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Why You Need An Ice Facial..

posted in Beauty on 12/4/2013
It may not sound that particularly pleasant, but running an ice cube over your face has a lot of benefits for your skin.
It may not sound that particularly pleasant, but running an ice cube over your face has a lot of benefits for your skin.
Besides giving your face a dewy, glowing look, the frosty cubes will help to smooth your complexion by combatting fat cells, ease wrinkles, fight acne, and promote blood circulation that will help heal blemishes. By simply massaging your face with ice cubes for a minute or two before bed, you will essentially be giving yourself a mini facial. (Just be sure to wrap the cubes in a paper towel, or a baggie because applying them directly to your skin can cause delicate blood vessels to break.)
For an added “ahh” to this spa-inspired treatment, try freezing your cubes with watermelon, lemon, or rose. Getting iced never sounded so good…
For an added “ahh” to this spa-inspired treatment, try freezing your cubes with watermelon, lemon, or rose. Getting iced never sounded so good…
Glowing skin: Pour orange juice into an ice cube tray to make and rub it on your face for a min or two to gives you a natural and healthy gorgeous glow. Makeup Primer: Just before applying makeup, prep your skin by rubbing an ice cube to keep your skin fresh and makeup stay put for long hours.
Tight and Firm Skin: Ice cubes will help to smooth your complexion, shrinks the size of pores, ease wrinkles, fight acne, and promote blood circulation. Simply massage an ice cube that is wrapped in a paper towel for few mins before going to bed to give yourself a mini facial to firm and tighten the skin.
Zap Zit: Use an ice cube to reduce redness, inflammation and shrink acne before using a spot treatment. Simply place an ice cube in a paper towel or soft cloth and use it over the acne. Ice cubes also helps in reducing the size of acne scar. Puffy eyes: Brew strong green tea and pour it in an ice cube tray. Wrap the green tea ice cube in a cloth and use it under the eyes to reduce puffy eyes and brighten the under eye area. You can also make iced cotton pads to reduce dark circles naturally.
Tweeze Eyebrow: Rub ice cube several times while tweezing your eyebrows, it makes the skin numb, minimizing swelling, redness and pain. Sunburn Remedy: Pour aloe vera gel in a ice cube tray and freeze it before using it on sunburned skin for instant relief from the sting.

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