DIY: 3 homemade cosmetic recipes for Easter
There's no better way to pamper your body than by creating DIY recipes for gourmet homemade beauty products, with active ingredients that are good for your skin. We've chosen to offer you quick and easy DIY cosmetics recipes based on almond, honey and chocolate. As you can see, you'll be creating your own natural, gourmet cosmetics this Easter! Chocolate is a powerful antioxidant that fights cell ageing and is also a great anti-cellulite agent. Sweet almond oil, rich in vitamin D, has many benefits for skin, hair and nails. Finally, honey is a natural moisturizer, keeping skin and hair hydrated and fresh, and is recommended for sensitive skin. In this article, we'll let you discover some of our favorite DIY cosmetics recipes - let's get started!
A recipe for a moisturizing face mask with honey
What do you need?
2 tablespoons plain stirred yoghurt, 2 teaspoons liquid honey, 2 tablespoons coconut powder and 2 drops lavender essential oil.What to do?
Pour the honey and yoghurt into a bowl. Mix well. Stir the coconut powder into the honey-yogurt combo. Add the essential oil and mix again. All that's left to do is apply it to your face using circular movements, concentrating on the forehead, sides of the nose and chin, then rinse off.
Recipe taken from the book Le guide Terre Vivante de la beauté au naturel, published by Terre Vivante.
A recipe for Sweet Almond Lip Balm&. Shea Butter
What do you need?
10 mL sweet almond vegetable oil, 2 g organic beeswax, 2 g organic Shea Butter , 2 drops natural vitamin E, 2 drops sweet orange essential oilWhat to do?
Remove 2 grams of Shea Butter and place in the bowl with the beeswax. Melt in a bain-marie. Stir in the sweet almond vegetable oil. Remove from heat and add 2 drops of vitamin E using a Pasteur Pipette and 2 drops of sweet orange essential oil. Transfer to the jar immediately.
Recipe from Centifolia
Chocolate moisturizing cream recipe
What do you need?
50 g. cocoa butter, 50 g. coconut oil, 25 g. sweet almond oil (or other neutral oil) and 1 tsp cocoa powderWhat to do?
Melt the cocoa butter and coconut oil in a double boiler. Add the rest of the natural ingredients, mix well and leave to cool in the fridge (or on your balcony) for around half an hour. The mixture should have firmed up by now, but should not be completely solid. Using a whisk, whip the mixture vigorously until creamy.
Warning: if you don't wait long enough and your oils are too hot, the emulsion won't set!
When you see that the cream is starting to set, plunge the bottom of your container into a bowl filled with ice water and continue whisking. Then pour the mixture into an airtight container.
Recipe from antigone21
Don't have time to make these recipes at home? Don't worry, there are plenty of honey, almond and chocolate-based cosmetics to suit your skin's specific needs. Opt for natural products with sweet, addictive gourmet scents!
Our natural almond and honey cosmetics
This delicious sugar scrub gently cleanses and exfoliates the body. Impurities and dead cells are eliminated, and skin texture is refined. In our Honey natural cosmetics collection, you'll find all the benefits of honey, thanks to the active ingredients (honey extract and propolis) chosen in our formulas for their nourishing, protective and regenerating virtues. 99% natural, we can't recommend this scrub enough!
Why do we love it? With 95% naturally-sourced ingredients, this balm helps soothe, moisturize and protect lips for an immediate sensation of comfort. Its melting texture and delicate scent of fresh almonds make it an everyday ally to take everywhere. As in our entire Soothing Almond collection, you'll find in this lip balm the benefits of almonds, rich in vitamins and unsaturated fatty acids, renowned for soothing and softening the skin while preserving its hydrolipidic film.
There are many recipes for making your own natural cosmetics. This allows you to apply products to your skin that contain specific active ingredients, with very specific virtues for your beauty. For the past 10 years, Panier des Sens products have been enriched with clean, natural raw materials. They comply with a strict formulation charter. So... make your own or choose your own natural cosmetics.
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