Summer Skin

Summer skin is so nice.  It's soft, smooth and glowing... so unlike winter skin!  Winter skin is dull and rough and I don't like it...so I fixed it!

How did I fix it, you ask?  Well, of course, I turned to the internet!  Pinterest to be exact... and found this salt scrub I needed to try.  It was super easy to make with ingredients found in my kitchen!

Here is the recipe:

5 Tablespoons sea salt
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 lemon

I doubled the recipe and used a 2 cup Rubbermaid container.  That way it won't leave a rust ring in my shower and I can't break it when I drop it on my tile!  One thing I did notice was that I didn't really need 2 lemons.  I always zap mine in the microwave for 30 seconds to create more juice, so I only ended up needing the juice of one lemon.

Now I have softer, smoother skin - no more dull, rough patches or "chicken skin" on the backs of my arms.

Bring on the Sun!

Love you all,

Rulissa

You Want Me To Do WHAT?!?!

The hubster gets a kick out of me sometimes because I am always trying things I've found on the Internet.  Well...that's what it's for, right?  To share information and make life easier/better/funnier?  So here is my latest trial.  Brace yourself...

I've started washing my face with oil.  (Go ahead and laugh, I'll wait.)
You done?  OK.  Let me tell you why... I was reading here (which is a wonderful blog full of household tips and I highly recommend you hop on over later) and she had some really good arguments about washing your face with oil.

I have extremely dry skin (which gets even worse in the winter).  So I used the "dry skin" mixture.  My eldest (who is traveling at warp speed toward puberty) has very oily skin, so I made him some of the "oily skin" mixture.  This is how it works...

Take your Sunflower Oil and Castor Oil and mix it together according to one of the following recipes.

Dry Skin - 90% Sunflower Oil, 10% Castor Oil
Balanced Skin - 80% Sunflower Oil, 20% Castor Oil
Oily Skin - 70% Sunflower Oil, 30% Castor Oil

Once you get yours mixed up, this is how you use it:

• Massage into skin for about 1 minute.  (It is a great makeup remover - even for your eyes!)
• Wet your wash cloth with very warm water and lay it on your face to "steam" the oil.  
• Once it cools, use it to gently wipe off any excess.

Now, for those of you who still get a blemish every once in a while...I suggest dabbing it with a little Tea Tree Oil.  This is very potent stuff, so a little dab will do ya!

You will see a difference in your skin the very next day - It is that amazing!  (The tween monkey has had a pimple on his forehead for 2 weeks and after two days of this, it is GONE!!!)

Since I had this all mixed up, I needed a way to dispense it that wouldn't cause a mess.  I purchased some plastic pump bottles in the lotion section of Hobby Lobby and used my 40% off coupon so it only cost a little over $3 for both bottles.  I then needed labels, so I headed over to ishareprintables.com which is a wonderful site to get some free stuff.  Check it out - you won't be disappointed!  Once I printed the labels, I used clear packing tape to stick them to the bottles.

If you decide to try out my little miracle cleanser, let me know!

Happy cleaning!  Love you all,

Rulissa