Have you been told that mayonnaise is a great conditioner for your hair? How about making your own sugar scrub for your face, or egg white for a facial mask. I read that glue spread onto your face is good as a face mask.
Now for the facts. Science has spent years and millions to find the best products for our hair and skin. There are many inexpensive products that work wonderfully. Food is to be eaten, not smeared on our face and in our hair. Forget it.
Get recommendations from your friends or the Internet to find what you might like too. You can read reviews on Amazon for cosmetics to see what might meet your needs.
I hold to one exception; baking soda. I know it does many unconventional things, so you can experiment.
As for sugar scrubs; not for me! I tried it once, and my hairline was sticky, as well as behind my ears, and around the sink. Leave the sugar in the kitchen, and read reviews for store bought scrubs that are even better.
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You must have had some horrible concoctions you've tried, to say making your own beauty products is a waste; it's so wrong. I dislike all the chemicals that are in the commercial creams, soaps, etc.
It is precisely because many of the homemade products can be eaten that they should be used. Your skin absorbs many of the nutrients in the food products. There are many different toxins in commercial products that can be absorbed that wouldn't be in natural foods, especially organic foods. Our bodies are not designed to process chemicals produced in a laboratory. If you do use those products, keep them on your skin for the shortest time possible.
Hopeful, I totally agree. I think it's fine that people want to avoid using products with chemicals or man-made ingredients, but in that case there are 100% organic options. And it isn't as if using food as beauty products provides a more effective, or even equally effective, result.
Sorry, but I'd rather use something that's safe to eat as a beauty product than the manufactured garbage with foot-long lists of unpronounceable chemical ingredients, that are tested on helpless animals, and promoted by slick ad agencies and overpaid celebrities. Check out some of those chemicals, and you will find neurotoxins, carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, ground insect parts and all kinds of nasty things. I'm not putting those things on my skin! By the way, the manufacturers don't even have to disclose all the chemicals they use, so heaven knows WHAT they're foisting on us!
The rub is, there's a lot of unsavory stuff in food, and other, products these days, too. Corn, soy and cotton products are likely to be genetically engineered (also know as genetically modified), which means that their very DNA has been tampered with in order to make them resistant to the pesticides which are heavily applied to these crops. The big chemical conglomerates, like Monsanto and Bayer (yes, the aspirin maker), are fighting tooth and nail to keep these products from being labeled as genetically modified organisms and are throwing piles of money at campaigns to fight labeling laws. It seems they don't believe we have a right to know whether we are eating corn grown from unadulterated seeds or from GMO seeds. Besides the corn we eat as a vegetable, corn is present in nearly every grocery product, in the form of corn starch or corn syrup, so it's almost impossible to get away from it.
Scientists have been finding that GMO plant material fed to animals is causing serious health problems, and are pretty certain that this is one of the reasons for the bees dying off in huge numbers. Now one company wants permission to produce GMO salmon, which grow larger than nature's salmon.
If these things don't scare you, they should. We can't even be sure that the food we eat (or apply to ourselves as beauty products) is even safe any more, unless it is 100 percent certifiably and reliably known to be organic.
So, it would seem that we're all better off just using baking soda, olive oil, and a little water on ourselves, and forget all the other "beauty" products, whether they come from the fridge or the cosmetics counter.
I find most store products contain too many chemicals. Sure you can buy organic, but they are costly. Making your own beauty and cleaning products is more cost effective and much safer. I have read and heard so many times that 97% of all cancers are caused by our surroundings. This means what you eat, put on your body, clean your home with, and where you work.
Don't say "food is to be eaten and not used as a beauty product" and then say, oh, but baking soda is ok. Hmm, I think vinegar is ok and avocado is ok, etc. It is a matter of personal preference and just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it won't for someone else. Everyone has a different body makeup, so one thing may work for you, but not for me and what works for me may not for you!
I don't use any beauty products because I don't feel I need them and when I have tried store bought products they either make me feel oily or I break out. I don't know if it is heredity or because my mother also never used makeup or beauty products, but she always looked younger than her age and so do I, so why change a good thing? I have no objection to using food on my skin though and since we put stuff we shouldn't into our bodies (soda pop, trans fats, processed foods) without thinking twice about it, what's so wrong with using something natural and chemical free on our skin?
I disagree with you. I think there are many natural and helpful ingredients in your kitchen.
I once posted on here that you can use an art sponge for an excellent exfoliater and someone posted what had to be a three page warning.
So you didn't rinse the sugar off your face and ears and now all food that helps you stay younger looking and healthy for less than pennies per portion is now off limits? Really?
I once stubbed my toe while dancing but I didn't stop.
I would love to see the results of the scientific proof you spoke of. As for the research I did, click on just the four links below.
Women have been using natural and food products before Sasoon, Clairol, or even Suave and swear by it. Honey, milk, beeswax lip balm and 333,000 more. That was just the lowest number of articles found in google.
If someone says that only products, most made by experimenting on helpless animals, is the only thing to buy...they might be getting discounts, free products, work in the industry and know someone who does.
I can cure my puffy eyes with .03 worth of cucumber or pay 16.00 for a 2 oz. bottle of something I know nothing about except that some former celebrity told me to buy it. No thanks.
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I'm inclined to agree with you, Hopeful. If that stuff actually worked well, no one would have bothered to invent or develop something else. I believe the same is true of cleaners. One should be wary, read labels, and be informed. But I leave food in the kitchen.
I disagree as well. Just because companies charge a fortune for the same things doesn't mean they are better. I use vinegar, hydrogen peroxide and baking soda for many things and as for the sugar scrub. I have a tub of it always in my shower as it's the only thing that works for my skin.
Even experts on the Dr. Oz show offer home remedies and home beauty solutions, including the experts last week from the Canyon Ranch spa. Many products on store shelves have harmful chemicals; home products do not contain these chemicals. Just because the chemicals are widely used in the industry does not mean they are safe, as has been proven again and again. Food for intake is also nourishment topically. Honey was used in my hospital in nursing for bed sores. There is a long long list of important uses of "food" for health and nourishment of our skin. I even saw a posting on Thrifty Fun to use cornstarch as a base for a hair gel. I'm not against commercial products that are wisely chosen; however, I also advocate home beauty products.
I couldnt agree LESS!! Commercial products are made with CHEMICALS,and they are made to turn a profit for the company. I have been using a "sugar" scrub that I found in Cooking Light years ago. I love it,and nothing I have purchased has worked better. It is raw honey(only raw honey has antibacterial properties,which are destroyed during processing) ,lemon juice,sweet almond oil and sugar. As for stickiness,I only use it in the shower-you just have to rinse it off well enough. I've also used baking soda and cider vinegar to wash my hair. It's faster than shampoo cause you dont have to rinse out all those suds and it even seems to dry faster!
I disagree, hopeful, and completely agree with those of you who are calling out the chemicals in the products on most store shelves. It is a well known fact that 'science' has been paid off many times for their opinions and 'findings' and I just don't trust that they have the consumers' best interests at heart. Sorry girls, money talks. I think foods make great beauty products. Take for instance, aspirin powders mixed with fresh squeezed lemon juice...make a paste of the two and use as a facial scrub. I have very sensitive skin yet I have awesome results with this. My skin is soft and bright after a treatment.
I would agree. Homemade stuff does not work well for me. As for there being "chemicals" in store bought, everything you eat, drink, or put on your body is a chemical.
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