In our 'Natural Beauty Kit' series we'll serve up tips on turning nature into nurturing skincare products...and you needn't look any futher than your own fridge!
MINTY CLEANSER
The cucumber & the mint cools & soothes while the milk brightens and lightly hydrates your skin. The grapefruit extract acts as a natural preservative so that you can store your cleanser for a week.
Natures ingredient box:
*10cm piece of cucumber
*5 mint leaves
*50ml milk
*2 drops grapefruit seed extract
*muslin cloth
*sterilised bottle
1. peel cucumber & remove mint leaf stalks
2. chop both cucumber & mint leaves roughly
3. then put them in a blender with the milk & whizz until smooth
4. poor this mixture into a pan & heat until simmering over a medium heat
5. simmer for 2 minutes
6. cool then strain through muslin cloth
7. pour liquid into a sterilised bottle
8. add grapefruit extract
9. keep cleanser in fridge & use within a week
10.apply your 'minty cleanser' to your face and throat
11.avoid your eye & mouth areas
12 rinse off with warm water & facecloth
13.tone & moisturise as normal
Future parts to this series will include a 'lavender/rose skin tonic', a 'blackhead blaster' and a 'blemish blaster.'
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