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I recently have moved to a new apartment. The dry heat is brutal. My skin has been drying up. I got a book at Barnes and Noble on homemade skin care with all raw or natural ingredients. Some of it is hard to understand. Does anyone know a good source where I can buy these natural ingredients, like vitamin ester C, alph lipoic acide, DMAE, cold pressed carrier oils, beeswax, quality essential oils and flower waters??? I am hoping to save some money. Thanks!!

Many people prize light skin. It gives the appearance of glowing good health and youthful beauty. You can try a number of cosmetic preparations that promise to lighten the skin to this ideal beauty, but before you start that, you might want to consider a homemade skin lightener for a simple and inexpensive way to get lighter skin.

You only need to take a quick look around the Internet to discover the many preparations available for those that are affected by dark skin spots on their skin. Sometimes it is just a darker skinned woman who wants a lighter tone to their dark skin, but other times the dark skin is caused by hyperpigmentation. Whatever the reason, you can get help with the aid of a homemade skin lightener.

There is more to lightening skin than just the correct product. You will have to find an effective method of skin lightening if you want to achieve success. The cause of dark skin spots, age spots or freckles is the melanin content in the skin. It is melanin that determines the color of our skin. If the melanin is unevenly distributed the dark spots or age spots can occur. So along with a homemade skin lightener you will need to find a proper method as well.

When you decide to try a homemade skin lightener the first thing you will need to check for is the safety of the product. Many recipes contain completely natural ingredients and are very safe for the skin. Others, however, have been found to contain ingredients like hydroquinone, mercury and steroids are found in other homemade or illegally made treatments. Hydroquinone has been shown to cause skin cancer and is not something you will want to put on your skin. Mercury can poison the blood and steroids cause the skin to thin and can cause unsightly stretch marks. Does that sound like something you want to treat your skin? Many people have had disastrous results when they included these ingredients in their homemade skin lightener.

Ingredients like kojic acid, which can be found in mushrooms, has been shown to have a good skin lightening effect. Also the extract from licorice plants and papaya fruit have skin lightening properties. These are the kind of ingredients you may wish to include in your homemade skin lightener. It is necessary to get the right potency of these plants for them to be of any use at all. Check out your local health food store for some of these ingredients to try in your homemade skin lightener.

While you are using a homemade skin lightener you should be sure to wear a good protective sunscreen. UVA and UVB rays from the sun are responsible for the tanning of our skin, skin cancer and premature aging. Stay out of the sun during its most potent time of day, which is between the hours of 10 AM and 3 PM. Sunscreen cannot do the job alone; you must do your part to protect your skin from the damaging sun with the use of hats and clothing.

Vitamin C in a 500 mg supplement taken every day while you are using a skin lightening product can help reduce the production of melanin by your skin. You will not see results with just the vitamin so you are better off using a supplement during your skin lightening treatment. Add this daily supplement to the treatment you are trying with your homemade skin lightener

Skin lighteners can have a drying effect on the skin so make sure you use a good moisturizer while you are trying a homemade skin lightener. Helping your skin maintain its youthful and dewy look will go a long way to helping you look younger and healthy. And along with a homemade skin lightener, that can make you look more beautiful each day.

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Unless you are into looking like a raccoon, dark circles beneath the eyes are something you tend to want to wish away. While diligent use of a over the counter anti aging cream can eventually help with these dark circles, it is going end up costing you quite a bit of money in the long run. Thankfully, there are other options straight from your kitchen than can do just as good of a job of getting rid of those circles and will not end up breaking your budget.

Here are a few homemade eye care recipes that you can try.

1: Avocado Cream Recipe

Take three slice of Avocado and mix them with five drops of Almond oil. Dab this mixture around the eyes. Leave on for five minutes then clean your face with warm water.

2: Potatoes, Cucumbers, or Tea Bags

Potatoes have natural bleaching properties thatcan help fade away those dark circles. Cucumbers and wet tea Bags can also help and are used by many people as an alternative to anti-aging eye creams.

3: Potato and Applesauce Cream

Put one small potato and two tablespoons of unsweetened applesauce into a blender and mix well. Apply this around the eyes then cover with a warm, damp washcloth. Relax for five minutes then wash your face off with warm water.

4: Lanolin and Lecithin

Melt some lanolin with some water over a low heat source, then add a few drops of almond oil. Mix in equal amount of powdered lecithin and mix well. Now you have a cream that will help lighten up those dark circles.

5: Lemon juice and tomato puree

Mix together lemon juice, tomato puree, orange lentil flour and turmeric powder in a blender at low speed until pasty. Apply underneath your eyes and relax for about 15 minutes then clean off your face with some warm water.

Remember these recipes are for those dark circles and will not work as well for eye wrinkles.

Yulia Berry is an independent health researcher and author of the best selling e-books Aloe – Your Miracle Doctor and ‘Pharmacy in Vegetables’. She distributes a weekly newsletter regarding great home remedies and has written dozens of natural health articles published on hundreds of websites worldwide. Yulia Berry’s new ebook Unlocked Secrets of Curative Garlic to be released soon.

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