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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Beauty Recipes for Your Face

You don't have to be like this picture to protect your face...

You can make your own beauty recipes for your face...

Grape Cleanser Recipe
Grape juice makes an excellent cleanser for any skin type. Simply split one or two large grapes, remove pips and rub the flesh over face and neck. Rinse off with cool water.

Banana Wrinkle Fighter Recipe
Banana is wonderful as an anti-wrinkle treatment. Mash 1/4 banana until very creamy. Spread all over face and leave for 15-20 minutes before rinsing off with warm water followed by a dash of cold. Gently pat dry.

Facial Exfoliater Recipe
2 heaped tsp fine oatmeal1 tsp. baking soda. Combine ingredients, and add enough water to make a paste. Apply to skin and rub gently. Rinse and gently pat dry.

Honey Mask Recipe
The best facial mask is honey. Place a cloth in warm water and apply to your face to open the pores. Smear on honey, and leave on for 15 to 30 minutes. Rinse off with warm water, then use cold water to close the pores. Use once a week.

Avocado Facial Recipe
Avocado is a naturally rich moisturizer. Mash the meat of the avocado into a creamy texture. Massage into the face and neck . Leave on for 15 minutes and gently rinse off.

Facial Mask Recipe
Squeeze half a lemon and mix the juice with one beaten egg white. Leave on your face overnight or, for a quick pick-me-up, just 15 minutes. Splash warm water on your face to rinse.It helps to removes blotches, because the lemon works as a bleaching agent.

Lighten Circles under Eyes Recipe
To lighten dark circles under your eyes, wrap a grated raw potato in cheesecloth and apply to eyelids for 15-20 minutes. Wipe off residue and apply an eye cream.

Egg & Honey Mask Recipe
Mix together 1 tablespoon honey, 1 egg yolk, 1/2 teaspoon almond oil and 1 tablespoon yogurt. Honey stimulates and smoothes, egg and almond oil penetrate and moisturize, and yogurt refines and tightens pores.

Egg, Avocado & Mud Facial Mask Recipe
Clay is available in powder form at any health food store. Mix 1 tablespoon dry clay with 1 egg yolk, 1/4 of a mashed avocado and enough witch hazel to create a smooth mixture. Mud dries excess sebum while the egg yolk and avocado replenish lost moisture. Witch hazel tones.

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