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Here are more interesting winter skin care tips:

Winter Skin Care – Six Simple Steps

Everyone likes beautiful skin, don’t they? Dry and chapped skin can be a thing of the past and can be avoided, if you follow a few simple steps.

With winter on its way special skin care considerations are in order. Putting the moisture back in and keeping it there is of prime importance during the winter months. Keeping the moisture in your skin will reduce the harmful damaging effects of the drying winter winds. (more…)

New research by University of Sweden shows that skin creams can actually harm the skin in that they can dry it out and weaken the skin’s existing barrier. It was shown that both the use of vegetable and mineral oil results in skin’s lessened ability to cope with the outside stress.

Click here to see the difference between dry skin and normal, healthy skin.

The topic of using oils came up recently when Susan posed a question (see the topic of post summer skin care here) about the difference between oils in skin care. I recommended the use of natural oils such as coconut oil that are much more gentle on skin and allow it to absorb it fully unlike mineral oils that leave the greasy residue and don’t do much to lubricate the skin. Adding beeswax to natural moisturizer recipes is highly recommended for any skin type but especially dry skin type where it can make a huge difference in how much of the moisture the skin takes in and retains.

Since winter is ahead of us and the dry skin type suffers the most throughout it, here are some great dry skin recipes that can help your skin.

Just in time for Halloween: Pumpkin Skin Care Recipes.

Instead of wasting all that pumpkin, make some skin care recipes.

Summer is behind us and before we start applying winter skin care techniques, it might be a good idea to explore post summer skin care tips.

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Are all these products for skin care confusing you when it comes to proper skin care routine? No worries! Click here for the most simple, 4-step routine that is all you’ll need for healthy, glowing skin.

I gave you a quick overview of milk’s usage in homemade milk beauty recipes here but let’s see what kind of recipes you can make using milk and products based on milk… (more…)