During the winter months, everything takes a festive twist so why not holiday-ize your spa treatments too. We aren’t talking gravy baths or pumpkin pie moisturizer, but those seasonal eats can nurture your winter skin and keep the indulgent eats away from your waistline.
Stop shoveling these holiday eats in and start scooping, spooning and scrubbing them on so your skin will feel refreshed come the New Year.
1. Candy Cane Sugar Scrub from The Idea Room
Once you are done noshing on the 10 best peppermint recipes, take your candy cane obsession to you skin. Sugar scrubs add moisture and soften-up rough winter skin. Plus the smell of minty freshness is instantly soothing. Agree?
2. Cranberry Face Mask from She Knows
Save some cranberries from this year’s cranberry sauce or cranberry garland to make this antioxidant-rich, anti-aging cranberry face mask. You well be cran-beautiful.
3. Honey, Cinnamon and Nutmeg Acne Mix from Beautylish
Your skin wouldn’t mind if you could fast forward through the winter months and get on with springy cheeks all over again. The abrupt climate change can do strange things to your complexion and cause sudden breakouts…just in time for the family portrait. Save some of the holiday season’s most notable spices (nutmeg and cinnamon) and apply this mix to your irritated areas.
4. De-Puff your Eyes with Potatoes from Real Beauty
There is likely no shortage of potatoes in your house from the mashed tater classic that graces you holiday menu, but this year save a few slices for your eyes. Your lack of sleep won’t show after you kick up your feet and let the chemicals in the potato do its work. Refrigerate the potato skin and it will be like a mini ice pack reducing the “bruised” under eye circles. Bonus: You can swap regular potatoes for sweet potatoes. They are full of vitamin A.
Do you have any beauty uses for your holiday leftovers? Share your recipes below.
