A perfect DIY Green Tea toner for those looking for an inexpensive way to enhance your skin care regime, and who isn’t 🙂 Green Tea is loaded with healthy benefits for skin including, reduces inflammation, increases skin elasticity, reduce the appearance of pores and gives your skin a youthful glow. Next time you make yourself up a cup of green tea why not make a wonderful green tea toner too!
Ingredients:
- 1 Tablespoon Witch Hazel ( you can fine it in a drug store or Walmart by the rubbing alcohol )
- 1 Green Tea Bag
- 3 oz. Bottle to store it in
Natural ingredients have a lot of qualities that can help your skin look and feel great, and many can be found right in your kitchen. Why these ingredients?
Witch Hazel
- Decreases oil production
- Minimizes pores
- Improves hydration
Green Tea
- Helps skin appear brighter & flawless
- Reduces inflammation
- Reduces the appearance of fine lines
Step:1
Boil 1/2 water, drop in one green tea bag, let it sit until cool.
Step 2:
Remove teabag and squeeze out excess moisture. Add 1 Tablespoon of Witch Hazel, screw lid on tightly and shake mixture.
Step 3:
Pour mixture into a bottle and you have a hydrating facial toner.
*To use: Using cotton balls or cotton rounds, apply to skin both morning & night after cleansing, follow with your favorite serum and moisturizer. Should keep for about a month, note: if you notice a change in scent I would discard it and make another batch.
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Make sure you use purified water (RO, distilled) in this. The antioxidants that are in the tea will work on the water first – so if you use normal water all of the good stuff in the tea will be used up before it gets to your skin. Same goes for the tea you drink, too. Try it out – brew the same tea the same way in tap water and then in RO water. The lighter green the color of the tea the more
Thanks for the tip, I should have added that in my post. I do use water from my RO system, years ago my husband worked for a water purification company and it's pretty gross what tap water tests at, especially depending where you live.
Hi,
Love your blog!! does this toner need to be refrigerated?
I refrigerate mine which I recommend. The batch I didn’t store in the fridge started to get a smell early on, plus applying the toner cold feels amazing 🙂
Hey!
I have started drinking green tea about four days ago and I also tried cleaning my face with the tea bag – you won’t believe: I had modest problems with blackheads, red spots and pimples but now they are nearly gone! My skin became very soft and clean 🙂 Just by drinking green tea for four days and rubbing my face with a wet green tea bag!
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Hi, I love it! I’m very much into healthy cosmetics. What can I replace witch hazel with? I live in Europe and they don’t sell it here anywhere I know.
Hi! I enjoyed using this toner a lot a it worked great for me for about two weeks but tonight when I went to use it I noticed that there were a few little floaties in it. It doesn’t have any smell so I was wondering if anyone else had had this trouble and if I should throw it out. Thanks!
Is this 1/2 cup of water? (from instructions below)
Step:1
Boil 1/2 water, drop in one green tea bag, let it sit until cool.
Thanks