A sign that your skin is dry is when your skin feels tight after washing your face. But brown sugar is an excellent ingredient to help with dry skin. Brown sugar scrubs and related products cost about $10-20 at the store but why pay so much for something you can do easily at home? This is an ingredient that most people have in their cupboards, so try it out.
Homemade Skin Care: How To Make Brown Sugar Essence
Ingredients: brown sugar 1.1lbs/500g, 1quart/1L water/4 cups
Directions:
- Pour water into a pot and add the brown sugar and dissolve.
- At low heat, boil for 1-2 hours. If froth or foam appears, spoon it out.
- When the mix is thickened, turn off the heat and let it cool.
- When cooled, pour into a bowl or container and keep it in the refrigerator.
Brown Sugar Essence is Moisturizing
Brown sugar not only prevents your skin from dryness but also contributes to glossy skin. Its skin restoring effects are excellent and people with allergies or sensitive skin can also benefit from brown sugar. However, directly applying brown sugar to use as a scrub on your face may damage your skin due to its large grains, so it's better to use it as an essence.
For aging or dry skin, you will receive benefits from a mix of ground banana with brown sugar.
Brown Sugar Scrub as an Exfoliant
When your skin is dry, keratin (dead cells) starts to appear and your skin tone becomes dull, but a brown sugar scrub should help with this as it removes keratin and impurities from your skin.
- Grind brown sugar finely and dissolve it in a boiling water and let it cool.
- Massage it on your face and wash off using warm water.
Brown Sugar for Nose Care: Removing Blackheads
The T-zone is usually the oiliest part of the face and if you squeeze the sebum on your nose with your fingers, you'll only end up with a bumpy nose.
Brown sugar has a pore minimizing effect which also helps to remove sebum from the T-zone area and blackheads on your nose.
Brown Sugar for Hand Care
Add warm milk into the brown sugar essence and apply all over your hands. Then put on vinyl gloves for 10 minutes. The gloves will help your hands absorb the nutrition more effectively and leading to smoother hands.
Brown Sugar Lip Care
For dry or chapped lips, apply the brown sugar essence on your lips just before sleeping. You'll end up with a clean and moist lips.
Summing Up
Brown sugar isn't just good for cooking. Its natural characteristics help with improving skin but also has other uses discussed above. Making the brown sugar essence is simple and ingredients are readily available from your nearest supermarket.
