Avocado Facial Mask

Nov

2008

Feeling Like Fiona

I told you about my wintertime dry skin woes in an earlier post, and one of my friends suggested using an avocado for a facial mask once a week. Last night I tried it, and it really felt good on my skin. She suggested leaving it on for about 10 minutes. I rinsed it off in the sink, but the shower probably would have been easier. I don’t know if the results were amazing or instantaneous, but I’m definitely going to try it again.

Now if you’ve never bought an avocado, they are really easy to use. Make sure you get one that is fully ripe – black and soft. The outer skin is tough, but the flesh will be plenty soft to scoop out and mush up. There is a large pit in the center, so just cut it in half like a peach and scrape out the flesh with a spoon. I used less than half of the avocado on my face, and saved the other half for a little bit of guacamole on my taco salad for lunch today – yum!

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Michelle Says:
November 21st, 2008 at 4:04 pm

I’ve heard avocado is great but haven’t tried it on my own skin. Sounds like a great thing for the dry winter months though. I like that you can use some for the skin and some to eat… can’t get any better than that