Fashionably Lawful: May 2012

So all of a sudden I’ve acquired a fascination for Avocado pears, we heading for winter in beautiful South Africa and seeing these wonderful fruits at our every turn it gave me the inspiration for this Beauty tip! Yes, not for the belly but for beauty.

Ancient Aztec, Mayan and Inca Beauties believed that the avocado fed the skin from without as well as within. The elegant Avocado holds a treasure of vitamins, minerals and natural oils.

Consider these nutriments in the avocado: Vitamins A, C, E, iron, potassium, niacin, pantothenic acid and its natural emollients. Plus protein not usually found in fruit. And no cholesterol, of course. Avocado skin color will vary from season to season

Avocado skin care is completely relevant to today's trend toward the use of natural organic substances. Here is a thoroughly safe, chemically free approach to being more beautiful.

Some are the ancient secrets and others sent from all over the world but here are the favorites. Every formula is easy to prepare in your own kitchen.

The other ingredients, besides the avocado, can be found in most refrigerators or cupboards. Have fun, be natural, and be beautiful!

How To prepare your Avocado For Beauty Care

The avocado you use should be fully ripe. You may store your ripe avocados in the refrigerator, but never put this delicate fruit in the freezer. It might just die of shock.

How do you know when the avocado is ripe? Hold it in the palm of your hand and gently press it with your fingers. A ripe fruit will yield to your touch. It will open easily, peel evenly and reveal its glorious green-gold interior.

When the beauty formula calls for MASHED or PUREED pulp the procedure is quite simple. Peel your avocado (or one-half) and remove the pit. Your avocado can now be PUREED or MASHED by any of these methods: the fork, the blender,the food processor or the sieve.

The avocado like any other organic matter, is perishable and therefore should be made up freshly for each treatment.

To prevent the avocado or its mixture with other ingredients from darkening while stored in your refrigerator, place plastic wrap directly on the surface of the avocado mixture so as not to expose the mixture to air. The usual method of adding lemon or lime juice for this purpose may be too harsh for skins which are dry or sensitive.

Avocado Facial Cleanser

Beat the yolk of an egg until it is light and frothy, add a half cup of milk and the mashed half of a ripe peeled avocado. A blender is handy here, but if you don't have one, beat the mixture with a fork until you have a thin cream or lotion-like consistency. Apply on squares of cotton as you would any other cleanser. You may also use this deep cleanser after ordinary soap and water, if your skin is normal. It's quite effective against pollution and grime. Therefore, it's a very pure method of keeping your complexion free of pollutants which can interfere with normal skin function.

Since the formula is perishable, we suggest making it every other day and storing it in the refrigerator between uses.

Avocado Moisturizer

The inside of the avocado peel is actually valuable. The precious oil hidden away in the peel of the avocado is also a wonderful facial moisturizer. To be technical, the oil contains a humectant, a substance that holds moisture.