How to Make and Use a Almond Milk Mask

Make fresh almond milk for your mask.

Almond milk is used to cleanse and rejuvenate the skin. Used in facial-mask recipes, almond milk stays fresh longer than cow's milk. If you want to improve your overall complexion and remove oil and dirt from your pores, apply this mask with cotton balls first thing in the morning and before you go to bed at night. Use organic ingredients when making skin-care preparations to obtain the best results.

Things You'll Need

• Tea kettle
• Distilled water
• Stove
• 2 muslin teabags
• 2 tablespoons dried organic marigold
• Teacup
• 2 oz. ground organic almonds
• Bowl
• Tablespoon
• Teaspoon
• Measuring cup
• Medium saucepan
• 1 teaspoon borax
• 2 tablespoons organic grape-seed oil
• Small saucepan
• Whisk
• 5 drops organic lemon oil
• Glass jar
• Cotton balls
• Refrigerator

Instructions

1. Fill a tea kettle with distilled water and bring the water to a boil on the stove.

2. Fill a muslin tea bag with 2 tbsp. dried organic marigold. Place the tea bag into a teacup.

3. Fill the teacup with hot water from the tea kettle. Allow the tea bag to steep overnight.

4. Pour the almonds into a muslin tea bag and set the bag in a small bowl. Pour 5 fl.oz of distilled water into the bowl. Press down on the muslin bag with a spoon every 20 minutes over the course of four hours.

5. Remove the muslin bag from the bowl and squeeze it over the bowl. Set it aside.

6. Pour 2-1/2 cups of tap water into a medium size saucepan and place it on the stove. Set the burner heat to medium high. Pour out half of the marigold tea. Stir one teaspoon of borax into the remaining marigold tea.

7. Place the teacup with the marigold tea in the medium saucepan when steam begins to rise from the water. Turn off the burner and allow the teacup to sit in the pan until the borax dissolves completely.

8. Pour the organic grape-seed oil into a small saucepan and set this pan on the stove. Set the burner heat to medium high and wait ten minutes.

9. Pour the contents of the teacup into the pan with the oil and whisk the ingredients together for two minutes.

10. Measure 4 tbsp. of the almond milk and stir the milk into the pan with all of the other ingredients.

11. Add 5 drops of organic lemon oil into the pan and shut off the burner. Allow the mixture to cool.

12. Pour the mixture into a glass jar. Seal the jar with its lid and shake the mixture vigorously for three minutes.

13. Apply the mask on your face with cotton balls twice daily. Store the jar in the refrigerator and discard the mixture after seven days.

References

• "The New Age Herbalist;" Richard Mabey; 1988