FOOD:BEAUTY

My sister just graduated from an esthetician program in Maui. I asked her what she learned and if she could share some advice on basic skin care. She told me that rice flour makes and excellent gentle exfoliant, honey makes a great mask, apple cider vinegar is good for your whole body, basically, everything you need for your skin you might already have in your kitchen.

This is very important because the first thing she was taught was that your skin is your largest organ and it "eats" whatever you put on it. She said she was asked if she would eat her eyeshadow and her answer, of course, was NO. Her teacher said that in effect that is what she was doing by simply applying it externally to her eyelids.

You don't know how happy it made me to have this confirmation. As someone who makes my own beauty care products out of ingredients that I can and do eat, I felt less like a hippy chick. Admittedly, I once ran out of the supply of coconut oil I have in the kitchen and just went in to my bathroom and borrowed some from there--it could be gross if there was hair or body oils in it but it was clean, and after all it all originally came from the same jar. >(:0)