Here is a recipe for the moisturizing oil that I use on my face morning and night... I found a recipe on the Mountain Rose Herbs Blog that sounded promising and ended up with the one shown below; these oils work really well with my combination skin and don't leave it feeling greasy. What's more, all the ingredients are supposed to do amazing things for your skin. If you are interested in making your own beauty products, I highly recommend Mountain Rose Herbs as a great place to purchase and learn about all things herbal. Moisturizing Facial Serum 2 oz. Jojoba oil 2 oz. Grape Seed oil 18 drops Helichrysum oil 18 drops Carrot Seed oil 18 drops Sea Buckthorn oil 6 drops Ylang Ylang oil ...
After an extensive web search, I decided upon a recipe I found on www.mindbodygreen.com . As you can see from the photo above, the ingredients are pretty basic: oil, vanilla bean, fresh ginger, cardamom, and black pepper. The resulting oil was nice and light, absorbed quickly, and smells amazing! Just heat gently on the stove, cool, and then strain into the container you would like to use - I put mine in a pump bottle. The only thing I changed was to substitute sunflower seed oil for the sesame oil listed in the recipe. ...
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