spite of the fact that in shops there is wide choice of powder of different shades and with various properties – tinting, bronzing, antiseptic - happens so that you cannot find tone, ideal for you, in any way. Or you have allergy to the certain components entering practically all powders. Or it is just interesting to you to do everything. In all these cases it is worth trying to make own powder of the house.
It is required to you
- Glasswares
- Sieve
- Wooden spoon
- 1 tsps of powder from comfrey root
- 1 tsps of kaolin
- 1 tsps of powder from bark of the American elm
- 90 gr. powder from arrowroot root
- 10 drops of essential oil
- beet powder, pigments
- or
- 1/4 coffee cups of starch
- Residues of blush and shadows
- Mortar, pestle
Instruction
- Mix on one teaspoon of powder from root of comfrey, kaolin and powder from bark of the American elm from 90 g of powder from arrowroot root. Sift in glasswares. The root of comfrey is known for the antiseptic and wound healing action. It stimulates growth of cages. Kaolin or kaolinic clay it is rich with mineral substances, possesses the fine bleaching action and adsorbs skin fat. Bark of the American elm (it red elm and elm Indian) absorbs toxins and reduces irritations and rashes on skin. Powder of arrowroot root gives to powder softness and matts skin.
- Add to powder on one drop of essential oil. It can be lavender attar, rose, orange or some other, pleasant and useful to you. Mix powder with essential oil wooden spoon. In total at you about ten drops of oil can leave.
- Add a little powder of beet or cosmetic pigments to powder. Add on pinch, you apply on cheekbone and you look - whether you have reached the necessary tone.
- It is necessary to store such powder in glasswares with densely ground in cover.
- If you just want to receive the necessary shade, but do not care for naturalness of ingredients, make corn starch powder and residues of blush and shadows. Prepare quarter of cup of corn starch. Sift it that there were no lumps. In mortar pound the remains of the shadows and blush close on color to desirable tone. Take starch and add gradually powder, you will not achieve the desirable yet. If the color turns out too rich, add still starch. You can add to powder of a few golden shadows pounded in powder to give to skin mysterious blinking.