When you are looking to avoid the harmful chemicals found gracing the shelves at your local grocery store, you may want to look into some of the herbal skin care products that are available.
Herbal skin care
Herbal skin care avoids the mineral oils and other petroleum products that can cause an irritation to the skin.
Herbal skin care products use natural oils that are found within a variety of seeds or nuts, such as grape seed oil and lemon oil. These ingredients tend to unclog pores, as well as ease the appearance of blemishes and dry skin.
Home Made Skin Care Products
There are tons of recipes for herbal skin care that you can use at home, which are created by picking up a few natural products from the grocery store, health food market, as well as herbal skin care stores and websites.
To create lavender oil for the skin, you will need two cups of lavender flowers, 2 sprigs of rosemary, 1 piece of orange zest, as well as 1 cups of olive or grape seed oil.
Using a mortar or cutting board, you can create the herbal skin care mixture by pounding the lavender, rosemary and orange zest together. Next, you pack the herbs into a 2-cup capacity jar and add the oil.
Cover and shake the ingredients together before leaving the jar in a sunny window for two weeks.
Shake the jar at least once a day during these two weeks. After the time is up, you will need to strain the herbal skin care product and keep it refrigerated when not in use.
Home Made Facial Oil
To make facial oil from calendula flowers, you will need two cups of olive or grape seed oil, cup of wheat germ oil, as well as one cup of calendula flowers.
You should combine all of the ingredients in a jar and cover for placement on a sunny windowsill.
For the next two weeks, you will have to shake this herbal skin care remedy at least once per day.
Strain and refrigerate this herbal skin care product after preparation.
Home Made Skin Care Toner
If you are looking for a herbal skin care toner, there is an easy way to create such a product with the inexpensive ingredient of witch hazel, which can be found at any drugstore. Combine 3 cups of liquid witch hazel with cup of herbs and place in a jar that sits on a sunny windowsill for one week.
The mixture should be shaken at least once per day. After the herbal skin care remedy is strained, place it in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it.
When creating a toner at home, you can prepare a gentler option by adding calendula flowers; for oily skin, add lemon rind and mint to the remedy.
Home Made Facial Mask
A herbal skin care facial mask can be prepared by blending a few herbs together and applying it to the face.
If you are suffering from dry skin, you may want to blend rose petals and chamomile with two tablespoons of oatmeal and distilled water.
Oily skin craves for a blend of sage, yarrow, chamomile, and lemongrass with two tablespoons of distilled water and oatmeal.
After creating the herbal skin care remedy, apply to the face for ten minutes, and then rinsed away. |
