Did you know it's quite possible to make your own cosmetics, spa treatments and homemade beauty products? Not only that, making your own products will save you lots of money and keep you from putting harmful chemicals on your skin. We tend to think of ingesting chemicals only in terms of eating, drinking or breathing them; however the skin is an organ, and chemicals placed on our skin is absorbed and enters our bloodstream, and travels to all of our organs. Do you now understand why it is so important to avoid the chemicals in commercially prepared skin-care products?
You can create homemade skin care products that are cheaper, easier, and safer than the store-bought versions.By controlling exactly what goes into our own homemade beauty products, we can avoid allergic reactions to the harsh chemicals contained in commercial products. If you have difficulty finding creams or lotions that don't contain overwhelming fragrances, why not make your own skin care products? This way you can choose to add scents that are agreeable to you, or else choose to add none at all. By creating homemade beauty products, we can also avoid nasty preservatives that mask when a beauty product is well past the date when it should have been used up.
The good news is that you can enjoy all-natural homemade beauty treatments without harmful chemicals for pennies--in the privacy of your own home. The possibilities of which homemade beauty products you can make are almost endless. You can make your own facial scrubs, lotions, face creams and body butters, lip balms and glosses and more. You can even make your own soaps and shampoos at home. Don't forget that you can also make your own homemade spa products such as bath salts, oils and soaks easily and inexpensively as well. If you normally pay a lot of money to have your legs waxed each month, you can make an effective wax alternative with just sugar, water and lemon juice.
It can be fun and rewarding to mix up your own all-natural homemade beauty products in the comfort of your own home. For example, if you'd like to experiment and create the fancy soaps you see at many specialty shops, it is really very simple with the melt and pour soap making method. You simply melt down a glycerin base soap that can easily be found in many hobby stores or online, then add your choice of essential oils for fragrance, lastly, add color to your soap and pour into a mold. You can even add glitter or decorative items such as small seashells to your soap. It is such a simple process that older children can do it with some supervision.