Formulating for your skin type: Body butter for dry skin

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Let’s formulate a body butter suitable for dry skin! For dry skin we want to include a lot of lovely humectants, oils containing linoleic acid or GLA, phytosterols like ß-sitosterol to help with moisturization and inflammation, anti-oxidants, and Vitamin E. If you have a damaged skin barrier, you’ll want to include oils and butters containing...

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Formulating for your skin type: Body butter

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Our facial skin type is not always the same as our body skin type. I have oily-sensitive (rosacea)-non-pigmented-wrinkled skin on my face, but my body skin is fairly normal (except my back), fairly resistant, non-pigmented with some signs of aging. Take a look at the skin types again to see if your facial skin type...

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Making a toner for the dry skin type – resistant or wrinkled

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I really have to take more pictures of my toners! I hate using the same pictures all the time! Yesterday we took a look at a toner suitable for a dry skinned, sensitive or wrinkled type to use as a moisturizer alone. If you want a toner to use after cleansing but before moisturizing…well, that’s...

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Making a toner for the dry skin type – rosacea or acne prone

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Toners should be all about the moisturization if you are a dry skinned girl. Think of them as the step before you moisturize in the morning. Astringents are not your friends, so let’s make a nice floral water splash to help hydrate your skin before you get out there and face the world! BUT WAIT!...

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Making a toner for the oily skin type – creating the recipe

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Okay, so we have the general idea of what we want to include, so let’s get started on making a toner! With the idea in mind of being careful when we combine extracts, I suggest you choose one you really like to start off with, then add a second one when you see how your...

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