V2-2
Feb 21, 2006

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Contents
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Quotable
Editorial
Feature Article
Skin Care Vocabulary
"Talk Back to Me"
Advertisements
General & Unsubscribe Info

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Quotables
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"The more you try to be interested in other people, the
more you find out about yourself."  Thea Astley, Quotable Women

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Editorial
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Dear $firstname,

This edition of Shea-Skins is all about caring for your
skin naturally using common foods and other household
products you might already have in your home.

No, proper skin care does not have to be expensive as you
will see from reading our featured article entitled,
Natural Skin Care – What’s in Your Kitchen Pantry?

Hope you enjoy it.

Til next time...

Love the skin you're in,

Your Editor,
Lo
Shea-Skins Ezine

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Feature Article
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Natural Skin Care – What’s in Your Kitchen Pantry?

Using Natural Remedies and Common Foods for Great Skin
Care
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Safer, less expensive, and easy-to-use natural skin care
can be as easy as opening your kitchen cabinet or pantry,
coupled with a few minutes of preparation.

Healthy, radiant, glowing skin is something almost
everyone wants. Yet, few of us even think to use what's
really the best for out skin: natural skin care products.

Every year, millions of dollars are spent in the chase for
perfectly healthy and ageless skin. The environment,
stress, and less than healthy eating habits, all play a
major role in the quality of your skin.

The answers to achieving radiant, glowing complexion are
within arm's reach. Many of the items in your kitchen
right now can provide natural skin care that's even better
than those expensive, chemical filled products that cost
an arm and a leg.

Skin Care … Changing Routine as We Age

From the day we are born, our skin requires much care to
remain smooth and healthy. It begins with soap to keep us
clean. Then, there are creams, powders, and ointments to
keep diaper rash from our bottoms.

During the first few years of our lives, our skin will do
well with soap for cleaning and the occasional lotion or
cream for moisture. Then comes the teen-age years. Our
raging hormones bring out the oily skin, the pimples and a
host of other conditions.

It's important to understand that everything that comes in
contact with our body affects our health and the condition
of our skin. That's why choosing natural skin care
products and ingredients is important. The liver filters
the toxins and poisons from the food we eat, but whatever
we place on our skin is directly absorbed. This includes
deodorant, lotions, gels, cleansers, toners, make-up,
perfumes, and more.

As we age, our skin becomes more sensitive, and we need to
be even more careful with the beauty treatments and skin
care products we use.

Simple and Natural Solutions for Better Skin

Here are a just a few natural skin care remedies and foods
you can try for common skin ailments and complaints.
You'll be very pleased with the results:

Avocados are a wonderful treatment for dry skin: mash half
an avocado, smooth it onto your face, leave it on until it
dries, then rinse off.

Baking soda: use it once a week, rub your skin with baking
soda while in the shower, for a smooth, silky feeling. You
can also do this on your face to remove black heads.
 
Cucumbers: use cool cucumber slices over your eyes for ten
minutes or more to alleviate puffiness.

Egg yolk mixed with honey makes for a really great mask:
put on your skin, leave it on for 20 minutes, and rinse
off. Excellent for sensitive skin. Honey gives a
tingling/ticklish sensation, so if you are sensitive to
that, use the egg yolk alone. For those with eczema, try
using egg yolk instead of soap. It doesn't smell great,
but it will heal your damaged skin. To tighten and refine
pores, whip up the white of an egg with a pinch of alum
and apply it to your face as a mask. Rinse off after about
20 minutes with lukewarm water.

Fresh tomatoes are great for the oily areas of your face
because they cleanse the pores. Rinse thoroughly
immediately after using the tomato juice. (Please make
sure to test the tomato juice on your arm first, as your
skin may be sensitive to it).

Grapes and Honey: grapes are great skin moisturizer as
they contain collagen and alpha-hydroxy acids naturally.
Mash together the grapes with just enough honey to make a
paste, and apply to your face as a mask. Leave it on for
20 to 30 minutes as you relax, then rinse off.

Green Tea: add a few drops of green tea extract to your
lotions, astringents and other beauty products. This helps
to protect the skin from free radical damage.

Lemons (fresh): useful for removing freckles and age
spots. Often does the same job as expensive “fade creams.”
Squeeze the juice of ½ a lemon into a bowl, then use a
cotton ball to wipe the affected areas/spots with the
lemon juice (but do not apply near the eyes). Do this two
times a day. Onions also can be used for removing freckles
and age spots. Slice a red onion in half and rub on the
spot twice daily. Continue until the spot(s) fade.
Olive oil makes a great moisturizer: this healthy fat is
good for you, and is great for your skin. You can also use
it to soothe sunburned skin.

Rice (Dry, short grain): gently rub a small handful of dry
rice against your face for a few minutes to remove dead
surface skin cells and to improve your skin texture.
Reportedly, Japanese women have used this beauty tip for
centuries.

Strawberries can be used to add color to pale or sallow
skin. Mash ½ cup, place in blender and apply to your face.
Leave in about 10 minutes and rinse in lukewarm water.
 
Vinegar can work wonders for smelly feet and armpits. Mix
water and vinegar 50/50, and use in place of deodorant: it
will keep the unpleasant sweat smell away, without any
irritation. As for your feet, if you suffer with athlete's
foot, a week of vinegar foot bath will help a lot,
sometimes completely getting rid of your condition.
 
Water—you know what to do with it. Drink 8 glasses of water
every day to keep your skin well hydrated and cared for
from the inside out.

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Skin Care Vocabulary
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Dry Skin — a loose, unscientific term used to describe the
rough, scaly and flaky skin that is dry to the touch and
less elastic than normal skin.

Treatment: Read Dry Skin Therapy at the Shea Butter Center

http://shea-butter-negroes.com/Shea-Butter-Dry-Skin-Therapy.html

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