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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!

For the best way to enjoy your coffee, try the Saeco Aroma Espresso Machine on my website today!

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Use Coffee for Beauty!


If you are a do-it-yourself beauty lover who is always looking for interesting home remedies, then I have several to offer you as the best uses for coffee within your home skin care routine. Not only will you smell good, but you will also look good too! The first easy method is to mix a third of a cup of used coffee grounds with an egg white, and blend it into a scrub that you can use to cleanse your face with. Another idea is to brew a strong shot of espresso and apply it to your dry hair. You will leave it for 15 minutes, and rinse well to add shine and softness to your hair easily. Another great tip is that if you have a fishy or garlicky smell that you cannot get off your hands from cooking, then you can use old coffee grounds to rub over your hands as if you are washing them normally, and the odors will be neutralized. These are just some great home beauty ideas that I have come across using coffee, but please comment, and let me know some of your own!

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