Valentine’s Day

• Strawberry Scrub: To get your skin in tip top shape, try a homemade exfoliating  strawberry face and body scrub using pureed strawberries, olive oil and vitamin e (can also be used for a sensual massage)

Ingredients:
2 pureed strawberries
1 tbsp of olive oil
1 tbsp of vegetable oil
1 tbsp of Vitamin E oil or pour out the liquid of 1 Vitamin E capsule.  
2 tbsp of sugar

Mix all the ingredients together.  In the shower, rub all over your body for a great exfoliating experience.

• Raspberry Honey Face Mask: The red raspberries contain loads of vitamin C which is essential for maintaining healthy clear glowing wrinkle free skin. The honey helps moisturize your skin because it contains natural moisturizers in it, and it helps fight acne and prevent it because it contains natural antibodies in it that kill the germs that cause the acne in the first place. The rolled oats help absorb unwanted oils and impurities from the skin while also lightly exfoliating it. These are the reasons why this is a beneficial facial mask for combination skin types.

Ingredients:
Mix 1/2-cup pureed raspberries
½ cup honey
½ cup rolled oats

• Rose and Honey Milk Bath: Mix milk, honey and rose oil and add to a warm bath. Sprinkle the rose petals in the water and soak.

• Hair: Lots of curls will give you a soft, romantic look. Hot rollers are great for all types of hair. If hair is wavy or curly, use large rollers to soften the natural curl. For straight hair, curlers can add body and bounce. Hold hair in place with a pretty red head band

About Erika Katz:
A beauty writer as well as a former child model and actress, Erika Katz has been a beauty junkie nearly all her life. Using her experience from her days working in the beauty department at Seventeen, cosmetology classes and lessons learned through her extensive work in television and modeling, Erika created a beauty guide that served as the foundation for Bonding Over Beauty, A Mother-Daughter Guide to Self-Esteem, Confidence and Trust. From product and styling tips, such as how to create the perfect ponytail, to at home recipes for creating an organic facial scrub, Erika explores it all in her book, in which she includes her own experience as well as information from interviews with top beauty experts.