Do You Want to Avoid Skin Irritation?
Using Herbal Skin Care Products
By Stephen Todd
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 1¼ 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, ½ 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 3½ cups of liquid
witch hazel with ½ 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.
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