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Make your beauty products! #1

Olive oil

It is great to apply on fragile and brittle nails (one drop + a small massage). You can also use it as a make-up remover, especially to remove "no transfer" foundation. And in the bath? Yes! The trick to avoid “eyes” that float like a pot-au-feu:mix it with a small amount of moisturizer before mixing it with warm water. Mixed with granulated sugar, it also makes a great scrub.

Salt

Mix flower (neither too fine nor too coarse) with shower gel to make a body scrub that tones and circulates (=anti-cellulite), or with lip balm for a face and mouth scrub. Or, quite simply, add sea salt to the bath water to make you believe that you are in Bahia (anti-stress and anti-ache).

Crystal sugar

With this gourmand, we simmer the traditional "sugar depilation":4 teaspoons of water + the same volume of sugar. Heat gently until the consistency of honey then let cool to body temperature. Spread the dough with a wooden spatula, apply a strip of gauze, then pull in the opposite direction…ouch! hair.

Apple cider vinegar

A source of potassium, sodium, iron, phosphorus and magnesium, this little genius in minerals softens the skin. CQFD:a cup in the bath before a cuddling session (moo no, you won't attract flies!).

Chocolate

It's good for morale and the skin ditto. As proof, the appearance of many massages and cocoa treatments in institutes. We keep it simple (as always):mix some Van Houten cocoa powder in your hot bath water and let's go for a light fondue girl tasting.

Honey

It is a top toupe antiseptic, which also has nourishing and moisturizing properties. Recipe for very dry skin (elbows, knees, lice, owls):mix three tablespoons of olive oil, the juice of a lemon + 1 spoon of liquid honey. Shake, massage for 2 minutes, rinse, dry, moisturize with your usual cream. We have the dry toe of the rind? Not sexy when it comes to taking out your new golden Spartans. Before going to sleep, smear your feet with liquid honey and put on socks. When you wake up, wash them with a mild soap and then apply your moisturizer. Also use honey as a nourishing lip balm. Been crazy and your peepers are swollen and ringed? Mix a teaspoon of acacia honey with half a glass of warm mineral water. Impregnate two compresses with this magic potion then leave on your eyes for ten minutes.