Greetings AvoChat-o readers! Have you had your avocado for the day?
If you aren't already aware, we here at AvoChat-o advocate avocados as The Mighty Green Fruit that we love and consume so much of, so much so that we have come up with 5 special ways you can make use of The Mighty Green Fruit in your daily lives apart from using them as part of your meals (Ladies in particular, you'd want to pay attention to this one!).
Grab a cup of avocado smoothie and lets get started!
1. Makeup Remover
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Ladies, have you ever gotten stucked in a situation where you have finished the last bit of your makeup remover and need to get that makeup off after a long day at work? Don't have time to head down to a store to restock?
Well, did you know that avocado oil can serve as your makeup remover as well? In fact, all you need is a cheese cloth from your home. After blending a cup of avocado smoothie, squeeze the blended fruit in a cheese cloth, which allows avocado oil to slowly ooze out of the cloth.
Apply the oil gently onto skin for a minute before washing it off like you do with a makeup remover!
Bonus: Serve up a delicious cup of avocado smoothie while you're at it!
2. Skin Moisturiser
Have extra ripened avocados lying around? Use them as a skin moisturiser instead! Avocados, or should we say The Mighty Green Fruit is jam-packed with a plethora of vitamins including Vitamin C, E and K! (Read up all about the nutritional value of avocados here)
No special equipment or tools needed for this one, simply apply evenly and gently on your skin for a few minutes before washing off. Prepare to be surprised at how plush and rejuvenated your skin feels afterwards!
3. Treating Sun Burns
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Been to a beach party over the weekend? Enjoyed a sunbathing session in your backyard? Sometimes we might take things a little too far and get exposed to a bit too much sunlight. Nobody likes having those sun-burnt skin peeling off as the days go by.
With the amount of minerals and antioxidants present in avocados, this green fruit serves as a great way to treat sunburns. There are two ways you can go about doing this:
- Spread the avocado on sunburnt areas evenly
- For that added oomph: Add some aloe vera into the mix!
Now you might be thinking only avocado flesh is useful ... well, its seed is equally useful as well! So don't go toss it into the bin once you're done with the flesh, here are 2 ways you can fully utilise your purchase.
4. Body / Foot Scrub
Avocado seed, once fully grounded serves as a special component of a foot scrub. Mix up some flesh and grounded seed in a bowl, add in some extra sea salt for more rigorous exfoliation. Rinse gently once you are done scrubbing. But wait, remember in point 2 that we have also used the flesh itself as a moisturiser for your skin? There you go, a fruit that allows you to scrub AND moisturise your skin at the same time, no wonder we love this fruit so much!
5. Grow Avocado plants!
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At this point of time you'd probably be even more intrigued about The Mighty Green Fruit than you were before. We don't blame you, we are equally surprised as you are at the versatility of avocados.
Heres the thing, why stop at the fruit itself? Grow some avocado plants while you're at it! (Mothers out there, this can be an interesting activity for your kids and yourself!)
Heres a summary of the steps (Apartmenttherapy has it covered in depth here)
Step 1: Ensure that the pit is thoroughly dried
Step 2: Grab a transparent jar (for added visual effect) and fill it up with water
Step 3: Poke 4 toothpicks into the circumference of the pit and suspend pit above the jar (while leaving 1 inch of the pit in the water)
Now watch your avocado plant grow over the weeks and remember to replenish the water in the jar as needed.
There you have it, 5 special ways that you can use avocados outside of your meals!
We hope you've enjoyed this post as much as we had writing it!
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