Will you try any of these?

[Virginia]

Came across some beauty treatments. I am going to try some of them! I need all they help I can get/

Cold, whole potato slices on the eyes for 15 minutes, reduces/helps remove "circles" dark spots.
Coconut oil as a night creme.
1 tablespoon of Hydrogen Peroxide with 1 tablespoon of baking soda in a paste 10 - 15 minutes as a face mask.
1 part apple cider vinegar + 2 part vinegar as a skin toner.
Drink 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar a day. A miracle drug?
Few drops of visene to eyeliner to make it stay in place.
Sugar and olive oil as a paste as skin exfoliator.
Blemishes - put some honey on them for about 10 minutes! (STAY AWAY FROM BEARS DURING THIS!)
Whiter teeth - a paste of smashed up strawberries and baking soda on your teeth for 5 minutes then RINSE!
Vaseline as night time eye creme and can be used as eye make-up remover.
Please feel free to add your own, like:
Put concealer on lips before putting on lipstick.
Hemorrhoid creme to reduce circles under the eyes. carefully!

Virginia

[Carol Ann]

No but heck no my dear

[Davita]

Strawberies? What do they do? The baking soda is the cleaner.

Hydrogen Peroxide is an oxidizing bleach. Do you really want to use that the way you described it?

Olive oil is the "new cleanser" but it has been around awhile and sugar as an exfoliate isn't new either.

Which Visene formula? The fake tear version? The one that reduces red (constricts blood vessels) or another? I won't use any of those products on my eyes and I don't think skin is a much better option.

What's in the potato that works on the blood vessels under the eyes? And wasn't cucumber the veggie of choice before?

Drink vinegar? I think I heard about that one. Did you hear about the coach who had his team drinking pickle juice? Might be for the same reason.

[Eileen (SO)]

Some of these I've heard of, not all for beauty treatments though. Just general health.

Don't the spas use cucumber over the eyes? I've never have the high end facial treatment. Pampering is when Honey keeps the wine glass full.

I do not like coconut at all, either taste or the smell of it.

One not mentioned, apple cider vinegar kills warts better than any OTC product. Snip a piece of cotton ball, dip it in apple cider vinegar and use a band aid to hold in place over the wart. Replace it each day. Sometimes it will sting, it's OK to take if off a day. Warts will disappear within 2 weeks tops. Compound W didn't do diddly. I had a Planter's wart for close to a year and tried everything but having it cut out. Since warts are a virus, spreading though the body, my hands began to show warts too. The apple cider vinegar cured every bit in no time. Even some that were not directly treated went away, the virus died.

Vaseline can be used as a make up remover, some peoples eye area don't like it much.

Drinking a shot of apple cider vinegar in the morning is much like the old timely health regimen Gramps used to do. Though I suspect there was an added flavor to the vinegar!

Eileen

[DonnaT]

ACV, apple cider vinegar, has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties.

When I had ankle surgery, I used it to cure a toe-nail fungus that developed. I'm not sure if the ACV was also responsible for the healing of problem I had with cracking in the skin of my feet due to type 2 diabetes, but ever since my ankle surgery, the problem has disappeared.

The main reason for drinking it, to ward off diarrhea, and prevent it if one isn't sure about the food or water they are drinking.

See also http://thehealthyeatingsite.com/benefit ... r-vinegar/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A household item which is great for all moisturizing needs, CRISCO shortening. It contains ingredients you'll find in expensive moisturizers: soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, partially hydrogenated palm and soybean oils, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ and citric acid (antioxidants).

[Eileen (SO)]

Donna,

I have a brother that has always been bothered with foot skin cracking, he's not diabetic. And one family friend that is very over weight and diabetic with the same foot problem. ACV seems like something both could use and will pass this on, it couldn't hurt. Was a shot a day enough for your results? Morning or evening?

Thanks, now I must go and moisturize in cooking fat

Eileen

[DonnaT]

Was a shot a day enough for your results? Morning or evening

I didn't drink it, I soaked my feet and ankle in a mix of water and ACV to prevent infection in the surgery wound, and it got rid of the nail fungus as a side benefit.

I can't say it helped with the cracking, but it was either soaking in that solution or the blood thinner I was taking to ward off blood clots at the time (no longer taking it). However, it's now a couple of years later, and still no cracking feet. I haven't even had to use the Myoflex moisturizer since then.

[Leeza]

Elieen wrote

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If you are going to drink ACV do it in the morning or no later than several hours before bedtime. You want to be awake for the first few times you need the restroom after drinking ACV.