How to Make an Orange Chocolate Mask

How to Make an Orange Chocolate Facial Mask

Dark chocolate - better for your skin than you think! Here is how to use dark chocolate on your skin for a delicious facial. If you love chocolate and happen to have some to spare, try this delicious facial.

Orange essential oil is shown to promote the production of collagen as well as increase the blood flow to the skin.

• 2 bars of dark chocolate

• 2/3 cup of milk

• 1 teaspoon of sea salt

• 3 tablespoons brown sugar

• 1 drop orange essential oil

1 Heat nutty dark chocolate in a boiler.3 minutes will work well.

2 Mix sea salt, brown sugar, and 2/3 of a cup milk in a bowl.

3 Remove melted chocolate from heat. Mix melted chocolate with salt/milk mixture.

4 Allow to cool.

5 Mix in 1 drop of orange essential oil.

6 Apply to your face while cool but not hardened. Before the chocolate becomes hard, smear on your face and leave it on until it hardens. Relax lying down while waiting.

7 Wash or chip off with a mild cleanser and warm water.You can add a lotion on afterward.

8 Now you have a clean, as well as chocolaty, face! **Enjoy!**

A La Mode Facial Mask

If you want a side of cream with your pie, try this one... 

Heavy Cream Easy-To-Use Facial Mask

Ingredients :

• Heavy Cream ( Milk Cream )...................... 1 Tablespoon
• Honey ....................................................... 1 Tablespoon
• Baking Soda ............................................. 1 gram

How To :  

Mix the baking soda with the cream until it acquires the consistency of men's shaving foam - Add honey and mix, smooth the skin of face and neck for 20 minutes

This is the quickest mask to prepare it has also the quickest effect, since it contains medium chain fatty acids in the free form, sugars, vitamins (specially vitamin A), minerals and trace elements. It will leave your skin very smooth.

Sugar & Spice Facial Mask

With fall upon us lets celebrate with a sugar and spice mask to take the day away. Here's the easy recipe to fall into relaxation. Honey Face masks are popular because of several skin benefits honey offers. Honey is good for you in both the ways either taken internally or applied topically to the skin. Honey as a basic ingredient in a facial mask furnishes many skin care remedies. Honey helps to cure acne, scars, wounds, wrinkles and even dry skin.  To read more about Honey and the skin go here: http://goo.gl/qGpyOo

Sugar & Spice Facial Mask

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

2 tbsp honey

Mix all together and cover your face. Spices should be enough to bind the honey. Relax for up to 15 minutes, then rinse.

Baking Soda and Orange Facial Mask

Baking Soda & Orange Facial Mask

There’s a lot to love about a treatment that calls for just two ingredients, costs less than 50 cents to make, and banishes oil and blackheads in 20 minutes. The baking soda exfoliates and fights acne while the acid in the orange juice tightens 

pores and the Vitamin C brightens (you can use a different type of citrus juice but you won’t get quite the same effect).

Use 1-2 times/week depending on skin’s sensitivity.

1. Mix 1 tsp. real orange juice with 1 T. baking soda.

2. Spread a thin layer on face, neck and décolletage.

3. Leave on for 20 minutes.

4. Dampen finger tips and scrub mask in circular motions for extra exfoliation. Rinse.

5. Follow with a gentle toner and moisturizer.

NOTES:

The mask will tingle and itch a little so it’s good too have a distraction—paint your nails, watch TV, but whatever you do, don’t talk. As the paste dries, any facial movements will cause it to flake off. Your skin may be pink afterwards, but that will dissipate.

Apple Pie Face & Body Scrub Mask

Apple Pie for your tummy or your face? You decide with this lovely...

APPLE PIE Face & Body Mask

Apples are the best source of iron and are nutritious. They contain 85% of water and they are high in proportions of vitamin A and C and potassium. One of the main benefits of this mask is that it helps exfoliate dead skin cells and allows moisture to penetrate deeper into the skin. 

What you'll need: 

1 tbsp of fresh apple puree or sauce 

2 tbsp of brown sugar

1/8 tsp of cinnamon 

2 tbsp of granulated sugar

Mix all ingredients well and apply scrub on skin in circular motion. You can use fingers or wash cloth, gloves or sponge. Rough spots like elbows, knees and heels are special points which need attention while you are applying the mask.

This Simple Addtion makes a GREAT scrub!

Simple Baking Soda Facial Scrub

Below is a recipe for a traditional facial exfoliator using baking soda. If this is too much, you can just add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to your regular cleanser for a really nice exfoiliation on the cheap!

Items you will need:

1. 
   
2. Measuring spoons
3. Small bowl
4. Baking soda
5. Water
6. Towel
7. Oat flour

Facial Exfoliator

Step 1:

Mix 1 tablespoon of baking soda, 1 tablespoon of warm water and 2 teaspoons of oat flour in a small bowl to create a natural facial cleanser that also exfoliates.

Step 2:

Rinse your face with warm water. Dip your fingers into the cleanser and apply it to your face and neck using a gentle circular motion. Let the paste dry on your skin for 5 minutes.

Step 3:

Buff away the dried cleanser by moving your fingers in a gentle circular motion. The dried paste exfoliates your skin as you buff it away.

Step 4:

Splash your face thoroughly with warm water to remove any remaining cleanser. Pat your face dry with a clean towel.

May Mask of the Month -- Hawaiian Sugar Scrub

Inspired by my vacation to Maui, I give you the...

Hawaiian Sugar Scrub

1 1/2 cups fine white sugar

1/2 cup fine sea salt

1/2 - 3/4 cup Virgin Coconut Oil (as needed)

1 tblsp. Pineapple Fragrance Oil (optional)

16 oz jar or container

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and add more or less of the Virgin Coconut Oil to your suit your preference.  The mixture may seem dry at first, but wait a few hours and then add more of the coconut oil if necessary.  Scrub should be moist, and not too much of the oil should be floating on top.   You can also make an all sugar or all salt scrub if you prefer one over the other or change the ratio of sugar to salt.

The Virgin Coconut Oil smells just like coconuts, is very light and absorbs nicely in the skin.  We've scented ours with pineapple fragrance oil for a real Hawaiian tropical scent.  This scrub makes a great gift idea!

Use this scrub on any part of your body except the face.  Rub it in with a pair of exfoliating bath gloves.  It will leave you feeling fantastically smooth and the scent will make you feel like your really in the tropics!

April's Mask of the Month: An Egg-citing Facial Mask

An EGG-citing Facial Mask

Yogurt, Oatmeal, Olive oil, Sea Salt Egg Face Mask

(For all skin types)

This ancient and time proven egg face mask exfoliates, scrubs, feeds, moisturizes, soothes and smooths you skin. Basically an all-round mask

What do you need:

• 1 Egg
• 1 tablespoon Plain unflavored Yogurt, with active cultures
• 1 tablespoon of Oatmeal flour
• 1/2 teaspoon of Olive Oil
• 1/4 teaspoon Sea Salt

How to do it:

Whip the egg and add all of the ingredients until you have a smooth and creamy mixture

Spread the egg mask gently and equally with your fingertips on your clean face and neck: keep the eye and mouth area clear

Now lie down, relax and leave the mask on for 15 minutes Then rinse it off with cold water; pat your skin dry with a clean towel

Wear Your Green... Facial Mask!

Wear your Green! 

Green Tea and Fresh Mint Mask

Ingredients

• Green tea
• A tablespoon of rice flour
• A tablespoon of granulated sugar
• Half a tablespoon of lemon juice
• Ground fresh mint

How to make it

1. Make a cup of green tea, with lots of tea. Twice as much loose tea as you’d normally use to drink, or two teabags if you use tea bags.
2. Leave the tea bags in for an hour, and if the tea is still warm (unlikely) chill it in the fridge until it’s cool.
3. Take it out, mix in the rice flour, sugar,lemon juice and fresh mint, pat it onto your face and either use it as a face wash or (better) leave it on for 15 minutes.
4. Wash off and moisturize.

The Benefits:

• Green tea is famously good for problem skin.
• It can help with your acne, but it’s also great at soothing sensitive skin of all kinds.