After long days of lying on the beach, swimming laps at the pool and battling the sun and the heat, your body's in need of a little TLC. Find out how to treat your skin with these homemade scrubs and body masks to soothe, hydrate and soften up!

Sensational Skin - Body Scrub

Suntanned skin is nice; peeling skin isn't. If you're suffering from this summer blunder, use a loofah sponge that you can buy at your local drugstore. Or, try this invigorating almond scrub to gently exfoliate and relieve itchy, flaking skin.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup of ground almonds

1/3 cup of oatmeal

Plain yogurt, milk, or buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon of herbs, like lavender or chamomile (optional)

Essential oils for scent (optional)

Directions:

Mix the dry ingredients in a blender and store it in a glass jar in the refrigerator.

When you want to use the scrub base, scoop out 1/4 cup into a bowl and stir in enough of the liquid ingredients to make a paste.

Rub over body and rinse thoroughly.

Sensational Skin - Body Mask

When food is just too good to eat, make a fruit salad of pineapples, which slough off dead skin cells, grapes, which protect against harmful UV rays, and other fruits to make a body mask that'll hydrate and soothe sunburned skin.

Ingredients:

2 slices of pineapple, rind removed

1/2 honeydew melon, rind removed

1 dozen green grapes

1 banana, peeled

1 kiwi, peeled

Directions:

Puree all ingredients in a blender. Mixture will be slightly lumpy.

Refrigerate for one hour.

Smooth onto body, leaving on for half an hour.

Rinse off with warm water.

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