Budget Daily Make up for winter

As a graduate teaching assistant who earn just enough cash to pay for basic dues, I really concern with how much money to spend for any single stuff I purchase. I don’t say that I am really good at money management because I do like to do shopping for whatever reason. What I want to say to you is that how to minimize your spending on moisturizer especially on winter where most of tropical girls skin is not accustom to the dryness that suddenly come at that time. I don’t know if it will work or not for the other race, but it works on me as a tropical girl who suddenly move to four season country.

As a person who used to live in humid tropical country, I never experienced a dramatically change of humidity in winter season. I bet most of international students who come from tropical places have the same experience too. When the weather start to reach under 20 F, suddenly your skin become so dry and shriveled although you’ve put lots of your moisturizer already. Some people would suggest me to buy a winter moisturizer which usually lots more expensive than mine to make my skin back to normal. However, I also have a problem of skin prone and acne which need to be considered too. Acne series usually more expensive too and make my skin dryer in the winter. Thus, I don’t use it quite often. In short, I need to find something to avoid over dryness in my skin on winter because I don’t want to look miserable in front of people. Here is some product that I found quite help me to figure out my dryness and my acne on winter.

1. Coconut Oil

Most of us have already known that coconut oil is the secret of lots of people to keep them to look younger than they really are. I don’t quite understand what substances on it to avoid anti-aging and stuff but I found this magic oil really moisturize my skin on winter.

What I usually do with this is for my body cream and my face cleaner. Instead of using body butter at night, I usually use coconut oil and apply it on my body including hand and feet and sometime my hair too. It is indeed a bit greasy, thus I used a long sock to cover my feet and head cover if I apply it on my hair. Since I am a typical person who take a shower every morning, I usually just rinse my body with water and use soap for my body only, so that the coconut oil still moisturize my feet and hand.

Instead of using my acne facial wash in winter, I prefer to use coconut oil in the evening to clean my face. I usually used my acne facial wash in the morning just to avoid the greasy feeling in my face. I found that coconut oil works really well to clean the dirt in my face while in the same time it moisturize my face too.

 

2. Bath oil

I don’t use it anymore since I move to Missoula just because I find my skin is quite adapt with the dry weather in the winter. However, I found this product was really useful in my first severe winter. I bought it about 10 bucks and last for a year which quite worth it. It was applied every time after showering when my skin still dumb only about one or two drops for the whole body. After that I would apply my daily body lotion which usually make me apply it less then without using the oil. So, it will make my body lotion last longer than usual.

By using bath oil, I never feel like my skin shriveled or over dry, and I never found my cuticle dry too. I started to use this bath oil in the beginning of fall, so my skin would quite moisturized before facing the severe winter. At that time I hadn’t found coconut oil so I used body butter quite a lot.

When it started summer, I stopped using bath oil just because my skin is basically oily, so in the summer my skin tone will back to normal. However, if your basic skin tone is dry, I think it will be good for you to use it all the year so your 10 bucks oil will be worth a year moisturizer.

 

3. Apple cider vinegar

I found this product was amazingly wonderful for natural toner. It’s not only for acne skin like mine but I think for all kind of skin. In the winter, tonner is really important to balance your skin after you clean it. It makes your skin absorbing more moisturizer you apply after washing it.

This amazing product is super cheap comparing with toner you find at department store, beside it is alcohol and chemical free. I worth seven bucks for I don’t know how long if you just used it for toner, because mind I use it cook either so I feel that it is super cheap.

What I did to make it as toner was put two table spoon of apple cider vinegar to 60ml bottle then pour the water until it’s full. This toner will last for two weeks if you use it for day and night. It is refreshing yet a bit smelly like vinegar but don’t worry the smell will disappear less than 10 minutes.

 

4. Neutrogena moisturizer

I did use Burt bees’ sensitive moisturizer before but when it come drier it doesn’t work anymore, thus I move to Neutrogena. I choose the sensitive one just because it will make my skin worse if I use the acne series. Acne series usually make your skin drier. It will be fine on summer when the humidity is not too extreme for your skin, but on winter I prefer to use the sensitive one to moist my skin.

For my pimple, I will use either one of these to make solve the break out:

1. Nutmeg, ground cinnamon, and honey then apply it on affected area every night.
2. Put tooth paste and apply it on affected area every night (not really works on mine but works for my friend)
3. Apple cider vinegar and Indian healing mud mask apply it every other day.
4. Lemon and baking soda, apply it every other day.
5. If you have quite good budget you can just simply buy clinic spot gel. It is quite expensive but worth to use.

I do still have pimples every time I get my period but it won’t really break outs after that. The simplest one of course by using clinic which worth about 25 bucks for I predict 3-4 month if you have super severe pimples, but my favorite one is nutmeg, ground cinnamon, and honey because it is cheap and feel great for me both the smell and the effect on my skin. You can use it too as your natural mask for every other day or twice a week depend on how severe your acne is but trust me it does really good on me. And I think it worth to try too.

 

5. Egg mask

Egg mask is really nice to use for any kind of skin tone. It has lots of function too not only to moisturize your skin but also to clean your black or white head pore, break out acne and anti-aging. I use both the yolk and white part but I don’t mix it together.

I usually will use the white part first and mix it with one teaspoon honey. After that I apply it on my face and stick paper towel on top of it and apply the rest of the mixture on top the paper towel. This method will help you to peel it when it dies and to see how much head pore you cleaned. After that clean your face with warm water and dry it.

The second section I will stir the yolk and one teaspoon of honey then apply it on my face for moisturizing my face. It makes my face feel smooth too after I wash it.

I put honey on both section just because I have an acne problem and what I know it will give more moisturizer too on my mask. I do this treatment once a week or if I am too lazy perhaps twice a month.

 

That’s all my daily moisturizer product on winter when I am a way far from home. It is really help my budget on cosmetic product and I hope help me to heal my acne problem. If you have the other budget daily moisturizer for winter you can comment here and I will really appreciate it.

 

Thank you

 

Wuri