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ROSE MASK
1 tablespoon white clay, finely grinded
1 tablespoon red clay, finely grinded
2 tablespoons hazelnut oil
1 tablespoon rose hydrolisat
OR
1 tablespoon pink clay, ready-to-use
2 tablespoons hazelnut oil
1 tablespoon rose hydrolisat.
Mix one or the other of the series of indregients,so as to obtain an unctuous paste. Apply this paste on your face and leave it on for 20 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.
SOFTENING CREAM FOR COMBINATION SKIN
1 tablespoon white clay, fineley grinded
30 to 50 mL rose musc oil
3 drops lavender essential oil
cold water
Mix the ingredients until you get a smooth and firm paste. Apply delicately on your face at night, before going to bed. Leave it on all night. In the morning, you can rinse off if the texture of the cream bothers you.
PURIFYING ANTI-AGING MASK
1 tablespoon white or red clay, finely grinded
zest of one lemon
juice of one lemon
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons oatmeal or whole wheat flour
Put the clay in a bowl, then add the zest and the lemon juice. Mix until the preparation foams up. Add the egg yolk and mix, then mix in the oatmeal or flour. Apply this preparation on your face in small circular movements. Leave on for 20 to 30 minutes, then rinse off with warm water. This mask is effective in reducing wrinkles and rejuvenating the skin. Apply once or twice a week, as needed.
CLEANSING CLAY MASK
To clean your skin and remove blackheads. Invigorates the skin.
2 tbsp. milk
2 tbsp. clay, according to skin type
20 drops hazelnut oil
Mix the clay with the milk. Add the hazelnut oil drops. Apply the mask for 20 minutes. Rinse well with warm water, then tap the skin lighthly with cold water to firm up.
CLAY AND HONEY MASK
3 tbsp. powdered white clay
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. honey
Mix the ingredients. Apply on your face and leave on for 20 minutes, then rinse off with warm water.
SKIN SCRUB
1/4 cup almonds
1/2 cup oat flakes (the ordinary kind, not "quick rise")
2 tbsp. lavender
1 tbsp. dried rose petals
3/4 cup white clay, to be added when you are ready to use, in order to make a paste.
rose water (or distilled water).
With a food processor, grind the almonds, the oat flakes, the lavender and the rose petals. Add the whilte clay. Mix well and keep in a sealed glass jar.
When you are ready to use, mix 1 tbsp. of the preparation with 1 tbsp. rose water, a little bit of honey and 1 drop lavender essential oil. Apply a little bit of the mixture, in circular movements, on your freshly cleaned face. Rinse off, tap the skin lightly, then apply your favorite cream.
CREAM FOR DRY SKIN
This cream is particularly effective for dry skin, because of the moisturising properties of jojoba oil and cocoa butter. To make about 50 mL of this product:
18 g cocoa butter
1 g beeswax
20 mL jojoba oil
10 drops essential oil
Melt together the beeswax, the jojoba oil and the cocoa butter in a double boiler. Remove from the heat and continue mixing until the cream has cooled down, then add essential oil.
EYE CREAM
This is a particularly nourishing cream.
30 mL jojoba oil
5 g beeswax
7 drops Daucus carota essential oil
2 drops Rosa damascena essential oil.
Melt and mix together, in a double boiler, the beeswax and the jojoba oil. Remove from the heat and keep on mixing until the cream has cooled down, then add the essential oil.
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