3 Steps to Help Keep Your Skin Smooth, Soft and Hydrated for the Spring and Summer

Here are 3 easy and basic steps to you skin routine that will keep you feeling fresh, smooth and hydrated for spring and summer.

 

Cleanse, Tone, Moisturize

Cleanse :

Cleansing is a vital part of the skincare regimen. Throughout the day and as we sleep, our body produces and accumulates waste. In order to purify, refresh and maintain the skin, it needs to be thoroughly cleaned. The more mature the skin, the deeper the crevices for dirt to hide. Without a great cleanser, debris builds, clogging pores, inhibiting regular collagen production, and enhancing lines and wrinkles.  

 

Toner:

Toner is a key step in an effective skincare regime - it follows the application of the cleanser. Think of a toner as your back up to ensure all traces of dire and impurities have been removed, allowing skin t breathe and generate the proper collage, elastin and moisture needed for healthy, glowing, youthful-looking skin.

 

Moisturizer:

 After using toner, remember to moisturize. Moisturizer protects the skin by locking in natural moisture, which is vital in the fight against the signs of aging. A good quality face moisturizer will help to hydrate all skin types. Despite popular belief, people with oily skin types should still moisturize. During the day choose a dedicated moisturizer which is usually lighter in texture and often ‘carries’ environmental protectors such as antioxidants and SPFs. Complement your day cream with a night cream to aid the restoring and renewing processes of your skin while you sleep

 

Additional Considerations for your skin care regime:

You may want to use a serum to help to give you additional protection against the environment and the natural aging process. Look for one that provides a strong antioxidant, hydrates, promotes healthy skin elasticity and firmness and healthy cell growth for a smooth radiant looking skin.

 

Homemade Vapor Shower Disks

 This DYI is great for the Winter Season, however, now we are in Spring of 2013, but many still have the sniffles, or getting over those winter blues and this DYI Vapor Shower Disks is perfect to kick out any upper respiratory that is still lingering....


Plus this beats the cost of actually buying one from Vick's Vapor (very expensive)!!

You need:
-Baking soda
-Water
-Essential oils: eucalyptus, rosemary, and lavender.
-Muffin tin
-Muffin liners
Directions:
1) Add baking soda to a mixing bowl.
2) Slowly add water until you’ve made a thick paste. Updated to add: add just a little water a time. You’ll want the mix to feel like putty.
3) Add 15 drops of each essential oil.
4) Spoon in to a muffin tin, and let sit out for 12-18 hours. You can also bake these, but I just left them out overnight.
5) Pop these suckers out of the paper liner, plop it in your shower, and let the essential oils steam away your stuffy nose. Edited to add: put them anywhere on the floor of the shower; it doesn’t matter where!

Source: http://beingfrugalbychoice.blogspot.ca/2012/03/homemade-vicks-vapor-shower-disks.html

[New Post] DIY Mineral Bath

 

Mineral baths are great way to get a relaxing, health-enhancing, stress dissolving soak. Warm spring therapy is a pleasant treatment for muscular skeletal problems, as well as for high blood pressure and eczema.

In addition, science has promoted that soaking in a warm mineral spring can lessen arthritis pain, and soothe discomfort associated with Fibromyalgia.

If you don’t live close to a warm mineral spring or just prefer to bathe at home mineral bath salts are easy and inexpensive to make.

A mix of Epsom and sea salt can be used with borax, baking soda, sesame oil, and essential oils to create your own personal soak. Save in a glass jar and use about 2tbsp of this mixture to dissolve in hot bath.
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1 1/2 cups sea salt
1 1/2 cups sea salt
1 cup Epsom salts
1 1/2 cups borax
1 1/2 cups baking soda
1 cup sesame oil
100 drops, total, essential oils

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