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BEAUTY TIPS FRIDAY!!! How to make ROSE OIL

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With the summer here at last, moods improved and hopefully we are ready for easy, free beauty  tips we could use to enhance our daily lives.

What are the reasons behind “Beauty Tips Friday? In addition to my desire to share, also the fact that I am a PA Licensed Esthetician. I went to school, passed Board exams and owned and operated a successful skin care business for many years. As some of you know, life forced me to change course, but I could still try to make your lives more “fragrant,” by sharing my knowledge and experiences.

With this in mind,  every Friday, I will write about an easy beauty tip. You, my readers, have a week to ask me your questions and I will post the answers each Friday, together with a new TIP. 

This Friday’s tip is:

How to make ROSE OIL and why?

What you need:

Fragrant rose petals. I only have one rose bush with divinely smelling roses, so I am limited. (use at least a cup of petals or more for stronger fragrance.)

Non-fragrant oil – you could use any non-fragrant oil and I suggest organic. You need a cup of oil.

A glass jar which has a lid.

A crock pot or a sunny place or both.

A strainer

Pick the petals and make sure they are clean. Cut them in small pieces so the fragrance gets out of the petals.

Place the oil in a glass jar and place the cut petals inside the jar, in the oil. Move the petals around, do not shake the jar.

Place the jar in a crock pot in which you poured a few inches of water. Set the temperature at lowest setting. I set it on WARM.

The jar with the rose petals inside must sit in warm water in the crock pot, or in a sunny place for at least 24 hours, so the fragrance is released into the oil. The jar must have a LID so the fragrance stays in the jar.

As I mentioned, I used a crock pot on WARM setting. Make sure it is NOT on high! This stage of the process is important, as this is how the rose fragrance is released into the oil.

After 24 hours, open the jar and pour the fragrant oil into another glass container through a strainer making sure you get out as much of the rose petals divine smell!

Discard the petals and pour the clear, fragrant oil back into the glass, covered jar.

How to use:

You could use it as a massage oil, in skin care products (those uses will be explained in another Beauty Tips Fridays “episode,::)) or  use it on its own, as a moisturizer.

As with ALL SKIN CARE PRODUCTS TEST FOR  ANY POTENTIAL ALLERGIES.

How to test:

Best way to test is by applying a very small quantity of rose oil BEHIND your ear and observing for 24 hours if you have a negative reaction or you just smell nice:)

That’s all for today!

If you have any beauty related QUESTIONS, please contact me and you shall get an answer next Friday! IMG_0161_2tmp_20519-image-385207892

Meanwhile, have a great weekend and enjoy the roses…

 

Update to BUYER BE AWARE (Face Creams)

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If you haven’t rear the posts Buyer be Aware Parts 1 and 2, which triggered tens of comments which confirmed we were schemed, please read those two posts first, so this UPDATE makes sense.

These posts are a community service, as I do not get paid either for my research, writing or ads.

As you might recall one of the many well informed comments on my blog, was that it is the SAME group of people and they change the name of the products marketed only. 

A few days ago I noticed on the side of my Facebook account three or four in very bad taste pictures all featuring Ellen Degeneres (by the way, she received People’s Award last night -Congrats, Ellen!). My first thought was, who is trying to trash Ellen? What kind of people are these? But… human curiosity at worked, I clicked and what did I see??? An ad about a COMBO of two skincare products (different names) which a woman Brenda “discovered,” and now she looked 20 years younger! As I continued to read I recognized the same pattern: ONLY 14 day trial (written in bold) and to return the jars half used and to call for a number (return merchandise)

I didn’t have time that day to check the entire article and take notes. This is when I wrote the post to check for updates. Well, there were no updates on the face creams, but the “scandalous” Ellen’s pictures kept showing up on the right side of my page!

 I clicked on some Ellen pictures for a few days, but they  took me to other sites, advertising and selling other products.

Today,  surprise!!! One of the clicks on Ellen’s unbecoming pictures took me to a skin care COMBO ad, but under a different NAME! Since the names keep changing I will not mention them because clearly, it is the method we must understand!

Yet it was Brenda who discovered this combo and looked 20 years younger, there were still the ONLY 14- day trial and “no hassle” return( lol) policy and the two products HAD to be used together to work!

While I am not sure this is the same group using different products, or different people, I just wanted to let everyone know I will NEVER purchase any products which are advertised in such a manner. I learned my lesson.

In addition, LEAVE Ellen alone! She is a great comedian and hostess!