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christianadivine 2008-03-08 03:04:50 Publish:

Saturday, March 8, 2008

So a fellow beauty blogger Elizabeth recently posted about her homemade green tea mask! I absolutely enjoyed that post because I am a natural skin care nerd. LOL. :] I love green tea as an ingredient in skin care and I love that I can find new natural skin care recipes from other beauty bloggers! :] I love it! Anyway, I decided to search for some green tea powder online because of her post. LOL. I found some interesting recipes! :]

Green Tea Facial Mask
Ingredients

2 teaspoons matcha green tea
1 teaspoon water

Some suggested optional ingredients
Witch Hazel - for oily skin
Honey - for hydrating
Rose water - for sensitive skin
Egg yolk - for nourishing
Egg white - for skin firming

Mix the matcha with water to make a paste. Add 1 teaspoon of any optional ingredients if you like.Spread the mixture onto the face for 10 minutes. Then wash off with warm water. Your skin will feel soft and refreshed!

If you have sensitive skin please test the mask on the inside of your wrist first for any irritation or allergic reaction.

Source: http://www.japan-green-tea.com/Green-Tea-Uses.html

Some of you are probably wondering what matcha is? I found a short article to simply describe the difference between matcha green tea powder and regular green tea powder. :]

All green tea powders are not Matcha. Why? If it doesn’t come from Japan, it is NOT Matcha. All other green tea powders are either mixes or milled whole green tea leaf. Green tea powders made from whole leaf include the veins and stems. Therefore, it is darker, heavier, not as mixable or dissolvable and much cheaper. Green tea powders other than Matcha are OK for making mixes - cooking - baking - soap or candles and does have the same health benefits of all green tea, with the addition of fiber. Regular green tea powder may be used in abrasive cosmetics, but for delicate skin creams and the like one MUST use Matcha.

Source: http://reviews.ebay.com/Green-Tea-Powder_W0QQugidZ10000000000927850

So if you have sensitive skin, you might want to search for matcha green tea powder instead of the regular one. I don't think it's important to be picky, but if you're concerned with any abrasiveness what-so-ever or you really think that your skin is overly sensitive, stick to the matcha. :]

There are so many other natural ingredients that you can purchase to make masks according to your skin! I personally love clay masks! I have oily/combo skin that blemishes and has hyperpigmentation, so clay masks are one of my best friends! Haha! A great place to buy pure clay to make clay masks is the Garden of Wisdom and here's the link to their clays page. If you click on clay's link, it'll list some of the clay's properties. Marky also has a wonderful inventory of different types of clays, and you can also buy the clay sampler so that you can try a bit of each out! I personally like Rhassoul Clay and Fuller's Earth Clay. Fuller's Earth Clay is only recommended for oily skin types though because it's highly absorbent, plus I would only use this one in the summer time! :] I use Rhassoul Clay currently in the winter and I'm doing fine with it, it's not over drying. :] What's fun about this, is that you can also add extra ingredients in with your clay mask mix like green tea, or egg, or honey... anything at all! :] Hehe.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to think FRUIT and VEGETABLES when thinking extra ingredients. Hehe. Why?

Fruits and vegetables have great things to contribute to skin. For instance, green papaya and pineapple are GREAT to use if you want an exfoliating mask. Why? They have NATURAL fruit enzymes that dissolve dead skin cells. :] I can attest that this is true, because I use a mask with these two ingredients as KEY ingredients. :] Honey is great because it's healing and nourishing.

If you guys are interested in making some fruit and vegetable masks, here are some links to some very interesting recipes:
http://members.tripod.com/enisart/beauty/face.htm
http://www.coolnurse.com/facials.htm
http://www.healthy-skincare.com/fruit-facial-mask.html

If you google it, you can come up with some interesting recipes! Also, after looking up so many recipes and figuring out what fruits and vegetables do what, you can create your OWN recipe and use all the ingredients that are beneficial to your OWN skin. How awesome is that? Hehe. :] Then when you feel bolder, you can even incorporate using essential oils in your mixes. :] Which isn't hard either, it just takes a bit of research and experimenting to figure out how much to use and which ones are best for your skin.

There are also toners and other things you can formulate yourself. I use to make a Red Wine Vinegar Toner for myself in the summer time. :]

If you're interested in natural skin care and formulating your own, you should join in at The Garden of Wisdom Forum. There are TONS of helpful ladies there who are PROS at formulating skin care and can give you advice and tips! Also, there some already helpful recipes posted up as well. :]

But whenever you're formulating your OWN skin care keep in mind some basic guidelines:
- Perform a small patch test on your inner wrist prior to applying it to your face, to make sure your skin doesn't react to it.
- If you are allergic to any ingredients, DO NOT use it... at all! You just never know how badly you may react
- When mixing up a mask, only mix enough for ONE use. It is not wise to mix more because as time goes by the mask isn't as effective as it is if you were to mix it up freshly, and there are no preservatives in it so it is bound to spoil.
- Write down your concoctions for later reference, just in case you fall in LOVE with one and want to recreate it later.

Anyway, I hope you guys found this enlightening. :] I truly do have a love for natural skin care and since most of the stuff we use normally has things like parabens and synthetic preservatives, I think it's great to at least make one part of your routine natural and minimize your exposure as much as possible. :] But... that's just me. LOL. I will NOT give up stuff in makeup, like my NYX eyeshadows just because of the preservatives they contain; but skin care I can do. LOL. :] Yahoo: Chanel hydrating mask Homemade Face Masks! Chanel hydrating mask skincare
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