Friday, March 30, 2007

Ingredients for Making Therapeutic Herbal Tub Tea Bags By Skin Type

If you have found the perfect Herbal Tub Tea recipes and you are wondering what would be the ideal ingredients for your skin type, according to Author Julia Meadows Natural Bodycare...Recipes for Beauty and Health, she recommends:

For dry, sensitive or easily irritated skin: Fine-ground oatmeal; almond meal and other nut meals; powdered milk; honey; essential oils, e.g. lavender, rose geranium, chamomile, sandalwood, ylang-ylang.

For normal to dry skin: Oatmeal; cornmeal; almond meal; dried citris peel; powdered herbs, e.g. benzoin, franincense, myrrh, sandalwood; essential oils e.g. ylang-ylang, sweet orange, mandarin, lavender.

For oily, problem skin: Oatmeal; cornmeal; brans e.g. oat, wheat and rice bran; powdered herbs, e.g. goldenseal, echinacea, St. John's Wort; essential oils, e.g. eualyptus, lemon, rosemary, clary sage.

For itchy skin prone to rashes: Rice starch; oat starch; collidal oatmeal; powdered milk; whey powder; aloe vera powder; honey; essential oils, e.g. rose absolute, lavender, chamomile.

Source: Natural Bodycare...Recipes for health and beauty by Julia Meadows. Page 72.

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