Homemade Skincare Recipes -
DIY Natural Beauty Tips

There are hundreds of homemade skincare recipes available that moisturize, cleanse and protect both adult and baby's skin. Easily prepared, these recipes use ingredients you probably have at home and these types of skincare items can be 100% natural. It is perfect for busy women, such as mothers, to indulge in self pampering spa at the comfortable of their home as frequent as they like.

Skin Care and Ingredients

The human body is comprised mostly of skin and no two skin areas are alike.

Some areas like hands, feet and elbows easily dry out becoming rough and sometimes tender. Making skincare products at home for these special areas can use ingredients like beeswax, nut oils especially almond, olive and walnut plus aloe vera juice.

• Aloe is a plant used often when making skincare products at home because of its many natural, healing properties including restoring dry skin, inhibiting microbial growth and soothing damaged skin like sunburn and topical burns.
• Nut oils are natural oils that are absorbed well by the skin.
• Beeswax should be raw, unbleached natural wax and can often be found online, in craft stores and from local beekeepers.

Everyone will be more concern of aging spots and wrinkle on face. Oatmeal, sea salt, cucumbers and strawberries are common ingredients for soothing, refreshing facial masks, detox masks and wrinkle relaxing creams.

Castile soap is often a base for many homemade skin cleansers, but you can make many body and facial scrubs without any type of soap.

• Finely ground walnut hulls in a plain yogurt base is a soft and nourishing exfoliate for the face and feet
• Coarsely ground sea salt combined with honey and cornmeal is another soothing exfoliate.

Chamomile when added to any of these exfoliates may help lighten age spots or skin discoloration plus Vitamin E capsules can be opened and placed on skin or added to yogurt and honey scrubs providing a natural antioxidant property to any homemade skincare product.

Herbs

Adding fresh or dried herbs to blank skincare products can be both beneficial and soothing.

• Peppermint will help skin tissues contract
• Chamomile has a lightening and soothing effect on skin
• Rose oil contains natural emollients
• Sage helps control acne
• Calendula is astringent and healing
• Lavender is soothing

Equipment

Making skincare products at home may not require any additional equipment purchases as most of the needed equipment are standard cooking utensils. A small double boiler, a mortar and pestle, (stone is best so herbs, nuts and hulls do not become embedded in the mortar,) metal spoons, bowls and some small jars or bottles to store your beauty products in. Labels can be helpful so you can include the date you made it and what it is, preventing spoilage and unnecessary waste. However, remember to use permanent markers so water doesn't make the label unreadable.

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There are many reasons and advantages to homemade skincare products:

DIY is inexpensive

The rising cost of skincare is one reason to consider using homemade skincare recipes as many of the ingredients in the top selling commercial skincare items are ones found in almost every kitchen. Such ingredients' cost is only a small fraction of commercial skin care products.

Saves You Time

Making a trip to beauty salon for treatment can take up time. We can always whip up something for a simple skincare treatment at home with the right recipes. It is convenient and save time. You can do it any time you want.

Safe and Healthy Beauty Treatment

Almost all homemade skincare recipes ingredients are edible. If they are safe to eat then it is safe to use on skin. Unlike most commercial products, there have been many controversial findings on carcinogens found in them.

Environmental Friendly and against animal testing

The chemical laden commercial product is taking a toll on our environment. Many animals are subject to cruel testing before product is marketed. It is time for us to vote against such practice. Using natural and fresh ingredients is definitely a better choice.

Turn Into Hobby/Business

Just like cooking....experiencing with various homemade skincare recipes can be very interesting. You can turn it into a craft hobby or venture into a home based business.

Creating soothing, cleansing and softening cosmetics using natural homemade skincare recipes is an inexpensive and easy way to have healthy, youthful looking skin.