Homemade Astringent
Homemade Astringent
Astringents are ideal for getting rid of the excess oil from the skin and thus help you to make your skin tight. Astringent plays a major role in cleansing the skin and thus helps you to remove the traces of makeup, grease, dirt etc and keeps your skin pores open.
Astringent may also help you increase the blood circulation towards the cells and makes the pH of the skin low. You have to use astringents after washing your face and before applying moisturizers. Instead of buying the chemicals from the market you can make good and natural astringents at your home. Some of the homemade astringents are given below.
Lemon Astringent
Mix two teaspoon alcohol, half teaspoon peppermint extract, one teaspoon lemon juice and eight teaspoon witch hazel together. Keep this mixture in airtight bottles and use them as astringent for oily skin.
Cucumber Astringent
Take the juice from a peeled and grated cucumber and to this add three tablespoon of rose water, one tablespoon glycerin and two tablespoon of eau-de-cologne. Mix them well and store in refrigerator for future use.
Chamomile Astringent
Take half cup of fresh and chopped mint or get two tablespoon of dried mint. Then mix it with two tablespoon of dried and crushed flowers of chamomile and four cups of water. Boil the entire contents in a saucepan for about 10 minutes and take it off from the heat and keep it closed for 5 minutes. Then strain the liquid from this mixture and store it in a closed jar. It will remain good in refrigerator for about two weeks. This is an ideal astringent for oily skin.
Sandalwood Astringent
Mix eight tablespoon sandalwood oil with two tablespoon almond oil, four tablespoon rose water, one tablespoon honey and four tablespoon of extract from orange flowers. to this mixture add five grams of sodium bicarbonate. Pour this mixture in to an airtight bottle and store in refrigerator.
Honey Astringent
Mix two tablespoon honey with four tablespoon rose water and keep it for a few minutes. Then add few drops of sandalwood oil and sandalwood chips. Now mix ΒΌ teaspoon lavender oil, 14 teaspoon clove oil, one teaspoon bergamot oil and mix well. Then add 4 tablespoon of orange flower extracted in water. Mix them well and store in airtight bottle.
