| Skin aromatherapy need not cost a fortune. Powerful | | | | you used to chill and put over your droopy eyes? |
| botanicals, potent natural extracts, and fragrant dried | | | | They are still right there under your green grocer's |
| flowers come from the garden, not the cosmetics | | | | tender care. Natural Treatment for all kinds of skin? |
| aisle. So, effective skin treatment should start in your | | | | Hola, homemade soaps and shower gels infused with |
| own garden, too. Maximizing the benefit and | | | | cleansing, healing, rejuvenating fruit and vegetable |
| minimizing the cost of your skin treatment, keep it | | | | essences. Why not extract the precious oils from |
| simple and perfectly natural. | | | | oranges, lemons, and especially from mandarin |
| Yes, you easily can invest hundreds of dollars in | | | | oranges, and why not put their powerful cleansers |
| exotic, expensive skin care products from Chanel, | | | | and anti-bacterials to work on blemishes, breakouts, |
| Lancome, and Clinique. With a little professional advice | | | | and other oily skin emergencies? Yes, some citrus |
| and encouragement from your cheerful, | | | | fruits irritate very sensitive skin; they do far less |
| ever-so-helpful upscale retailer, you probably can | | | | harm, however, than the vicious acid peels and |
| convince yourself you get what you pay for. If you | | | | anti-biotics your narrow-minded, old-fashioned |
| buy your products on sale, you even can argue, "The | | | | dermatologist would apply. You cannot seriously |
| more you spend, the more you save." But, really, all | | | | believe that stuff you see on all-night cable really is |
| of that conspicuous consumption is just so twentieth | | | | good for you, can you? |
| century. Supermodels and smart shoppers have | | | | Skin essential oils comes in all your favorite flavors. If |
| evolved into a new age, embracing natural essential | | | | you thought cinnamon-apple worked pretty well on |
| oils direct from the garden. | | | | French Toast, you should see what a proper mix of |
| Eventually, you will discover, to your chagrin, the | | | | fruit and spice could do for your face. If you thought |
| more you spend for your European extravagances, | | | | chamomile worked pretty well in your herbal tea, you |
| the less organic material you get. You eventually will | | | | should see what it could do to calm your skin after |
| discover the further up the price lines you climb, the | | | | shaving or waxing. |
| more toxic ingredients you buy. Real fruits and | | | | Please, remember, essential oil aromatherapy |
| vegetables cost very little; their synthetic equivalents | | | | numbers among several naturopathic remedies for |
| and the chemists who make them, on the other | | | | troubled skin. Although dermatologists (tentatively) |
| hand, cost quite a bit. You eventually will concede, in | | | | have concluded diet does not directly cause acne, |
| skin care as in most things smart and healthy, the | | | | nutritionists beg to differ. Everything you eat |
| fundamental principle of elegance applies: Less is | | | | influences every major organ and ultimately every cell |
| more. Concentrate on getting just enough of just the | | | | in your body. If you eat a steady diet of two all beef |
| right stuff. Stop shopping for skin products in the | | | | patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, |
| cosmetics aisles. Start shopping for the very best-the | | | | special sauce, on a sesame seed bun, every one of |
| premium, literally the cream of the crop and the top | | | | those ingredients will show up somewhere on your |
| of the pop, the ultimate, consummate, and generally | | | | skin, in your hair, around your middle, and packed into |
| USDA prime-yes, the very best skin aromatherapy in | | | | your thighs. In addition to a carefully crafted system |
| the produce aisle. | | | | of skin aromatherapy, invest a little time and effort in |
| Have dry skin? Hello, avocado. Bon jour, bananas and | | | | healing your complexion from the inside out. |
| cream. Tired skin? Remember those cucumber slices | | | | |