Do you feel like your skin is looking a bit dull or ashy?… You are certainly not alone, but you don’t have to go spend loads of money on products and treatments to brighten your skin, and you can do it naturally.

A lot of products out there that are designed to help you with skin cell turnover- to reveal a more vibrant and youthful skin underneath- use natural plant based ingredients, but they are produced to have a shelf life and that is when you get the not-so-natural preservatives that stabilize the mixture.

By making up your own concoctions you eliminate those nasty ingredients and still reap the benefits of natural exfoliation. Here are a few foods to feed your skin.

1.) Lactic Acid- buttermilk and yogurt

2.) Tartaric Acid- grapes and wine

3.) Citric Acid- lemons and oranges

4.) Glycolic Acid- sugar cane

All of these foods have a naturally occurring acid property that can be used to  off a layer of your already dead skin cells sitting on the surface of your skin. All you need is about half a Tablespoon of any of the above listed foods- apply it to your face, let it sit for 10 minutes and rinse off. You can do this once a week to help with cell regeneration. Be careful not to do this before or after extended exposure to sun, and use a good moisturizer to quench those new skin cells’ thirst when you are done.