Skin care

One of my goals this year is to take good care of my aging skin. I have pretty good skin as skin goes and I have started to notice a few more lines than usual. I have a bad habit of whistling****, much to the chagrin of anyone nearby me. I have got to stop! It's making me have tiny lines around my lips and that's not acceptable. I've been working on stopping this annoying habit and am getting pretty good at stopping it before I get started lately. Anyway, for my age, I do have good skin, but it just needs good care anyway.

With that in mind, I decided to use only the best cleansers and creams. But have you priced stuff like that lately? I get a catalog from a place called DHC and their stuff is awesome but it's sooooo expensive, I just can't make myself pay that kind of money for creams oils and lotions to take makeup off and moisturize my skin. No matter how badly I want to have great skin, not just good skin, I can't justify that expense. DHC sends me a catalog every so often (thanks Jackster!) and it used to have samples in it. Not sure why the last couple haven't had any samples unless it's because I haven't purchased anything from them lately. Anyway, I have a few samples of their Olive Oil cleanser and I tried it at the advice of my friend Betty. It pretty much just looked like regular old olive oil and it did a great job of cleaning off my makeup and making my skin feel very soft.

I, being the creative soul that I am, decided that I could make my own. I got online and did a little bit of research and found a recipe. I did more research and with some knowledge of my own from making a healing lotion for my horses when I had horses many years ago, I came up with a recipe of my own. I shopped online and did some local shopping too, to come up with all the ingredients, I have a few things coming from Amazon. I was too impatient to wait for them to get here so I whipped up a batch with the things I had on hand and I loveLoveLOVE it! It takes off every bit of makeup, even my waterproof mascara and leaves my skin so soft I haven't needed to use moisturizer at night after I take off my makeup with it. It's very simple and natural.

The recipe is very experimental at this point, so I'm not giving any cleanser out to friends or family yet, but altho I'm loving what it does so far, I do want to make sure my face doesn't fall off before I let anyone else try it.





If you're interested in the recipe, let me know. With a few simple ingredients and an immersion blender, you're in business! It turns out very creamy and lotion-like. I made it last Friday night, it's still very thick and creamy and lovely. It holds up very well, or so it seems. You can see how it stands up when dumped in a blob on the table, in that lousy photo above. The only drawback at this point is that I had no real fragrance oils to use, so it smells like olive oil. Not a bad thing if you're a salad, but not for skin! I have some rose water and lavender water and an ingredient with peppermint coming to remedy that. I'm all about the smell of lotion. It has to smell good, that's one of my triggers to relax and sleep well...a good smelling lotion aura around me.

I vill be in the lab-OR-atory, Igor.

****I whistle because I have tinitis from listening to too much loud music in the 60's, my ears ring like crazy. So I whistle so I can't hear the ringing when it's too quiet. My dad used to do the same thing...whistle... for the same reason...ringing ears... but his wasn't loud music in the 60's it was from being in WW2 and getting shell shock. He's more deaf now, so the ringing doesn't bother him anymore. Besides, if he tried to whistle, he'd blow his dentures across the room!