Natural Exfloliating Materials

If you are wondering what natural exfloliating materials to use on your particular skin type here is what you should use:

Normal to Dry Skin: Ground oatmeal, oat bran, ground almonds, cornmeal, wheatgerm, powdered milk, rice bran, strawberries, grain flours, ground herbs and herbal powders.


Oily or Problem Skin: Ground orange peel, ground lemon peel, sugar, oatmeal, lecithin granules, fine-ground coffee, pysllium husks, small-textured cereal grains (ie amaranth), fibrous fruit such as pineapple.


Source: Natural Bodycare...Recipes for health and beauty by Julia Meadows. Page 56.

Herbs & Essential Oils for Facial Steaming, By Skin Type

If you are interested in what herbs or essential oils are you can use for your particular skin type during a facial steaming are as follows:

Dry, sensitive skin: Lavender, chamomile, rose geranium, melissa, jasmine, orange blossom, elder flower, parsley, meadowsweet, patchouli.

Normal Skin: Lavender, rosemary, rose gernium, melissa, chamomile, rose, peppermint, marigold, sweet orange, sandlewood, comfrey.

Oily, overactive skin: Rosemary, eucalyptus, sweet basil, peppermint, marjoram, thyme, lemon verbena, cedarwood, lemongrass, petitgrain, sage

Blemished, acneic skin: Eucalyptus, thyme, tea tree, juniper, cypress, yarrow, pine, lemon, niaouli, cajeput.


Source: Natural Bodycare...Recipes for Health and Beauty by Julia Meadows. Page 54.

Essential Oils for Use in Natural Footcare Formulas

If you have found the perfect natural footcare 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 swelling and fluid retention: Juniper Berry, cypress, lemon, grapefruit, petitgrain, bitter orange, chamomile, rosemary, yarrow, valerian.

For itchy, infected skin: Tea tree, rosemary, lavender, niaouli, cajeput, eucalyptus, lemon, marjoram, thyme, sage.

For sweaty, sticky skin: Peppermint, spearmint, sweet orange, mandarian, lemongrass, sandalwood, cedarwood, lemon, lavender, geranium.

To fragrance and soften skin: Neroli, lavender, rose geranium, sweet orange, mandarian, ylang-ylang, sandalwood, chamomile, patchouli, vanilla.


Source: Natural Bodycare...Recipes for health and beauty by Julia Meadows. Page 106.

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.

Natural Carrier Materials

If you are wondering what natural carrier materials you should use on your skin type, here is a list to check out:

Normal to dry skin:

Distilled/spring water, mineral water, milk, cream, honey, vegetable glycerin, floral hydrosels, rose water, cooled herbal teas, cold-pressed oils.


Oily or problem skin:

Yogurt, buttermilk, kefir, apple cider vinegar, witch hazel, vodka, honey, orange flswer water, herbal vinegar, aloe vera gel, cooled herbal infusions.