Making your own skin care products for your baby and yourself is a lot easier than you may think. While making nice-smelling products as listed below is fun, you really can simply use olive oil, coconut oil, sugars, and fresh fruit to make many products easily and fast. You can easily take off makeup with just coconut oil or olive oil, without making anything. But, you may also want to try your hand at making some of these eco-friendly skin care products.
Baby Wipes
Buy some soft microfiber cloths. If you need to, cut a bigger cloth to the right size. Get a container like a large plastic coffee ground container. Then in the container mix together:
* 2 cups of distilled water
* 1 TBS each of aloe vera, olive oil, witch hazel, and liquid castile soap
* The oil from 2 Vitamin E capsules
If your child doesn’t have allergies, you can even include some essential oils to add a fragrance that you like. Just add about five drops to the mixture above. Stack the cloths, put them in the container, then pour the liquid over the cloths. You can stack them full all the way to the top if the lid goes on. Seal and flip over so that cloths soak up all the liquid. Keep sealed between uses. Toss each cloth into a diaper pail after use.
Face Cleaner
The truth is, to clean your face you don’t really need a lot of ingredients. Take a container and mix together 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil, 3 drops lavender essential oils, and 1 tablespoon liquid castile soap. This recipe will remove makeup too. If you’re having issues getting makeup off your eyes, just use some straight olive oil. It washes off easily and leaves your skin smooth.
Body Scrub
The best thing to use for body scrub is sugar. Sugar dissolves faster than salt and is much friendlier to your skin.
It’s so simple to make this body scrub. Just find a good container like a glass jar with a lid. Add 2 parts sugar, 1 part coconut oil, and three to four drops essential oil such as lemon, rosemary, or lavender. You may want to test your own skin to ensure you’re not sensitive to the essential oil you choose. Mix it all together and keep in a sealed glass jar. No need to keep refrigerated, but if it’s hot you may want to so that the oil stays more solid after mixing.
Hint: You can use granulated white table sugar, granulated raw sugar, brown sugar or the type you prefer – just not powdered sugar. Brown sugar will be the most gentle as the sugar is finer.
Face Mask
Masks are great to soften skin, tighten pores and more. But, they can be expensive. Thankfully you can make your own depending on your skin type.
* Moisturizing Honey Mask – 1 part honey, 2 parts plain yogurt. Mix together and apply to your face for about 20 minutes. Wipe off with a warm washcloth.
* Exfoliating Honey Mask – Mix equal amounts of oatmeal and honey. Apply to the face and let sit for about 20 minutes, then wipe off with a warm washcloth.
* Skin Tightening Egg Mask – Mix one egg white with 1 TBS lemon juice. Apply to your face and let sit for about 20 minutes. Wipe off with a warm washcloth.
Acne Treatment
This treatment will work for pimples and blackheads. But, you should be careful how much you use because it can be hard on sensitive skin. Mix together 1 part olive oil, 2 parts baking soda, and 2 drops thyme oil. Put this mixture directly on your pimples or blackheads after you wash your face. Let sit on your face for up to 10 minutes. Wipe off with a soft, wet and warm washcloth.
As you can see, there are so many things you already have in your home that you can use to make eco-friendly skin care products without breaking the bank or adding bad things to your environment or on your body.
