How to Make a Matcha Tea face scrub, recipe

Matcha Tea Facial Cleansing Scrub Recipe

Matcha, superfood for the skin.

Matcha is a super fine ground green Japanese powdered tea.  In Japan, the bushes are shaded for about 20 days before the harvest. This reduced light forces the plant to make a higher concentration of chlorophyll, producing darker green leaves that are chopped, and ground into a fine powder.  Excellent for drinking and excellent for natural skin care. 

It is the chlorophyll that makes matcha perfect to detox your skin! Antioxidant rich matcha cleanses the skin of toxins that age us prematurely. 

 Used topically, the high concentration of chlorophyll in Matcha makes it a 

super food for the skin ... 

* Optional: for a gentle exfoliation, grind up some chamomile
                   and add to your mask. Apply in a circular motion, this
                   stimulates blood flow and gives you a healthy glow.

* soothing     * healing

* tightens skin    *evens out skin tone

* fights excess oil production without drying skin

* helps under eye puffiness, and dark circles 

Recipe

chamomile tea

For a gentle exfoliation, 

grind up some chamomile and add to your mask.

Smooth over skin on face and back of hands.

Allow to dry, rinse off. Pat dry.

Gentle enough to use every day.

Easy Bath Bomb Recipe

Two main ingredients, plus a little essential or fragrance oil and spritz
with witchazel or rubbing alcohol and you have

adorable, bath fizzy bombs!

Photo by Rebekah Drennan

This recipe couldn't be any easier:

To make your desired amount of bath bombs you just need to remember the ratio
of ONE PART CITRIC ACID to
TWO PARTS BAKING SODA.
(for example: 1 cup citric acid and 2 cups baking soda)
Mix these 2 ingredients in a bowl, then drop in your desired amount of essential oil
or fragrance oil that is skin safe. Mix well, then spritz with witchazel or rubbing alcohol
until mixture holds together when you squeeze a palmful of it.
Put it into your bendable molds, press firmly. Allow to dry overnight.
These bath bombs will fizz delightfully in your tub as they soften your skin!

For a picture tutorial of other bath bomb recipes click here.

My neice made a lovely bed of ocean type scented bath salts to compliment her bath fizzy bombs. 

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Bath Fizzy Bombs recipe

    I made these lovely smelling bath bombs that make a huge fizz.  These are so fun to make
and use.   With the soft scent and the bubbling fizz it makes for a great home spa bath.

                             

  I made these with baking soda and citric acid and fragrance oil and spritzed it with witch hazel as a binder.
  That's it.  Very pure. To make you just remember the ratio of 2/1. Meaning: two parts baking soda to one part citric acid.  Combine in a bowl, add a few drops of fragrance oil or essential oil, wisk and get out any chunks. Spritz lightly with witchazel until the recipe when squeezed in your hand holds together.

The citric acid is an organic acid from citrus fruits, added to the water it neutralizes the trace
metals in the hard water making it soft water, trust me you can tell the difference, if you have
hard water you know what I mean.  The water actually feels soft.

The baking soda softens your skin naturally.   These are a great way to relax and destress!

I used 5 of these small ones per bath.

Made a nice fizzy action.