| A Bountiful Harvest for Your Skin |
| Written by Mary Jo Thomas | |||||
 Fall’s bountiful harvest can improve the quality of your skin with its colorful and natural ingredients. Take advantage of the abundance of these fruits to create beauty treatments that will soothe, protect and refine your skin.Pumpkins
Not just for pumpkin pie, pumpkin mixed with honey and yogurt makes a great
toning and pore cleansing facial mask. The pumpkin contains enzymes, zinc and
healthy doses of vitamins C and A, exfoliating properties are found in the sugars
in honey and the yogurt is soothing, cooling and hydrating. Just mash a quarter
cup of pumpkin pulp, a teaspoon of honey and a quarter cup of yogurt together,
and apply to your cleansed face.
Avocados, Bananas , Papayas – Oh my!
Mash these colorful and vitamin filled fruits to create some very beneficial facial
masks. Avocados contain Vitamin A, Vitamin E and healing proteins beneficial to
treat dry skin. Bananas are full of potassium, calcium and phosphorus to help
refine all but the oiliest skin. Papayas contain beta-carotene and Vitamin C along
with enzymes that help clarify your skin.
An Apple a Day ?
Apples are full of vitamins and minerals as well as possessing beneficial antioxidant and antibacterial qualities. They’re healthy for the body and for the skin. Homemade fresh apple beauty treatments are mildly astringent, making them good for moisturizing and toning. Apples are a great remedy for tired and itchy eyes. Make an apple eye mask by slicing a firm apple and soaking it in a cup of brewed green tea for five minutes. Sit back and relax with an apple slice on each closed eyelid for ten minutes.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate oil can help with problem fingernails and cuticles. Apply it warm as a rub or use it as a manicure soak. This oil can repair the damage to natural nails caused from wearing gel nails.
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