Growing your own Cosmetic Garden

Beauty begins within! Growing an organic garden can be a fun and simple way to create beauty from within; but also making your own cosmetics and skincare to support you beauty regime.

Gardening season has arrived and most you are designing and contemplating what type of garden to have this year. Whether it’s raised beds, hanging baskets or an acre of greens; growing a skincare garden is literally at your finger tips! There are many common garden plants that can be used for your personal beauty care.

The history of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra’s beauty secrets are widely recognized in today’s unravelling of using whole foods, herbs and plants to achieve gorgeous skin. Perhaps it was her care for her own beauty that today there even is cosmetics and beauty products. Her rose toners and milk baths and her nightly golden mask were all made from whole ingredients. Creating your own practice for your own personal beauty care doesn’t sound that strange does it! Truth is told according to Wikipedia evidence of cosmetics dates from ancient Egypt and Greece. The history of cosmetics spans at least 6000 years ago and is present in almost every society on earth. Archaeological evidence of cosmetics has been studied and documented around the globe. Humans have been using what the earth provides for cosmetics since the beginning of time!

Botanical gardens can provide the grower a palette for creating organic natural skin care such as soaps, scrubs, fragrances, toners, lotions, balms, hair rinses, dyes and make-up. The extracts of flowers, herbs, and plants are healing and promote radiant skin and colours can be used for developing your own makeup. Several beauty products you would find on the shelf have extracts of these medicinal wonders along with synthetic preservatives. Save money and avoid harsh chemicals and make your own beauty care products. There is an authenticity to grow, develop, and create your own skincare products and without the harmful additives! Planting a practical garden for beauty doesn’t have to be stressful in-fact it can promote joyfulness! You can designate an entire plot in your existing garden, add a few plants to what you already have or keep it really simple using a window sill or pots on your balcony. You don’t need to be an expert in botany to create beauty. There are expert websites and local herbalists to support your own Cosmetic Garden. Stay Beautiful!

Suggestions of Flowers, Herbs and Plants for creating a Cosmetic Garden:

Elysia Samarodin
The Raw Beautician