♡ Kitchen Beauty Care ♡ DIY Lemonade Scrub

I'm starting a new blog series! I make a lot of inexpensive, easy, DIY beauty treatments and products using things from my kitchen so I figured I would share with you guys! So for now, but depending on the post, I'm going to be calling it "Kitchen Skincare." I'm not sure how consecutive they'll be but I'd like to spread them out a little.

I have "normal" skin (whatever that actually implies) that can tend to have dry areas around my nose and hollows of my cheeks during the winter months. Even so, I get enough dry skin year round that I always use a scrub (I did a St. Ives scrub post back in June!) and what's nice about this DIY is that it has exfoliating, acne treating, and brightening properties. Since I have self-diagnosed myself with hyper pigmentation (my face scars from everything), this always helps quickly brighten my skin while minimizing active acne and smoothing out dry areas.  Woohoo!

This scrub is so simple- all you need is some white sugar, lemon juice, and a few cotton balls. You can use organic sugar or whatever type of sugar you want, I think brown sugar would be okay as well if you need something less abrasive since it's a finer granule. I use generic white sugar for mine every night and it still doesn't irritate my skin. Also,  rhinestone kitty ears to hold back stray hairs are recommended.

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To kick off the scrub, grab some cotton balls or rounds; I use cotton balls since they retain more liquid. Using a bowl or pouring from the lemon juice bottle itself, saturate the cotton ball without soaking it unless you want sugary lemon juice (or waterless lemonade) dripping down your chin. For a more abrasive scrub, add more sugar (or dip it several times) to get a much coarser grit.

After that, all you do is dip or pour some sugar on it and scrub your worries away. I use four cotton balls total: one for each cheek, one for my forehead, and one for my chin and nose area.

Rinse off with warm water and apply a moisturizer afterwards! I use the Yes To Cucumbers Daily Calming Moisturizer to help soothe any redness. For convenience, you could probably mix this scrub together ahead of time and keep a supply of it in the fridge but the sugar might loose it's abrasiveness from absorbing the lemon juice.

That's all you've gotta do! So easy. Also, bonus, it happens to taste good if it gets in your mouth somehow. If you try this out, let me know!

Thanks for reading! xo

St. Ives Apricot Scrub: Dry Patch Fix!

I would probably describe my skin as normal, sensitive, and semi acne-prone. However, sometimes my skin goes through weird cycles where it gets dry patches on my cheeks or it gets a little oily. Since I'm not use to being dry, I had to test out different ways to get rid of my really stubborn dry patches. This St. Ives Blemish Control Apricot Scrub helps with blemishes, minimizing pores, and it also buffs away any weird areas. Yay! We have a winner.

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The first thing I do is gently cleanse my face and remove as much of my makeup as I can. Next, I apply a large dollop of the face scrub and run it under some warm water. Starting with my problem area (usually my cheeks) I rub it onto them in circular motions. Once I've covered the whole area, I massage the rest of the scrub on my fingers to the rest of my face, again in circular motions. At the end I go back to my cheeks and make sure I really buffed out any dry areas. To wash it off, I wet a towel with warm water and gently wipe horizontally to get rid of everything (especially the lingering exfoliating beads). Then I pat my face dry and apply my Yes To Cucumbers Soothing Daily Moisturizer. The after picture is when I also have makeup on, so you can clearly see that almost, if not all, of the weird dry patches are gone! Woohoo! In the after picture I also have a BB cream and powder on, and it's still smooth! Does anyone else have skin that does weird things like this or is it just me..? Thanks for reading, guys! xo