Why make Homemade Beauty Products?
Making your own homemade beauty products has numerous benefits. Avoiding dangerous and harmful chemicals off your body while you can save huge amounts of money, you could spend otherwise.
You can make homemade soaps, lotions, makeup, fragrances and much more, just as good as the ones you buy commercially. This way you are also helping the environment by reducing waste from packaging. Reuse glass containers and save money.
Below I am sharing some simple and effective recipes for common issues. Hope you adopt or get used to doing some of them for your own benefits and for the environment
Do-It-Yourself Beauty Treatments
While the ingredients on beauty products are listed on the back, some chemicals are hidden or not listed at all. Some of these dangerous chemicals like pthalates, formaldehyde, parabens which cause chronic diseases like cancers, tumors and skin diseases amongst others.
Making homemade beauty products does not require harming and testing on animals. Chemicals get flushed down in drains which end up in our rivers, seas killing hundreds of creatures.
Start adopting this approach and you will gain more than extra bucks in your pocket. You can decorate the jars and give out as genuine and unique gifts.
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Homemade Beauty Products recipes
The following is just a small part of what you can do with ingredients found at home.
The first one is a treatment to revitalize your hair
Honey-Avocado Hair Treatment
To make one treatment, peel and stone a medium size avocado with 2 tablespoons of honey and mash. Massage mixture into hair and leave for half an hour. Rinse hair and wash as usual.
Want your face skin to look younger?
Tightening Lemon Egg White Mask
Juice half a lemon and beat with one egg white for 3 minutes. Apply around your face avoid your eye areas and leave for half an hour. Rinse with lukewarm water.
For kissable lips everytime…..
Honey-Cocoa Butter Lip Balm
Serves a long time or give out to your good friends and relatives. In a small saucepan, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil, half a teaspoon of honey, 3/4 teaspoon of grated beeswax with a half teaspoon of pure cocoa butter until melted. Remove from heat and allow to cool for a few minutes. Stir in your favorite oil with the contents of one Vitamin E capsule. Pour in small containers and close tightly. Decorate or personalize for gifts.
Scrub your dead skin with
Sea Salt Body Scrub
One cup coarse sea salt with half cup extra virgin olive oil combined together and store in a screw top jar. Leave it for 24 hours. Stir and apply to any areas of the body. Massage for a few minutes then shower off. Makes multiple applications.
Soften your hands with
Brown Sugar
Mix together 1/4 cup coarse brown sugar with some extra virgin olive oil to make a paste. Apply the mixture as if washing your hands for a minute. Rinse off with warm water.
Another homemade spa mask for a firmer face skin with
Peach and Egg White
Blend one egg white with one ripe peach (peeled and stoned) until smooth. Apply mixture on face and leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.
Give your tiring feet a spa treatment at the end of the day
Pedicure Treatment
Fill a foot bath to ankle height with warm water. Dissolve half cup of bath salts (like Epsom or Radox), add the essential oil of your choice (lavender, rosewood, patchouli and sandalwood are relaxing oils, while lemongrass and eucalyptus are uplifting). Soak your feet for 15 minutes. Pat dry, moisturize with a foot cream and wear socks.
Producing your own homemade beauty products helps:
- your pocket - you will save big bucks if you frequently buy skincare products. Remember you work hard to earn a living.....dont give it to big companies. Natural ingredients cost nothing compared to what you pay for commercial ones.
- the enivornment - getting green will preserve the world for our own and future use. Reducing waste, recycling and materials. Reuse.
- safer ingredients - not containing any dangerous chemicals like you find in commercial products
- quick to do - can be done in 2 minutes or done in batches for later use. Can be given as gifts.
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