Skin Care > Cool Cleansing Milk Recipe (All Skin Types)

How to make a cool cleansing milk:

PLEASE NOTE:

Although all the ingredients in these beauty recipes are natural, remember that it is still possible to be allergic to anything applied to the skin. DO NOT USE ANYTHING NUT BASED ON YOUR SKIN IF YOU HAVE A NUT ALLERGY. To test other ingredients make up a very small amount of the recipe you intend to use. Wash and gently dry a small patch of skin inside your elbow. Apply a little of the mix to the skin and leave for 48 hours. If you experience any redness or swelling DO NOT USE THE BEAUTY RECIPE AT ALL.

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Mountain Rose Herbs
Mountain Rose Herbs offers a wide range of dried herbs and spices. For this recipe, they offer rose water.


Ingredients

the juice of half a cucumber
3/4 pint skimmed milk
1 teaspoon rosewater

Method

- Chop the cucumber finely and allow the juice to drain through a cloth lined sieve into a basin.
- After about 30 minutes gently squeeze the cloth to extract as much juice as possible.
- Add the juice to the milk.
- Store the cleansing milk in the fridge.
- It should be ok for use for 2 days.
- Soak pads of cotton wool in the cleanser and gently wipe the face.