How to Make Spa Products That Are Homemade
The simple ingredients in homemade spa products are found in your kitchen. The book "L'Oreal's 100,000 Years of Beauty," created by Elizabeth Azoulay, reports that food products have been used as beauty treatments since the Middle Ages. Food products are still being used as alternative spa treatments by consumers and practitioners alike. Foods are blended with oils to create masks, bath products and nail treatments. Food stuffs used in your salad or cooked up on your breakfast plate are combined to use topically. Does this Spark an idea?
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Determine what you want to treat. A long list of recipes for natural treatments is available. To decide which is best for you, you must determine what you want to treat. If your skin is dry, you will use a different formula than if your skin is oily. A product you use on your feet will have ingredients that exfoliate more aggressively than a product used on your face.
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Find your ingredients. Basic food ingredients include avocado, apple, almond oil, tomato, carrot, egg and cucumber. These ingredients will be combined together or with yogurt or essence oils that will make for smooth application. Essence oils have both healing and cosmetic properties. Commonly used oils are tea tree, lavender, chamomile, rose and peppermint. Lists of foods and herbs used in beauty treatments are never ending. Use your instincts to create new recipes.
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Blend your ingredients. Recipes include one or two main ingredients, such as avocado or apple. These ingredients are blended with neutral ingredients that will not alter their affective components. Neutral ingredients give the product a texture that will stick to the skin. For example, a recipe published by Spa Index for an avocado-carrot cream mask blends avocado and carrot with heavy cream, egg and honey. Another example is a body exfoliant using sugar and olive oil. The sugar is the active ingredient; the olive oil assists with application. Most recipes have a one-to-one ratio for all ingredients. However, if you add creams, yogurts and honey slowly, mixing as you go, you will find that you may need less of a neutral ingredient. Adjust your measurements based on the amount of product you are making and your desired consistency.
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Store the products in the refrigerator. The products will go bad in three to 10 days, depending on the ingredients. Make small amounts that you will use quickly for best results.
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thx Will try all these.
