Monday, November 9, 2009

Homemade Dry Skin Recipes

By Linda Robison

Home remedies for dry skin are much sought after these days because people are fed up with toxic chemicals in our skin care products. Many cheap commercial drug-store type moisturizers are loaded with fragrances, additives, and mineral oil - all which destroy the skin's pH balance. Healthy skin should have a pH that ranges from 4.2 to 6.5. A pH balance higher or lower than this can upset the acid mantle which is the protective skin barrier protecting the skin from environmental elements like bacteria, wind, dehydration, etc.

The basic purpose of a moisturizer is to trap water on the skin hydrate it. In addition to keeping the skin supple the best moisturizer should also prevent dry skin conditions from progressing to something worse like eczema or an infected dry itchy skin rash. If you have dry skin or skin problems, it's important to start taking care of your skin right away.

So what are some of the best homemade dry skin recipes? There are a ton of them, but my favorite is an egg yolk and honey mask. This mask feels great and my skin is so moist and soft after each treatment. Here are the simple instructions:

- whisk 1 or 2 egg yolks while slowly adding 1 tablespoon of honey and mix well.
- smooth the mixture all over the face and neck and leave on for 30 minutes.
- because this drips, you might want to lie and just rest for a while until it starts to dry.
- then rinse well and apply a good facial moisturizer for dry skin.

Olive oil is another great moisturizer for dry itchy skin rash. This one is simple, just apply about 3 tablespoons of olive oil all over your face and neck right after washing your face, while it's still damp. This can be a bit mess, so I like to use it at night before going to bed.

So what about the daytime? Obviously, you can't walk around with egg yolk and honey or olive oil on you face during the day. For very dry skin I recommend a moisturizer that provides continuous hydration. I use one that's water-proof and rub-proof. My favorite moisturizer has a potent delivery system so it penetrates the skin deeply for optimum results. It uses a lyphazome technology which is excellent for hydrating dry parched skin.

Lyphazomes technology is not new, and has been used medical/pharmaceutical grade moisturizers for years, especially for burn victims because they are so effective at delivering moisture deep into the skin. Lyphazomes contain very small nanospheres - about 1/50th the size of human skin cells, so they can penetrate better. In addition, since these nanospheres are concentrated so they can deliver up to 80% of the bioactive ingredients - which is why this type of moisturizer works so well.

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