Delicious Homemade Natural Beauty Products

Almond, chocolate, dried fruits, spices, honey... Use the foods that you have in your kitchen cupboard to make your own beauty products. With the following recipes, you will be able to consume them as much as you want and it won't be dangerous for your waistline...

As soon as you feel that your skin is dried by cold in winter, nourish your skin with dried apricot. Full of fiber and antioxidant, dried apricots will replace the strawberry mask used in spring and summer.

To make your apricot mask, soak 4 dried apricots in a bowl filled with mineral water. When the apricots are swollen and soft, blend them. Apply the paste on your face and put a gauze compress on it. Leave it to stand 15 minutes and rinse.

Don't worry, you won't need to open your box of chocolates to make this treatment. You will only need a few spoons of cocoa powder. Besides its delicious aroma, the chocolate massage I'm going to show you will soften your skin. Cocoa butter is indeed an efficient moisturizer for dry skin. Moreover, your joints will also benefit from this chocolate massage.

To make your chocolate massage, you will need:

• 1/2 cup hot water
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder

In a saucepan, mix the cocoa powder and the hot water. Leave the mixture to cool a little bit and apply the chocolate sauce on your body with a spatula. The chocolate should be warm, but not too warm (don't burn yourself...). Apply the mixture on your back, shoulder, buttocks and joints. Avoid your legs and breast which are more sensitive to heat. Massage in circular motions. The chocolate sauce hardens when it cools down. When you won't be able to spread the mixture anymore, rinse yourself in the shower.

To relieve joint pain, spread this chocolate sauce on your joints and cover with a gauze compress. Then put a hot-water bottle on the gauze for about 20 minutes;

After your chocolate massage, you will smell of chocolate for several hours. If you want to prolong this pleasure, you can apply a chocolate moisturizing body butter after your bath or shower everyday.

If you have oily skin, exfoliating your skin after your bath will allow to purify your skin and to get rid of the blackheads. And, if your skin is dry, exfoliating will help your skin to get rid of the dead cells that give it an unattractive look.

To make an almond body scrub, mix 2 tablespoons of sugar with 2 tablespoons of almond powder. Add to the mixture 4 tablespoons of orange blossom water. Rub gently this paste on your body. Focus on your back if your skin is oily, and on your legs, kneess and elbows if your skin is dry.

In winter, why not use the fragrant and warming ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves... that we use to make the traditional gingerbread men to make a delightful and spicy bath.

To prepare this spicy bath, mix together half a teaspoon of ground ginger, half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and half a teaspoon of ground nutmeg. In a sauce pan, heat up 1 cup of milk. Add to the milk 4 cloves and 2 tablespoons of honey. When the milk begins to boil, add the mixed spices. Pour in your bath at once.

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