Homemade Spa Recipes

 

 

Spa Recipes for Birthday Parties and Sleepovers - great for kids, tweens and teens. 


Make your own homemade spa treatments from these recipes including masks, facials, foot spa's and bath salts. 

These homemade spa recipes are perfect for our Spa Birthday Theme and Chocolate Spa Birthday Theme. 

These homemade spa recipes are easy to make and most use items you have either around the house or in the refrigerator. 

 

Make at Home Spa Treatments

Pink Sugar Scrub

Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup honey
1 teaspoon strawberry extract
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons baby oil
Pink food coloring

Directions
Mix together sugar, baby oil, honey, strawberry extract and vanilla until well blended.  Add a few drops of pink or red food coloring and mix.  Place Pink Sugar Scrub in a jar with a lid.   Good for 1 week of use.

 

 

 

 

Banana Avocado Mask

Nourishing and moisturizing homemade facial mask for dry skin

Ingredients
1/2 overripe banana, mashed
1/2 overripe avocado, mashed
2 tbsp plain yogurt (not nonfat)

Combine ingredients and mix well. Apply to clean face and neck. Leave on for 20 to 30 min. Rinse with plenty of warm water.

 

 

 

Brown Sugar Scrub

Ingredients
1 C Oats (not cooked)
1 C Brown Sugar
1 C Olive oil

Directions
Mix all ingredients together until well blended.  
Place in an airtight container.

 

 

 

Chocolate Facial Mask

Excellent moisturizer that leaves skin baby soft.

Ingredients
1/3 Cup Cocoa Powder
3 TBLS Heavy Cream
2 tsp Cottage Cheese
1/4 Cup Honey
3 tsp Oatmeal

Directions
Mix all ingredients together using a small blender. 
Smooth onto face. 
Relax for 10 minutes then rinse off with warm water. 

 

Homemade Cuticle Treatments

Apricot Oil-Lanolin Cuticle Cream  

Ingredients
1/2 tsp apricot kernel or emu oil
2 tsp lanolin
1 drop essential oil of your choice (optional)
Melt oils together, add essential oil, pour into jar or
small pots and let set.
To use, massage into cuticles.

 

Frozen Egg & Honey Facial Mask

This homemade spa recipe is recommended for dry skin

Ingredients
1 egg
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted (but not hot)
1 tbs. honey

Directions
Beat the egg in a small bowl until frothy and well-mixed. Slowly add the liquid coconut oil and honey,
beating until your mask is the consistency of mayonnaise. Take an empty toilet tissue roll and set it on end in a clean bowl. Spoon mixture into the cardboard
toilet paper roll (or consider using an empty deodorant container). Place tube, in the bowl, in the freezer overnight.

 

To use, peel away just the top 1/4 inch of the cardboard roll and smooth the frozen stick over your face (think of it as a push up pop). Leave your mask on for 5 to 10 minutes, then rinse off with warm water.

Return the cream stick covered with plastic wrap and frozen between uses.

 

 

 

Peach Tightening Facial Mask

Facial mask made from peaches and egg whites that helps tighten your skin.

Ingredients
1 ripe peach - peeled and pitted
1 egg white

Directions
Whip peach and egg white together in a blender until smooth. Gently pat mixture over face.
Leave on for 30 minutes. Rinse off with cool water.

 

 

 

Sensitive Skin Cucumber Mask

This spa mask is perfect for sensitive skin.  Chill it in your
fridge before use to make it especially soothing.

Ingredients
1 Tablespoon Brewer’s Yeast
1 Tablespoon finely ground Oatmeal
1 Whole Cucumber
2 Tablespoons plain yogurt or sour cream

Directions
Mix together the yeast and oats in a small bowl and set aside.
Peel the cucumber and place it in a small food processor and process until only liquid remains.

Add the yogurt and honey and process further to mix.

Add the brewer's yeast and oats to the cucumber/honey
mixture and process to mix fully.

To use, apply to clean face and neck skin and leave on for anywhere from 15 minutes to a half hour. Rinse well and follow with toner and moisturizer.  

Relaxing Facial

Homemade Spa recipe for a creamy facial mask that leaves your skin soft and refreshed.

Ingredients
1 beaten egg (unclogs pores)
1 carrot (cooked and mashed)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 avocado (peeled and mashed)
3 tbsp honey

Directions
Mix all the ingredients and apply to clean face and neck.
After 15 minutes rinse with plenty of cool water.

Quick Cucumber Parsley Mask 

Ingredients
1 TBLS Plain Yogurt
1 TBLS Cucumber
1 TBLS Parsley

Directions
Puree the cucumber and parsley finely and mix with the yogurt until smooth. 

Cover your face with the mask.

The mask will rejuvenate your skin as it moistens it. 

Leave mask on for 15 minutes for best results. 

Rinse with water. 

Mixture can not be stored - make fresh each time. 



Yogurt Oatmeal and Honey Mask

Ingredients
1/4 Cup Plain Yogurt or Buttermilk
1/2 Cup Oatmeal
2 TBLS Honey

Directions
Finely grind oatmeal in a food processor or blender. 

Set aside.

In a small bowl mix together honey and yogurt.

Add Oatmeal.

Mix together until a smooth paste has formed.

Smooth over face and neck. 

Leave on for 15 minutes. 

Rinse with warm water.
Gentle enough to be used daily.



Quick Cucumber Eye Soother

Ingredients
2 wafer thin slices of cucumb1 warm, damp, clean washcloth

Directions
While using a facial (the quick cucumber parsley
facial is great with this), place one cucumber slice over each eye.

Cover your eyes with a warm washcloth and
relax for 10 minutes.



Oatmeal Hand Spa and Care Treatment

Gentle homemade hand scrub recipe that leaves your hands nourished and soft.

Ingredients
1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp oatmeal
1 tsp olive oil

Directions
Add the oatmeal to 1/4 cup water and let stand 10 minutes until oatmeal is softened.

Add 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon olive
oil to oatmeal and mix well.

Rub mixture into your hands and let stand 1-2 minutes.

Rinse with cool water and pat dry.

Apply moisturizer to your hands and let it soak
in 10-15 minutes.



Lip Balm Recipe

Ingredients
1/2 ounce beeswax beads 4 ounces sweet almond oil
1 teaspoon colored jojoba beads
2 teaspoons essential oil

Directions
Put the 4 ounces of sweet almond oil in glass measuring
cup, add beeswax beads and jojoba beads and
melt in microwave. Stir with spoon.

Let it cool for
a few minutes, then add essential oil.

Pour into lip balm jars



Rainbow Fruity Bath Salts

Ingredients
3 quarts of Epsom salts or course sea salt
3 envelopes unflavored unsweetened Kool-Aid powder
– one each of three different colors.
3 to 4 drops of scented Essential Oils which compliment the flavors of Kool-Aid chosen – Orange Oil for
orange Kool-aid, Lavender Oil for Grape Kool-aid, etc.

Directions
Mix one envelope of Kool-aid to 1 quart salts in three separate bowls.
Add 3-4 drops of essential oils to each of the three bowls, in a scent which To use, add 1/2 to 1 cup salts per bath.

Strip it off! Pore cleaning Strips
This recipe makes a pore cleaning strip which works just like those sold in drugstores.

Ingredients
1 Knox unflavored gelatin packet
1 1/2 Tablespoons
1 Knox unflavored gelatin packet
1 1/2 Tablespoons
Milk

Directions
Mix the two ingredients and microwave for 10 seconds until it is warm. 
Using a clean cosmetic brush apply to nose and chin area. 
Avoid the eye area. 

Rinse of the cosmetic brush immediately.

Allow mixture to dry on nose and chin for 10 - 15 minutes. 
The mix will dry and be quite stiff and form a film. Peel off the film and little porcupine quills that used to be in your nose pores will appear. 

 

Homemade spa treatments courtesy of SpaIndex.com