There are hundreds of homemade skincare recipes available that moisturize, cleanse and protect both adult and baby’s skin. Easily prepared, these recipes use ingredients you probably have at home and these types of skincare items can be 100% natural. It is perfect for busy women, such as mothers, to indulge in self pampering spa at the comfortable of their home as frequent as they like. Making up your own homemade skin care recipes is just part of the whole experience. You will find new scents that will carry the whole day through. You and your skin will have a new glow. And to get started the kitchen is only a few steps away! As you read through these different recipes realize that you can ad or leave out some of the ingredients. Or change the amount that you put in. Have fun with them !!! Also see the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Spa Secrets under home spa.
Bath Secret Pour a cup or more of powdered milk under running bath water. The lactic acid in the milk will remove dry dead skin and leave you baby soft. Powered milk is quite reasonably priced compared to those expensive bath oils and soaps. Just add a drop or two of some scented oil if you want a really dreamy bath!
Blackheads A friend of mine gave me this great tip. To erase blackheads, try this quick cleansing mask: Mix two Tbs. of oatmeal, four Tbs. of plain yogurt, one tablespoon lemon juice and one Tbs. of olive oil into a paste and gently apply to skin. Leave it on for five minutes and rinse with cold water. Let your face air-dry.
Banish Blemishes on Back or Chest Mix one half cup of honey with one half cup of orange juice and apply to the affected areas. Let sit for 5 minutes then rinse. Honey heals and banishes blemishes and the orange juice will dry up the excess oils.
Clogged Pores This is a great deep cleansing scrub! Mix four Tbs. of plain yogurt with two Tbs. of grated orange peel. Massage into skin for three minutes. Rinse with warm water. The yogurt is an exfoliant and the orange peel will extract dirt and oils.
Elbow Fix To remove the discoloration from your elbows, just cut a lemon in half and rest an elbow in each half for 10 minutes. The acid in the lemon juice breaks down the dark patches, so they wash away.
Freckles Sorry, you can’t remove these darling dots but you can lighten them. Try one of these tips: (1) Rub your freckles with fresh cut eggplant every day. You should see a difference in a week or so. Or rub on fresh crushed cranberries daily and leave on for fifteen minutes, rinse with cool water and pat dry. (2) The more sugar that you eat, the darker your freckles will be! This is a scientific fact. So, eliminate refined sugar and watch your freckles fade.
Some areas like hands, feet and elbows easily dry out becoming rough and sometimes tender. Making skincare products at home for these special areas can use ingredients like beeswax, nut oils especially almond, olive and walnut plus aloe vera juice.
Aloe is a plant used often when making skincare products at home because of its many natural, healing properties including restoring dry skin, inhibiting microbial growth and soothing damaged skin like sunburn and topical burns.
- Nut oils are natural oils that are absorbed well by the skin.
- Beeswax should be raw, unbleached natural wax and can often be found online, in craft stores and from local beekeepers.
Everyone will be more concern of aging spots and wrinkle on face. Oatmeal, sea salt, cucumbers and strawberries are common ingredients for soothing, refreshing facial masks, detox masks and wrinkle relaxing creams.
- Castile soap is often a base for many homemade skin cleansers, but you can make many body and facial scrubs without any type of soap.
- Finely ground walnut hulls in a plain yogurt base is a soft and nourishing exfoliate for the face and feet
- Coarsely ground sea salt combined with honey and cornmeal is another soothing exfoliate.
Chamomile when added to any of these exfoliates may help lighten age spots or skin discoloration plus Vitamin E capsules can be opened and placed on skin or added to yogurt and honey scrubs providing a natural antioxidant property to any homemade skincare product.
Making skincare products at home may not require any additional equipment purchases as most of the needed equipment are standard cooking utensils. A small double boiler, a mortar and pestle, (stone is best so herbs, nuts and hulls do not become embedded in the mortar,) metal spoons, bowls and some small jars or bottles to store your beauty products in. Labels can be helpful so you can include the date you made it and what it is, preventing spoilage and unnecessary waste. However, remember to use permanent markers so water doesn’t make the label unreadable.




