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FACIAL CARE

Taking good care of your facial skin is quite simple when you break it
down to the basics—cleanse, tone, and moisturize your face twice per
day, every day. The first step is a cleanser such as the Ayurvedic Facial
Cleansing Grains to gently clean the dirt, sweat, oil, and environmental
buildup from the surface of your skin to prevent redness, irritation,
clogged pores, and dull, ashy skin. Next, you’ll use a facial toner like the
Rooibos Rose Toner or the Clarifying Toner found in this chapter to
correct the pH level on the surface of your skin and close and minimize
your pores so they don’t fill up with gunk. The final crucial step is to use a
facial moisturizer like the Balancing Facial Moisturizer that will leave your
skin with a nourishing moisture layer that addresses the needs of your
specific skin type. Why use a moisturizer? Well, without one, your skin
will go haywire trying to overcorrect, causing overly dry or overly oily skin,
which exacerbates redness, breakouts, and clogged pores.
Throughout this chapter you’ll find everything you need to follow these
three basic steps—plus some luxury skin treatment products such as the
Chocolate Lip Scrub, Soothing Herbal Steam, and Green Tea Eye
Cream. So say goodbye to red, irritated, broken-out, dry, or oily skin andsay hello to healthy, clean, clear, and radiant skin.

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