So semi mash up a banana.



Add 1 tbsp. of yogurt and 1/4 cup of oatmeal and mash up the rest of the banana.

 It should come out kinda thick, apply generously on face or just on the problem areas. Leave on for 20-25 minutes, wash off with warm water follow by slash cold to close pores up.


The oatmeal banana mask will help with breakout and redness. Use it also for any irritation on the skin. This mask leave your skin looking and feeling super clean!






Banana Peel on Eczema or Psoriasis

 Supplies

• 1 banana
• 1 banana peel

Peel one banana, and eat the banana to help fight off any cellulite.

If you have mild eczema like me then you will love what the banana peel does for you. The banana peel will help soothe your irritated skin.

 Rub and leave the banana peel on for 10 minutes.Then wash off with warm water.
 When I did this I felt that my eczema felt better and less pink.




I hoped this helped!!

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Sugar Waxing (^^)

Homemade wax!
Sexy summer legs without spending a dime!
This simple recipe will help you achieve smoothness all summer long, and you don't have to buy
waxing strips either. The sugar wax is a clean way to wax off unwanted hair, and help hair grow back slowly. The sugar wax mixture does not stick to the skin like regular wax does.



Supplies

• 1 cup of Sugar
• 1/4 cup of Lemon juice
• 1/4 cup of water
• knife
  • Old t-shirt

Step 1:

 

Measure out the sugar to one cup

 


 


 squeeze out the lemon juice into a measuring cup, measuring out to 1/4.


 








 


And then measure out 1/4 cup of water.


  
Step 2:


 
Mix sugar, water and lemon juice together in a bowl.

 





Step 3:
 
Place the mixture in a sauce pan and let it boil for 15-20 minutes constantly stirring.

 
 












Step 4:


 


once the mixture is dark brown, pour into a bowl and set aside to cold.

 






  



Step 5:
 
 



once mixture is warm, spread wax on desire area. Place cloth strip onto the wax and rub down.
Then pull strip up against the way the hair grows.
I cut up an old t-shirt into strips, you can always wash them.
 








Finish!
 And you can reheat this wax to reuse again.