Helen Ambrosen, Lush co-founder and product inventor shares beauty recipes using ingredients you may already have at home.
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She recommends stocking up on "beautiful vegetable oils like olive and almond. Fine sea salt is always very useful—you can use these on your body or on feet. Other good things to have are fine oatmeal, ground almonds and honey.
"With these staple ingredients, you can then make a lot of different things: a lovely face mask; salts for your bath; tie some oats and almonds in muslin to float in the bath water, squeeze out and pat on your skin; honey dabbed onto spots.
"At Lush we use these materials all the time, so it’s not difficult to work out how to use them at home. But Lush is a little bit like a fine restaurant—you can do it at home if you like, but you can also come to Lush and let us do it for you!"
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Hair care
As a pre-wash, use this hair recipe using eggs.
Eggs are really good for the hair and a great source of protein. Beat 2 eggs then add 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil. Olive oil improves the tensile strength of the hair. You can double up the quantities for longer hair.
Massage the mixture in to dry hair, wrap a towel around your head and leave for 10 minutes.
Shampoo and condition out.
The olive oil will help to improve the tensile strength of the hair, making it much less likely to break when you're combing it after shampoo and conditioning.
When hair's wet it's at it's most fragile, so this will help stop hair breakage.
The eggs will give softness and shine over-and-above what your normal conditioner will do. Eggs are extremely mucilaginous—the residue will last beyond shampooing and conditioning—and a great source of nutrition, as they are full of protein. They give a rich feeling to the hair, leaving it soft and shiny.
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Does your hair look dead and lifeless?
Here's a hair remedy using apple juice.
Mix 1 tablespoon of apple juice with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
After shampooing and conditioning, apply to the ends of the hair, leave for a minute and then rinse. The acidity of the apple juice will flatten the hair cuticle leaving it more reflective of light and, as such, a lot shinier.
Body scrub
Take 2 tablespoons of fine sea salt and mix to a paste with a heavy oil such as olive oil or even better, brazil nut oil. This is deeply nourishing for the skin.
Wet the skin and apply to the backs of arms, legs and anywhere where the skin is rough.
Don’t use on the décolleté area. Rinse off.
This one can be used on its own. You probably wouldn't need to do much more to your skin than that.
If you don't like sulphactant or soap then this is a really good way of keeping your skin clean.
However, I would recommend using it as part of your beauty regime, as a treatment for when your skin is feeling a bit rough and in need of a good scrub.
Use it no more than once a week, so that skin will be left feeling exfoliated and softened.
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Among her favorite Lush products are the Ultrabland cleanser.
"I can't live without it! It's such a beautiful, simple product that will thoroughly clean your skin and leave it soft and supple. It’s so important to clean your skin at the end of the day and Ultrabland is the way to do it. I also love Dream Cream body moisturiser– it’s great for both your hands and feet."
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Lush stores are located at Glorietta 4, Power Plant mall, Shangri-La Plaza, Greenbelt 3, Mall of Asia and Bonifacio High Street.
To know the latest promos, go to http://www.lush.com.ph/
She recommends stocking up on "beautiful vegetable oils like olive and almond. Fine sea salt is always very useful—you can use these on your body or on feet. Other good things to have are fine oatmeal, ground almonds and honey.
"With these staple ingredients, you can then make a lot of different things: a lovely face mask; salts for your bath; tie some oats and almonds in muslin to float in the bath water, squeeze out and pat on your skin; honey dabbed onto spots.
"At Lush we use these materials all the time, so it’s not difficult to work out how to use them at home. But Lush is a little bit like a fine restaurant—you can do it at home if you like, but you can also come to Lush and let us do it for you!"
Hair care
As a pre-wash, use this hair recipe using eggs.
Eggs are really good for the hair and a great source of protein. Beat 2 eggs then add 1/2 teaspoon of olive oil. Olive oil improves the tensile strength of the hair. You can double up the quantities for longer hair.
Massage the mixture in to dry hair, wrap a towel around your head and leave for 10 minutes.
Shampoo and condition out.
The olive oil will help to improve the tensile strength of the hair, making it much less likely to break when you're combing it after shampoo and conditioning.
When hair's wet it's at it's most fragile, so this will help stop hair breakage.
The eggs will give softness and shine over-and-above what your normal conditioner will do. Eggs are extremely mucilaginous—the residue will last beyond shampooing and conditioning—and a great source of nutrition, as they are full of protein. They give a rich feeling to the hair, leaving it soft and shiny.
Does your hair look dead and lifeless?
Here's a hair remedy using apple juice.
Mix 1 tablespoon of apple juice with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
After shampooing and conditioning, apply to the ends of the hair, leave for a minute and then rinse. The acidity of the apple juice will flatten the hair cuticle leaving it more reflective of light and, as such, a lot shinier.
Body scrub
Take 2 tablespoons of fine sea salt and mix to a paste with a heavy oil such as olive oil or even better, brazil nut oil. This is deeply nourishing for the skin.
Wet the skin and apply to the backs of arms, legs and anywhere where the skin is rough.
Don’t use on the décolleté area. Rinse off.
This one can be used on its own. You probably wouldn't need to do much more to your skin than that.
If you don't like sulphactant or soap then this is a really good way of keeping your skin clean.
However, I would recommend using it as part of your beauty regime, as a treatment for when your skin is feeling a bit rough and in need of a good scrub.
Use it no more than once a week, so that skin will be left feeling exfoliated and softened.
Among her favorite Lush products are the Ultrabland cleanser.
"I can't live without it! It's such a beautiful, simple product that will thoroughly clean your skin and leave it soft and supple. It’s so important to clean your skin at the end of the day and Ultrabland is the way to do it. I also love Dream Cream body moisturiser– it’s great for both your hands and feet."
Lush stores are located at Glorietta 4, Power Plant mall, Shangri-La Plaza, Greenbelt 3, Mall of Asia and Bonifacio High Street.
To know the latest promos, go to http://www.lush.com.ph/