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Updated on September 27, 2019 By Guest Author | This post may contain affiliate links

Relieve Itchy, Dry Skin with These Simple Hydrating DIY Moisturizers

Dry skin can be terrible, especially in winter. Colder months can leave your skin dry, make you appear dull, and produce visible fine lines. On top of that, if your skin texture is already dry, itchiness, red blisters, cracked and flaky skin will be common that could elevate in colder months.

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What Helps Dry Skin Naturally?

Treating dry skin can be annoying, and let’s not forget, expensive. Some dryness doesn’t leave you even after trying hundreds of store-bought beauty regimens. But what if we tell you that there are super cool and super affordable dry skin treatments that you can prepare at home in a jiffy?

Natural ingredients are the best way to treat skin conditions, and nothing can beat it. However, you cannot just go about mixing two to three ingredients to expect visible results. You have to keep an eye on the ingredients you use and their quantity to enjoy desired soft and supple skin.

Simple DIY Moisturizers

Here are four simple hydrating DIY moisturizers that you can prepare, store, and use every day.

Oats and Banana Mask

Treating dry skin the natural way is the best way, indeed.

Dry and flaky skin can make you look dull and older. The oats and banana-exfoliating mask gently scrub and removes the dry skin layer, leaving behind a glowing and soft skin.

Furthermore, exfoliating allows your skin to hold other moisturizers better, such as oils and lotions.

Oatmeal is useful for dry skin as it gently exfoliates our skin, producing a soothing effect. Banana is as an affordable and effervescent moisturizer and hydrator. This two-ingredient combination is a perfect natural remedy to treat dry skin.

diy moisturizer with banana

What You Need:

  • Any ripe banana: ½
  • Oats:1 tablespoon
  • Rosewater or yogurt or just plain water: 1 tablespoon

How to make Oats and Banana DIY Moisturizer

  • Mash the banana.
  • Blend the oats and banana with the liquid.
  • Apply the mixture on your face, hands, and legs.
  • Leave for 30 minutes.
  • Use a circular motion to remove the dead skin off your face.
  • Wash with warm water.

Manuka Honey and Spirulina Hydration Treatment

The Manuka honey and spirulina mask is exceptionally nourishing and surprisingly simple to make.

Spirulina is rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants promote healthy skin cell growth, hinder aging, and treat wrinkles and fine lines.

Manuka honey is a product of honeybee pollination from New Zealand’s Manuka scrub plant. The scrub plant is rich in methylglyoxal (MGO), which makes the honey more potent than regular honey. Manuka honey can reduce skin inflammation and irritation, and since it’s a humectant, it can be an effective moisturizer too.

What You Need:

  • Manuka Honey: 2 tablespoon
  • Spirulina Powder: 1 tablespoon
  • Rosewater

How to make Honey and Spirulina DIY Moisturizer:

  • Combine all the ingredients and make a semi-thick paste out of it.
  • Apply the mask on your skin with fingers.
  • Leave for 30 minutes.
  • Rinse with room temperature water.

Aloe Vera Bee Wax Gentle Moisturizer

Aloe Vera is commonly used in Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat dry skin the natural way.

Aloe Vera gel soothes the skin, stops redness and irritation, and reduces inflammation and dry, scaly patches. You can apply freshly extracted Aloe Vera gel just like that on your skin to get a young, glowing, and soft look. However, for dry skin, adding beeswax can be helpful for it contains wound healing and moisturizing properties.

What You Need:

  • Aloe Vera gel: 1 cup
  • Beeswax: 12 tablespoon
  • Coconut oil: 1/4 cup
  • Almond oil: 1/4 cup
  • Any essential oil: 10 drops

How to Make Aloe Vera Beeswax DIY Moisturizer:

  • Take a double boiler and melt coconut oil, almond oil, and beeswax.
  • Blend the mixture. Allow it to cool down.
  • Add aloe vera gel and essential oil. Blend until you get a creamy texture.
  • Store in an airtight container.
  • Apply the mixture on your face twice every day.

Honey and Glycerin Moisturizer Cream

Both honey and glycerin are humectants. Humectants are substances that help the skin to retain water.

The mask is beneficial for people with awful dry skin or who are facing an arid weather condition. Glycerin and honey will keep your skin hydrated, while the lemon and green tea will soothe your skin and cure infections,  if any.

diy moisturizer with honey

What You Need:

  • Honey: 1 teaspoon
  • Glycerin: 2 teaspoon
  • Lemon Juice: 1 teaspoon (optional)
  • Green tea leaves: 2 teaspoon

How to Make Honey and Glycerin DIY Moisturizers:

  • Combine all the ingredients and make a paste out of it.
  • Apply the lotion on your skin and massage in a circular motion.
  • Leave it overnight.
  • Rinse it off with room temperature water the next day.

Other natural skin hydrating ingredients that you can apply on your skin are almond oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and vitamin e oil. Try these uncomplicated, simple, and affordable DIY moisturizers to get gorgeous skin.

 

Author Bio

Emylee is a wellness lifestyle writer. She loves sharing her thoughts and personal experiences related to natural remedies, yoga and fitness through her writing. She currently writes for How To Cure. She can connect with others experiencing health concerns and help them through their recovery journeys through natural remedies.


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