Homemade Spa Recipes

Homemade spa treatments courtesy of SpaIndex.com: Guide to Day Spas and Stay Spas.

Spa Banana Avocado Mask
Nourishing and moisturizing homemade facial mask for dry skin
Ingredients

 Yogurt Cucumber Parsley Facial Mask
Homemade Spa recipe for a creamy facial mask that leaves your skin soft and refreshed.
Ingredients

Peach Tightening Facial Mask
Facial mask made from peaches and egg whites that helps tighten your skin.
Ingredients

Chocolate Facial Mask
Excellent moisturizer that leaves skin baby soft.
Ingredients
1/3 Cup Cocoa Powder
3 TBLS Heavy Cream
2 tsp Cottage Cheese
1/4 Cup Honey
3 tsp Oatmeal

Directions
Mix all ingredients together using a small blender.  Smooth onto face.  Relax for 10 minutes then rinse off with warm water. 

Frozen Egg & Honey Facial Mask
This homemade spa recipe is recommended for dry skin
Ingredients
1 egg
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted (but not hot)
1 tbs. honey
Directions
Beat the egg in a small bowl until frothy and well-mixed. Slowly add the liquid coconut oil and honey,
beating until your mask is the consistency of mayonnaise.

Take an empty toilet tissue roll and set it on end in a clean bowl. Spoon mixture into the cardboard
toilet paper roll (or consider using an empty deoderant container). Place tube, in the bowl, in the freezer overnight.

To use, peel away just the top 1/4 inch of the cardboard roll and smooth the frozen stick over your face (think of it as a push up pop). Leave your mask on for 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse off with warm water.

Return the cream stick covered with plastic wrap and frozen between uses.

Particularly soothing on a sunburn. Keeps indefinitely in the freezer.

Quick Cucumber Parsley Mask 
Ingredients
1 TBLS Plain Yogurt
1 TBLS Cucumber
1 TBLS Parsley
Directions
Puree the cucumber and parsley finely and mix with the yogurt until smooth. 
Cover your face with the mask.
The mask will rejuvenate your skin as it moistens it.  Leave mask on for 15 minutes for best results.  Rinse with water.  Mixture can not be stored - make fresh each time. 

Yogurt Oatmeal and Honey Mask
Ingredients
1/4 Cup Plain Yogurt or Buttermilk
1/2 Cup Oatmeal
2 TBLS Honey
Directions
Finely grind oatmeal in a food processor or blender.  Set aside.
In a small bowl mix together honey and yogurt.
Add Oatmeal.
Mix together until a smooth paste has formed.
Smooth over face and neck.  Leave on for 15 minutes.  Rinse with warm water.
Gentle enough to be used daily.

Quick Cucumber Eye Soother
2 wafer thin slices of cucumber
1 warm, damp, clean washcloth While using a facial (the quick cucumber parsley facial is great with this), place one cucumber slice over each eye.
Cover your eyes with a warm washcloth and relax for 10 minutes.

Oatmeal Hand Spa and Care Treatment
Gentle homemade hand scrub recipe that leaves your hands nourished and soft.
Ingredients
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp oatmeal
1 tsp olive oil
Directions
Add the oatmeal to 1/4 cup water and let stand 10 minutes until oatmeal is softened.
Add 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon olive oil to oatmeal and mix well. Rub mixture into your hands and let stand 1-2 minutes. Rinse with cool water and pat dry. Apply moisturizer to your hands and let it soak in 10-15 minutes.

Apricot Oil-Lanolin Cuticle Cream
Ingredients
1/2 tsp apricot kernel or emu oil
2 tsp lanolin
1 drop essential oil of your choice (optional)
Directions
Melt oils together, add essential oil, pour into jar or small pots and let set. To use, massage into cuticles.

Cuticle Softener
Ingredients
1 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. vitamin E oil
Directions
Massage into nails and cuticles.

Rainbow Fruity Bath Salts
Ingredients
3 quarts of Epsom salts or course sea salt
3 envelopes unflavored unsweetened Kool-Aid powder – one each of three different colors.
3 to 4 drops of scented Essential Oils which compliment the flavors of Kool-Aid chosen – Orange Oil for orange
Kool-aid, Lavender Oil for Grape Kool-aid, etc.
Directions
Mix one envelope of Kool-aid to 1 quart salts in three separate bowls.
Add 3-4 drops of essential oils to each of the three bowls, in a scent which To use, add 1/2 to 1 cup salts per bath. No, the Kool-Aid will NOT stain your skin or tub, as it will be in fairly small concentrations, but, your white towels are another matter! Careful!

Foot Spa Recipe Foot Spa Recipe
Treat your feet to a soak in this milk and water mixture and follow it with the sugar scrub for incredibly soft feet. Ingredients
7 Cups of Water
2 Cups of Milk
½ Cup Sugar
2 Tablespoons Lotion
Directions
Mix the water and milk and heat on stovetop or in the microwave. You want the mixture to be as hot as your feet can take. Mix the sugar and lotion in a separate bowl.
Put the milk mixture in large bowl and soak your feet in it for at least 10 minutes. Massage the sugar and lotion mixture in your feet to exfoliate. Rinse with clear water and pat dry. Apply some additional lotion to your soft feet.

Strip it off! Pore cleaning Strips
This recipe makes a pore cleaning strip which works just like those sold in drugstores.
Ingredients
1 Knox unflavored gelatin packet
1 1/2 Tablespoons
Milk
Directions
Mix the two ingredients and microwave for 10 seconds until it is warm.  Using a clean cosmetic brush apply to nose and chin area.  Avoid the eye area.  Rinse of the cosmetic brush immediately.
Allow mixture to dry on nose and chin for 10 - 15 minutes.  The mix will dry and be quite stiff and form a film.
Peel off the film and little porcupine quills that used to be in your nose pores will appear. 

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