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Do-It-Yourself Beauty Fixes

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Its time to raid the fridge in the name of beauty. With a few basic kitchen staples, you can create some fast beauty fixes- and while you won’t be getting powerful, cosmeceutical-like results, you can trust them to nourish skin with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Generally speaking, if you can eat it, you can safely massage it into your skin.

Beauty Fixes for…

Puffy Eyes: Chamomile Tea.

Directions: Brew chamomile tea. After letting bags cool, apply to each eye. Leave on eye for 10 minutes. The calming, anti-inflammatory chamomile and coolness of the water help eliminate swelling around the eyes. For a more intensive treatment anytime, freeze the brewed tea in your ice trays. Wrap the frozen tea cube into cheese cloth or wash cloth and apply to any area that is red or swollen.

Dry Body: Sugar-it does have a beauty use after all- as a body exfoliator. Sugar actually does double duty as an exfoliator. As a natural alpha hydroxyl acid, sugar chemically exfoliates the skin, while the granules manually exfoliate. This intensive, yet gentle, homemade sugar scrub leaves skin hydrated, smooth and baby soft.

Directions: Mix together approximately 1/4 cup of sugar (brown is preferred) and 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil. Rub gently onto the body in circular motions in an upward motion and rinse with warm water. Bonus: While you’re still damp from your shower or bath, apply Cold Plasma Body and massage it all over for anti-aging and firming benefits for the body.

Dry skin: Avocado- the ultimate nourishing food. With high concentrations of vitamins C, E and essential fatty acids, avocados make an ideal hydrating mask for especially dry or delicate skin.

Directions: Mash 1/2 of a ripe avocado in a bowl. For increased spreadability, you can add a teaspoon of olive, coconut or sweet almond oil. Let the mixture sit on your face for 10 to 20 minutes before rinsing it off.

What are your favorite do-it-yourself beauty treatments?

Dr. Nicholas Perricone

Beauty Rx: Skin Fixes

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Here are our 3 favorite pieces of skincare wisdom from Dr. Perricone on Refinery29‘s article,  “Beauty Rx: Foods to Cure Your Beauty Woes.”

“If women understood that eating a simple can of sardines or salmon would give their hair and skin an unrivaled radiance, softness, and suppleness — like nothing else in this world — these foods would fly off the supermarket shelves. You would see a stampede toward the fish aisle.”

“Healthy fats are key to successful weight loss. Good fats are those found in salmon, sardines, anchovies, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, seeds, and avocado. These ‘good’ fats will help us absorb nutrients from our vegetables and fruits, and are key to weight loss because we also need dietary fat to burn fat.”

“Dry skin is actually a manifestation of chronic subclinical (invisible to the eye) inflammation. Make sure that you have adequate intake of healthy fats, such as those found in fish, fish oil, and extra virgin olive oil. While topicals can do wonders [for dry skin] it is critically important to not forget the dietary component, which can both cause and worsen all of these conditions.”

What is your favorite piece of skincare wisdom?