Finding good quality skin care products that do not harm your patina and keep you looking fit and healthy is often a difficult task - and is most certainly expensive.
Cosmetics companies ensure that they keep their prices high for their products, which are often a harmful and dangerous mix of chemicals which can damage skin just as much as it claims to help.
When it comes to skin care, homemade is most definitely the best.
Every day our body sheds dry flakes from its surface, and the number of these increases when using artificial products loaded with chemicals.
By using ingredients found in nature, there is little of the serious harm which can be done by using products created using synthetic chemicals.
The average person's kitchen or medicine cabinet often holds the secret to great quality flawless looks, with only a smattering of ingredients easily combined to give glossy results.
The only initial outlay is optional, unlike conventional make up products: if you can bear to re-use your conventional kitchen equipment for health products, then great.
Otherwise, you may need to buy such items as measuring spoons of various sizes to weigh out your ingredients; a good whisk for mixing ingredients; plus a funnel, strainer or sieve, a glass eye dropper (also called a pipette), which is used to put in essential oils to add smells to products; a glass measuring cup that is microwave safe; a set of small kitchen scales which most definitely can be found in your kitchen; stainless or glass mixing bowls; spatulas, a pestle and mortar or blender or food processor to mix items (either mechanically or by hand) and that is all.
A wide variety of products can be made from natural ingredients in your own home.
Items like eggs, olive oil, sugar and honey are often used in different guises in commercial items that you pay large amounts of money for.
Face masks, spot creams, moisturizers and any number of other items many people find vital to their daily caring routine can be made for a fraction of the price of buying them from store shelves by following simple foolproof recipes.
Lip balms, eye shadows and blushers can also be made from natural ingredients and in the kitchen or bathroom of any home at all.
Additionally, other ways to ensure skin care homemade style can be found in almost innumerable levels.
Bath salts and crystals as well as milks and bathing lotions can also be produced with consummate ease by anyone with an internet connection and an interest in moving away from the grasp of large manufacturers.
This is no longer a fringe occupation: it is definitely mainstream.