Home-made beauty treatments

Mother Nature can help you to pamper your body whenever you wish. To do so, just follow these original recipes at home.

Aleppo Soap: Ideal for daily washing

Heat 300ml of water in a saucepan. Add 20g of grated Aleppo soap and 5g of honey. Blend until the mixture has a uniform consistency. Leave to cool. Add 30 drops of grapefruit seed extract.

Calendula balm for skin irritations

Use a bain-marie to heat 45ml calendula oil, 6g shea butter and 2.5g beeswax. Allow them to melt together, then remove from the heat. Add 2g glycerine and whip until cool.

Oil and limewater liniment

Use a food mixer to blend together 50ml olive oil, 5ml jojoba oil, 5ml wheatgerm oil, 40ml limewater and 50 drops grapefruit seed extract. Stop when the mixture takes on a consistency like mayonnaise. Shake before each use.

Ylang-ylang: Essential for the body

A phial of ylang-ylang essential oil is sure to sort out your skin. Add 10 to 20 drops to 100ml sweet almond oil and use to massage your body: your skin will feel soft and relaxed.

A complexion of fresh flowers

Make up an equal mixture of rose petals, mallow petals and dried lime blossom. Plunge 100g of this mixture into 750ml water and leave to soak for 24 hours, then reduce it over a gentle heat and filter carefully. Deliciously soothing for the skin.

Purifying watermelon

Use a blender to blend some watermelon flesh with 1 tbsp fresh milk and 2 tbsp flour, then apply this to the face and leave for 20 minutes. Purification guaranteed!

Soothing lavender

Here is a good reason to overindulge, with a home-made cream created by melting together 3g emulsifying wax, 5g shea butter and oil, 10g grapeseed oil and 35g lavender floral water. The result is a deliciously soothing and calming treatment. Keep cool.

Oily skin? Purify!

Gently heat in the microwave for 3 minutes: 20g lavender and chamomile floral waters, 50g Helichrysum floral water, 60g distilled water and a smidgen of aloe vera gel. Likewise, heat 40g carrot essential oil and 20g emulsifying wax for 9 minutes. Carefully blend the two mixtures together to create a truly divine body milk!