by Raine Morie

Created on: August 24, 2009

Natural ingredients found in kitchens are easy to whip together and make some of the healthiest natural beauty treatments. Typical kitchen items like cucumber, lemon, avocado, yogurt, honey and sugar are ingredients commonly found in expensive beauty treatments. The combination of natural ingredients found in the fridge make natural beauty treatments such as facial and body scrubs, moisturizers, body wraps and facial masks. These are a few ways natural ingredients can improve your skin's texture, moisture, firmness and overall appearance.

Ingredients such as yogurt, milk, avocado, olive oil, jojoba oil and honey are the moisturizing elements of good beauty products. They are often called carrier oils or crmes in the beauty industry because moisturizing elements are the base for everything else added to beauty products. Yogurt is additionally packed with enzymes and balances PH skin levels, especially when mixing it with acidic ingredients such as lemon or aspirin.

Fruits such as cherry, lemon, grape fruit and orange are astringent ingredients aiding in evening out uneven skin tones and pigment. These vitamin-packed fruits also contain powerful antioxidant properties. Replenishing the face with natural Vitamin C from lemons is like giving your skin a vitamin boost. Finally, the natural acids from fruits create a gentle yet effective exfoliation for the skin as well as serving as a micro-dermal abrasion treatment.

Brown sugar is the ideal facial scrub for exfoliation because it does not damage delicate facial tissue. Simply mix sugar with water or oil of preference. Adding four caplets of crushed aspirin to a homemade facial mask creates a gentle micro-dermal abrasion effect, revealing a layer of fresh skin, which is brighter, tighter and smoother. Additionally, aspirin works effectively to eliminate acne.

In the beauty industry, these are a few additional core ingredients typically found in beauty products, which anyone can whip together at home very quickly:

Corn

Almond Oil

Vitamin E

Vitamin A

Pure Essential Oils made from flowers and herbs

Oatmeal

Coffee Grinds

Chocolate

Spice such as cinnamon

Grapeseed Oil

Eggs

Milk

Gelatin

Coconut Oil/Milk

Sea Salt

Herbal Extracts:

Aloe

Green Tea

Chamomile

Kelp/Seaweed

Natural ingredients found in kitchens can uplift tired and dull skin, soothe and moisturize dry skin, even out uneven skin tones and pigments, firm and tighten skin, condition with vitamins, cleanse the pores, exfoliate and act as safe micro-dermal abrasion treatments. These beauty benefits can be whipped up inexpensively into natural beauty products right from the natural ingredients in your kitchen.

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