How to Make Skin Care Products At Home

As trends move towards natural beauty and a rising interest in organics, many women are making their own cosmetics and skin care items from natural products. Here's how you join the trend and make natural skin care products at home.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Almond meal
• Cheesecloth
• Bottle
• Honey
• Milk
• Olive oil
• Violets
• Orange calendula marigold petal
• Pumpkin
• Coffee
• Egg whites
• Water

1. Create an almond milk natural cleanser for oily skin. Take 2 teaspoons almond meal and combine with 150 ml water. Whip in a blender for 2 minutes. Strain the mixture through cheesecloth and place in a bottle. Apply to the face daily and wipe off with soft tissues as a cleanser.
2. Make a honey cleanser, which is appropriate for any skin type. Add 1 teaspoon honey to 2 tablespoons warm milk, and blend together to make a thin lotion. Rub over the face and neck with the fingfertips. Rinse off.
3. Wash with an olive oil cleanser. Mix 2 teaspoons olive oil and 1 teaspoon honey and apply to the face and neck with the fingertips.
4. Make a lotion that enhances your complexion. Take 24 violet flowers, 150 ml water and 2 tablespoons almond meal. Blend almond meal and water for two minutes. Pour into a non-metal pan, add the violet flowers and gently heat. Allow to cool, then strain and bottle.
5. Design a pimple remedy. Take an orange calendula marigold petal and bruise it between the fingers. Press it to the spot for two minutes to heal the pimple overnight.
6. Make a conditioning body mask (all skin types) by combinging 2 tsp honey, 2 tbsp half-and-half,1/2 peach (with skin), 1/2 cup chopped pumpkin flesh, 1/8 tsp instant coffee and 2 egg whites. Mix all ingredients together in a blender on low-medium speed for 45 seconds. Apply to the skin with a spreading motion and leave on for 15 to 20 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.