DIY Olive Oil, Honey and Lemon Beauty Mask, Plus it's the basis of a scrub, cleanser, toner, cough medecine and pore refiner!

Currently I am loving beauty products that are as natural as possible. And my current holy trinity is Honey, Lemon Juice and Olive Oil. Hot Damn this stuff is good, inexpensive and more versatile than you can imagine.  Go raid your kitchen cupboards right now. 

Cleanser

Okay, lets start with the basics. I use (high quality) extra virgin olive oil straight on a cotton wool pad as an extra moisturising make up remover and cleanser. It easily lifts my make up off and if you have your cotton pad saturated enough (certainly not dripping though) It drags very little, maybe a little more than my new French discovery - Bioderma Crealine H20 Cleansing Solution - but the pay off (besides being in almost everyone's cupboard) is that you perhaps use less swipes with olive oil waterproof mascara, both remove it effectively, but I feel that olive oil is quicker.

Budget French Pharmacie Finds!

So, What could be better than moving to a new country and starting to discover wonders in the Pharcmacies that adorn every street here? This weekend I realised I was running out of a few essentials, plus there were a few little gaps in skin care regime that could be filled by another little tube or bottle of goodness. So I embarked on a multi-lingual Google binge into French skin care. I find that for any country you visit a swift Google reveals the make up and skin care deals, steals and simply can't live with out's but can't buy at home products. Plus France's reputation proceeds itself in terms of skin care.

Previously I hadn't really considered Pharmacies as little treasure troves, but if you look into French skin care it is apparent in less than 2 seconds that Pharmacies are absolute gems. Today I picked up three products that nearly every beauty editor, model and make up artist class as must haves.