Cosmetics - kosmetikos [cosmetic cosmetics] - decorating, putting in order. We learn to put ourselves in order with the help of a home "factory of beauty".The article contains recipes for home cosmetics and tips for creating "waxed" cosmetics for the face and body.
Contents
- Recipes of natural cosmetics with your own hands
- How to make a skin wash for yourself?
- How to make a face wash lotion?
- Lotions for oily skin
- Lotions for normal skin
- Lotion for dry skin
- How to make a face cream with your own hands?
- How to make a cream for the skin around the eyes with your own hands?
- How to make lip balm with your hands?
- How to make a make-up remover by yourself? Recipes for two-phase make-up remover
- Video: Two-phase make-up remover - Kamila Secrets Issue 52
- How to make a hand cream? How to make a hand cream from glycerin?
- How to make a body scrub yourself?
- Video: Sugar body scrub - Kamila Secrets Issue 37
- Preparation of cosmetics for yourself: tips and feedback
- Video: How to melt the base on a water bath and in a microwave?
- Video: Cucumber lotion with their own hands
- Video: Cream for oily skin - Kamila Secrets Issue 75
The word "cosmetics" was known to the ancient Greeks. The Greeks left the world with a lot of amazing beauty recipes, which are still used in the "beauty industry".The most authoritative works on cosmetology are considered to be the treatises of Hippocrates, written between 430 and 330 BC.
In the works of the father of medicine, a clear gradation of cosmetics in the directions of
- can be traced and decorated - decorative cosmetics
- preserved and extended - facial and body care products
To preserve and prolong the health and youth of the skin - the main task of "wax" cosmetics - Another famouswork on medicine and cosmetology "Alimma"( "Mazi") is stored in Florence, the most enlightened city of Tuscany, XII - XV centuries. The treatise is written in Greek. The author of the manuscript is Eupraxia Mstislavovna, the granddaughter of Vladimir Monomakh
- Cosmetology is inseparable from medicine, and not only chemists but also physicians and pharmacists take part in creating new body and face care products. However, during the time of Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba, life was not complicated by industrialrevolution and technological progress. At the same time, women were beautiful and well-groomed, thanks to cosmetics made from natural, not artificially synthesized ingredients.
- New - a well forgotten old and now many eco-shops are actively luring customers with promises of natural and organic cosmetics. Such cosmetics, as a rule, expensive and not always natural
What is in cosmetics And what prevents to prepare natural cosmetics with own hands?
It's simple, interesting, useful and not expensive!
Recipes of natural cosmetics with their own hands
Home cosmetics consists only of natural components Before you do magic, prepare the necessary equipment and equipment.
You will need:
- electronic scales( kitchen or medical)
- containers for preparation of the composition( it is better to use utensils made of heat-resistant glass or thick ceramics)
- disposable pipettes of polymeric materials
- disposable measuring spoons
- disposable measuring cups of polymeric materials
- mini mixer
- sterilizer
- test strips pH test / litmus paper
- disposable wipes
- medical gloves
Inventory for home cosmetic laboratory: 1 - disposable pipettes;2 - measuring spoons;3 - indicator strips of pH test;4 - measuring cup Tips:
- Try to provide your home beauty factory with an individual mini mixer and cooking utensils. Before use, disinfect this inventory thoroughly or sterilize
- All other utensils should be disposable and sterile( remember hygiene regulations)
- Chopping boards
- Spoon or silicone stirring vane
- Strictly adhere to not only the hygienic rules, but also the
- Before using the product, be sure to test it on a small area of the skin to detect possible allergic reactions.
- Store home cosmetics not boit three days in a dark cool place
parts necessary for home
cosmetic addition to the above, you will need the basic foundation, cream and soap, to create cosmetic products for skin care and body.
The basic base is a semi-finished product, which you complete at your discretion. Such substrates are completely neutral: odorless, transparent, yellowish green or white. Consistency: solid, semi-solid, gel-like.
Solid soap base All these components and inventory can be purchased in specialized online stores.
How to make a face wash?
Foams for washing, made in industrial conditions, are not as safe as we would like. They consist of artificially synthesized detergents - surfactants. Thanks to the surfactants, cleansing agents are well foamed, cleanse the skin of contaminants, in parallel destroying its natural lipid barrier.
On the systematic destruction of facial skin lipids
- shows the appearance of wrinkles
- skin dryness( due to dehydration)
- dim color
- sensitivity to negative effects
Facial foam made at home will help to avoid such problems.
Important: store home cosmetics should be in sterile, hermetically sealed containers in the refrigerator. Shelf life - 3 days
For storage of home cosmetics it is better to use disposable sterile containers Components:
- semi-solid( creamy) soap base - 50 g
- milk - 50 ml
- honey liquid - 1 tsp. You can replace 1 fresh yolk
- base oil - 1 tbsp.l. Well repair the damaged lipid layer the following
- flax oil
- grape seed oil
- burdock
For this foam, you can also use olive or almond oil
- wheat germ oil - 1 tbsp.l.
- vitamin E - 1 tsp.
Finished product output: 250 ml
Tip: a soap base can be replaced with a quality baby soap. Grate soap on a grater, place in a heat-resistant container and melt with a water bath.
Some components necessary for the preparation of cleansing foam: soap base, milk, honey / egg, oils How to make:
- Melt the soap base. How to do this, the video "How to melt the base on a water bath and in a microwave oven" will tell you
- Preheat the milk, but do not bring it to the boil
- Combine the ingredients: base, milk, honey or yolk, oils and vitamin E
- Mix the resulting mixture with the
- spatula. Beat the mixer. Mixing time 5-7 minutes
- The mixture will foam, it will become very airy
- Carefully transfer the foam to a sterile container with a sealed cover
- The washing foam should be slightly "set aside".Time: 30-40 minutes. The consistency will become a bit thicker, but the air structure of the mixture
- will remain in the refrigerator. The agent can harden
How to use:
- Apply the product to the damp skin of the face, neck, decollete area with light massaging movements.
- Rinse with clean water. The water temperature should correspond to the body temperature
- Blot the skin with a napkin
- Apply a nourishing cream
How to make a face wash lotion?
Cosmetologists classify lotions as intermediate cleansers that are applied after washing and prepare the skin for subsequent application of nutrients.
Important: Lotions do not contain any surfactants that break the lipid barrier of the skin
However, most of the lotions necessarily include alcohol, which is not always useful and necessary for the skin.
Harmful alcohols that make up the cosmetics. The alcohol content as activeingredient in the cleansing lotion for the face can be 20-40%.
At home, alcohol-containing products can be replaced with acids
- fruit( natural apple cider vinegar)
- dairy
- lemon
- salicylic
For intermediate cleansing, home cosmetology also actively uses herbal decoctions.
Lotion for oily skin
Recipe # 1
Ingredients:
- 1 lemon
- 100 ml of vodka
- 100 ml of mineral water without gas
Lemon is an important component of many cosmetic products How to make:
- Wash lemon carefully, put with any heat-resistant containerin a cup), pour boiling water. Leave for 5 minutes.
- Gently remove the lemon from the hot water, cut into pieces and fold it into a sterile container with the hermetically sealed cover
- Pour the lemon vodka with
- Cap the lid and place it in a cool dark place for 7 days. From time to time, shake
- After 7 days, strain the infusion, add 100 ml of mineral water, mix thoroughly
Apply morning and evening.
Store in a sealed container in a cool, dark place. Term of application: up to 2 weeks.
Recipe # 2
Ingredients:
- 200 ml of mineral water without gas
- 1 tbsp.l.natural apple cider vinegar
Natural apple cider vinegar - an indispensable assistant for the preservation of beauty and health How to make:
- Mix water and vinegar
- Apply several times a day
- The lotion can be stored in the refrigerator 2-3 days
Recipe # 3
Ingredients:
- 1 orangeor grapefruit
- 2 tsp.liquid honey
- 1 tsp.glycerine
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Glycerin - moisturizing component in the "scrawny" cosmetics How to make:
- Orange / grapefruit thoroughly wash and peel
- Grind the pulp in any convenient way
- The resulting fruit mass should be transferred to a sterile container with hermetically sealed cover
- Add to mixturehoney and glycerin
- Stir the contents of
- Close the container and leave to infuse in a dark cool place for 24 hours.
- Strain the resulting juice and useacce
as a lotion for normal skin lotions
Recipe # 1. Regenerating skin lotion "25+"
Ingredients:
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 lemon
- 100 ml cream of any fat content
- 1 tbsp.l.vodka( cognac)
Useful properties of cognac will be unlimited if you skillfully combine it with other components in the preparation of "wax" cosmetics How to make:
- Thoroughly wash the lemon, put it with any heat-resistant container( can be in a cup), pour boiling water. Leave for 5 minutes.
- Gently remove the lemon from the hot water, dry, cut, squeeze the juice
- Thoroughly crush the egg yolk, gradually adding the lemon juice
- To the egg-lemon mixture add the cream and vodka / cognac, mix thoroughly
- Mix the mixture into a sterile container with hermetically sealedcover
- Store in refrigerator 3-5 days
How to use:
- Apply to cleansed face skin
- Leave for 5 minutes.
- Rinse with clean water
Recipe # 2. Cleansing Lotion
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp.l.dry mint leaves. This component can be replaced by 1 tbsp.l.leaves of green tea with mint or without
- 1 tbsp.water
- 1 tbsp.l.lemon juice or natural apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp.l.alcohol component( vodka, cognac)
- 1 tbsp.l.alcohol tincture of calendula
Calendula is applied from the first days of a person's life as a natural antiseptic, removing irritation How to make:
- Pour mint leaves or green tea pour 1 tbsp.boil, cook over low heat for 5-10 minutes, leave until completely cooled
- Cooled infusion filter
- Add the infusion to the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly
Dry skin lotion
The alcohol content of lotions for dry skin should be minimal or absent
Recipe# 1
Components:
- 1 fresh medium-sized cucumber
- 1 tbsp.fatty milk or cream
Cucumber is one of the most sought-after and accessible components of the home "care" cosmetics How to do:
- Wash the cucumber thoroughly, soak it with a paper towel
- Finely chop along with the
- skin. In a fireproof pot, bring the milk to
- Add to milk 3st.l.cucumber cubes and cook them in milk for 5-7 minutes
- Wait until the milk-cucumber mixture has cooled down and strain it
- Store the mixture in the refrigerator 2-3 days
Apply morning and evening
Tip. Cucumber can be replaced with finely chopped cabbage
How to make a face cream with your own hands?
Recipe # 1
Here is the basic recipe for a universal protective cream, which even first-time cosmetologists
can cook. First, we will get acquainted with the necessary ingredients that make up the basis of any home cream:
- 25 g of beeswax. Buy this component can be in eco-shops, specialized stores, health food stores
- 50 g of base oil. Ideal - olive oil
- 50 g of lipid-promoting oil( linseed, grape seed oil, burdock)
- 50 ml of distilled water( can be bought at the pharmacy)
- 2-3 grams of borax. The industrial name of borax is sodium tetraborate, borax. Borax and boric acid are different substances! !!!In the cream of borax acts as preservative and emulsifier
- 2-4 drops of your favorite essential oil. For a night cream it is better to use aromatic oil with a calming effect, for example, lavender
How to make:
- Put the wax in a heat-resistant dish and melt it in any convenient way for you( on a steam bath, using a double boiler, microwave oven)
- Once the wax has been liquid, add both oils( base and reconstituted)
- The borax is dissolved in a warm distilledwater, warm the vessel with brown on the
- steam bath. Important: the temperature of the wax-oil and water mixture( phase) should be approximately the same - no more than 60⁰C
- Mix thoroughly, slowly enter the aqueous phase into the wax-oil
- Addthose essential oils and mix thoroughly
- Store the cream in the refrigerator in a sterile container with the hermetically sealed lid
Recipe # 2
If you look for wax, borax and other ingredients, it seems to you an impossible detective task, you can go the other way and make a face cream of the components, which are in any pharmacy. This cream is suitable for problem skin, has a rejuvenating effect
Components:
- 1 tbsp.quality baby cream as a basis. Choose a cream that contains the least amount of chemical additives
- 3 capsules of vitamins "Aevit"
- 3 capsules "Fish oil of food"( Omega 3)
- 1 ampoule( 2 ml) of solution for intramuscular injection "Kombilipen"
- 4-5 drops of anyessential oil
How to make:
- Spread the necessary amount of cream in a sterile glass container
- Gently puncture the capsule "Aevit" and squeeze the contents of the capsule into a container with a cream-base. Repeat similar manipulations with all capsules( "Aevit", "Fish oil")
- Carefully open the ampoule of Kombilipen, add the contents of the ampoule to the basin with a cream-base using a medical syringe
- Carefully mix the cream with a sterile spoon
- Store the cream container in the refrigerator
Important: the cream has a fat enough structure that is compacted at low temperatures
How to use:
- Application time: 2-3 hours before bedtime
- Apply a small amount of cream to the face
- m body temperature the cream will become softer that will allow you to easily distribute the product on the skin
- Just before bedtime remove the remnants of the cream by wetting the face with a napkin
How to make a skin cream around the eyes with your own hands?
Creams with herbal decoctions are the best choice for a delicate eye skin Recipe # 1
Ingredients:
- 1 tsp.dry collection "Chamomile Pharmacy( medicinal)"
- 1 tsp.dry collection "Color of lime"
- 100 ml of pure water( boiling water)
- 1 tbsp.l.fresh quality butter
- 1 tsp.castor oil
Nature is the pantry of the best ingredients for preserving beauty How to make:
- Put the herbal collection of camomile and lime blossoms in a cup
- Pour the herbal collection with boiling water
- Cover the cup with saucer
- Let the brew infuse for 10-15 minutes
- Strain infusion
- Melt the butter
- Gently collect the greasy oily base without touching the exfoliated liquid
- In the cream container, mix ghee with melted butter, castor oil and 2 tbsp in a mini mixer.l.herbal infusion
- Store in the refrigerator 3-5 days
Recipe # 2 Deep action
Components:
- 2 tbsp.l.cacao butter. You can buy in pharmacies, eco-shops, health food stores
- 2 tbsp.l.dry herb collection "St. John's wort".Can be replaced with dry thyme( sold as a spice)
- 1 capsule of vitamin E. You can replace 0.5 tsp.oil solution
- 5 drops of natural rosehip oil
- 5 drops of lavender essential oil
- 250 ml of pure water( boiling water)
Rosehip oil - an affordable means to pull up tired skin How to make:
- Put a herbal collection in the cup
- Pour the herbal collection with boiling water
- Cover the cup with a saucer
- Allow the brew to steep for 15-20 minutes
- Cool to room temperature, strain
- While coolinginfusion, melt the cocoa butter in any convenient way( using a microwave, steamer, water bath)
- The oil should also cool down to room temperature
- Connect all components except the herbal infusion
- Mix the mixture thoroughly with a mini mixer
- Gradually add 2 tbsp.l.herbal infusion without stopping the work of the mixer
- The texture of the cream should be homogeneous
- Transfer the cream to a convenient sterile container
Keep in the refrigerator 3-5 days
How to make a lip balm with your own hands?
Lip Balm Based on Bee Products Components
- 20 g of beeswax for cosmetic purposes or grated beeswax. Buy this component can be in specialized stores, eco-shops, health food stores. The proportion of beeswax in the composition of balsam should be 30-35%, maximum - 40%
- 30 g base oil. For the lips a good choice will be the following oils: olive, almond, wheat germ oil, coconut
- 10 g honey
- 2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil. Beneficial effect on the delicate skin of the lips essential oils of mint, balm, myrrh, myrtle, rosewood
Finished product output: 40 ml
Beeswax has a moisturizing, antibacterial, regenerating, softening and healing action How to:
- Transfer the wax to a heat resistant container andmelt in any available way( using a water bath, microwave, steamer)
- Add the base oil( mixture of oils) to the liquid wax and mix thoroughly
- Gradually add liquid honey to the wax mixture, not forbe careful to whisk the mixture with the mini mixer
- At the end, add essential oil and mix thoroughly
- Transfer the balm to the prepared sterile form and leave until the
is completely cooled. If after cooling, the balsam turned out to be too hard - re-melt it with a little bit of
How to make a make-up remover with your own hands? Recipes for a two-phase make-up remover
The easiest prescription for making eye-removing liquid:
Recipe # 1 Make-up milk
Ingredients:
- 3 fresh cucumber( medium size)
- 200 ml of whole milk. Milk choose by skin type: the fatty the skin - the less fatty milk you will need
- 1 tbsp.l.rose water
- 1 tbsp.l.base oil( olive, burdock, sesame, wheat germ, dog rose)
Cucumber remains the leader of the "beauty factory" How to make:
- Cucumber thoroughly wash and dry. If you are not sure about the quality of the product, be sure to peel the
- peel. Grind the cucumbers in any convenient way: rubbed on a fine grater, chopping with a knife
- Pour the cucumber with hot milk
- Let it brew 1-1,5 hours
- Strain
- Add the pinkwater and base oil
- Mix thoroughly the mixture
- Pour into a sterile container
- Store in the refrigerator
- Always shake
before use Shake for recipe # 2
For the manufacture of a two-I remove the makeup use the diagram below:
Components:
- 1 tsp.grape seed oil. Can be replaced with any base oil
- 1 tsp.castor oil
- 100 ml of pure water. You can use mineral water without gas or infusions / herbs of herbs
How to make:
- Pour all the ingredients into a clean sterile container and shake
thoroughly. Video "Two-phase make-up remover - Kamila Secrets Issue 52" will tell you how to prepare a quality multi-component makeup remover inhome conditions
Video: Two-phase means for removing make-up - Kamila Secrets Issue 52
How to make a hand cream? How to make a hand cream from glycerin?
Recipe # 1 Healing Cream
Ingredients:
- 50 g of fresh butter. The oil should be soft, room temperature
- 1 tbsp.l.dry herbal collection "Chereda"
- 1 tsp.liquid honey
- 200 ml of pure water( boiling water)
How to make:
- Put the necessary amount of herbal collection in a cup, pour boiling water
- Cover the cup with a lid
- Infusion time 20 -30 minutes
- Gently stir the oil, honey and 1 tbsp.l.
- This mass should look like a thick sour cream
- Put the cream in a sterile container with hermetically sealed cover
- Store in the refrigerator
Board. If desired, you can add the favorite essential oils
Recipe # 2 to the cream. Cream for velvet skin
Components:
- 10 g of dry collection "Calendula officinalis"
- 100 g of quality refined vegetable oil
- 1 tsp.melted beeswax
- 1 tbsp.l.corn oil
- 1 tsp.glycerin
Calendula oil is the basis of many cosmetics, including hand creams How to make:
- Dry calendula collection place in a comfortable hermetically sealed container and fill with warm vegetable oil
- Insist oil for 1 week in a dark place at room temperature
- Melt the wax
- Gradually put in it corn oil and marigold oil
- Last enter the glycerin
- Put the cream in a convenient sterile container, store in the refrigerator
- PrimShade cream is better at night
How to make a body scrub yourself?
Body scrub with own hands The simplest and most accessible prescription for body scrub
Components:
- 2 cups oat flakes
- 1 tbsp.l.liquid honey. Can be replaced with fat cream or kefir
How to make:
- Grind the flakes to the state of the wholemeal flour using a blender or coffee grinder
- Connect with honey / cream / kefir
- Apply slowly circular motions on the wet body skin
- Hold 3-5 minutes
- Rinse with clean water
Video "Sugar body scrub - Kamila Secrets Issue 37" how to treat yourself with a prepared sugar scrub
Video: Sugar body scrub - Kamila Secrets Issue 37
Make-up cosmeticsvoimi hands: tips and reviews
Home cosmetics may be sincere and useful gift for family and friends to cheer up and to preserve the beauty. Once you open your "beauty laboratory" you can not stop, because it's interesting, useful and fashionable.
Below are collected videos that will help make the first steps in home cosmetology. Learn and be beautiful!