How to Make Face Packs

Using natural ingredients including a variety of fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables, you can make face packs that nourish your skin while enhancing your natural beauty. Face packs help keep skin smooth and soft while removing any impurities and dead skin cells. They also help to improve circulation while balancing, toning and tightening your facial skin.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Small bowl
• Egg white
• Whisk
• Honey
• Lemon juice or sunflower oil
• Water
• Hand towel

1. Whisk the white of an egg in a small bowl until it is thick.
2. Stir in about 1 tsp. of honey.
3. Add the same amount of lemon juice if your skin is normal or oily. If your skin is dry, substitute sunflower oil for the lemon juice.
4. Mix everything together in the bowl.
5. Use your fingertips to spread the mixture over your face being careful to avoid your lip and eye areas.
6. Allow the face pack to stay on your face for approximately 10 to 12 minutes.
7. Rinse off using warm water and lightly pat your skin dry.

Tips & Warnings

• There are many different combinations of natural ingredients that you can use to make face packs for all types of skin including oily, dry, balanced or any mixture of types. Ayurvedic Cure and Beauty Fest have excellent face pack ideas and formulas. (See Resources for links.)
• Use homemade face packs on your neck area also.
• Add honey to any fruit or vegetable mixture to make the pulp smoother if needed.
• Store most homemade face packs in a closed glass jar in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
• Do not use any ingredient in a face pack if you have an allergy to them.