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Lotions, Potions and Pores, Creams and Moisturizers
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There is no substitute for a good diet to balance the functions of your skin but if your diet is good and you still feel the need for a cream, there are dozens of lotions, night creams, day dreams, moisturizers, or just plain creams that one can formulate using herbs to aid this balance. Basically you have to figure out just what you want the cream to do, find the herbs to do the job, and then make your cream. A properly formulated cream or lotion can be used on face, body, hands-male or female, adult or child. If the ingredients are edible and fit to eat, then they are probably good enough for your skin. A lotion and a cream are basically the same thing, but the cream contains more solidifiers such as lanolin or beeswax. Lotions and creams can be made astringent, emollient, drying, tonic, stimulating, antiseptic, moisturizing, lubricating, aromatic, or hydrating according to the plant from which it is made. A basic cream
would have a formula as follows:
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