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"Orange Is the New Black": The Weirdest Place You'll Find Rad DIY Beauty Tips

You won't believe these MacGyver-meets-Maybelline beauty tricks from behind bars

by Erica Smith  |  2 COMMENTS

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Hot Peppers and Cocoa Butter = Skin Tightening Pain Reliever
Hot Peppers and Cocoa Butter = Skin Tightening Pain Reliever When it comes to moisturizing, you can't go wrong with shea butter served straight up. But when you add in chewed-up hot peppers (as demonstrated in one of the show's more painful scenes), this mixture offers a whole host of benefits along with quenched skin. "It's an old, old holistic remedy that actually works!" says Bigger, referring to the pain-killing and skin-tigthening powers of the active ingredient capsaicin, which hot peppers are full of. Don't worry about scorching your skin with capsaicin. "The peppers are hot in your mouth, but once you put them on the skin, they're not," says Bigger. "The chemicals are tricking your brain into thinking it's hot, but you'll never get a blister or a burn. It's a very clever herbal remedy."

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