The Green Beauty Guide

I’ve just gotten off the air. This was an amazing interview with The Diva Success Network, based in Georgia, and while I was musing on the benefits of going green when it comes to your beauty, an amazingly simple recipe came to my mind.

My Mom used to do it in the summertime to erase and prevent sun damage, but I feel it can be used in winter time, too, to revive glow and lightly exfoliate a dreary winter skin.

The recipe is simple: an orange juice. That’s right. Plain orange juice. My Mom rubbed half the orange or half the tangerine (or clementine, or even satsuma) all over her face, avoiding the eye area.

And it makes perfect sense: orange juice contains alpha hydroxy acids, and just the right type for your skin. Even the most fragile skins are safe with most fruit juices, apart from lemon and lime. Still, you can use them diluted.

Citrus fruit juices are naturally astringent, so they will dry up your pimples. They will lightly exfoliate thanks to fruit acids. And they are rich in age-reversing antioxidants, bioflavanoids, and vitamin C, the potent collagen rebuilder and skin lightener.

Need any more reasons to use orange juice daily as a face toner than comes full-strength, without any preservatives or fillers?

Then grab that carton of organic or at least “not from concentrate” OJ and start reviving your skin to its prime condition!

Merry Christmas!