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It is a fact that
millions of dollars have been spent to keep your
face look healthy and young through Botox
injections, chemical peels and face-lifts.
Instead of spending so much money, another way
is by using spa therapies to get that youthful
look by maintaining a natural toned skin through
acupressure, aromatic essential oils and
vitamins. For example, the thinnest cell layers
on your face is your lips and to protect them
from being damaged easily, use a relaxing
overnight remedy for lip therapy which involves melting two
teaspoons of grated beeswax with a small portion
of olive oil. Mix them with a drop of lavender
essential oil. Exfoliate your lips with a damp
cloth before applying the mixture on your lips.
When you wake up the next morning, your lips
will look fresh and healthy.
To prevent your
face from looking boring and uninteresting, make
sure that your face is cleansed as often as
possible because cleansing is a very essential
part of facial skin care. Wet your face first
before applying a thin layer of cleanser on your
face. Slowly massage the lotion into your skin
using circular motions. Leave it on for about
five minutes and then rinse your face. A
recommended cleanser to wash away dust, make-up
and pollutants is a mild vitamin E cream
cleanser. Another method carried out to make
your face look young is through acupressure
facial toning. To begin this natural face-lift
method, make sure that your middle fingers are
braced behind your index fingers and then press
firmly and massage the following areas :-
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Directly below
the eyebrows
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Above the
arches of both eyebrows
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Fronts of both
temples
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Both
cheekbones under the far edges of the eyes
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Either side of
the nose at the inner bases of the
cheekbones
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Between the
nose and upper lip
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Between the
lower lip and the bottom of the chin
 A much more
favored relaxing method is the warm stone
treatment. First you must warm three smooth flat
stones in a bowl of hot water. The lie down on
your back on a flat surface. Place one stone
below your hair line in the middle of your
forehead and another stone between your
eyebrows. Then, the final stone is placed
between your bottom lip and the end of your
chin. The benefit of this warm stone therapy is
that the stones will warm the acupressure points
of your face.
Photo: Facial Treatment
This subsequently leads to
the releasing of muscles
and the stimulation of the nerves. Remove the
stones once they become cold. This spa treatment
using warm stone is not for those who are
pregnant or for those with heart disease and
high blood pressure.
Another way for
healthy and younger looking skin is to apply
skin balm. A good mixture would be adding neroli
essential oil to a neutral base oil since neroli
is known to soothe and revitalize the skin. Pour
a small potion of the mixture on your palm and
to activate the neroli oil, rub your hands
together and then slowly massage the oils into
your skin. A good substitute for neroli oil
would be grapeseed oil because of its
antioxidants.
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