Pack the picnic basket - or just take a walk in the neighborhood. Well-known plants around you can easily become delicious, spring-healthy skin care products!
Making your own skin care products and selling them requires quite a lot when it comes to hygiene checks, date marking and the like - while it is free to make fresh products for direct use in treatments.
Whether you work with skin care, Spa and the like or you simply like to give yourself loving body care at home, self-made products are both cheap, exclusive and sensual. And why not give away beautiful glass jars with colorful bath salts, ointments and oils as gifts?
Here you get some spring-beautiful skin care recipes with plants you often find around the corner, no matter where you live.
Björk - Betula
Birch leaves contain saponins, which make them act as a natural soap. Suitable for all skin types but is extra good for dry and sensitive skin. The leaves are at their finest before midsummer. The small, freshly sprouted leaves are swollen, tasty and full of vitamin C - they can also be put in the salad bowl.
Björkbad
If you put birch leaves in water and shake well, you get a lather that can be used to wash both the body and the hair. Pour the water into the bathtub for a relaxing bath that softens the skin and dissolves tension. You can also put the fresh leaves directly in the bathtub.
Birch scrub
Ivy green and with a scent of birch, this scrub is completely magical. Go out and enjoy a sunny spring morning and pick home fresh birch leaves. Make a big batch - it goes fast!
1 dl fresh birch leaves
5 dl fine, unbleached sea salt
2 dl vegetable oil, eg almond or sunflower
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 tablespoon honey
or 30 drops of essential oil, eg lemon
Shelf life about 6 months
Other herbs that go well with a salt scrub are, for example, Spruce shoots,
Mix all the ingredients in a blender or with a hand mixer. If it seems too dry, add more oil. Put the green, salty mixture in a clean jar.
Massage the scrub into the skin during a hot shower or bath. Rinse and finish with a cold shower.
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Birch honey
Lubricate the whole body, face and maybe the hair with birch leaf honey. Afterwards, the skin will feel healthy like a spring breeze!
3 dl honey
1 dl fresh birch leaves
Shelf life about 1 month in the refrigerator.
Mix birch leaves and honey in a blender or with a hand mixer. Massage into the skin after a hot shower or bath. Let sit for about 10 min. Rinse and finish with a cold shower. Store what you do not use immediately in the refrigerator.
Stinging nettle - Urtica Dioica
Nettle contains up to 60% chlorophyll and in addition vitamins and minerals, which makes it a generally strengthening and stimulating herb for the whole body. It may sound a little unpleasant to use the burning herb for the skin, but as soon as you crush or heat the leaves, they no longer stick. The nettle stimulates blood circulation and is astringent. It is good for cleansing, especially for oily or impure skin. Feel free to drink nettle infusion - it gives strong nails, clear eyes and beautiful hair!
Nettle threat
Beauty comes from within! A small drink of nettles and lemon that cleanses the body from the inside and is a real powerhouse that makes you feel good. You really feel how spring radiates in your body.
1 dl freshly picked nettles
1 dl freshly picked cherry bowl
1 dl water
1 teaspoon honey
1-2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ teaspoon fresh, grated ginger
Mix herbs and water in a bowl. Finely chop the herbs with a blender or hand mixer. Strain the plant parts and add honey, lemon juice and ginger . Also read about how you can make ginger shots here.
Pour 3-4 days in the refrigerator. Can also be frozen as ice cubes.
Dandelion - Taraxacum Vulgare
Dandelion leaves contain vitamins C and amounts of strengthening minerals, such as iron. It is a superb dietary supplement and is strengthening for the skin. The leaves taste good in salad and are great in spring baths and toner. Use them for sensitive skin and acne.
Dandelion oil
If you feel a little out of the thread, worried or sad, the dandelion can help dissolve tension in muscles and tissues. Use the oil as it is, as a cleansing oil for the face or as an ingredient in ointments and creams.
2½ dl freshly picked dandelion flowers
5 dl olive oil or other cold-pressed vegetable oil with good shelf life
Pick the flowers on a sunny morning in dry weather. Roughly chop the herbs. Put them in a clean and dry glass jar. Slowly pour the oil over until the herbs are completely covered. It is important that no plant parts protrude, then they can start to rot. They usually sink to the bottom after a while, but for safety's sake stir them down with a clean spoon. The herb oil should stand and soak in a bright but not too hot window. A window with afternoon sun is good. Let stand for 3 weeks. Feel free to open the lid from time to time and check if the oil smells good.
Strain through a sieve cloth, squeeze out the cloth one more time and strain a second time. Pour into a clean bottle, put on a nice label and store in the dark and cool.
Herbal oils can also be made from many of the spring's other herbs, such as Groblad and Dew Cover.
Infusion - an easy way to benefit from herbs
There are countless spring herbs that are good for internal and external skin care! Making an infusion is an easy way to extract the contents of the herbs in water, as easy as making tea.
Boil 1 liter of water and add a handful of fresh herbs. Let soak under cover for 10-15 minutes.
Infusions last 3-4 days in the refrigerator, but can also be frozen, for example as ice cubes.
Infusions have many different uses:
Drink as tea. Suitable herbs: Nettle, Yarrow, Lindblom,
Use as a toner, on a cotton ball when the infusion has cooled.
Suitable herbs: Nettle, Dandelion, Yarrow, Dew cover, Spruce shoots, Daisy, Tussilago
Some herbs should be extracted in cold water, such as plantain, which provides excellent toner for acne.
Use as a hair rinse to nourish and shine the hair. Then mix in a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and possibly a few drops of essential oil.
Suitable herbs: Nettle, Tussilago, Field Horseradish
Pour in the bath water.
Suitable herbs: Nettle, Dandelion, Yarrow, Dew cover, Spruce shoots, Daisy, Tussilago
You can also steam your face over the saucepan while the herbs soak, a steam bath filled with minerals.
After steam bathing, the water should be poured out.
Suitable herbs: Nettle, Cherry, Daisy, Spruce shoots
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