Skin Packs for different skin types – Home Made
Suggested some very beneficial, purifying clay cleansers to ‘deep-cleanse’ and soothe your skin.
Nature cleanses your skin .Quick, home-made recipes from your kitchen shelf.
Unbolied milk
- The simplest way to cleanse your skin is by saturating your cotton wool with un-boiled milk and gently rubbing away dirt, grime and other surface residue.
- Use ‘upward’ movements to dislodge impurities.
Yoghurt and Egg Mask
Ingredients: I egg white
4-5 tablespoons of yoghurt
Method: Beat white of an egg until stiff. Add in yoghurt and mix well.
Application: Apply all over face and neck. Wipe clean using a muslin cloth dipped in hot water,
followed by the muslin cloth saturated in cold water.
For oily skin: add one teaspoon of lemon juice
For dry skin: add one teaspoon of honey to the paste.
For combination skin: make two portions of the paste, one with lemon juice for the T
panel and the other with honey forthe rest of the face.
Turmeric cleansing mask
Ingredients: 1/4th teaspoon of turmeric powder
1 ‘/2 tablespoon of lemon juice
Method: Combine both to make a paste.
Application: Apply over the face .wash off after ten to fifteen minutes.
Oatmeal Mask
Ingredients: I tablespoon oatmeal
1 egg yolk and milk
Method: Mix oatmeal with enough milk to make a paste. Beat the egg yolk and blend it with the
oatmeal paste. Leave it on the skin for fifteen minutes. Rinse off with tepid water. The egg yolk softens the skin and oatmeal helps to cleanse and nourish the skin. Alternatively instead of egg yolk you may use a teaspoon of dissolved gelatin to the oatmeal paste.
For dry skin, you may add a teaspoon of honey
For greasy skin, a teaspoon of lemon juice.
Cleansing mask
Ingredients :I tablespoon oatmeal
I table spoon cucumber juice.
Method: Mix together and make a smooth paste. Apply over face and allow to dry for 15 minutes.
Rinse off with cold water.
Kaolin mask
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons kaolin .
2 tablespoons cucumber juice
Method: Combine both ingredients and apply over face and neck. Wash it off 10-15 minutes depending on your skin
Fullers Earth Mask
Ingredients:2 tablespoon crushed Fuller’s Earth
3 tablespoon milk.
Method: Mix the ingredients into a paste and apply over the face and neck. Leave on for 10-15 minutes before rinsing it off.
Cleansing mask for oily skin
Ingredients: 1/4 cup oatmeal (finely powdered)
1/2 cup of yoghurt
2 teaspoon of lemon juice
Method: Stir the oatmeal into the yoghurt, chill it.
Application: Apply to face and neck. Leave on for half an hour. Rinse off with tepid water into which the lemon juice has been added.
Cleansing mask for dry skin
Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon of Brewer’s yeast
1 tablespoon honey
1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar
2 tablespoon sour cream
2 egg yolks
Milk
Method: Combine all the ingredients and mix well
Application: Spread a thin film of olive oil or sesame oil over face and then apply this mask on it.
Leave on for 15-20minutes. Rinse off with milk and water.
Cleansing mask
Ingredients: 15 grams bees wax
100 grams lanolin
50 grams of Fuller’s Earth
Method: Melt wax and oil by using the double boiling method. Add rose water and stir in Fuller’s Earth. Mix until there are no lumps. Store in an air tight container and use as and when required.
Herbal cleansing cream
Light cleansing lotions/creams remove embedded grim and stale make-up without stripping your skin of its natural moisture.
Ingredients: 5 teaspoons fresh coconut oil
5 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons glycerine
4 teaspoons beeswax
5 tablespoons cucumber juice
A pinch of borax
Method: Melt the oil and wax by the double boiling method. Warm cucumber juices, glycerin and borax in a separate bowl until borax is dissolved. Add the cucumber, borax and glycerin mixture to the oil and whisk the mixture till it thickens. Excess may be stored in the fridge.
Lanolin cleansing cream
Ingredients: 2 tablespoon petroleum Jelly
I tablespoon lanolin
5 tablespoon olive oil
3 tablespoon sunflower oil or coconut oil
20-25 tablespoons water.
Method: Melt lanolin and oil by using the double boiling method. Add hot water and mix slowly. Remove from heat and beat the mixture well. This cream may be preserved in the fridge.
Geranium cleansing cream
Ingredients: 1/2, tablespoons emulsifying wax
1/2, tablespoon beeswax
I tablespoon Johnson’s baby oil
I tablespoon olive oil
4 tablespoon infusion of geranium leaves
a pinch of borax.
Method: Melt waxes and oils together. Heat geranium infusion and borax until borax it is completely dissolved. Slowly pour the geranium solution into the oil - wax mixture. Beat until the mixture, thickens and cools.
Almond cleansing cream
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons almond oil
1 tablespoon white wax
2 tablespoon lanolin
I tablespoon rose water.
Method: Melt wax and oil by the double boiling method. Stir continuously. Slowly add rose water and almond oil. Remove from heat and allow to cool. May be stored in a glass bottle.
Note: For all cleansing creams, you may add a few drops of perfume of
your choice once the mixture has cooled down.
