The dream of a day at a luxurious day spa or a destination spa is being pampered due to the cost factor. Do you need a spa break but could not afford to get to a spa? Can you put aside 2 hours for yourself without interruption?
If the answer is yes, then you can make that dream happen in the luxury of your home with recipes for creating your own home spa treatments. These recipes are cool to make and enjoyable to use. Home spa recipes give you an exclusive chance to kick back and relax and also save enormous amounts of money. The ingredients you use are right from your kitchen.
Here are few tips and recipes to create your own home spa experience.
Almond facial milk (dry skin): Almond facial milk gently but thoroughly exfoliates dead skin cells
And has good moisturizing effects
1 cup rose or lavender water
1 tsp vegetable glycerin
1 tsp cold pressed organic almond oil
Few drops grapefruit seed extract
Rose or lavender water can be prepared by placing few dried organic rose petals or lavender in a container and add hot water and cover it. Let steep during the night and then thoroughly strain it. Mix the remaining ingredients in a glass jar and shake it thoroughly. Wipe some on your fingers and massage into your skin in upward motion and finally Rinse with warm water.
Buttermilk and Fennel Cleansing Milk (Oily Skin)
3 Tablespoon crushed fennel seeds
1/2 cup buttermilk
Heat the milk and fennel seeds for half an hour keeping it on the top of double boiler. Let steep for two hours. Cool, strain and keep it refrigerator and dab some on your fingers or cotton ball and massage into your skin in upward motion
This can be kept for 2 weeks.
Cucumber apple Facial Mask
1 cup peeled cucumber
1 egg white
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp apple mint leaves
2 drop essential oil (lime)
Mix all ingredients in a food processor and process it until it becomes smooth. Finally add the essential oil and mix it. Keep the mixture in refrigerator for atleast 10 minutes.
Apply to your face and neck area and leave it on for 20 minutes. Rinse well with mild hot water. This facial Mask is best when used right away as the ingredients are perishable.
Avocado carrot cream mask: These ingredients will rebuild skin collagen, progress skin tone and texture, and reduces dark spots.
1 mashed avocado
1 carrot, mashed
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 whipped egg
3 tablespoons honey
Mix all ingredients in a bowl till it becomes smooth. Apply gently over your face and neck and leave for 15 minutes. Rinse with cold water and follow with your preferred toner.
Blueberry toner
4 tablespoons crushed, steamed blueberries
1/2 cup sour cream or plain yogurt
Mix the ingredients in a blender at low speed and till it becomes fluffy. Apply to face and neck and leave for 20 minutes. Rinse off with mild hot water. If the mask is in too liquid state after blending, refrigerate for one hour. Do not store it; make this mask the day you want to use it.
Lemon lip gloss
2 tsp Honey
Required Vitamin E Oil
2 tsp. of Aloe Vera
1 tsp of grated beeswax
Required almond extract
5 Drops of Lemon Essential Oil
Melt beeswax, remove from heat and while add other ingredients by continuously stirring beeswax. Finally add the Lemon essential oil. This is one of the most popular natural lip glosses.
Nail Brightener
1 denture tablet
1 cup mild hot water
2 drops essential oil
Saturate one denture tablet with a few drops of your favorite essential oil. Now Drop the tablet into a small basin of hot water. Soak fingertips for 15 minutes.
Milk bath
2 eggs
1 tsp glycerin
1/2 cup dried milk powder
1 drop essential oil (rose and jasmine)
5 drops lavender essential oil
2 cups distilled water
1/2 cup light olive oil
Mix and Beat together egg, milk powder, olive oil and glycerin with a whisk and add essential oils simultaneously while beating. Add water and continue the process till you get a smooth paste. Use this mixed concoction immediately after making it
Body scrub
3 small cups of coarsely ground coffee
1/2 cup sea salt or sugar
5 T massage oil
Combine all ingredients together. Take a hot water bath and this moistens your skin. Using extensive, circular motions and with even pressure rub the coffee exfoliant onto your skin. Again Shower off and apply your preferred body lotion.
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