Tea Tips: Rooibos facial toner

Tea is great for you in so many ways – and so are tisanes. Of course, we drink various infusions for how good they taste and for how they warm us inside and out, but you can use your stash in dozens of different ways that have nothing to do with drinking!

From household chores to beauty treatments, there’s no end to what you can do with tea. And best of all, half the time these clever Tea Tips can be done with the leftover leaves when you’re done brewing a pot to drink. Waste not, want not!

This has been a pretty brutal winter, especially up here in Vermont. It’s cold, the wind is absolutely absurd, and it feels like the moisture is sucked right out of you the instant you leave the house. All that dryness means my skin feels like sandpaper.

But thankfully, there’s a way to combat that. This pore-refining toner, created by Jessica Ress and included in 100 Organic Skincare Recipes, uses rooibos to help strip away dry, dead skin cells, then rehydrates your refreshed skin with aloe and rosewater.

Because roses have such amazing antiseptic and healing properties, we’ve upped the ante here by suggesting you use Lady in Red rooibos as the base for this toner. Anti-inflammatory properties, zinc and alpha hydroxy acids from the rooibos, and an infusion of vitamins from the annatto – yep, this is a winner!

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Rosy Rooibos Toner

Ingredients
1/2c distilled water
1T Lady in Red rooibos
1T aloe vera juice
2T rosewater

Procedure

  1. Steep the Lady in Red in the distilled water for a full 20 minutes – yes, this is going to be STRONG! Place the tea in the fridge to cool.
  2. Pour the aloe vera juice and rosewater into a bottle.
  3. Top with the chilled tea, cap, and shake well.

Use

  1. To use the toner, swipe on skin with a cotton pad or cotton ball.
  2. The toner will last up to a month with no refrigeration.

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