Organic Facial Toner Overview - How To Make Homemade Facial Toner for Any Skin Type

Facial toners are used tohelp reduce common skin problems such as oily skin, blackheads, pimples, redness, and other skin issues. Skin toners, also known as facial toners, help reduce redness and scars caused by acne breakouts. If you learn how to make skin toner at home, you can save lots of money and also save your skin from harsh chemicals used in most brand name products.

Why make your own facial toner at home? Making your own facial toner at home can work with your skin like no other toner, simply because you can add exactly what you need and nothing else. Not to mention that you bypass all the harsh chemicals found in distributed skin toner products in the market.

Consider what type of skin you have before making your facial toner. You need to determine your skin type in order to get the best results. Is your skin oily or dry? If your skin is dry, you need something that will give back to your skin. If you have oily skin, you need a skin toner to reduce the oil. If you have a combination of both skin types, you might need to treat it differently. Do you have blotchy and red skin areas or flaky spots on the skin? This is the best way to determine what you will need to use in your skin toner.

Facial Toner Recipes

Thing you may need to make your own facial toner include:

•     Alum
•     Boiled water
•     Mint leaves
•     Glycerin
•     Small container
•     Distilled water

Facial toner for dry skin:

• Add 2 cups of water with about a handful of mint leaves. Let the leaves boil in the water until they   shrink.
• After that, you need to strain and add the mint leaves to a cup of distilled water and add Alum.
• Mix it up, store it in a small container and store in a refrigerator.

Facial Toner for oily skin:

• You need one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol and 2 cups of distilled water.
• Mix this combination together, and then add half of teaspoon of Alum. Let it cool, and then try it out on your skin.
• If it seems too harsh, mix in a few more drops of distilled water. If it seems too watery add a bit more of alcohol.

Facial toner for combination skin:

• Mix a teaspoon of Alum with a cup of distilled water. Add 2 teaspoons of glycerine and mix the combination together. Let it stand and test out on skin.

For the best results try out each one of these recipes and see which skin toner works the best with your skin type. Do not use any of these ingredients if you are allergic to them and stop using these recipes for skin toner if you notice any irritation on your skin after use.

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