Categories: Facial, Beauty, skincare
Facials are an excellent way to keep your skin clear, smooth and healthy, but they are quite expensive. Most salons recommend getting a facial monthly, but that can burn a big hole on your wallet, especially at the price range of at least $60 to $200 a month! A great way to save money, and still have great skin is to extend the results of your professional facial buy doing an "at- home facial" 2x a month or more if you have problematic skin.
Here is your B.Youneek At Home Facial
1) Cleanse & Exfoliate: Use a gentle cleanser that does not contain Sodium Laurel Sulfate (a toxic ingredient found in many soaps that will actually dry & aggravate skin). My favorites are any natural milled bar soaps that even last longer than liquid soaps. Try Tea Tree Oil Soap for oily/combo skin, or almond soap for dry/normal. After washing the face, mix some sea salt & jojoba oil in a small bowl & massage into skin in a circular motion. This will rid you of any dead skin & smooth the surface to reveal newer, smoother skin below.
2) Steam & Mask: Take a small washcloth and wet with very warm water & press against skin. Repeat this process with new water about 4- 5 times. Next, apply a face mask appropriate for your skin type, or make your own. I suggest a clay- based mask for oily to combination skin such as Alba Deep Sea Facial Mask. Dry to normal skin, mix & 6 oz. of yogurt, 2 tbls honey & 2 tbls of wheat germ, & 1 tsp olive oil to make your mask. Leave on & relax for 15 minutes, and rinse.
Remember to leave extractions to the pros, unless you have some blemishes that are obviously ready to be "released." Be sure to always extract these with clean hands and tissues, and leave the difficult ones for the pros. Some cystic- pimples can actually get worse by squeezing, sending the clogged matter back into the skin even deeper.
3) Tone & Moisturize: After rinsing off the mask, use a toner appropriate for your skin type. Oily- combination skin should use a toner with a small amount of alcohol in it to remove oil & clean pores deeper since oily skin is more prone to breakouts. Some of my favorites are Clinique #2 or #3 Lotion, orMario Badescu's Special Cucumber Lotion (from the Mario Badescu NYC Salon). Swipe appropriate lotion across the skin to refine & remove excess mask products, and then apply your moisturizer. Those with acne- prone skin, apply tea tree oil (naturally dries acne) to blemishes before applying a light moisturizer.
Great moisturizers contain all- natural ingredients & DO NOT contain propelyne glycol, parabans, or mineral oil. Check labels! Some I like: Alba Sea Moss Moisturizer and Burts Bees Radiance Day Creamand Burts Bees Ageless Eye Cream.
Skin Product Lines I Like:
Alba Botanica
Aubry Organics
Burts Bees
Philosophy (Make Up- Optional Skin package is great)
*Always check ingredient labels for parabans, mineral oil, propelyne glycol and sodium laurel sulfate- all toxic ingredients you want to stay away from.
With this at- home facial routine done twice a month, you should be able to extend the results of your professional facial, and even improve your skin! All it takes is a few extra minutes of your time, time that you deserve to give to yourself
Here is your B.Youneek At Home Facial
1) Cleanse & Exfoliate: Use a gentle cleanser that does not contain Sodium Laurel Sulfate (a toxic ingredient found in many soaps that will actually dry & aggravate skin). My favorites are any natural milled bar soaps that even last longer than liquid soaps. Try Tea Tree Oil Soap for oily/combo skin, or almond soap for dry/normal. After washing the face, mix some sea salt & jojoba oil in a small bowl & massage into skin in a circular motion. This will rid you of any dead skin & smooth the surface to reveal newer, smoother skin below.
2) Steam & Mask: Take a small washcloth and wet with very warm water & press against skin. Repeat this process with new water about 4- 5 times. Next, apply a face mask appropriate for your skin type, or make your own. I suggest a clay- based mask for oily to combination skin such as Alba Deep Sea Facial Mask. Dry to normal skin, mix & 6 oz. of yogurt, 2 tbls honey & 2 tbls of wheat germ, & 1 tsp olive oil to make your mask. Leave on & relax for 15 minutes, and rinse.
Remember to leave extractions to the pros, unless you have some blemishes that are obviously ready to be "released." Be sure to always extract these with clean hands and tissues, and leave the difficult ones for the pros. Some cystic- pimples can actually get worse by squeezing, sending the clogged matter back into the skin even deeper.
3) Tone & Moisturize: After rinsing off the mask, use a toner appropriate for your skin type. Oily- combination skin should use a toner with a small amount of alcohol in it to remove oil & clean pores deeper since oily skin is more prone to breakouts. Some of my favorites are Clinique #2 or #3 Lotion, orMario Badescu's Special Cucumber Lotion (from the Mario Badescu NYC Salon). Swipe appropriate lotion across the skin to refine & remove excess mask products, and then apply your moisturizer. Those with acne- prone skin, apply tea tree oil (naturally dries acne) to blemishes before applying a light moisturizer.
Great moisturizers contain all- natural ingredients & DO NOT contain propelyne glycol, parabans, or mineral oil. Check labels! Some I like: Alba Sea Moss Moisturizer and Burts Bees Radiance Day Creamand Burts Bees Ageless Eye Cream.
Skin Product Lines I Like:
Alba Botanica
Aubry Organics
Burts Bees
Philosophy (Make Up- Optional Skin package is great)
*Always check ingredient labels for parabans, mineral oil, propelyne glycol and sodium laurel sulfate- all toxic ingredients you want to stay away from.
With this at- home facial routine done twice a month, you should be able to extend the results of your professional facial, and even improve your skin! All it takes is a few extra minutes of your time, time that you deserve to give to yourself
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