With spring in full swing and summer just around the corner, everyone is hitting the gym — or the spa — in an attempt to look their best.
For many women, skincare is often at the top of the list when it comes to beauty needs, and whether you’re a career-driven CEO or a soccer-mom — or both — every woman encounters skin care issues and is looking for a solution. But let’s face reality: we don’t always have time to get to the spa as often as we’d like.
This is why we’ve put together this list of 4 common skin care problems and how to solve them yourself at home.
The Problem: Dry Face
The Solution: Try a dense, antioxidant-packed cocoa face mask to replenish moisture in your skin to achieve a beautiful, restored appearance. As skin ages, moisture barriers breakdown, which leads to dryness as the skin’s immunity layer begins to weaken. To solve this, you need a hydrating mask.
Recipe: Mix 1 tablespoon each of cocoa powder, sour cream, and honey, along with one egg white. Apply to the face and allow to dry before rinsing. These powerful ingredients make this mask a multi-tasking super-cream. The lactic acid in sour cream hydrates as it gently exfoliates, while honey is a hydration-boosting humectant. Finally, the protein provided by the egg white tightens and firms up the skin.
The Problem: Rough Hands
The Solution: A warm milk soak will go a long way toward softening hard-working hands. You’ve soaked your feet for years, so it makes sense that this would also work for hands. If you want to reduce the look of dryness, roughness, or calluses, simply commit to a hand bath.
Recipe: Gently heat 2 to 3 cups of whole milk (enough to completely submerge your two hands). You can use the microwave, but stove top heating gives best results. Pour the milk into a bowl and soak hands for 5 to 10 minutes. The fat from the milk will hydrate the skin, while vitamins A and E will nourish your tired pores.
The Problem: Dehydration
The Solution: Spruce up your Water
It sounds so obvious, but many people forget hydration is a key component to keeping your skin looking young and radiant. Not everybody craves water, so sometimes we need to do all we can to spruce up our H2O cocktail.
To make your water more appealing, muddle in some cucumbers, squeeze in some lemon, or even toss a few bruised mint leaves to add to the flavor without taking away the key health and skin care benefits. Water is also a metabolic booster, which means you’ll be shedding unwanted pounds, too. What better way to get fit than to switch up your water cocktail morning to afternoon to evening?
Recipe: H20 Lemon-Berry Cocktail. Shake 8 ounces of water in a cocktail shaker and pour into a highball glass. Gently squeeze a wedge of lemon and toss it in. Then add three blueberries and stir.
The Problem: Unwanted Hair
The Solution: Invest in an FDA-cleared permanent hair removal device. Thanks to considerable technological advancements over the last 20 years, comfortable, portable at-home devices deliver real hair removal results.
Recipe: OK, while not technically a recipe and more of a recommendation, we highly recommend investing in an at-home hair removal device. We recommend that you choose one that incorporates eHPL™ technology. To find out more information on this technology, you can consult your dermatologist, or simply look for a device provider that uses pulses of light to painlessly and permanently remove unwanted hair growth without leaving redness, irritation, stubble, or ingrown hairs.
Developed and tested by dermatologists, today’s home skin-care devices offer salon quality treatments targeting hair in hard-to-reach areas. Why pay outrageous spa prices when you can experience the same results at home with the best in home hair removal devices from a trusted company?
If you want to look and feel your best this summer, consider these DIY at-home skin care tips. But remember to keep the secret to yourself.
Nina Smith 
Kim Marks