For my daughter’s birthday, we had spa party at our home with facials, shoulder and foot massages and pedicures. We had a spread of fresh fruit, ebelskivers, and strawberry-cantaloupe-blueberry-infused spa water. The whole event was fabulously fun, easy and relaxing. For them, not me. I was the one running around like a chicken with her head cut off. A chicken without a facial.
We did plenty of Internet searches for homemade facial recipes that worked well on tweens’ skin. We decided upon three: Soothing Yogurt Oatmeal Mask, Perfect Pumpkin Face Mask and Refreshing Banana Yogurt Mask.
The main players:
Pumpkins have excellent vitamins and nutrients that can nourish your skin into silky smoothness. The Vitamin A soothes your skin into softness while Vitamin E protects and repairs your skin from free radical damage, and those are just two of its many benefits (pumpkin also supplies plenty of zinc, beta carotene, Vitamin C and antioxidents).
Oatmeal is great for acne breakouts, soothing rough, angry skin and for helping to heal eczema. Paired with honey and yogurt, it’s a calming and revitalizing mask that softens your skin.
Bananas. If you don’t mind chunks, bananas do a great job exfoliating & moisturizing the skin leaving it soft and hydrated due to their copious nutrients, antioxidants and healthy natural sugars. Many skin care gurus swear by the fruit’s peel for various remedies, each of which targets a particular skin issue, ranging from acne to dry skin.
Yogurt. Natural yogurt contains lactic acid and beneficial enzymes that keep your skin hydrated. Not only does it soften the skin, it brightens a dull complexion and helps to remove redness in the face.
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Author: Amber Johnson
Amber is the founder and editor of Mile High Mamas, travel writer and former columnist for The Denver Post. She is a passionate community builder and loves the outdoors. She has two awesome teens and is happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin.
Marsha Bolen
These look wonderful! I bet they’d be very beneficial to home healthcare patients. Everyone deserves a spa day!