Homemade Beauty Products on a Budget
The demand for beauty products has been increasing over the years.
Subsequently, the rates of these products are also on the rise. If you are not
cautious, expensive beauty products can bite into your earnings. It is
worthwhile to consider the grooming aids you actually need and make a cautious
selection.
Skin care products, hair care products, cosmetics, bath and body products,
perfumes, body treatment products, sun-care and self-tan products, anti-aging
products, and anti-wrinkle products are commonly used beauty aids. These beauty
products are available for both men and women.
A practical way for limiting the amount you spend on beauty products is to opt
for homemade products. You can make the products yourself by purchasing the
necessary ingredients and using the instructions available from various books.
These products will also be free from the side effects that some store-bough
products cause. These side effects are usually caused by chemicals that are
added to these products to make them more attractive and powerful. Homemade
beauty products as a whole will be much cheaper when compared to store-bought
ones.
There are many ways in which you can make beauty products fit your budget.
Buying these products on sale at discounted prices is an excellent idea. You can
even buy and stock these when available at good discounts. Don't always go for
branded products. Sometimes you will find that certain beauty products are of
the same quality as that of name brands, but are cheaper. Therefore, it is
better to buy those products to save yourself a lot of money. It is best to
select beauty aids that are reasonably priced. An expensive beauty product is
not necessarily an excellent one.
Another method for saving money is to buy products only after shopping around
for the best prices. Some shops provide several free samples. Money-back
guarantees are also given if the customer is not satisfied with the product.
Follow Free Homemade Beauty Tips – For Natural Beauty
Beautiful people of all ages have maintained that beauty is not as
much reflected in the rosy, youthful look of the skin. When questioned about the
secret to their beautiful skins, they have always attributed it to a healthy
lifestyle and a few homemade beauty tips. Healthy lifestyle and homemade beauty
tips are mostly based on the refreshing, detoxifying effects of natural and
herbal products with the former fortifying the system’s internal strength and
the later protecting outwardly.
Homemade beauty tips, as such, are based on judicial choice of herbal
ingredients for external skin care. Some home-based natural skin care tips would
be as follows:
• Buttermilk/cream and yogurt make excellent skin cleansers.
• After-bath application of almond oil is undoubtedly a great treat for the skin
– the suppleness and glow it brings to the skin is unmatched by even the very
best of moisturizers.
• Regular application of honey or yogurt makes the skin soft and has a gentle
bleaching effect.
• Sea salt/sugar mixed with olive oil works as an extraordinary at-home body
exfoliation preparation.
• Different natural and herbal products like Aloe Vera, Basil, Chamomile,
Lavender, Marshmallow, Neem, Oatmeal, Sandalwood, Tea tree oil, Turmeric, Witch
Hazel, etc. used as facial packs often help to dispose dead cells and impurities
lodged in the skin to unclog pores. Side by side playing the roles of cleansers,
the natural produces and elements strike water-oil balance of the skin.
The basic rules for homemade beauty care
Keep the recipes simple. Anything too complex might lead to the ingredients
interacting with one another. The final result might be unpleasant side effects.
- Sterilise and dry all equipment and containers
- Freeze the formulas in quantities you would use each day Only thaw out
what you need when you need it.
- If anything smells bad, or if the smell changes, discard it.
- Always do a patch test before using any homemade beauty recipes.
Homemade Beauty-Beautiful Hair Tips
- Rinse your hair with a quarter cup of vinegar mixed with three quarters
of a cup of warm water to restore the natural acid balance upset by alkaline
shampoos. Your hair will be soft and shiny.
- Always wash and rinse your hair in water as cool as is comfortable. Hot
or overly warm water can damage and dry hair.
- Mix a half cup of plain old dish detergent with a cup (or more) of water
to clean your hair and put it in a bottle with a squirt lid.
- There's nothing magical or special about those ingredients in most
shampoo, except the pronuniciation.
- Don't wash your hair every day! You'll be washing the living daylights
out of it - literally.
- A natural bristle brush will tame your hair and distribute natural oils,
so if you don't overwash, you don't often need a conditioner.
- If you must use hairspray, use sugar water or a lemon or orange simmered
in water, strained, and put in a spray bottle.
- For deep treatment for dry or damaged hair, use mayonnaise like you
would a hot oil treatment. After applying generously to hair and scalp, wrap
in a warm towel for 15 minutes or more. Shampoo in warm (not hot) water.
- Really need gel for that style? Try unflavored gelatin, mixed with half
as much water as the instructions call for.
- Don't spend money on those fancy dyes for temporary streaking and
coloring. Use food coloring or powdered drink mix. You can get hues of
everything from mahogany to neon orange with the right mixture.
Beautiful, healthy hair doesn't have to cost a fortune! And it's not a
product of a chemical company or advertising agency, either.
The Truth About Home Made Beauty Facials
I started making facial masks after reading several books on natural
cosmetics. Common ingredients used in home made facials are eggs, lemon, milk,
honey, cucumber, tomato, essential oils and lots more fruits, herbs and other
ingredients.
The assumption I had was that home made cosmetics, being all natural and
preservative free were much safer than the commercial masks you found in stores.
A wrong assumption. You know the saying. Never assume anything. It makes an ASS
of U and ME. Did you know some of the deadliest poisons on earth are 100%
natural?
There are complaints about preservatives irritating the skin and all that. That
may be true especially for a person with very sensitive skin. But preservatives
actually make cosmetics safe to use. Preservatives kill or at very least,
inhibit the bacteria, mold, viruses and nasty things that would otherwise thrive
in the cosmetics we use. Commercial preparations usually contain some
preservative or other to make these products safe for use. Some of the very high
end cosmetic formulations are packed in sterile capsules to do away with or at
least, minimimize, the need for preservatives.
If you make your own skin care for use later in the week, chances are, unless
you are anal about sterilizing everything and freezing every batch once it has
cooled, thawing it only when you are going to use it, and keeping your cosmetics
away from the raw meat in the freezer, eventually, you could find yourself using
contaminated home made cosmetics, which could lead to a skin irritation.
I used to make my own skin care but found all the precautions I had to take such
a hassle, now I buy mine off the shelves.
Even if you make your facial products for immediate use, you have to be careful
about using only the freshest ingredients. A mouldy fruit or anything that is
spoilt can lead to disastrous results on your skin.
Then there is the safety of the ingredients used in your skincare products.
I once told a pharmacist about the lemon remedy I was using on my pimples. She
was horrified. Lemons are highly acidic. Lemon juice is pH 2. Sulphuric acid is
pH 1. Lemons can cause a nasty acid burn if you are not careful.
We had a discussion about this. She told me about a customer who showed up with
an acid burn. Turns out, she had a sunburn. Back in Australia, she would soothe
that sunburn by rubbing cut cucumber over her skin. The juices would ease the
sunburn. This time around, she was unlucky. The cucumber she used was more
acidic than the ones she was used to and she ended up with a really nasty acid
burn.
Though cucumber is soothing, cucumber contains Alpha Hydroxy Acids as do most
fruit and some of the other ingredients used in homemade beauty recipes.
You see, in home made skin care, the exact chemical makeup of the ingredients
you use may vary, leading to unpleasant results if you are unfortunate. That is
why, everytime you make any facial mask, test it on the inside of your wrist
first, before you let that mask touch your face.
I was lucky. The lemon facial I did helped clear my skin by killing the
bacteria, without burning my skin. The pharmacist said I was fool hardy. As did
my cousin who has been making her own beauty products for years already.
Lemon can thin the skin. It is so acidic. The pharmacist thought the other
things, like the almond meal I mixed with the lemon juice helped neutralize the
extreme acidity. Also, when I used freshly squeezed lemon juice directly on my
face, I would dilute it with water first.
Yet the books I read with home made beauty recipes often include lemon in their
recipes. After all, lemon has lightening properties. Lemon juice is often used
to lighten freckles. Lemon was even recommended in a book by a former model, for
use as a toner.
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