DIY Beauty: homemade hydrating face mask

diy yogurt honey green tea mask

This week, I went back to using yogurt, after laying off this ingredient for quite a long while.  I love yogurt for the face, and I also had good results using the DIY yogurt oat mask recipe.  

DIY Beauty: goat’s milk & banana hand mask

homemade banana milk hand mask

Last week, I visited the goat’s farm with my son and as part of the tour, we were given goat’s milk. My son and I looked at one another in horror. Who’s going to drink all the three bottles? But I took them home and left them in the fridge anyway, thinking that I might garner enough courage to down them sometime in the week. Well, I did eventually because I thought they may not taste too bad since they’re chocolate flavored. Big mistake! The after taste was quite horrible and I almost puke!

DIY Beauty: chocolate anti-aging face mask

Are you in for a fun, yet nourishing facial mask? If you are, you should try the chocolate facial mask using cocoa powder as seen in this YouTube video.

Improves mood
Cocoa powder is not only tasty but because it is full of fatty acids, it is able to make our skin soft and nourished. The ingredient is also a powerful antioxidant that can help to protect the skin from free radicals plus it can help stabilize our mood by initiating serotonin release to make us happy and relaxed.

DIY Beauty: Kiwifruit exfoliating cleanser

kiwi fruit cleanser

Lately, we’ve been consuming lots of kiwifruits. The supermarkets here are promoting them rather aggressively, on the basis that they contain lots of vitamins to help improve our immunity against swine flu. Well, indeed they are!