Masks for Summer
May 29th, 2009 | 
Author: Taking care of your skin is essential, avoid exposure to sunlight, and try always to be aware of good treatments. That’s why here are some masks that are easy to prepare and use.
Respirators fruit and vegetables are wonderful for your skin and very inexpensive. The ingredients found in your kitchen within minutes and without effort can nourish and beautify your skin before facing summer sun.
Apply a mask is an intensive care that complements the daily care basics. Each mask is formulated to meet a specific function. Depending on its ingredients can be used to absorb fat from the skin surface and prevent acne, water retention in the skin and to moisturize, reduce expression lines, exfoliate and remove all dead surface cells.
All masks will be applied beginning with long neck in upward motions to continue on the chin, cheeks, nose or forehead. Freeing the mouth and eyes to be applied on two cotton soaked in decongestant lotion or an infusion of chamomile tea.
Remember that before applying a mask, your skin should be clean. Masks are usually due to leave on face for 10 to 15 minutes, and then you should take it off with water preferably at room temperature.
Banana Mask
Remove the banana peel and prepare a puree. With the fingertips extending the mashed bananas in the face. Leave it for about 15 minutes. Beneficial for all skin types.
Cucumber Mask
Peel the cucumber and pass it through the blender. Apply the same way. It is ideal for oily or normal.
Exfoliating mask
The skin forms a layer of dead cells every day, so it is advisable to make a smooth, regular exfoliation will also help to eliminate impurities that accumulate as a result of pollution.
Mix three tablespoons of table salt in a tablespoon of olive oil. Apply to face by a massage from the bottom up and out. Leave on for five minutes and rinse with warm water. Apply it in the hands, neck and chest. Can also be prepared by mixing with a cleaning cream, a little sugar and a squeeze of lemon or orange.
Mask for oily skin
Mix 1 tablespoon of clay (purchased in any diet) with enough of a tea concentrate, which is tonic and antiseptic. Apply on face and leave on for 10 minutes. Then removed with water.
Rejuvenating Mask
The avocado has great skin moisturizing properties for its high content of oil. To take advantage of its magnificent properties have to buy a fruit that is ripe (also can do mature faster leaving it in a place with heat, near the kitchen for example) and mix with a few drops of olive oil into a paste nice and smooth.
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