Homemade Spa Recipes

Spa Recipes for Birthday Parties and Sleepovers - great for kids, tweens and teens.  Make your own homemade spa treatments from these recipes including masks, facials, foot spa's and bath salts.  These homemade spa recipes are perfect for our Spa Birthday Theme and Chocolate Spa Birthday Theme.  These homemade spa recipes are easy to make and most use items you have either around the house or in the refrigerator.

Directions
Puree the cucumber and parsley finely and mix with the yogurt until smooth. Clean your face with a gentle Cleanser.
Cover your face with this creamy mask. This will rejuvenate your skin as it moistens. Leave the mask on for
approximately 15-20 minutes for best results.
Rinse with water. Follow with your favorite Moisturizer.

Peach Tightening Facial Mask
Facial mask made from peaches and egg whites that helps tighten your skin. Ingredients
1 ripe peach - peeled and pitted
1 egg white

Directions
Whip peach and egg white together in a blender until smooth. Gently pat mixture over face.
Leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.

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 deodorant 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.

Cuticles 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)
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 ts
1 tsp. olive oil
1 tsp. vitamin E oil 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.

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> 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. 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
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.