DIY FACE SCRUBS & MASKS

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Home-bound and looking to maintain self-care plus save on costs? Creating natural exfoliants and masks is easy if you have a poke around your own larder, which should come up trumps with a number of items you can effectively use to make your own nourishing masks and exfoliants. With spring soon rearing its daffodil’d head., combat winter-parched skin by gently sloughing and softening using natural and affordable ingredients that can be found in most cupboards. Just try not to munch these good-enough to eat concoctions!

HOME-MADE SCRUBS AND MASKS

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BRIGHTENING COFFEE & COCOA MASK


Coffee can pack a serious punch when it comes to skincare. Not just a fantastic exfoliant, it’s sloughing properties tighten and brighten skin, skin reguvention aiding in reducing dark spots and uneven tones. An excellent mask to calm and and nourish skin. Honey is packed with antibacterial properties, locks in moisture, and when paired with yoghurt, nourishes skin.

MIX TOGETHER

  • 1 tablespoon honey

  • 2 tablespoons ground coffee

  • 3 tablespoons yogurt (or whole milk)

  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder

Massage into skin, leave for 10 minutes, rinse off, get jazzed on skin as smooth as a baby’s butt.

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GENTLE LEMON, COCONUT OIL & SHREDDED COCONUT SCRUB PERFECT FOR BREAKOUTS

it’ll be hard not to want to shovel this tasty mixture into your mouth, but try save it for your face, especially if you’ve been suffering from breakouts. Lemon’s cleansing properties can assist with oiliness, paired with gently exfoliating shredded coco.

MIX TOGETHER

  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

  • 2 tablespoons shredded coconut

  • 3 tablespoons of coconut oil

Smooth onto face, leave for a few minutes before gently cleaning off with a warm flannel. Scoff any remains.

NOURISHING AVOCADO, HONEY AND OAT MASK

Honey truly packs a punch when it comes to skin-healing properties. Known to also help with skin regenertation, healing scars and damaged tissue, when paired with soothing oats and hydrating and nourishing mashed avocado, your skin will be thanking you for this wonder-mask.

MIX TOGETHER

  • 1 tablespoon of honey

  • 3 tablespoons of oats

  • Half a mashed avocado

Apply to face. Kickback for 15 minutes. Massage off with a warm flannel.


GET GLOWING WITH A PAPAYA HONEY MASK

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Papaya is one of nature’s most potent and effective exfoliators, packed with naturally exfoliating enzymes including papain., brightening the skin and removing dead skin cells. If you’re tropics based and have access to papayas, this is a great mask to whip up.

MIX TOGETHER

  • 3 Tablespoons of blended papaya

  • 1 tbsp honey

Apply to face, leave for 15 minutes (if skin feels irritated/burning sensation remove immedietly). Remove with warm flannel. Reveal a glow J-LO would be jealous of.

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