Homemade Facial Toner

by Angela

Homemade facial toner

Making your facial toner

Milky homemade facial toner

Anyone with dry, sensitive or sunburnt skin will love this milky homemade facial toner. Milk is very nourishing to the skin, and you can adapt this toner to suit your own individual skin type.

Use whole milk for dry to normal skin and semi skimmed for oily skin.

What you will need
5 fl oz milk
2 teaspoons dried herb or 2 tablespoons fresh herb or 1 herbal tea bag

Choose the right herb for your skin:

Normal skin;
Chamomile, calendula, dandelion, elderflower, fennel, lemon balm, parsley, rosemary
Oily skin; Horsetail, lady’s mantle, peppermint, sage, yarrow

Dry skin;
Calendula, elderflower, linden flowers, marshmallow

Method
Boil the milk, remove it from the heat then add the herbs, cover and leave until cool.

Depending on which type of herb you have used, either remove the tea bag (giving it a quick squeeze first) or strain the milk. If you've used a very fine dried herb you may need to strain this though a piece of muslin.

Transfer the homemade facial toner to a clean container; store it in the refrigerator and use within 5 days.