Brown Sugar: A Great Skin Exfoliant

As the temperature drops down,  low humidity depletes our skin of its natural lipid layer causing dryness and flaking, and chapped lips. While there's a variety of moisturizers and exfoliants available in stores, here's a cheap alternative that you can do at home: brown sugar.

For lips: Apply your favorite lip balm first or if you don't have one, you may skip it. If you've applied lip balm, leave it on your lips for at least 15 minutes. Then slowly rub the sugar on both your lower and upper lip for a minute or 2. Wash with water.

For the body: Mix sugar with baby oil or olive oil. Prepare the amount of sugar that you think will be enough for your whole body. The amount of oil you put on your sugar depends on your desired consistency of the mixture. While in the shower, massage the sugar-oil mixture onto your skin and leave it on until the sugar dissolves. If you're not patient enough to wait that long, leave it on for at least 5 minutes. Rinse off sugar completely with warm water and pat skin dry with towel. The sugar scrubs off the dead skin cells while the oil acts as moisturizer.

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Mayonnaise for shiny and healthy hair

I know it sounds weird but this do-it-at-home beauty treatment has been proven and tested to be effective. I remember when I was in highschool, there was this girl who was popular because of her extremely beautiful hair. It was jet black and thick and noticeably shiny. The other girls including me found out that she had been treating her hair with mayonnaise for years. At first I thought it was funny, I mean I had only known mayonnaise being used for bread and salad. Then other people told me that it was really good for the hair. So I tried it to see for myself and was amazed with the result. My hair had never been so soft that I kept touching it the whole day. I also got compliments about how shiny it was that day. My friends asked me what conditioner I used and told them the "secret". Everyone I advised to put mayonnaise on their hair and tried it experienced the same result. Here's how you do it:

-Wash and shampoo hair, don't condition. Then let it air-dry.

-When hair is completely dry, apply mayonnaise to your hair like how you apply conditioner. Then cover with a shower cap or plastic bag.

-Let it set for at least 30 minutes. I usually set mine for upto 3 hours. Rinse the mayonnaise off  completely with water (don't use hot water) before shampooing. Apply twice more shampoo and conditioner than you normally do to make sure that your hair won't smell when it dries.

- Air-dry or blow-dry hair.

You can do this treatment once a week for the first 4 weeks then twice a month for maintenance.

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