 Natural
Cosmetics You Make Yourself
Made
without artificial chemicals, more frugal, less toxic
Clay
Shampoo
Mix the following:
1 tablespoon of dry clay
4 ounces of hot water
Massage into hair, scalp and face and then rinse out.
Deodorants
•
Apple cider vinegar applied directly
• Cornstarch
• Mix coconut oil and baking soda (arrowroot can also be added)
• Simmer cleavers  (galium
aparine) in water. Cool, strain
and bottle. Apply with cotton balls. Cleavers can be gathered in spring
and summer, keeps about a week.
Eye
shadow
• Kajal, or Indian eye shadow:
Put
a cotton string, wicking or twisted cloth
in 1 cup of good-quality castor oil, make a lamp, (perhaps a floating
candle?) burn the string under a clay plate or pot so flame touches the
bottom of the plate/pot. After a while a black powder will form on the
surface, which can be flicked off with a tap. Mix this powder with
castor oil and apply on eyes.
Hair Spray
• Mix a small amount of sugar syrup with water until it is
dilute enough
to go through a fine mist sprayer.
Hair
Conditioner
• Put a couple drops of coconut oil into your hands,
finger-comb through
just-washed hair.
Hand Lotion
Put into a glass,
ceramic or baked enamel bowl or pot:
1/2 cup petroleum jelly (Vaseline)
1 cup clean rendered lard
1 cup coconut oil
1 tablespoon candle wax
Melt over very low heat (on a plate on top of a slow cooker is good)
overnight or until it melts.
Pour into jars or containers.
This is a natural product with no preservatives and it will go
rancid with time, so it is best to keep most of it frozen and only keep
what you are using out at room temperature.
Lip
balm/salve
Put into a baked enamel bowl or pot:
1 cup clean rendered lard
1 cup coconut oil
1 tablespoon candle wax
Melt
over very low heat (on a plate on top of a slow cooker is good)
overnight or until it melts. Pour into small pots for salve or into
empty lipstick or chapstick tubes for lip balm. Any leftover that you
don't have enough containers for, pour into a plastic ice cube tray,
put in a plastic bag an store in the freezer. Take out when you need
more. This is a natural product with no preservatives and it will go
rancid with time, so it is best to keep most of it frozen and only keep
what you are using at the time out at room temperature.
"Lipstick"
Apply a red-colored fruit to lips such as
elderberry, cherry or beet root and then cover with lip balm/salve
above.
Oatmeal
Baby Bath
Whirl 1 cup of whole
oats in a blender or food processor until they
are reduced to powder.
Sprinkle powder into the bath and swirl.
Perfume
Use an essential oils whose
aroma you like, such as lavender or
rosemary, and mix it with a carrier oil, like almond oil, and use
sparingly. Perfumes are made with
fragrance oils to smell something like the real thing. Essential oils
come from plants with all their cofactors complete and *are* the real
thing. Also, add a small drop of real vanilla extract if desired.
Shampoo
&
Conditioner
• Mix 1 tablespoon baking soda with of 1 cup of water for
shampoo (will
feel slightly "slimy")
• Mix 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup of water
for
conditioner
Strawberry face-soak infusion
•
Pour 1 1/2 cups boiling water over 1/4 cup strawberry cuttings
(leaves, tops) in a glass bowl and cover. Steep
for 2 hours. Strain and pour the water into a clean jar, seal with a
lid and refrigerate. Soak a face cloth with the infusion, heat it then
apply to face.
Teeth Whitening
• Swish 3% hydrogen peroxide around in mouth and then spit
out (Use
sparingly and do not swallow if you have amalgam fillings)
• Brush teeth with mashed strawberry
Toothpaste
Coconut oil and baking soda
Toothpaste, Ben Franklin's
Mix into a paste:
Honey
Ground charcoal
Rub on teeth for whiteness
Wrinkle cream and
age spot remover
Grind primrose (cowslip) flowers until fine and mix with lard.
Cure
Tooth Decay
by Ramiel Nagel
Jeanne
Rose's Kitchen Cosmetics
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