Autumn fruits for peachy skin

The season invites you to feast on grapes and apples, these wonderful fruits, but also to make your skin enjoy them. Natural beauty, she loves it… Here is how to make homemade face masks with autumn fruits.

Autumn is coming soon:The leaves are starting to turn yellow, the temperatures will soon drop, the days are getting shorter, we gradually have to cover ourselves up while our skin begins to dry out…It’s time to think about making a homemade face and body mask!

On the stalls, seasonal fruits are making their appearance and it is these that will interest us today to create autumn masks that will nourish the skin intensely and prepare it for the gcold winter rands. Example with grapes and apples…

Autumn fruit face masks for peachy skin!

The raisin overflows with qualities, you know that well. A great ally of health, it is also very revitalizing and toning in external applications.

A grape cure as autumn approaches

First idea of ​​the season? What if you follow a grape cure ? Squeeze the juice yourself, keep the seed husks, and apply them, while still damp, to your face!

Natural lotions with autumn fruit juices

Fruits, and especially their juice, provide excellent lotions, natural, and moreover easy to use. Needless to say: you will choose organic ones, imperatively!

• The juice of raisinleft to dry for 10 minutes before rinsing with lukewarm water, offers its rejuvenating properties.
• To be used in the same way, the juice of apple has a firming effect.

Simply applied as a lotion, these juices give suppleness and freshness to the skin, while actively participating in the prevention of its aging.

Grape juice mask

If you’re more in the mood for a mask, a real one, nourishing, toning and refreshing, this one will delight normal skinand even more so those whose pores tend to dilate:

• Crush 6 to 8 large grapes to extract the juice.
• Mix the resulting juice with half a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of your day cream.
• Apply, leave for 15 minutes and rinse with lukewarm water.

A homemade apple or grape mask: it’s up to you!

To meet the requirements of all skin types, this purifying and softening mask combines the qualities of clay, your fruit of the moment and a few selected essential oils. More than a mask, a real treatment:

• Pour into a large bowl a glass of white clay and half a glass of fresh fruit juice, juice of apple or of raisin For example.
• Complete with 2 drops of lemon essence, 1 drop of thyme essential oil and 1 drop of lavender essential oil.
• If the mixture seems too thick, thin with a little fruit juice.
• Then spread this preparation on the face in a thick layer and keep it for around twenty minutes.
• Rinse thoroughly with cold water, and finish this treatment with a spray of floral water.

Reminder: How to prepare clay?

• Pour the clay into a container or bowl made of glass, porcelain, wood or stoneware, but never metal or plastic.
• For your mixtures, use a wooden spoon or spatula, but again, never metal!
• No need to add too much water: if your preparation is too thick, you can always add more.

The radiance of the apple for your skin

Facial or body care, how to resist nourishing, soothing, firming, anti-wrinkle and toning qualities of the apple ? To make you crack, three temptations are better than one…

Apple comfort mask

In autumn, but also all year round, this little mask is for you, as easy to prepare as it is pleasant for all skin types:

• Grate a appleand mix it with a tablespoon of liquid cream.
• Spread on face and neck, leave for 15 minutes and rinse with lukewarm water.

Radiance mask

As for this “ coup d’éclat “, it is suitable for all skin types. If you apply it regularly, you will also appreciate its firming action:

• Cook an apple in a little milk, then mash it to obtain a puree.
• Then spread this still warm puree on the face, and keep it for about twenty minutes.
• Remove and rinse thoroughly with lukewarm water.

Smoothing effect mask

Also try this variation on the same theme, with a lifting effect:

• Grate an apple and mix it with a large tablespoon of plain yogurt.
• Spread on face and neck, leave for 20 minutes, remove and rinse with lukewarm water.
• Finish with an application of your favorite skincare cream.

Obviously, always choose apples that are untreated if possible, or at least organic!

Apple and Oatmeal Exfoliating Mask

Apples contain fruit acids that help exfoliate the skin. Mix 1 tablespoon of unsweetened applesauce with 1 tablespoon of ground oatmeal and 1 teaspoon of honey. Massage gently into skin and let sit for 10-15 minutes before rinsing.

Bonus for your bust!

Breasts also sometimes go through somewhat discouraging periods… Rather than letting them fall, here is a little poultice with visibly firming effects:

• Grate raw, unpeeled apples, apply directly to the chest and leave for at least half an hour.
• Repeat whenever you want, there is, as you can imagine, no contraindication…

All these natural recipes are taken from the books of Véronique Desarzens.

All these natural recipes are taken from the books of Véronique Desarzens.

Secrets to Perfect Skin – 100 DIY Herbal Recipes
by Véonique Desarzens
In this book, the author offers a hundred simple recipes to make, with plants from the garden or the market (organic). Some ancestral, passed down from generation to generation, others more innovative, easy to make.

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