{"id":5843,"date":"2010-11-17T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=5843"},"modified":"2014-08-18T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T15:21:39","slug":"five-beauty-recipes-using-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/five-beauty-recipes-using-coffee\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Beauty Recipes Using Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coffee is great for a number of reasons. It gears me up for a long day ahead, smells fantastic, tastes amazing, and pairs well with cupcakes. On top of all that, it’s a great ingredient for natural home beauty treatments. Here are five beauty recipes that will have you brewing up a cup, even if you don’t drink it.<\/p>\n

Next >> Body Scrub<\/a>
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1. Body Scrub<\/h3>\n

Over in the Lifestyle Lounge of iloveindia.com, there is a great list of coffee body scrub recipes to try<\/a>. They range from a simple coffee scrub to one that incorporates nutmeg. These scrubs will help you maintain a beautiful glow, even during the harshest winter months. After you’ve sloughed off all of those dead skin cells, make sure you re-hydrate your skin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Next >> Exfoliating Facial<\/a>
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2. Exfoliating Facial<\/h3>\n

Ground coffee is a great way to exfoliate your face and it’s full of antioxidants that are great for your skin.\u00a0Craftbits gives us a simple recipe for a face scrub that will leave your skin baby soft.<\/a> If you have sensitive skin, don’t scrub too hard as it could irritate. To help with oily skin, try this egg white and coffee mask <\/a>recipe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Next >> Cellulite Treatment<\/a>
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3. Cellulite Treatment<\/h3>\n

The caffeine in coffee helps to increase blood flow which can give skin a plumper and tighter appearance \u00a0This makes coffee a natural choice for cellulite treatments. This how-to on Live Strong shows us how to give ourselves a cellulite treatment usually reserved for spas.<\/a><\/p>\n

Next >> Foot Scrub<\/a>
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4. Foot Scrub<\/h3>\n

The Beauty Online gives us a recipe for a coffee foot scrub<\/a> that would be fantastic after a long day on your feet.\u00a0Adding peppermint extract would be a great way to boost your energy levels and leave your feet smelling winter fresh.<\/p>\n

Next >> Hair Dye<\/a>
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5. Hair Dye<\/h3>\n

Sophisticated Edge teaches us how to dye our hair using coffee.<\/a> Brewed coffee is also used by brunettes and red heads as a natural shine enhancer and color booster. Just wet your dry hair with cooled coffee, let sit for 20 minutes, and then rinse. Using brewed coffee to dye or boost your hair is a great, natural alternative to the products full of chemicals.<\/p>\n

Do you have any coffee beauty treatments to share? There are so many ways you can use coffee in your beauty routine! I would love to hear your ideas, feel free to leave some comments and suggestions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Coffee image by <\/em>Dongga BS<\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons, Body image by <\/em>\u03b1 is for \u00e4p\u03a9L \u2020<\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons, Baby image by <\/em>Andreas-photography<\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons, Spa image by <\/em>Steel Wool<\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons, Foot scrub image by <\/em>Foundry Park Inn <\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons, Brown hair image by <\/em>Talking Plant<\/em><\/a> via Flickr Creative Commons]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coffee is great for a number of reasons. It gears me up for a long day ahead, smells fantastic, tastes amazing, and pairs well with cupcakes. On top of all that, it’s a great ingredient for natural home beauty treatments. Here are five beauty recipes that will have you brewing up a cup, even if you don’t drink it. More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":5844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[45,11],"tags":[51,3202,1785,5248],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/coffee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}