Best Way to Make Beauty Products at Home



Home-made preparations are both cheap and fun to make, so start raiding your kitchen cupboards for DIY beauty solutions.

Your beauty larder

Stock up on the ingredients you need to make the beauty recipe of your choice.

  • Foods: avocados, honey, papaya, fine oatmeal, ground almonds, finely-ground sea salt, cucumber, banana, eggs and natural yoghurt.

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  • Liquids: witch hazel, glycerine, rose-water, elder-flower water and cider vinegar.
  • Powders: kaolin or white clay, fuller’s earth, crushable vitamin-C tablets or vitamin-C powder, powdered kelp, turmeric spice and borax.
  • Oils: almond, wheatgerm, walnut, avocado and jojoba.
  • Solids: beeswax and coconut oil.
  • Essential oils: tea-tree, rose and geranium.
  • Tools: a piece of muslin, a saucepan, blender, teaspoon, dessertspoon, woodenspoon, whisk, an old make-up brush and cotton gloves.

N.B. The above ingredients can be found in most supermarkets, pharmacies or health food stores.

Beauty Recipes

Deep-cleansing mud mask:

  • dessertspoon fuller’s earth
  • teaspoons cider vinegar
  • Mix the ingredients into a paste and apply it to your face immediately. Wait until the mask has hardened before washing it off.

Revitalising clay mask:

  • dessertspoons clay or kaolin 1/4 cucumber
  • Peel the cucumber and blend it into pulp. Remove most of the liquid, saving a little to mix with the powder to make a paste. (Keep the remainder of the liquid to make a cucumber freshener by adding a little witch hazel.) Now add the pulp, apply it to your face and leave it on for ten minutes.

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Seaweed conditioning mask:

  • dessertspoons powdered kelp
  • dessertspoon glycerine
  • dessertspoon rose-water Mix the ingredients into a paste.
  • Apply it to your face and leave it on for ten minutes.

Skin-firming enzyme mask:

  • papaya, peeled
  • egg white
  • teaspoon honey
  • Whisk the egg white. Now mash the peeled papaya with a fork and mix it with the honey. Apply it to your face and leave it on for twenty minutes.

Wrinkle-smoothing mask

  • teaspoon wheatgerm oil
  • vitamin-C tablet, crushed, or 1 teaspoon vitamin-C powder
  • Muslin cloth
  • Cut the muslin into a mask shape by making holes for your eyes and lips. Mix the vitamin-C powder with the oil. Put the muslin mask on your face and then brush on the paste. Leave it on for twenty minutes, then peel off the cloth and rinse your face with lukewarm water.

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Nourishing mask:

  • avocado
  • teaspoon honey
  • Mash the avocado and mix it with the honey. Spread the paste onto your face and leave it on for ten minutes.





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