At Home spa tricks for healthy skin

Skin that glows De-puff your sleep-deprived eyes with cotton balls soaked in water and left in the freezer until icy cold. For an even more effective treatment, steep the cotton balls in green tea before you pop them in the freezer, as they do at the New Orleans Ritz-Carlton Spa. Caffeine in tea helps reduce water retention in the eyelids. I sometimes do that with sliced cucumber and use that on the eyes as well. You can blend cucumber into a paste and then add steeped green tea. Put this liquid in ice cube tray with tooth picks for later use. It's okay if this is a bit thick. Take it out, let it melt and use cotton balls in the cold concotion on your tired eye lids. Extremely good for the eyes. Also great for any bruising. Enjoy a sweet and easy body scrub: Bring a cup of sugar with you into the shower, wet your skin, then turn off the water and apply the sugar all over, gently massaging it into your skin. Turn the water back on and rinse. The sugar dissolves easily and won't leave grit on the shower or bath floor, says Kenneth Ryan, spa director at the Willow Stream Spa at Fairmont Turnberry Isle in Aventura, Florida. I love this solution, but baking soda is also nice and is finer. I usually combine with cetaphil moisturizer/face wash with baking soda then have a nice rub down. Try dry body brushing to smooth rough spots, increase your circulation, and make you feel good inside and out, says Ann Brown, director of Spa Shiki at the Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake Ozark, Missouri. All you need is a body brush. Starting at your feet and working up, gently brush your body in a stroking motion toward your heart. Follow with a bath or shower and a rich moisturizer. If you don't have a body brush, I would recommend just a hand towel (lower quality walmart type is rough or dish towel rough. High quality ones may be too soft and comfy to be effective). It has the right roughness that it exfoliates without scratching the skin. Idea is to improve circulation not exfliate too much. Make an easy, effective face mask by blending an egg white with the juice of half a lemon. Leave it on for 15 minutes before rinsing. This instantly brightens and tightens your skin and large pores (huge Desi girl issue), says Sasha Lefort, spa manager at the Ritz-Carlton Spa in New Orleans. You can follow this with a nice yogurt facial as in another spa treatment I described in a post. http://beautytobe.blogspot.com/2006/10/yogurt-aha-treatment-you-never-knew-you.html