Making your own homemade beauty products is much easier than you'd think.
If you can cook, then you are very capable of making your own products.
You just need to be able to do a little melting and a little stirring and you will be well on your way to creating your own luxurious skin care products for mere pennies of what you would spend on department store brands.
Think making creams or lotions is a project much too difficult to tackle? Think again! If you can make salad dressing, you can make lotions.
All you need is a base oil, such as almond oil, an emulsifying wax such as beeswax, or other wax, distilled water and essential oils and color to add fragrance and color to your lotion if you choose.
You just need to melt your emulsifying wax, either on the stove, or in the microwave, then stir in your other ingredients.
Voila! You have just made lotion.
The consistency of the lotion is determined by how much distilled water you choose to add to the mixture.
Homemade beauty products are great for numerous reasons including that you can make these homemade products usually in very little time.
Many times you already have everything you need around the house to make them.
Run out of your store-bought facial scrub? Don't go out and buy more! You can whip up great facial and body scrubs with simple ingredients such as sugar, salt and almonds for a fraction of what buying these products in the store would cost.
Oatmeal is another very inexpensive, popular ingredient for creating scrubs and it has very soothing properties as well.
Homemade beauty products are superior to store bought, mass produced skin care products because you can tweak your beauty recipes to your individual skin condition, avoid ingredients that your skin is sensitive to, and have products with scents that you truly enjoy.
You don't have to worry what effects the chemicals in your skin care products are having on you, since, by and large, you could eat most everything contained in your homemade beauty products.
Would you try this with beauty products you buy off the shelf? I know that I wouldn't want to sit down and guzzle a bottle of commercial body lotion--and I don't think that you would either.
So don't be afraid to make your own homemade beauty products! You can achieve professional results at home, save money and feel good about putting a product on your skin that really is natural-- unlike the commercial products whose labels scream "natural," but are full of chemicals in reality.
It really is so simple to do, will save you oodles of money and will leave your skin in the best condition of your life.