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"Have you had a chance to check out our story on D.I.Y. spa treatments? It&amp;#x27;s full of brilliant (and brilliantly inexpensive) ideas for whipping up your own at-home beauty treatments. After reading it, I have one more food-based beauty trick to add to the list: Before bed, mix a little plain yogurt with your body lotion. Seriously! Here&amp;#x27;s the deal ... As you may know, dairy products, like yogurt, contain lactic acid, which is a powerful dry-skin dissolver (it&amp;#x27;s especially effective on rough patches like elbows and feet). So by adding a dose of yogurt to your favorite lotion, you get bonus smoothing effects in addition to the usual hydration. I got the idea from nutritionist Keri Glassman, who is a firm believer that foods can be just as powerful when applied to the body externally as they are when eaten. She likes to add a half tablespoon yogurt for every tablespoon of moisturizer and apply the blend before bed. I tried the trick the other night, anticipating that it might be kinda messy/sticky, but the yogurt soaked right into my skin with the moisturizer. Have you ever incorporated dairy products into your beauty routine (maybe milk baths or foot soaks)? If you&amp;#x27;d rather they be pre-mixed into your lotion, check out one of my all-time favorite milk-based products--Canus Goat&amp;#x27;s Milk lotion. It&amp;#x27;s a real cure for dry skin and smells/feels fantastic. Got a favorite dairy-related beauty product of your own? Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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