My latest experiment was with canned pumpkin. Pumpkin is loaded with all kinds of good stuff your skin needs so I thought, "Why not?" So I opened up a can of pumpkin, smeared it on my face and throat and waited about 15 minutes. After rinsing it off, while my skin did feel noticeably smoother, my face and neck and the palms of my hands were a ghastly shade of...well, pumpkin orange. From the neck up, I looked like a spray tan gone bad. My peculiar coloring lasted about 3 days. Neither man nor boy noticed. (Note to self: next time, use the white pumpkins.)
Other things I have tried and suggest you avoid -
Plough (pronounced 'pluff') mud: I thought this would be a great detoxifier and be loaded with luscious nutrients from the sea. However, when I let it dry out on my skin, I was encased in this incredibly hard crust...sort of like a mummy. Took FOREVER to wash off. And then, learning from my mistake, I thought maybe regular mud puddle mud might work...you know, with the rain water and all that. Got a horrible rash...
I had high hopes for whipped cream and honey - When I started out, I actually was using MILK and honey, but by the time I blew up the hand mixer trying to blend these two things together, I had made whipped cream with some lumpy calcified honey blobs. Whipped cream, and therefore I assume milk, on my skin, makes me itch terribly! Egg whites were almost as difficult to remove as the plough mud. And, I also can't recommend oatmeal, watermelon, coffee grinds or balsamic vinegar as skincare treatments.
So, while I like and use "natural" and "unprocessed" and "organic" products to eat or clean my house with, when it comes to my face, I run like hell from any product that makes any of those claims!
