How to Make a Homemade Moisturizer

Have you ever tried reading the labels on some store bought products? Why are there so many four and five syllable words? If you can't read the ingredients and understand what they are, they should not be touching your skin!

If you do want to purchase a product to keep around for days that you don't have time to mix one up, choose one that contains no chemicals such as Skyn Iceland Stress Defense with Biospheric Complex Cream. It contains no parabens, sulfates, synthetic dyes, petrochemicals, phthalates or tricolosan and that is exactly what you should be looking for.

Making moisturizers at home is fun and easy. There are quite a few recipes available that will cost you next to nothing yet do wonderful things for your skin. Most of the time all you need is a bowl, spoon and a couple of minutes.

Olive Oil is Your Friend
At least once a week or more, you should be putting olive oil on your skin and hair. It is about the best thing that you can do to fight dryness, especially that of which is caused from weather changes. It doesn't leave your skin feeling greasy like you would imagine either but it is a heavier moisturizer and one you should probably apply at night.

Additionally, when you apply it to your hair, begin at the roots and work down the full strands of hair to the ends. You can leave this in for five minutes or five hours. Some people sleep in it or you could leave it on while you are watching television. If you really want to turn up the intensity, take the heat from the hair dryer to it for a few minutes.

Jojoba Deep Moisturizer

Here is a really pampering moisturizer that you can actually put in a jar and have handy for daily use.

· 6 Tbsp jojoba E oil
· 1Tbsp vitamin E oil
· 1 Tbsp aloe vera
· 2 Tbsp rose water
· 8 Drops sandalwood
· 4 Drops rose oil
· 1 Tbsp beeswax (grated)

In a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine jojoba oil, vitamin E and beeswax. Place this into a pan of boiling water until the heat from the water melts the beeswax to liquid form. Stir occasionally. Set this mixture aside and give it time to cool down to room temperature. It will thicken up and become quite cloudy, this it perfectly normal.

Combine your aloe vera and rose water in a blender or food processor and blend until thick. Add the sandalwood and rose to this mixture and blend completely. Lastly, add in the first substance that has cooled, blend and transfer to a glass jar. You can even give this homemade moisturizer away as a gift!

By :Tod_Woodward