Exfoliators! DIY

Ok you need to exfoliate your hands about once a week at the minimum to remove any dead skin cells and here are DIY exfoliants (instead of buying some) for your hands:

Simple Sugar Exfoliant:
Combine two parts granulated sugar (not superfine/powdered) to one part body lotion, cream or oil.
Mix them together until you have a thick paste.
Scrub your hands and feet with it.
Rinse thoroughly.
Store excess in airtight jar and label with date and it will be good for a week.


Tropical Fruit Exfoliant:
Pineapple and papaya contain rich sources of alpha hydroxy acids which is powerful natural exfoliant.
Start with ripe, whole fruit then peel it and cut off flesh (which you can eat!).
You have to look for the centre of the fruit which is the core of the pineapple or the pit of the papaya which bit of fruit still attached which makes a great buffer.
Roll it in sugar and gently scrub your arms and legs. If sugar desolves simply recoat in sugar.
For bit of boost add pinch of finely ground coffee to sugar for circulation.
Then rinse off when finished.

Other exfoliants
Include using olive oil with zested lemon peel and sugar.

Nut oil - walnut, almond or peanut with a few drops of vanilla along with sugar.

Corn/canola oil with contents of favourite tea bag and sugar.

Recipes taken from "Rescue your nails" but Ji Baek.

Beauty and looking after your nails

I have been reading a lot of nail beauty books in Particular: Rescue your nails by ji Baek and I recommend you should all read it if you never know what to do for your nails.

She recommends using moisutiser all the time on your hands as when you age you can tell how old you are by your hands and not so much your face so you should always take care of them. She suggests using a facial moisturiser on your hands after you wash your hands or one that contains spf especially and to put cream on before you sleep that is more moisture enriched so your hands have time to soak it in.

You dont need to spend lots of money on caring for your hands and you can probably find stuff around the house that help your hands instead of going out and buying expensive products. She suggests using facial eye creams, anti aging creams, night creams and lip balms on your hands if you do not want to buy hand creams and these products have the perfect consistency for your hands.

At the moment I have  trawled my mums sample makeup from giveaways and such and bathroom and have found what I need, this includes:

l-occitane shea-butter-hand-cream

which I got a sample of, which is really rich but not to oily.

Then been using

Clinique Youth Surge

which also sample and contains spf and I put on same time as my face but I find better for hands than face as my face seems to be sensitive.

Then

Clinique Total Turnaround

Can you tell my mum gets clinique a lot?
But I use this one for nighttime as its really rich and really soaks in.

And last

Clinique advanced stop signs eye

which is pretty much link shown but i use this at night and swap bewteen this one and above one.

Im just saying you can use things that are in your house  already and this well help you to have healthy looking hands!