Beauty From The Inside Out

Your skin loves almonds too.

Several key nutrients found in almonds are linked to skin health, making them a delicious addition to daily beauty regimens:

• Almonds are rich in antioxidant vitamin E, which may help protect cells from the damaging effects of free radicals, caused by pollution, UV rays from the sun, cigarette smoke and other environmental and intrinsic factors. One serving of 23 almonds (about an ounce) provides 50% of your daily recommended vitamin E needs.

• You’ll find 8% of the Daily Value for zinc. Zinc contributes to the integrity of healthy skin. 

• Two B vitamins contribute to the maintenance of normal skin. Almonds offer 25% of the Daily Value for riboflavin and 6% of the Daily value for niacin.

• Almonds are a good source of copper, which plays a role in skin and hair pigmentation.

• Linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid, helps prevent skin dryness. A one ounce serving of almonds has 3.5 grams of linoleic acid.

An almond life is a fit life.

Check out these super-easy DIY beauty “recipes” that focus on the outside, using our favorite nut. Not only will you enjoy them at home, they also make excellent gifts.

Essential Almond Oil Body Scrub

Ingredients

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup almond oil
• 2 tbsp. honey
• 3 drops of lavender oil or other essential oil

Directions

1. Combine the ingredients in a bowl 
2. Stir until thoroughly combined
3. Store in a sealed container for up to two months 
4. Apply scrub to wet skin, massaging
5. Rinse with water

Moisture-Rich Almond Oil and Avocado Face Mask
 

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon almond oil
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1/2 avocado

Directions

1. Mash the avocado and mix in all the ingredients to form a puree
2. Apply the mix to the skin on all areas
3. Leave on for 15-20 minutes before rinsing with warm water and pat dry  

Everyday Almond Oil and Honey Face Mask

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 tbsp. almond oil
• 3 drops lavender or rose oil

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together well
2. Apply to skin
3. Leave on for 10-15 minutes before rinsing with warm water

Soothing Almond Milk Bath

Can’t get enough of our at-home beauty solutions? Say no more! Use your almonds to create almond milk. The almond milk will create a luxurious soak, and the leftover almond meal can be used to mix up a beautifying scrub!
 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup natural or blanched almonds soaked up to two days
• 1 liter of water or herbal infusion of your choice, such as lavender water or rose water
•  4 drops of lavender or rose oil

Directions

1. Soak almonds overnight or up to two days
2. Blend the almonds and water (or herbal infusion) in a blender and strain through a cheese cloth.
3. Reserve the almond pulp that’s left over for making the scrub below
4. Stir in the essential oils into the almond milk, and pour into a hot bath just before getting in.

Almond Pulp Body Scrub

Ingredients

• 1 cup almond pulp (the finely ground almonds leftover from making almond milk)
• ½ cup almond oil 4 drops of lavender oil or other favorite essential oil

Directions

1. Mix the pulp and oils together 
2. Scrub into skin
3. Rinse with warm water 

Almond-Coffee Callous Buster
 

Ingredients

• 2 cups almond milk 
• 1 cup of coffee grounds

Directions

1. Combine almond milk and coffee grounds in a bowl
2. Scrub formula in circular motion on feet
3. Rinse with warm water