Spa at Home – More Beauty in Your Kitchen

I just ran across this great article on various foods you can use for skin and hair care at home. Many of these same foods are the basis for the beauty products available at Inspire and other salons. As I’ve been finding these various recipes, I’ve been trying them at home which has actually been kind of fun. It’s sort of like being back in elementary school, making mud pies or other totally inedible concoctions from berries and seeds I found outside. I get to be creative – just like I do in cooking – and then test out my concoctions like I did with my amateur chemistry set in the third grade.

In all the fun I am having I do have to say there is one caveat…some of these at home treatments are really messy! Take the body scrub I made the other day out of used coffee grounds. I am not a big fan of coffee smell alone so I added some powdered ginger and allspice to it. Once I had that mixed up I added some grape-seed oil to part of the batch (and I admit it – hair conditioner – to the other.) If I do it again I will add them to my shower gel instead.

Anyway, the oil mix was oily – go figure – and potentially a little dangerous in the shower. The other worked out a bit better in my opinion. But they were both really messy! Obviously the grounds released a dark, oh I don’t know, coffee colored tinge onto my skin which I wasn’t crazy about. And when it was time to rinse of the coffee scrub, it was really tough to get it all off AND out of the shower.

I am not sure how crazy my husband would be if I used that scrub all the time. But I will say, my skin felt great, and I am considering taking the next step and doing an at home coffee-ground body wrap on myself to combat that ever present c-e-l-l-u-l-i-t-e. Click here to watch a quick video about using coffee grounds as a hand or foot scrub. I tried this too and really like being able to do it over the kitchen sink and disposal.