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Elemental recommends treating yourself to an Elemental Certified Organic Facial. Run a deep bath and add Elemental's Empress Bath Salts. Wipe face with a warm towel. Mix a teaspoon of an Elemental Mineral Mud Mask to suit your skin type with spring water or Elemental's Essential Splash-In to a smooth paste. Spread evenly onto face and luxuriate in your bath.
Rinse clean. Mist on Toning Mist to suit your skin type and allow to air dry. With light upward strokes apply a Rose Hip Cream to suit your skin type. Feel like a Queen! Visit the Elemental website to see the products for yourself
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If you want to get down to basics, making your own home treatments can be a cathartic and fun experience. CleanLife Business Development Manager, Shona shares some of her top tips and recipes below;
Shona's Home Day Spa Recipes:
All these recipes are designed to help you feel really good about yourself, to help you relax and to healp your skin glow. Thay have all been tried and tested on me, and although it can get messy - there is something satisfactory about acting like a witch in the kitchen, conjuring up potions and lotions. Mix and match ingredients, experiment with different clays, explore your pantry and pull out ingredients which would make good exfoliants and herbs and spices that will detox and smell good...let your imagination go crazy!
All ingredients should be certified organic (if possible) or out of the back yard!
Before smearing a face mask on, or doing a scrub, always hydrate first.
bath pre body scrub:
3 cups of epsom salts
7 drops of frankinscense oil
5 drops of orange oil
prepare your face with hydration before a mask:
Add to a bowl of steaming water some chammomile flowers and benzoin essential oil. rinse out a face cloth in the steaming water and wash your face three or more times. This helps to open up the pores and relax the face!
It is really important that while you a wearing a face mask - you sit or lie down and do NOTHING until it's dry. Most of the effect of a mask comes from its ability to relax, as much as its ability to cleanse the skin. Never leave a fask mask on any longer than it takes to dry.
Cinnamon Face Mask
This face mask is especially deep cleansing and may be a little too harsh on sensitive skin. It's great for blackheads and excellent for soothing out all those blind bumps and blips. Be careful not to add to much cinnamon or it will sting! If the ingredients seem a little exotic substitutions are in brackets.
2 tbsp pink clay (or normal clay)
tsp himalayan salt (or sea salt)
pinch organic ground cinnamon
tbsp very hot water
tsp honey
3 drops benzoin essential oil (also works well with chamomile)
mix the dry ingredients together
mix the wet ingredients together
Add the dry to the wet and mix really well. The mix should be smooth but not runny.
barley grass face mask
This one is quite scary for anyone coming over for an impromptu cup of tea...It is great for alkalising the skin and tightening.
1 tsp egg white
1 tsp honey
1 tbsp barley grass
1 tbsp clay
pinch salt
mix dry and mix wet and mix together.
toning mask - kiwi
this mask is excellent for cooling and calming the skin after any clay mask. its great for rehydrating too. leave on for 10 minutes.
1 kiwi fruit
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp aloe vera pulp straight from the plant
best ever face oil
this face oil is excellent for all skin types, but only use a little.
It is the perfect finish to the clay mask, wet mask and moisture trio.
Use it immediately after a cleaning off the face mask - the skin is still hydrated so it sinks into the pores. Not recomended for everyday use for those with very oily skin.
The ingredients are initially very expensive, but the oil is so devine and lasts so long that i think it amounts to the same as buying top shelf skin care - except you end up with twice as much.
40ml rosehip oil
40ml jojoba oil
5 drops of rose essential oil
5 drops of neroli essential oil
body scrub for cellulite
not reccomended before bed or for pregnant women - expect a coffee rush!
1 tbsp biobean cafe femininos coffee
1/4 cup biodynamic yoghurt
mix together and scrub all over body.
salt scrub for the body
safe for everyone any time of the day, good for a pick me up.
2 tbsp almond meal
1/4 cup salt
2 tbsp brown sugar
1/4 cup almond or coconut oil
5 drops of grapefruit essential
5 drops of ylang ylang essential oil
5 drops of ceadarwood essential
a great all over body toner is a lemon
scrubbed all over the body, especially after a scrub. it acts like a polish. but beware - this must be done at night before bed as lemon is phototoxic - it enhances the suns effect on the skin.
Otherwise try smothering aloe vera all over your body following a scrub, its quite sticky and messing but really good for stretch marks and scars. You might want to damp it off with a cloth, and don't let anyone taste you - they'll get quite a shock!!!
Shona will be contributing her great wealth of organic knowledge to the BLOG regularly from now on, so keep your eye on this spot!
