Beauty Recipes for Your Skin

Honey Lemon Sugar Scrub
Homemade scrub recipe for a honey and lemon sugar scrub that gently exfoliates your skin.
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup sweet almond oil
4 teaspoons lemon juice
4 tablespoons honey
4 drops lemon essential oil
To make the sugar scrub, combine the sugar and sweet almond oil in a large bowl and stir well to combine. Add the lemon juice and stir again. Finally, add the honey and lemon essential oil and stir again to mix.

Homemade Bath Salt Recipes
Homemade bath salt recipes to soothe your skin and relax your aching muscles and joints.
Dead Sea Salts & Coconut Oil
3 cups Dead Sea salt
15-24 drops of your favorite essential oil
1 tbsp coconut oil (as a moisturizer)
Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Store in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid.
To use add 1/2 cup of the salts to running bath water and mix well so the salts dissolve completely before you enter the tub.

Basic Recipe for Homemade Bath Salts
Homemade Bath Salts are very easy to make.
Start with Dead Sea Salts, Kosher Salts or Epsom Salts (you can find these at any grocery store) - or a mix of any of them.
Then, add any of the following - slowly to not dissolve the salts - (all of the following ingredients are optional, so choose your favorites for the perfect bath salt recipe)
Baking Soda
Your Favorite Essential Oils

Dried Milk

Liquid Glycerin Soap

Dried Flowers

Dried Mint Leaves

Oatmeal
Combine your favorite ingredients and place into an attractive container. Keep your bath salts or give them as a gift to someone you love.

Almond Rose Body Lotion
1/4 cup sweet almond oil
Rose petals
3 tbsp vodka
water
1 tbsp beeswax – grated
4 drops vitamin E oil
Start by filling a clean Mason jar ¾ of the way with rose petals. Add the vodka then fill the jar up with water. Stir well and set it aside for 1 to 2 weeks. Strain and keep in an airtight jar.
Combine the almond oil and beeswax in a double boiler, or put them in a glass bowl and microwave in 30 sec. intervals. Stir gently until the beeswax is melted.
Take the mixture of the heat and slowly add ¼ cup of the rosewater, stirring constantly. Let the mixture cool completely, then add the vitamin E oil.
Store the lotion in a clean container with a tight fitting lid.

Lotion Recipe for Dry Skin
Ingredients
3/4 cup of almond oil
1/3 cup of coconut oil or cocoa butter
1 teaspoon lanolin
1/2 oz grated beeswax
2/3 cup rosewater
1/3 cup aloe vera gel
1 to 2 drops rose oil
1 vitamin E capsule
Directions
Melt almond oil, coconut oil, lanolin and beeswax over low heat. Mix well and let cool.
Mix rosewater, aloe vera gel and rose oil. Add the contents of the vitamin E capsule. Whip this mixture into the beeswax mixture until well blended. Store in a jar with a tight lid.

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