BEAUTY - Skin Toners

The finishing steps of skin care are Toning, Firming, Moisturizing and Nourishing. Skin toning lotions stimulate the blood supply to the skin; remove greasiness remaining from cleansing, closes pores, refine and refresh the skin. It also helps your skin for youthful and rejuvenated feel delay starting wrinkles.
Rose water is the best known natural skin toner. Rose water diluted with Mineral water (1:1) is the simplest and a gentle Toning lotion for all type of skin except oily skin.

For oily skin, rose water and cucumber juice in equal quantities will be more effective as cucumber has an astringent effect and helps to close the pores. Apply it gently with cotton wool avoiding the eye and upper cheek area every day.

For a powerful skin toner, take one tablespoon honey and one peeled and cored apple. Pour these ingredients in a blender and mix well. Apply it on the face and neck like a mask and keep it on for 10-15 minutes and wash off with cool water.

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Another popular home made toner for oily skin is Honey and egg Toner.

Beat one egg white well, whisk in 1 tsp of honey and add 1 tsp of lemon juice, mix well. Apply to face and neck avoiding the delicate areas, eye and lip. Allow to dry for 10minutes and wash with warm water.

For winter season you can make skin toner by mixing of 2-tablespoon each cucumber and carrot juice. Apply on face and neck. Allow to dry for 10-15minutes and wash with warm water.

A wide variety of toners are available in shops containing alcohol up to 20 %.Alcohol dries the skin and harms the soluble collagen below the outer surface of the skin. It is thus safer to use an alcohol-free toner.

Skin toners with key ingredients like Rose extract, Aloe Vera, Allantoin, Tulsi, and Chamomile etc are in high demand in beauty market. The common herbs used in toners include witch hazel, geranium, honey, lemon, ivy, sage, nettle and burdock.