Soapwort Cleanser

by Angela
(Hants)

Homemade Facial Cleanser

This is a great little homemade facial cleanser for anyone who prefers to wash their face rather than using creams or oils. It will lather up just like soap, but won’t leave your skin feeling tight and dry.

Because it’s a very gentle and a natural cleaner it’s suitable for the whole family to use. You can keep this cleanser in the bathroom and use it directly from the bottle just like you would any liquid soap. Use within one month.

Ingredients
Choose one of the following herbs to suit your skin type:

All skin types: chamomile-comfrey-elderflower-linden flower-nettle
Normal to dry: lady’s mantle-marshmallow
Normal to oily skin: fennel-lemon balm-rosemary
Oily skin: sage-mint-yarrow

1 tablespoon soapwort
2 tablespoons dried (teabag can be used) or 6 tablespoons fresh chopped chosen herb
2 1/2 pints (1.5 litres) mineral water

Method

Place the soapwort root and your chosen herb into a saucepan, add the mineral water, cover and gently bring to the boil.
Let the soapwort mixture simmer for five minutes and then remove it from the heat and leave to cool.
Strain the liquid, pressing down well.
Transfer to bottles and use this soapwort cleanser as you would any liquid soap.

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Soapwort Cleanser

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pure liquid castillle soap
by: Lisa
Hi your recipe for face cleanser sounds great, but am wondering if replacing the soapwort with pure white castille soap would be ok? i bought a bottle & would like to use it in a recipe, this one sounds close maybe?? thanks again

Soapwort Root
by: Angela
Hi Mary
Soapwart is a root herb that can be found at Mountain Rose here Soapwort RootYou can also use soapwart for your shampoos. And you don’t need to refrigerate, you can can keep this cleanser in the bathroom and use it directly from the bottle just like you would any liquid soap. Use it within one month.