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Summer Beauty Cabinet

Besides my beautifully moisturising and scrubbing Frappuccino Bars, here are a few homemade cosmetics to protect, hydrate, exfoliate, restore your skin, body and face before, during or after long walks in the woods or arvos at the beach! Have a gorgeous Summer!

Frappuccino Bars (to gently scrub and exfoliate)

Grapefuit Lip Balm (to moisturise and scent your lips)

Arnica Salve (to soothe sore muscles and limbs)

Sleeping Well Balm (to help you relax and find sleep)

Distilled Geranium Water (to refresh, hydrate and replenish)

Jasmine Mist  (to refresh, hydrate and replenish)

Rose Water  (to refresh, hydrate and replenish)

Soothing Lavender Spray (to relieve heavy legs after long walks)

Aloe Lemongrass Blam (to hydrate and moiturise skin and protect from mosquito bites)

Grapefruit Sugar Scrub (to exfoliate and perfume)

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Distilled Geranium Water

I’ve made this Distilled Geranium Water, particularly good for combination to oily skins, with the flowers of the geraniums I’ve grown and tended to for a couple of years, and I’m quite happy with its scent and its soothing effect.

Ingredients (makes about 500 millilitres/2 cups):

2 cups geranium flowers* (a mix of fresh and dried flowers)

1.5 litre/6 cups filtered water

a few dozen ice cubes

1 1/2 teaspoon Leucidal (natural preservative, made from radish root)

*not treated

Rinse geranium flowers and place into a large, deep, low (preferably enamel) pot. Place a metal or heat-proof glass bowl or dish in the centre of the pot. Pour filtered water over the geranium flowers, and cover with a large well-fitting lid.

Place pot on the stove, and bring to the boil over medium-high heat. Once boiling, you can carefully upturn the lid, and fill it with ice cubes, to help condensation form. Reduce heat to medium, and simmer, about half an hour. Once the ice cubes have melted, scoop out the water, and place new ice cubes.

Remove from the heat, and let cool completely.

Remove the lid, and remove metal or glass bowl from the pot. You should have about 1 cup liquid. Stir in Leucidal, and pour Distilled Geranium Water into a (sterelised) glass bottle and use within four to five months, keeping it in the refrigerator.