DIY facial care - Beauty on the cheep!!

Keeping your face and body looking amazing is tough work. Not all of us can afford a personal trainer, chef, house cleaner and nanny.

A skin care routine is really important and I like the classic

• Cleanse, 
• Tone, 
• Moisturize on a daily basis  

then add the weekly

• exfoliate 
• masque

and you're on a total winner. However these 5 simple steps can end up costing lots of cash. So here are my tips on saving money and looking beautiful. 

Cleanse - Clean is important - Would you eat off a dirty plate? No, well neither will your skin, it cant be fead properly if it isn't clean. Good cleansers are hard to fake so this is where i generally reccomend using something that is manufactured.
Oily skin - foaming cleanser
Dry skin - cream cleanser
I like to use a foaming cleanser made by a little shop in Stones Corner (Brisbane) Its $15.50 for for 50mls but that will last you AGES! Check it out here 

Tone - Most people think this is a useless step. Well they are wrong. Toning the skin is important. Why? well because I say so - no not really - It's important because you need to re-balance your skins pH after you strip all the oil and dirt off when you cleanse.
You can use things like - Rose Water, Lavender water, Orange Blossom Water, Witch Hazel. Generally a quick spritz and that's all you need.
I love Mukti Toners - they smell pretty and work as a pick me up all day long. (Carry in your hand bag on long flights or when you have to spend all day in Air Con)  

Moisturize - Oils ain't oils - There is this rumor going round that oil in and on your skin is bad and that you have to proactive *cough* to get rid of it. Well that's just wrong. Your skin needs oil. You strip it and it just makes more (and more and more and more) because oil is the way that your skin protects itself.
I like to recommend that people use oils that are close to the natural oil produced by your skin.

• Rose hip - buy the tablets from the Chemist - they come in their own single dose disposable packaging. 
• Jojoba
• Macadamia.

Oh these oils can also double as eye make up removers. Use them prior to cleansing your face after you go out or wear makeup. They also nourish your eye area!!

These 3 steps should be followed DAILY, twice daily if you wear make up or go to a city.

Tomorrow I'm going to post my tips for the weekly components of the routine. 
Stay Peachy
xoxo