Beauty Tips from Blogs and Youtubers: Only Homemade Natural Ingredients

I have decided to make a thorough research of the beauty tips for you. It seems that it will take long writing this time, but I will start and give you the nicest ideas on beauty categorised for the dry skin and skincare in general. They will all consist of natural ingredients that you cook with and that you can find at home.

CUCUMBER: YOU SHOULD HAVE IT AT HOME

The one I like the most is the skincare by Merve Ozkaynak. 

She, first of all, washes her face with water that contains honey and lemon, uses this one serves as a firsthand cleanser. You can feel the freshness when you do that, I tried this one as well. It was quite nice. The second step is the peeling that she made with rice and carrots, so it becomes blended in the frullatore, the blender. I am not sure if this one is good for dry skin, but it is definitely to be tried by oily skin and mixed skin types. The third step is that she uses cucumber water as a tonic and also to clean the remnants of the rice and carrots. Then she uses honey as a mask, putting slices of cucumber on her face. You shall be lying down in order to do that, otherwise, gravity will ruin your plans. I think that except for the peeling this is a great plan.

RICE WATER: HAPPY NOT TO THROW IT AWAY

Another one that I have seen is from this vlogger: She makes her own tonic via rice water, which seems quite easy to me. I do not want to insert here difficult recipes, I like practical stuff.

There is also really a nice and precise recipe here with vinegar: 

Updated Recipe:

1 cup white or brown rice

2 cups filtered water

2 Tbs. Organic Apple Cider Vinegar

5 drops Grapefruit Essential Oil

5 drops Clary Sage Essential Oil

This recipe above is a great idea also for Turkish and Greek who wash their rice, in a cup of water, then you do not need to throw the water of the rice away. Good news! I like that idea!

The third recipe on rice mixes it with green tea. In all these recipes they use the containers that they used before so that you do not have to throw away the plastic each time you finish something. That is good news for the environment, too.

The last recipe with rice is pretty easy to do as well as the first one. The second recipe is a bit complicated only because it has sage and grapefruit essential oil.

YOGHURT: GOOD NEWS FOR YOGHURT LOVERS

A few other masks are as such, taken from this website and they focus on Yoghurt:

• a cup of yoghurt and one lemon's juice: mix it and apply for fifteen minutes. It is good for cleaning the skin and refreshing it. 
• one-fourth of a banana, one teaspoon of honey, two spoons of yoghurt: mix it and apply to your face for fifteen minutes, it hydrates the skin. 
• two glasses of water and one spoon of vinegar: wash your face every day with it, you will feel refreshed.
• four spoons of coffee, four spoons of cacao, eight spoons of milk and one spoon of lemon juice: mix and apply it to your face, when it is dry wash your face with warm water. It is like a refreshing exfoliator. (I have tried this one and have seen that it softens the skin, but it opens the pores, so you need to use the toner afterwards.) 

There are more suggestions on this website above, but I will not translate all of these suggestions. As you see lemon, yoghurt, honey, vinegar, cacao, coffee are all friends of your skin. I believe that cucumber juice is something we should always have at home as a toner. You can keep it in your fridge for a long time I believe. 

A little thought on Lush

As I was watching masks I have come across the Lush, whose videos show in YouTube show how to make natural stuff in great quantities. It is very interesting, they use these fruits, coconut oil, mint oil etc. in big amounts and then the products have these wonderful colours of fruits and vegetables. I honestly find Lush a bit expensive but I definitely appreciate their working style and the philosophy behind making homemade cosmetics. It is environment-friendly and there are faces and names of the workers being introduced in these videos, which means that they do give some importance to who work for them. I think this matters a great deal! (I should write a blog on Lush).

HONEY: GOOD NEWS FOR HONEY LOVERS

Another blogger has discovered these wonderful remedies with honey. So she has four masks with honey, one with yoghurt that you can leave for a longer time, the other with oatmeal (perfect for dry skin), the third one is with avocado (hydrating and nourishing) and the fourth one is with aloe vera that is also a moisturiser itself. I really liked this vlogger's suggestions!

There are three recipes here and they are super easy, too. 

The first one is this one: one dessert spoon honey, one dessert spoon olive oil, one egg (only the yellow part); keep it on your face for fifteen and twenty minutes and with warm water... 

The second one is this one: one dessert spoon of honey, one teaspoon of clay, one dessert spoon of lemon; mix it really well and apply it to skin waiting for 15 minutes and then wash it with warm water; this is mostly for the oily skin. Be careful dry skinners! 

The third one is this one: Honey, lemon and sugar; mix it and apply it to the skin and wait for 15 minutes. They say that sugar is a great exfoliator, in fact, they also use it mixed with honey as a scrub for the lips. 

I hope that these recipes are useful. I will try my best to give more natural ideas and advertise more natural products. We have to give back to nature what we have taken from it, and we need to use less plastic for sure. I also do this criticism for myself, I have been infatuated with cosmetics, but it is wrong if we do not think about our environment.