Facial Cleanser and Scrub

Facial Cleanser is the most important part of the skin care. Your skin must be clean before you apply any other vitamins or moisturizer, or your skin can not absorb the moisturizer effectively.

Beside of cleanser, you can maximize the cleansing process of your skin with facial scrub. This scrub will deeply cleanse your skin, and also remove all dead cells of your skin. So, more than clean, you will have a healthy, radiant look skin without dead cells on it. Use this scrub twice a week will be enough good.


Skin Cleanser

Ingredients

1 teaspoon olive oil

1 teaspoon honey

2 teaspoons cider vinegar

Instructions

Mix ingredients. Apply to face gently and leave on for 15 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
Excellent for dry skin.


Facial Scrub

Ingredients

1 tablespoon ground oatmeal

1 tablespoon ground dried lavender blossoms

1 tablespoon ground thyme leaves

1 tablespoon ground almonds

4 drops lemon essential oil


Instructions

1. Grind all dry ingredients finely and mix until uniform.
2. Add essential oil and mix well. Store in a glass container.
3. Use 1 1/2 teaspoons with enough water to make a paste.
4. Gently massage into skin and rinse thoroughly.

Do not use if your skin is very sensitive. It's a great exfoliant.

Chamomile Night Cream

Here again, is a simple night cream recipe. This cream is smooth, rich and moisturizing. You may choose chamomile oil for normal to dry skin, and lavender oil for balancing your normal to oily skin.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon aloe vera gel
1 tablespoon shea butter
2 teaspoons grated beeswax
1 tablespoon rosewater
1/4 teaspoon lecithin
oil from two capsules of vitamin E
4 drops chamomile or lavender essential oil


Instructions

1. Melt oil, butter, and beeswax in heatproof glass measuring cup, over boiling water or in microwave. (low heat)

2. Remove from heat just before beeswax is completely melted. Finish melting by stirring in warm oil.

3. Add the vitamin E oil and lecithin and stir in between additions.

4. Mix rosewater and aloe together and slowly add to main mixture.

5. Continue stirring with a small metal whisk. Once mixture is cooled, add the essential oil and stir.

6. Store inside drawer or cabinet. Try to keep away from sun and heat.

Use nightly-especially in cold or dry weather.

Rose Bubble Bath

Ingredients:

1 cup clear, mild liquid dishwashing soap
2 capsules Vitamin E oil
1 tbsp glycerin
1 tsp sugar
10 drop red food color
10-20 drop Rose Essential Oil

Blend all ingredients gently until sugar is dissolved. You can use 1/4 – 1/2 cup per bath.


Rose Bubble Bath with Herbs

100 ml mild liquid dishwashing soap
100 ml distilled water
3 tbsp dried rose petal
1 tsp Rose Essential Oil

Boil water and herbs, simmer for about 20 minutes. Squeeze and press herbs, then, strain off. Let it cool then add the liquid soap and Rose Essential Oil.
Use it for 2 times bath.

Lavender Bath Salt

This is a relaxing bath salt you can use after your busy works. The ingredients are from your kitchen, the process is simple but you may have a special product for bath. Lavender Essential Oil within this bath salt will help you to relax completely.

You need:

1 cup salt (rock salt or sea salt)
½ cup Epsom salt
1 tsp baking soda
Colorant (purple food color is great)
10 drop Lavender Essential Oil.

Direction:

Mix well all ingredients except baking soda. After all ingredients are mixed, add baking soda. You may add ½ tsp of glycerin to make the salt sparkle.

You can use ¼ to ½ cup per bath.

Jasmine Body Lotion

This is again a simple recipe. Its ingredients are available at your kitchen, and the process is also very easy. What you will get is a nice scented, skin smoothing, a great lotion in a low price.

All you need:

1/2 cup apricot kernel oil
2 tsp beeswax
2 tsp cocoa butter
2 tsp coconut oil
1/2 cup distilled water
2 tsp aloe vera gel
1 tsp glycerin
15-20 drops Jasmine Essential Oil

Direction:

1. Melt the cocoa butter and then blend in the oils over low heat - allow cooling.
2. Combine the water, aloe vera gel, and glycerin into a bowl.
3. Slowly drizzle in a small amount of the oil mixture while beating with a wire whisk.
4. Continue to drizzle and beat until all the oil is blended into the water mixture.
5. Stir in jasmine essential oil, then, pour into a container.

Note:

1. You can add jasmine essential oil drop by drop and stop whenever you reach the right scent that you want.
2. You may modify the scent by changing the jasmine E.O. with another oil. It could be a single kind or a combination of 2-4 kinds of essential oil.

Aromatherapy Soap

There are many simple soap recipes you can try at home, and be happy to get a bar of soap as beautiful as from a real soap shop. The different is surely the price, it’s 60% less!!

Try this simple one:

Crisco Basic Soap

1.5 lbs Crisco (vegetable shortening)
3 oz. lye
6 oz. water (distilled is better)
Colorant
0.6 – 0.8 oz. Choice of Essential Oil

Direction:
1. Melt the Crisco in a stainless steel or enamel pan.
2. Place cold water in a heat proofed glass bowl. Slowly sprinkle the lye while stirring it with a plastic or rubber spoon until clear.
3. Check both temperature of melted Crisco and lye solution. If they are warm to the touch (90 - 110 F) Then pour the lye solution to the melted Crisco slowly while stirring. Keep stirring until you get the trace.
4. Trace is when it thickens to the point where you can drop some of the mix and it leaves a trail. 5. At this point you can add some colorant and scent of your choice for you soap.
6. Pour into molds. You can use special soap mold, plastic box or even other container such as pringles can.
7. Put molds in a warm, insulate place, or you can wrap it with old blanket or towel
8. Let set 24-48 hours and then cut. It makes 6-8 soap bars.
9. Place on to rack; let it cure for 3-4 weeks.

Tips :
1. Lye is extremely caustic and corrosive. Keep it out of reach of the children. Also watch your equipment and the surface where you work with this stuff.
2. Better work in an open or a ventilated area.
3. Use goggle to protect your eyes.
4. Always use rubber or plastic gloves, because the soap is still caustic until it completely cured (about 3 weeks).
5. You can use an electric hand mixer while stirring the mixture; the trace point will be reached faster.
6. The amount of Essential Oil needs in this recipe could be a single kind of EO, or a combination of 2-4 kinds of EO.
7. Harmonize your additive, such as: purple colorant with Lavender EO, pink with Rose EO, etc.