Save Your Skin This Summer with These Food-Based Beauty Products
Sugar
After too much sun, your lips can dry out and become flakey. Scrub away dry skin and get smooth, plump lips with brown sugar. Fresh Sugar Lip Polish gently buffs your lips without stripping moisture as it nourishes with a blend of fine oils. $22.50
Cucumber
Pomegranate
Pomegranates are a powerful antioxidant and can do wonders for your skin. After running around all day in hot, humid weather, wipe away the day withKorres Pomegranate Cleansing Wipes. These skin-saving wipes remove oil, grease, and reduce pores so you feel refreshed on the go. $15
Avocado
You love them in salads, you love them as a dip, and now you can love them as a beauty product, too. Avocados are a natural source of amino acid proteins, as well as vitamins A, D, E, and potassium. Give your eyes some love at night after exposure to the sun with Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado. The avocado in this eye cream helps to restore natural moisture to the very delicate skin around even the most sensitive eyes. $28.50
Walnuts
Walnuts, jam-packed with omega-3 fatty acids and B vitamins, are the perfect on-the-go snack, and great in salads. They might also be the exfoliant you've been searching for. Walnuts act as a mild abrasive to gently scrub away skin impurities and awaken gorgeous, glowing skin. Try OleHenriksen Walnut Complexion Scrub. $16
Lemon
Pucker up and incorporate more lemons into your beauty return. These tart super fruits are loaded with vitamin C, a powerful natural cleanser, which fades discoloration, strengthen your nails, and can even jump start your metabolism (add a teaspoon of lemon to warm water and drink first thing in the morning for an immediate boost). Combine lemons with natural oils like coconut and almond and add sugar, and you have a refreshing, moisturizing scrub that will leave your skin soft and smooth. For an easy way to add these citrus fruits into your daily regime, try Lalicious Sugar Lemon Blossom Scrub. This deliciously scented body treatment will give your skin a luminous glow from head to toe. $34
Honey
The benefits of honey are endless. It is good for digestion, has been known to help eczema and acne, and it is gentle enough to use in hair daily after swimming and sweating. Honey is naturally a humectant, which means that it helps attract and retain moisture, keeping hair soft and shiny. It is also contains antibacterial properties to thoroughly cleanse. Try 100 Percent Pure Honey and Virgin Coconut Restorative Shampoo for a gentle hair cleanser that incorporates this all-around fantastic ingredient. $18
Figs
This summer, feel confident bearing those gorgeous stems. Buff your legs and arms with fig seeds to scrub away dull, dead skin and reveal a more moisturized, healthy, and luminous you. Figs are incredibly rich in antioxidants, and can sooth inflamed skin, which is always needed after spending a hot day out at the beach. Try Laura Mercier's Fresh Fig Scrub. It combines the exfoliating powers of figs with the intoxicating smell of shea butter and honey and will make you feel like you spent a day at the spa. $50
Dragon Fruit
This bright, vibrant Superfruit is grown mostly in Asia and has long been revered for its beatifying components. The black seeds in dragon fruit are a great exfoliator and the vitamin C in this scrub helps revitalize dull skin. Freeman Beauty's Dragon Fruit Foot Scrub uses a fragrant combination of dragon fruit, ginger, and tea tree oil to give your feet some much-needed pampering. $3.79
Coconut Oil
Yogurt
After long summer days in the heat and humidity, give you skin the cooling break it needs with yogurt. This common fridge staple has so much power as a member of your beauty arsenal. Plain Greek yogurt is a natural source of lactose and proteins and can be used as a moisturizer. The lactic acid in yogurt acts as a natural alpha hydroxy acid to help smooth skin, fight acne, and reduce skin discoloration. Yogurt also has a powerful cooling effect, making it an ideal cream to comfort sun burnt skin. Try Korres Greek Yoghurt Cooling Gel Aftersun to soothe your summer skin. $26
Do It Yourself
For a completely homemade and natural food-based skin remedy, try one of the easy recipes below:
OleHenriksen Face/Body Spa Facial Scrub with Eucalyptus
Ingredients:
2 ounces brown sugar
2 ounces sesame oil
15 drops eucalyptus essential oil
Directions: Mix the ingredients together in a small bowl. Transfer into a Tupperware container and store in your refrigerator. Use three to four times a week at night.
Benefits: Brown sugar deeply cleanses, tightens pores, and improves skin texture. Sesame oil allows the scrub to glide on smoothly and adds hydration. Eucalyptus oil is a natural antiseptic and oxygenates the skin.
OleHenriksen Face/Body Spa At Home Honey Nourishment Mask
Ingredients:
Plain yogurt
Honey
Finely ground oatmeal
(1) Vitamin A and (1) Vitamin E capsule
Lavender essential oil
Directions: Mix the yogurt, honey, oatmeal, and lavender oil together; break open the vitamin capsules and empty into the mixture. Apply paste to clean, dry skin. Leave on for 20 minutes and rinse with lukewarm water.
Benefits: After exfoliating, it’s essential to add moisture back into the skin — this mask acts as a natural hydrating and calming treatment.
Recipes Provided by OleHenriksen Face/Body Spa
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