Around the time of midterms or finals, you may notice a very distressing thing in your life – your skin begins to look worse, and your eyes turn from sleepy to baggy. We all know this happens, so it should be no surprise that many solutions have been brought forth specifically to combat this. You can restore your natural glow from within your dorm room with products found around Durham!
Whole Foods carries a special facial soap with clay and essential oils called Alaffia’s Shea & Rooibos Antioxidant Goat Milk Soap – you read right, it contains raw goat milk! This may send you running for the hills, but the New York Times ran an article praising Whole Foods’s line of soap bars. And why not? This bar, with its Moroccan Red Clay, can absorb oils from the skin, leaving you feeling fresh as a daisy.
If you were looking for an excuse to make a trip to Forever 21, here it is: Their line-up of ready-made face masks with ingredients ranging from papaya to pomegranate is especially convenient for busy Duke girls. Each product serves a different purpose for your skin, so read the labels! Then just apply, wait about 15 minutes, and rinse off.
Finally, you can look right on campus for items to make your own face masks and beauty products. Run to the Great Hall and grab a couple bananas or some yogurt and follow the instructions on this siteto create skin-soothing, pore-cleansing facials!
You don’t need to wait for your skin to break out to treat it to some R&R. Find a weekend where your schedule is less packed than usual, ask a couple friends to go shopping with you for a nice “spa day,” and enjoy the classic girl-bonding-and-makeover time.
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