DIY Beauty Hacks To Try In Your Kitchen Right Now
Yes, the kitchen is a place to eat and hang out. But did you know there are loads of beauty hacks you can access from your kitchen too?
By Diane Small
One of many things my grandmother taught me was you needn’t buy anything from a shop to keep your complexion and hair beautiful. Whilst busily cooking in the kitchen, with me sitting at the kitchen table, watching in awe, she shared many beauty tips with me that been handed down through generations.
Most involve food, most are all about zero waste, and all involve items that are easily found in most households.
She was a beautiful woman, right up until her final days. Radiant skin, long, brilliant white hair, clear eyes. Her food based natural beauty tips are just too good not to share!
Food Based Natural Beauty Tips From Your Kitchen
1. Sour Grapes, Sweet Skin
This is one of the easiest DIY beauty hacks to try! Slice a few grapes in half and rub the cut sides over clean skin. Apparently, the fruit acids are natural exfoliators, and act to help break up and remove dead cells.
2. Wake up!
It’s well known that tired, puffy eyes get revived with cucumber slices. These are mildly diuretic and drain fluid built up overnight. But tea bags, stored in the fridge for a few minutes, will do just as well. Neither on hand? Place chilled spoons over your eyelids.
3. Kill Spots Dead
Want to find DIY beauty hacks in your kitchen that work for spots? Try dabbing tea tree oil over them. Not available? Cut open a chamomile tea bag and make a paste with some warm water. Put on the spot for 30 mins. It should reduce its size. Still not working? Try a dab of mouthwash on the sucker. Should be gone by now!
4. Get Steamy!
Facial masks and treatments are more effective in the bath or shower. Your pores will more open to receiving the benefits of the mask’s ingredients. Use a natural clay mask for normal to oily skin, or mush up an avocado or papaya for dry skin.
Alternatively, honey, plain yogurt alone or mixed with oatmeal for oily skin, mashed bananas or whipped egg whites can all be used by themselves or in combination for a great toning facial mask. Apply whatever you find mentioned above in your kitchen to your visage, then soak in a tub before rinsing off.
5. For Bronzed Babes
There are DIY beauty hacks in your kitchen for tanning, too! No need to sunbathe. You can get a nice, bronzed look by blending 1 tsp. cocoa powder with a dollop of sunblock or skin cream until you’ve obtained the shade of glow that’s right for your skin.
6. Shinier Hair
This is one of those DIY beauty hacks everyone can do! Grab some olive oil and dab it onto the ends of your hair. It’s an excellent conditioner! And you can choose to leave it in for awhile for deeper conditioning, or shampoo it out right away.
7. Scrub Up Well
Dry skin? This is another of the best DIY beauty hacks in your kitchen. Just make your own natural facial and body exfoliator!
Take equal parts brown sugar and olive oil and mix coarsely. Rub into face, elbows, knees or any other area you’d like to exfoliate. Rinse off with warm water. Alternatively, coffee grounds work instead of sugar.
8. Whiten Your Teeth
This might be one of the weirdest DIY beauty hacks in your kitchen. But it works! Rub the inside of a banana peel over your teeth for two minutes a night for 2-3 weeks. I’ve also heard that strawberries and baking soda are highly effective and natural teeth whiteners, and oil pulling (swishing oil in the mouth and then spitting) is also apparently an effective way to remove stains from teeth.
Personally, I’d go for the oil. Fruit has sugar, which doesn’t seem to me to be a great idea to rub onto your teeth, but it did seem to work for gran.
9. Cleanse With Oil
Bet your granny never used soap on her face, but took off her makeup with a small amount of almond oil. It’s gentle, and is one of the best food based natural beauty tips! Just apply onto dry face and massage into skin for several minutes, then remove with a warm, steamy washcloth until no oil remains. Should leave your skin soft and clean!
10. Icy Fingers
Don’t bother with those chemically loaded nail polish drying sprays or lacquers. When you’re finished painting your nails with your favourite chem-free nail polish brand, just stick your fingers in a bowl of iced water, et voila! Dry!
11. Give Your Hair A Shampoo Cocktail
Got dandruff? Product build up in your hair? Oily scalp? This is one of my gran’s food based natural beauty tips. Add 4 Tablespoons of vodka to your shampoo bottle. Shake a bit. Now every time you shampoo, you’ll be strengthening your scalp and hair.
12. Smooth It Out
Ankles as rough as a dinosaur elbow? No worries. Slough off dead skin with a foot file. Apply coconut oil or an all natural balm, or just slather in coconut oil. Put on a pair of socks before you go to bed. Wake up with baby-soft feet!
13. Get Better Blusher
Want your lippy to last all day? Here’s another of the best DIY beauty hacks you’ll find in your kitchen. Use beet juice as a stain under your cosmetic!
Just dab a few drops on your lips and spread it out so it’s even. Then apply your lippy. Coloured lips all day.
14. Whiten & Lighten Your Fingertips
Nails gone all yellow, thanks to your favourite dark hues? No problem: brush the yellow bits with some natural whitening toothpaste. Dab a bit on each nail, straight from the tube, and leave on for 10 mins and then brush off. What works on teeth also works on nails!
Do you know of any DIY beauty hacks in your kitchen yourself? Tell us in the comments below!
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