Ever
considered making your own? It's so easy to do, and you can create a formula
precisely to match your skin type, with remarkable effective natural and pure
botanicals (plant-based ingredients). Making these yourself will give you a
skin care product that matches or exceeds the effectiveness of anything you can
buy over the counter at a truly affordable price. Try one of these recipes and
you may never go back to fancy labels, boxes and prices ever again! Essential
Oils: The Best Skin Care Botanicals You'll find essential oils in every
"high end" mature skin beauty product, though sometimes you'll see
them discretely labeled as "plant extracts" or similar terms. The thing
is that many folks still don't realize that essential oils truly are medicine,
not just fine smelling precious liquid in tiny bottles. When you understand
that essential oils are simply the concentrated "volatile" (easily
evaporated liquid) constituents naturally present in ALL plants, you'll see
that they're nothing less than any other herbal concentrate. And essential oils
are so very compatible with our skin -- they are very easily absorbed -- that
they can actually work better than other types of botanical skin care
ingredients. Making a custom recipe for yourself is as simple as matching the
therapeutic properties of the essential oils to your skin's needs -- then
mixing them together with one or more "fixed" oils, and voila! You've
got the perfect daily skin care creation.
Woman's Oil of Beauty: Rose Essential
Oil Again and again, in every natural skin care Bella Gold Serum recipe book, one finds one oil
more highly regarded than any other -- Rose Otto, the steam distilled variety
of Rose (it is also found as an Absolute, which is more appropriate for natural
perfumes). Rose Otto has a host of therapeutic skin care properties: it
hydrates without being greasy, it's gently antiseptic, soothing to damaged
skin, can heal broken capillaries, and supports the skin's natural metabolism.
It is also the most important oil for women for its heart opening,
anti-depressant action -- considered the "oil of the highest
vibration" used in aroma-therapeutics. While a bit pricey, it's very
potent; only a few drops are needed in any recipe. Calendula: Nature's Healing
Magic Calendula oil has been used for hundreds of years for all sorts of skin
care uses. Its exceptionally soothing, with the traditional use being for
infant's skin care. The flowers have been hard to work with however, limiting
the uses of this magnificent medicinal plant. A new extraction technique now
offers us a Calendula oil concentrate, often labeled Calendula CO2. This new
extract is highly antioxidant, powerfully wound-healing, and one of the most
effective soothers of irritated or damaged skin available on Earth. Companion
Oils for Balance and Vitality One or more of these three oils are excellent
companion oils to the Rose and Calendula. Rosemary "Verbenone" is a
skin-care specialty oil, distilled from a particular variety of Rosemary herb.
Long used in all sorts of body care preparations, Rosemary is thought to work
by stimulating cellular metabolism (increasing the amount of nutrients getting
into our skin cells), speeding the creation of new cells, and enhancing our
skin's vitality.
Helichrysum is even more potently regenerative -- often used
in wound healing, Helichrysum will also increase new skin cell production,
while drawing waste products from skin tissues. And lets not forget Lavender,
the Grand-Daddy of skin-care medicine. Lavender is regenerative, antiseptic,
anti-inflammatory, and aids skin conditions where stress may be an underlying
factor. For specific skin care needs, we'll also include Sandalwood and Myrtle
essential oils in certain blends (you'll see which oils go with which skin type
in the recipes below). Both these oils are considered excellent for acne-prone
skin. Myrtle is potently antiseptic, regenerative, and commonly found in acne
and oily-skin formulas. Sandalwood is hydrating AND an excellent treatment for
acne. Myrtle offers a great herbaceous "high note" to your blend,
while Sandalwood gives a lovely earthy tone. Holding It All Together: Your
Formula's Base While the essential oils are often considered the "active
ingredients", its important to consider the "carrier oils" are
exceptionally therapeutic as well. For these recipes, we highly recommend the
use of two very well-regarded tropical nut oils: Coconut and Kukui. Coconut has
a very long history (thousands of years, actually) in skin care, mentioned
often in Ayurvedic medicine. It is antimicrobial and hydrating (spanning the
needs from the acne prone to the chronically dry). Kukui has similar
properties, and remains liquid at room temperature -- allowing easy mixing and
application of your custom recipe.
These two oils have been used by peoples of
tropical climes to care for the skin of the young and old, successfully, for so
long -- and now you too can reap their benefits. Rosehip Seed: A Woman's Beauty
Gift from the Mountains of Chile For everyone EXCEPT those prone to acne,
Rosehip Seed oil is the third important base oil. Rosehip seed naturally
balances the incredible tropical nut oils, coming from the high mountain arid
regions of South America. Rosehip seed may be the most thoroughly studied
carrier oil for skin care use -- and with excellent results. Rosehip has been
shown to significantly reduce the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines and scars,
while smoothing overall skin texture and color. Imagine what its going to do
with all these other top-notch therapeutic ingredients...let's get on to mixing
them. Get Yourself Started With These Ingredients and Instructions Gather your
ingredients: 1 glass bottle 30 or 60ml (1 or 2 ounces), preferably colored
glass (helps protect the oils) with an eyedropper (makes it easy to dispense
your formula later). ALL recipes are for EACH FLUID OUNCE, so you'll want to
know the size of our bottle to make measuring easier. A funnel might make
things easier as well. And of course your selected base oils and essential oils
(note for purchasing oils -- the recipe calls for drops, and essential oils are
sold in milliliters -- there are 25 drops per milliliter). Mixing instructions:
Add the required number of drops of each essential oil to your empty bottle. If
making 2 ounces, double the amounts, 4 ounces, 4 times, etc. With a funnel, add
approximate amounts of your carrier oil -- if using all three carrier oils, for
example, just fill the bottle about a third of the way with each oil.
Don't
overfill, as you won't be able to get the eyedropper in (if using one) without
spilling! Gently invert the bottle several times and let set for a bit. The
aroma will not really be brilliant until the following day, but you can use the
mixture right away. The formulas are designed for using one to 3 times per day.
On to the recipes: Brilliant Beauty Recipes for All Skin Types: Moderate to
sever dry skin with smile lines: Rose Otto 8 drops, Lavender 12 drops,
Calendula CO2 6 drops, three parts Coconut and one part each Kukui and Rosehip
seed oils. Mature skin with scars or color variations and smile lines: Rose
Otto 6 drops, Lavender 8 drops, Helichrysum 6 drops, Rosemary V. 6 drops, Equal
parts Coconut, Kukui, and Rosehipseed oils. Irritated or sensitive skin,
perhaps with broken capillaries: Rosemary 8 drops, Lavender 6 drops, Calendula
CO2 6 drops, Sandalwood 6 drops, in three parts Coconut and one part each Kukui
and Rosehip seed oils. For oily, acne-prone or combination skin: Myrtle 10
drops, Lavender 8, drops, Rosemary V., 6 drops, in equal parts of Kukui and
Coconut oils. Four easy recipes to get you started -- and there's so many
essential oils to choose from, with a range of therapeutic properties. These
blends described here can be VERY effective, and by making them yourself this
first time, you'll open up whole new doors to formulating your personal,
customized, high-end skin care at a fraction of the cost of the Big Names in
the business. May you have beautiful, healthy skin where every you go! Healthy
skin care for beautiful skin is all about taking care of your skin from the
inside. It's less about what skin care products you put on your skin and more
about what you do to keep it healthy. Healthy skin will always be beautiful
skin.
Ten per cent of skin ageing is intrinsic, being dependent on your genes.
Look at your parents: how has their skin fared as they've got older? They are a
good indicator of how you might expect your skin to age. Eventually everyone
looks older, but some age sooner than others. Other factors - extrinsic, or
lifestyle, factors - such as smoking, stress, bad diet and the weather can
literally leave their mark in the form of lines, sags and wrinkles. The good
news, though, is that you can take charge and choose which ones are going to
affect your skin's ageing by being careful about exposing yourself to the sun,
never smoking, sleeping well, eating healthily and avoiding toxins and
pollutants. Skin Care Tips 1 - Protect Skin From The Sun Up to 80 per cent of
premature ageing is caused by overexposure to the sun's harmful ultraviolet
rays: a completely preventable source of ageing. Sun damage causes collagen and
elastin to degenerate, as a result of which the skin sags and takes on a
leathery appearance and texture, age spots develop and coarse wrinkles and
broken blood vessels appear on the skin's surface.
Sun damage over the years
can develop into skin cancer, which may stay invisible for 20 years or more.
For all these reasons it is vital that you protect your skin, especially the
skin on your face, with a sunscreen containing a minimum sun protection factor
of 15 (SPF15). (Note that, because of the way in which sunscreen works, it is
never necessary to use a higher factor than SPF30, whatever the conditions.)
Skin Care Tips 2 - Stop Smoking As well as polluting your body with thousands
of toxins, smoking takes its toll on the skin. As a result, smokers age badly.
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