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Homemade Hand Cream

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Homemade Hand Cream is easy to make your home and ingredients only home remedy in your home kitchen and garden. Blend egg white, glycerine, honey and much ground barley to make a thick fluent paste. Apply on your hands. Leave it for 20 minutes. Rinse off with warm water.

Simple homemade hand lotion recipe ingredients include 2/3 cup rosewater and 1/3 cup glycerin. Mix the two ingredients in an 8 once bottle and shake well. Store in a cool, dark place. The loftiest glycerin levels of any hand cream ensure that even the coldest, cracked, dry hands are rejuvenated and rehydrated. A small amount of cream absorbs easily into the skin, producing a healthier mien in an instant. Other home made lotion is use 2 teaspoons of perfumed body lotion and 1 to 2 drops of red food color.

Put stearic acid, glycerin and wax in a “crock” on low heat, until all is well liquefied. Then add the 1/2 ounce of ammonia and blend up fast with a wooden spoon. Take off stove and beat till it appears like whipped cream. When cool, add perfume and color.

Rose Petals Hand Cream is ingredients with 1/3 cup glycerin and 2/3 cups rosewater. Mix ingredients by shaking in a bottle. To use: massage into hands customarily. Store in a cool dry area.

Splen Hand Cream is ingredients with 1/2 oz. sodium laurel sulphate ,4 oz. cetyl alcohol crystals ,6 3/4 oz. glycerine and 1/2 oz. lanolin anhydrous. Place all ingredients in a double boiler, and stir upto crystals are dissolved. Add 37 1/2 oz. hot water (not boiling). Add 1 1/2 oz. of favorite cologne. Add enough food coloring to give a pleasing color.

Beat with electric mixer until light, fluffy and the color is well intermixed. For homemade hand cream mix together to a smooth paste one teaspoon each of soft shortening, petroleum jelly, almond oil. Three teaspoons of lanoline, two teaspoons of glycerin and lime juice. Half teaspoon of lemon extract. Put in air tight container and store eitherin the fridge or in a cool and dry place.

Bee pollen hand cream is a 100 percent natural way to beautify your skin without harsh cleansers or perfumes. This homemade hand lotion is entirely natural with no added toxins, additives, chemicals, or synthetic perfumes. Dissolve gum in 1 cup lukewarm water. Soft water should be used. Let stand 24 hours or til it gels, then add other ingredients. Shake well and dilute with warm soft water until the desired consistency is obtained.

Can I make a herbal shampoo at home?

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Using any herbal product for the making of a shampoo will  give you a herbal shampoo. One of the easiest ones to  make is the one with shikakai. Wash 200 gms of dried olives and 200 gms of shikakai in cold water and soak them in an iron vessel.The next morning, boil the decoction for about 10-15 minutes. Mash the thick residue into the water and strain. Use this to wash the hair. This shampoo leaves the hair soft and silky.

You can also make a home-made herbal shampoo by using reetha and shikakai. Soak 125 gms each of reetha, shikakai and amla in 1 litre of water. Keep it aside for about 24 hours. Boil and allow the mixture to cool. Strain and use it to shampoo the hair. It is a very good way to wash the hair without harming it.