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Skin is an organ and the largest organ of our entire body. This organ, which is 98% protein, is not only large but complex as well. One square inch of skin contains about three meters of blood vessels, three hundred sweat glands, twelve meters of nerves, six hundred nerve endings, thirty hairs, and forty-five oil glands. In consideration of health and beauty with the above data in mind, you will understand how important to care for our skin.


A healthy and beautiful skin is soft to touch and yet firm with elasticity. It is moist, with a definite acid balance. It is smooth and fine-grained in texture. It should be uniform and glows in color. These are the attributes we look for in our skin.


Even if you have all the best inherited skin by basic, we all have to face the reality of aging which changes our skin with time. Beautiful skin, no matter what type of skin you have, demands constant care to resist the aging process. The earlier you start, the better. You’ll notice the loss of elasticity first in your neck. This is a warning signal, and the face is next. Massaging properly with moisturizing creams will help tone the underlying muscles of the face and slow down the inevitable. We can’t stop the process of aging, but should do our best to slow it down. Therefore it is essential to maintain a healthy skin that is cleansed, toned, moisturized and cared for everyday of our life.

( Natural recipes of cleansing creams, moisturizing creams, skin refresheners )


Caring for the skin externally is not everything that the skin requires to stay young and beautiful. A nutritious, balanced diet is crucial too. Lots of protein – lean meats, fish, poultry, and eggs – plus fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and adequate quantities of water; all help to keep you strong, healthy and functioning efficiently from the inside. Malfunctioning internally is adversely affected on your skin elasticity, texture and color.



The last but not the least thing to complete your skin care package is exercise. The fitness of the rest of your body is reflected in the appearance of your skin. Exercise stimulates all internal organs to function smoothly. It helps to distribute the nutrients, tones the muscles, and eradicates fatigue and stress.


Care for the health of your whole body from outside to inside. Your skin, and its resulting health and beauty, will surely make you stand out from the crowd.

Cover-ups for Trouble skin

It's much healthier for a trouble skin to go naked (with just a drying agent to aid healing). However, there are times when you want to cover eruptions and the following recipes will allow you to do so, without subjecting your skin to the impurities of makeup.


Neutracolor Cover-up

4 tbsp pure cornstarch
Tiny pinch of neutracolor
1 tbsp witch hazel
1 tbsp camphor water

Mash powders and witch hazel with a mortar and pestle. When it becomes a smooth paste, add camphor water and put in small jar.


Benzoin Cover-up

4 tbsp fuller's earth
2 tbsp rose water
1/2 tsp tincture of benzoin

Mix rose water into talcum to form a paste. Blend in enough tincture of benzoin to get desired shade. When you put this in a jar, it will harden. Wet finger and rub for each application.



Your Own Foundation Cover-up

1 bottle medicated foundation (no rosy shades)
Calamine lotion

Pour 1/3 to 1/2 of the foundation out. Fill bottle with calamine lotion and shake

Beauty in different languages

beauty in Afrikaans is skone

beauty in Chinese is 秀麗

beauty in Dutch is fraaiheid, schoonheid, knapheid

beauty in French is beauté

beauty in German is Schönheit

beauty in Italian is bellezza

beauty in Korean is 아름다움

beauty in Latin is decor, pulchritudo pulchritudinis, forma, venustas

beauty in Portuguese is beleza

beauty in Russian is schoonheid

beauty in Spanish is belleza

Beauty quotes

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder.
- Johnann Georg Zimmerman

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction.
- Aristotle

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- St. Jerome

Creating from themselves, all beauties are Creators of the beautiful.
- E.H. Burrington

A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eye.
- Le Boyer de Fontenelle

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
- Giovanni Ruffini

Beauty draws us with a single hair.
- Alexander Pope

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
- Publilius

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.
- Blaise Pascal

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
- Saint Augustine

To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein II

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
- Sophia Loren

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
- Chinese Proverbs

Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson

Eye Creams

The winkle Arrester

3 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
5 tsp coconut oil
3 tsp olive oil
1 tbsp mineral oil
3 oz castor oil

Melt lanolin and coconut oil together. Heat olive, mineral and castor oils in separate pan. Pour oils slowly into lanolin mixture, beating constantly. Neat until cream thickens. Makes approximately 5 oz.


Coconut Butter Cream

2 oz mineral oil
2 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp cocoa butter

Heat together and beat until cool. Make about 3 3/4 oz


Almond Eye Cream

1 oz plus 1 tbsp almond oil
1 oz plus 1 tbsp castor oil
2 tsp anhydrous lanolin
2 tbsp mineral oil
2 tbsp beeswax
Pinch sodium benzoate

Over low heat, melt beeswax and lanolin. Warm the oils in separate pan. Add sodium benzoate to oils and pour mixture into wax mixture. Beat until cool. Makes a little under 4 oz.


Avocado Cream

2 tbsp avocado oil
2 oz castor oil
2 tbsp petroleum jelly2 tbsp anhydrous lanolin

Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly together over low heat. Warm oils and add slowly, beating all the while, to the lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes a little over 4 oz.


Baby Balm

1 1/2 oz mineral oil
1 1/2 oz castor oil
3 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
3 tsp cocoa butter
3 tsp coconut oil
2 tbsp petroleum jelly

Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly over low heat. Heat liquid oils, cocoa butter, and coconut oil and beat into lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes 5 oz.


Ultrarich Eye Gel

2 tbsp petroleum jelly
2 tbsp cocoa butter
2 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp anhydrous lanolin

Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly over low heat. Heat cocoa butter and coconut oil together and beat into lanolin mixture. Beat until cool. Makes approximately 3 oz.


Vitamin E Cream for Eyes

1 oz mineral oil
1 oz wheat germ oil
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp anhydrous lanolin
2 tsp beeswax

Melt beeswax and lanolin over low heat. Warm oils and beat into wax mixture until cool. Makes about 3 oz.

Sunburn Relievers

Touch of Tea Sunburn Lotion

2 oz strong, dark tea
1 tbsp witch hazel
2 oz glycerin

Shake together in bottle and apply to burned areas.

Green Olive Sunburn Helper

2 oz limewater
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp borax
1/8 tsp tincture of benzoin

Dissolve borax in limewater and shake in bottle with olive oil. Add tincture of benzoin and shake again. Apply to burn. Shake each time before using.

Vitamin A Sunburn Healer

Cod liver Oil

Rub into burned skin; its healing powers are phenomenal.

Lubricating Suntan Oils with No Protection

Citrus Suntan Oil

6 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp oil of bergamot

Shake together in bottle.


Cocoa Butter Cream

2 oz cocoa butter
3 oz petroleum jelly

Melt over low heat. Beat until thick. Put in jar and refrigerate when not in use.



Favorite Perfume Sun Lubricant

6 oz heavy mineral oil
1 tbsp favorite perfume or cologne

Shake together in bottle. Shake before each use.



Baby Brown Suntan Oil

6 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp iodine

Shake together in bottle. Shake before each use.

Sunscreens with Small Amount of Protection

Coconut Suntan Butter

1 1/2 oz coconut oil
1 1/2 oz cocoa butter

Melt and beat together. Pour into jar and store in refrigerator. Don’t be concerned if it melts in the sun. Refrigerate when not in use.

Favorite Perfume Sun Oil

3 oz mineral oil
3 oz poppyseed oil
1 tbsp favorite perfume or cologne

Shake together in bottle and refrigerate when not in use.

Peanut Butter Suntan Oil

3 oz mineral oil
2 Peanut oil
1 oz cocoa butter
1 tbsp oil of bergamot

Warm oils. Melt cocoa butter and stir into oil mixture. Let cool, and oil of bergamot, and pour into bottle. Refrigerate when not in use.

Coconut Sun Oil

3 oz coconut oil
3 oz mineral oil
1 tbsp oil of bergamot

Melt coconut oil. Warm mineral oil, stir together, and cool. Add oil of bergamot and pour into bottle. Refrigerate when not in use.

Cocoa Butter Sunscreen

3 oz cocoa butter
2 oz olive oil
1 oz cottonseed oil

Warm oils together. Melt cocoa butter over low heat and stir into oils. Cool, bottle, and refrigerate. Don’t be concerned if oil hardens in refrigerator; it will melt again in the sun.