The promise of beauty generally comes from a chemical in a bottle -a shampoo that gives your hair more shine and volume, miracle lotion that treats wrinkles, and body scrubs and facial masks that make your skin look flawless and radiant.
But while these products claim that they'll make you more beautiful, they often contain harmful chemicals, toxins and preservatives that are not only bad for your body but also for environment.
In the end, these synthetic chemicals do more harm than good and slowly damage your natural vitality and good looks.
Fortunately, the solution is simple yet very rewarding - make your organic beauty products at home using 100% natural ingredients that can be found in your kitchen.
You really do not need any special skills or equipments to get started.
When you make these simple skin treatments and beauty products at home, you not only save money but also know exactly what is coming into contact with your skin.
Please be aware that 60% of the ingredients that you put on your skin are absorbed into your bloodstream.
Therefore, long exposure to toxic chemicals can really do permanent damage to your skin and body.
Furthermore, these homemade organic solutions provide a better solution to expensive famous-name brand cosmetics that often fall short of your expectations.
Making your own skin care solutions at home such as body scrubs, facial scrubs, moisturizers, toners is much easier than you think.
Here is a 100% natural body scrub that takes 2 minutes to prepare but can make your skin radiant and supple.
Simply take handful of sea salt (you may consider Dead Sea salts, if you want to make it exotic) in a bowl and pour 100% natural olive oil.
Apply the mixture all over your body, gently massage your skin and rinse it away.
Sea salt with olive oil is an excellent body scrub for dry and rough skin.
Please remember the three essential components of any body scrubs: exfoliation medium with varying granule size (mind to coarse), base oils to moisturize and sooth the skin and essential oils for fragrance and other therapeutic benefits.
If you have sensitive skins, salt as an exfoliation medium can be too coarse to your skin.
You need to consider sugar and ground oat powder for exfoliation.
Sugar melts fast as it comes into contact with moisture and thereby protects the skin from unintentional over-exfoliation.
Take two teaspoons of sugar (you may use brown sugar), two teaspoons ground oats and add one tablespoon of almond oil, and one table spoon of honey (darker ones are the better for skin).
You may add little peppermint essential oil or vanilla essential oil for a mood-lifting fragrance.
This simple body scrub will beat any commercially available expensive body scrubs from big name brands.
While oat and sugar gently remove all the dead skin cells, almond oil and honey would hydrate and replenish the skin.
When you make your own body scrubs, you can afford to select the best natural ingredients.
With some practice, you can make practically any body scrub - simple or complex and exotic.
In addition to saving money, homemade body scrubs can be terrific gifts - buy some pretty jars, ribbons and labels and package your signature recipe for your friends and family.