Seaweed Skin care Recipes

About The Seaweed Skin care Recipes.

Seaweed ‘Jelly’ is the term I use to distinguish it from seaweed ‘Gels’ and ‘extracts’ that have been processed using chemicals. Those chemically extracted gels are in every beauty product that has ever touched your skin. In fact, if the product felt luxurious and creamy, it probably had some seaweed extract in it to make it feel that way. However, the recipes in this book use only natural seaweed jelly - same creamy texture without the chemicals.

Some of the recipes for the skin treatments are washed-off immediately, while others such as herbal treatments are gentle enough to leave on your skin all day and night. None of the recipes are harsh enough to hurt your skin; all of them are luxurious enough to want to leave them on all the time, you decide. In addition, if you want these recipes to pass the ‘kiss test’, you might want to add your favorite flower essence or perfume.

In addition, most of these recipes are for a single application, enough for just the face, and because they do not contain preservatives or alcohol, would easily spoil unless kept refrigerated. Therefore, if you want to make these recipes in larger quantities, you will need to add your own preservative.

If you just want to add some seaweed to your store-bought skin-care products such as your liquid hand soap or shower gel, then no additional preservative is required. This is an excellent way to benefit from seaweed jells without any changes to your skin care routine. Just wash and moisturize at the same time - great for getting your whole family’s skin soft without chemicals.

In addition, the three preparation techniques used to make the seaweed Serum, Jelly, and Paste recipes use dried seaweed only. I tried using fresh seaweed, but the odor in the finished product was far too strong. (Although the fact that the fresh seaweed had been washed-up on to the beach, and I had no idea where its actual source was from, which could have accounted for the strong odor).

I still recommend that you start with the dried Kelp, so that you are not discouraged by the initial result. I think because the dried kelp holds less water, and that the odor must be in the water - therefore the less water (dried), the less smell.

I have also included some spiritual quotes, by Emanuel Swedenborg. These quotes explain the 'inner nature' of an ingredient through spiritual correspondence. It gives a clue as to what to expect from mixing different herbs and ingredients. Spiritual quotes lift the mind to an ‘ah-ha’ moment, and I will attempt to decipher the more complicated ones, in the hope that you can appreciate the true spiritual perspective of 'really natural' beauty products.