Orange Peel Powder

Okay, so I mentioned in my About Me section that I was in the process of drying out orange peel to grind up...
Today is the day (':

Although it's April now, because I live in Ireland it took a wee bit longer for the sun to dry the orange peel completely and I ended up transporting the plate of peel to various locations in my house to chase the sun, such as the bathroom windowsill, my bed, the corner of my room, the patio flooor...
But now it's finally ready to get grinding ehehe
So, the orange peel should look something like this (I think?):

This is the peel of two oranges, with as little of the white pith as possible, because the surface has the most vitamin C, which is what we're looking for, so the white isn't important for this (:
And they had been cut into small strips to make the drying process quicker and easier ^^
So, the next step is...the food processor!
I don't think my family actually has a food processor, but it's a wee machine with spinning blades so I'm gonna just go with it~

After blending it for a bit it started looking like this:

But obviously this isn't powdery enough so I kept on blending on like a trojan!
Unfortunately for this mixer thingy we have to hold it down and keep pressing the 'turbo' button for it to actually work its magic... and after what seemed like an eternity of holding (and even shaking) it, this was all the progress I made:

As you can see, it's still got little lumps in it and all around the edge of the container is a fine powder

If only it all looked like this.. grr ><
And seeing as I have A-Levels soon I thought I would just leave the rest of the blending until my next study break...and then promptly got distracted by watching My Queen (敗犬女王) so I suppose I should actually work now and come back to this later!


Right so I kept on going for a while later on, and got it into a fine enough powder (:

So now it looks like this, and I'm just going to have to put it in some kind of container.

I had read that a good mask to use this orange peel powder stuff with would be one made with orange peel powder, multani mitti and some milk, as it is good for lightening skin (not always for paleness, because I'm pale enough, but for reducing redness, which I have too much of, reducing acnes scars or uneven skin tone) and drawing out impurties.
Unfortunately, my multani mitti (or Fuller's Earth) is still in the post so I can't try this mask out as soon as I wanted, but it's good to make the ingredients like orange peel powder in advance to save me the bother when I need it :D