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DIY Beauty Treats: Homemade Facials, Scrubs, and Hair Masks

Treat yourself to a home spa day using these simple, all-natural do-it-yourself cosmetic treatments! From hair masks and nail care to facials and scrubs, these low-cost ideas will have you shining quickly. For millennia, people have used homemade beauty treatments—some with somewhat unusual components!


Strange Beauty Practices from History

Women from ancient Rome:

  • Used ground snail ashes to illuminate gloomy areas.
  • Mixing soot with water darkened their eyebrows.
  • "Shaved" body hair from pumice stone scraping of their skin.

17th-century women:

  • Cut star or moon shapes from velvet or silk and pasted them on their faces to cover smallpox scars.

Women in the eighteenth and nineteen centuries:

  • For a fuller appearance, glued pieces of mouse hair cover their eyebrows.
  • Applying white lead and mercury covered blebs helped to produce a pale complexion.
  • Little doses of arsenic were used to clear their eyes and skin.

These are some simple safe beauty treatments you may create from products found in natural food stores or maybe from those in your pantry.


Hair Care Treatments

Aromatic Conditioner

Ingredients:

  • 6 drops lavender essential oil
  • 6 drops bay essential oil
  • 6 drops sandalwood essential oil
  • 6 ounces warm sesame oil

Instructions:

  1. Mix all oils in a bowl until well blended.
  2. Part hair into sections and apply a few drops to your fingertips.
  3. Massage into your scalp thoroughly.
  4. Cover your head with a towel and let sit for 15 minutes.
  5. Shampoo as usual (you may need to shampoo twice).


Herbal Conditioner

Ingredients:

  • 1 teaspoon burdock root
  • 1 teaspoon calendula flowers
  • 1 teaspoon chamomile flowers
  • 1 teaspoon lavender flowers
  • 1 teaspoon rosemary flowers
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar

Instructions:

  1. Pour 1 pint of boiling water over the herbs in a bowl.
  2. Let the mixture steep for 30 minutes.
  3. Strain the liquid into another bowl and add vinegar.
  4. Shampoo and rinse hair as usual.
  5. Pour the conditioner evenly over your hair and comb through. Do not rinse.

Although these products are readily available, try some traditional hair care techniques if you're up for a challenge!


Wrinkles and Facials

Fruit Facial

Using age-defying components including alpha hydroxy acid (grapes), vitamin B (cranberries), and vitamin C (grapefruit), this nutrient-packed face mask cleanses deeply and helps eliminate impurities and unclog pores. Additionally useful for dead skin removal is gelatin.

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup crushed seedless red grapes
  • 1 cup crushed fresh cranberries
  • 2 teaspoons grapefruit juice
  • 1 envelope unflavored gelatin

Instructions:

  1. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl to form a paste.
  2. Cover and refrigerate for 45 minutes to thicken.
  3. Remove from fridge and allow to warm to room temperature.
  4. Spread mixture on clean, dry skin, avoiding the eye area.
  5. Relax for 15 minutes, then rinse off with warm water.


Chickpea Face Expressions

This mask leaves skin fresh and brilliant by avoiding coloring it using Kastri turmeric—not standard turmeric.

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup chickpea flour
  • 1/4 cup Kasturi turmeric powder
  • Yogurt (as needed)

Instructions:

  1. Mix chickpea flour and turmeric in a small bowl.
  2. Store the mixture in an airtight container.
  3. When ready to use, mix 1 teaspoon of the powder with enough yogurt to form a paste.
  4. Apply paste evenly to your face and let it dry for 10-15 minutes.
  5. Rinse off with warm water.


Relaxer for Wrinkles

Green seedless grapes support a young look by helping to calm and relax skin.

Ingredients:

  • Six to eight green seedless grapes

Orders:

  • Sort the grapes then cut them in half.
  • Massage either part gently on your neck and face.
  • Leave for twenty minutes; then, rinse off and pat dry.
  • Either daily or as required.

Scrubs and Toners

Scrub from walnuts

Using walnuts for exfoliation, olive oil for moisture, and honey to lock it all in, this scrub smooths rough bits on your hands, feet, and elbows.

Products:

  • one fourth cup shelled walnuts
  • half a cup olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon honey.

Guidelines:

  • In a food processor, mix everything then pulse until finely ground.
  • Spend several minutes softly rubbing the mixture on hands, feet, or elbows.
  • Warm water rinses are great.


Scrub for Coffee

While increasing circulation and smoothing skin texture, used coffee grounds assist cut varicose veins and cellulite.

Ingredients

  • Two cups of ground coffee.
  • Sea salt or half a cup sugar
  • Two-thirds teaspoon unscented massage oil

Orders:

  • In a big bowl, toss all the ingredients.
  • Massage lightly across the skin.
  • Run under warm water to rinse.


Citrus Splash Toning Agent

Excellent for oily skin, this toner tones and cleanses your face to create harmony.

Items:

  • One cup water.
  • Two thirds cup of witch hazel
  • half cup lemon juice

Directions:

  • Combine everything in a basin.
  • Apply with a cotton ball on the face.
  • Store the leftover mixture in a jar and shake just before use.

Nail Lotions

Massaging Cuticles

This basic grape and sugar massage feeds your cuticles, therefore improving the appearance of your nails.

Food components:

  • five red seedless grapes
  • One tablespoons of sugar.

Advice:

  • Wash the grapes then cut them half widthwise.
  • Dip one grape's cut side into the sugar.
  • Using half a grape per finger, massage the skin surrounding each fingernail for roughly thirty seconds.
  • Using a soft towel, wipe extra sugar off.
  • For additional hydration, massage hand cream into your hands and cuticles.

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