After Sun DIY Oatmeal Facial Mask
How To Use A DIY Oatmeal Facial Mask
With Spring here and Summer fast on its heels, you may find that you're out in the sun more often than you've been in months. This is both good news and not-so-good news.
The good news of course is the emotional life being out of doors always gives us, along with a nice dose of Vitamin D the way God intended for us to get it. The bad news is that our skin can suffer from the environmental onslaught of sun and wind, even when we use an appropriate SPF.
Fear not, though, you can quickly and easily sooth your hot and irritated skin with a soothing oatmeal facial mask you whip up right in your own kitchen. Here's the how-to:
Soothing Oatmeal Facial Mask Instructions
This mask contains soothing oats and cooling aloe vera, combined with cleansing and softening buttermilk and whipping cream, along with the skin smoothing yogurt. The cucumber adds a refreshing quality that helps relieve redness and adds aromatherapy benefits.
Ingredients
1 cup steel cut oats
2 tablespoons pure aloe vera gel
4 tablespoons plain Greek style yogurt – whole, not reduced fat or fat free
3 tablespoons buttermilk
3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1 cucumber
Use organic products as much as possible when making skin care treatments at home!
Preparation And Application
Add the oats to a blender or food processor and blend until finely ground, add the aloe vera gel, buttermilk, whipping cream, yogurt and the fresh mint leaves. Cut the peeled cucumber in cubes and add them. Blend until you have a consistently smooth paste that that is thick enough to use as a mask without running. If it is not thick enough, add more ground oats.
Spread the mask gently and equally with your fingertips onto your clean skin, including the face, neck and decollete.
Lie down, relax and leave the mask on for 20 to 25minutes
Rinse it off with warm water using a soft wash cloth, and end with several cold splashes. Pat your skin dry with a clean towel.
Finally apply your chilled toner, serum moisturizer to seal in the nourishment your facial treatment gave your skin.