How to Make Natural Makeup

Some natural make up can be homemade and healthy. And natural beauty care can heal your skin and save money at the same time.

Here are directions for mostly organic natural make-up, including translucent loose face powder, skin healing eye shadow, natural lip color/gloss, and moisturizing cheek rouge. This skin beauty collection is considered healthy for your skin yet can cost less than $15 total for all four, especially if you have some of the ingredients in your pantry, because you need very little of each ingredient. The potato starch and corn starch can set foundation and give bare skin a matt look without covering up a healthy skin glow or clogging pores. Cocoa and cinnamon are known by skin beauty experts to be very desirable products for natural beauty care.

Things You'll Need

• For all 4 products -- Article tells amounts needed:
• Organic potato starch
• Organic corn starch
• Dried beat powder (sold bulk at health food stores)
• Beeswax beads (also sold at health food and craft stores)
• Organic sunflower oil
• Organic baking cocoa
• Organic powdered cinnamon
• Small containers for each product, such as sterilized recycled baby food jars
• Mortar and pestle

Instructions

1. 

   Make your loose translucent face powder. This natural make up powder uses two starches. If they're lumpy of the box or bag, first grind 2 tablespoons of potato starch, then 2 tablespoons of corn starch in a mortar and pestle. Pour 2 tablespoons of each powder into jar and shake to mix. Apply dry to skin with a cotton ball, then dab with a moist cotton ball. Set about a teaspoon aside to make your eye shadow.

2. 

   Tint your face powder. A light addition of cinnamon will add cinnamon scent and health benefits to the skin and make the powder attractive. Add a pinch and shake, adding more until you get the desired affect. This isn't enough to tint the skin, but if you add more cinnamon (keep adding and testing on your inner wrist), you can get enough to give a faint warm glow to fair skin using this natural make up powder.

3. 

   Make your eye shadow. Natural make up for eyes needs to be very gentle. Grind 2 tablespoons of baking cocoa in with a pinch of your homemade untinted face powder. The cocoa gives the color, and the face powder gives it more "adherence." Pour into jar and shake to mix. This will give a translucent cocoa color to the skin. Apply with Q-tips or purchased shadow appliances. For bright colors, if you're not opposed to commercial food coloring, you can buy dry powdered food coloring (don't use liquid) and grind the pigment little by little with another batch of untinted face powder, testing on your inner wrist, until you get the color you want.

4. Make your moisturizing cheek rouge and lip color/gloss. These natural make ups are one in the same. Heat 2 tablespoons sunflower oil with one tablespoon beeswax beads, just enough so the wax is melted.

5. Whisk in beet powder, adding from the tiniest pinch for natural tone pinkish to 1 teaspoon for a deeper reddish. Seems to adapt itself to look good on almost any skin color... perfect for natural skin beauty.

6. Allow to cool. Ingredients will merge as they cool, even if separate in spite of your mixing. The sunflower oil in this natural make up is a nourishing ingredient for natural beauty care.

7. Test color. When cool enough, test the hue on your lips and cheeks. If too light, add more beet powder. If too dark, add more oil and beeswax in correct proportions - one part wax to two parts oil. Pour into jar when cooled and color correct.

Tips & Warnings

• Even natural make up ingredients can cause allergies or irritate sensitive eyes, patch test and use caution, avoid if eyes are irritated, dry or over sensitive or you have known allergies to the substances.

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Resources

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