In this article you will find three detailed facial care plans, each with 5 steps, including facial cleanser, herbal steam, toner, mask, and moisturizer. Follow the fun and easy steps laid out for a thorough home spa facial treatment specifically for your skin type comprised of recipes from this book along with detailed instructions and helpful hints on how to use them together. Use the Bye-Bye Blackhead Treatment plan weekly to help combat congested skin. Dry and maturing skin types will love the Intensive Moisture Elixir Facial plan, which infuses healing moisture for a supple, youthful glow. The Soothing Sensitive Spa Facial will calm and replenish easily irritated skin. With these easy to follow facial care treatment guides, beautiful skin is definitely in your future!
Bye-Bye Blackhead Treatment
This home spa facial was designed for skin types that are out of balance, prone to acne, blackheads, clogged pores, and irritation.
1. Gentle Glow Washing Grains: You get the most out of a facial when you start with a clean face. Use a mild cleanser such as the Gentle Glow Washing Grains or your usual daily cleanser. This lightly exfoliating cleanser will remove surface dirt and dead skin, enabling the steam to better penetrate and clean out any clogged pores. Use a light touch with the cleansing grains so as not to exacerbate open wounds or cystic acne.
2. Facial Steam: Choose the appropriate facial steam formula for your skin type and follow the directions to prepare the steam. As you’re waiting for the water to boil and the herbs to steep, prepare the mask below. Remember, facial steams are designed to bring toxins to the surface. While it may initially be undesirable to “invite” this circumstance into being, it is for the best! Any underground pimples that come up were already there. A necessary step in achieving clearer skin is to bring those out, heal them quickly, and prevent any future pimples from forming.
3. Manuka and Parsley Lightening Acne Mask: As your pores will be quite open from the facial steam, the lemon juice in the mask may sting a bit. To avoid this, swap in the Layered Lavender Flower Water, lavender hydrosol, or brewed green tea for the lemon. The substitution will only slightly reduce the lightening properties of the mask. Prepare the mask so it’s ready and waiting for you when you’re done with the steam. Splash your face with warm water to remove the sweat and toxins released from your pores during the steam, pat dry, and apply the mask, following the mask directions from the recipe.
4. Facial Toner: Using a facial toner is especially important for acne-prone skin, and even more so after performing a steam and a mask. You’ve just opened your pores and cleaned them out, and now it’s time to close those pores to not let the gunk back in. Saturate a cotton ball with toner and gently wipe your face in an upward and outward direction. You can use the Clarifying Toner, the Layered Lavender Flower Water, or your favorite toner.
5. Balancing Facial Moisturizer: After an intensive facial, you want to use a mild, ultra-nourishing moisturizer that is high in antioxidants to soothe, hydrate, and protect the skin. In the four previous steps you have thoroughly cleaned and exfoliated; steamed out embedded toxins, dirt, and clogged pores; reset the pH balance; and closed your pores. This final layer of moisturizer gives a solid dose of botanical healing, like the icing on the cake. Your skin is primed to absorb high amounts of beneficial nutrients. A moisturizer calms any irritation and restores the perfect balance of moisture to your skin, creating a protective barrier to lock in the benefits from your home spa facial. Use the Balancing Facial Moisturizer or your favorite moisturizer.
Now that you’ve had your facial, you are beautifully content, relaxed in mind and body, smiling at your dewy, radiant, and lovely face in the mirror. You are so beautiful.
Intensive Moisture Elixir Facial
This home spa facial treatment plan is highly beneficial for skin in need of hydration and advanced nutrients, including sensitive, maturing, overexposed, sun-damaged, dry, or easily irritated skin.
1. Gentle Glow Washing Grains: You get the most out of a facial when you start with a clean face. Use a mild cleanser such as the Gentle Glow Washing Grains or your usual daily cleanser. This lightly exfoliating cleanser will remove surface dirt and dead skin, enabling the steam to better penetrate and clean out any clogged pores.
2. Soothing Herbal Steam: Follow the directions from the recipe to prepare the steam. As you’re waiting for the water to boil and the herbs to steep, you can prepare the mask below. Boil enough water to use some to steep the yerba mate for the mask.
3. Rainforest Elixir Mask: Directly after the facial steam, when your pores are clean and open, is the perfect time for a facial mask. Prepare the mask so it’s ready and waiting for you when you’re done with the steam. Splash your face with warm water to remove the sweat and toxins from the steam, pat dry, and apply the mask. The Rainforest Elixir Mask is full of superfoods and medicinal plants just packed with vital nutrients for your skin. Refrigerate the mask for an added sensory experience, and follow the mask directions from the recipe.
4. Rooibos Rose Toner: Using a facial toner is especially important after performing a steam and a mask. You’ve just opened your pores and cleaned them out, and now it’s time to close those pores so the gunk can’t get back in. Saturate a cotton ball with toner and gently wipe your face in an upward and outward direction. You can use the Rooibos Rose Toner, Old-Fashioned Rosewater, coconut water, or your favorite toner.
5. Vital Facial Moisturizer: After an intensive facial, you want to use a mild, ultra-nourishing moisturizer high in antioxidants to soothe, hydrate, and protect the skin. In the four previous steps you have thoroughly cleaned and exfoliated; steamed out embedded toxins, dirt, and clogged pores; reset the pH balance; and closed your pores. This final layer of moisturizer gives a solid dose of botanical healing, like the icing on the cake.
Soothing Sensitive Spa Facial
This treatment is highly beneficial for all skin types, especially sensitive, maturing, or easily irritated skin prone to redness.
1. Gentle Glow Washing Grains: You get the most out of a facial when you start with a clean face. Use a mild cleanser such as the Gentle Glow Washing Grains or your usual daily cleanser. This lightly exfoliating cleanser will remove surface dirt and dead skin, enabling the steam to better penetrate and clean out any clogged pores.
2. Soothing Herbal Steam: Follow the directions from the recipe to prepare the steam. As you’re waiting for the water to boil and the herbs to steep, you can prepare the mask below.
3. Fresh Petals Mask: Directly after a facial steam, when your pores are clean and open, is the perfect time for a facial mask. Prepare the mask so it’s ready and waiting for you when you’re done with the steam. Splash your face with warm water to remove the sweat, pat dry, and apply the mask. The Fresh Petals Mask is a soothing, protein-rich, anti-inflammatory combination of fresh ingredients. Refrigerate the mask for an added sensory experience, and follow the mask directions from the recipe.
4. Rooibos Rose Toner: Using a facial toner is especially important after performing a steam and a mask. You’ve just opened your pores and cleaned them out, and now it’s time to close those pores so the gunk can’t get back in. Saturate a cotton ball with toner and gently wipe your face in an upward and outward direction. You can use the Rooibos Rose Toner, Old-Fashioned Rosewater, coconut water, or your favorite toner.
5. Luxurious Vita-E Facial Oil: After an intensive facial, you want to use a mild, ultra-nourishing moisturizer high in antioxidants to soothe, hydrate, and protect the skin. In the four previous steps you have thoroughly cleaned and exfoliated; steamed out embedded toxins, dirt, and clogged pores; reset the pH balance; and closed your pores. This final layer of moisturizer gives a solid dose of botanical healing, like the icing on the cake. Your skin is primed to absorb high amounts of beneficial nutrients. A moisturizer calms any irritation and restores the perfect balance of moisture to your skin, creating a protective barrier to lock in the benefits from your home spa facial. Use the Luxurious Vita-E Facial Oil or your favorite moisturizer.
Now that you’ve had your facial, you are beautifully content, relaxed in mind and body, smiling at your dewy, radiant, and lovely face in the mirror. You are so beautiful.
