Fru-Gal Friends

Subject: Homegrown Beauty Tue 15 Jan 2008, 9:29 pm

Plain unflavored yogurt helps restore the normal activity to skin, and it makes a good cleanser for oily, acne-prone skin

Lemon Juice diluted with water makes a good astringent rinse for oily skin

Remember Cleopatra in her milk bath? Whole Milk makes a good facial cleanser for dry skin. Apply it with a cotton ball, then rinse it off with warm water

When you are cooking, moisturize your hands with leftover cooking oil or the residue from the inside of avocado skins

Egg white tightens the skin and shrinks the pores. After you break eggs into a frying pan, smooth the slime from the inside of the eggshells on your face. Let the egg white dry then rinse the dried egg off your face with warm water. Your face will feel remarkably smooth afterward.

Leftover cooked oatmeal makes a great cleansing mask, and wearing it is certainly more pleasant than eating the stuff

Vinegar may be the best all-purpose beauty portion:
Wipe or spray your skin with distilled white vinegar or apple cider vinegar to restore its natural acid mantle after dishwashing or bathing.
Rinse your hair with vinegar to remove the alkaline deposits left behind by shampoo. The vinegar will smooth your hair and help prevent frizziness.
If your skin tend to be dry, try washing yourself with half vinegar and half warm water rather than with soap. The vinegar will help cut body oils and will not dry out your skin. And no you will not smell as dried vinegar has no smell.

Epsom salts and kosher salt are healthy alternatives to commercial bath salts or beads

Natural Beauty at Home by Janice Cox - highly recommended

Burt Bees all natural products

Tom's of Maine another environmentally responsible company
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Vicki

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 15 Jan 2008, 10:03 pm

Thanks Vicki, I really should try out the plain yogurt and egg white tips Smile

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Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 15 Jan 2008, 10:50 pm

alot of good informatiom .

I always rinse my hair with vinegar - thin but alot of hair and being a dirty blond with red hightlights I need all the help my hair can get .

avocado good for you inside and out ...

I love bee products my DS raises bees and we use honey, and the comb and wax... they are amazing creatures.. With out them we be in trouble . Be kind to bees. They are very important to the food chain.
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 12:57 am

I read where honey is good for you also,,but I think they were referring to raw honey,,I almost bought some last week,,regular not raw,,but it was almost 4.00 a small bottle..so I passed.I plan on buying some when I get a coupon or find a good sale.

I tell you,,I think there must be 1000 ways vinegar can help in one way or another! So useful!

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 3:47 am

Vinegar is a running joke in our home with DH, every time I tell him I read a great tip he asks if it involves vinegar?...lol

Maybe I should put some in his tea Twisted Evil

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Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 8:57 am

Donna - I use raw honey on cuts. It heals much faster than anit-bacterial ointment and is less drying. There's no residual redness left after the abrasion has healed.

I just want to mention a word of warning - if you have eczema, like I have, be careful of using epsom salts in your bath water. It can irritate the skin and cause the eczema to break out. There's no warning on the package. I found out the hard way and read this happens in a magazine. I've discontinued using it.

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 11:59 am

My daughter uses plain yogurt daily for taking her meds and she has a beautiful complexion Cool

She also uses Tom's natural toothpaste and Burt's Bees products....these items are on sale pretty often in the health stores...
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Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. ~ Mother Teresa

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 12:42 pm

What is the nayral toothpaste,,no sugar?but has flouride in it also??

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 12:44 pm

Sorry,,geeze,,that should say natural not nayral!

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 1:11 pm

The variety my daughter uses does not contain floride, not sure if it is available with it or not....we choose it because it does not have any artificial sweeteners or coloring...
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Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. ~ Mother Teresa

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 1:30 pm

I'm swithching over to Burt's Bees products. I've heard a lot of good things about it.

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Tue 19 Feb 2008, 1:47 pm

Sissy I agree about Epsom salts, I guess it helps with muscle aches but it makes my skin uncomfortably dry and itchy....
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Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. ~ Mother Teresa

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Wed 20 Feb 2008, 8:46 am

Yes, epsom salts work well on aching muscles and bruises. If you have eczema, you can soak your feet in the epsom salts, but be careful otherwise.

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Wed 20 Feb 2008, 1:15 pm

we love Toms of Maine toothpaste and bee products. we use raw honey here all the time we thinking of adding more hives this year ... Bees you have to love them
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Gayla

"They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little."

---Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Subject: Re: Homegrown Beauty Wed 20 Feb 2008, 2:29 pm

gayla, I didn't know you have bee hives. I eat a teaspoon or two of raw honey every day. It's supposed to be good for allergies and as an anti-inflamatory as well as an anti-septic. I heard that raw honey never spoils.