Discover our homemade face lotion recipes for all skin types, to choose according to your needs. I promise, you don't have to be an expert in the field: these are DIY super easy to make!
What is face lotion used for?
The lotion – also called facial tonic – is an interesting treatment in the beauty routine because it allows to refresh the skin in addition to preparing it for the treatments which will then be brought to it with the serums and creams, by promoting the penetration of the skin. assets contained therein. Unlike micellar water with which it is often confused, it is not used to cleanse the skin although it can perfect cleansing or removing makeup. As for it, it acts like a real treatment by allowing the skin to benefit from the active ingredients of its formula. It must therefore be chosen to correspond to the specific needs of each type of skin, so that its active ingredients target the problems relating to the type of skin in question.
If she has a definite interest in the skincare ritual, we don't all have the budget to be able to buy her ready-made and thus integrate it into our beauty routine, which is why she is one of the treatments that are regularly neglected. Choosing between it and a cream that offers a deeper action, we have to admit that we opt for the purchase of the cream. That's why we offer you our homemade face lotion recipes that you can make yourself inexpensively. No need to be an expert in making cosmetics home-made, you will see, you only need to mix a few natural ingredients to make your own face lotion suitable for your skin type.
Make way for the preparation of your care lotion!
DIY face lotion with green tea for normal and dull complexion
Here is a perfect lotion to maintain the beauty of the skin and make it naturally more radiant. With this recipe, we put everything on the antioxidant virtues of green tea and the astringent effects of lemon to sublimate the skin, tighten the pores and thus maximize the radiance of the epidermis.
What you need to create your homemade lotion:
– organic green tea
– some water
– half a lemon
The step by step recipe:
- Boil the equivalent of a large glass of water.
- Infuse a tablespoon of organic green tea in it for a few minutes so that the water soaks up the active ingredients of the tea.
- Put the tea in the fridge to cool it.
- Squeeze the lemon half to extract the juice and add it to the tea.
The lotion is ready, all you have to do is apply it to your face.
DIY cucumber purifying lotion for combination to oily skin
For skin prone to excess sebum, it is good for face lotion to help cleanse the skin and tighten the pores. The recipe for this face tonic, which combines the detoxifying effects of cucumber, the anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties of tea tree essential oil and the astringent properties of lemon, is therefore perfectly suited for combination to oily skin and if you have pimples to disinfect or acne.
Used regularly, this lotion will both diminish the appearance of pores, prevent unsightly shine and treat blemishes.
What you need to create your homemade lotion:
– a cucumber
– some water
– half a lemon
– tea tree essential oil (also called tea tree essential oil)
The step by step recipe:
- Peel the cucumber and cut it into slices.
- Boil some water and cook the pieces of the vegetable in it for about 20 minutes, while the cooking water infuses the vitamins, trace elements and minerals present in the cucumber.
- Filter the water to remove the vegetable pieces.
- Add the lemon juice and two drops of tea tree essential oil and mix well.
- All you have to do is put the mixture in a bottle in the refrigerator so you can use it as a tonic lotion for the face.
DIY soothing lotion with calendula for sensitive, dry and reactive skin
To relieve dry and sensitive skin, rely instead on the virtues of hydrosols, water from the distillation of plants that are full of the benefits of the latter. To calm irritations and feelings of discomfort such as tightness linked to skin dryness, make way for the soothing and nourishing properties of calendula hydrosol, associated for the occasion with the purifying, soothing and repairing virtues of lavender hydrosol aspic.
What you need to create your homemade lotion:
– calendula hydrosol
– lavender aspic hydrosol
The step by step recipe:
- Pour lavender hydrosol into a bottle so that the liquid level is just under half of the bottle.
- Fill the rest of the bottle with soothing calendula hydrosol.
- Close the bottle and mix vigorously to mix the two hydrosols together.
Your calming face lotion is ready!
A tip for the preparation of your DIY face lotions : provide a spray bottle with a spray bottle for the container to store your lotion because this will allow you to easily distribute it over your entire face (and without risking spoiling it). It will be much more practical on a daily basis and more ecological than applying it to cotton.
How to use your face lotion?
Once your homemade skin care lotion is ready, you still have to use it wisely so that it becomes a real beauty asset.
As we told you, the face lotion is not a cleansing micellar water. It is therefore applied to the skin after removing make-up and cleansing, and therefore to a clean, dry face. You can use it daily, morning and night.
In the morning, the face lotion is used as a tonic to refresh and wake up the skin while starting to heal it. In the evening, it is a perfect care step to prepare the skin for night care (serum, night cream, eye cream).
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