… and massage oil
The quick way
Buy: You can buy a very excellent olive oil in the supermarket, to be used as the base for a skin conditioner. Next to that, you can buy the essential oil that aligns with the body&hair soap of your choice in the Cretan-Garden shop.
Recipe: Add 250 ml of olive oil plus 25 drops of essential oil to an empty and well-cleaned liquid soap bottle with a pump, or a used, empty, and hygienically cleaned Kikkoman bottle of 150 ml. and add 15 drops of essential oil.
Usage: Simply add a small handful of the homemade body oil immediately after washing, and spread it all over your skin. Then dry yourself with a towel. A very thin film remains. It gives a matt-shiny effect to the skin, without weighing it down, without leaving greasy traces. It improves the elasticity of the skin while preventing the loss of moisture that can contribute to the ageing process, keeping the skin smooth and soft, while leaving a natural healthy glow, a younger result and the wonderful natural moderate scent of the essential oil.
It can also be used after sunbathing.
The slow way: infusing
- Buy 250 ml extra virgin olive oil in the supermarket.
- Buy 15 grams dried organic rosemary leaves, or make a choice out of these.
- Put the dried rosemary in a glass jar that is big enough for the 250 ml olive oil plus the 15 gram rosemary leaves, add the olive oil, stir, and keep it for some weeks in a warm sunlit spot in the house. Stir the oil-rosemary mix during the infusing time every day. I infuse olive oil as well, for making soap, but I offer the oil more time to infuse. At least three months.
- When the oil is infused, you can filter the herbs out, by using a sieve. If you want to make rosemary pulp, you can add the oily herbs to the kitchen machine and pulverise them.
- Take an empty bowl or casserole, and put a cheesecloth in the sieve.
- Put the rosemary-olive-oil pulp from the kitchen machine cup into the cheesecloth, and let it leak out for a while, till all the oil has disappeared.
- Make this process more efficient by pouring the filtered oil for the second time over the pulp. At the end, you can take the rest of the oil from the pulp when you take the four points of the cheesecloth together and press the oil out. Your hands will become very oily, but you can remove this with kitchenpaper.
- Fill an empty, well-cleaned and dried fluid soap dispenser and add some drops of rosemary essential oil, or an essential oil that aligns with the used herb.
- In case you would like to make bigger quantities, store the infused oil that you do not need for later in a glass jar, that can be closed well with a lid, and keep it in the refrigerator.
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