Homemade Beauty Recipes

As part of the training we had to learn about the skin, the anatomy of it eg the facial bones, muscles and nerves, and it's functions and the different skin types and learning also how to do facials and what products suit the different skin types.

So firstly you need to know your skin type then you are one step closer, so let's start with :

Cleansing: Here are a few recipes for soap. I was, until recently not a fan of soap, however using a homemade soap is so much better and not drying to the skin, infact it can be quite the opposite as I have found out.

The recipes below are all over the internet as they are the basic ingrediants you need to get you started. If you want to learn more about making your own or maybe doing a homemade beauty products class that would be good, then you can experiment and learn for example basic white soap recipes.

Advocado Soap:

4oz wt. advocado oil 2.5oz wt olive oil 2 oz wt coconut oil 1.5 oz wt. palm oil 1.5 oz wt. lye 4 oz wt. distilled water 1/2 oz dewberry fragrance oil or whatever other one you want to use.

Basic White Soap

12 oz wt shortening 8oz wt. coconut oil 8 oz wt. olive oil 1 oz wt. cocoa butter 4.25 oz wt. distilled water 2.oz any fragrance oil.

Oatmeal & Honey Soap

5.5 oz wt. coconut oil 5 oz wt. shortening 3.oz wt lard 1 oz wt cocoa butter 1 oz wt palm 1 oz wt apricot kernel oil 1/2 cup blended oatmeal 2.5 oz wt lye 6 oz wt water 1 tbs honey 1/2 honey almond fragrance oil.

136 oz olive oil 17.13 oz lye 51 oz distilled water

Carrot Soap

10 oz palm oil 4 oz coconut oil 2 oz olive oil 2 oz lye 4 oz distilled water 4 oz carrot juice

More below for homemade beauty recipes, this time its melt and pour soap.

Calendula Harmony Soap

2 oz clear melt & pour soap 1 oz white mely & pour soap 1 pinch calendula petals 2 drops of yellow soap colorant 6 drops vanilla fragrance oil 4 drops sandlewood fragrance oil 2 drops eucalyptus essential oil

Vanilla Cream Soap

2 oz clear melt & pour soap 1 oz white mely & pour soap 1/2 tsp powdered milk 6 drops vanilla cream fragrance oil

Gardner's Soap

8 oz white soap grated 1/4 cup milk 2 teaspoon shredded luffa 1/4 teaspoon lavender fragrance oil 1/8 teaspoon rosemary fragrance oil

Lavender Beeswax Soap

4 oz unscented, clear glyerine soap 1 teaspoon grated beeswax 1/4 teaspoon lavender fragrance oil violet food colouring (or 1 drop of red & 1 drop of blue)

These are just a few homemade beauty recipes for soap. Of course skin care is not the only thing to make what about creating Homemade hair recipes there really is so much we can create... Aromatherapy oils are used a lot in homemade beauty recipes and there are so many to choose from for example, Lavendar, Tea Tree, Geranium, Patchouli, Chamomile, Rose which is excellent for anti ageing and very expensive especially Rose Absolute, very high quality. With aromatherapy you do need to know what you are doing and what oils to use, now this is an ancient medicine, used by the ancient Egyptians they were so clever and used lots of natural remedies, hypnosis and more. Soap by Susan Cottage Soap & Gift Gallery, a small family business making quality handmade soaps, unique weddings favours and gifts. Our mild, creamy soaps are lovely created in a variety of shapes and fragrances without the use of artificial fragrance or colorants. Our soaps do not contain animal products and are not tested on animals. Juicer Machines Buying Guide: Tips & Well-Kept Secrets Behind The Scenes Of Juicers Comparison. Read more about natural beauty by www.true-beauty-tips.com

Aloe Vera is another popular and effective ingrediant in homemade beauty recipes and has many properties like treating Acne, Dermatitis, Psoriasis as well as decreasing swelling and redness, reduces inflammation, relieves pain, promotes synthesis of collagen in tissues and prevents blisters in cases of burns.

Once you learn to make your own products maybe you may want to learn facial exercises to keep your skin tone taught and firm, helping yourself to grow old gracefully and delaying the signs of ageing for as long as you can. I mean we all want youth and beauty.

Making these homemade recipes your beauty secret. A lot of people do and they work, no chemicals and they are fun to do. As the beauty quote goes beauty is from within and how true is that especially when you are using possible ingrediants that you could eat.

I have more Homemade beauty recipes on my other page

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