Using all natural, basic ingredients from the grocery store and pharmacy, you can concoct your own homemade cosmetics and beauty products. Just clear off the kitchen table, roll up your sleeves and start mixing. Get some herbs, extracts or essential oils fragrance (available at specialty shops) to make your stuff smell pretty- or, if you have allergies or sensitive skin skip it and go fragrance-free.

Exfoliating Almond Mask for Oily Skin 

1/2 Cup of almonds ground finely (use your blender or food processor) 500mg tablet of Vitamin C, pulverized 1/4 cup mineral water Combine almond meal with the vitamin C powder, mix well . Add mineral water and mix to form a paste. Rub this mixture in your skin in gentle circular and upward motions then let it dry on your face. Use a warm, wet washcloth to remove the mask. Rinse after with lots of water.

*Keep tightly covered in the refrigerator between uses. 

Skin toner

Mix 1 cup witch hazel, 1/4 cup white vinegar and 1/4 tsp. mint extract. If you want, drop in some fresh peppermint leaves. Dab on your face with a cotton ball to hydrate skin and remove excess dirt from pores.

Fill a small bowl with dead sea salt (or sea salt). Drizzle some sweet almond oil, sesame oil or any other carrier oil over the dead sea salt. Add 5 drops of the diluted rose oil and 3 drops of  lavender oil to the mixture. Mix well.

Take a shower. Wash yourself well with soap and water, rinse it off. Apply the salt scrub over your wet body. Avoid cuts or open wounds as the salt would sting. Leave the scrub on your body while you shampoo and rinse your hair. Shower again to rinse off the salt. Pat dry with a towel.