Skin Care > Elderflower Cleansing Lotion

How to make an elderflower cleansing lotion:

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


Ingredients

4 tablespoons dried elderflower
1/2 pint buttermilk

Method

- Boil the flowers in the buttermilk for 40 minutes.
- Remove from heat and cover.
- Allow to steep for 2 and a half hours.
- Strain and cool.
- Use on damp cotton wool pads as a facial cleanser.