repostage: 5 Beauty Juice Recipes from an NYC Skin Care Star

Friday, August 26, 2011

5 Beauty Juice Recipes from an NYC Skin Care Star

August 26, 2011 | Everywhere
Glass Half Full
Facialist Joanna Vargas's Recipes for Beauty

According to facialist Joanna Vargas, a green juice a day will keep dull, dehydrated skin away. And seeing as her Triple Crown treatment is a must for NYC’s well-heeled, beauty-obsessed set; she invented the world’s first antiaging LED therapy bed; and her just-launched namesake line of products is already making waves, we’ll take her word for it.

We’ll also take her daily serum (one of the mainstays in her tightly edited, at-home collection that includes a vitamin C wash, enzyme mask, and rejuvenating serum), which is inspired by the veggie beverage that maintains healthy, dewy, radiant skin — one she, herself, swears by and shares with all her clients.

Give us a glass of that along with her other beauty elixirs she’s shared below. Make them at home with a juicer.

Super Eight
Loaded with chlorophyll, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids, the veggies-only juice is a serious feast.
1 kale leaf
1 collard leaf
1 celery stalk
1 carrot
½ red pepper
1 tomato
1 broccoli floret
1 handful parsley

Brighten Up
Do away with dull skin glass by antioxidant-packed glass.
4 carrots
1 handful parsley
1 handful spinach
½ apple

All Clear
Calm irritated skin with a swig of a bromelain-rich, anti-inflammatory cooler.
1 c. pineapple
½ cucumber
½ apple

Beat the Sweets
Stave off the sugar munchies with a satisfying sip packed with vitamin C and a little zing.
4 carrots
½ apple
Ginger to taste

Mrs. Clean
The fruit-and-veg liquid powerhouse not only flushes toxins from your system but curbs salt cravings as well. Pick the variation that’s right for you based on your personal taste and experience in the juicing department.

Level One
4 celery stalks
1/3 cucumber
1 bunch parsley
1 apple
1 lemon
Ginger to taste

Level Two
4 celery stalks
1 bunch parsley
2 handfuls spinach
2 carrots
1 apple
1 bunch cilantro
1 lemon
Ginger to taste

Level Three
4 celery stalks
1 bunch parsley
2 handfuls spinach
1/3 cucumber
2 carrots
1 beet
1 kale leaf
1 lemon
Ginger to taste

Joanna Vargas’s skin care collection is available online at joannavargas-skincare.com, $75-$100. For more information, call 212-949-2350 or email salon@joannavarags-skincare.com.

Thirsty for more? Check out the rest of Vargas’s at-home beauty tips and treatments on DailyCandy Beauty.

Photo: Courtesy of Joanna Vargas



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