- Witch Hazel – A distillation of the Witch Hazel shrub, it is an astringent that tones the skin. It can assist with swelling & puffiness, tighten pores, reduce sweating and help clear acne. It is a distillation containing alcohol and therefore helps to preserve the face mist. Find it in the chemist or personal care isle at the supermarket.
- Vegetable Glycerine – A humectant, skin identical ingredient. Meaning it is a substance found in skin, that helps to deal in moisture, maintain the skin barrier and prevent dryness. Find it in the chemist or personal care isle at the supermarket.
- Vitamin E Oil – An antioxidant oil helps maintain the skin barrier, traps moisture and helps to preserve the face mist. Find it in the chemist or personal care isle at the supermarket as either a bottle of oil or you can pierce vitamin E capsules.
- Peppermint Essential Oil – Improves blood flow, nourishes dull skin and improves the texture of oily or greasy skin. Also, it smells so refreshing! Find it in the chemist or health food store.
- Rose Water – A hydrosol (the steam from the distillation of rose petals) that is anti inflammatory, antioxidant and helps strengthen skin cells. Of course it smells heavenly too. Find it in the international foods isle at the supermarket or Indian supermarkets.
This recipe makes half a cup or 125ml. You can halve, double, triple, quadruple and more! Dark glass bottles are best but little plastic ones like mine are fine. Keep your mist in a dark place or even better, the fridge. Should keep 2 months out and up to 6 in the fridge.
- 50 ml witch hazel
- 1 tsp vegetable glycerine
- 5 drops vitamin E oil
- 5 drops peppermint essential oil
- Rose water, to bring the mix up to 1/2 cup
- Add everything to a sterilized measuring jug and swizz together with something sterile, I fancy pop sticks or a straw.
- Pour into spritz bottles and that’s it!
Well, that’s almost it! You might like to add a fancy label too. You can design your own or use mine. I wanted my mist to be my Mums end of day place of peace. If you aren’t a long term reader, Mummy Ask works in psychiatric lock up, hard jobs need big relaxing. My choice of words avoids swearing (no need to be coarse) but still gets the message across. To use my label – click on the label image and save. I just copy them into Word, arrange to size and print on label paper. Simple!
Before I go I have some texts from Mummy Ask on the mist –


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