What is your favourite "natural" beauty product find?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Drawing paste - pulls all the nastiness out of spots and infected follicules.

Lavender essential oil - the real stuff - goes for miles, just need a couple of drops to get the effect of a million posh bottles of stuff. Great for dealing with nits, minor burns, sore skin, dry skin, insect bites, insomnia, headaches...

An aloe vera plant - perfect for burns, allergies, dry skin, stings and bites.


Seasalt - makes a scrub with soap or oil, makes a treatment for spots and oily skin or infected skin dissolved in boiled water, keeps problems with the nailbeds or pierced ears to a minimum, doesn't damage the skin, is non allergenic, antibacterial, antifungal....

Vegetable oil, olive oil, grapeseed oil, any oil from the cooking section of the supermarket - does everything the fancy creams do. And gets rid of eyemakeup with less irritation than the so called gentle cleansers and removers.




But you can't beat science in one way. Sunscreen. We can't all wear a niqab or burka. Much as it can sound tempting first thing in the morning.

shandyclover

[FONT=&quot]Baking Soda Face Scrub[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I posted it somewhere else on the forum, but believe it or not it works! I have a Venezuelan friend who told me she was brought up using BS as a face scrub. Supposed to balance ph levels and all, plus the scrubbiness exfoliates. I confess I was very wary, but I have tried it occasionally, albeit very gently, just a teaspoon in your hand, mix into a runny paste with warm water and gently scrub. Very clean feeling afterwards. You can google it for more details, wish I could get my 14 yo DD to try it, I think the fact she's seen me using it in laundry and to clean the bathrooms doesn't help! As I posted before on forum, I was in Body Shop with said friend when she was getting a makeover, the male make up artist was raving about her clear skin and asked what she used to cleanse, you should've seen his face when she shrugged and said 'oh just baking soda'!![/FONT]

shandyclover

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Drawing paste - pulls all the nastiness out of spots and infected follicules.

Lavender essential oil - the real stuff - goes for miles, just need a couple of drops to get the effect of a million posh bottles of stuff. Great for dealing with nits, minor burns, sore skin, dry skin, insect bites, insomnia, headaches...

An aloe vera plant - perfect for burns, allergies, dry skin, stings and bites.


Seasalt - makes a scrub with soap or oil, makes a treatment for spots and oily skin or infected skin dissolved in boiled water, keeps problems with the nailbeds or pierced ears to a minimum, doesn't damage the skin, is non allergenic, antibacterial, antifungal....

Vegetable oil, olive oil, grapeseed oil, any oil from the cooking section of the supermarket - does everything the fancy creams do. And gets rid of eyemakeup with less irritation than the so called gentle cleansers and removers.




But you can't beat science in one way. Sunscreen. We can't all wear a niqab or burka. Much as it can sound tempting first thing in the morning.

Jojo, what is 'drawing paste'? where do you get it? Sounds interesting for 14 yo DD.
How do you make the seasalt treatment? how do you use it?

skypie123_2

Donnac where do you buy your Argan oil?

j.e.j.

shandyclover wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Baking Soda Face Scrub[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I posted it somewhere else on the forum, but believe it or not it works! I have a Venezuelan friend who told me she was brought up using BS as a face scrub. Supposed to balance ph levels and all, plus the scrubbiness exfoliates. I confess I was very wary, but I have tried it occasionally, albeit very gently, just a teaspoon in your hand, mix into a runny paste with warm water and gently scrub. Very clean feeling afterwards. You can google it for more details, wish I could get my 14 yo DD to try it, I think the fact she's seen me using it in laundry and to clean the bathrooms doesn't help! As I posted before on forum, I was in Body Shop with said friend when she was getting a makeover, the male make up artist was raving about her clear skin and asked what she used to cleanse, you should've seen his face when she shrugged and said 'oh just baking soda'!![/FONT]

I might try that
You can use bicarb as a deodorant, too! Just put some under your arms and it'll neutralise any odours.

There_Goes_Trouble

Can you buy baking soda in large quantities anywhere? You get such tiny pots in the supermarket but I can't find it in bigger tubs anywhere.

Bronnie

There_Goes_Trouble wrote: »

Can you buy baking soda in large quantities anywhere? You get such tiny pots in the supermarket but I can't find it in bigger tubs anywhere.[/Q

You can buy it cheaply in larger packs (500g maybe??) in the Chinese supermarkets

There_Goes_Trouble

Sorry to resurrect this old post, but just want to thank Shandyclover for the baking/bicarb of soda tip. I've been using it now for 2 weeks and my skin has never been better! I'm so happy, you have no idea!!

Thank you!

jenniewb

Water! And plenty of fresh fruit and steamed veg, for me how my skin looks is directly related to what I eat, there are other things that bad products can to do cause me irritation (in the way of spots and flakey skin) but if my nutritions good it shows through my skin more then any skin treatment has ever done for me. In the past I struggled for a few years with anorexia and bulimia and my nutrition was at its worst, the results on my skin were so huge it added years to me and resulted in all sorts of problems and it seemed no matter what I chucked on my skin or how long I gave products to work, it was no match for the poor nutrition (and no, vitamin pills made no difference, its actual food that works pills just don't).

I have no other wonder products, prefer naturally based creams over non natural ones because certain things annoy my skin but no product is a match for a decent diet.

And no, I don't spend over the odds on fresh food, it can be done quite easily on a budget so do not use cost as an excuse! Its all about using raw ingredients and taking time to cook things, if you have no time, make time, but then I guess it depends on what your values are really.

shandyclover

There_Goes_Trouble wrote: »

Sorry to resurrect this old post, but just want to thank Shandyclover for the baking/bicarb of soda tip. I've been using it now for 2 weeks and my skin has never been better! I'm so happy, you have no idea!!

Thank you!

You're very welcome - glad it helped!:)