No beauty regimen is complete without cleaning and exfoliating the skin. What’s more, skin masks can purify the sensitive skin on your face while gently nourishing it with antioxidants and minerals. You are then ready to apply hydrating creams to keep your skin soft and wrinkle-free.
With so many options on the market, you may be overwhelmed with the right product to buy for your cleaning and exfoliating needs. How about making your own?
Homemade scrubs, cleansers, and masks make it easy to know exactly what goes into your recipe and pick the right ingredients. Let’s take a look at the best recipes to try.
1. Gentle Homemade Face Scrubs for Glowing Skin
Face scrubs can make your skin smooth, clear, and bright and our homemade recipe leaves your skin softer than ever.
We don’t use harsh ingredients like normal granulated sugar, which can cause micro-tearing. Instead, we turn to jojoba beads and nutritious oils like coconut and apricot kernel. These oils nourish the skin while gently scrubbing it. You won’t get irritated skin from using them.
Get the recipe here: 12 Gentle Homemade Face Scrubs For Glowing Skin
2. DIY Brown Sugar Face Scrub
You may wonder why make a brown sugar scrub if sugar can damage your sensitive skin. Well, this isn’t the brown sugar you get at the grocery store.
Our recipe uses Rapadura brown sugar, which is unrefined and fine enough to exfoliate the skin without damaging it. We combine it with oatmeal, which is another gentle exfoliator. To round this gentle scrub up, we add a gorgeous vanilla scent and sweet almond oil, which keeps the skin hydrated while you eliminate the dead cells.
Get the recipe here: DIY Brown Sugar Face Scrub Recipe
3. Green Tea Face Scrub
Most scrubs use oils to soften the blow to your face’s sensitive skin. However, if your skin is naturally oily, these scrubs won’t work for you. Instead, they’ll leave your skin greasy.
Enter our green tea gel scrub with water-based ingredients like matcha powder and a gentle exfoliant — face-grade bamboo powder. While matcha isn’t the most exciting color, don’t let that put you off. This glycerine-based recipe is perfect for oily skin, leaving it super soft. Give it a try!
Get the recipe here: Green Tea Face Scrub Recipe
4. DIY Lip Scrub for Perfect-Looking Lips
Here’s the best recipe for granulated sugar — lip scrub. Because our lips can handle rougher exfoliants, you can use regular white sugar to scrub them.
The secret is to mix the sugar with highly hydrating ingredients like cocoa butter and apricot kernel oil. Your lips will feel soft and renewed and will look spectacular. To make this recipe more enticing, you can use flavor oils like strawberry daiquiri, which will make it hard for you not to eat this delicious flavor.
Get the recipe here: How To Make DIY Lip Scrub At Home for Perfect Looking Lips
5. Charcoal Face Scrub
Charcoal is a great ingredient to use in DIY skincare recipes. It gently exfoliates your face and works wonders against pimples and blemishes. We combine it with baking soda and finely ground pumice stone for best results.
Adding Kaolin clay to this recipe ensures that it is easy to apply and keeps your skin clear and pure. It’s a great addition to your routine if you have oily skin prone to acne breakouts.
Get the recipe here: DIY Charcoal Face Scrub Recipe For Soft Smooth Skin
6. Turmeric Face Scrub
Turmeric has taken the beauty world by storm. Its color is great for natural soaps, but it also does wonders for brightening and balancing out aging skin and discolorations.
Moreover, turmeric is an anti-inflammatory that can protect against UV damage. And rest assured — it won’t dye your skin. We mix it with powdered coconut milk, bamboo powder, and colloidal ground oats for exfoliation. Kaolin or bentonite clay lends its purifying properties to this scrub, making it ideal for sensitive skin.
Get the recipe here: DIY Turmeric Face Scrub Recipe For Glowing Skin
7. Luxurious Shea Butter and Rose Face Scrub
Once you try out this gentle recipe, you’ll have trouble refraining from using it daily — don’t, though. You don’t need exfoliation on a daily basis. If you have sensitive or dry skin, only use it once every two weeks.
Combining rose hydrosol with cranberry seeds and glycerine, this recipe will leave your skin soft and glowing — while smelling amazing!
Get the recipe here: Shea Butter & Rose Face Scrub
8. Homemade Lemon Balm and Lavender Micellar Water
Micellar water goes beyond soap and other facial cleansers and effectively gets makeup and grime off your face. There’s a common misconception that micellar water is great for dry skin — it’s not. Instead, its evaporating properties make it ideal for oily skin.
To make this recipe, we combine lemon balm and lavender hydrosols with glycerine. These ingredients gently cleanse the skin while calming it and adding anti-bacterial properties.
Get the recipe here: How To Make Micellar Water At Home – Lemon Balm and Lavender Recipe
9. DIY Bi-Phasal Cleanser
The name of this cleanser may sound intimidating, but it’s a simple oil and water cleanser that acts in dual ways to clean your face. Water and oil don’t mix well, and they have different ways to gently wash off makeup, dirt, and unwanted impurities.
What’s even better is that this cleanser works for all skin types thanks to ingredients like rose and aloe vera hydrosols (for the water part) and sweet almond and peach kernel oils (for the oil part). Just give it a good shake before applying and go to town!
Get the recipe here: How To Make A Bi-Phasal Cleanser
10. Homemade Gel Cleanser
Gel cleansers are similar to micellar water yet are easier to use because you don’t need a cotton pad to apply them to your face. Moreover, our recipe uses ingredients that tone the skin, which is great for oily skin.
We mixed blood orange hydrosol with glycerine for the perfect consistency and added xanthan gum to make this gel less likely to slip through your fingers. Give it a go!
Get the recipe here: How To Make My DIY Gel Cleanser At Home
11. DIY Foaming Cleanser
Foaming cleansers do the best job of cleaning makeup and grime off your skin. They can cut through tough layers of dirt, so you have to be careful about the type of surfactants they use. Alternatively, you can rest assured you’re not using a product that’s too harsh with our DIY foaming cleanser.
To avoid problematic surfactants, we use witch hazel and tea tree hydrosols instead. These ingredients are wonderful weapons against acne, which most store-bought foaming cleansers can exacerbate.
Get the recipe here: How To Make A DIY Foaming Cleanser For Clear Skin
12. Homemade Cream Cleanser
Unlike foaming cleansers, cream cleansers are gentle, mild, and work wonders for dry skin. As such, you should always include them in your regimen if you have mature skin.
Combining apricot kernel oil with orange blossom hydrosol and castor oil, this recipe is so gentle you can use it twice daily to clean your face. With different ingredients, you can adapt this cream cleanser to your skin’s particular needs. Head over to the recipe to find out how!
Get the recipe here: Six Of The Best Natural DIY Cream Cleanser Recipes
13. Facial Cleanser Recipes for Clear Skin
We’ve discussed the benefits of different cleansers for each skin type above, yet you may still have questions about which cleanser is best for your skin.
For example, an oil cleanser is rich and works best for dry skin. It’s not suited for oily skin, which is naturally greasy and needs a foaming cleanser. To find out which cleanser is best for you and when, we put together a comprehensive tutorial you can access below.
Get the recipe here: 6 Homemade Facial Cleanser Recipes For Clear Skin
14. Homemade Face Mask for Youthful Glow
Masks are a great way to take an extra step when you’re looking to purify and deeply cleanse your skin. They mix dry and wet ingredients and leave your skin soft, clear, and ready for hydration.
This renewing recipe mixes three potent dry ingredients — French green clay, Rhassoul clay, and allantoin powder — with rose and chamomile hydrosols for an easy-to-apply mask that stimulates circulation and improves skin suppleness. Try it if you have mature skin.
Get the recipe here: A Homemade Face Mask Recipe To Restore That Youthful Glow
15. DIY Mud Mask Recipe
This mud mask recipe will detoxify your skin by taking out all the impurities that can cause problems in the long term. It uses dead sea mud and bentonite clay, which are perfect for deeply cleansing your skin.
The mask is full of minerals that slow down the aging process and make the skin soft and properly fed. We also use silk peptides, which have incredible moisturizing properties and leave the skin softer than you’ve ever felt it.
Get the recipe here: Detox With My DIY Mud Mask Recipe
16. Hydrating Face Mask
The opposite of a mud mask recipe is this hydrating face mask, which de-stresses your skin and puts you in a better mood when you apply it. With rose and orange hydrosol and Kaolin clay, this recipe is easy to make, and you’ll see the results instantly.
What’s more, the ingredients are very easy to substitute. Check out the “Make It Your Own” section in the recipe below to find out how to substitute ingredients to make this mask work for your own needs.
Get the recipe here: Three Simple DIY Hydrating Face Masks
17. Clay Face Mask for Sparkling Skin
This clay face mask is perfect for mature skin because it fights wrinkles and encourages your skin to grow new cells. Once you try it, you won’t believe how sparkling this delicious-smelling recipe will leave your face.
The wonderful smell comes from the frankincense, neroli, and rosewood essential oils we use. On the other hand, the nutrition and anti-aging properties come from the Kaolin clay, whole milk powder, and organic honey that we combine to make this wonderful recipe.
Get the recipe here: My Homemade Clay Face Mask Recipe For Sparkling Skin
18. Natural Face Mask With Kitchen Ingredients
If you’re taking baby steps on this DIY skincare journey, you can start with simple recipes that use everyday ingredients. For example, you can make an egg yolk, olive oil, and honey recipe that works great for dry skin.
If you have oily skin, you can mix egg whites with the flesh of a ripe pear, lemon juice, and bran for a recipe that will leave your skin glowing without any greasy residue. Regardless of your skin type, our recipe collection below shows you how to care for it without using anything but kitchen ingredients.
Get the recipe here: Natural Face Masks From Your Kitchen
20 Proven Moisturizer And Lip Balm Recipes Better Than Store-Bought
Our faces are the first thing people see and remember about us. They’re also what defines us to ourselves. Without the right care, our skin can receive damage from the sun, our lifestyles, and the pollutants all around us. That’s why using the right moisturizers and lip balms is essential to look good and age gracefully. We have tried, tested, and perfected the best recipes for homemade moisturizers that rival store-bought.
Let’s look at 20 Proven Moisturizer And Lip Balm Recipes Better Than Store-Bought
Say Goodbye To Store-Bought Lotions & Scrubs With 25 Luxury Recipes
If you’ve always wanted to pamper yourself with homemade lotions, oils, butters, and scrubs for your body but never felt bold enough, we’ve got you covered. Body care products aren’t hard to make once you get the hang of it. We have the best recipes, and the ingredients won’t break the bank. Once you try them out, you’ll never go back to store-bought products. Convenience isn’t worth your skin’s health.
Get The Recipes: 25 DIY Body Care Recipes for Healthy, Happy Skin
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