Hello there! I’m Deborah, the mother of three and esthetician behind My Life At Playtime. As a lover of all things beauty, I’m excited to join the Hello Glow team and share my skincare knowledge. Got a question about facials or waxing? I’m your gal! But enough about me, let’s get to the food – on your face, of course.
Avocado is one of my favorite foods to enjoy over toast, with chips or in a salad. You can venture to say I’m a fan! Avocado isn’t just delicious to eat, but it’s actually delicious for your skin as well. The avocado fruit is a wonderful moisturizer for dry skin, in fact, avocado oil has been known to help alleviate eczema and psoriasis because it’s very similar to our own skin’s oil. Here are a few avocado beauty recipes for your face, body and hair using avocado and other common ingredients found in your home. Just be sure you don’t mistakenly eat the ingredients before you use them!
4 Avocado Beauty Treatments
1. Avocado-Oatmeal Facial Mask
Avocado is rich in antioxidants, which are great at fighting the affects of aging. This recipe is an anti-aging mask that you can use once a week. Mash half an avocado and mix in a tablespoon of oats. Apply the mask with a brush or fingers to your face and neck and leave on for about 10 minutes. Rinse the mask off with warm water when you are finished.
2. Avocado Anti Wrinkle Eye Treatment
Whenever you use an avocado there’s always a little bit of pulp leftover on the inside of that skin. This pulp has the most concentrated amounts of vitamins, and they are known to increase your body’s own production of collagen, perfect for the wrinkle prone area around your eyes. For this eye treatment, scrape the leftover pulp out of the avocado skin using a spoon. Apply it directly onto your orbital rim (that’s the socket area around your eye). Over the avocado, you can apply cotton pads saturated with cool water. Lay down and relax for 10-15 minutes while this vitamin-rich part of the avocado hydrates your skin, then rinse with warm water to remove.
3. Simple Hydrating Avocado Hair Mask
After shampooing your hair, apply mashed avocado directly onto your hair to increase its luster and strength. You can also apply the mashed avocado directly to your scalp to stimulate hair growth and help with an itchy scalp. Leave the mask on for about 10 minutes before rinsing clean. You’ll enjoy shiny, healthy hair in no time!
4. After-Sun Avocado Body Mask
If you’ve been in the sun and feel your skin is a little dry from the heat, or sunburned, you’ll love this hydrating and cooling body mask. Combine mashed avocado, 1/2 teaspoon of honey, and 1/4 teaspoon of lime juice in a bowl. Apply liberally over the skin and leave on for 10-15 minutes to enjoy the healing and hydrating effects.
Hi DEBORAH HARJU. I extremely like AVOCADOS. love it
Hi,
I have not tried using avocado as hair treatment yet because I don’t know that it is also good for the locks. I don’t only use avocado as a facial mask, but I also love eating them because it’s my all time favorite. Avocado is good for the skin and good to eat too. When making some DIY skincare treatment I use avocado oil instead. Thanks for sharing these informative post.
Hello Deborah,
I’ve been using the avocado face mask, but I had no idea that I can use it for my hair! I have a very dry scalp due to multiple hair dye treatments this year, and my dandruff can be very embarrassing. I will try that avocado hair mask, and hopefully, it will work for me. Thanks for sharing!
First of all, these are awesome ideas for healthy and natural skin care. Thank You for sharing. I know you said on the eye wrinkle mask to use cotton rounds soaked in cool water. For myself , I have terrible insomnia and get a lot of puffiness. I’ve found use green tea bags soaked in cool water adds to the benefit of an eye cream or mask . The antioxidants in green tea are awesome. The caffeine helps to soothe the puffiness and reduce any dark circles. If my eyes are itchy from allergies, I will use camomile instead. It reduces imflamation and redness from irritants .
This sounds so YUMMY! how often would you use these concoctions? I especially like the hair treatment!
Hi, loving the sound of these topical recipes thanks for posting. A couple of questions- with the hair mask that u apply after shampooing, when u say rinse after the required time do u need to rewash ur hair with shampoo or does the advocado rinse completely out and act as the conditioning stage? (That’s the way I read it but thought I better check!) and if I was to leave it on longer, this applies to all the recipes here, would it increase the nourishing and anti oxidant abilities of the advocado? I’ve found when using coconut oil as a hair treatment that yes it’s still effective if say left on shampooed hair for ten minutes however if left for several hours or even overnight that it feels like it has done more. Obviously with coconut oil I need to re shampoo my hair after using coconut oil which is why I’m wondering with this one. Thanks for a great post.
I LOVE AVOCADOS!!!! Nice article, didn’t knew it had many more uses for Anti Aging! ;) thank you! .
I LOVE AVOCADOS!!!! Nice article, didn’t knew it had many more uses for Anti Aging! ;) thank you!