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Fruit can also be a delicious way of feeding your skin from the outside.

Here are some recipes to try with your left over berries.

  • Fruit Face Masks 
  • To soothe mild sunburn
  • Strawberry face masks
  • Strawberry lotion
  • Strawberries & Cream Lotion

From:  Duff, Gail. Natural beauty: making and using pure and simple beauty products. London; Reader's Digest, 1998.

 

 

 

 

4 Tblspn cream or 1 egg white 

One of the following:  1/4 peach or nectarine, 1 apricot, 3 strawberries, small cube honeydew melon or watermelon

Whip the cream until soft peaks form or egg white until it begins to froth. 
Mash the fruit to a puree, having skinned the peach, nectarine or apricot. 
Mix the fruit into the cream or egg white and use immediately. 

 

strawb Spread crushed strawberries over the affected area. Leave on 15 minutes then rinse off with lukewarm water.

From:  Duff, Gail. Natural beauty: making and using pure and simple beauty products. London; Reader's Digest, 1998.

Mash together a punnet of fresh ripe strawberries. Lie down and apply to the neck and face avoiding the eye area. Listen to some relaxing music for 20 minutes before splashing off the mask with tepid water, followed by cold water. 
Stimulating, refining, tightening substances include egg white, fresh tomato pulp or juice, and a little lemon juice.

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"A really lovely, gentle lotion that has had long use for removing makeup from oily skins and soothing the skin at the same time is a mixture of equal quantities of whole milk and the juice of fresh strawberries. Make it up in small quantities to last one or two days. 
Among the skin antiseptics for troubled skins are infusions of sage, rosemary, fennel and time. Burdock leaves are a tradional remedy for pimples."

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Mash flesh of 10 large strawberries. Strain pulp through a clean cloth. Add an equal volume of double cream, then twice this total volume of elderflower water. Add an infusion of lemon balm or linden flowers equal in volume to the combined previous volume. Shake well in a stoppered glass bottle and store in refrigerator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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