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Natural Home Made Beauty Recipes

Facial Conditioners

The recipes here are for special care conditioners aimed at "saving face":  moisturizers, softeners, dry-skin creams, and night creams.  Your age is an important factor in determining whether or not your face needs special care.  Hormonal influences and environment also play important roles.  Some fortunate women retain a youthful complexion well into their forties.  Others develop crow's feet at the age of 25.  And then there's the menace of middle age - dry skin.

Unfortunately, no cosmetic can turn the clock back.  But, you can slow it down.  You'll find creams which are rich, vitalizing, nourishing and soothing to thirsty skin.  They will keep your skin as supple and velvety smooth as any cream you're presently using.  Maybe even better!

Avocado Moisturizing Cream

2 tbsp. cold cream
2 oz. hydrophilic ointment
1 tsp. avocado oil

Blend the cold cream and ointment together thoroughly.  Stirring constantly, slowly add the oil.  Beat until cream is light and fluffy.  Note:  For best results, use a thick, luxurious cold cream.  See "Basic Cold Cream", page 6.

Strawberry Butter Softener

2 tsp. butter
1 1/2 tsp. fresh strawberry juice

Place wire strainer over a small bowl and gently rub berries until you have one and a half teaspoons of juice.  Discard pulp.  Add juice to softened butter and blend well.  Smooth onto face and remove 10 minutes later with soap and warm water.  Then rinse with cool water.

Mint Moisturizing Lotion

10 drops spirits of peppermint
1/2 tsp. fine menthol crystals
2 oz. hydrophlic ointment
8 tbsp. distilled water
1 drop green food colouring
2 drops oil of lavender

Blend menthol, crystals and spirits together well.  Add hydrophilic ointment and blend again.  Add water, one teaspoon at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition.  Add colouring and lavender.  Stir briskly until lotion is smooth and light.  Put into a bottle.

Enriched Emollient Cream

Take the cream you're now using (cold cream, cleansing cream, night cream, whatever), and enrich it by simply adding a teaspoon of emollient oil for each 4 ounces of cream.  You can add things such as pure wheat germ oil, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, apricot kernel oil...

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Dry-Skin Night Cream

2 tbsp. white petroleum jelly
4 tbsp. anhydrous (waterless) lanolin
2 tbsp. oil of sweet almonds
3 drops oil of bitter almonds

Heat lanolin and petroleum jelly in double boiler, stirring well to blend.  When melted, remove from heat and stir vigorously until cool.  Add both almond oils and beat again.  Put into jars.

Mint Moisturizing Cream

Follow the directions for "Mint Moisturizing Lotion" above, but reduce the amount of distilled water to just two tablespoons.

Dry-Skin Vitamin Cream

6 tbsp. dry-skin night cream
3 vitamin A gell-ampoules

Pierce the gel-ampoules with a thick needle and squeeze the liquid into the cream.  Stir to blend.  Note: If you don't have a dry-skin night cream, you can make the one above.

Lanolin-Sesame Nourishing Cream

1/2 oz. white beeswax
8 tbsp. lanolin
4 tbsp. sesame oil
1 tsp. tincture of benzoin
3 drops orange food colouring*

Grate wax and heat it with lanolin in double boiler, stirring to blend.  When well blended, slowly add oil, stirring constantly.  Add benzoin in the same manner.  Remove from heat and beat until cream is cool.  Add food colouring and perfume and beat again to blend.  Put into jars.  * see splash of colour page.
 
 

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