Going local for a fabulous Eid glow

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To ensure you look your absolute best this Eid, you should strongly think about going local with your beauty regimen. Not only will you be doing yourself and your pocket a favour, but your skin too by going natural instead of using harsh chemicals. You won’t go wrong by doing so.

With so many products to select from when it comes to enhancing our beauty, sometimes, it is best to go back to our roots and go local with our beauty treatments.

Therefore, with the Sallah right around the corner, it’s time to ensure we look our best for the celebration.

Kurkum: Turmeric is a staple beauty ingredient in northern Nigeria. It fades hyper-pigmentation, treats acne, evens out skin tone and gets rid of blackheads. It truly is wondrous. Mixing it with honey and lemon Be easy with fries:

Include some greens: A nice salad to accompany the meal will ensure that the vital vitamins are also consumed in a pleasurable way. If you feel the need to add a dressing, go easy with the drizzle.

Fruits: A fruit bowl or fruit kebab will be great as a dessert option too instead of the other conventional desserts and sweets. Take it with natural yoghurt and honey juice and scrubbing your skin with it will give you a fabulous glow and radiance.

Dilke: This is another great local beauty secret. It is a scrub made with potatoes. Potatoes have long been known to deal with hyperpigmentation because of how rich they are in zinc, potassium and vitamins vital for a flawless skin.

Halawa: This serves as a great way to rid yourself of body hair for a smooth skin. A mixture of sugar, water and lemon are boiled to form a paste, applied to the skin and pulled away with the hair leaving your skin as soft and as smooth as a baby’s. This method of waxing is a more natural and better way to remove hair.

Black soap: You should also consider substituting your shower gels with the local black soap. The advantages of bathing with it are numerous: from anti-ageing, fading discouloration, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, getting rid of pimples and also soothes skin, to mention a few. The difference is almost immediately evident once you begin to use it.

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