homemade skin cleansers

[FONT=&amp]CLEANSERS FOR OILY SKIN :[/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Cucumber cleanser[FONT=&amp]:[/FONT][FONT=&amp]It’s an ideal cleanser for oily skin. Mix a little cucumber puree with half a pint of milk and keep it in the refrigerator for up to three days. Shake well before use. Alternatively if you grate half a cucumber and boil it in half a pint of milk gently for three minutes, cool, sieve, and bottle it, it will keep for a week.[/FONT][/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Almond milk cleanser[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]2 teaspoons ground almonds
1/4 teaspoons rose water

Blend for 2 minutes, strain and bottle. [/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Buttermilk and fennel cleanser[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]1/2 cup (125 ml) buttermilk
2 teaspoons fennel seeds

Heat the milk and crushed fennel seed slowly for 30 minutes in a double boiler. Leave to cool and infuse for 2 hours. Stain and bottle; this keeps in a refrigerator for up to a week.
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[FONT=&amp]CLEANSERS FOR DRY SKIN[FONT=&amp] :[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]1/2 cup (125 ml) full fat milk
2 tablespoons (30 ml) chamomile flowers
Heat together very gently in a double boiler for half an hour, but do not allow to boil. Leave to cool for 2 hours, strain, refrigerate and use within a week. [/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Lemon cleansing milk[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]1/2 small pot of natural yoghurt
1/2 tablespoon (7.5 ml) lemon juice
1 tablespoon (15 ml)of almond oil
Blend the ingredients together and use within 3 days.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]CLEANSERS FOR DRY TO NORMAL SKIN :[/FONT]
· [FONT=&amp]Orange flower cleansing cream[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]1 oz (25 ml) Soya oil
1 oz (25 ml) almond oil
1 oz (25 ml) orange flower water
1 oz (25 g) cocoa butter
1 tablespoon (15 g) beeswax
5 drops essential oil of neroli
Mix and warm the oil. Melt the cocoa butter separately, then stir into the oils. Melt the beeswax and stir it into the oil mixture. Add the orange flower water, leave to thicken and cool. Stir in the essential oil as the mixture thickens; spoon into jars. Neroli stimulates the formation of new skin cells. [/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Glycerin and rose water cleansing cream[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]4 tablespoons (60 ml) lanolin
2 oz (50 ml) almond oil
1 tablespoon (15 ml) glycerin
3 tablespoons (45 ml) rose water
6 drops essential oil of rose
Melt the lanolin in one pan and heat the glycerin and almond oil to the same heat in another. Mix the two together, slowly stirring all the time. Add the rose water gradually, leave to cool and stir in the rose oil. [/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]CLEANSERS FOR ANY SKIN:
[FONT=&amp]Buttermilk makes an excellent cleanser and can be mixed with juice or puree of lemons, strawberries, tomatoes & honey or beaten egg white.[/FONT][/FONT]

· [FONT=&amp]Olive oil cleanser[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]2 teaspoons olive oil
1 teaspoon honey
Mix together and apply; rinse off with a tepid infusion of chamomile. [/FONT]

• [FONT=&amp]Sage cleanser lotion[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon honey
2 drops cider vinegar
2 teaspoons sage infusion
Combine the oil and honey, and warm. Add warm sage infusion and the vinegar; stir well.[/FONT]

 

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