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Homemade Facial Toner Recipes

Using a facial toner is an important step in any skin care regime.

Not only is using a facial toner an excellent opportunity to introduce an anti-aging treatment, toners also gently remove dead skin cells, excess oils, and any remaining impurities left on the skin after cleansing.

Not to mention that toning gives the skin a final cleansing so it will look bright, healthy and refreshed.

Organic skin care ingredients have many rejuvenating properties that tone, firm, strengthen skin cells, hydrate, reduce pore size, repair and protect the skin.

Incorporating natural ingredients with anti-aging properties in facial toner recipes is an excellent strategy for any organic skin care rejuvenation regime.

Select or customize toner recipes to best suit your skin type and aging skin concerns.

To produce the best effect apply facial toner to clean, warm, moist skin.

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Toners also help to stimulate and maximize the ability of moisturizers to penetrate into the skin allowing the essential properties of ingredients to absorb quickly.

Toning leaves the skin feeling invigorated while giving the skin a healthy glow.

So get out your mixing bowl and cotton balls to whisk yourself away to an organic skin care revitalizing and rejuvenating facial treat!

Ready to get mixing?

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Organic Skin Care Facial Toner Recipes

pH Revitalizing Toner

1 teaspoon of dried rosemary
1 teaspoon of dried thyme
1 bay leaf
1 cup white wine
Gently boil herbs with white wine for 10 minutes. Allow herbs to cool and steep in the white wine for at least one hour. Drain off herbs and discard.

Rosemary is a natural astringent that stimulates cell renewal, diminishes blemishes and acne outbreaks, in addition to reducing
the appearance of broken capillaries.
Many herbs have anti-inflammatory properties while the alpha-hydroxy attributes in wine encourage cell renewal and growth.

Refreshing Rejuvenating Toner

1 grapefruit, lemon, lime, or orange- diced (peel and all)
2 tablespoons of fresh or dried rosemary
1 cup boiling water
Gently boil for several minutes then let the mixture steep until cool. Strain and refrigerate.

The rosemary helps to stimulate cell renewal, diminish blemishes, and improve appearance
of spider veins while the citrus
gently exfoliates.

Skin Restorative Toner

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1 cucumber- puree then strain the juice
Mix vinegar and cucumber juice together thoroughly

The vinegar cleanses, shrinks pores, tones
and gently exfoliates while the cucumber diminishes brown spots, exfoliates
and moisturizes.

Green Tea Toner

1 tablespoon powered green tea or 2 green tea bags
1/2 cup milk
Boil green tea in the milk and let steep until cool

Milk gently exfoliates and nourishes the skin. Green tea energizes skin cells, stimulating cell renewal. (Used green tea bags can also
be used when you wash your face for a
gentle exfoliating treatment.)

Aloe Vera Toner

1 small aloe vera leaf- peel and mashed
1 teaspoon juice- lemon, orange or lime
Mix ingredients until they are thoroughly incorporated

Aloe vera has healing properties and hydrates the skin while the citrus gently cleanses
and exfoliates.

Soothing, Smoothing Toner

1 small cucumber- juice extracted
1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoons finely chopped mint
Mix cucumber juice, mint and milk together well

Cucumber is a gentle, soothing astringent, which helps reduce puffiness and has a
slight bleaching action which aids in diminishing freckles and age spots as
well as in the exfoliation of dead skin
cells while the mint and milk cleanses
and gently removes dead skin cells.

Vinegar Re-balancing Toner

Any pure vinegar such as balsamic, white wine or cider vinegar
1 papaya- juiced
Mix until both ingredients are well incorporated

Vinegar gently cleanses while closing
pores, and restoring the skin's natural
pH balance. The papaya helps to diminish blemishes and gently exfoliates dead
skin cells away. Papaya juice will also
help lighten age spots and freckles.

Dry Skin Mask

1 tablespoon of buttermilk. or yogurt
1 egg yolk
1/8 cup finely diced rose petals
1/4 cup cooked oatmeal
Mix together thoroughly

The buttermilk or yogurt gently
exfoliates and cleanses while the egg yolk, honey and oatmeal moisturizes and
re-hydrates the skin.

For more natural skin care recipes check out the Naturally Skinsational ~ Rejuvenating Skin Care Recipe eBook for lots more facial treatments that specifically focus on the anti-aging properties of common herbs and ingredients.

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