Ever wondered how people took care of their skin before skin care products started being manufactured and became an established industry. Natural skin care has its origins embedded in ancient history. We all know about the ancient Egyptians and a woman known for her beauty 'Cleopatra'. Chinese, Egyptians and Indian history tells us that women from earliest recorded history used natural skin care products which were derived from herbs, flowers, oils and roots. Slice two pieces of a cucumber and close your eyes and place the cucumber pieces on them. Leave them on for 20-30 minutes and then remove them and look at your eyes. Do you notice that the dark circles around the eyes have reduced? This is just an example of natural skin care. Visit a village in china or India and you may spot an old woman and you notice her glowing skin and wonder how she has managed to take care of her skin without using any moisturizers, creams, lotions, etc, well she has ancient recipes and has probably been taught how to take care of her skin using natural skin care ways.

There are three factors that are attributed to skin care; one is the skin type one has which can be oily, dry or combination. The other factor is what we consume. Most natural skin care practitioners agree that one needs to cleanse the internal body first. This means consuming a lot of water as water not only cleans out the digestive system but also the blood. Regarding what one should eat they all agree that for healthy natural skin one must have a balanced diet. That is, a diet that should be rich in fiber, use less sugar as sugar excess intake has its own set of problems and can damage the skin. Consuming fats also helps again not in excess but yes the body does require some fat and fish provide a good source of fat. The third factor is exercise; sitting for hours on a desk banging away at a computer keyboard and only leaving one's work to take a trip to the john is not good for health, regular stretching exercises and avoiding stress help in natural skin care.

Natural skin care starts from when a baby is born and mothers start looking after the child and also their skin. Natural baby skin care starts with applying oil on the baby's skin to keep the skin soft. Natural baby skin care also requires using some powder to dry the skin and depending on where the child is born and if it’s a male or female child an aunt or grandmother will use some paste or oil to keep the child's skin soft and supple.

If one does not want to hunt around for natural skin care recipes, one can buy professional natural skin care products as there are firms that do produce natural skin care products made from natural ingredients. A lot of people are now going organic and digging out natural skin care recipes and natural skin care products and why not if these worked for our ancestors why should they not work on us. All natural skin care product makers hate the use of chemicals as these are alien to a person's natural systems. Nowadays natural cosmetic and skin care products are being made; yes women used to redden their lips even before lipsticks were invented and this was done by the use of natural cosmetics. All natural skin care products use natural products that range from roots to honey, and the recipes used to make natural skin care products are time tested recipes.

Natural organic skin care is the best way for one to take care of their skin and there are two benefits to it. One, they are far cheaper to make and use then off the shelf products and third there are no harmful elements used in them.