Most women want to look good. Beauty might be skin deep, but it does reflect how you feel about at yourself. Do you take care of yourself? Do you pamper yourself? Do you value yourself? I'm not saying that a person needs to look perfectly groomed, or good all the time. I don't believe that. Just that when one looks into the mirror, one should be pleased with what they see.

Every woman wants to have flawless skin and reasonable good facial features. There are thousands of books written on beauty. This hub will focus on cheap and easy ways to rejuvenate your skin. There are loads of natural ingredients, if and when applied correctly, can do wonders for your skin. Before you decide what would work for you, you need to identify your skin type here.

Identify your skin type

There are essentially 3 types of skin.

Oily: Large pored, coarse, blackheads and frequent breakouts. If you

have oily skin, avoid fried foods

Combination: The T-zone is oily and the rest of the face is dry.

Dry Skin: fine pored, pinkish and roughens easily Eat healthy foods

including eggs, butter, vegetables etc

Some Facts that you should be aware of

• Excessive Skin Exposure to the mid day sun ,exhausts the skin's healing
• ability
• Smoking dries the skin
• Rapid weight loss causes sagging and collapsing of muscles, causes
• muscles to lose elasticity
• Central heating can dry the skin

Benefits/Effects of Natural Ingredients:

Knowing the benefits of some natural ingredients, you can make your own facewash, masks, and moisturizing creams. Following the tips below, you can pamper your skin, and get a home made spa treatment.

Almonds are best for dry and combination skin because they nourish it and moisturizes it.. Smoothes out wrinkles

Gramflour is great for oily skin as well as aging (because it doesn't make it dry or oily) and clears off the dirt, makes tightens the skin.

Oatmeal is best for all skin types and its bran acts as a scrub cleaning away the dirt and skin oils.

Yoghurt: Can be applied directly, however it is not suitable for oily skin. It smoothes and soften lines.

Lemon: Lemon is as a natural toner and bleach. Not suitable for dry skin. Also it is better if you dilute lemon by adding milk to it. Use it as a cleanser, Soak cotton and apply to skin, and it acts as a great cleanser.

If you have dark elbows or knees, you can rub the inside of a squeezed lemon on them, and they will become fair after regular use.

Fruit Peels

You can use fresh fruit peel, they refresh the skin. Rub the fruit side of the peel on your face, pat dry with cotton wool; don't rinse

dry skin, peel of apricot and peach is best;

normal skin : use grape peel Oily skin; use lemon and grapefruit rind

Oily Skin, use peel of pear

For blemishes; use apple peel

Cucumber: Cucumber is a great refresher, and when cold slices of cucumber are placed on eyes, makes you feel fresh as well as gets rid of those eye circles.

Honey: Apply honey if you have dry skin, it will leave your face thoroughly moisturized and glowing. Not suitable for oily skin.

Caring for your Neck

Neck shows signs of aging first. You need to take care of your neck, by moisturizing it and putting cream on it too. The best way is to apply cream in upward motion. Clean your neck regularly with creams designed to keep your neck young.

Teeth:

A smile is a curve that puts everything straight. Healthy and white teeth are a necessity. Have you ever noticed a person's smile, it lights up the whole face. Anyways, for whiter teeth, you can try to rub a little salt on them.Also brush your teeth the first thing in the morning, and the last thing in the evening.

Nails:

For stronger nails, rub garlic on them. For whiter nails and to get rid of the yellowness, rub lemon on the whites.

Eyes

"They eyes are windows to the soul" Eyes should be sparkling, white should be white and not yellow. Get rid of those eye circles by placing cucumber slices or potato slices on your eyes.

You can also soak cotton in rosewater and place on closed eyes.

Alternatively, soak cotton in iced water and place it on your eyes. It relaxes eyes a lot.

For longer eyelashes, apply castor oil with a lipbrush on the lashes, taking care that you don't put any in the eye.

Last but not least, Drink loads of water. We all know that drinking water is one of the top secrets of beauty.

Beauty Drinks

Alongwith water, you can try having a Saffron drink.

Saffron drink: Soak 5-6 strands of saffron in 3 tbsp of milk, let it stand for 10 to 15 minutes. Add to 1 cup of warm milk, and then drink it. The best time to drink it would be night time. You can also boil water and then squeeze half a lemon and add 1 tbsp honey. Mix and drink it. It is known to help reduce weight.

Relax and Take a bath

It's difficult to find time to take a bath, but it relaxes you like nothing else. Fill your tub with hot water, add some bath salts, or bubble bath, anything with a soothing smell, light some candles, put some music on, and relax. You can also try to put cucumber slices on your eyes. Make sure your phones are turned off.

Love thyself, pamper thyself, and thy will look fresh and beautiful.

Indulge yourself, and be happy. It will show on your face and your attitude.