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Face Toner for Glowing Skin

Face toner is very common in the skincare world, Usually coming after face wash to help moisturize the skin. Adding green tea to any skincare routine is beneficial, especially if you’re after glowing skin.

4 Simple ingredients Used to Make Face Toner for Glowing Skin

Green Tea

Aloe Vera

Vitamin E Oil

Essential Oil

Face Toner for Glowing Skin Benefits

Face Toner Benefits for Acne

Green tea is commonly known to help with acne because it has antibacterial-like properties. According to this site, “Green tea is especially rich in epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a polyphenol that research has shown can improve acne and oily skin.”

Although there are many reasons why acne pops up, bacteria on the skin, from touching our face with dirty hands or being in an environment with air pollution, etc. is commonly associated with acne. Adding green tea into your daily skincare routine can be beneficial for anyone, especially those who deal with acne.

Face Toner Benefits for Dry Skin

Another benefit of using a green tea toner is the moisturizing aspect. The combination of green tea, aloe vera, and vitamin E oil in this green tea toner DIY is the perfect recipe for glowing, moisturized skin.

Dealing with dry skin is common and honestly a little annoying. Peeling skin, dry flakes, itchiness, who wants that? If you don’t add this into your daily skincare regime, Having this face toner for glowing skin on hand in your bathroom or vanity is great for those days you’re extra dry and flaky.

Aloe Vera for Glowing Skin

Aloe vera can be great at evening out your skin tone. If you deal with uneven skin tone or acne, adding aloe vera into your beauty products can be a game-changer. The key to glowing skin is creating an even skin tone and moisturized skin. By removing the dead skin cells on the surface of your face, aloe vera helps create a glowing complexion.

Benefits of Vitamin E Skincare

Vitamin E oil is something I use a lot in my homemade skincare products because it has so many benefits. To briefly sum it up, Vitamin E oil can help clear light acne scarring, moisturize dry skin, and help to reduce signs of aging. A little goes a long way when it comes to vitamin E oil since it is so full of antioxidants.

Essential Oils for Glowing Skin

When diluted properly, essential oils are great to add to most beauty products. I love adding essential oils to my DIY skincare products. My favorite blend for anything skincare is one formulated by Plant Therapy, you can find it here, called ‘soft skin’. This not only smells amazing, but it truly does help my skin feel soft.

Essential Oils to Promote Healthy Skin

How to Use Face Toner

If you don’t already have face toner in your skincare routine, you should add this one! Face toner has many benefits for our skin as mentioned above. Adding a face toner into a daily skincare routine is easy. Simply, wash your face with your favorite face wash (I use this one when I don’t have time to make my own), and Pat your skin dry with a towel. Spray face toner onto your face (don’t forget to close your eyes!), and allow it to dry completely before moisturizing with a lotion or cream, although a moisturizer is optional since the green tea face toner is already very moisturizing.

How to Make Face Toner for Glowing Skin at Home:

What You Need

1 Cup Green Tea (see notes)
1 Tablespoon Pure Aloe Vera Gel (see notes)
3 Drops Vitamin E Oil
2 Drops Soft Skin Essential Oil (see notes)

Directions:

Start by brewing a bag of green tea, I used matcha green tea because that is what I had on hand but any green tea will work. Once your cup of tea is done, allow it to cool completely before starting the rest of the process.
When the cup of tea is cooled, add all of the remaining ingredients into a jar or bowl and mix.
With everything mixed, add it into a spray bottle (I like these ones).

Notes:

If you have the powdered bright green matcha tea, not in bags, it might change the outcome of this recipe. The matcha green tea I used to make this was in individual bags so I did not have to deal with the powder itself. You can try brewing the matcha as normal and using it or putting the matcha in tea bags to brew.
It is important to use pure aloe vera, many aloe vera gels you typically see in the store are bright green and filled with artificial colors and chemicals. The gel I always use can be bought here, or you can make your own by cutting open the leaf of an aloe vera plant, scraping out the clear gel, and blending it, or using a fork to mix it so it is easier to manage. Aloe vera juice would also work for this recipe.
There are many different essential oils you can use in this recipe, just be sure to keep it to 2 drops total no matter which ones you choose to use. Having essential oils diluted properly is important, especially when being used on the skin.

Green Tea Face Toner for Glowing Skin

Equipment

Mixing Bowl
Spoon
Small Spray Bottle

Ingredients

1 Cup Green Tea (See Notes)
1 Tablespoon Pure Aloe Vera (See Notes)
3 Drops Vitamin E Oil
2 Drops Soft Skin Essential Oil (See Notes)

Instructions

Start by brewing a bag of green tea, I used matcha green tea because that is what I had on hand but any green tea will work. Once your cup of tea is done, allow it to cool completely before starting the rest of the process.
When the cup of tea is cooled, add all of the remaining ingredients into a jar or bowl and mix.
With everything mixed, add it into a spray bottle (I like these ones).

Notes

If you have the powdered bright green matcha tea, not in bags, it might change the outcome of this recipe. The matcha green tea I used to make this was in individual bags so I did not have to deal with the powder itself. You can try brewing the matcha as normal and using it or putting the matcha in tea bags to brew.
It is important to use pure aloe vera, many aloe vera gels you typically see in the store are bright green and filled with artificial colors and chemicals. The gel I always use can be bought here, or you can make your own by cutting open the leaf of an aloe vera plant, scraping out the clear gel, and blending it, or using a fork to mix it so it is easier to manage. Aloe vera juice would also work for this recipe.
There are many different essential oils you can use in this recipe, just be sure to keep it to 2 drops total no matter which ones you choose to use. Having essential oils diluted properly is important, especially when being used on the skin.

Check Out the Video Tutorial on How to Make This!

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Anti-Aging Green Tea Eye Cream

Green Tea Body Scrub Recipe

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The Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream

You might associate green tea with a nice warm beverage you drink, however, green tea has many benefits for the skin when used topically. This homemade anti-aging eye cream is nourishing, moisturizing, and great for helping prevent wrinkles.

how do you make homemade anti-aging eye cream?

This DIY eye cream recipe is made using 4 simple ingredients:

Essential Oils (optional)

DIY Anti-Aging Eye Cream for Wrinkles and Dark Circles

what does anti-aging eye cream do?

Homemade eye cream is great because you can control what ingredients go into it. When looking at store-bought eye cream, oftentimes some ingredients are nearly impossible to pronounce. Making your own, like with this anti-aging eye cream recipe, you can probably pronounce everything in it because it is made with natural and pure ingredients. Plus, this is the best and easiest homemade eye cream

The main benefit of green tea in an eye cream is minimizing signs of aging. There are many antioxidants present in green tea, even when used topically. According to this article, “Antioxidants help protect the skin from environmental stressors which can damage (skin) leading to common signs of aging.”

Another wonderful benefit of incorporating green tea into your daily skincare routine is the vitamin C present. Vitamin C in skincare is great for helping to brighten the skin.

Overall, anti-aging eye cream is a skincare product you should add to your daily routine because it helps moisturize the skin, brighten under-eye circles, and reduce signs of aging like fine lines and wrinkles.

Benefits of Shea Butter on the Skin

Shea butter is an amazing product and has so many benefits for the skin. If you’ve never felt anything made with shea butter before, you’re missing out! Shea butter, once reduced to a liquid state and cooled off back to solid, is creamy like lotion even though it’s just one simple ingredient.

The benefits of shea butter on the skin are it is moisturizing, anti-inflammatory (helpful with reducing skin irritation), and has anti-aging properties.

To read more about the 28 Best Shea Butter Benefits for Skin, Hair, and Health check out this article.

Almond Oil Benefits for Skin

Using almond oil on the skin is great for reducing under-eye puffiness and dark circles. Although you can substitute almond oil for coconut oil in this recipe, almond oil is a great beneficial addition to the anti-aging eye cream recipe.

Vitamin E Oil Under Eyes

Vitamin E oil, when used under the eyes like with my anti-aging green tea under eye cream, can help to lighten dark circles and reduce puffiness due to the anti-inflammatory and moisturizing properties of vitamin E oil.

Essential Oils for Dark Circles

This particular recipe does not include essential oils. Although essential oils can be great for helping reduce the appearance of dark circles, being careful with essential oils near the eyes is crucial. If the oils are properly diluted most people would not have a problem adding essential oils into this recipe for anti-aging eye cream however if you are sensitive to essential oils it is best to omit them from this recipe. It is also important to note that if using essential oils, you want to use extra caution to ensure the eye cream does not go in your eye or it may cause a burning sensation.

If using essential oils in your DIY anti-aging eye cream for wrinkles and dark circles, you want to choose some that have specific anti-inflammatory properties, here are some great ones for dark circles:

What You Need to Make the Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream:

1 Cup Shea Butter

1 Packet Green Tea (see notes)

5 Drops Vitamin E Oil

1 Tbsp Sweet Almond Oil

3 Drops Essential Oil of Choice (optional)

How to Make Anti-Aging Eye Cream:

Create a double boiler, this is just a pot of water filled 1/4 of the way full. Let the water come to a boil and set a glass, heat-safe, bowl on top of the pot.

Add shea butter into the glass bowl, whisking to ensure it melts.

Once the shea butter is melted, turn off the heat and add the remaining ingredients. Whisk until fully combined. You want to work quickly on this part so the shea butter does not solidify before transferring the mixture into your eye cream container.

When everything is well mixed, transfer the eye cream into whatever air-tight container you have chosen to use. Let it cool for 2-3 hours until fully set.

You can use this as a part of your nightly skincare routine!

How to Use Under Eye Cream

Once the anti-aging green tea eye cream is fully set, it is ready to be used. I like to wash my face at night before bed, apply the eye cream under my eyes (where my dark circles are), and leave it on until I wash my face again in the morning.

Be sure not to rub your eyes once the cream is on, the ingredients are natural and safe however it’s not comfortable to get anything in your eyes!

Notes:

I used matcha green tea in my eye cream because that is usually when I have it in my cupboards however what type of green tea you use does not matter, as long as it is green tea without any other teas mixed in. I tested this recipe using brewed green tea and the final product was never set so it is important to use the dried tea inside the packet directly into the eye cream.

If the green tea is a loose-leaf, meaning it hasn’t been ground into a powder, it is best that you grind the tea in a small blender or mortar and pestle, otherwise you will be spreading large chunks of tea onto your face which is no fun!

You will see small flecks of tea in the finished product, even if using a ground green tea powder.

https://youtu.be/EdDJO6iAU9w

The Best Homemade Anti-Aging Eye Cream with Green Tea