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Thursday, February 4, 2010

How Does Coffee Benefit The Skin?

If you have been shopping for beauty products lately, you may have noticed that many contain coffee as a leading ingredient. Here is why:

Coffee contains antioxidants, which are necessary to topically treat the complexion and neutralize any damage below the surface. This prevents premature wrinkles!
• The caffeine in coffee can be used within beauty products as a vasodilator to constrict blood vessels. This works to treat rosacea by reducing redness in the skin.
• The caffeine in coffee can also be used to treat cellulite because it tightens the skin and pushes water from the surface to eliminate the cottage cheese effect.
• Coffee is used well in soap because it also neutralizes stubborn odors, like garlic, fish, and onions.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Coffee Beauty Treatments

Coffee can provide a large number of beauty benefits, especially for your skin and hair. One main reason is that coffee is full of antioxidants, and many salon locations will use it within hair protein treatments to neutralize chemicals that can often damage hair. This will leave you with soft and silky locks!

Using coffee in an eye cream product is especially beneficial because it works well with vitamin K. Vitamin K is a proven ingredient to reduce bruising in the surface of the skin, and the antioxidants in coffee will also soothe this delicate facial area. One more benefit is the fact that coffee can cure under eye puffiness because it works as a vasodilator to shrink the blood vessels underneath the eye area to reduce puffiness.

The bottom line is that if you have had a rough or stressful night, then you can immediately look fresh and awake (with beautiful hair) by using Java as a beauty treatment ingredient!

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Make Your Own Coffee Body Scrub

If you are interested in creating an easy home beauty remedy, then you are in luck because you have the convenience of using an ingredient that you can find within your own kitchen cabinets - coffee!

Here are the ingredients needed for this easy homemade coffee body scrub:
• 2/3 tbsp. Essential oil
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 2 cups Coffee grounds

Make sure that you are using fresh coffee grounds, and blend all of the ingredients together in a bowl. You do have the option of adding more custom ingredients to create your own special recipe, like brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla extract, or perfume oils.

You can use brown sugar to add an even more granulated texture to the scrub for better exfoliation, and cinnamon, vanilla extract, or perfume oils will add a deeper scent. You do need to be careful of using perfume oils if you have sensitive skin because they can irritate certain skin types.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

CoffeeBerry Antioxidants Benefits

If you are looking for a potent antioxidant within your facial care products, then you need to start looking for the CoffeeBerry extract.

This is an anti-wrinkle ingredient used in many facial care products today, and it is said to have the ability to improve the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines on the complexion by up to 46%. Users also showed a 64% improvement in the texture and smoothness of their skin, as well as a 79% improvement in their hydration. All of these components are necessary to provide a more youthful complexion, and furthermore, this extract has incomparable antioxidant benefits versus other ingredients being used on the market.

This ingredient is said to provide three times more antioxidant benefits than green tea itself, and when you compare 400 mg of this ingredient to 9.6 g of blueberries, it does have equal antioxidant benefits. Impressive! As you can see, a little goes a long way, and this is a potent antioxidant ingredient that will work to repair the cells under the surface of your skin to provide a beautiful and smooth texture to your complexion.

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Wonderful Coffee Beauty Products

If you love to drink your coffee, then why not wear it? That may seem like a ridiculous suggestion, but that is not what many anti-wrinkle companies on the market currently think.

There is an ingredient being produced from the extract of coffee beans called CoffeeBerry, which works to provide antioxidant properties directly to the surface of the skin. This is necessary in skin care because it will fight free radical damage in the complexion to prevent premature fine lines and wrinkles.

Some of these products can be quite expensive, but it does prove the fact that coffee is an effective antioxidant ingredient, and why not use it in facial care products since it smells so delicious in the first place? Coffee is wonderful ingredient to use within your skin care products because it also does protect from sun damage, which is another huge factor in premature age in the complexion. Here's to a more beautiful you!

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

How To Make a Coffee and Clove Body Scrub

These are two ingredients that you definitely want to have within your beauty routine! Coffee is a wonderful, natural antioxidant, which is why it is so ideal to use within your beauty treatments. It will offer you the benefit of neutralizing free radicals under the surface of your skin to prevent damage to your cells. This will immediately reduce the appearance of age and also prevent disease.

Clove has other natural benefits, but in skin care, it is especially helpful to reduce acne. That is why it is such a vital ingredient within this body scrub because you can prevent breakouts from head to toe!

Here are the ingredients that you will need:

3/4 cup Coffee beans
• 1/3 cup Brown sugar
• 1 tsp. Ground cloves
• 1 tbsp. Olive oil
• 2 tbsp. Vanilla extract

To begin, blend together the dry ingredients in your coffee grinder. Place them into a bowl, and then mix in the olive oil and vanilla extract. You can add more olive oil to your liking, but the less that you add, the coarser the scrub will be. Then feel free to use this pampering body scrub in the shower to smooth out your skin and slough off dead skin cells. Don't you feel beautiful?

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

More Coffee Beauty Treatments

If you are trying to think of more innovative ways to use coffee in your home beauty treatments, then you are in luck! Here are some more great ideas of what to do with your beloved brew:

  • Scrub used coffee grounds on your hands as if they were soap to cut out any funky odors that you can't get rid of. Whether it be garlic, fish, or even onions, coffee will neutralize the odors.
  • If you would love to give your hair a treatment for smoothness and shine on the cheap, then apply a shot of strong espresso to your dry hair, and allow it to sit for 20 minutes. Rinse well, and you will notice some definite vibrance and spark to your limp locks!
  • Last but not least, you can also directly use coffee to treat cellulite. Apply used coffee grounds to your problem area, and wrap it up well with Saran wrap to prevent mess. Let it sit for about 30 minutes, and you will notice that the cellulite is minimized because the caffeine in coffee works to smooth out the skin and push water out of the fat cells, which often causes the cottage cheese effect.

As you can see, coffee is a wonderful home beauty remedy, so please feel free to share any of your own tips with me!

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Coffee Home Beauty Remedies

If you are always on the lookout for an easy home beauty remedy involving ingredients from your kitchen cabinets, then you are in luck because coffee is at the top of the list! I am going to share with you a simple recipe to make a coffee exfoliating face mask. Here is what you'll need:

  • 1/4 cup used coffee grounds, cooled
  • 1 egg white

See how simple it is already? Make sure that you are using used coffee grounds that have been recently brewed within about 30 minutes, and then mix them thoroughly with your egg white. Massage the mixture onto your face, and allow it to dry completely. You will feel your skin tightening, and this is mainly because of the caffeine in the coffee that is used as a vasodilator to constrict blood vessels and make your face feel firmer. When you are finished, all you have to do is rinse well with warm water, and get ready to see your beautiful and youthful reflection!

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Coffee Can Treat Your Lips!



Coffee is truly becoming a jack of all trades, so if you are dealing with cracked and worn looking lips, then check out several of these advanced Java lip treatments that use all of the health benefits that coffee has to offer for beautifying your pout.

One great option is Dermatone Coffee Lip Balm, which has an SPF of 23, and it uses caffeine and coffee flavors to protect your lips from sun damage or even windburn. Another popular product is the Coffee Butter Lip Balm from Body Systems, which uses coffee butter and coffee extract paired with Organic African Shea Butter to seal your lips with moisture and protect from UVA and UVB rays, which cause aging and burning. Or maybe you will want to try Dr. Dobbs Perk O' Lips Coffee Balm, which uses lanolin as a main ingredient paired with coffee to provide a protective barrier around your delicate lip skin to allow them to regenerate.

Regardless of your beauty product choice, know that coffee is becoming a leading ingredient due to its numerous health benefits that work to treat and rejuvenate any area of your body! Not too shabby...

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Coffee Hair Treatment Recipe

Just when you thought you had seen it all, now you find out that you can use coffee to treat your hair? Brilliant, simply brilliant. I am going to give you a completely easy recipe that you can use to condition and stain your hair in a natural way to enhance brunette color and shine. This works best on already brown to brunette hair for deepening the color, but you can also use it on light and blonder locks to give them depth and vibrance.

Begin by mixing:
  • 2 cups leave in conditioner
  • 2 tbsp. coffee grounds
  • 1 cup of brewed coffee, cooled

Then simply apply it to your hair and wrap in an old towel (because it will be stained) for 45 minutes. Voila! Now you have beautiful, dark, and soft hair at virtually less than the price of a cup of coffee! Beautiful.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Coffee Beauty!



Right now, for all of the coffee loving ladies and gentlemen out there, there are numerous skin care products on the market that use coffee and its caffeine content to smooth the appearance of your skin. I am a huge advocate of using all-natural ingredients in skin care, so it is wonderful to see that coffee is being used as a vasodilator and constrictor to reduce the appearance of cellulite. There are also numerous eye creams using this ingredient to tone and smooth under eye skin to reduce puffiness and fine lines. I would have to propose the idea that the best benefit to using coffee for beauty is that you can not only have a beautiful result, but your skin will smell like delicious Java too! I can't think of anything better...

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