How to Incorporate Microgreens into Your Beauty Routine: Microgreens Toner and Baths – Part 2/4

From your salad to your bathroom shelf. Two more homemade cosmetics you can make from a tray of greens — and, as in Part 1, no promises about what they do to your face.

Part 1 covered masks and smoothies as simple ways to add microgreens to a beauty routine. This part adds two more treatments you can make at home: DIY toners and microgreen baths. Both are easy and cheap to make, and both are pleasant to use. That is the whole of the case for them.

Microgreens Toners

A toner is a light liquid you wipe or spritz on after cleansing. The industry credits them with balancing skin’s pH and tightening pores; we are not in a position to verify either, so read that as convention rather than as something this page asserts. We used to claim that making them with microgreens delivers antioxidants, vitamins and minerals “directly absorbed into your skin”. That is not how skin works — the outer layer is a barrier, and most nutrients in a blended plant do not cross it. Treat these as pleasant, inexpensive homemade cosmetics rather than as a delivery system for nutrition. 

1. Cucumber Microgreen Refreshing Toner

A cooling summer toner. Cucumber and aloe vera are mostly water, so this is a light, pleasant splash after cleansing — that is the whole of the claim.

You’ll need:

• 1 cup cucumber microgreens
• ½ cucumber (peeled and chopped)
• ½ cup distilled water
• 1 tsp aloe vera gel (optional)
  

How to make:

1. Blend the microgreens and cucumber with distilled water until smooth.
2. Strain through a fine sieve or cheesecloth.
3. Add aloe vera gel and stir well.
4. Store in a clean spray bottle in the fridge for up to 5 days.
   

You may use it during your morning and evening skincare routine after cleansing. Spritz directly onto skin or apply with a cotton pad.

2. Spinach Microgreen and Green Tea Toner

A green tea and honey version of the toner above, made the same way. As Part 1 says, we are not going to tell you spinach suits mature or flaky skin better than any other kind.

You’ll need:

• 1 cup spinach microgreens
• 1 green tea bag
• ½ cup boiling water
• 1 tsp honey (optional)
  

How to make:

1. Steep the tea bag in boiling water for 5 minutes, then let it cool.
2. Blend spinach microgreens with the cooled green tea.
3. Strain and stir in honey if desired.
4. Pour into a glass bottle and keep refrigerated (lasts about 3 days).
   

Apply it daily with a cotton pad to refresh and hydrate.

Microgreens Baths

If you are tired after a long week, want to pamper yourself a bit, and you got a bath at home, you may want to try a microgreen bath. A microgreen bath is a pleasant, relaxing thing to do. It is not a detox — that job belongs to your liver and kidneys — and warm water does not “open pores” in a way that lets plant nutrients into your body. Enjoy it for what it is. 

1. Relaxing Basil Microgreen Bath

A fragrant bath soak of basil, Epsom salts and lavender. The warm water and the twenty quiet minutes are the relaxing part.

You’ll need:

• 2 cups fresh basil microgreens
• ½ cup Epsom salts
• 3–4 drops lavender essential oil (optional)
  

How to make:

1. Blend or crush the basil microgreens.
2. Add them to a muslin bag or thin cloth so they don’t float around in the tub.
3. Fill your bath with warm water, then drop in the bag along with Epsom salts.
4. Add essential oil drops and soak for 20 minutes.
   

2. Sunflower Microgreen and Oat Bath

An oat and coconut oil soak. The oats and the oil are the part you will feel; the greens are along for the ride.

You’ll need:

• 2 cups sunflower microgreens
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
  

How to make:

1. Blend oats and microgreens together into a fine powder.
2. Mix with coconut oil.
3. Add the mixture directly into warm bathwater.
4. Soak for 15–20 minutes and gently massage skin while bathing.
   

Summary

That is four recipes across two parts: face masks and smoothies in Part 1, toners and baths here. All of them are cheap, all of them are made from something you can grow on a windowsill, and none of them is a treatment. Two further parts follow in this series.

Links of interest

How to Incorporate Microgreens into Your Beauty Routine – Part 1/4

How to Incorporate Microgreens into Your Beauty Routine – Part 1/4

“Eat your skincare: vitamin C, collagen and microgreens”

Eat your skincare: vitamin C, collagen and microgreens

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