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SKIN CARE WITH ALMONDS

Who doesn’t want to look young and beautiful? Don’t you? Looking good and young is a dream of every human being, be it a man or woman, and why not it’s your right to feel and look young and good. Proper skin care with almonds is the answer to this. People spend thousands of dollars to achieve this endeavour of theirs. Here I am giving you simple tips for your skin care and that too absolutely free of cost. As you care for your health and fitness, care for your skin too. But don’t mistake for anything free to be useless, follow these simple skin care tips and achieve what you have been wanting to get for ages – young, glowing and beautiful skin.

Almonds, you all are very familiar with this great dry fruit. It is one of the most versatile and best known natural cosmetic aids. It is extremely nutritious, because of its rich vitamin E, protein and magnesium content. Due to its antioxidant properties, it has age control benefits too and helps to delay the manifestation of ageing signs on the skin. Because of its properties, it is also very nourishing for the skin and can be used in various forms. Almonds, because of their several beneficial properties are used as an ingredient for many skin care formulations such as nourishing creams, eye creams, scrubs, face packs, and massage oils.

One of the best uses of almonds in skin care is as an exfoliator, or scrub, helping to remove dead skin cells and thus both refining and cleansing the skin. Exfoliation is a powerful deep pore cleansing procedure too. It is done with scrubs.

Almond meal makes an excellent scrub. To make almond meal, pour hot water on the almonds and allow them to soak till the skin comes off. Dry them thoroughly. This can be done in an oven or by keeping them in the sun for few days. Now grind the dried almonds into a powder and keep it in a jar.

Following are some of skin care benefits and uses of almonds:

• Almonds as scrub: Almond meal makes an excellent scrub. Add milk or yogurt to almond milk or mix it with honey and apply on the skin, leave it for 15 minutes and then rub gently with small circular movements. Then, wash it off with water.It cleans, nourishes and exfoliates skin much better than any of the branded and expensive skin scrubs available at the leading cosmetics stores.

• Almonds as face masks: Almond meal can also be added to face masks. Mix it with ingredients like wheat bran or oatmeal, along with other ingredients, like dried orange and lemon peels, honey, yogurt and egg white. If you wish you can make a paste of almonds, mix it with rose water, honey or orange juice and apply on face. Wash it off after one hour. Almond nourishes and softens the skin and helps the skin retain moisture.

• Almonds as bleaching agent: Almonds also have a mild bleaching effect on the skin to remove tan and lighten skin color over a period of time.

• Almond oil for skin massage: Almond oil contains linoleic acid, which helps to both nourish and moisturize the skin. A very dry skin can be massaged daily with pure almond oil for a few minutes and then wiped off with moist cotton wool. Due to its vitamin E content, it helps to minimize the visible signs of ageing on the skin.

• Almond oil as remedy for dark circles: Almond oil is ideal for care of the delicate skin around eyes and also a useful home remedy for dark circles under the eyes. Daily apply pure almond oil sparingly ( very little quantity ) around eyes and massage it lightly on the skin, using only the ring finger, for one minute under each eye. Massage in one direction only. Leave on for 15 minutes and wipe off gently with moist cotton wool.

• Almond oil as night care: Pure almond oil can also be applied on the lips daily and left on overnight. It not only nourishes the skin and eliminates dryness, but also helps to lighten the color of the lips.

I hope the above mentioned benefits and uses of almond cannot be overlooked by anyone who cares for his / her health and fitness, and aspires for a young, glowing and healthy skin. So, get going and give your skin care regime a healthy start from today itself!!

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