Folksy Fab.
It won’t come as a surprise to most Get Even More Gorgeous With Beauty Marked! Lovelies to read about yet another folksy bit of gorgeousness to use on your skin as I just love homemade victuals so. These at home beauty treats are a snap to make, great for your skin, and very easy on the purse to boot! Here’s a new recipe I’ve found to be an effective toner for oily and acne prone skins, if you don’t half mind a good toner that is:
- 100 mL of twice boiled water from the kettle
- 1 teaspoon of honey (organic if possible)
- 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
- 3 drops of certified organic Bergamot essential oil (non-phototoxic)
Dissolve the honey in the warm water and let sit to cool for about 20 minutes. While the honey water is cooling, add the Bergamot essential oil to the apple cider vinegar and mix well. After the honey water has cooled to a lukewarm temperature add the apple cider vinegar mixed with Bergamot essential oil to it. Transfer the honey water and vinegar essential oil mix to a clean amber glass bottle, cap, and shake well. Store your “new beaut” toner in the fridge until it’s needed for duty. Too easy, yet again. After all, there’s nothing like a little home brew to get you sorted.
Water Therapy.
Just a gentle reminder to say don’t forget about the power of a shower (I’m a poet and I didn’t even know it). Silly rhymes aside, when all else fails… go the warm shower. I only post this as some days it’s a lot harder to kick it into to gear than other days and not much else seems helpful. This I can absolutely appreciate and relate to. For days and times like these: Go The Shower. You can even drip a few drops of soothing essential oils like Neroli, Petitgrain, Ylang Ylang, Rose, and Lavender or any others that you fancy along the far side of the shower, out of the direct spray of the water, and allow the heat of the shower to give these therapeutic oils wings. Before long, you are sure to feel better than human again. Ooh, and don’t forget these times (as with all times really) especially call for the obligatory luxe shower gel and post shower fragranced moisturizer to nourish also. Mmmm. Water therapy… there’s nothing like it!
Some Fabulously Fun Facts About Our Skin!
Did you know:
- That the skin is the largest organ in the human body?
- Skin is waterproof?
- There are approximately 25,000 “good” bacteria per square centimeter of skin?
- Skin on the lips and eyelids is the thinnest and the thickest skin is on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet?
- You will shed approximately 13.5 kg of skin over your lifetime?
- That the skin can sense up to 5 different types of stimulation: touch, heat, pressure, cold, and pain?
- That the skin regulates body temperature?
- The average person has approximately 2 sq. meters of skin covering their body, it weighs about 3.2 kg and comprised of about 300 million skin cells?
- On average each sq. centimeter contains about 10 hairs, 1 sq meter of blood vessels, 100 sweat glands, and 15 sebaceous glands?
Just amazing!
A Great Beauty Buy!
You wouldn’t believe it if you read about it, but the uber cheap facial tissues from the $2 (.99¢ USD) Shop are just brilliant for having on hand when applying cosmetics. Seriously. The cheapies totally leave their more luxe and famed elder sisters in their wake. Who would of thought it? The super soft, thickly plied, much fancier tissues often leave annoying downy bits of fiber on your face which love nothing more than to display their plush magnetism by sticking fast. The more expensive, thicker ply tissues are also not very absorbent when it comes to all things cosmetic. The cheap and cheerful tissue numbers are superb at blotting up the excess oils in makeup, moisturizers, sunscreens, primers etc.. They tend to only sop up excess oils while leaving coveted pigment behind. Cheap tissues also seem to work at their stellar best when peeled down to one ply and used singly. Very cool. I suspect that’s actually due to their sheer lack of fibers of any real discernible ply that make it a near impossibility to leave any behind on your gorgeous face. So do be sure to pop into your local $2 dollar (.99¢ USD) Shop and snaffle up a box of these handy and cheap as chips little gems to keep on the ready just for makeup use. Ooh, do we ever love a nifty beauty bargain buy!
Buzz Off Already!
Is it just me or have you been besieged by mosquitos these last few days as well? So itchy those blasted bites are! I thought I’d share my saving grace, which seems to have prevented me from scratching off all 7 layers of my poor mozzie bitten to bits skin. 100% pure lavender essential oil applied neat and firmly pressed with a cotton ball onto to the embattled area has helped to soothe my savaged skin considerably. It also acts as a very basic bug deterrent too, which is good. If you haven’t any lavender oil kicking about, pure Tea tree essential oil will do fabulously as well. Both essential oils can be applied neat to most skins without the dilution of a carrier oil unlike a majority of other essential oils which are too irritating to be applied directly to the skin. But do perform a wee skin patch test first though, just to be sure to be sure. Cool Bananas!
A BeautiFULL Blast From The Past…
Seeing that we all seem to be still caught up with the merriment of Festive Season, I thought it might be a great opportunity to reacquaint you with of a couple of Get Even More Gorgeous With Beauty Marked! posts of yore that were so nice, they’re worth mentioning twice!
Masked Magic!
Face masks are a gloriously fabulous and an ever-so-effective part of any successful beauty regime. Often it’s the first thing to be jettisoned by those who see themselves as being time-poor and is chalked up as being the unnecessary part of the beauty program. Beauty Marked! just has to pipe up to say don’t loose the mask, as they are far more beneficial than you’d imagine and are so blissfully revitalizing.
Most masks, when used weekly, can be perfect ways to inject marvelous minerals and vitamins into the skin. Some masks are stellar pore de-gunkers and detoxifiers, whilst others are miracle workers when it comes to adding much needed moisture to your gorgeous visage. Certain masks are designed to exfoliate to perfection, soothe and heal the stressed, clarify, stimulate the circulation, balance the skin’s pH and oil production, to name a just a few of their varied and highly efficacious uses. Another benefit of masking is that it offers you the opportunity to relax for a little heavenly-while, sitting still, breathing deeply, and enjoying the peaceful break from the chaotic lives we can so easily lead. nice one! We reckon you’re getting the drift. Mmmm! Masks…Just magic!
