Having Issues With Acne?
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Make your own acne fighting soap. Can be used for troubled, oily skin as well. Here’s how:
You will need:
Sundried tomatoes (1/2 cup)
Clear Vegetable Glycerin (1 and 1/2 cups)
Pure Aloe (1/2 cup)
Pure peppermint essential oil (6 drops)
Stove or Microwave
Wooden Spoon
Stainless Steel Pot
Food Processor or the like
Ice trays or soap molds
Olive oil cooking spray
Wax paper
Butchers paper or plastic wrap
Marking pen or marker
*All of these ingredients can be found at any healthfood store.*
In a food processor you want to grind the tomatoes into a fine powder. Then sift them through a strainer to remove large chunks.
Heat the vegetable glycerin in the stainless steel pot and when melted add the aloe. Heat for 1 minute, stirring with the wooden spoon until heated through.
Add the ground tomatoes and the 6 drops of peppermint oil.
Heat again while stirring until well blended. Remove from heat promptly.
Spray ice cube trays or soap molds with olive oil spray. Pour mixture into the spouted measuring cup and then pour into trays or molds.
I like to stick mine in the refrigerator so they set faster, but you could leave them out at room tempurature as well. After soap sets and has cooled down, pop soaps out onto wax paper.
Let sit over night and then wrap in plastic wrap or butchers paper. Be sure and label your soap and what it does for the skin.
Makes roughly 2-3 medium sized soaps depending on your mold sizes. Smaller ones are great for traveling while the larger ones are great for home use. Make many and have them on hand.
If you are allergic to tomatoes, they can be replaced with dried grapefruit peel or orange peel. And chopped the same way.
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