Beautiful, radiant health skin, silky shiny hair and a slender toned body. These are the minimum requirements that women put forward when choosing cosmetics. On the shelves of stores - hundreds of various jars, bottles and tubes, their manufacturers promise to satisfy even the most demanding requests of their customers. But some of them cost fabulous money, others in fact turn out to be insufficiently effective and even cause allergies. Therefore, more and more women prefer natural cosmetics, the recipes of which can not be counted.
Main ingredients
Women pay the most attention to facial skin. Beauty, youth and healthy radiance - all this is necessary for the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity, like air. A huge abundance of skin care products (creams, masks, lotions and much more) helps to achieve good results.
All of these cosmetic products are easy enough to make at home. The necessary ingredients are sold in stores and pharmacies, and most of them occupy shelves in kitchen cabinets and refrigerators. There are a lot of recipes for home cosmetics, but the basic composition is very similar. Most often for its manufacture use:
- vegetable oils;
- animal fats;
- plant extracts;
- thickeners and emulsifiers;
- wax;
- essential oils;
- soap base.
Useful lotions
An excellent substitute for store cosmetics will be ice cubes from decoctions of herbs, rose water or cucumber lotion. Their production does not take much time, basically all recipes for home cosmetics are quite simple to use.
For ice cubes, it is necessary to brew a dried mixture bought in a pharmacy or independently prepared, for example, chamomile and a string, calendula or plain green tea, it all depends on the needs of the skin. Cool the infused broth and pour into molds, ready to wipe the face and neck in cubes in the morning and evening.
Rose water is made from the infusion of rose petals, which are filled with hot water. Cucumber lotion is made from cucumber juice and rose water. Depending on the type of skin, honey, yolk, aloe gel and many other ingredients can be added. When making cosmetics with your own hands, you only need to exclude an allergy to a particular product.
Scrubs and masks
Scrub perfectly helps the skin to get rid of dead particles, improves microcirculation and makes it smooth and velvety. Homemade facial cosmetics recipes involve making them based on salt, sugar or ground coffee.
Coffee goes well with honey, and for dry skin, you can add a little oil, such as almond or olive. For normal and oily skin, you can take finely ground salt or oatmeal as the basis. Such scrubs are an excellent alternative to storefronts.
Homemade recipes for cosmetics are wide assortment and simplicity. The choice of products for their manufacture depends only on the type of skin. Use everything that came to hand literally. Shredded fruits and vegetables are a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. Sour-milk products and egg yolk perfectly nourish and brighten the skin.
Basic care
If the means for additional care do not cause any trouble in most cases, then making DIY cosmetics with your own hands is not an easy task. It requires more ingredients, and the process itself takes longer.
Simple moisturizing and nourishing creams are made on the basis of oils selected according to the type of skin. Vegetable oils are perfect for dry skin: olive, apricot kernel, jojoba and others. In addition, esters can be used. Tea tree oil is a great helper for problematic skin prone to inflammation.
Home-made cosmetics for solving specific problems, such as wrinkles, rosacea and others, are made with the addition of pharmaceutical products. It can be panthenol, emulsion wax, alcohol, hyaluronic acid.
Hand cosmetics
Caring for the skin of the body, arms and legs is also very important. From natural ingredients you can make various scrubs, lotions, creams, and also use them for body wraps.
Recipes for home cosmetics for hands, feet and body mainly require the use of cosmetic oils, fruit acids, which are found in juices and fresh fruits, as well as waxes, phytoestrogens and esters.
Sugar, salt and coffee products are great for exfoliating. The compositions are similar to facial scrubs, the difference is mainly in the use of oils.
You can not ignore the recipes of cosmetics for hair. As a cleansing, compositions based on egg yolk, honey and oatmeal are perfect. Instead of rinse, you can use decoctions of herbs, such as nettle, burdock root, chamomile flowers. To strengthen and grow hair, burdock and castor oils are especially popular, based on them a huge variety of home recipes.
Use and storage
The main enemy of home cosmetics is bacteria, because preservatives are not used in its manufacture. Therefore, it is very important to use a clean container and store the finished mixture in the refrigerator for no more than a week. In some recipes, the shelf life is increased to 1 month. Do not neglect this rule and procure cosmetics for future use, the consequences can be very sad. If stored improperly, there is a high risk of infection in the skin. However, if you use high-quality ingredients and do not violate the deadlines, an excellent result will not be long in coming. Mother Nature generously rewarded us with her gifts, you just need to learn how to use them correctly and effectively.