Beauty with sugar in it
By Barbara Sims
In the self-care and beauty industry the latest craze is including sugar in skin care products. If you search the Internet you will find everything from sugar body scrubs to sugar hair removers.
The prices can range from $8 to $35 for each product. How's that for a product in which the main ingredient can cost you a no more that $3 for a 5 pound bag?
To enjoy all of the benefits of a sugar-based product without shelling out the big bucks, try these recipes:
Orange Cream Sugar Body Scrub
This recipe is great to remove dead skin and give your skin a healthy glow. The sugar contains glycolic acid and the cream is a source for lactic acid. Avoid irritated or broken skin areas.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp. cream or whole milk
5 drops orange oil
1 cup olive, jojoba, or almond oil
What You Do:
Mix sugar, oil and cream together. Add orange oil after main ingredients are completely mixed. Apply to your body by starting at the feet and working your way up. Massage in a circular motion and leave it on for 10-15 minutes, then shower it off. This recipe is enough to make one full body treatment.
Lemon Head Sugar Body Scrub
This recipe is both cleansing and detoxifying. Lemon is very detoxifying to the body and will also help brighten the skin.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup sugar
10 drops lemon oil or 1/2 a lemon freshly squeezed
1 cup olive, jojoba, or almond oil
What You Do:
Mix all ingredients together. Apply to your body by starting at the feet and working your way up. Massage in a circular motion, then shower it off. This recipe is enough to make one full body treatment.
Facial Cleanser
Ingredients:
White or brown sugar
Your favorite facial cleanser
Witch hazel
Water
What You Do:
Using your favorite daily facial soap, an easy, inexpensive facial scrub can be made by adding sugar. Simply add a teaspoon of either white sugar or brown sugar and massage it gently on your facial skin. Rinse with cool water and spritz your face with a 1/2 witch hazel and 1/2 water mixture.
Sugar is a natural and inexpensive way to include alpha-hydroxy acids in your skincare program. It produces glycolic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid, which is included in many skincare product lines. Today's pricey beauty products that include sugar or alpha hydroxy acid, can be created inexpensively right at your kitchen table. You will experience all of the benefits without the inflated price.
Barbara Sims may be reached at wseditor@robinsonnews.com
