Smoothies For Glowing Skin

hi, i'm jane from http://www.blenditandmendit.comwhere i show you how i turn my vitamix blender into my#1 anti-aging tool. welcome. today i am making my anti-aging skin care green smoothie. i'mmaking it in response to a request i received from one of my viewers."hey, jane, i just started making green smoothies and would love to tryyour recipes. i'm in my early 20's and have

Smoothies For Glowing Skin, suffered acne throughout my teen life. arethere any special smoothies you can recommend?"well, of course, we are alway going to be nourishing ourselves from the inside out whichis the key to good skin. but you can also do somethingon the outside of your skin with this special

smoothie. so,i have got today, a smoothie for our skin. you know about the silica in cucumbers becausei'm always touting it. and the high water content for hydrating ourskin and helping it to keep its elasticity and to keepit plumped up. when we drink it, it helps to cleanse our blood and purifiy our lymphaticsystem. and when we apply it to our skin, it helpsto soften the pores, combat the bacteria that's sitting on our skin,and hydrate us. it's also very cooling to the redness of acne. so, i'm gonna show youhow to do that today, and then i've got another recipe i'mgoing to recommend to you, you don't want

to miss that, it's from victoria boutenko.i'm using the cucumbers that you get in the 3-pak at costco.the ones that are certified pesticide free, so i'm not going to peel it. if you've gotcucumbers that are not organic, go ahead and peel them. i've added a halfof one of these and i'm going to continue to load up the blender.remember, we're going to be drinking this green smoothie and we're going to be applyingit to our skin. it doesn't need any extra water. you can do thisin a regular blender, too, you don't need a vitamix. what we're trying todo is break the cellular walls of the cucumber, and since they have such a high water content,i think a regular

blender will do it, maybe with less quantityof cucumber at a time, give it a try. if you don't have ahigh speed blender, that's okay, don't let that stop you. use what you have and get startedsomewhere. let's blend up our cucumber skin care smoothie. look inside of the blender and look at thegoodness for your skin inside and out. so the first thing we're going to do is tasteit... ...because once you get that captivating aromayou have to try it. look at that color. it's just gorgeous...with my new glass straw. fantastic. it needs nothing. a single ingredientto nourish us from the inside out.

so, the next step is, pour a little bit ina cup like this. then, if you're broken out, orif you're a midlife baby like me and you want to pamper your skin... just takeit like this and gently pat it, it is so cooling. it's softening the pores on our face... lookat that... it's nourishing us... it's combatting any bacteria on our skin... it feels wonderful.... just beautiful... andyou can let that sit there for about 20 minutes... while you'redrinking the same thing. it's beautiful. once you start putting this on your skin it'shard to stop. it feels so good. okay... might as well put it right on my lips, too.alright. so. we have it applied to the skin...

we're drinking it... so it works from the inside out. victoria boutenko also has, on her green smoothieapp for the iphone, a parsley skin smoothie. and she recommendsdoing the same thing i'm doing, only with parsley instead of cucumber. i say do bothand alternate them, for variety and because rotating your greens on your skinand inside of you is the way to go. hers is 3 cups of parsley, 1 cup of water,blend until smooth, apply on skin, great for exczema and acne. so try that. anti-agingis really about feeling good. like we can still do anything. having theenergy to do what we want and fulfilling our

dreams during our midlife.it's important not to give up and quit. we have to have a reason to get up off the couch.drink your greens and achieve your dreams.