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I look for homemade skin care recipes for natural skin care using all natural ingredients. Everyone will experience different results. Try a recipe for a week or two and if this is not working try another one.
I try to use organic ingredients as much as I can. Tests have shown that plants that have been raised organically almost always have a higher concentration of healthful healing substances than their conventionally grown counterparts.

As you read through these different recipes realize that you can ad or leave out some of the ingredients. Or change the amount that you put in. Have fun with them !!! Also see the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Spa Secrets under home spa...

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Making up your own homemade skin care recipes is just part of the whole experience. You will find new scents that will carry the whole day through. You and your skin will have a new glow. And to get started the kitchen is only a few steps away! Below you will find 36 pages of Recipes and Articles to help you!! When mixing, poring, heating, and measuring homemade skin care recipes, keep your work place from getting out of hand. If it gets to the floor you will like the shine but hold on to the kitchen sink!!!! Not that a guy would do that to his wife's kitchen. Keep your work area clean. Also keep a note pad around as you will make changes to these recipes. PERSONALIZED I've got a couple great jars of hand butter and no idea what the amounts of the ingredients are. Equipment Most of these things you will already have in your kitchen. Although we set aside our utensils and supplies in a seperate cabinet. A Good glass measuring cup, one that can go into the microwave. Measuring spoons Glass eye dropper. I keep a dozen around if I can't get the smell of an essential oil out of it, I will just use it for that oil. A small kitchen scale Stainless or glass mixing bowls. I Like stainless just for the drop facter. Stainless wisk for mixing Funnel Strainer Spatulas Pestle and Mortar A blender or food processor Plastic molds, either candy or cookie, they are good because thay are small. A good jar to start with is baby food jars. Try to keep all jars or molds under 2 OZ. I heat most everything in the micro, if you use the stove top use a double boiler. Now do not go out and buy all these tools, you will find you have most of them already. Besides you need something to buy when you get invited to those kitchen parties. ggg Making Natural Skin Products Amy-Jo Strutt's short note on the growing intrest in natural skin products. With her suggestion on ingredients. This is the idea that Wayne'r had to starte this web-site. Take the time to read this before getting started! Start with these Homemade Beauty Tips and Recipes Latest Sent In Info Homemade Recipe First Name: Lyn : Hi Wayne, I found this natural mask recipe on Beauty Banter Beautybanter.Blogspot.com Thought you might be interested. It's from a woman in Britain: Fellow Brit Beauty ..... Recipes... I just received this in an email from a fellow Brit Beauty ..... : "I also want to recommend an amazing self made mask its my mums recipe. Honey, Yogurt, Olive oil and lemon mix together, place in fridg for an hour then apply on your face for half an hour then wash... Ahhh feel how soft and refreshed you will feel." Hey, if you don't like it, don't blame me! It's how the Brits refresh their face! I do like this recipe and Karen wants to try it tonight... I went to the beautybanter.blogspot and found it to be a geat blog and sent out an e-mail with our compliments!! Thank you Lyn And I would like to thank Beautybanter for their nice comments and help with starting my new section on Self Tanner I got this patch info from Ladies Blend and is a good thing to keep in mind with new ingredients Skin Patch Test by Jeanne Rose from the Herbal Body Book, by Jeanne Rose   The Patch Test If you have sensitive skin or a history of allergies, then by all means use a patch test to test your relative sensitivity to the new ingredients. To try out a new store bought cosmetic, a homemade cosmetic, or any new plant that you are unfamiliar with when making your own cosmetics, make a paste of the plant with water and apply to your forearm in an area about the size of a quarter. Let the paste dry there and apply a loose band-aide. If there is no reaction within twenty four hours, go ahead and use the plant or cosmetic. Apply creams and lotions to the forearm directly, apply band-aide for twenty four hours and check for reaction. By all means, keep all alien substances away from the eyes. Homemade Skin Care Recipes from Our Visitors at Natural Skin Care Info: A name was not left but this recipe for a Thin Creamy Lotion just came in: 1 tsp jojoba oil 2 tsp heavy cream 1 tsp glycerin I Would Like to thank who ever you are! Bast Wishes Wayne'r Homemade Skin Care Recipes from the Kitchen: Vinegar Skin Recipes Vinegar skin recipes are most efficient when an organic apple cider vinegar is used. Vinegar use is so simple and versatile, and it takes only a couple of minutes to prepare these recipes. Vingear will cleanse and restore the skin, restrict the dilated pores, and improve the circulation making sure the whole skin recieves nutrients it needs. Sugar Skin Care Recipes Wayner's first use of sugar skin care was on the airplanes that had no water in the bathrooms. We used to use 2 packs of sugar, one lemon wedge, we would scrub our hand with this mixture and then rinse with club soda. Here are some more sugar skin care recipes. How You Can Use Your Kitchen to Develop an All Natural Skin Care Regimen Learn how to start your own all natural skin care regimen from common household items. No longer will you need to rush to the pharmacy in order to keep your skin healthy looking and smooth. Honey Skin Care Recipes The more I read the more find I find honey skin care recipes for every part of the body. From Hair rinses to foot scrubs. This is one ingredient that you already have in the kitchen and may want to get a bigger bottle the next time you go to the store. Bath and Face Recipes with Honey Honey is one ingredient that can be use in all natural skin care recipes. From your hair care to your foot scrub. I use sesame seed oil in my lip balm which has a nutty flavor so I use a drop or two of honey. Here Sharon takes it to the bath and face. And like Sharon I use whole milk powder in baths. You will always have it. Kitchen Treasures for Healthy and Beautiful Skin Almonds, Cabbage, Carrots, Garlic, Oats, Potatoes, and Rice. How can we use these in skin care? Well this article by Oneil Wilson tells us how. These are good homemade skin care recipes and even one for your dark circles under the eyes. Homemade Skin Care Recipes for the Bath: Need to cool off and give your skin it's vitamin C? A orange juice bath will do both. All you will need is 2 to 3 ripe oranges and 2 to 3 fresh lemons. In a tub filled with warm water squeeze the juice from the cut oranges and lemons into thw water. If you like you can slice the oranges and lemons and have them float on top of the water. Soak for 15 to 20 minutes. After pat your skin with a towel lightly. The vitamin C will absorb into the skin, leaving you feeling refreshed. Homemade Bath Recipes From this section you will find 10 more pages filled with homemade bath recipes. So go have a good soak on me... Homemade Skin Care Recipes for the Face: Well my two boy's Ben and Cam will not eat their Carrots. As for Wayne'r I can take them or leave them, that is cooked. But carrots are rich in vitamin A and make a wonderful facial. You will need 1 or 2 cooked mashed carrots, 1/2 teaspoon wheat germ oil, 1 to 2 teaspoons honey and 2 drops geranium oil, you can leave out the geranium oil if you want. Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl and right on to your face. Leave it on for 20 minutes the rinse off with cool water. This recipe is good for teaching the kids to clean up the kitchen and gives you a reason to stay in the kitchen to make sure it is done right. Best of all, you get a FACIAL!!! For All of My Information on Homemade Face Care See Homemade Skin Care Recipes Face Homemade Skin Care Recipes Using Avocado : Homemade Avocado Facial Mask Video Women in Mexico have been using the avocado for their skin for thousands of years. It contains vitamin E and is extremely mourishing. For this recipe you will need 1 average sized avocado (mashed) 1 ripe banana ( also mashed ) and 1 teaspoon of honey. Mix in a small bowl all of the ingredients until smooth. Apply to face with your hands. Leave this creamy mixture on for 15 to 20 minutes. Then rinse your face with cool water. You can label the left overs and keep them in the refigerater. Avocado Skin Care Recipes These Avocado recipes can use my favorite carrier oils almond oil, grape seed and sesame oil. As you will see you can use another oil if you do not have the one listed in a recipe. I have not used avocado oil before I've just used the avocado. It sounds like it is time to pick up the oil, it will last a lot longer in a recipe. Avocado Hair Care Loraine Lesley will show you how you can put 3 ingredients together and have a great natural hair care product. Homemade Skin Care Recipes for the Body, and Hands : From South Africa MOISTURIZING BODY SCRUB To make this BODY SCRUB 50 ml olive oil 20 gr shea butter 6 gr beeswax 1 3/4 shooter glass of sea salt Place olive oil, shea butter and beeswax in a Pyrex jug over double boiler and gently heat until beeswax and shea butter are just melted. Let it cool and then add sea salt. Store in a clean jar. After showering and drying, massage the scrub all over the body (avoiding face and neck) and rinse. Skin will feel soft, moisturized and wonderfully stimulated. There was no name sent in with this recipe but I would like to say Thank You and Best Wish to those of you from South Africa.. This recipe is for the hands. And is best used at night with gloves. As for Wayne'r, I do not ware gloves at night! But when I'm painting airplanes and cleaning out the spray guns with thinner my hands get real dryed out. After getting all of the paint off my hands and the thinner cleaned up. Time for a good Hand Oil. For this hand oil recipe you will need: 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon alomed oil 1 vitamin E capsules 1 teaspoon glycerin 1 teaspoon honey In the micro heat the honey until it is runny, do not let it boil. Then ad the oils, vitamin E, and glycerin. Stir until thoroughly combined, then store. I put mine in left over hotel shampoo bottles. I will make a bigger batch. Then I have some in the tool box at the hanger, shaving kit when I fly, and at home. You can ad an essential oil if you want. Recipe's for the Body In looking around the internet and in books for homemade skin care recipes, these SKIN CARE TIPS are simple and won't break the bank to get started. I try to find ingredients that are new. "Why did I not think of that." Some will look simple and still will not come out quite right. For me the creams still come out lumpy. Although it's fun to try! Give some of these homemade skin care recipes a try. Natural Baby Skin Care Maggie Julseth Howe has a good article on herbs for baby skin care. Getting good infomation form people like Maggie who can grow herbs and then make good natural skin care products with them. Natural Babycare Products You Can Create. At Home Manicure Before we can start the at home manicure let's look at Danielle's article on How To Give A Manicure. Then after the article we will give some homemade recipes for a manicure. Manicure Article from News Canada You will look good with this Manicure. If you would like to leave the Mary Kay products you use and why, I will post them at the bottom of this page from News Canada. Start a mini Blog !!! Homemade Skin Care Recipes Using for Your Skin and the Sun: This Sunburn Remedy will take a week to make but it will soothe your skin. In a spray bottle add 2 large tablespoons of St. John's Wort leaves with 8 to 10 ounces of Safflower oil. That is it. Just leave on a windowsill for a week exsposed to the sun. Apply to your sunburn for a soothing relief. Summer Skin Care Recipes Natalie Katsman has put together a good article for dry skin and oily skin in the summer. I also like her summer recipes. Claendula Flower With this information on the Calendula Flower by Catherine Potin, my first use of it will be with jojoba oil. After a day out in the sun this sounds like a natural skin care recipe worth putting together. Homemade Skin Care Recipes to have a Home Spa: Host A Spa Perty This article on how to Host a Spa Party will give you everything you will need and I mean everything... Channel Your Inner Spa Girl this article has been edited by Pennie Mills on 01/29/07 A couple of years ago, this article was written as a guide for hosting a "Holiday" spa party, it has been tweaked and re-written so that you can use it as a guide for anytime and for a variety of occasions. What began as a trend is thankfully, now the norm. Creating a spa type party gives you and your guests a welcomed change to the more traditionally themed showers and parties. ________________________________________________________________ Here are some good recipes you can use for your own home spa from one of the best spas in Pannsylvania... WTAE Channel 4 Action News has the spa secrets that are sure to put the calm in your rest and relaxation. WTAE Channel 4 anchor Michelle Wright was pampered at the Woodlands Spa at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, where she learned of the best recipes, yoga moves, facials and body scrubs that you can use without ever leaving home. Yoga is the best way to start, Wright said. Wellness Coordinator Jim Barnes said one type of sun salutation would boost your energy by getting your blood going, especially to your spine. "If you wake up in the morning and you stretch, you relieve some tension," said Barnes. "You increase your energy. Whatever you do, any type of movement is good before work." A few moves are stretching up and then going down. On the floor, you can use what's called the cobra, followed by the famous yoga move, down dog. Now that your blood is flowing, it's time for breakfast. Executive chef and head of Nemacolin's new culinary school, Jeremy Critchfield, whipped up a yogurt and fruit smoothie and oatmeal soufflé. The oatmeal is great, because those complex carbohydrates will keep your energy constant all day. And all the protein in the yogurt and antioxidants in the fruit make for a perfect breakfast. Next, Wright headed to the spa for a before-lunch facial. She said anyone could do the treatments with ingredients from their cabinet. Crush up some blueberries and then add raspberries. Raspberries are good for calming your skin and reducing redness. Then dump in some yogurt and a tablespoon of honey for hydration. After mixing the ingredients, apply it. Make sure your face is well cleansed. Having a clean face is a must in the morning and at night. Next, brush on the mars and let it sit for 10 minutes before washing it off. The mark will hydrate your skin, moisturize it and calm it down. Next on the agenda was lunch: salmon and spinach salad. Nemacolin made the dish by putting dry roasted coriander on the salmon before putting it on the stovetop on low heat. They said they use grape seed oil instead of olive oil for cooking, because it has a higher smoke temperature. Next, get to work on the salad, which includes fresh raspberries. The specialty dish is designed to make your body feel good all day. The iron in the spinach is wonderful and so is the omega-3 fatty acid in the salmon. Wright's itinerary took her back to the spa after lunch for a body scrub. Her options were a harsher one with salt, olive oil and eight drops of lavender or a milder version with brown sugar, olive oil, ginger and limejuice. For either one, you want to do long strokes and then little, circular movements to get the scrub to pull the dead skin off the body. You can finish up the day with a wonderful dinner. Wright was served pork tenderloin, crushed potatoes and roasted endive. Fresh parsley is great for potatoes and a bit of apple is perfect with the endive, which is great for your energy and attitude. The slow-burning complex carbohydrates keep your energy levels up you don't have those peaks and valleys that destroy your concentration and make you tired. _________________________________________________________________ New At Home Spa Treatments New Spa Treatments You Can Make In The Comfort Of Your Home By: Louise Forrest Women from all over the globe love the way their skin feels after a visit to the spa. These organic skin care recipes are all used for specialties treatments at some of the world's top natural care spas. Detox Home Spa This is a realy good article on detox for not only your skin but for your whole body. Take time to read this one. I found this video on from the Tharnthip SPA that will give you some good tips for your own Home SPA Home Spa Recipes These home spa recipes will take very little time. With just a few items you will have a very relaxing time. Create a Home Spa Experience – Homemade Facials, Scrubs, and More Facial Sauna A Facial Sauna is one spa treatment you can do at home!! At Home Spa Tips Do you have a Home Spa and there are things that you learned the hardway? Let us know so we can help others..... Homemade skin care does not come easy. Here are tips on moisture in the bath room. Spa Gifts Spa Gifts if they wont take time for a homemade spa treatment. Homemade Skin Care Recipes Using Fruit: Using Bananas for Skin Care You can keep your Bananas in the freezer for a lot longer than out on the counter. This way you can have them for your homemade skin care recipes. Here are some recipes with a banana that are easy to make. Skin Care Recipes Using Orange Send in your Recipes As The QUEST goes on we will be adding more recipes and groups. Even though we are looking for homemade skin care recipes for natural skin care and using all natural ingredients to make Many can be eaten on there own, once they are mixed for skin care YOU SHOULD NOT EAT THESE MIXTURES The products use very concentrated ingredients and should be used with respect!!! They are to be used for external skin use or added to the bath. You should try these recipes on a small part of your skin first to be sure you have no adverse reaction. Especially if you have sensitive skin. It is always best to test, and be safe. The auther cannot accect responsibility for any problems that arise in using these recipes. Homemade Skin Care Recipes