This homemade adzuki bean face scrub is a well-kept secret from Japan and is very easy to make! Who would not trust Japanese women for their traditional ways of taking care of their beautiful and flawless skin? One of their ancient secrets is the adzuki bean (also called azuki beans) which, when ground and made into a scrub, gently exfoliates and removes dull skin. I happened to have some organic adzuki beans (red beans) leftover in my pantry and I was looking for a new kind of face scrub. It’s amazing how many DIY beauty products come from what you might…

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This homemade, vegan and easy-to-make coffee face scrub recipe is similar than the Cup O’ Coffee scrub from Lush BUT minus the chemical fragrance, the talc, and a few other ingredients like vetiver and vanilla essential oils that can actually make your skin sensitive and irritated (plus the exorbitant price for a tiny jar!). My coffee face scrub recipe is easy to make with only 3 ingredients: coffee, kaolin clay, and organic agave nectar Not only is coffee an effective energizer in the morning but it is one of the best skin exfoliators for your beauty routine. While you can practically…

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Forget about your pricey high-end face scrubs full of chemicals,  I’m going to teach how to make an easy face scrub with apricot kernel powder at home. Apricot kernel powder is such a perfect ingredient because of its amazing benefits on the skin. I’ve also used maple syrup and rhassoul clay (Morrocan clay) to draw the impurities out of your face.  It is suitable for sensitive skins, oily skins and of course normal skins. So the recipe I have created will allow you to make a DIY face scrub in minutes without breaking the bank and without the use of…

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A DIY brightening face mask is the perfect beauty tool to remove sunspots and get a natural glow. It’s easy to make, uses 100% natural ingredients like brown rice flour, and orris root powder to brighten the skin. Don’t get me wrong with this recipe! I am not saying that you should bleach your skin. I find it quite sad that big commercial companies like Nivea promote skin whitening to Africa.  Nivea got quite a backlash from one of their campaigns and it’s well deserved, you can read more here. I personally think we should all be proud of our heritage…

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Attention to all tea addicts! Did you know that the benefits of matcha on skin are plenty? Yes! This matcha sugar scrub recipe does wonders for your skin! I also love a matcha shot in the morning which helps me being focused and relaxed at the same time. How to find high quality Matcha Make sure the origin of the matcha is from the Japan and from either Nishio city in Aichi prefecture or Uji city in Kyoto prefecture. Look for the USDA certified organic logo on the label.  It’s very important to buy high quality organic matcha otherwise you will end up with pesticides, fungicides in your tea… a 30…

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Here are the top 10 DIY all natural homemade sugar scrub recipes. These recipes are fun, easy, and creative you can make with simple ingredients. Sugar scrubs are a great way to exfoliate, get rid of dead cells as well as rejuvenate your skin. I was inspired by fellow bloggers on Pinterest. They got my creative juices flowing and inspired me to create my own version of each of the top 10 homemade sugar scrubs.  Big thumbs up to all the very talented and creative bloggers mentioned below! Why scrub with sugar? Sugar is a natural source of glycolic acid which…

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This bentonite clay mask recipe is a gentle exfoliator and perfect for balancing oily, dry and sensitive skins.  Bentonite clay is a natural detoxifier and purifier. The end result of this gentle bentonite clay mask recipe is a firm, suppler, more even tone and glowing looking skin. If you use it twice a week, it will help reducing the look of fine lines and wrinkles as well as face age spot and hyperpigmentation. Take care of NEVER using metals while touching clays as the clay draws out the metals and absorbs them! If you use metal spoons or bowls you…

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Create this gentle, not expensive and easy to make rice flour mask and scrub with two simple ingredients. Why Rice flour? Well… its a well kept secret from Japanese women that using a brown rice flour mask and scrub on a regular basis will lighten your skin and give a translucent glow to your face. Rice contains Ferulic acid which is an antioxidant and Allantoin, an anti inflammatory agent. You can use this rice flour face mask every other day but I would advise not to scrub your face too often so you do not disrupt the fragile balance of your…

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Who would not trust Japanese women for their traditional ways of taking care of their beautiful and flawless skin…? One of their ancient secret is azuki bean which gently exfoliates and removes dull skin. This is a great ingredient to create natural face scrub recipes. Azuki beans also contain saponin which is a natural cleaning and foaming agent. No need to say more… It happened that I had some organic azuki beans (red beans) left over in my pantry and I was looking for a new face scrub….Nutrition-wise, azuki beans are a good source of magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, zinc,…

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