home made spa products
April 30th, 2007 by karenguancoHomemade Facial Masks
Treat yourself to a pampering session as you give yourself facials that are out of this world. You can easily make your own facial mask using everyday items found in your kitchen.
The following facial mask recipes are provided for your enjoyment, and I hope you have a very relaxing evening!
All recipes have ingredients with very little shelf life. These are not recommended for reselling, and all leftovers should be discarded immediately after your treatment. Each recipe makes enough for one use.
Avacodo & Banana Facial Mask
1 egg yolk
1 small avocado
1/2 banana
Mash avocado, banana and egg yolk well, making sure mixture is mixed throroughly. Apply to clean face and neck avoiding eyes. Relax for about 15 minutes, then rinse off with lukewarm water.
Cucumber Facial Mask
1/2 cucumber, peeled
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon lime juice
Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth. Refrigerate the mixture for about 10 minutes. Apply to clean face and neck avoiding eyes. Relax for about 15 minutes, then rinse off with lukewarm water.
Avocado Mask
1/2 ripe avocado
1 egg white
Mash avocado and egg white into a thick paste. Apply to clean face and neck avoiding eyes. Relax for about 15 minutes, then rinse off with lukewarm water.
Bath Tea Bag Recipes - Fragrant fumes and healing herbs engulf you when you use a bath tea bag for relaxation.
Making your own homemade bath tea bags and sachets is fun and easy to do.
Mix up the following mixtures thoroughly and spread out onto a paper towel or plate for at least 2 hours to give the vitamin E gel time to dry. Create a pouch from a piece of muslin that measures 6 ½ by 4 inches by folding the muslin in half and sewing a seam up the sides. Fill the sachet half full with the following mixtures, sew a seam up the top and decorate to your liking. I decorate mine with a label, and by trimming the side with pinking shears for the zigzag edge. You can add ribbons, bows etc. Anything that would be safe to use in water.
The following recipes include all dry ingredients for maximum shelf life. You can add other ingredients like honey if you plan to use the sachets within a day or two. Make sure if you use any wet ingredients that you refrigerate until use and I do not recommend selling any that include wet ingredients. If you’re making a large batch, then double or triple the recipes to your liking. You can also premix these in large batches and make the sachets, as you need them, just store the mixture in an airtight container until you’re ready to use.
Creamy Oats Facial Wash
1 cup powdered milk or cream (I have also used coffee cream with great success in this recipe, it makes the skin shine)
1-cup plain oatmeal
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Delightful Lemon-N-Sage
11/4 cups dried lemon peel (You can dry this yourself by cutting into small slivers and laying out on a paper towel for a few days or by micro waving it a few minutes until dry)
¼ Cup Sage
½ cup Mint
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Great Geranium
1-½ cups dried geranium flower petals
½ cup rosemary
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Minty Hazel
½ cup mint
½ cup hazel
1 cup powdered milk
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Lemon Lovage
½ cup lovage
1 cup dried lemon pee
l ¼ cup dried orange peel
¼ cup dried lime peel
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Roses Galore
1 cup dried rose petals
½ cup lavender petals
½ cup lilac petals
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Honeysuckle Haven
2 cups dried honeysuckle
1-teaspoon cloves
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Lavender Mint
1 cup lavender petals
½ cup mint
½ cup powdered milk
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Milky Almond Oats
1-cup plain oatmeal
¾ cup powdered milk
¼ cup minced almonds
1 Vitamin E Capsule
Herb Garden
1-cup thyme
1-cup mint
1-cup rosemary
2 cups powdered milk
Bath Bomb / Fizzy Recipes - A mini spa awaits you as you fizz those worries away with these delightful bath bomb / bath fizzy recipes.
First mix your Baking Soda, Cocoa butter and recipe ingredients together in a large bowl. Next add your citric acid (don’t add citric acid fist or the fragrance will make it start fizzing). Next spritz the mixture with witch hazel while mixing with your hands thoroughly. You want to spritz it until it is damp just enough till it sticks together. If you wet it too much then they will become fizzy puffs, which although you can still use them, they aren’t very attractive for selling. Once it’s damp then press into molds and let site for 24 hours to dry. You can use ice cube trays as molds, and once dry they will be hard as a rock and ready for your bath.
Basic Bath Bomb Base
1 cup Citric Acid
2 Cups Baking Soda
¼ Cup Grated Cocoa Butter
Carrot and Cucumber
2 tsp grated carrot peel
2 tsp cucumber peel
2 tbsp favorite fragrance
½ tsp honey
Cinnamon Twist
1 tbsp ground Cinnamon
2 tbsp Cinnamon Fragrance
Herbal Medley
½ tsp each of ground ginger clove and mint (Smells wonderful)
2 tbsp favorite fragrance
Sweet as Silk
½ tsp almond oil
¼ tsp olive oil
2 tbsp favorite fragrance
Homemade Lye Soap - Old-fashioned lye soap isn’t as harsh as it sounds or as harsh as your grandma may have made it. These lye soap recipes are safe for the skin and sooooo silky smooth that once you try them, you’ll never buy store brands again! Making lye soap is not only fun, but also very rewarding. These recipes can be used for the cold process or hot process methods.
You can make homemade old time lye soap like your grandma used to make, without the harsh "Bite" so common in yesteryears homemade soaps.
For the following recipes I use the following base recipe for the soap base, then add the ingredients from each recipe at trace. These recipes can be made using either the hot process or cold process methods. If you’d like to learn how to make your own homemade lye soap, please click here to get "Oil Beauty & Profits". Oil beauty & Profits teaches how to make homemade soaps in easy to understand instructions.
Base Recipe
40 oz Olive Oil
12 oz Coconut Oil
7.20 oz Red Devil Lye
20 oz Distilled Water (Do not use tap water)
Follow your basic cold process or hot process methods, then choose a recipe below and add ingredients at trace stage. This base recipe lathers well and is very good for the skin.
Exotica Nights
1/3-cup juniper breeze fragrance
¼ cup dried rose petals
¼ cup dried sunflower petals
Strawberries and Cream
½ cup strawberry pulp
1/3-cup strawberries n cream fragrance
2 tsp cream
¼ tbsp red colorant
Mix fragrance and pour half the mixture into mold. Add cream, pulp and colorant to rest of mixture, pour into mold and swirl with a plastic spatula.
Poppin Poppies
2 tbsp green colorant
¼ cup floral fragrance
½ cup poppy seeds (exfoliant)
Oatmeal n Honey
¼ cup honey fragrance
5 tbsp honey
½ cup oats
Carrot Soup
½ cup carrot pulp
1/3 cup Fragrance of your choice
Chocolate Chip
½ cup real chocolate chips
¼ cup chocolate fragrance
Rabatch Handmilled Soap - For those of you that don’t like the thought of handling lye, here’s some wonderful homemade soap recipes using the rebatch method.
Rebatching and making handmilled soap
For those of you that don’t like the thought of handling lye, here’s some wonderful homemade soap recipes using the rebatch method. If you do not know how to make rebatch (handmilled) soaps, please click here for information about Rebatching Made Fun an informational manual that covers the rebatch method in easy to understand instructions.
Basic Rebatch Base
20 oz grated soap flakes
2 oz water
1 Vitamin E Capsule (optional)
The basic rebatch base recipe is what you’ll use for all the recipes included with this booklet.
Melt your basic recipe in your crock-pot then add the ingredients for your desired recipe once your base has melted completely. The recipes make 5 bars of soap, measuring approximately 4 ounces per bar. If you’d like to make more than five bars, you can double up the recipes just ensure that your crock-pot or double boiler is large enough to hold all your ingredients.
Some of the recipes call for other liquids instead of water. Just substitute these liquids when you start melting your basic base.
Milk-N-Honey
This recipe calls for 2 oz milk instead of water.
1 tbsp honey
Fresh Herbal Soap
1/4 tsp basil (calming)
Pinch of ginger (toner)
Pinch of sage (clarifying)
Few drops of your favorite herbal scent (optional)
Goat Milk-N-Oats
2 oz goat milk (Can mix powdered form with distilled water)
4 tbsp plain oatmeal
Few drops of your favorite scent (optional)
Lip Balm Recipes ~ Make your own homemade lip balm
To make the following homemade lip balm recipes, melt beeswax and oil in microwave or double boiler, add other ingredients and pour into attractive containers. Let sit for 48 hours allowing time to set before use.
CAUTION: Your oil and beeswax will get extremely hot. DO NOT BOIL!! If it starts boiling, then cut heat source off and allow it to cool before handling it.
Honey Lip Balm
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
1 oz honey
Aloe Lip Gloss
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
½ teaspoon aloe vera gel
Creamy Cocoa Lip Balm
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
½ teaspoon cocoa
Chocolate Chip Lip Balm (This lip balm recipe is one the children are sure to enjoy!)
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
3-6 Chocolate Chips
Cocoa Butter Bliss
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz cocoa butter
1 ox beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
Lemon Lip Balm Bliss
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
1 tablespoon lemon juice
This lip balm recipe makes a wonderful summer time refresher for your lips!
Root Beer Lip Balm
4 oz extra virgin olive oil
3 oz beeswax
½ vitamin E capsule
½ teaspoon rootbeer flavoring
Cleopatra Milk Haven Lip Balm Blast
8 oz extra virgin olive oil
2 oz beeswax
4 oz cocoa butter
½ vitamin E capsule
½ teaspoon cream
½ teaspoon honey
Lotion Bar Recipes
Make wonderful lotion bars right in the comfort of your own home. Lotion bars are not only wonderful for your skin, but proven best sellers as well!
To make lotion bars, melt your oils and butters in a heavy glass container on very low heat in the microwave (Pyrex works great) or on a very very low eye on your stovetop in a stainless steel pot.
Make sure you do not boil the oils as this can be very hot and dangerous.
Once melted, let your oils cool slightly, then mix remaining ingredients. Small dixie paper cups (the kinds used by sinks, not the large ones) make nice molds. Just put your cups on top of wax paper to protect your counters, and fill cups about 1/2 inch to make 1/2 inch thick bars. Let cool completely, then pop out of the cups for perfect purse hand sized lotion bars. Wrap your lotion bars attractively in waxed paper.
Butter Lotion Bars
2 oz. cocoa butter 2 oz. beeswax 2 oz. shea butter
Lavender Lotion Bars
12 oz beeswax 8 oz cocoa butter 12 oz extra virgin olive oil 4 oz dried lavender
Roses Delight
12 oz beeswax 8 oz cocoa butter 12 oz extra virgin olive oil 4 oz dried rose petals
Creamy Cocoa Bars
12 oz beeswax 8 oz cocoa butter 12 oz extra virgin olive oil 4 oz cocoa
Busy Busy Bee Lotion Bars
12 oz beeswax 4 oz cocoa butter 2 tbsp honey 1 oz coconut oil 1 tsp almond oil
Melody Mint
10 oz cocoa butter 3 tbsp ground mint 2 oz olive oil 3 oz beeswax
Bath Salts - Making bath salts is not only easy, but it’s super fun and something your whole family will enjoy doing together.
Bath Salt Recipes
Making bath salts is not only easy, but it’s super fun and something your whole family will enjoy doing together. To make the following recipes, just mix all ingredients in a large glass bowl, then store in an attractive covered container.
Rosey Bath Salts
1 part citric acid
1 ½ parts baking powder
½ parts corn starch
¼ parts Epsom salts
½ parts rose petals
Sparkling Bath Salts
1 cup Epsom salts
2 tbsp favorite fragrance
1-cup rock salt
¼ cup ground mint
Citrus Salts
1-cup citric acid
1 cup Epsom salts
½ cup grated orange peel
2 tsp Lemon fragrance
Salty Oats
½ cup ground oats
1-cup rock salt
4 tbsp almond oil
2 tbsp favorite fragrance
Salt Soak n Bubbles
1 cup Ivory Soap Flakes (grate ivory soap with a cheese grater)
1-Cup Epsom salts
¼ cup ground mint
Some Natural Ingredients for Skin Care:
Fruits, vegetables, or any pure food ingredients are not necessarily the best for skin. When it comes to skin care, more often than not, it is some small element of the plant that has benefit for skin.
It is stating the obvious that today natural products seem to dominate in the market. To help you make the right choice for the skin care, here are the some important natural ingredients, that may definately help you. These includes:-
Aloe Vera:
The Aloe Vera plants, are generally found mainly in sunny climates. The leaves of this plant store large amounts of water. The main application of it is that, it helps in improving the hydration, thus it is suitable for healing to all skin types. Aloe Vera consist of water, the enzymes catalase and cellulose, minerals, calcium, aluminum, iron, zinc, magnesium, sodium, 20 amino acids and carbohydrates. Aloe Vera also contains the "youth mineral" potassium. These properties make it ideal for use in skin care and cosmetic preparations on sunburns, acne, dermatitis, and otherwise sensitive and irritated skin. Aloe Vera has also recently been hailed for its anti-aging effect on skin.
Alpha Lipoic Acid:
Alpha Lipoic Acid, is also known as Thiocitic acid. It has dual properties as fat and water soluble and can cross any membrane in the body, including blood-brain matter. It is often called the universal antioxidant. Alpha Lipoic Acid also promotes mitochondrial activity to help keep your body skin and tissues young.
Avocado Oil:
Avocado oil is rich in vitamins A, B1, B2 Panthothenic acid, vitamin D and E, protein, lecithin and fatty acids. It’s a very good nutrient for dry skin and eczema. Highly compatible with human skin, this oil also offers some natural UV ray protection.
Calendula:
It is also known as Marigold, which is a traditional source of herbal medicines and anti-aging skin care products. Calendula is said to have immunostimulating as well as antibacterial and antiviral properties. Biologically active ingredients of Calendula include carotenoids, such as lutein and zeaxanthin, sterols, saponins, glycosides, and numerous antioxidants, including terpenoids, flavonoids, isoquercitin, narcissin and rutin.
Jojoba Oil:
The jojoba oil has the antioxidant properties and is supposed to be useful for sunburn and chapped skin in addition to stimulating hair growth. Jojoba Oil is very similar to the natural oil our skin produces, though it is technically a liquid wax produced from the seed of the Jojoba simmondsia chinensis shrub.
Propolis Derma Cream:
It helps to protect against premature aging; helps to heal cuts, scrapes, acne, rashes, burns, sunburns, and hemorrhoids; helps soothe skin that has become dry due to illness, colds and winds.
Tea Tree oil:
Tea tree oil is an yellowish green-tinged essential oil with a fresh camphoraceous odour . It is taken from the leaves of the Melaleuca alternifolia. It has remarkable properties that are found very effective for the skin care.
Home Remedy for Blackheads and Whiteheads : Try out these effective Home Remedies
Given below are some of the home remedy for blackheads and whiteheads. The blackhead home remedies listed below have worked for many people, but they may not work for some people. Before trying these home remedies please check that you dont have any allergies or sensitivity to some ingredients like glycerin, lemons, orange, garlic, papaya, eggs, etc. As these are added to most of the remedies, if you are suffering from any of the above ingredients then dont follow that home remedy in which that ingredients is there.
Blackhead and Whitehead Home Remedy
1. Use an oatmeal or almond mask throughly to cleanse your face. Mix either oatmeal or almond powder with enough rose water to make a soft paste that spreads easily on the skin. Rub it on your skin with your fingertips, paying special attention the problem areas. Leave to dry for about 15 minutes and then rinse off with cold water.
2. Apply undiluted lemon juice, two to three times a day, on the affected areas.
3. A solution made out of one and a half cups of hot water and half a tablespoon of boric powder is an ideal remedy for blackheads, Saturate a face napkin in this hot solution and press on to the skin, repeat it twice. Extract blackheads carefully with a blackhead extracter and sterilized cottonwool. The blackhead extractor you use should be a sterlized one. Now put on astrigent lotion.
4. Warm a little honey and apply on the trouble spots. Wash off after 10-15 minutes.
5. Make a paste of roasted & powdered pomegranate, mix it with fresh lime juice and apply over boils, acne, blackheads and whiteheads.
6. Apply grated potatoes as poultice to treat skin blemishes, wrinkles, boils, acne scar, blackheads and whiteheads.
7. Make a paste of ground radish seeds with water and apply on face to remove blackheads.
8. Mix 1 tsp’s groundnut oil with 1 tsp fresh lime juice to prevent formation of blackheads and acne.
9. Mix 5 tea spoon full of sodium bicarbonate with 1 cup of boiled water. Put the mixture on the blackheads.
10. Combine equal parts baking soda and water in your hand and rub gently on your skin for 2 to 3 minutes. Rinse with warm water. This is an effective home remedy for blackhead.
11. You can buy some green tea from the market(it is a very good antioxidant). After drinking the tea open the tea bag and rub the contents on the blackheads as a face scrub. Do it twice a week. This will help remove blackheads.
12. Mix glycerin soap, fuller’s earth (multani mutti), almond powder in the ratio of 2:1:4 i.e. for each 20 gram of glycerin soap add 10 grams of fuller’s earth with 40 grams of almond powder. Mix in it boiled water and make a paste. Apply the paste on the blackheads.
13. Make a paste of neem leaves with turmeric powder. Apply on affected area. Wash it off after 20-30 minutes with lukewarm water.
14. Dont wipe off your nose after bathing and rub it with your fore fingers. This will help in removing blackheads.
