Morning Glories and Homemade Skincare Recipes (2024)

by Krista | Oct 14, 2013 | Spring | 33 comments

As you know, I dearly love mornings on our farm. The animals are happily snoozing in the first warming rays of sunshine and the garden, oh, it is a lovely, magical place and shimmering light and glistening dewdrops.

It’s my favorite place to wander for the morning light captures things I miss during the blazing heat of midday.

Slowly but surely I’m turning it into an herb garden with all sorts of wonderful things I can use in herbal teas, medicines, and skin care products. It’s so fun to see it filling up with bergamot, peppermint, rosemary, sage, comfrey, rose geranium, and fennel.

I learned last year that I simply must have flowers in my garden so I’ve got a few lovelies growing: hollyhocks, nasturtiums, cornflowers, Johnny-Jump-Ups, lupines and a few others I can’t remember the names of.

All this growth and color has inspired me tremendously in creating my own homemade skincare products.

I have extremely sensitive skin and for years I moved from one product line to another trying to find something that wouldn’t hurt me. I knew people made their own skincare products but always assumed you had to have special appliances and skills to make them. How wrong I was!

Over the last year I’ve done a massive amount of research, pouring over books and recipes and ideas, collecting ingredients bit by bit. It’s been so fun getting in the kitchen mixing and testing until I found the combinations that worked best for me. It’s like making mud-pies for grown-ups.

I made and used homemade deodorant from a medieval recipe and loved the heavenly scent and that it actually worked.

For the past few months I’ve been using my own moisturizer and found it so soothing and healing.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been using my own cleanser and toner as well and the difference has been incredible. My skin never hurts now and issues that I’ve had for years are clearing up at long last. It feels so good knowing I’m putting stuff on my skin that is healthy enough to eat.

Here are the recipes that I use each day using simple things like yogurt, cold-pressed oil, flower waters, and essential oils. Next up is shampoo, chapstick, and emulsified lotion.

Have you ever made your own toiletries?

Homemade Face Cleanser

Ingredients:

1/4 plain yogurt
4-6 drops rose geranium essential oil
4-6 drops lavender essential oil

Directions:

1. Whisk all ingredients together, bottle and refrigerate between uses.
2. When ready to use, dampen face with lukewarm water, pour about 1 tbsp of cleaner into hand, rub together with other hand and apply all over face. Rub gently all over then rinse well with lukewarm water. Use damp face cloth to gently rub face to make sure all impurities are removed. Follow with toner and moisturizer.

Homemade Skin Toner

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp rose water
2 Tbsp orange flower water

Directions:

1. Whisk ingredients together, bottle and refrigerate between uses. (You don’t have to refrigerate flower waters, but they’re wonderfully cooling to the skin when chilled.)
2. When ready to use, dip clean cotton ball in toner and apply to entire face. Follow with moisturizer.

Homemade Face Moisturizer

Ingredients:

1/4 cup cold-pressed oil such as apricot seed, sweet almond, or jojoba
4-6 drops rose geranium essential oil
4-6 drops lavender essential oil

Directions:

1. Whisk ingredients together, bottle and refrigerate between uses. (You don’t have to refrigerate oil moisturizers, but it’s just handy to have all three products in the same place.)
2. When ready to use, dip teaspoon into oil and collect about 1/8 of a tsp. Pour into hand and rub hands together. Smooth over face, massaging into the skin. If you’ve applied too much, simply remove excess with a clean cotton ball.