say that even during the most intense days of the Second World War, women could raise money to buy lipstick. The moral of the story is that women always worry about your appearance and skin – no matter what.

While commercial beauty products for skin care have advanced significantly in recent decades, and now can almost promise eternal youth Many women still prefer the natural beauty products. And if you have the time and ingredients, making their products is a wonderful therapeutic and beneficial hobby.

Here are some ideas to test beauty products and herbal body care.

facial rosewater
been used for centuries as an alternative to soap and water. Boil 6 cups of red rose petals in 4 cups of water (rainwater harvesting, if you can) for 15 minutes, cooled, filtered and stored in a glass bottle in order to remove heavy refrigerator.

are doing cleansing cream with a fusion of a measure of anhydrous lanolin cream and half a measure of water in a water bath, stirring continuously, add 3 scoops of almond oil and rose water measure, then remove from heat and place in opaque containers or bottle.

astringent lotions
Simply mash some strawberries and apply to face an invigorating toner.

moisturizing
beeswax over low heat, melt 1 T and another bowl combine 1 T lanolin cocoa butter and 1 T. Slowly stir the mixture of lanolin beeswax. Now, hot 11 / 2 T oil and 1 teaspoon of glycerin calendula together and then slowly add the mixture of beeswax. Dissolve borax in 2 tons of T infusion enhances warm (Comfrey boil in a cup 2 cups of boiling water, cool and remove the leaves on consolidation), mix thoroughly with the mixture of beeswax. Continue to stir until mixture thick and cold, then add 6 drops of essential oil of petit grain. Bottle or a spoon in glass jars. This cream is particularly useful for drying skin.

hand and body
Whisk the following ingredients and store in a jar with screw top:
2 tablespoons of lanolin, a liquid paraffin itself, aqueous cream and 3 T 2 T of tea herbs. Make a tea by adding one cup of fresh herbs, like the flowers of geranium, lavender and basil 2 cups of boiling water until cool, then strain and discard the herbal bath bags leaves.

based
bathroom Making Herbal gauze or muslin (10×8 cm or 4×4 inches is a good size) and fill with a maximum of four herbs of your choice. You can use fresh or dried, but fresh, of course, must be used immediately. Close the bag and hang three or four bags of warm tap water so that the flow of water through the bag in the bathroom. For relaxation choose chamomile, jasmine, linden blossom. For stimulation, pick the basil, laurel, ivy, lavender, mint, rosemary, sage and thyme. To combat fatigue, the use of fresh grapes leaves.

There are many recipes for all kinds of beauty products and body and some become quite complicated, but once the lack of basic ingredients in herbal you can have a lot of fun, especially with the creation of products for the bathroom. I remember that just because it's natural does not mean that you can not have an allergic reaction or sensitive to certain herbs. Take care with Agrimony, primrose, cucumber, henna, ivy, flower of lime, henna, nettle, mint, spring and violets .

Some of the ideas come from Bremness, L "The Complete Book of Herbs" and Roberts , M "Treasure of Herbs"

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