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Homemade Beauty Recipes for Fall

Harvest Your Natural Beauty with Real Pumpkin!

-- By Liza Barnes, Health Educator
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Pumpkin Pie for your Little Piggies
This foot and hand scrub will help slough off rough skin, leaving skin soft and moisturized.

Combine in a small bowl:
  • 1/4 cup pureed pumpkin
  • 2 Tbsp organic cane sugar
  • 3 Tbsp oil (try jojoba, grapeseed, almond, or olive oil)
  • 1 pinch cinnamon
  • 1 drop natural vanilla extract
Blend ingredients thoroughly. Over a large bowl, rimmed baking sheet, or bathtub, massage mixture into feet (and hands, if desired), focusing on rough areas and cuticles. Allow mixture to remain on skin for 15-20 minutes, and then rinse off with warm water.

Store-Bought Beauty
If you don’t have the time or inclination to make your own pumpkin beauty products, check out sumbody (www.sumbody.com), an online company that makes eco-friendly, handmade, pure beauty products from natural ingredients. Their Pumpkin Lift Face Mask ($39.95 for 3 oz) contains pumpkin, eggs, milk, honey, and cinnamon.

You might also enjoy sumbody's Goats in the Pumpkin Patch Natural Soap ($5.95 for 3 oz). Soaps made with milk are gaining popularity, since new research has proven that milk provides benefits to the skin. Besides containing a variety of nourishing components, including Vitamins A and D, it also contains lactic acid, a natural exfoliating agent. This soap combines the benefits of goat’s milk with the benefits of pumpkin.
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Liza has two bachelor's degrees: one in health promotion and education and a second in nursing. A registered nurse and mother, regular exercise and cooking are top priorities for her. See all of Liza's articles.

Member Comments

  • MYHEALTHYTEMPLE
    Not impressed. The scrub was runny and left me feeling sticky. My face feels tighter after the facial mask, but the stickiness did not win me over. I'll stick with my coconut oil-sugar scrub! - 10/18/2012 8:07:10 PM
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  • EDDIEMCGEORGE
    Pumpkin for my tummy and pumpkin for my beauty. Perfect!
    I also want to share a site that offers a wide variety of recipes. maybe you want to visit it and i hope it will help you too - www.gourmandia.co
    m - 10/10/2012 12:49:46 PM
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  • HAIRIZONA
    Great recipes for pumpkin treatments. I am a esthetician and will totally try these out:) - 10/14/2010 9:48:19 AM
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  • JEANBURR
    We have a local famer's market with lots of pumpkins. i will definitely be picking one up during my next trp. who knew such a fun food could also be good for you? thanks! - 10/14/2010 8:46:58 AM
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  • _EZER_
    Ooo!! Very thankful for this article! This gives me a great idea for my next "girl's night in" with my girlfriends. :) - 10/14/2010 12:51:39 AM
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  • QUIT_SP
    This article made me hungry for pumpkin...! - 9/6/2010 4:33:11 AM
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  • KRESKA
    This is great! I will enjoy making my own cosmetics out of a pumpkin. - 10/17/2009 5:21:42 PM
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  • CAROLJ35
    Never thought of pumpkins being used in this manner. Interesting!!! - 11/19/2008 10:48:21 PM
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  • ROBEALAANGLAISE
    I adore pumpkin (the smell, taste, look, everything), so this article immediately caught my interest. I love the recipes - though they sound like the type of thing I'd want to eat instead of use on my body. But I think I'll probably try a couple of these when pumpkin season rolls around again. - 7/10/2008 3:59:22 AM
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  • PCHEFLORA
    What a great article! I just recently started making all my own beauty products, lotions, shampoo, deodorants, lip balms etc and love these recipes! I use only organic ingredients and it is still MUCH less costly than buying these things! Also a great use for leftover pumpkin when I have more than a recipe calls for! - 6/3/2008 9:59:15 PM
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  • JIBBIE49
    Interesting article. I'll stay with Neutragena products and bake a pumpkin pie and eat some. Remember, they say beauty comes from the inside out. LOL - 4/6/2008 10:06:07 AM
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  • JOMO74
    I just don't think I could use it like that.......... sorry - I prefer Bath & Body Works everything! Fav product -Margarita Scrub - smells just like one - and at least I have that........... - 2/9/2008 10:13:45 PM
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  • BIKINIBOUND!!
    I love yummy smelling bath and body products, and homemade ones are much cheaper than what you buy! Thanks for the article! - 12/1/2007 9:19:47 PM
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