DIY Beauty

For Earth Month, we're celebrating natural beauty remedies with the help of Jessica Kernochan from eco-beauty brand LaLicious. She's given us simple recipes for an at-home body scrub and a DIY face mask. Now she's giving us her simple spot treatment for breakouts. "Nutmeg has anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties that are helpful in healing acne-ridden skin," Kernochan says. Here's her quick remedy.

Ingredients:
Organic ground nutmeg
Milk

Directions:
Mix enough nutmeg and milk together in a small bowl to form a thick paste, apply to pimple with your finger or a cotton swab. Wait an hour and wash off with lukewarm water.

Want to get in on more Earth Month action? Proceeds from the LaLicious Sugar Reef Collection will give back to Save Our Shores, which protects and preserves the marine life of Monterey Bay in California.

Now that you have your face glowing with this DIY face mask, next up is an easy DIY body scrub that'll have you ready to show some skin this Spring. "I'm a huge fan of coffee grounds, and not just for your morning cup, but for your body as well," explains Jessica Kernochan, founder of eco beauty brand LaLicious. "The caffeine can help diminish the appearance of cellulite, and the coconut oil will hydrate and smooth your skin to perfection."

Ingredients:
1 cup coffee grounds
1/2 cup white or brown sugar
1 cup coconut oil

Directions:
Mix all the ingredients together thoroughly. After you've washed your hair and body, massage the scrub on wet skin and rinse with warm water. Your skin will be soft, hydrated, and ready to be bared in your favorite warm-weather ensembles.

Want to get in on more Earth Month action? Proceeds from the LaLicious Sugar Reef Collection will give back to Save Our Shores, which protects and preserves the marine life of Monterey Bay in California.

April is Earth Month, which is why we're celebrating with a series of easy DIY beauty recipes from Jessica Kernochan, founder of eco beauty brand LaLicious. Today we're sharing her quick and easy facial, which contains just three ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. "I love pumpkins for its vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc," Kernochan says. "Pumpkin also regulates oil production, reduces the appearance of pore size, and protects against free-radical damage."

Ingredients:
3 teaspoons canned organic pumpkin

1/2 teaspoon honey

1/2 teaspoon milk


Directions:
Mix the ingredients together thoroughly, and brush onto freshly cleansed skin. Let dry 15-20 minutes. Rinse with warm water to reveal soft, glowing skin.

Want to get in on more Earth Month action? Proceeds from the LaLicious Sugar Reef Collection will give back to Save Our Shores, which protects and preserves the marine life of Monterey Bay in California.

The next time a breakout decides to crash your clear skin party, no need to run straight to the store for a quick-fix cream (or, not to mention, tube after tube of concealer). What you need is probably already in your medicine cabinet or kitchen pantry. Find out what two common household ingredients will assist you in banishing spots on the spot when you read on.

If you're a DIY maven, you'll adore Allure's four easy beauty recipes starring a beauty classic: baking soda. It's one ingredient that really can do it all.

Sometimes an oldie really is a goodie — vinyl records, The Golden Girls, shower caps (without which I cannot live). My current new/old love interest? Baking soda. I recently attended a seminar on a million ways to use it (sponsored, of course, by Arm & Hammer ($3)) and I can actually say I was impressed by how versatile a product it really is. Here are some road-tested new ways to use the contents of that orange box that actually work (and one I don't think I'll try again):

It's Girl Scout cookie season, and across the USA echoes the resounding crunch of Thin Mints. If you can't get enough of their chocolate-y, minty goodness, here's a super easy DIY scrub that has all the things you love about the cookies and will leave your skin looking, feeling, and smelling sublime, too. To whip up your own Thin Mint scrub, just follow our recipe below.