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Facial Masks
Clays can be used by themselves or with added ingredients as facial masks. If you are just using clay, you would mix it half and half with the liquid of your choice. Each clay has different properties which you may want to take into consideration when you are creating your masks. French Green Clay, like the Moroccan Red, is efficient at drawing oils from the skin. Use this clay for oily skin. Kaolin Clay (or China clay or white clay) is one of the mildest of all clays and can be used on even the most sensitive skin, and because it doesn't draw oils from the skin it can be used on the driest skin types. This is clay is also used in face and linen powder. Pink clay is mild clay that can be used everyday without drying skin. If you will be selling your products and you want to keep as natural as possible you should just sell the dry clay with instructions, otherwise if you add your moisture to your clay you will have to use an acceptable preservative, which means a synthetic preservative. You can use these liquids for normal to dry skin: distilled, spring, or mineral water milk or cream honey vegetable glycerin floral hydrosols cooled herbal teas cold pressed oils essential oils: lavender, chamomile, rose geranium, jasmine, and patchouli. For oily or problem skin: yogurt buttermilk Apple cider vinegar witch hazel vodka honey orange flower water herbal vinegars aloe vera gel cooled herbal infusions essential oils for dry skin: rosemary, eucalyptus, peppermint, thyme, lemon verbena, cedarwood, petigrain, lemongrass, sage. essential oil for blemished acneic skin: eucalyptus, thyme, tea tree, juniper, cypress, pine, fir, and lemon.
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